I think I'll be satisfied with whomever wins as long as the hand recount is done properly. One more time is all we should really need.
Did not read the article, nor do I care who wins... but one recount is all we should really need. I'm so sick of both parties gaming the election with legal loopholes. Just because you can, does not mean you should...
RIM Blackberry is strong, but IMHO that's only due to 2 things:
- a keyboard
- an easy to use system
- unmetered email
I'll add a third point. Rim has a great SDK available for free. Code in Java or C++, they give you an emulator to test your app, and make it a fairly trivial process to upload it to the blackberry. WinCe grew because they added decent dev tools (vb and c++), emulator, and made it easy to upload those to an ipaq. Non of the bloody phones I've worked with will let you upload anything home grown.
Using these vulnerabilities to shill it's products.
This isn't to say that the vulnerabilities aren't real, they might be.
But this is a marketing ploy for Finjan
Back in the NT4 days I happened on a major IIS exploit. I did what I could for our code, then reported it to Microsoft. A few email exchanges - reported the bug, gave a few code examples to show the remote privilege escalation (guest to admin), then silence. Noticed the issue was fixed two service packs later.
Not so much as an email saying thank you after providing drivers to demonstrate the issue, much less any type of 'reward'. For those who wear a white hat (even accidentally) I have no problems with these guys showing how clever they are and using it for marketing purposes. That is about all the payback you get when you find something that does not behave like it should.
Conventional projectile weapons are not going to be an issue (see other child posts for the physics). I can see a bit of fun with high energy lasers however. Even a low wattage laser pointer can mess up a camera. Get your hands on something with a bit more juice and a stationary target...
Does any VOIP provider work as a land line for DirectTV's DVR? I've seen the answer is yes for 'standard' tivo boxes, but as of a year ago no for the ones they shipped with DirectTV.
Re:It will probably do you more harm than good...
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I agree with But no, you can't get a job doing basic programming easily. You are over qualified. But would add it may be difficult to get initial advanced programming job. You may be underqualified. The problem is there is a perception of a large gap between the two. I'm also willing to bet someone just finishing a Csci degree goal was not to be management.
Perhaps I sound a bit bitter, because I am... I was a bioinformaticist, who slowly devolved to a soulless code whore (and then worse) when the money shifted. The management notes came from feedback as I wandered further from my niche looking for a better job. I'd disagree with PhDs are definately hired, but usually right into a management position, because that did not happened from personal experience (or others I knew). In one case I was explicitly warned the interviewers would filter all 'science stuff' and to leave advanced degrees off the CV. They were right.... the money was right... my life forked from what I expected...
The kicker is I *do* know how much work it was for me and how much it was worth to them. How does the poster go, "sometimes your purpose in life is only to serve as a warning to others?"...
And yes, you listed some of the exceptions I mentioned. To that, I would also look for positions that required clearances and/or heavy research departments.
It will probably do you more harm than good….
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(God help me, management hat on) First off, you will probably expect higher compensation than someone fresh out of school. When I look at what you will be asking for starting salary, you will be competing with some fairly seasoned veterans out there. I'll very quickly go on to your real world experience - and compare that to someone who has been doing this for many years. You don't stand much of a chance.
Secondly, I'll have a strong suspicion that you will probably move on to another gig once you do get that real world experience under your belt. It costs a fair bit to ramp up a new employee. Again, I suspect the extra years of groveling on a pittance of a salary will leave you expecting a big payout.
Lastly, I'll wonder if you can really do the work. Even if your graduate work truly was world-class stuff, it will be hard to get past the 'it was only in school / hobby' status.
There are exceptions out there... some shops are very focused on the sciences, and a PhD would be considered the norm. These places tend to be the exception rather than the rule. I have worked in shops where they would specifically target physics post grads because they would be *happy* to work for half of what others expect. Not saying it is right...
began to realize that I don't want to spend the rest of my life using my skills to make someone else money
There is a very good chance you will suck rocks for the first several gigs (or more). If you want to give it a whirl doing the freelance thing, find a services company and work for them a while. You will learn more about how stupid / demanding a customer can really be, how the bloody contract does matter, and what a bonus it really is when you have a good, organized, understanding customer. Take a year or two being someone else's meat popsickle - you can avoid many of the normal bonehead moves that most people make on their payroll. No worries, as you will get to learn a bunch more when you go independent.
