Is is possible to get a fair Jury trial for these highly technical cases? It seems like the prosecution would generally aim to eject any jurors remotely technical, and the general public is highly susceptible to sensationalization because of how technology and hacking is portrayed in the media.
> which makes a lot mroe sense than "anything you say can and will be used against you" which is clearly nonsense.
It makes perfect sense. What you say to the cops can be used against you in court, it can never be used for your defense because it would be considered hearsay. Seriously. Never talk to the cops in the US. Ever.
A lot of hotel's use DSL or Cable infrastructure. The back end equipment is more expensive than traditional Cat5+, but that is typically offset by the wiring costs. If you already have Comcast Business Systems or Comcast Telcom delivering the 100Mbit then I would ask them if they have a line up on bridging technology ready to roll.
The biggest issue you'll have with the actual WiFi is selecting a product that can handle the load in your common and event areas. Consumer/SOHO APs start to crush after 10+ clients.
While you won't have to have a billing system, you should still have something on the backend that will track the users and make them accept an AUP. Astaro is the cheapest turn key system combining firewall capabilities and pre-integrated APs.
Kiss it goodbye as in your IP will get stolen and you'll have to contend with people knocking off your stuff. Let's be clear, the circuit board, platers, and casing are made and assembled overseas (Singapore, China, whatever). Because most things can be made just about anywhere the actually head suspension is made in the West. They don't want the IP stolen.
Spot on. Hard drive makers have always been keen on keeping the drive suspension (the really precise and expensive part of the head) manufactured in the West. You send that over to China and you can kiss your company goodbye long term. Both US and Australia have plenty of materials to go back into the rare earth business. There may be something to having a strategic stockpile to keep the market stable.
Bloomberg (hardly a liberal organization) picked apart what's making up the debt. Two Wars, "Bush" Tax Cuts, Medicare Part D Drug Program and the TARP make up the vast majority of it. Guess who voted for all of them?
John Boehner Eric Cantor Mitch McConnell
The S&P downgrade adds 1.25Trillion to the debt because of additional borrowing costs. That pretty much wipes out the so-called gains the GOP made with the debt. If only the GOP actually cared about America make some real debt cutting could be made.
Check your employment agreement. In mid to large companies you are likely compelled to transfer the IP rights to the employer. I'm a firm believer in making sure such agreements are limited to their time, their equipment. Frankly, it's not up to the developer to open source such code. It's up to the employer and only with an actual written agreement.
If there is nothing in the employment agreement binding the employee, assign the rights to FSF and let them deal with it.
They are a Taiwanese company and could care less about China nationalism. They are like a US company in that they will figure out how to extract the most money. They have two choices because of wage inflation. 1) Automation. 2) Move to a cheaper country. They have obviously decided to do number 1. My guess is they will like end up with a similar amount of automation that Apple had in their factories circa 1986+.
We get screwed two ways in the US on health care. 1) The insurance companies are mostly for profit and it's their duty to get the costs as high as the market will bear. 2) The actual service costs are mind boggling. An MRI in Japan is under $200, here in the US on the same machine and same cost of living it's over $1500.
That being said, not all countries have a national health system. Japan and Switzerland for instance have mostly private health insurance. The difference is the regulation. 1) Core Health Insurance has to be not-for-profit (those countries actually have a higher percentage of private health insurance than the US by the way since they don't have to have a medicare scheme). 2) The gov't set the price list. Therefore prices and coding is universal and the amount of admin overhead is drastically less.
Or just not have the ceiling at all. Which is what every other major country does. Be that as it may the vast majority of the debt run up in the last 10 years is directly attributed to GOP budget policy. That's not my opinion, it's Bloomberg News. That's hardly a liberal rag.
As far as the TARP, the projections show we'll have to wait until 2020 to see how much we actually get back.
The issue I take with that line of thought is it ignores what the debt ceiling is. The ceiling isn't spending the money. The budget is. When congress passed it's budget they know when and how much the ceiling was going to have to be increased. In the past decade the biggest factors for increased debt (according to bloomberg business news) was the Wars, the medicare drug program, and TARP. All of which the speaker, Eric Cantor, and Senate minority lead McConnell voted for. They helped run this tab up, and now they are threatening to walk out on the bill.
