Not that I believe it's really being used in that way, but it's possible. The thing is, many of us don't have a problem with targeted surveillance, if you have a nice court approved warrant beforehand for an individual I don't even have a problem with surveillance of US citizens. This sort of tech isn't really useful for bulk surveillance, which is what many people have a problem with.
It's why some restaurants have EV charging spots. Plan your trip so you stop to eat about 3 hours from your starting point and your car charges while you have a good meal. It's also much better for you, and safer, than trying to eat on the road.
I wouldn't expect any sedan to successfully tow 2000lbs. Given that almost all electric cars are sedans it's not surprising they can't tow your boat. However, the Tesla Model-X can tow it.
I mean, pcsx2 might not be the best example when saying 'wine sucks' for regular programs. If you're using it in DirectX mode then you're essentially comparing a high end game for modern systems that also has a built in re-compiler that's constantly running. While I'll grant Adobe support isn't great either, both your examples of programs which will max modern systems out, or from companies who are known to write shit code. I'd like both of them to work, but I recognize that both of them are probably the hardest problems for the Wine team.
Summary: Both examples are the hardest pieces of software for Wine to work with. Try a non-Adobe product that also isn't a game. You'll be surprised.
I've seen how Digital Media is taught at universities. Many times the flash games are written using a design tool that allows higher levels of abstraction, and/or zero actual knowledge of programming. These "visual coding" tools typically allow for html5 export at the push of a button, but it's 2016 and the professors still expect flash! This also means if they learn any coding it's going to be flash.
Basically, it's like how universities took forever to switch languages in introduction to coding courses. Modern digital media is sort of a conglomeration of coding, web development, marketing, art, 3d design, and animation. The problem is, when they want a student to learn art, they have them take an art class. When they want them to do 3d printing or coding they DO NOT have them take the appropriate 'introduction to programming' or 3d engineering class. They make their own! The department doesn't consider knowledge of basic programming logic to be important, just like knowledge of material science and tooling doesn't seem to be important when working with physical objects...
Given that most universities have 4 year graduation rates lower than 50% you've significantly reduced your hiring pool. Now here's the fun bit, you're discriminating against military veterans who take advantage of the GI bill. Actually, this discriminates against quite a few protected classes, and lawsuits have shown that all you have to do is prove discrimination is occurring, NOT intentional discrimination.
Please tell us your company name so I can blacklist it. I'm sure the feds will get around to you eventually, and I don't want to be anywhere near the fallout.
I want to share a story that impacted me when it took longer than planned to graduate. Here in the US, if you go to a school outside of your state you pay "out of state tuition," that's roughly double what in state students pay. Now here's the thing, to get in state tuition you must have lived in the state for a year, without going to university. My scholarship made up for the difference, but for anyone without one of those it's definitely cheaper to take a gap year and live in the state of the school you're applying to. I mean at least $10,000 per year of school cheaper tuition. Multiply that by 4 or 5 years and it's obvious why people do this.
Sure, you can broadcast bad routes. It's happened (on accident) in the past before. Typically backbone providers just filter the network sending those bad routes, and have everything fixed within a day. Worst case scenario is the US ends up being separated from the rest of the internet because nobody trusts us. A much more likely scenario is US free interconnects go away, and we end up having to pay for traffic to take whatever path the other networks deem best when going to the US.
If the US injects bad routing packets through other means, for example by injecting them into foreign satellite providers, then that's straight hacking. Sure the US does hack foreign systems, but this is slap in the face type stuff and would result in political retaliation.
tldr: Sending bad routing updates is not an option. It would backfire spectacularly.
Thing is while 999 out of 1000 business ideas may be crap or only moderately successful, if that last 0.1% of businesses makes enough money to pay for all the rest, plus some profit on top.
It's somewhat like gambling, but in a way where you know that over the long run you'll make money.
This might be part of their ethics policy, but that's not where it belongs. As much as people have wined and complained about it being unfair for companies, like Google, to advertise their own products there's nothing unethical about it.
It's a competition issue. NPR gets a significant chunk of its money from radio stations. That's why not all NPR broadcasts are available as podcasts. This whole thing is merely about appeasing those radio stations who are worried about competition from podcasts that are more convenient and available.
In theory every shareholder gets a vote. One vote per share. Now here's the trick. In order to vote you have to come to a shareholder meeting, which is often deliberately scheduled on a Wednesday somewhere that's expensive to get to or stay at. This is done deliberately to make it a pain for those people who only own a few shares to vote for things.
