"Citizen" being the operative word in the sentence and implying "US Citizen" given the context actually makes him mostly correct....there aren't "a few hundred cases" of US Citizens being down there...
A government employee is BARRED from initiating copyright on any document. They can patent up the whazzooo, but copyright does not exist for government employees. Now contracters are a complete different story... I was a Government employee for 5 years and all dozen+ of my academic papers published (including in journals that required a fee) were exempt from copyright (and we made them available for free on our website at the time, much to the annoyance of the journals, but there wasn't anything they could do about it).
... because they coincidentally correspond to two of Britney Spears's songs encoded as mp3 files at 128kb and the RIAA won't allow such copyright infringement! Double ouch!
If that's the case, no great loss, we wouldn't want to see (or hear) them anyway!
What the hell are you smoking??!? I worked for one of the top switch/router manufacturers for 7 years and this is FAR from true in their shop and pretty much everyone else's. Talk to any technical call-center rep for the top 5 or so router manufacturers and I am sure they can tell you many horror stories...
Bottom line, this is an endless loop, and if anyone has any REAL suggestions on how to get rid of spammers, or how to force companies to stop hiding them and their domains, I'd love to hear it.
Sad thing is, it cost me almost zero time - I didn't even need to show up to court, the lawyer took care of it all...all I had to do is make the initial call, and then write the check (which was mailed).
I once got a speeding ticket. The total cost, including the lawyer to get it pead down, the court costs, and the ticket cost me a whopping $110. Of that, $10 was the ticket. $10. That's it. What did I learn from this whole episode? Speeding doesn't matter because the punishment was so pathetic that it was worth it. Do I still speed? No, but that's because I now have a wife and kids to think about, but it most CERTAINLY wasn't because the penalty was any sort of a deterant. Make punishments actually HAVE a real impact and deterrant effect, then they might be taken seriously. Giving this women a slap on the wrist in an insult, stick her for the max like anyone else...
BIGGEST mistakes you can make on a server room is going cheap/unreliable cooling and power, you'll regret both when you have a room full of burned-up toasters.
If you EVER want to combat man in the middle attacks and phishing sites, this is the best solution. Sites whining that people are being scared away??!? Get a fucking grip, and get a real certificate from a real certificate authority so your users can actually trust you. People/companies are cheap and lazy, and unfortunately this leads to a whole host of problems...keeping your certificate legitimate and up to date should be no different than taking care of your insurance or other critical infrastructure.
Certainly worth modding up IMHO. She won despite her age, not because she took drugs or anything. I think she deserves her medal. The only scandal here are the documents, not her competing.
Cheating is cheating is cheating. You can try to call it another name, but it's still cheating. If the RULE is greater-than or equal-to 16, then anyone less than 16 is CHEATING. It's no different, at all, than taking drugs, both ways you are breaking the rules. Don't like the rules? Then get them changed....in the meantime don't cheat.
For the last 8 years I worked for a major switch/router manufacturer and we were one of the first to forward IPv6 traffic in hardware/silicon (rather than a software data path on a generalized CPU)...back then 99% of all IPv6 traffic (what staggering little there was at the time) were pings as people just tried to prove tunneling was working (screw doing native IPv6, you couldn't get beyond a LAN with that, no major ISP outside of Japan had native IPv6 service). Looking at current networks, it looks pretty much the same, still 99% pings...
I can't believe how many of you are saying he should try to subvert the process and undermine his employer. If you don't like it, quit and find work in another field (say, flipping burgers), because you will likely find clauses in your employment contract with just about every high-tech company out there today. Patents are offensive and defensive weapons, and companies pursue them for a myriad of reasons (some of which people regard as "evil",/shrug).
What you are really suggesting is being willfully destructive to your employer. Period. In that case, go find something else to do. I hope he not only fires you (which is well within the company's rights in most places), but goes ahead and patents the idea anyway (assuming there were others that contributed to the ideas still remaining at the company -- you don't need ALL contributors on-board to get a patent through the system).
It must - I routinely get notifications of received disks the same or next day after sending them back (I usually drop them at the post office first thing in the morning when I drop my kids off at school). I get notification of the new disks shipping later that day or the next. It's not common, but occasionally I'll end up with a new disk in the mailbox the next day after dropping off the last one...
Make a separate queue for the kids then you can put a restriction on it for G/PG -- I've got that set up for mine and it works like a champ. They can only see and rent G/PG movies (and they get to control their list themselves....of course, I can view their queue as well at any time and make edits:)
Not necessarily....that completely depends on the terms of their contract with the distribution companies. They don't buy DVDs the same way an average consumer does, because, for one, when the average consumer buys it the use is constrained to "for personal use". Any corporate/renal use contract may look radically different (and they pay different rates accordingly).
Ya, except if you go READ those drivers, you will find they violate GPL in several places (notably copying/stealing 2.6 kernel code, ripping off the copyright notice and then plastering (C) Broadcom all over it). Shrug.
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"Citizen" being the operative word in the sentence and implying "US Citizen" given the context actually makes him mostly correct....there aren't "a few hundred cases" of US Citizens being down there...
Oh great, Disney will have it's own party on the ballots then....you ever see how many votes Mickey Mouse gets?
No they won't, they'll STILL all be behind one great-big-NAT-Firewall...