I second the thought about Black Berry and the corporate world. However, the lack of native black berry functions like email and calendar will kill them if not corrected soon. That is a function that corporate clients expect. I think HP will likely get NIST certified with their WebOS tablet and Microsoft will likely team up with someone to get a Windows 7 Tablet certified.
Gov't does this all the time. Local, county, state, federal gov't will cut deals all the time. Often paying for infrastructure, capital improvements, bonding, loan guarantee and even direct/low interest loans. California Teachers Penchant is one of the largest investors in the country, with billions on the line. On a federal level the US gov't gifts hundreds of millions of dollars annually so that private business get preferential treatment and/or avoid tariffs. So what's the news here? How is a green company any different from the defaults from a conventional factory, brick and mortar store or office?
If you look at the Amazon EULA it squarely transfers the liability to the customer. One would assume Google would do the same thing. The customer attests they have the legal right to store and stream the music in "teh Cloud".
ESPN is one of more extreme example of why media consolidation is a bad thing. It's one of the most expensive basic tier stations out there and they use the local ABC affiliate as leverage. And that was before they moved Monday Night Football over.
Very few channels can hack it in the premium space. Disney did the math in the 90's and figured out it was way more profitable to get small amount of money from everyone as a basic channel rather than a lot of money from a few people as a premium channel. The money is so much better that Disney started playing hard ball with the cable operators. You want to carry the local ABC affiliate on your system, you're going to put Disney in the basic tier.
SyFy's issue is that they are owned and operated by NBC Universal. The same no talent ass clowns that took NBC from number One to Number Four were in charge of the network. Things aren't going to get any better for the network once Comcast takes them over. Competing cable companies aren't that keen to pad Comcast's bottom line.
My perception is Network Admin jobs are undercut significantly by offshore and H1B resources. It's tough, has lots of late nights and in the end, once the hardware is in you can be replaced by someone in an office on the other side of the world and some low-wage wiring/data center techs do the local bit. There are some high end router guys who really know switching both on the traditional networking and telephony like SS7 Switching that I think can name their own price, but they are the exception, not the rule.
The issue is the Droid tablets have to be better than Apple in a fair number of respects before you're going to overthrow a well oiled market leader like Apple. The iPad does a dozen things really really well. Whereas most tablets (and netbooks) do as many things as you want, but not everything really all that well. People want study build quality, long batter life, and a wide variety of cheap apps. All the other tablets are playing catch up to apple. As long as that is the case Apple is going to keep steeling the thunder by releasing a new model with better battery life, more speed, and hard to beat them.
TrendNet and EnGenuis both have sub $100 wireless routers that support vlan. At the street price of nearly $200 I would go with the Astaro AP-30 along with Astaro Home Firewall. It will auto configure the router for multiple VLANs and has far superior firewall and management capabilities.
I don't think you even have to go through the motions of a straw man arguments you made. Fact is small ISPs get pushed around by law enforcement all the time. I've work for some of the biggest and some of the smallest and it's a night a day difference how law enforcement treats you for the exact same thing. It's not uncommon for law enforcement to threaten to confiscate your data center because you dared to stand up for your legal rights. It's not uncommon for law enforcement to harass your employees or call the larger upstream providers and peers to talk about their theories. Small ISPs have been run out of business by Attorneys, Cops and Feds who knew nothing about technology but had a gut feeling something was off.
On the other hand working at a large ISP the Cops and Feds are practically at your beck and call. In exchange we processed their wiretap orders (usually dozens to hundreds daily.) And they better have had their paper work in order or we weren't going to do jack squat for them. They wanted to tangle we could lawyer them hard. The cops were going to burn a lot of OT pay in deposition, let alone the other legal fees we could create.
Star Bucks, McDonalds, Dunkin Donuts, etc, they don't worry about free WiFi. They're big companies.
The law is not about being right in either a legal or moral sense. It's about resources, connections and power.
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With the new patent reform act prior art will have no bearing. It will be all about who files first.
Is is possible to get a fair Jury trial for these highly technical cases? It seems like the prosecution would generally aim to eject any jurors remotely technical, and the general public is highly susceptible to sensationalization because of how technology and hacking is portrayed in the media.
