If college sports were about making money, they'd only have two sports - football and men's basketball. Those are the only two that make money and end up supporting the costs of the other sports through with their revenue.
I think there's definitely a chance for universities to mismanage or mishandle intellectual property, but I think those universities are the minority. Research funding is already slanted towards research that can be turned into something marketable some day. Is there anything wrong with that bias?
I registered a few different addresses with Blue Security, and only one of them has been receiving these messages so far. It sounds like it's just some spammers that are annoyed that they can't get through and are getting reverse-spammed.
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I had a former employer take this track with me once. He still owed me a couple thousand dollars on sales commissions, and I told him I wanted my money. A line of his email in response said something like, "If you can handle it, come down here and take it like a man."
Needless to say, I didn't reply back after that since the attorney's fees to sue for the money wouldn't be worth what I would get.
Considering the article doesn't go much into how they chose their sample or anything, I think that it would be safe to say that professional athletes severely skew the numbers.
When you consider that most football and basketball players are between 6' and probably 6'8" tall, it isn't hard to imagine that their million dollar salaries don't skew the results for tall people.
Big companies take these kinds of risks already; it's common practice.
Middle manager - "What we are doing will likely get us sued." Upper management - "What are the odds of us getting sued and how much do you think settling the cases out of court will cost?" Legal department - "We'll likely be sued half a dozen times and be able to settle for about $500,000 each." Upper management - "Alright then, that means we need to make sure we either gain enough market position out of this project to make $3 million worth it or we just need to have $6 million in net profit."
This process happens in every large company from Microsoft to GE to Ford to AT&T.
A couple years ago, a local theater showed the Holy Grail as part of a midnight movie series on Saturday nights. Let's just say it was somewhat frustrating. Do you really want to sit in a theater full of people who all think they know the lines and insist on speaking along with the people on screen? It's much more enjoyable just to watch it on video at home and recite the lines with a few of your buddies.:)
While doing some research for a potential client, I came across igive.com. The base concept is that you can buy stuff from regular Internet retailers (probably through affiliate programs of some type) and part of the money will go to your favorite organization. I have the EFF as mine.
I like the end of the SecurityFocus article...the part where it says that it's a lot easier to pretend to be a good journalist than to actually be one. Ouch!
Just as Microsoft has redefined the word innovation in the English language, it appears they are now trying to redefine "grassroots movement." Embrace, extend, extinguish...the English language?
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If college sports were about making money, they'd only have two sports - football and men's basketball. Those are the only two that make money and end up supporting the costs of the other sports through with their revenue.
I think there's definitely a chance for universities to mismanage or mishandle intellectual property, but I think those universities are the minority. Research funding is already slanted towards research that can be turned into something marketable some day. Is there anything wrong with that bias?
I registered a few different addresses with Blue Security, and only one of them has been receiving these messages so far. It sounds like it's just some spammers that are annoyed that they can't get through and are getting reverse-spammed.
I had a former employer take this track with me once. He still owed me a couple thousand dollars on sales commissions, and I told him I wanted my money. A line of his email in response said something like, "If you can handle it, come down here and take it like a man."
Needless to say, I didn't reply back after that since the attorney's fees to sue for the money wouldn't be worth what I would get.
Considering the article doesn't go much into how they chose their sample or anything, I think that it would be safe to say that professional athletes severely skew the numbers.
When you consider that most football and basketball players are between 6' and probably 6'8" tall, it isn't hard to imagine that their million dollar salaries don't skew the results for tall people.
They may have stopped distributing OpenLinux on CD, but they are still distributing it via FTP.
Big companies take these kinds of risks already; it's common practice.
Middle manager - "What we are doing will likely get us sued."
Upper management - "What are the odds of us getting sued and how much do you think settling the cases out of court will cost?"
Legal department - "We'll likely be sued half a dozen times and be able to settle for about $500,000 each."
Upper management - "Alright then, that means we need to make sure we either gain enough market position out of this project to make $3 million worth it or we just need to have $6 million in net profit."
This process happens in every large company from Microsoft to GE to Ford to AT&T.
A couple years ago, a local theater showed the Holy Grail as part of a midnight movie series on Saturday nights. Let's just say it was somewhat frustrating. Do you really want to sit in a theater full of people who all think they know the lines and insist on speaking along with the people on screen? It's much more enjoyable just to watch it on video at home and recite the lines with a few of your buddies. :)
While doing some research for a potential client, I came across igive.com. The base concept is that you can buy stuff from regular Internet retailers (probably through affiliate programs of some type) and part of the money will go to your favorite organization. I have the EFF as mine.
I like the end of the SecurityFocus article...the part where it says that it's a lot easier to pretend to be a good journalist than to actually be one. Ouch!
Just as Microsoft has redefined the word innovation in the English language, it appears they are now trying to redefine "grassroots movement." Embrace, extend, extinguish...the English language?