(ps. Watch what you sign! These things can bite you in the ass)
Patent reform will not happen until it becomes unprofitable for large companies to have them as they are today. I see Kodak like a rouge nation. They once were like the other sovereign, stable, and knowing that if they launched a patent war the other side would retaliate in kind, with the most likely solution to cross license each other's portfolio. This sort of thinking fails when the attacking company has nothing to lose. SCO is not really a good example of this. The stock was going downhill fast, so about a two years ago they came up with a brilliant pump and dump scheme. They don't actually care about winning the case. (IBM lobed the patent counter attack anyhow, to scorch the earth) Kodak does, however, and cannot easily be litigated into extinction.
I don't see patents going away, but I could see the bar being raised for what qualifies for 'patent' protection and eliminating some of those pesky submarine style techniques. But not until someone has nothing to gain from cross licensing. The IE plugin was close, but they lacked the law staff (not to say anything about right or wrong) to keep the patent valid....
I think the bubble was great.. for one reason: Lessons learned.
A few more...
The Alternative Minimum Tax laws affects more than Bill Gates and the rest of the 'super wealthy'. Get professional advice.
Those pesky legal contracts can really get you - pay attention to what you sign. Treat them like they did ask you to prick your finger and mumble something about your first born. Get professional advice.
Those who turned the lights off in the server room often found the quad processor Sun kit was really noisy when you brought it home.
TSR did go to hell in a hand basket around then. After all the railing they did to the PCGen folks and a few other people building tools about copyright I opted to keep what I wrote to myself. (Mostly 1st edition stuff, with a few 2nd edition rules in the mix) Damn, though... definitely a sexy first job out of school.
Looking at your site you may have seen some of my krufty bioinformatics code. Didn't work for Accelrys, but I know they licensed some of the C code that could have used a bit more time. (grin)
Let me state *for the record* I've only had experience with the Core Rules v1.0, so I never tried your kit.
Growing up, character generators have been one of the primary motivators for learning new languages and platforms. From the HP28C calculator to the blackberry, and everything in between. The bar was pretty high for that one application. (have I properly backpedaled here?)
Ah, what a small world... Wish they had done the same with the newer books.
For those looking for legit copies of old AD&D books, check out the old 'Core Rules' CD. Came with a bunch of utilities, a mediocre character generator, and a bunch of the manuals in rich text format! There were other things on it as well, but having the tables in RTF format was worth the CD alone. I don't care if it is 'simple to remove' DRM like some other industries are promoting right now, I really do not want to screw with copy protection on stuff I shell out money for.
Three years ago, the resort implemented an e-commerce system that used Red Hat Inc. Linux, The Apache Software Foundation's Apache Web servers and MySQL AB's MySQL database; the system was programmed in PHP.
"The decision to go with Linux was a cost-based one," Michele Roy, the resort's chief financial officer, told eWEEK. "We had not budgeted the e-commerce system setup in that year's business plan."
The potential savings were quickly erased by ongoing support expenses, Roy said. "We spent more during the first three months troubleshooting the Linux system than if we had purchased the Windows solution to begin with," she said. "The Linux system could not handle the layers of information needed for internal control of the resort."
Roy also had concerns about the security and reliability of the system. System failures and escalating costs had the resort reconsidering its Linux decision when, over a weekend in late-summer 2002, in the midst of its season-pass sale--accounting for the sale of about 5,000 passes--the system went down. The e-commerce component stopped working for about a day.
