Unless they make a determined effort to render the product unusable as a form of retribution or punishment. For instance, you take your automobile to the dealership. They see it has a non-factory radio unit or non-factory wheels and tires. They may not deliberately damage the engine, rendering the vehicle useless.
Of course the burden would fall upon the owner of the damaged phone to prove in court that Apple set out to render the hacked iPhones inoperative, but that's what discovery is all about.
Ultimately it may be an issue for a jury to decide.
An *excellent* stragegy and thorough explanation. Especially the bit about stopping to think and devise a plan rather than just diving in headfirst. All spot on!
The only thing I could possibly add is to say "gather resources to understand the *purpose* of the system", either through documentation or by speaking with project management and/or end users. If you can learn the business rules and processes, that will be an enormous help in understanding the code's design.
Simply publishing the source is not the same as making this open source. It all comes down to the license granted by Microsoft. In fact, it could be an attempt to "poison the well". By exposing developers to the source but not granting third-part (re)use, or at least *potentially* exposing developers, that could open the door to lawsuits. Here's why: if a third-party developer were to implement a substantially similar solution or identical algorithm, Microsoft could claim that the sources were "copied/stolen/used outside of the granted license" and therefore the work-alike product is inelegible for sale or distribution. Attorneys get involved and everything grinds to a halt.
Sure, you and I see it as nonsense, but how a court (more specifically a jury of nontechnical everyday Joes) would view it is another matter entirely. Muddying the waters is sometimes an effective legal strategy.
Agreed. However, I can't help but wonder how many of those here who damn these politicans for meddling in that which they do not understand, also simultaneously hold a deep-seated belief that these same politicans have the capacity to benevolantly control an entire healthcare industry.
Don't believe for a minute this is about security, it's about control. And those who regulate access to information, control those who consume it. Next steps? Mandatory spyware and BigBrother remote control software. To make it easier to spot the criminals/terrorists/boogeyman du jour, of course.
Not that I condone such antisocial behaviour, of course, but there's a simple technique for getting away with this: Just put on a Hijab (the Muslim full-face mask). If you're caught by CCTV in the act of sabotage, the hijab conceals your identity! Additionally, the authorities are so terrified of singling out any Asians that they would never dream of stopping/questioning/arresting "women" in hijabs. Just fling your burning tyre (hidden neatly under a burqua), then slip away and toss your mask in the nearest rubbish bin. Mission accomplished.
(And for those who would mod this flamebait, please hear me out: I'm not casting aspersions on any one group but merely pointing out a significant weakness in a survelliance society -- namely the permitting of some to wear full-face masks in public. Rather undermines the whole stated purpose of CCTV, doesn't it? But then again, the gatsos aren't doing their stated purpose, either, which is making the streets safer...)
CFs dim nicely. Just drop the temperature to 40 degrees F or less. The ones in my garage are barely visible below freezing. IOW, they are impractical for outdoor applications in most climates.
(Dim bulbs. Oh, the temptation to make a political joke is strong...)
Even as an EE, I've never heard of a resistor having a forward bias voltage...
LOL, oh man what a typo! You're right, of course. Sorry, I started thinking ahead about the transistor used to amplify that signal to a meaningful level and the rest of the circuit. And here I was thinking I could talk on the phone and post to/. at the same time. So much for multitasking.
Exactly. AKA "fuel cell". Which explains why they're mandatory in all serious motor vehicle racing classes.
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Millivolts. Most level sensors are variable resistors, so you only need to exceed the forward min. bias of the resistor (see the spec. sheet) to have accurate results. Above that, it's just a matter of calibration and maintaining a well-regulated power supply.
>>Running a live wire into a passenger jet's fuel tank seems like a bad idea
Why? it's extremely difficult to ignite liquid gasoline, or jet fuel. An air-fuel mix ignites quite easily, however. So moral of the story: if you're paranoid that wires in your fuel tank are freyed, keep your fuel tank full. Or get your crappy car fixed.
(In fact, nearly every automobile built in the past 20 years has not one, but two powered devices in the fuel tank -- a fuel pump and a level sensor.)
Use an old derelict ship displacing a few hundred tons of water, secure two piers in the ocean floor. Each night the tide will raise the ship along the columns. The following day, recapture the energy of the "suspended" ship as it descends. Or use the rising tide to compress air which can then be captured by a small turbine for electric generation. Either soln. provides simple, cheap power which is renewed each evening and is available at the coast, where more of the people in this world live.
Of course, you're taking this energy from the gravitational pull of the moon so don't blame me when it falls out of orbit in a billion years...
>>Yeah, I'm mad because my request for noise-isolating headphones was turned down. Does it show? Perhaps Sir should request a noise-cancelling Louisville Slugger?
(The capatcha is "communes"... how appropriate to a discussion about "flexible" work space!)
So they picked it up at college and will take it with them into the future to infect the workplace. IOW, it's a virus?