> which makes a lot mroe sense than "anything you say can and will be used against you" which is clearly nonsense.
It makes perfect sense. What you say to the cops can be used against you in court, it can never be used for your defense because it would be considered hearsay. Seriously. Never talk to the cops in the US. Ever.
At that price you'd think they would have added SSL domain support. Or at the very least had it as an option.
A lot of hotel's use DSL or Cable infrastructure. The back end equipment is more expensive than traditional Cat5+, but that is typically offset by the wiring costs. If you already have Comcast Business Systems or Comcast Telcom delivering the 100Mbit then I would ask them if they have a line up on bridging technology ready to roll.
The biggest issue you'll have with the actual WiFi is selecting a product that can handle the load in your common and event areas. Consumer/SOHO APs start to crush after 10+ clients.
While you won't have to have a billing system, you should still have something on the backend that will track the users and make them accept an AUP. Astaro is the cheapest turn key system combining firewall capabilities and pre-integrated APs.
Kiss it goodbye as in your IP will get stolen and you'll have to contend with people knocking off your stuff. Let's be clear, the circuit board, platers, and casing are made and assembled overseas (Singapore, China, whatever). Because most things can be made just about anywhere the actually head suspension is made in the West. They don't want the IP stolen.
Spot on. Hard drive makers have always been keen on keeping the drive suspension (the really precise and expensive part of the head) manufactured in the West. You send that over to China and you can kiss your company goodbye long term. Both US and Australia have plenty of materials to go back into the rare earth business. There may be something to having a strategic stockpile to keep the market stable.
Hopefully the Chinese driverless car fairs better than the Chinese Bullet trains. No one needs another 40 dead.
Bloomberg (hardly a liberal organization) picked apart what's making up the debt. Two Wars, "Bush" Tax Cuts, Medicare Part D Drug Program and the TARP make up the vast majority of it. Guess who voted for all of them?
John Boehner
Eric Cantor
Mitch McConnell
The S&P downgrade adds 1.25Trillion to the debt because of additional borrowing costs. That pretty much wipes out the so-called gains the GOP made with the debt. If only the GOP actually cared about America make some real debt cutting could be made.
Check your employment agreement. In mid to large companies you are likely compelled to transfer the IP rights to the employer. I'm a firm believer in making sure such agreements are limited to their time, their equipment. Frankly, it's not up to the developer to open source such code. It's up to the employer and only with an actual written agreement.
If there is nothing in the employment agreement binding the employee, assign the rights to FSF and let them deal with it.
They are a Taiwanese company and could care less about China nationalism. They are like a US company in that they will figure out how to extract the most money. They have two choices because of wage inflation. 1) Automation. 2) Move to a cheaper country. They have obviously decided to do number 1. My guess is they will like end up with a similar amount of automation that Apple had in their factories circa 1986+.
We get screwed two ways in the US on health care. 1) The insurance companies are mostly for profit and it's their duty to get the costs as high as the market will bear. 2) The actual service costs are mind boggling. An MRI in Japan is under $200, here in the US on the same machine and same cost of living it's over $1500.
That being said, not all countries have a national health system. Japan and Switzerland for instance have mostly private health insurance. The difference is the regulation. 1) Core Health Insurance has to be not-for-profit (those countries actually have a higher percentage of private health insurance than the US by the way since they don't have to have a medicare scheme). 2) The gov't set the price list. Therefore prices and coding is universal and the amount of admin overhead is drastically less.
Or just not have the ceiling at all. Which is what every other major country does. Be that as it may the vast majority of the debt run up in the last 10 years is directly attributed to GOP budget policy. That's not my opinion, it's Bloomberg News. That's hardly a liberal rag.
As far as the TARP, the projections show we'll have to wait until 2020 to see how much we actually get back.
The issue I take with that line of thought is it ignores what the debt ceiling is. The ceiling isn't spending the money. The budget is. When congress passed it's budget they know when and how much the ceiling was going to have to be increased. In the past decade the biggest factors for increased debt (according to bloomberg business news) was the Wars, the medicare drug program, and TARP. All of which the speaker, Eric Cantor, and Senate minority lead McConnell voted for. They helped run this tab up, and now they are threatening to walk out on the bill.
