Gods no. The important thing is that the cable be capable of carrying the current the device requests. If the resistors were just in the device, then it would have no idea if the cable you've used to connect it to the hub is thick enough to carry the current it is about to draw.
So include a monetary penalty in the contract that will account for that; instead of merely "cancelling the license", spell out a financial amount to be paid for that kind of breach, And "No further usage is licensed, except after the penalty is paid".
The idea being, the mandatory monetary penalty would be large enough to compensate/offset for the expected loss of future business.
Then be prepared to get no business. This guy isn't James Cameron: he's licensing stock footage. No company lawyer would allow their organization to be put on the hook for that kind of liability for such a trifling benefit. They'd just find someone else to get similar footage from with less onerous terms or make it themselves.
I know the tone of this post is "look at these crazy luddites", but at least in the case of the Virginia group, it looks like all they are asking is the lines be run through existing rights of way such as rail lines or highways, rather than through residential neighborhoods. I don't think that sounds all that crazy, especially considering the negative impact high tension lines have on nearby property.
If the scientists were actually employed by the government and their contract specified that the research would be owned by the USG, then yes, the research would be public domain because the USG is prohibited from holding copyrights (could still be marked CLASSIFIED or FOUO though). If, on the other hand, the government gave a grant to a private institution and did not stipulate that the work product would belong to the government, then the institution will usually get to keep the IP.
My understanding is that the key, encrypted by the user's unlock code and device ID, is stored on a secure hardware module that is unique to the processor on that specific phone. You can configure the phone to erase the key after 10 wrong attempts. This makes it pretty much impossible to brute force the passcode via the OS. What I don't know is if the 10 tries setting is enforced at the hardware level or the OS. If it's only the OS, I suppose you could rig up something to interface with the hardware security module directly. If it is enforced in hardware, you'd have to somehow extract the password-encrypted key from the hardware before you could start trying to brute force the password. I'm sure it's possible, but it's also probably beyond the resources of most law enforcement organizations.
When you launch steam there is usually a popup showing what the latest deals are that you have to dismiss. There might be a way to turn it off though. Other than that, yeah, if you are on your library page: no ads.
Ah OK, I thought AsusWRT was DD-WRT-derived. My mistake. Anyway, when I was researching routers I chose the ASUS RT-AC68U based on it being amicable to flashing with other firmware. The out of the box stuff is pretty good though, and so far I haven't felt the need to tinker with it yet.
Oh, I think the rest is all very likely. It's quite believable that Sweden is acting as a proxy for US interests. I think Assange would be foolish to get on any commercial flight, especially after what happened to the Bolivian president during the Snowden incident. I just wanted to point out that there are many motivations to consider when weighing why an ambassador acted in a particular way.
Perhaps. But it's also true that a country might refuse to guarantee it won't do something it has no intention of doing because it considers the demand an affront to its sovereignty.
Or it might be that the ambassador has no legal authority to make such a guarantee. For example, if a country has a with no death penalty has a law not to extradite criminals to countries where they may be executed, it might refuse to extradite a person wanted for a capitol crime to the US. If it's not a federal charge, and assuming the state in question has a death penalty, our ambassador wouldn't be able to promise much: he has no constitutional authority to tell the state DA what to do.
I would also point out that medicine as practiced by most physicians is not a science either. They use the fruits of science, but their field is based on an entirely different method of knowledge acquisition and application. Yet we don't regularly fault doctors for being "unscientific".
I always thought of my doctors as "meat mechanics": they listen to the engine and pound on things and to them to try to figure out what's wrong, and then take a stab at fixing the problem based on experience and various field repair manuals. Occasionally you'll require the intervention of an engineer (surgeon), but if I ever find myself talking to a scientist about the state of my health, I'll know I'm screwed.
I hope you get caught on camera causing someone financial harm, so that you and your pretentious bullshit can spend some time in jail and learn what real hardship is like.
Do you really want to live in a country where people get jailed for scratching a paint job on a car?
You already do. Graffiti (vandalism) is a felony in many states. I would not be surprised if deliberate vandalism against other types of property (vehicles) was as well if the damage is over a certain value.