Call me silly, but I'd be more than a little suspicious that management needed to be hit by a clue-by-four. If they did not think to even budget for - oh, I don't know, something that sounds like it was a critical system - I'm willing to bet they gave plenty of time to design and develop something works. Seriously, this sounds like something farmed out to rentacoder.com for $200, and they got what they paid for. I suspect that Microsoft had to go in and say they would provide some top shelf resources to help them make a PR case study, because it would not surprise me in the least if they would not bung up an ASP.NET application too.
Hydrogen pretty dangerous stuff? I mean, I know it's quite explosive...
Any kid (with proper access to materials) can tell you H2 alone will give a fair bang, but properly mixed with pure O2 the results are much more impressive. I remember blowing the windows out of the garden shed - Mom did not believe me when we said we were making water.
You have to love a system that requires downtime as part of uptime. How many Linux users have this problem?
All right, I cannot throw the first stone here. I can raise my hand as a AIX C programmer back in the day...
We inherited a huge ball of spaghetti wire, nasty stuff that had memory leaks. Rather than taking the time to fix it, the powers that be determined it was better to keep working on new features rather than hash out the issues. At first it happened once a quarter, then once a month, and as time ticked by a weekly 'fix' to recycle the server. Lord knows I added to the mix as well, as they picked 'cheap' and 'build it fast' (not to be confused with running fast), skipping the entire do it right. That is how it happens... stuff gets rushed before its time. OSS is more immune than the typical commercial gig, but anytime a deadline comes without enough time to finish something is going to give. Downtime is just duct tape.
This is really solid kit even though they are positioning it as a light weight embedded version. IBM ships WebSphere Portal 5 with Cloudscape (now Derby) as the default installed database, BEA Portal use to as well (not sure if they still do). Of course there was always an option to move to DB2 or Oracle later if you want... For anyone pounding out those department level applications, this is fantastic. I suspect this could be another Tomcat, as there are more sophisticated databases out there but this one is easy to set up and just works.
WARNING Issued to Users of Popular Software Application Wednesday, September 15, 2004
CHICAGO, September 15, 2004 -- The following is an Open Letter from Furthermore, Inc. to the Open Source and Technology Community Regarding the Misappropriation of Intellectual Property:
If you are presently using the software application "Mambo OS" in any release post October 3, 2003, you and your organization are potentially exposed to CIVIL LITIGATION and possibly CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
Our company, Furthermore, Inc., owns the code that enables the appearance and management of the "Lead Story Block" in Mambo. This code was taken without our permission by a lead member of the Mambo Development Team and put into Mambo's core program. Our copyright was then attributed to Miro International. Here we are reiterating our ownership of the Intellectual Property and issue a formal WARNING that we are preparing to file legal action against users of this application.
Do know that we've tried to resolve this cooperatively. However, the leadership of the Mambo Project is intractable in their misunderstanding in fact and law. They wrongly contend that since the code was put into the "General Public License" pool, it too must be GPL. Also, they wrongly contend that as our trade secrets have been variously modified, they are immune.
Bottom line: As express permission was never granted, their transfer of copyright ownership without express written authority is null and void. Also, the right to use any/all derivative works also was/is not granted as defined by law. Lastly, using a trade secret to gain unfair advantage is by definition against the law.
Anticipating that problems like these would be greatly amplified by the Internet, the US Congress recently and significantly strengthened the power of the law. As a result, the consequences of an infringement have never been more stringent. In addition to the punitive monetary damages that are being awarded in related civil suits, the law now makes these types of activities a federal crime.
In 1997, Congress passed the No Electronic Theft Act; and in 1996, it passed the Economic Espionage Act.
The NET Act makes copyright infringement a crime. It's a misdemeanor if it is done for commercial advantage or private financial gain, or by making or distributing one or more copies of copyrighted works that have a total retail value in excess of $1,000 within a 180-day period. It's a felony if it involves a minimum of ten copies of copyrighted works with a retail value of more than $2,500 within a period of six months. To date, NET Act related cases primarily involve pirates accused of illegally copying and distributing copyrighted computer software over the Internet. Sentencing under the NET include substantial fines and imprisonment of 3 to 10 years.