That depends on how you recount. If you recount the entire state gore wins. If you only do the contested areas then bush wins.
I second the thought about Black Berry and the corporate world. However, the lack of native black berry functions like email and calendar will kill them if not corrected soon. That is a function that corporate clients expect. I think HP will likely get NIST certified with their WebOS tablet and Microsoft will likely team up with someone to get a Windows 7 Tablet certified.
Gov't does this all the time. Local, county, state, federal gov't will cut deals all the time. Often paying for infrastructure, capital improvements, bonding, loan guarantee and even direct/low interest loans. California Teachers Penchant is one of the largest investors in the country, with billions on the line. On a federal level the US gov't gifts hundreds of millions of dollars annually so that private business get preferential treatment and/or avoid tariffs. So what's the news here? How is a green company any different from the defaults from a conventional factory, brick and mortar store or office?
If you look at the Amazon EULA it squarely transfers the liability to the customer. One would assume Google would do the same thing. The customer attests they have the legal right to store and stream the music in "teh Cloud".
ESPN is one of more extreme example of why media consolidation is a bad thing. It's one of the most expensive basic tier stations out there and they use the local ABC affiliate as leverage. And that was before they moved Monday Night Football over.
Very few channels can hack it in the premium space. Disney did the math in the 90's and figured out it was way more profitable to get small amount of money from everyone as a basic channel rather than a lot of money from a few people as a premium channel. The money is so much better that Disney started playing hard ball with the cable operators. You want to carry the local ABC affiliate on your system, you're going to put Disney in the basic tier.
SyFy's issue is that they are owned and operated by NBC Universal. The same no talent ass clowns that took NBC from number One to Number Four were in charge of the network. Things aren't going to get any better for the network once Comcast takes them over. Competing cable companies aren't that keen to pad Comcast's bottom line.
I've had this happen twice before. In both cases there was no charge once the service expired. It just stopped working.
My perception is Network Admin jobs are undercut significantly by offshore and H1B resources. It's tough, has lots of late nights and in the end, once the hardware is in you can be replaced by someone in an office on the other side of the world and some low-wage wiring/data center techs do the local bit. There are some high end router guys who really know switching both on the traditional networking and telephony like SS7 Switching that I think can name their own price, but they are the exception, not the rule.
The issue is the Droid tablets have to be better than Apple in a fair number of respects before you're going to overthrow a well oiled market leader like Apple. The iPad does a dozen things really really well. Whereas most tablets (and netbooks) do as many things as you want, but not everything really all that well. People want study build quality, long batter life, and a wide variety of cheap apps. All the other tablets are playing catch up to apple. As long as that is the case Apple is going to keep steeling the thunder by releasing a new model with better battery life, more speed, and hard to beat them.
TrendNet and EnGenuis both have sub $100 wireless routers that support vlan. At the street price of nearly $200 I would go with the Astaro AP-30 along with Astaro Home Firewall. It will auto configure the router for multiple VLANs and has far superior firewall and management capabilities.
I don't think you even have to go through the motions of a straw man arguments you made. Fact is small ISPs get pushed around by law enforcement all the time. I've work for some of the biggest and some of the smallest and it's a night a day difference how law enforcement treats you for the exact same thing. It's not uncommon for law enforcement to threaten to confiscate your data center because you dared to stand up for your legal rights. It's not uncommon for law enforcement to harass your employees or call the larger upstream providers and peers to talk about their theories. Small ISPs have been run out of business by Attorneys, Cops and Feds who knew nothing about technology but had a gut feeling something was off.
On the other hand working at a large ISP the Cops and Feds are practically at your beck and call. In exchange we processed their wiretap orders (usually dozens to hundreds daily.) And they better have had their paper work in order or we weren't going to do jack squat for them. They wanted to tangle we could lawyer them hard. The cops were going to burn a lot of OT pay in deposition, let alone the other legal fees we could create.
Star Bucks, McDonalds, Dunkin Donuts, etc, they don't worry about free WiFi. They're big companies.
The law is not about being right in either a legal or moral sense. It's about resources, connections and power.