Depending on the specific state and value of the property damage, vandalism is either a misdemeanor or felony offense. Penalties typically include fines, imprisonment in county jail, or both. In addition, a person convicted of vandalism is frequently ordered to wash, repair or replace the damaged property (known as "restitution"), and/or participate in programs to clean up graffiti and other forms of vandalism. Moreover, a parent of a minor child may be ordered to pay fines resulting from their child's vandal behavior under a "parental liability" theory.
How about adding a simple two-factor authentication? Instead of rejecting the payment outright and freezing the card, text message my phone IMMEDIATELY and I can read a 6 digit code to the cashier to allow the transaction.
My Citi card already does basically this. If they detect a suspect transaction, they text my phone. If I reply "yes", it goes through, if not, the transaction gets declined.
For several years, the U.S. Special Operations Command has been working on a Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit, or "TALOS,"
"Talos"? Now the SOC is just trolling us.
Talos in Greek mythology was an animated bronze colossus who was charged with guarding Europa, so it seems appropriate in this context. You see it pop up a lot in fiction and when naming programs that deal with anthropomorphic robots, particularly military ones.
At some point you just bankrupt the company, which is stupid, it'll put millions of people out of work, destroy a lot of wealth, and then when it files for bankruptcy, it won't be able to fix the cars in the first place.
Do you want vengeance (against millions of people who didn't do anything), or do you want solutions?
The fines need to cost the company more than they made/saved by implementing this scam OR the people who perpetrated this scam need to be held personally responsible, especially the executives overseeing the operation. Nothing else will deter companies from repeating this kind of behavior. Otherwise they will just make some lowly engineer the scapegoat and write off whatever symbolic fine that gets handed down as the cost of doing business.
Since the higher ups are usually able to use the corporate veil to protect themselves from the latter option, we're left with he former: punitive fines that force shareholders/boards to police themselves.
Even the healthcare software I work on today does not have nearly any requirements on how the software is developed, as long as it performs (or appears to perform) the task contracted to us. Fortunately for our own sanity and quality we do use quite good practices. Even agile development can have good ticket/requirement trails.
I worked on medical information systems for 15 years and we were definitely subject to FDA audit as a "software medical device" and had to abide by their design control process. Every commit that made functional changes had to be tied to a change control ticket. Every ticket had to be traceable to a documented requirement in the SDD. Every requirement had to have test case associated with it that had to be executed for each release.
My understanding as a non-lawyer though is that much of the class 1 software device classification is voluntary. I.e. the FDA doesn't have the resources to police the entire industry, so it depends on the developers voluntary submitting themselves to regulation.
Oh, come on, it's easier for young people today to get into the guts of computing than ever before. I remember as a child, the most I could do with my parent's Mac was play with Resedit or create little Forth programs that could hardly interface with the OS. All the cool stuff (C compilers, documentation) was extremely expensive. It was only in the 1990s that, thanks to the convergence of Free Software and x86, a person could get a serious dev environment for cheap. Kids these days can get a Raspberry Pi for cheap, install Linux, and immediately have access to all kinds of ways to tinker -- even quasi-professional documentation like O'Reilly books is free today thanks to torrents.
The 8-bit computers of the early to mid 80s are way simpler to understand and hack on for a kid than an Arduino or Raspberry Pi. When I was 7 there was no way I would have had any grasp on a C compiler. However, booting up my VIC-20 dumped me immediately to a BASIC interpreter where I could immediately begin to mess around. It wasn't very long before I was POKEing values into video memory to create simple animations and games based on program listings in books and magazines. Eventually I was creating my own programs from scratch with not much more than 5 or 6 simple commands and no tool chain to learn.
Modern systems might be far more capable and make it "easier" to create a sophisticated system, but there are many more layers of abstraction between you and the machine and a lot more to learn in order to make it do something useful.
AirDrop is only useful when, for whatever reason, you want to share some document of some form with someone you don't know and don't feel like setting up a "proper" channel to. Otherwise there's no reason to use it over email.
It's also useful when you want to share a largish video without down sampling it or going through the rigmarole of syncing the phone and copying the file between PCs. This is literally the only time I've used it: to exchange a video of our daughter with my wife.