The EEA makes it a crime to steal (or misappropriate) trade secrets. The Act makes even the attempt or conspiracy to steal or misappropriate trade secrets a crime. The Act includes both direct and indirect theft of a trade secret, including its alteration or destruction. Individuals and organizations convicted of violating the EEA face severe penalties. Section 1832 of the Act covers theft of a trade secret "that is related to or included in a product," including both direct and indirect theft of a trade secret, including its alteration or destruction. A person convicted of violating Section 1832 faces a fine of up to $500,000 or a prison sentence of up to 10 years, or both, while any organization that commits any offense described in Section 1832 may be fined up to $5,000,000.
Lastly, we deeply regret that we have no choice but to seek remedy from the users of Mambo. Mambo has explicitly informed us that "the Mambo project can offer no further assistance in this matter. Mambo can not be party to any disputes between individuals or companies concerning the use of Mambo." Plainly, it's you the user they've left holding the bag.
No - he was right. The semi-auto version of the AK47 and AR-15 go for about that price and don't require any special check. The *full* auto version do require the background check and transfer tax. They also cost a bit more on the open market... Some states may have additional restrictions, but from the Fed's standpoint semi-auto only versions are nothing special. (From my experience in Minnesota anyhow) As a side note, the SKS - a semi-automatic version - is a lot more accurate because the chamber is a bit tighter. All fun, however...
IANAP (I am not a pencil), but could anyone tell me what practical implications this could have?
If he found an easy way to factor large polynomials, this has the potential to make a mess of the public/private key encryption. Slashdotted, so have not actually looked at the site yet.
Slashdot Mirror
I think I'll be satisfied with whomever wins as long as the hand recount is done properly. One more time is all we should really need.
Did not read the article, nor do I care who wins... but one recount is all we should really need. I'm so sick of both parties gaming the election with legal loopholes. Just because you can, does not mean you should...
RIM Blackberry is strong, but IMHO that's only due to 2 things:
- a keyboard
- an easy to use system
- unmetered email
I'll add a third point. Rim has a great SDK available for free. Code in Java or C++, they give you an emulator to test your app, and make it a fairly trivial process to upload it to the blackberry. WinCe grew because they added decent dev tools (vb and c++), emulator, and made it easy to upload those to an ipaq. Non of the bloody phones I've worked with will let you upload anything home grown.
Using these vulnerabilities to shill it's products.
This isn't to say that the vulnerabilities aren't real, they might be.
But this is a marketing ploy for Finjan
Back in the NT4 days I happened on a major IIS exploit. I did what I could for our code, then reported it to Microsoft. A few email exchanges - reported the bug, gave a few code examples to show the remote privilege escalation (guest to admin), then silence. Noticed the issue was fixed two service packs later.
Not so much as an email saying thank you after providing drivers to demonstrate the issue, much less any type of 'reward'. For those who wear a white hat (even accidentally) I have no problems with these guys showing how clever they are and using it for marketing purposes. That is about all the payback you get when you find something that does not behave like it should.
why you even need voter registration? seriously
Way I figure, it is a method for collecting suckers for jury duty. Happened to me every time I registered...
Conventional projectile weapons are not going to be an issue (see other child posts for the physics). I can see a bit of fun with high energy lasers however. Even a low wattage laser pointer can mess up a camera. Get your hands on something with a bit more juice and a stationary target...
Does any VOIP provider work as a land line for DirectTV's DVR? I've seen the answer is yes for 'standard' tivo boxes, but as of a year ago no for the ones they shipped with DirectTV.
I agree with But no, you can't get a job doing basic programming easily. You are over qualified. But would add it may be difficult to get initial advanced programming job. You may be underqualified. The problem is there is a perception of a large gap between the two. I'm also willing to bet someone just finishing a Csci degree goal was not to be management.
