No... Because I am Canadian. (But my name's not Joe. [Molson Canadian beer ref]) And I suspect that I understand his legal system and constitution at lot better than he does. I could modestly claim that I could wrong, but I'd be wrong.
When I fsckup it's on a far grander scale, and on the shoulders of giant fsckups. But one of my saving graces is that I can say "Opps, I was wrong, you're right." (Okay, it might take Thomas de Torquemada to get me to admit it sometimes, but it is possible!;^)
As for the US judicial system, you have to understand that it is branched code from the English[Welsh]/Scottish project from after 1776. It's a seperate project now, but still has a lot of the source code of it with a certain amount of cross-transfer. The electoral.college() bug needs fixing, but that's OT.
we're still cheaper than you. i'm not happy about this, and i guess you too.
My answer would be a definite yes, I'm not happy. There's no way that I could undercut someone in China -- my rent and food costs make that impossible. I do have the advantage that I can show up at the office (in the Toronto Canada area).
Certainly outsourcing to other countries really isn't causing the current problems in the North American job market. I blame companies cutting their throat to push up the report to the stockholders.
Hmm... That gives an idea for Slashdot article about virtual offices. (My idea, mine!:^)
It could be archaic legal language dating back to when there were seperate justice systems for nobles and commoners. I doubt there was much "civil" law until corporations were invented.
I suppose I could goggle for a definition, but I'm too lazy right now. Maybe later.
Think of the law as a system that's been in use for hundreds of years, based on traditions going back a thousand or more, with continous mods and patches and local variations and the phase of the Moon. (Makes you think about lawyers in a new light eh? Law hackers? Hmm... NAH!)
The 9-judge supreme court can overturn a jury. I think the argument before the appeal court was about the law, not the facts. Juries weigh the facts, judges handle the law.
All the appeals court has said is the prosecution hasn't made a clear enough case.
*And* that the lower court judge needs to bone up on patent law. I'd have to read more detail (like I understand the legalese, narf!) but it's possible that the appeals court would have let the decision stand if it wasn't for the mistakes of the lower court judge.
You're a loon. These judges are doing what they are supposed to do. That's what an appeals court is for. That's what the supreme court is for when it gets appealed further up the system.
And note that they didn't completely reverse the decision, they just sent it back down, saying that both sides would have to prove their cases better. You did know that the right to a "jury of peers" doesn't always apply in civil court cases, didn't you?
A case involving more than a billion is going to bounce like a hailstone up and down the court system. Get used to it, learn more about the law and your constitution, or move to a country that doesn't have appeals courts.
Non-existent specs, poorly understood assumptions for certain calculations - what a nightmare for any professional software developer!
Welcome to the world of software development. There have been some projects that I've worked on that weren't like that, but they've been rare.
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If someone is looking for available skilled labour, willing to work cheap, they don't have to go to India/Russia/China these days.:^(
Who guards the guardians?
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Are the police really conducting tests to determine how deadly these things can be, or how much fun?
Would you like fries with that?
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At least 300 miles, probably much more. Project Babylon "would place a net payload of about 200 kg into orbit at a cost of $600 per kg." and HARP Of course, with the acceleration, you'd probably get mashed potatoes delivered to the space station.
First it was Pringles cans for war-driving, now this. Obviously the potatoes are terrorist tools, and must be banned!
Gives new meaning to BSOD, don't it? One nasty thing about using NT is that they will not install patches in a timely fashion (if there will be any more patches). The military doesn't just grab a patch from a web site. The process of approving one goes on for years and years. Same deal with the WiFi software/hardware.
Precisely! Or at least HTTPS. The thought of people on the road accessing the corporate data without any protection of the data, never mind proper protection of the servers is just plain scarey.
Companies need to figure what their data is worth to them (or worse, worth to competitors) and protect it accordingly. The security person at any company needs to be a heavy paranoid dude with the power to do the job. Smaller companies who can't afford a specific security person still need to conduct regular reviews. I'm just me, and review my security regularly.
SOMEBODY that was running an unpatched SQL server must have had port 1434 open to the internet, right? And that WOULD be the admins' responsibility.
It should be blocked at the firewall, but it's possible that the suits ordered the port open so they could access corporate data on the road, and didn't want to learn any of the secure ways to do it. And this exposed developer machines, which aren't as rigourously configured.
Some of the big-boys might not need to pay in cash. They collect enough patents of their own, that they can trade favours. "Don't hassle us about that, or we'll hassle you about this!"
Is there any kind of dynamic page that this patent doesn't cover? CGI, ISAPI, server-side scripting? They might be going after small-fry now, but eventually they're going to have to play with the big-boys.
A Z80 and a 68000, interesting. But at the time, the 3DO had a hell of a better library for development. last best chance yadda yadda It failed. (And I'll be damned if I can remember what chip was in a 3DO. So I won't!)
And a lot of cyclists need an attitude adjustment as well. They keep thinking that they are pedestrians, no vehicles, no pedestrians, *sigh*
Any number of times, I've been passed on the right by a bicycle at a corner, when I'm signalling a right-hand turn. As tempting as it would be to Darwinize the idiot, the paperwork is huge.