BTW, wasn't this Apple's strategy in seeding public schools with Macintoshes? They hoped the students would be so accustomed to using Macs that they would choose one when they transitioned into college or the workforce. Unfortunately, it didn't really work out that way. only with the advent of OSX do I now see significant numbers of students carrying Macs around the campus.
Maybe Nigeria can become known as a country of greedy patent trolls instead of just a country of internet scammers. As if there's any practical difference.
OLPC team -- don't get discouraged. As they say, if you're receiving flak, you must be over the target.
It looks as though the BBC is the latest of a very long line of companies to learn an important lesson -- you cannot strong-arm a mob. And that's what the Internet is, it's a mob. And like a mob, it can change direction unpredictably and almost instantly if the self-interests of the individual members is satisfied. (think of how Napster changed the music industry... after 100 years of stagnation, it hit them like a heart attack.) However, you cannot force your standards on a marketplace. Sony has proven this time and time again (nobody, NO-BOD-E, wants to re-encode all their music in Sony's crappy proprietary format) and until the other companies learn from these mistakes, money will be pissed away time and again.
In other words, if the BBC wants to play, they've got to come up with a BETTER way of presenting video, not just a DIFFERENT way and certainly not a more restrictive PROPRIETARY method.
The telecom companies will be pleased. They're terrified of VOIP, and are holding on to their monopoly customer-no-service business models as long as they can. So any "bad news" that scares customers away from internet phone and back into their clutches is welcomed.
>>your professionalism will be noticed and remembered by some. Perhaps, but the "perp walk" through the building (carrying your belongings in a box and being escorted by security guards) will be remembered by more.
Those with whom you've worked have already formed an opinion of you. Sparing yourself the embarassment of disrespectful treatment on the last day will not change that.
>>That's a very immature attitude Yes it is. And it's comparable to a security guard marching you out the front door and off the premises, and another boxing up your personal belongings and delivering them to you in the post.
Giving notice is an extension of trust and a show of courtesy, from the employee to the employer. If no such trust exists, then it follows no such courtesy should either. Unless you happen to enjoy being treated as a criminal, with suspicion and disdain.
>>When you give your notice, they pay you for the remaining months work, but ask you to leave immediately. Not in the US. Companies may simply terminate your employment (and associated benefits including life and health insurance) immediately and show you to the door. "Goodbye and good luck."
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Unless they make a determined effort to render the product unusable as a form of retribution or punishment. For instance, you take your automobile to the dealership. They see it has a non-factory radio unit or non-factory wheels and tires. They may not deliberately damage the engine, rendering the vehicle useless.
Of course the burden would fall upon the owner of the damaged phone to prove in court that Apple set out to render the hacked iPhones inoperative, but that's what discovery is all about.
Ultimately it may be an issue for a jury to decide.
An *excellent* stragegy and thorough explanation. Especially the bit about stopping to think and devise a plan rather than just diving in headfirst. All spot on!
The only thing I could possibly add is to say "gather resources to understand the *purpose* of the system", either through documentation or by speaking with project management and/or end users. If you can learn the business rules and processes, that will be an enormous help in understanding the code's design.
I'm a moron, you inconsiderate clod.
Uh. wait. That didn't come out right at all.
Simply publishing the source is not the same as making this open source. It all comes down to the license granted by Microsoft. In fact, it could be an attempt to "poison the well". By exposing developers to the source but not granting third-part (re)use, or at least *potentially* exposing developers, that could open the door to lawsuits. Here's why: if a third-party developer were to implement a substantially similar solution or identical algorithm, Microsoft could claim that the sources were "copied/stolen/used outside of the granted license" and therefore the work-alike product is inelegible for sale or distribution. Attorneys get involved and everything grinds to a halt.
Sure, you and I see it as nonsense, but how a court (more specifically a jury of nontechnical everyday Joes) would view it is another matter entirely. Muddying the waters is sometimes an effective legal strategy.
(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. Obviously.)
It prefers to be called differently-abledware, you insensitive clod!
Agreed. However, I can't help but wonder how many of those here who damn these politicans for meddling in that which they do not understand, also simultaneously hold a deep-seated belief that these same politicans have the capacity to benevolantly control an entire healthcare industry.
Oh, the ironing.
Don't believe for a minute this is about security, it's about control. And those who regulate access to information, control those who consume it. Next steps? Mandatory spyware and BigBrother remote control software. To make it easier to spot the criminals/terrorists/boogeyman du jour, of course.
Not that I condone such antisocial behaviour, of course, but there's a simple technique for getting away with this: Just put on a Hijab (the Muslim full-face mask). If you're caught by CCTV in the act of sabotage, the hijab conceals your identity! Additionally, the authorities are so terrified of singling out any Asians that they would never dream of stopping/questioning/arresting "women" in hijabs. Just fling your burning tyre (hidden neatly under a burqua), then slip away and toss your mask in the nearest rubbish bin. Mission accomplished.