Perhaps I sound a bit bitter, because I am... I was a bioinformaticist, who slowly devolved to a soulless code whore (and then worse) when the money shifted. The management notes came from feedback as I wandered further from my niche looking for a better job. I'd disagree with PhDs are definately hired, but usually right into a management position, because that did not happened from personal experience (or others I knew). In one case I was explicitly warned the interviewers would filter all 'science stuff' and to leave advanced degrees off the CV. They were right.... the money was right... my life forked from what I expected...
The kicker is I *do* know how much work it was for me and how much it was worth to them. How does the poster go, "sometimes your purpose in life is only to serve as a warning to others?"...
And yes, you listed some of the exceptions I mentioned. To that, I would also look for positions that required clearances and/or heavy research departments.
(God help me, management hat on)
First off, you will probably expect higher compensation than someone fresh out of school. When I look at what you will be asking for starting salary, you will be competing with some fairly seasoned veterans out there. I'll very quickly go on to your real world experience - and compare that to someone who has been doing this for many years. You don't stand much of a chance.
Secondly, I'll have a strong suspicion that you will probably move on to another gig once you do get that real world experience under your belt. It costs a fair bit to ramp up a new employee. Again, I suspect the extra years of groveling on a pittance of a salary will leave you expecting a big payout.
Lastly, I'll wonder if you can really do the work. Even if your graduate work truly was world-class stuff, it will be hard to get past the 'it was only in school / hobby' status.
There are exceptions out there... some shops are very focused on the sciences, and a PhD would be considered the norm. These places tend to be the exception rather than the rule. I have worked in shops where they would specifically target physics post grads because they would be *happy* to work for half of what others expect. Not saying it is right...
began to realize that I don't want to spend the rest of my life using my skills to make someone else money
There is a very good chance you will suck rocks for the first several gigs (or more). If you want to give it a whirl doing the freelance thing, find a services company and work for them a while. You will learn more about how stupid / demanding a customer can really be, how the bloody contract does matter, and what a bonus it really is when you have a good, organized, understanding customer. Take a year or two being someone else's meat popsickle - you can avoid many of the normal bonehead moves that most people make on their payroll. No worries, as you will get to learn a bunch more when you go independent.
(ps. Watch what you sign! These things can bite you in the ass)
Patent reform will not happen until it becomes unprofitable for large companies to have them as they are today. I see Kodak like a rouge nation. They once were like the other sovereign, stable, and knowing that if they launched a patent war the other side would retaliate in kind, with the most likely solution to cross license each other's portfolio. This sort of thinking fails when the attacking company has nothing to lose. SCO is not really a good example of this. The stock was going downhill fast, so about a two years ago they came up with a brilliant pump and dump scheme. They don't actually care about winning the case. (IBM lobed the patent counter attack anyhow, to scorch the earth) Kodak does, however, and cannot easily be litigated into extinction.
I don't see patents going away, but I could see the bar being raised for what qualifies for 'patent' protection and eliminating some of those pesky submarine style techniques. But not until someone has nothing to gain from cross licensing. The IE plugin was close, but they lacked the law staff (not to say anything about right or wrong) to keep the patent valid....
A few more...
The Alternative Minimum Tax laws affects more than Bill Gates and the rest of the 'super wealthy'. Get professional advice.
Those pesky legal contracts can really get you - pay attention to what you sign. Treat them like they did ask you to prick your finger and mumble something about your first born. Get professional advice.
Those who turned the lights off in the server room often found the quad processor Sun kit was really noisy when you brought it home.
TSR did go to hell in a hand basket around then. After all the railing they did to the PCGen folks and a few other people building tools about copyright I opted to keep what I wrote to myself. (Mostly 1st edition stuff, with a few 2nd edition rules in the mix) Damn, though... definitely a sexy first job out of school.
Looking at your site you may have seen some of my krufty bioinformatics code. Didn't work for Accelrys, but I know they licensed some of the C code that could have used a bit more time. (grin)
Let me state *for the record* I've only had experience with the Core Rules v1.0, so I never tried your kit.