In Toronto, the stupid cyclists (as opposed to the smart ones) tend towards College and Bloor Sts to die. I think it's like the mating urge of Salmon.
Well there you go, "Steeve", "Bullitt", it they didn't have so many speeling mistakes, I would have remembered it right off the bat.:^)
Oh no, 1968 is far too late for a good Mustang. You want '64-65 or so. (To bring it on topic, can you imagine the codgers of 2044 debating on which was the classic Seqway? Didn't think so!)
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When I fsckup it's on a far grander scale, and on the shoulders of giant fsckups. But one of my saving graces is that I can say "Opps, I was wrong, you're right." (Okay, it might take Thomas de Torquemada to get me to admit it sometimes, but it is possible! ;^)
As for the US judicial system, you have to understand that it is branched code from the English[Welsh]/Scottish project from after 1776. It's a seperate project now, but still has a lot of the source code of it with a certain amount of cross-transfer. The electoral.college() bug needs fixing, but that's OT.
Open source government... Hmm?
You owe me a new screen and keyboard! I'll suueeee!
YMBAL. *OWW* I spilled my coffee, *ARGH*, it burns, it burns!
But seriously, thank you for an explaination worthy of an APL coder. :^) "at law"?
My answer would be a definite yes, I'm not happy. There's no way that I could undercut someone in China -- my rent and food costs make that impossible. I do have the advantage that I can show up at the office (in the Toronto Canada area).
Certainly outsourcing to other countries really isn't causing the current problems in the North American job market. I blame companies cutting their throat to push up the report to the stockholders.
Hmm... That gives an idea for Slashdot article about virtual offices. (My idea, mine! :^)
I suppose I could goggle for a definition, but I'm too lazy right now. Maybe later.
Think of the law as a system that's been in use for hundreds of years, based on traditions going back a thousand or more, with continous mods and patches and local variations and the phase of the Moon. (Makes you think about lawyers in a new light eh? Law hackers? Hmm... NAH!)
The 9-judge supreme court can overturn a jury. I think the argument before the appeal court was about the law, not the facts. Juries weigh the facts, judges handle the law.
*And* that the lower court judge needs to bone up on patent law. I'd have to read more detail (like I understand the legalese, narf!) but it's possible that the appeals court would have let the decision stand if it wasn't for the mistakes of the lower court judge.
And note that they didn't completely reverse the decision, they just sent it back down, saying that both sides would have to prove their cases better. You did know that the right to a "jury of peers" doesn't always apply in civil court cases, didn't you?
A case involving more than a billion is going to bounce like a hailstone up and down the court system. Get used to it, learn more about the law and your constitution, or move to a country that doesn't have appeals courts.
Welcome to the world of software development. There have been some projects that I've worked on that weren't like that, but they've been rare.
If someone is looking for available skilled labour, willing to work cheap, they don't have to go to India/Russia/China these days. :^(
Are the police really conducting tests to determine how deadly these things can be, or how much fun?
First it was Pringles cans for war-driving, now this. Obviously the potatoes are terrorist tools, and must be banned!
Gives new meaning to BSOD, don't it? One nasty thing about using NT is that they will not install patches in a timely fashion (if there will be any more patches). The military doesn't just grab a patch from a web site. The process of approving one goes on for years and years. Same deal with the WiFi software/hardware.
I'll be that they're really a shocked site at the moment! :^P
Companies need to figure what their data is worth to them (or worse, worth to competitors) and protect it accordingly. The security person at any company needs to be a heavy paranoid dude with the power to do the job. Smaller companies who can't afford a specific security person still need to conduct regular reviews. I'm just me, and review my security regularly.
It should be blocked at the firewall, but it's possible that the suits ordered the port open so they could access corporate data on the road, and didn't want to learn any of the secure ways to do it. And this exposed developer machines, which aren't as rigourously configured.
Of course, Netscape was starting from the same code base.
Some of the big-boys might not need to pay in cash. They collect enough patents of their own, that they can trade favours. "Don't hassle us about that, or we'll hassle you about this!"
Is there any kind of dynamic page that this patent doesn't cover? CGI, ISAPI, server-side scripting? They might be going after small-fry now, but eventually they're going to have to play with the big-boys.
I'm that sure some don't even bother with the drones, they just get some spamware and fire it up.
A Z80 and a 68000, interesting. But at the time, the 3DO had a hell of a better library for development. last best chance yadda yadda It failed. (And I'll be damned if I can remember what chip was in a 3DO. So I won't!)
Either that or trying to lock down slashdot.mil :^)
The keyboard monkey obviously suffered a damaging near-miss from rule #3.
Are they really making a profit now, or are they still using creative book-keeping? (heh) Not that I'd buy anything from spamazon.
Any number of times, I've been passed on the right by a bicycle at a corner, when I'm signalling a right-hand turn. As tempting as it would be to Darwinize the idiot, the paperwork is huge.
In Toronto, the stupid cyclists (as opposed to the smart ones) tend towards College and Bloor Sts to die. I think it's like the mating urge of Salmon.
Oh no, 1968 is far too late for a good Mustang. You want '64-65 or so. (To bring it on topic, can you imagine the codgers of 2044 debating on which was the classic Seqway? Didn't think so!)