Now what shareholders can do is let someone vote for them. That person is their "proxy" or representative. Almost always these proxies don't just represent one person, but rather an entire faction. So, you have each of the factions competing to get shareholders allow them to act on their behalf. Now it sounds like a representative democracy, but what really happens is the big players game the system. That's why shareholder meetings are made as annoying to attend as possible, and there's nothing like a mail in ballot.
TLDR: Theory is shareholders (vote on) -> board members (select)-> company CEO/President Reality is shareholders (give power to)-> proxies (vote on) -> board members (select)-> company CEO/President
Knowing this a proxy fight is merely trying to sway shareholders and proxies to your way of thinking.
After betraying their customers for years by doing stupid shit like uploading their encryption keys to OneDrive by default, Microsoft wants to jump in on the fame and honor that Apple is getting for refusing to make malware in order to unlock a terrorist's iPhone. Hurray, off-shore data lodging! Ultimately though this'll mean nothing but a teeny bit more latency for PRISM, which Microsoft has oh-so-willingly cooperated with the NSA to power for years.
Basically, Microsoft has been fighting this case for years now. If the US wins, then it can mandate that Microsoft must turn over data anywhere in the world with just a warrant. That doesn't pass muster with EU laws. So, if the US wins, then all of a sudden it becomes illegal for an EU business to use any Microsoft cloud service, or at least extremely risky for them to do so.
This new service is something where they can tell the US government, "We phisically can't do that." Just like how Apple will probably push out an IOS upgrade that prevents flashing new firmware to a phone while locked without wiping the device.
The gist is that iPhone's "Secure credential storage" firmware is part of the regular firmware, and can be updated without authentication. It just has to be signed by Apple. I will agree that a much better model would be a fully seperate chip that requires authentication, or a wipe to update the firmware. Unfortunately, it looks like Apple didn't want to do things properly.
I'm not sure what you're talking about for the second part. The changes the FBI is asking for are pretty simple. Disable the auto wipe after 10 bad attempts, and remove the delay between password retries. With both of those removed brute forcing the password is easy. The truth is those changes are trivial. Since they have the source code, all Apple hase to do is comment out two lines. The BIG IMPORTANT PART is the new firmware requires Apple to sign it to run.
The more you know. Apparently there's a sweet spot for water. Too soft and no scale coats the pipes, but too hard and it's acidic enough to dissolve the lead in the pipes. Guess the Romans got lucky. Not that they would have cared.
An Anonymous Coward and Junta earlier up gave the answer. Basically it's a neat feature which "should" let Enterprise admins manage and fix a box even if the user has trashed the OS. It's all done by intercepting network packets before the OS even sees them. The problem is the tools Intel provides are apparently pretty horrid. Like cross SNMP and Netboot, but several times worse horrid. The other thing is the spec isn't open, so no one else can write tools or extend tools to use them. For example, there are many tools to make Netboot a 123 experience, but there's only Intel's tools for working with the IME.
TLDR: Intel forces you to use there tools, but they suck.
Fun fact, the Romans DIDN'T have problems with lead in their drinking water. This is because the water is so hard that lime scale quickly builds up in the pipes. Heck, they had people who's full time job was to chip scale out of aqueducts. It also means that they had to occasionally lay new pipes as old ones got clogged.
The lesson is twofold. First, some Roman engineering required regular maintenance. Second, the cause to Flint, MI's problem might be the solution to it as well.
Interstate commerce clause. Yes, I know it doesn't make sense, but there have been real supreme court cases. Here's a case saying the Feds can prevent you from growing your own crops, even if you never plan to sell them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Fusion is the answer!!! That's why France is building ITER and no one complains. Never mind that much of the reactor vessel itself is going to be highly radioactive, and you could use it as a breeder reactor if you felt like it....
"So you have to keep a large amount of that part in stock." That part in stock are bags of plactic chips, and spools of plastic. What's to stop the manufacturer from building something else for someone else. For example, Furniture, or Hand Tools?
Not necessarily. Half the time when they're talking about 3d printing like this they're referring to SLS, or printing metal. Your feed stock is this metal powder that these hundred thousand dollar (minimum) printers use.
Now back to your question. It's the Auto manufacturers that we're talking about. They make cars. Sure they could use those printers to make other things, but that's not their core competency. The big thing is that 3d printing is expensive and takes a while. Here's an example:
GM requires special part A. Every car has one, and only one of that part. No one but GM uses that part.
