According to a statement from the company, SNCP already has a business plan for SCO that includes pursuing its legal claims.
My understanding was that the company imploded because it was ruled that they did not own the Unix copyright, upon which the majority of its legal claims were based. What legal claims could they possibly have left?
Also, buying a company for the sake of being able to earn legal awards should be illegal, strictly as a matter of financial sanitation. A good solution to this would be a statute that makes a buyer liable for claims up to the amount he paid for the company, but make both him and the company unable to claim any rewards in suits pending on the company's behalf.
It doesn't seem to be possible in the Truecrypt app at the moment. You can encrypt entire devices and have them mounted, though. It's great for removable drives and USB sticks.
We were doing so well at the end of the 90s getting everyone to acknowledge the need for sex education. Then the 'Abstinence Only Education' people started showing up, making a worse mockery out of 'education' than the 'Intelligent Design' people ever dreamed of.
Parents: TALK TO YOUR DAMNED KIDS ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO FUCK THEM! It'll do a whole hell of a lot more to keep them safe than any kind of monitoring software or any absurd volume of legislation.
Hmmph. I spelled his name wrong. It's Marston and not Marsden. I should be bound and flogged by nubile Amazon warrior maidens.
Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.
Interestingly, Marston is also frequently credited as the inventor of the Polygraph. He discouraged its use as a law enforcement device.
William Marsden created Wonder Woman as a role model of what he considered feminine strengths. These are very much the traditional 'yin' feminine values and focused less on female empowerment and much more on beauty, demure behavior, and obedience. Women can be strong, Marsden reasoned, by focusing on their womanhood and need not waste time trying to fit into male roles.
Marsden was also a bit of a pervert. His wife and their live-in slave... er... maid, lived in more-or-less open polygamy. They were his bondage slaves, and were apparently quite happy to be so. This theme, of feminine happiness through obedience and subservience, is repeated frequently through Wonder Woman. Not only did Wonder Woman frequently get tied up with her own magic lasso, but pretty much all the Amazon girls loved being bound, spanked, or otherwise disciplined by their superiors.
While you may disagree with Marsden's symbolism, any retelling of Wonder Woman that leaves out the bondage isn't really doing the subject very much justice. Wonderwoman need not end up stuffed in a refrigerator, but she does need to be frequently paddled to keep the story moving.
You don't deserve squat -- that's why you get nothing but money for your time. You work is appreciated, but the intelectual property isn't yours, and the risk wasn't yours, and the value-rewards won't be yours. The clients aren't yours, the company isn't yours. There's an enormous risk in starting your own business, and it's a gigantic under-taking to maintain any business. Being a cog in the machine is worth the grease, and little more.
And if you ever wonder why you're resented and hated by your employees, this is why. When you wonder why the employee loyalty your business needs (or you even crave) isn't there, this is the reason. You look at people as cogs in your machine and not fellows. They're there to be exploited and not to be part of the company.
A business isn't one man or one man's risk no matter how much you'd like to put it in those terms. Your business belongs not only to you, but to everyone who works for you.
Let's put it in realistic terms. Your client has a relationship with your company, and not just with you. He has a relationship with the salesmen who talk to him, the support people he calls when he's got a problem, and the people who manufactures the product he's buying.
When you eliminate any one of those people for anything but the most important of reasons (no, not profit. The long-term survival of your company is what your eyes SHOULD be focused on) you are diminishing your company's relationship with that client.
When your client says he has a problem with a single member of that team, you need to think long and hard about why. Is your client prejudiced? Is your client sane? More importantly, is your client looking out for your company's best interests? Almost certainly not.
Don't agree? Fire your important employees and replace their jobs with cheaper, less-experienced people. 'Outsource' if you dare. Watch your clients start to complain. Their money is about to go elsewhere.
Instead, why don't you learn to treat your employees as not only cogs in a machine, but individual people with cares and concerns of their own who are also important parts of your company? Your company's long-term health will show you the value of that. Profit will follow.
1. Create a 'Container' partition is created. Let's name it 'Private.tc' To anyone not knowing the keyphrase, it's random noise.
2. Place some bullshit 'sensitive' data inside the container that you don't mind your enemy reading. Scans of bills, paystubs, personal letters and the like. This is your 'plausible deniability' layer. Think of it as being similar to 'Mugger Money'. This is the fiver you keep handy to distract the armed muggers so you can run. These files are written to the beginning of the container. The unallocated 'empty' space is random noise.
Use a good, but easily memorable passphrase on this container so that when your enemy forces you to reveal your key, you can surrender fairly early.
3. Create 'Hidden Container' partition. This is generated at the end of the container and looks like noise. In fact, you can try to mount ANY truecrypt volume as 'hidden', but it won't work unless you've got a passphrase that renders a readable filesystem. Don't reveal this passphrase.
This hidden container is where you place your state secrets... say if you're a Chinese dissident, this is where your open web proxy list goes.
