If they sold a gun to the government of Iran, then yes they'd face crushing liability (see my sig).
And various items are restricted for export for human rights reasons:
Stoelting Company, of Wood Dale, Illinois, and its president, LaVern Miller, illegally exported polygraph machines to China without required export licenses. These items are restricted to China for human rights reasons.
Stoelting was sentenced to two and a half years’ corporate probation and a $20,000 criminal fine. Miller was sentenced to two and a half years’ probation, including six months of electronically monitored home confinement, 500 hours of community service and a criminal fine equivalent to the costs of his probation and monitoring, estimated to be $18,000. In addition, Stoelting and Miller each agreed to pay $44,000 in administrative penalties, and Stoelting agreed to a five-year suspended denial of export privileges.
So there may be a case here for the guy. I wouldn't hold out hope though.
I guess I'm being confusing by ignoring the IT context of the story. I don't mean college is useful for IT roles managing networks and servers or whatever. I just meant that surely studying mathematics and advancing CS are more significant endeavors than the ol 9 to 5.
When a person can spend four to six years in an educational system and not learn any applicable skill to be used in the real world, the education system has failed.
Yes of course the IT industry needs an army of relatively mindless workers who can configure network switches or whatever skill you consider useful. You can earn a good living doing it and there's not really any reason to go to college for it. But the real work that matters (where they can't just drop another IT guy in the slot if you die) has been done by people who actually developed the theory behind the technology.
There's a lot of vitriol in your comment directed at academia, and I could open the fire hose back at you but I won't. Just know that engineer types like you are something of a joke in math/CS circles. Like a dusty farmer in overalls driving his tractor around feeling proud that he's doing something productive for society and disdaining the far-off castle-tower academics who just drain resources, while unknown to him the genetically modified seeds he's planting are increasing yields more than even inhuman hard work ever could. It's really a ridiculous image.
So keep plugging your network cables or whatever you do from your 40th percentile income bracket, and leave the thinking to people who went to college.
Not to mention that the amount of arrogance in calling academia some kind of industry training ground is ludicrous. Who is he to tell the universities where they "need to be?"
If you ask me, it's academia that is important and significant, and industry is just something you have to do for food.
AGs shouldn't be able to do anything at all. The California attorney general has jurisdiction. The rest of the world (except the federal government) has no say whatsoever.
TFA says they weren't violating any laws, they just got on the wrong side of powerful people and had to deal with 35 attorneys general holding slanderous press releases.
Well these aren't the smartest people on the planet, they're soldiers. Don't know why anyone cares about their opinion. They just take orders and shoot their guns and dig trenches.
Here's the plan. We fire a large volume of rubber debris directly into the Moon's craters, plugging them up and preventing the Moon from pumping out any more deadly space anthrax.
Yeah the other guy is basically saying: "There haven't been known cases of identity theft from RFID use, therefore the system is secure and we should expand it!" despite being shown conclusively that it is not secure and widespread use of RFID could be a disaster.
You definitely can't have an open container in your vehicle. The drive through places just hand you boxes of whatever you order, they don't open anything.
This isn't the general public you know. We're talking about convicted criminals who actually drove on public roads while actually drunk. Likely more than once, since they're only convicted if they're caught.
I'm all for liberty and etc, but I have exactly zero patience for letting anyone that's been anywhere near alcohol drive next to me at 70mph. Driving isn't something to mess around with, you can go out to get some milk one day and never come back.
Would you need a copy for every server? What if you use the same drive image for every server, or even the same volume for every server (physically mirrored on lots of drives of course)? What if every server is just virtual running on the same processor, or running on an 8-processor box?
The software licensing situation for servers is hopeless, there's no way it's encoded in law.
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If they sold a gun to the government of Iran, then yes they'd face crushing liability (see my sig).
And various items are restricted for export for human rights reasons:
So there may be a case here for the guy. I wouldn't hold out hope though.
I guess I'm being confusing by ignoring the IT context of the story. I don't mean college is useful for IT roles managing networks and servers or whatever. I just meant that surely studying mathematics and advancing CS are more significant endeavors than the ol 9 to 5.
Yes of course the IT industry needs an army of relatively mindless workers who can configure network switches or whatever skill you consider useful. You can earn a good living doing it and there's not really any reason to go to college for it. But the real work that matters (where they can't just drop another IT guy in the slot if you die) has been done by people who actually developed the theory behind the technology.
There's a lot of vitriol in your comment directed at academia, and I could open the fire hose back at you but I won't. Just know that engineer types like you are something of a joke in math/CS circles. Like a dusty farmer in overalls driving his tractor around feeling proud that he's doing something productive for society and disdaining the far-off castle-tower academics who just drain resources, while unknown to him the genetically modified seeds he's planting are increasing yields more than even inhuman hard work ever could. It's really a ridiculous image.
So keep plugging your network cables or whatever you do from your 40th percentile income bracket, and leave the thinking to people who went to college.
Three words: fake virus attack.
Not to mention that the amount of arrogance in calling academia some kind of industry training ground is ludicrous. Who is he to tell the universities where they "need to be?"
If you ask me, it's academia that is important and significant, and industry is just something you have to do for food.
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The state department protects US citizens abroad and will rain hell on anyone who harms someone carrying a US passport.
AGs shouldn't be able to do anything at all. The California attorney general has jurisdiction. The rest of the world (except the federal government) has no say whatsoever.
And how would that be remotely legal at all?
Cops are just doing what they're told, it's not like that kind of focused effort comes from rank-and-file officers.
TFA says they weren't violating any laws, they just got on the wrong side of powerful people and had to deal with 35 attorneys general holding slanderous press releases.
Well these aren't the smartest people on the planet, they're soldiers. Don't know why anyone cares about their opinion. They just take orders and shoot their guns and dig trenches.
Sorting is not a boring problem, and what are you 5 years old being amused by zoop-zap noises?
Gaming addiction is a real problem, but this lawsuit is preposterous. That is the issue, not gaming addiction.
Also, maybe I should check out L2.
Hur dur, except that's exactly what was surprising about finding the scarping places other than the lunar equator.
Here's the plan. We fire a large volume of rubber debris directly into the Moon's craters, plugging them up and preventing the Moon from pumping out any more deadly space anthrax.
In that case the plan was to activate the camera if the laptop was reported stolen, not as a way to determine if it has been stolen.
Of course, it's google's servers and they can do what they want, so there's not much moral high ground in uploading the photos back to Picasa.
Also if you read linus's patch notes they're the exact same problem.
Yeah the other guy is basically saying: "There haven't been known cases of identity theft from RFID use, therefore the system is secure and we should expand it!" despite being shown conclusively that it is not secure and widespread use of RFID could be a disaster.
They patched it, I don't know what you expect them to do beyond that. "Silently" just means that slashdot didn't pick up on it or something.
Also,
Are you kidding?
Have you read the Amnesty report? That stuff is horrifying, I just read it front to back and couldn't stop.
You definitely can't have an open container in your vehicle. The drive through places just hand you boxes of whatever you order, they don't open anything.
This isn't the general public you know. We're talking about convicted criminals who actually drove on public roads while actually drunk. Likely more than once, since they're only convicted if they're caught.
I'm all for liberty and etc, but I have exactly zero patience for letting anyone that's been anywhere near alcohol drive next to me at 70mph. Driving isn't something to mess around with, you can go out to get some milk one day and never come back.
Would you need a copy for every server? What if you use the same drive image for every server, or even the same volume for every server (physically mirrored on lots of drives of course)? What if every server is just virtual running on the same processor, or running on an 8-processor box?
The software licensing situation for servers is hopeless, there's no way it's encoded in law.