In a traditional world GM would have to go find a supplier and have them do "a run" of that part. This typically has months of lead time, and GM ends up with a warehouse full of part A. If they change lines or find a problem with that part they're F***ed. There only real options are to shut down the lines while waiting for new parts or use the old defective ones. This is probably what happened with GM's ignition switches, and why they didn't want to admit it was an issue.
Just In Time manufacturing says do away with the warehouse and have the factory deliver a truck load at a time. This is a super efficient way of doing business, and it tends to avoid some of the issues I mentioned above. The problem is that you must have guaranteed deliveries, either on a schedule or with a rapid turnaround time. A great quote from The Goal is, "the closer you come to a balanced plant, the closer you are to bankruptcy." So when you have a crappy supplier you're once again F***ed and have to shut the lines down, or pay someone else stupid amounts of money to do a rush order.
Now, you might ask, "why doesn't GM just produce the part themselves?" Well, GM is a car company, not a widget company. They don't want to spend the money on machines that don't make cars. They don't really have the expertise to make that part. If they do run into an issue with the part, it's going to cost them quite a bit of money to retool all those machines to fix the issue. In short, it's also a pita. Tesla Motors actually does this, and they've run into some quality issues because now one company is doing so much more than just make cars. It can easily turn into a Jack of All trades, master of none situation, and business is all about being the master of your specific trade.
3d printing presents a solution for some extremely specific parts that match the criteria above. These parts are needed in low quantity, be extremely risky/costly to store in bulk in a warehouse, and the suppliers can not be relied on to make regular deliveries. It's only worth it if 3d printing the part is less of a hassle than dealing with any of that. Furthermore, you still have a final assembly step, and not everything can be 3d printed. Ignition switches can be more complicated than you think, so they might or might not be something that it's worth to 3d print. If you get past all of that, it might make sense to 3d print some parts.
As someone said earlier in the comments, auto manufacturers might start using 3d printers for a few parts just because of supply chain issues.
Just In Time manufacturing is all about minimizing inventory of inputs and work in progress. The problem is an inconsistent or unresponsive supply chain can royally f*** that up. So you have to keep a large amount of that part in stock. Depending on inventory holding costs, and the general pita that is dealing with late suppliers it might be worth it to consider just manufacturing those parts in house. 3d printers make this possible, especially for small batches of specialty components.
Interestingly I've heard stories about some Japanese companies that came to America and had quite the awakening. Apparently in Japan if they commit to a delivery schedule then they'll keep it for anything short of a natural disaster, and probably even then. While things are changing, missing deadlines used to be an American tradition. Not so good if you have to shut down the whole plant waiting on that one item.
Rather than fill a market gap for strong-voiced journalism with a focus on domestic counter-terrorism policy and the Middle East
Because screaming about how America should be afraid will really help the Al Jazeera brand. Yeah right! American cable news is so heavily politically slanted that you have to take everything with a kilogram of salt.
I'm more likely guessing the problem came from "purchased Current TV in late 2012 from founder Al Gore for $500 million." I'm guessing the bought a lemon of a company from someone who they thought was trustworthy. Also, whenever you have foreign management take over an American company instead of starting from scratch you have issues. Established American corporate culture rarely mixes well with foreign work cultures.
That's a good idea, but there's something else interesting. DMCA is under penalty of perjury, and he has documentation to prove it. This is the point at which you send them a settlement letter. Especially if that contract had the clause you mentioned, if it goes to court, then SONY is not in a happy place.
If SONY loses the license, then every view from then on is an instance of copyright infringement. That's stupid amounts of money. Courts tend to look down on such clearcut cases of perjury too.
In Tennessee, United States the judge will modify the agreement if he or she deems it overly broad. Basically, the contract can say you can't work anywhere for the rest of your life, and the judge will knock that down to anywhere in (overly broad category) for two years. They never just toss it out.
Technically, the company has to give you something if they want you to sign it after you've joined, but the number TN judges like is at least $50. So here, two years of not being able to work in your profession is worth $50.
Heck, my law class used the example of a pest control company. Because the secret of how to sprays for bugs is apparently that big of a deal.
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Believe it or not, Yes! It's a feature no less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Not that I believe it's really being used in that way, but it's possible. The thing is, many of us don't have a problem with targeted surveillance, if you have a nice court approved warrant beforehand for an individual I don't even have a problem with surveillance of US citizens. This sort of tech isn't really useful for bulk surveillance, which is what many people have a problem with.