(The 'hidden' component even has a built-in self-destruct mechanism. If you copy over the empty space with 'bullshit' files, it becomes unencryptable.)
4. Your computers are seized for whatever reason. You are compelled to release the contents of your drive or else BAD THINGS will happen. (Say for our theoretical dissident, he's going to rot in a secret prison unless he plays the People's ball game.) After holding out for a bit and feigning indignation and grief, you finally release the passphrase. The investigators use it to get terribly embarrassing, badly written love poetry to Imelda Marcos and confidential, but non-damaging business receipts. They don't get your truly damaging information, such as our dissident's list of web proxies or email addresses of his pro-democracy contacts.
You've been publicly humiliated, but you apparently don't have the information your enemy thought you did. Your enemy no longer has reason to coerce you and the information in your 'hidden' container is safe from prying eyes.
Even though your enemy knows it's possible that you still have a hidden container, you've already complied with their demands. No, this is not a perfect scheme. It is, however, a scheme that is designed to fail in the most possibly graceful manner.
While the above poster is obviously in jest, it's worth pointing out the difficulties with his suggestion.
The only way we currently have of energizing protons to even a measurable fraction of energy like this is in particle accelerators. They're spun around in magnetic fields to faster and faster speeds, gaining mass and energy or energy as they go. That energy ultimately comes from some kind of generator and the fuel it uses.
Eventually, they're slammed into a stationary target or a particle going the other way in the same accelerator. The more mass and energy the particles have accumulated, the more exotic the reactions that occur when that happens. The point of the experiment is to funnel a massive amount of fuel energy into one spot and see what happens when it goes 'boom'.
The super-energetic cosmic rays use the magnetic shockwave created by a Supernova to achieve about the same effect. Rather than being spun around a particle accelerator, they're being spun around the coiled loops of magnetic flux created when a super-massive star decides to disembowel itself.
So, to get anywhere near the ability to create one of these, let alone some kind of ray weapon utilizing them, we'd need a particle accelerator larger than the Sun (or able to churn out more energy than the Sun does). By the time we were able to build one, we'd be dismantling planets by other means anyway.
* 3.2×1011 joule or 200 MeV - total energy released in nuclear fission of one U-235 atom (on average; depends on the precise break up) * 3.5×1011 joule or 210 MeV - total energy released in fission of one Pu-239 atom (also on average)
So, imagine the energy level to be 8-9 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE (or around a billion times) more energetic than a nuclear fission chain reaction.
Why the hell does anyone even care what this guy thinks when he's brought ruin and strife to more MMO communities than most people will ever subscribe to?
Raph's ideas and theories have REPEATEDLY proven inaccurate, unworkable, stupid, and wrong. The gaming industry as a whole would be better off if he were filtered off into the black hole of FAIL with Romero.
What you may be missing is that despite the fact that Microsoft's actions are part of a business plan, they're still organized and criminal. The term has not been misappropriated at all.
Just because the RICO statutes were conceived with the idea of fighting mafia families does not mean they don't apply to all organized criminals.
[otaku purist] Lies! There is no Tsukihime anime! [/otaku purist]
For those unfamiliar with it, 'Lunar Legend Tsukihime' is an anime based on what was originally a well-written 'visual novel' by a certain Mr. Nasu. The software was an amateur production (a 'Doujin' work) and ties in VERY loosely with other works by Nasu, such as 'Fate/Stay Night'. Like most 'ero-games', the novel features multiple story paths, and explicit sex.
The anime is considered VASTLY inferior to the original visual novel. Like the second 'Highlander' movie, many fans have tried to block it entirely and pretend that it never happened.
Princess Kaguya is the traditional main character in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. She's something of a Japanese 'Tom Thumb'.
Kaguya is a golden-haired princess sent to the Earth from her Moon kingdom to learn about the joys and sadness of life. In various versions of the tale, she's required to return to the moon once she reaches adulthood.
Anime fans will note that the 'Moon Princess' motif is used repeatedly in modern stories, such as 'Sailor Moon', 'Mammotte Syugogetten' and more recently, 'Oh, Edo Rocket!'.
According to court documents, the MPAA came into possession of the e-mails after first being approached by Robert Anderson. Anderson is a former business associate of Justin Bunnell, TorrentSpy's founder.
Anderson allegedly "hacked" into TorrentSpy's e-mail system and rigged it so that "every incoming and outgoing e-mail message would also be copied and forwarded to his anonymous Google e-mail account," records show.
would be a world where you didn't ever have to RECOM-FUCKING-PILE the kernel to install major drivers.
No, it's not that bad any more, especially in User-oriented distros like Ubuntu. There are quite a few user-space drivers out there, especially for non-hardware related tasks like filesystems (as opposed to disk IO). There are still times when, to get something to work properly, you simply have to recompile the kernel. This is especially true for 'nonstandard' hardware that likes direct IO, like disk-arrays.