A government employee is BARRED from initiating copyright on any document. They can patent up the whazzooo, but copyright does not exist for government employees. Now contracters are a complete different story... I was a Government employee for 5 years and all dozen+ of my academic papers published (including in journals that required a fee) were exempt from copyright (and we made them available for free on our website at the time, much to the annoyance of the journals, but there wasn't anything they could do about it).
... because they coincidentally correspond to two of Britney Spears's songs encoded as mp3 files at 128kb and the RIAA won't allow such copyright infringement! Double ouch!
If that's the case, no great loss, we wouldn't want to see (or hear) them anyway!
What the hell are you smoking??!? I worked for one of the top switch/router manufacturers for 7 years and this is FAR from true in their shop and pretty much everyone else's. Talk to any technical call-center rep for the top 5 or so router manufacturers and I am sure they can tell you many horror stories...
Bottom line, this is an endless loop, and if anyone has any REAL suggestions on how to get rid of spammers, or how to force companies to stop hiding them and their domains, I'd love to hear it.
Public floggings or stoning when they're caught.
Sad thing is, it cost me almost zero time - I didn't even need to show up to court, the lawyer took care of it all...all I had to do is make the initial call, and then write the check (which was mailed).
I once got a speeding ticket. The total cost, including the lawyer to get it pead down, the court costs, and the ticket cost me a whopping $110. Of that, $10 was the ticket. $10. That's it. What did I learn from this whole episode? Speeding doesn't matter because the punishment was so pathetic that it was worth it. Do I still speed? No, but that's because I now have a wife and kids to think about, but it most CERTAINLY wasn't because the penalty was any sort of a deterant. Make punishments actually HAVE a real impact and deterrant effect, then they might be taken seriously. Giving this women a slap on the wrist in an insult, stick her for the max like anyone else...
BIGGEST mistakes you can make on a server room is going cheap/unreliable cooling and power, you'll regret both when you have a room full of burned-up toasters.
Nah, I just filed for a creative use patent on color #458347
...Really Bad Security instead of Royal Bank of Scotland.
That cert is not in your browser nor will it be any time soon.
Oh really? You haven't seen my browser :)
If you EVER want to combat man in the middle attacks and phishing sites, this is the best solution. Sites whining that people are being scared away??!? Get a fucking grip, and get a real certificate from a real certificate authority so your users can actually trust you. People/companies are cheap and lazy, and unfortunately this leads to a whole host of problems...keeping your certificate legitimate and up to date should be no different than taking care of your insurance or other critical infrastructure.
Yes, the correct term is Phreaking, but come on, this is the AP....you expect them to get that right?
...they should fuse the marketing department with the sales force. Errr, never mind, I'm not sure we would want to see that critter...
Certainly worth modding up IMHO. She won despite her age, not because she took drugs or anything. I think she deserves her medal. The only scandal here are the documents, not her competing.
Cheating is cheating is cheating. You can try to call it another name, but it's still cheating. If the RULE is greater-than or equal-to 16, then anyone less than 16 is CHEATING. It's no different, at all, than taking drugs, both ways you are breaking the rules. Don't like the rules? Then get them changed....in the meantime don't cheat.
For the last 8 years I worked for a major switch/router manufacturer and we were one of the first to forward IPv6 traffic in hardware/silicon (rather than a software data path on a generalized CPU)...back then 99% of all IPv6 traffic (what staggering little there was at the time) were pings as people just tried to prove tunneling was working (screw doing native IPv6, you couldn't get beyond a LAN with that, no major ISP outside of Japan had native IPv6 service). Looking at current networks, it looks pretty much the same, still 99% pings...
I can't believe how many of you are saying he should try to subvert the process and undermine his employer. If you don't like it, quit and find work in another field (say, flipping burgers), because you will likely find clauses in your employment contract with just about every high-tech company out there today. Patents are offensive and defensive weapons, and companies pursue them for a myriad of reasons (some of which people regard as "evil", /shrug).
What you are really suggesting is being willfully destructive to your employer. Period. In that case, go find something else to do. I hope he not only fires you (which is well within the company's rights in most places), but goes ahead and patents the idea anyway (assuming there were others that contributed to the ideas still remaining at the company -- you don't need ALL contributors on-board to get a patent through the system).
Maybe it depends on where you live?
It must - I routinely get notifications of received disks the same or next day after sending them back (I usually drop them at the post office first thing in the morning when I drop my kids off at school). I get notification of the new disks shipping later that day or the next. It's not common, but occasionally I'll end up with a new disk in the mailbox the next day after dropping off the last one...
Make a separate queue for the kids then you can put a restriction on it for G/PG -- I've got that set up for mine and it works like a champ. They can only see and rent G/PG movies (and they get to control their list themselves....of course, I can view their queue as well at any time and make edits :)
Not necessarily....that completely depends on the terms of their contract with the distribution companies. They don't buy DVDs the same way an average consumer does, because, for one, when the average consumer buys it the use is constrained to "for personal use". Any corporate/renal use contract may look radically different (and they pay different rates accordingly).
Thus solving the demand side of the equation...
Step 5) Reassign all those nerds recruited in step 2 to the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan now that the cyber command is gone...
Ya, except if you go READ those drivers, you will find they violate GPL in several places (notably copying/stealing 2.6 kernel code, ripping off the copyright notice and then plastering (C) Broadcom all over it). Shrug.