It's why some restaurants have EV charging spots. Plan your trip so you stop to eat about 3 hours from your starting point and your car charges while you have a good meal. It's also much better for you, and safer, than trying to eat on the road.
I wouldn't expect any sedan to successfully tow 2000lbs. Given that almost all electric cars are sedans it's not surprising they can't tow your boat. However, the Tesla Model-X can tow it.
I mean, pcsx2 might not be the best example when saying 'wine sucks' for regular programs. If you're using it in DirectX mode then you're essentially comparing a high end game for modern systems that also has a built in re-compiler that's constantly running. While I'll grant Adobe support isn't great either, both your examples of programs which will max modern systems out, or from companies who are known to write shit code. I'd like both of them to work, but I recognize that both of them are probably the hardest problems for the Wine team.
Summary: Both examples are the hardest pieces of software for Wine to work with. Try a non-Adobe product that also isn't a game. You'll be surprised.
I've seen how Digital Media is taught at universities. Many times the flash games are written using a design tool that allows higher levels of abstraction, and/or zero actual knowledge of programming. These "visual coding" tools typically allow for html5 export at the push of a button, but it's 2016 and the professors still expect flash! This also means if they learn any coding it's going to be flash.
Basically, it's like how universities took forever to switch languages in introduction to coding courses. Modern digital media is sort of a conglomeration of coding, web development, marketing, art, 3d design, and animation. The problem is, when they want a student to learn art, they have them take an art class. When they want them to do 3d printing or coding they DO NOT have them take the appropriate 'introduction to programming' or 3d engineering class. They make their own! The department doesn't consider knowledge of basic programming logic to be important, just like knowledge of material science and tooling doesn't seem to be important when working with physical objects...
Given that most universities have 4 year graduation rates lower than 50% you've significantly reduced your hiring pool. Now here's the fun bit, you're discriminating against military veterans who take advantage of the GI bill. Actually, this discriminates against quite a few protected classes, and lawsuits have shown that all you have to do is prove discrimination is occurring, NOT intentional discrimination.
Please tell us your company name so I can blacklist it. I'm sure the feds will get around to you eventually, and I don't want to be anywhere near the fallout.
Meh, mod points are over rated.
I want to share a story that impacted me when it took longer than planned to graduate. Here in the US, if you go to a school outside of your state you pay "out of state tuition," that's roughly double what in state students pay. Now here's the thing, to get in state tuition you must have lived in the state for a year, without going to university. My scholarship made up for the difference, but for anyone without one of those it's definitely cheaper to take a gap year and live in the state of the school you're applying to. I mean at least $10,000 per year of school cheaper tuition. Multiply that by 4 or 5 years and it's obvious why people do this.
And 90% of it is boilerplate legalese. I'll bet it compresses rather nicely.
Sure, you can broadcast bad routes. It's happened (on accident) in the past before. Typically backbone providers just filter the network sending those bad routes, and have everything fixed within a day. Worst case scenario is the US ends up being separated from the rest of the internet because nobody trusts us. A much more likely scenario is US free interconnects go away, and we end up having to pay for traffic to take whatever path the other networks deem best when going to the US.
If the US injects bad routing packets through other means, for example by injecting them into foreign satellite providers, then that's straight hacking. Sure the US does hack foreign systems, but this is slap in the face type stuff and would result in political retaliation.
tldr: Sending bad routing updates is not an option. It would backfire spectacularly.
Thing is while 999 out of 1000 business ideas may be crap or only moderately successful, if that last 0.1% of businesses makes enough money to pay for all the rest, plus some profit on top.
It's somewhat like gambling, but in a way where you know that over the long run you'll make money.
This might be part of their ethics policy, but that's not where it belongs. As much as people have wined and complained about it being unfair for companies, like Google, to advertise their own products there's nothing unethical about it.
It's a competition issue. NPR gets a significant chunk of its money from radio stations. That's why not all NPR broadcasts are available as podcasts. This whole thing is merely about appeasing those radio stations who are worried about competition from podcasts that are more convenient and available.
This is the way it works for many companies:
In theory every shareholder gets a vote. One vote per share. Now here's the trick. In order to vote you have to come to a shareholder meeting, which is often deliberately scheduled on a Wednesday somewhere that's expensive to get to or stay at. This is done deliberately to make it a pain for those people who only own a few shares to vote for things.