Growing up, character generators have been one of the primary motivators for learning new languages and platforms. From the HP28C calculator to the blackberry, and everything in between. The bar was pretty high for that one application. (have I properly backpedaled here?)
Ah, what a small world... Wish they had done the same with the newer books.
For those looking for legit copies of old AD&D books, check out the old 'Core Rules' CD. Came with a bunch of utilities, a mediocre character generator, and a bunch of the manuals in rich text format! There were other things on it as well, but having the tables in RTF format was worth the CD alone. I don't care if it is 'simple to remove' DRM like some other industries are promoting right now, I really do not want to screw with copy protection on stuff I shell out money for.
Three years ago, the resort implemented an e-commerce system that used Red Hat Inc. Linux, The Apache Software Foundation's Apache Web servers and MySQL AB's MySQL database; the system was programmed in PHP.
"The decision to go with Linux was a cost-based one," Michele Roy, the resort's chief financial officer, told eWEEK. "We had not budgeted the e-commerce system setup in that year's business plan."
The potential savings were quickly erased by ongoing support expenses, Roy said. "We spent more during the first three months troubleshooting the Linux system than if we had purchased the Windows solution to begin with," she said. "The Linux system could not handle the layers of information needed for internal control of the resort."
Roy also had concerns about the security and reliability of the system. System failures and escalating costs had the resort reconsidering its Linux decision when, over a weekend in late-summer 2002, in the midst of its season-pass sale--accounting for the sale of about 5,000 passes--the system went down. The e-commerce component stopped working for about a day.
Call me silly, but I'd be more than a little suspicious that management needed to be hit by a clue-by-four. If they did not think to even budget for - oh, I don't know, something that sounds like it was a critical system - I'm willing to bet they gave plenty of time to design and develop something works. Seriously, this sounds like something farmed out to rentacoder.com for $200, and they got what they paid for. I suspect that Microsoft had to go in and say they would provide some top shelf resources to help them make a PR case study, because it would not surprise me in the least if they would not bung up an ASP.NET application too.
Hydrogen pretty dangerous stuff? I mean, I know it's quite explosive...
Any kid (with proper access to materials) can tell you H2 alone will give a fair bang, but properly mixed with pure O2 the results are much more impressive. I remember blowing the windows out of the garden shed - Mom did not believe me when we said we were making water.
Does that mean when you watch porn on the Web it is not safe sex anymore? Damn it!!!
Come on, man... bring it to the digital age. When watching pr0n online, you have to practice safe hex.
But CNN has it up...
e ch .peoplesoft.oracle.reut/index.htm
http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/21/technology/bc.t
You have to love a system that requires downtime as part of uptime. How many Linux users have this problem?
All right, I cannot throw the first stone here. I can raise my hand as a AIX C programmer back in the day...
We inherited a huge ball of spaghetti wire, nasty stuff that had memory leaks. Rather than taking the time to fix it, the powers that be determined it was better to keep working on new features rather than hash out the issues. At first it happened once a quarter, then once a month, and as time ticked by a weekly 'fix' to recycle the server. Lord knows I added to the mix as well, as they picked 'cheap' and 'build it fast' (not to be confused with running fast), skipping the entire do it right. That is how it happens... stuff gets rushed before its time. OSS is more immune than the typical commercial gig, but anytime a deadline comes without enough time to finish something is going to give. Downtime is just duct tape.
This is really solid kit even though they are positioning it as a light weight embedded version. IBM ships WebSphere Portal 5 with Cloudscape (now Derby) as the default installed database, BEA Portal use to as well (not sure if they still do). Of course there was always an option to move to DB2 or Oracle later if you want... For anyone pounding out those department level applications, this is fantastic. I suspect this could be another Tomcat, as there are more sophisticated databases out there but this one is easy to set up and just works.
Except in this case, just having it disabled is not enough. Got to be removed before Sims 'no longer has a conflict'.