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Gods no. The important thing is that the cable be capable of carrying the current the device requests. If the resistors were just in the device, then it would have no idea if the cable you've used to connect it to the hub is thick enough to carry the current it is about to draw.
You should be able to lock the breaker out and take the key with you so they can't turn the power on.
So include a monetary penalty in the contract that will account for that; instead of merely "cancelling the license", spell out a financial amount to be paid for that kind of breach, And "No further usage is licensed, except after the penalty is paid".
The idea being, the mandatory monetary penalty would be large enough to compensate/offset for the expected loss of future business.
Then be prepared to get no business. This guy isn't James Cameron: he's licensing stock footage. No company lawyer would allow their organization to be put on the hook for that kind of liability for such a trifling benefit. They'd just find someone else to get similar footage from with less onerous terms or make it themselves.
I know the tone of this post is "look at these crazy luddites", but at least in the case of the Virginia group, it looks like all they are asking is the lines be run through existing rights of way such as rail lines or highways, rather than through residential neighborhoods. I don't think that sounds all that crazy, especially considering the negative impact high tension lines have on nearby property.
If the scientists were actually employed by the government and their contract specified that the research would be owned by the USG, then yes, the research would be public domain because the USG is prohibited from holding copyrights (could still be marked CLASSIFIED or FOUO though). If, on the other hand, the government gave a grant to a private institution and did not stipulate that the work product would belong to the government, then the institution will usually get to keep the IP.
My understanding is that the key, encrypted by the user's unlock code and device ID, is stored on a secure hardware module that is unique to the processor on that specific phone. You can configure the phone to erase the key after 10 wrong attempts. This makes it pretty much impossible to brute force the passcode via the OS. What I don't know is if the 10 tries setting is enforced at the hardware level or the OS. If it's only the OS, I suppose you could rig up something to interface with the hardware security module directly. If it is enforced in hardware, you'd have to somehow extract the password-encrypted key from the hardware before you could start trying to brute force the password. I'm sure it's possible, but it's also probably beyond the resources of most law enforcement organizations.
On iOS you have to unlock your phone before you sync with iTunes, so I don't think you can push an app over WIFI without knowing the passcode.
When you launch steam there is usually a popup showing what the latest deals are that you have to dismiss. There might be a way to turn it off though. Other than that, yeah, if you are on your library page: no ads.
Veritasium did a visit to the facility where they were producing one of the spheres. You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Ah OK, I thought AsusWRT was DD-WRT-derived. My mistake. Anyway, when I was researching routers I chose the ASUS RT-AC68U based on it being amicable to flashing with other firmware. The out of the box stuff is pretty good though, and so far I haven't felt the need to tinker with it yet.
The ASUS router ships with a custom version of DD-WRT, and you can always put the stock version on there. Not sure about OpenWRT support though.
Oh, I think the rest is all very likely. It's quite believable that Sweden is acting as a proxy for US interests. I think Assange would be foolish to get on any commercial flight, especially after what happened to the Bolivian president during the Snowden incident. I just wanted to point out that there are many motivations to consider when weighing why an ambassador acted in a particular way.
Perhaps. But it's also true that a country might refuse to guarantee it won't do something it has no intention of doing because it considers the demand an affront to its sovereignty.
Or it might be that the ambassador has no legal authority to make such a guarantee. For example, if a country has a with no death penalty has a law not to extradite criminals to countries where they may be executed, it might refuse to extradite a person wanted for a capitol crime to the US. If it's not a federal charge, and assuming the state in question has a death penalty, our ambassador wouldn't be able to promise much: he has no constitutional authority to tell the state DA what to do.
I would also point out that medicine as practiced by most physicians is not a science either. They use the fruits of science, but their field is based on an entirely different method of knowledge acquisition and application. Yet we don't regularly fault doctors for being "unscientific".
I always thought of my doctors as "meat mechanics": they listen to the engine and pound on things and to them to try to figure out what's wrong, and then take a stab at fixing the problem based on experience and various field repair manuals. Occasionally you'll require the intervention of an engineer (surgeon), but if I ever find myself talking to a scientist about the state of my health, I'll know I'm screwed.
Do you really want to live in a country where people get jailed for scratching a paint job on a car?
