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Applications or systems that are able to scale to large amounts of users. For example, a database that completely locks out every other user when someone is using it is NOT scalable. The computer system that runs ATM and bank transactions must be highly scalable. It is often misspelled as "Scaleable," and is used in many product names.
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Scalable - In article , Withheld by Requestwrote: You guys are on a wild goose chase. You're going after the wrong people in this scenario. Instead of the administrators and hub owners, you need to be worrying about the USERS that are sharing 100+ GBs of these files the FBI claimed they downloaded. The hub owner didn't push that file on you. YOU requested it, then DIRECTLY CONNECTED to the other user to download it. The hubs simply provide a meeting place for people with like interests. You can chat, get help, or share files. What you do is up to YOU.That's what Napster did, but it didn't stop them from being shut down.Even though these organizations don't directly perform the copying, they*facilitate* it. And you know damn well what kind of material most ofyour users are sharing -- you know your user base, and you encourage itbecause that's your bread and butter.Regarding the "lies" in the article, I take that to be imprecisereporting, which is what we see for pretty much *all* news articlesabout anything high-tech. I don't know anything about thesefile-sharing networks (I've never even fired up the iMusic that came onmy Mac), but I'll bet there's an "inner circle" of well-known members,and that's what they might have been referring to when they mentionedhow hard it was to "join the network". Kind of like what narcoticsofficers have to do to meet a major distributor, as distinguished frombuying a few joints from a dealer on the street. In order to find outwho the big players are in the piracy networks, they have to get in goodwith them by appearing to be one of them. Sure, anyone can join thenetwork, but the main bad guys aren't going to start giving out theirreal names to them.Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.eduArlington, MA*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: This is purely IMO, but narcoticspolice officers, like officers who specialize in Vice matters, arethe underside of a corrupted system to begin with. Total losers,all the way around. PAT]
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