(And for those who would mod this flamebait, please hear me out: I'm not casting aspersions on any one group but merely pointing out a significant weakness in a survelliance society -- namely the permitting of some to wear full-face masks in public. Rather undermines the whole stated purpose of CCTV, doesn't it? But then again, the gatsos aren't doing their stated purpose, either, which is making the streets safer...)
CFs dim nicely. Just drop the temperature to 40 degrees F or less. The ones in my garage are barely visible below freezing. IOW, they are impractical for outdoor applications in most climates.
(Dim bulbs. Oh, the temptation to make a political joke is strong...)
option 3: open a new site called "Think Secreter"
4. PROFIT!
LOL, oh man what a typo! You're right, of course. Sorry, I started thinking ahead about the transistor used to amplify that signal to a meaningful level and the rest of the circuit.
And here I was thinking I could talk on the phone and post to
Exactly. AKA "fuel cell". Which explains why they're mandatory in all serious motor vehicle racing classes.
Millivolts. Most level sensors are variable resistors, so you only need to exceed the forward min. bias of the resistor (see the spec. sheet) to have accurate results. Above that, it's just a matter of calibration and maintaining a well-regulated power supply.
>>Running a live wire into a passenger jet's fuel tank seems like a bad idea
Why? it's extremely difficult to ignite liquid gasoline, or jet fuel. An air-fuel mix ignites quite easily, however. So moral of the story: if you're paranoid that wires in your fuel tank are freyed, keep your fuel tank full. Or get your crappy car fixed.
(In fact, nearly every automobile built in the past 20 years has not one, but two powered devices in the fuel tank -- a fuel pump and a level sensor.)
Use an old derelict ship displacing a few hundred tons of water, secure two piers in the ocean floor. Each night the tide will raise the ship along the columns. The following day, recapture the energy of the "suspended" ship as it descends. Or use the rising tide to compress air which can then be captured by a small turbine for electric generation. Either soln. provides simple, cheap power which is renewed each evening and is available at the coast, where more of the people in this world live.
Of course, you're taking this energy from the gravitational pull of the moon so don't blame me when it falls out of orbit in a billion years...
>>Yeah, I'm mad because my request for noise-isolating headphones was turned down. Does it show?
Perhaps Sir should request a noise-cancelling Louisville Slugger?
(The capatcha is "communes"... how appropriate to a discussion about "flexible" work space!)
So they picked it up at college and will take it with them into the future to infect the workplace. IOW, it's a virus?
BTW, wasn't this Apple's strategy in seeding public schools with Macintoshes? They hoped the students would be so accustomed to using Macs that they would choose one when they transitioned into college or the workforce. Unfortunately, it didn't really work out that way. only with the advent of OSX do I now see significant numbers of students carrying Macs around the campus.
Prior art:
Danny's "list of people to kill"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SADRcGrIo7g
Now THAT would be creepy.
Maybe Nigeria can become known as a country of greedy patent trolls instead of just a country of internet scammers. As if there's any practical difference.
OLPC team -- don't get discouraged. As they say, if you're receiving flak, you must be over the target.
Why, indeed?
It looks as though the BBC is the latest of a very long line of companies to learn an important lesson -- you cannot strong-arm a mob. And that's what the Internet is, it's a mob. And like a mob, it can change direction unpredictably and almost instantly if the self-interests of the individual members is satisfied. (think of how Napster changed the music industry... after 100 years of stagnation, it hit them like a heart attack.) However, you cannot force your standards on a marketplace. Sony has proven this time and time again (nobody, NO-BOD-E, wants to re-encode all their music in Sony's crappy proprietary format) and until the other companies learn from these mistakes, money will be pissed away time and again.
In other words, if the BBC wants to play, they've got to come up with a BETTER way of presenting video, not just a DIFFERENT way and certainly not a more restrictive PROPRIETARY method.
The telecom companies will be pleased. They're terrified of VOIP, and are holding on to their monopoly customer-no-service business models as long as they can. So any "bad news" that scares customers away from internet phone and back into their clutches is welcomed.
>>your professionalism will be noticed and remembered by some.
Perhaps, but the "perp walk" through the building (carrying your belongings in a box and being escorted by security guards) will be remembered by more.
Those with whom you've worked have already formed an opinion of you. Sparing yourself the embarassment of disrespectful treatment on the last day will not change that.
>>That's a very immature attitude
Yes it is. And it's comparable to a security guard marching you out the front door and off the premises, and another boxing up your personal belongings and delivering them to you in the post.
Giving notice is an extension of trust and a show of courtesy, from the employee to the employer. If no such trust exists, then it follows no such courtesy should either. Unless you happen to enjoy being treated as a criminal, with suspicion and disdain.
>>When you give your notice, they pay you for the remaining months work, but ask you to leave immediately.
Not in the US. Companies may simply terminate your employment (and associated benefits including life and health insurance) immediately and show you to the door. "Goodbye and good luck."
Time to iron the "I'm with Stupid --->" shirt or make something custom: "I accepted a great offer from GOOGLE and all I got was this lousy Perp Walk."