You already do. Graffiti (vandalism) is a felony in many states. I would not be surprised if deliberate vandalism against other types of property (vehicles) was as well if the damage is over a certain value.
http://criminal.findlaw.com/cr...
How about adding a simple two-factor authentication? Instead of rejecting the payment outright and freezing the card, text message my phone IMMEDIATELY and I can read a 6 digit code to the cashier to allow the transaction.
My Citi card already does basically this. If they detect a suspect transaction, they text my phone. If I reply "yes", it goes through, if not, the transaction gets declined.
ICD-10 has been in the pipeline for years and years, long before the ACA was a twinkle in Obama's eye.
"Talos"? Now the SOC is just trolling us.
Talos in Greek mythology was an animated bronze colossus who was charged with guarding Europa, so it seems appropriate in this context. You see it pop up a lot in fiction and when naming programs that deal with anthropomorphic robots, particularly military ones.
At some point you just bankrupt the company, which is stupid, it'll put millions of people out of work, destroy a lot of wealth, and then when it files for bankruptcy, it won't be able to fix the cars in the first place.
Do you want vengeance (against millions of people who didn't do anything), or do you want solutions?
The fines need to cost the company more than they made/saved by implementing this scam OR the people who perpetrated this scam need to be held personally responsible, especially the executives overseeing the operation. Nothing else will deter companies from repeating this kind of behavior. Otherwise they will just make some lowly engineer the scapegoat and write off whatever symbolic fine that gets handed down as the cost of doing business.
Since the higher ups are usually able to use the corporate veil to protect themselves from the latter option, we're left with he former: punitive fines that force shareholders/boards to police themselves.
Even the healthcare software I work on today does not have nearly any requirements on how the software is developed, as long as it performs (or appears to perform) the task contracted to us. Fortunately for our own sanity and quality we do use quite good practices. Even agile development can have good ticket/requirement trails.
I worked on medical information systems for 15 years and we were definitely subject to FDA audit as a "software medical device" and had to abide by their design control process. Every commit that made functional changes had to be tied to a change control ticket. Every ticket had to be traceable to a documented requirement in the SDD. Every requirement had to have test case associated with it that had to be executed for each release.
My understanding as a non-lawyer though is that much of the class 1 software device classification is voluntary. I.e. the FDA doesn't have the resources to police the entire industry, so it depends on the developers voluntary submitting themselves to regulation.
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Oh, come on, it's easier for young people today to get into the guts of computing than ever before. I remember as a child, the most I could do with my parent's Mac was play with Resedit or create little Forth programs that could hardly interface with the OS. All the cool stuff (C compilers, documentation) was extremely expensive. It was only in the 1990s that, thanks to the convergence of Free Software and x86, a person could get a serious dev environment for cheap. Kids these days can get a Raspberry Pi for cheap, install Linux, and immediately have access to all kinds of ways to tinker -- even quasi-professional documentation like O'Reilly books is free today thanks to torrents.
The 8-bit computers of the early to mid 80s are way simpler to understand and hack on for a kid than an Arduino or Raspberry Pi. When I was 7 there was no way I would have had any grasp on a C compiler. However, booting up my VIC-20 dumped me immediately to a BASIC interpreter where I could immediately begin to mess around. It wasn't very long before I was POKEing values into video memory to create simple animations and games based on program listings in books and magazines. Eventually I was creating my own programs from scratch with not much more than 5 or 6 simple commands and no tool chain to learn.
Modern systems might be far more capable and make it "easier" to create a sophisticated system, but there are many more layers of abstraction between you and the machine and a lot more to learn in order to make it do something useful.
I believe Bayer lost its trademark to aspirin as part of reparation for WWI, not as a result of the name becoming generic.
Because if you publish everything peremptorily, you lose the opportunity to use the threat of revealing it as leverage against your target.
AirDrop is only useful when, for whatever reason, you want to share some document of some form with someone you don't know and don't feel like setting up a "proper" channel to. Otherwise there's no reason to use it over email.
It's also useful when you want to share a largish video without down sampling it or going through the rigmarole of syncing the phone and copying the file between PCs. This is literally the only time I've used it: to exchange a video of our daughter with my wife.