Now what shareholders can do is let someone vote for them. That person is their "proxy" or representative. Almost always these proxies don't just represent one person, but rather an entire faction. So, you have each of the factions competing to get shareholders allow them to act on their behalf. Now it sounds like a representative democracy, but what really happens is the big players game the system. That's why shareholder meetings are made as annoying to attend as possible, and there's nothing like a mail in ballot.
TLDR:
Theory is shareholders (vote on) -> board members (select)-> company CEO/President
Reality is shareholders (give power to)-> proxies (vote on) -> board members (select)-> company CEO/President
Knowing this a proxy fight is merely trying to sway shareholders and proxies to your way of thinking.
After betraying their customers for years by doing stupid shit like uploading their encryption keys to OneDrive by default, Microsoft wants to jump in on the fame and honor that Apple is getting for refusing to make malware in order to unlock a terrorist's iPhone. Hurray, off-shore data lodging! Ultimately though this'll mean nothing but a teeny bit more latency for PRISM, which Microsoft has oh-so-willingly cooperated with the NSA to power for years.
Not quite. This thing is a response to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Basically, Microsoft has been fighting this case for years now. If the US wins, then it can mandate that Microsoft must turn over data anywhere in the world with just a warrant. That doesn't pass muster with EU laws. So, if the US wins, then all of a sudden it becomes illegal for an EU business to use any Microsoft cloud service, or at least extremely risky for them to do so.
This new service is something where they can tell the US government, "We phisically can't do that." Just like how Apple will probably push out an IOS upgrade that prevents flashing new firmware to a phone while locked without wiping the device.
Ehh, who needs mod points.
Take a look at this link: https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
The gist is that iPhone's "Secure credential storage" firmware is part of the regular firmware, and can be updated without authentication. It just has to be signed by Apple. I will agree that a much better model would be a fully seperate chip that requires authentication, or a wipe to update the firmware. Unfortunately, it looks like Apple didn't want to do things properly.
I'm not sure what you're talking about for the second part. The changes the FBI is asking for are pretty simple. Disable the auto wipe after 10 bad attempts, and remove the delay between password retries. With both of those removed brute forcing the password is easy. The truth is those changes are trivial. Since they have the source code, all Apple hase to do is comment out two lines. The BIG IMPORTANT PART is the new firmware requires Apple to sign it to run.
The more you know. Apparently there's a sweet spot for water. Too soft and no scale coats the pipes, but too hard and it's acidic enough to dissolve the lead in the pipes. Guess the Romans got lucky. Not that they would have cared.
An Anonymous Coward and Junta earlier up gave the answer. Basically it's a neat feature which "should" let Enterprise admins manage and fix a box even if the user has trashed the OS. It's all done by intercepting network packets before the OS even sees them. The problem is the tools Intel provides are apparently pretty horrid. Like cross SNMP and Netboot, but several times worse horrid. The other thing is the spec isn't open, so no one else can write tools or extend tools to use them. For example, there are many tools to make Netboot a 123 experience, but there's only Intel's tools for working with the IME.
TLDR: Intel forces you to use there tools, but they suck.
Fun fact, the Romans DIDN'T have problems with lead in their drinking water. This is because the water is so hard that lime scale quickly builds up in the pipes. Heck, they had people who's full time job was to chip scale out of aqueducts. It also means that they had to occasionally lay new pipes as old ones got clogged.
The lesson is twofold. First, some Roman engineering required regular maintenance. Second, the cause to Flint, MI's problem might be the solution to it as well.
Interstate commerce clause. Yes, I know it doesn't make sense, but there have been real supreme court cases. Here's a case saying the Feds can prevent you from growing your own crops, even if you never plan to sell them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Fusion is the answer!!! That's why France is building ITER and no one complains. Never mind that much of the reactor vessel itself is going to be highly radioactive, and you could use it as a breeder reactor if you felt like it....
"So you have to keep a large amount of that part in stock." That part in stock are bags of plactic chips, and spools of plastic. What's to stop the manufacturer from building something else for someone else. For example, Furniture, or Hand Tools?
Not necessarily. Half the time when they're talking about 3d printing like this they're referring to SLS, or printing metal. Your feed stock is this metal powder that these hundred thousand dollar (minimum) printers use.
