Wikileaks, my two cent
#wikileaks I see this as two independent problems.
1. The guy who posted classified information on the web should be tried for treason. What they did is no different than stealing the documents and selling them to china.
2. The government should have the right through a due process to take down a site hosting classified information. If it is an international site it is still their IP. However I do not agree with the ability to ban a domain or site after the offending material has been collected. Again with due process.
The main point is aside from IP (classified gov. Documents) the government should not be able to influence the Internet.
If a site post about how to build a bomb they should be able to. I am not saying that I would ever read it but I should have the right to be able to view it if I choose to do so.
I made this speech to a couple different groups today and the question came up about child pornography. “Surely you are not saying if it is ok to post about a bomb it is also ok to post child pornography?”
My response is no it is not ok but for a different reason. Consent. A child cannot consent to having their nude picture displayed. By describing how to build a bomb you are committing no felony. A person that builds that bomb later is committing a felony. The difference is that the act of posting a pornographic picture of a child is a crime in itself.
My 2 cents
David Bates
Bing Reported as Running on Linux
When Frank Sandoval came to me with a screen shot proposing that Bing.com actually ran on Linux I was skeptical to say the least. No way Microsoft would do that… and why wouldn’t this be main news? I asked of him.
While I don’t know the why’s or what’s it is reported by netcraft.com that the ip addresses used to resolve http://www.bing.com is running on Linux OS. Screenshot, Live Page
Now, in Microsoft’s defense I cannot find another source to be sure as they use p3p in their html headers.
So the Linux OS could be netcraft reporting a load ballancer or who knows what… still you think if Microsoft was using one of it’s own technologies it would proudly be displayed on the home page.
Discuss below:
David Bates
@Rexm pointed out that StackOverflow had this question posted as well. Link
Another Note: It has been said to me many times that this probably Bing’s CDN and not Bing’s actual webserver. I wrote this post because if you type Bing.com into netcraft it says Linux is the server type. I do agree with many and even said that it is more than likely to be load balancers than bing itself… It turns out that it could be Akamai that has the linux servers than Bing being hosted on Linux servers… It should also be noted that Akamai is the worlds largest CDN, but I still find it interesting that Microsoft would have anything Linux related in their server platform even if it is the CDN.