WARNING Issued to Users of Popular Software Application
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
CHICAGO, September 15, 2004 -- The following is an Open Letter from Furthermore, Inc. to the Open Source and Technology Community Regarding the Misappropriation of Intellectual Property:
If you are presently using the software application "Mambo OS" in any release post October 3, 2003, you and your organization are potentially exposed to CIVIL LITIGATION and possibly CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
Our company, Furthermore, Inc., owns the code that enables the appearance and management of the "Lead Story Block" in Mambo. This code was taken without our permission by a lead member of the Mambo Development Team and put into Mambo's core program. Our copyright was then attributed to Miro International. Here we are reiterating our ownership of the Intellectual Property and issue a formal WARNING that we are preparing to file legal action against users of this application.
Do know that we've tried to resolve this cooperatively. However, the leadership of the Mambo Project is intractable in their misunderstanding in fact and law. They wrongly contend that since the code was put into the "General Public License" pool, it too must be GPL. Also, they wrongly contend that as our trade secrets have been variously modified, they are immune.
Bottom line: As express permission was never granted, their transfer of copyright ownership without express written authority is null and void. Also, the right to use any/all derivative works also was/is not granted as defined by law. Lastly, using a trade secret to gain unfair advantage is by definition against the law.
Anticipating that problems like these would be greatly amplified by the Internet, the US Congress recently and significantly strengthened the power of the law. As a result, the consequences of an infringement have never been more stringent. In addition to the punitive monetary damages that are being awarded in related civil suits, the law now makes these types of activities a federal crime.
In 1997, Congress passed the No Electronic Theft Act; and in 1996, it passed the Economic Espionage Act.
The NET Act makes copyright infringement a crime. It's a misdemeanor if it is done for commercial advantage or private financial gain, or by making or distributing one or more copies of copyrighted works that have a total retail value in excess of $1,000 within a 180-day period. It's a felony if it involves a minimum of ten copies of copyrighted works with a retail value of more than $2,500 within a period of six months. To date, NET Act related cases primarily involve pirates accused of illegally copying and distributing copyrighted computer software over the Internet. Sentencing under the NET include substantial fines and imprisonment of 3 to 10 years.
The EEA makes it a crime to steal (or misappropriate) trade secrets. The Act makes even the attempt or conspiracy to steal or misappropriate trade secrets a crime. The Act includes both direct and indirect theft of a trade secret, including its alteration or destruction. Individuals and organizations convicted of violating the EEA face severe penalties. Section 1832 of the Act covers theft of a trade secret "that is related to or included in a product," including both direct and indirect theft of a trade secret, including its alteration or destruction. A person convicted of violating Section 1832 faces a fine of up to $500,000 or a prison sentence of up to 10 years, or both, while any organization that commits any offense described in Section 1832 may be fined up to $5,000,000.
Lastly, we deeply regret that we have no choice but to seek remedy from the users of Mambo. Mambo has explicitly informed us that "the Mambo project can offer no further assistance in this matter. Mambo can not be party to any disputes between individuals or companies concerning the use of Mambo." Plainly, it's you the user they've left holding the bag.
Sincerely,
Brian Connolly
President
Furthermore, Inc.
So what advantage does a $4.00 movie via PPV (plus additional fees that they might charge) have?
Don't know about you, but my late fees alone were enough to justify doing DirectTV with a DVR... That is what I told my bride anyhow.
Yah, I'm hell with library books too.
No - he was right. The semi-auto version of the AK47 and AR-15 go for about that price and don't require any special check. The *full* auto version do require the background check and transfer tax. They also cost a bit more on the open market... Some states may have additional restrictions, but from the Fed's standpoint semi-auto only versions are nothing special. (From my experience in Minnesota anyhow) As a side note, the SKS - a semi-automatic version - is a lot more accurate because the chamber is a bit tighter. All fun, however...
IANAP (I am not a pencil), but could anyone tell me what practical implications this could have?
If he found an easy way to factor large polynomials, this has the potential to make a mess of the public/private key encryption. Slashdotted, so have not actually looked at the site yet.