The next step to turning a "licensing organization" into a legitimate business is to have it advertise its portfolio, in a market analogous to Programmer's Paradise, rather than remain silent until ambushing real businesses with threatened litigation.
Imagine if you got ads instead of C&D letters! "We hear you're working on nails for building houses in hurricane-prone areas. We can save you tons of expensive R&D and get you to market quicker if you license our patent that documents the measurements and manufacturing process for Hurriquake® nails."
I'm glad someone is working on self-driving cars and life extension.
Companies that lose sight of their core competencies wind up failing at both the new business (from cluelessness) and the old business (from distraction).
Your photograph on your driver's license is a biometric in effect. It works even if you don't keep your face a secret. It works because if someone holds a copy of your face up to a traffic officer, the traffic officer won't be fooled.
Password security is all about secrecy because anyone can use a password. The only way for it to be secure is if nobody else knows it. Biometric security is about having an adequately intelligent verification system which reacts like the traffic cop would if someone brings in a duplicate, a hostage, or a severed body part. Doing that right is Not Cheap, which is the real objection to biometrics when security counts.
Instead of this farcical response they should have gotten him help, fixed the underlying problem, and prosecuted the adults who were aiding and abetting the bullies (just speculating about that last part but does anyone doubt it?).
The Nunn-Lugar legislation was an example of what's called moral courage. It did things that felt wrong and disgraceful, sending money to a former enemy knowing it would often get stolen, to accomplish a higher goal.
When dealing with computers, spell things right. When dealing with people, don't insult them unless there's an unusual reason. When dealing with people who are wrong, all that you need to say is "You're wrong".
The NRA and ACLU were joint petitioners to the Clinton Administration trying to restrain a patter of abuses by Federal law enforcement. (Clinton ignored them).
They'd have trouble arguing that something was a deep black national intelligence secret after sharing it with the DEA. A prosecutor or someone in discovery in a civil suit can make legal demands for information.
The resulting case would be educational, in that it would put more than one lawyer's kid through college.
It's hard to imagine a more peaceful country or one that's less of a threat to the US.
I know several who have been put through the wringer, for no reason whatever. One was a visiting celebrity chef who had all his cooking equipment seized.
There is no longer room to pretend this is about safety any more.
If they have really developed software which can do that, they should share their techniques with the commercial world. Software that can continue to run even after a system upgrade? Sign me up.
Complete enforcement of every law on the books is impossible. Making choices is inevitable.
With a hundred quatloos to spend, it is better management to spend a hundred deterring sales to minors than to split it between protecting children and harassing adults.
Making choices consistent with the will of the people and with states's rights seems like a good idea.
Maybe the project could treat it for tax purposes as one of those things where donors get something of value in return, which I believe is legal for 501(c)3s (DO NOT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT).
I had to give myself a crash course when a large number of trans* people suddenly landed in my online life. Human gender identity turns out to be at least as complicated as anything else in biology and the details are fascinating.
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The next step to turning a "licensing organization" into a legitimate business is to have it advertise its portfolio, in a market analogous to Programmer's Paradise, rather than remain silent until ambushing real businesses with threatened litigation.
Imagine if you got ads instead of C&D letters! "We hear you're working on nails for building houses in hurricane-prone areas. We can save you tons of expensive R&D and get you to market quicker if you license our patent that documents the measurements and manufacturing process for Hurriquake® nails."
I'm glad someone is working on self-driving cars and life extension.
Companies that lose sight of their core competencies wind up failing at both the new business (from cluelessness) and the old business (from distraction).
That statement about manned aircraft not being suitable for mapping was brain-torturing nonsense.
They've been used for mapping for generations and you can even make useful maps from _orbit_.
Biometric data does not have to be secret.
Your photograph on your driver's license is a biometric in effect. It works even if you don't keep your face a secret. It works because if someone holds a copy of your face up to a traffic officer, the traffic officer won't be fooled.
Password security is all about secrecy because anyone can use a password. The only way for it to be secure is if nobody else knows it. Biometric security is about having an adequately intelligent verification system which reacts like the traffic cop would if someone brings in a duplicate, a hostage, or a severed body part. Doing that right is Not Cheap, which is the real objection to biometrics when security counts.
In a sane society the bullying would not have happened because schools would be places for learning.
Instead of this farcical response they should have gotten him help, fixed the underlying problem, and prosecuted the adults who were aiding and abetting the bullies (just speculating about that last part but does anyone doubt it?).
The Nunn-Lugar legislation was an example of what's called moral courage. It did things that felt wrong and disgraceful, sending money to a former enemy knowing it would often get stolen, to accomplish a higher goal.
Government can work if we elect sane people.
The US has had a lot of trouble figuring out how to detoxify its stockpile safely. Ultraviolet and soil bacteria are apparently not enough.
For example, they strengthened DES against differential cryptanalysis when they were the only ones who knew about the technique.
Are they deterring attacks or are they simply a magic rock for keeping elephants out of the house?
Calling a total stranger a "moron" does not contribute to "the ability to get shit done".
If your role model is a brilliant asshole, try concentrating on emulating the "brilliant" part.
When dealing with computers, spell things right. When dealing with people, don't insult them unless there's an unusual reason. When dealing with people who are wrong, all that you need to say is "You're wrong".
The NRA and ACLU were joint petitioners to the Clinton Administration trying to restrain a patter of abuses by Federal law enforcement. (Clinton ignored them).
They'd have trouble arguing that something was a deep black national intelligence secret after sharing it with the DEA. A prosecutor or someone in discovery in a civil suit can make legal demands for information.
The resulting case would be educational, in that it would put more than one lawyer's kid through college.
It's hard to imagine a more peaceful country or one that's less of a threat to the US.
I know several who have been put through the wringer, for no reason whatever. One was a visiting celebrity chef who had all his cooking equipment seized.
There is no longer room to pretend this is about safety any more.
Or send in a robot. Japan should be able to find a robot.
1800 millisieverts is a dose, not a level. It's as basic a mistake as confusing feet with feet per second.
From other sources, it's a logical guess that what's meant is millisieverts per hour but an article should not make the reader guess what it means.
This leak is analogous to reporting "The US recruits spies". Nobody knows whether their networks are compromised or what to look for.
The kind of leak that hurts a country's covert operations is more like "The US pays Kim Jong Un's barber to make him look ridiculous".
If they have really developed software which can do that, they should share their techniques with the commercial world. Software that can continue to run even after a system upgrade? Sign me up.
Didn't we spend a lot of money on a space station to allow just that?
(Sorry, couldn't resist).
Complete enforcement of every law on the books is impossible. Making choices is inevitable.
With a hundred quatloos to spend, it is better management to spend a hundred deterring sales to minors than to split it between protecting children and harassing adults.
Making choices consistent with the will of the people and with states's rights seems like a good idea.
then they're putting everyone at risk for mumps and rubella, both with reproductive implications.
Maybe the project could treat it for tax purposes as one of those things where donors get something of value in return, which I believe is legal for 501(c)3s (DO NOT TAKE MY WORD FOR IT).
Crash programs are very expensive and a budget like Apollo's may never happen again.
I had to give myself a crash course when a large number of trans* people suddenly landed in my online life. Human gender identity turns out to be at least as complicated as anything else in biology and the details are fascinating.