Now back to your question. It's the Auto manufacturers that we're talking about. They make cars. Sure they could use those printers to make other things, but that's not their core competency. The big thing is that 3d printing is expensive and takes a while. Here's an example:
GM requires special part A. Every car has one, and only one of that part. No one but GM uses that part.
In a traditional world GM would have to go find a supplier and have them do "a run" of that part. This typically has months of lead time, and GM ends up with a warehouse full of part A. If they change lines or find a problem with that part they're F***ed. There only real options are to shut down the lines while waiting for new parts or use the old defective ones. This is probably what happened with GM's ignition switches, and why they didn't want to admit it was an issue.
Just In Time manufacturing says do away with the warehouse and have the factory deliver a truck load at a time. This is a super efficient way of doing business, and it tends to avoid some of the issues I mentioned above. The problem is that you must have guaranteed deliveries, either on a schedule or with a rapid turnaround time. A great quote from The Goal is, "the closer you come to a balanced plant, the closer you are to bankruptcy." So when you have a crappy supplier you're once again F***ed and have to shut the lines down, or pay someone else stupid amounts of money to do a rush order.
Now, you might ask, "why doesn't GM just produce the part themselves?" Well, GM is a car company, not a widget company. They don't want to spend the money on machines that don't make cars. They don't really have the expertise to make that part. If they do run into an issue with the part, it's going to cost them quite a bit of money to retool all those machines to fix the issue. In short, it's also a pita. Tesla Motors actually does this, and they've run into some quality issues because now one company is doing so much more than just make cars. It can easily turn into a Jack of All trades, master of none situation, and business is all about being the master of your specific trade.
3d printing presents a solution for some extremely specific parts that match the criteria above. These parts are needed in low quantity, be extremely risky/costly to store in bulk in a warehouse, and the suppliers can not be relied on to make regular deliveries. It's only worth it if 3d printing the part is less of a hassle than dealing with any of that. Furthermore, you still have a final assembly step, and not everything can be 3d printed. Ignition switches can be more complicated than you think, so they might or might not be something that it's worth to 3d print. If you get past all of that, it might make sense to 3d print some parts.
As someone said earlier in the comments, auto manufacturers might start using 3d printers for a few parts just because of supply chain issues.
Just In Time manufacturing is all about minimizing inventory of inputs and work in progress. The problem is an inconsistent or unresponsive supply chain can royally f*** that up. So you have to keep a large amount of that part in stock. Depending on inventory holding costs, and the general pita that is dealing with late suppliers it might be worth it to consider just manufacturing those parts in house. 3d printers make this possible, especially for small batches of specialty components.
Interestingly I've heard stories about some Japanese companies that came to America and had quite the awakening. Apparently in Japan if they commit to a delivery schedule then they'll keep it for anything short of a natural disaster, and probably even then. While things are changing, missing deadlines used to be an American tradition. Not so good if you have to shut down the whole plant waiting on that one item.
States have always tried to regulate their own airspace, and the FAA keeps having to smack them down.
Seriously, if it's in the air states have no control.
Rather than fill a market gap for strong-voiced journalism with a focus on domestic counter-terrorism policy and the Middle East
Because screaming about how America should be afraid will really help the Al Jazeera brand. Yeah right! American cable news is so heavily politically slanted that you have to take everything with a kilogram of salt.
I'm more likely guessing the problem came from "purchased Current TV in late 2012 from founder Al Gore for $500 million." I'm guessing the bought a lemon of a company from someone who they thought was trustworthy. Also, whenever you have foreign management take over an American company instead of starting from scratch you have issues. Established American corporate culture rarely mixes well with foreign work cultures.
That's a good idea, but there's something else interesting. DMCA is under penalty of perjury, and he has documentation to prove it. This is the point at which you send them a settlement letter. Especially if that contract had the clause you mentioned, if it goes to court, then SONY is not in a happy place.
If SONY loses the license, then every view from then on is an instance of copyright infringement. That's stupid amounts of money. Courts tend to look down on such clearcut cases of perjury too.
In Tennessee, United States the judge will modify the agreement if he or she deems it overly broad. Basically, the contract can say you can't work anywhere for the rest of your life, and the judge will knock that down to anywhere in (overly broad category) for two years. They never just toss it out.
Technically, the company has to give you something if they want you to sign it after you've joined, but the number TN judges like is at least $50. So here, two years of not being able to work in your profession is worth $50.
Heck, my law class used the example of a pest control company. Because the secret of how to sprays for bugs is apparently that big of a deal.
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