Therefore please allow me to ask in all seriousness of those who have stated that Higgs is not associated with gravity, what is the difference between granting mass to a particle and granting it a gravitational field?
My understanding is that the symmetry of bosons indicate that all of them exchange a force between two other particles, even other bosons. (Since gluons have color-charge they can interact with each other via the Strong Nuclear force as well as quarks.)
Isn't the Higgs boson, or even a virtual Higgs, required to exchange Gravitational force between two other particles, massless or massive?
Like I said, I'm not trying to argue here, but genuinely asking for clarification.
am actually hoping AGAINST either Fermilab or Cern managing to isolate a Higgs particle.
No, I don't wish any harm to the scientists or their reputations. However, I think it would be fun if Gravity didn't fit so nicely in the Standard Model like everyone is hoping it will.
Having something else, such as a massive Baryon, appear at the energies where the Higgs boson is 'supposed' to be means that scientists all over the world in many disciplines are going to have to go back to the drawing board and reevaluate their theories.
... do remember that it's never been easier to commit a sex crime that requires that you're place in a registry. Even people who get busted for 'indecent exposure' while urinating in an unwise place can end up on a sex offender registry.
Theoretically, you have to be trying to 'assualt' someone by exposing yourself. Of course any DA with an agenda can make certain charges stick with a plea-bargain deal, even when they might not otherwise be applicable.
How many people can afford to hire lawyers necessary to try to defend themselves in such a case? If you do try to fight it, I hope you've got a damn good Public Defender.
The ultimate point of these conferences is not to propose sci-fi 'what if' scenarios. Nor is it an indictment of archaic medical procedure. Instead, they're more to improve the current body of medical knowledge by applying modern science to archaic, but well-documented cases.
Leale, Lincoln's surgeon, made a number of choices on how to treat his patient given the best science of the time. These included heating Lincoln's body with hot water bottles to try to prevent shock and removing the from his brain with a probe.
Even with EXACTLY the same instruments available to Leale (say to a squad of paramedics or a field team of secret service medics), it's advisable to make a slightly different set of choices on how to treat the injury with today's knowledge.
In particular, more attention would be paid to keeping the patient's blood pressure up via fluid infusion or blood transfusion. The bullet would also be left in place to avoid aggravating the injuries it caused.
Assassination attempts happen, even for the stupidest of reasonsjodie foster. This particular exercise helps modern medical professionals understand the situation better than they might have when facing a similar scenario.
Interestingly enough, there is a very real defeat of the DMCA here: massive disobedience.
The DMCA is an unpopular law passed by surreptitious means. The more people run into it, the more they're disgusted with it.
Most Americans don't feel that it is ethically wrong to behave in ways that the DMCA marks as illegal. Worse, they're inconvenienced by the law and are actively looking for workarounds for the technology it impacts.
The Digg vs. Hex number story is a good example. Digg tried to comply with the law, but its users revolted and forced the site's admins to acquiesce. Even if Digg is shut down by federal authorities, arresting thousands of users for posting a 32bit number is going to prove... difficult.
The RIAA's spam lawsuit settlements have proven that it's massively difficult and probably more trouble than it's worth to go after widespread casual copyright infringement. Widespread casual DMCA infringement, like many other 'casual' crimes simply won't be prosecutable to the degree even the most vicious police force would like.
The Doom9 Xbox crack is much the same. It's certainly a very technical challenge to the AACS scheme. Both its undertaking and disseminating how it's done is illegal under the DMCA. However, nobody cares any more.
What's the worst that can happen? You get arrested, have to pay a fine, and maybe even go to jail. The RIAA is already trying to apply that same punishment to innocent people.
Obeying this law doesn't even carry the benefit of being free from prosecution. Why should anyone worry about breaking it if those behind it are going to press charges anyway?
Wow, that's a great idea, but it sounds like your particular example has a flaw. The carving tool's vibrations would be damped a lot simply by being held in a fleshy hand.
There's got to be some other examples of standing waves being frozen in prehistoric media, however.
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Hmm... We may actually have to impeach this asshat before the election.
My understanding was that the company imploded because it was ruled that they did not own the Unix copyright, upon which the majority of its legal claims were based. What legal claims could they possibly have left?
Also, buying a company for the sake of being able to earn legal awards should be illegal, strictly as a matter of financial sanitation. A good solution to this would be a statute that makes a buyer liable for claims up to the amount he paid for the company, but make both him and the company unable to claim any rewards in suits pending on the company's behalf.
It doesn't seem to be possible in the Truecrypt app at the moment. You can encrypt entire devices and have them mounted, though. It's great for removable drives and USB sticks.
If I had mod points today...
We were doing so well at the end of the 90s getting everyone to acknowledge the need for sex education. Then the 'Abstinence Only Education' people started showing up, making a worse mockery out of 'education' than the 'Intelligent Design' people ever dreamed of.
Parents: TALK TO YOUR DAMNED KIDS ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO FUCK THEM! It'll do a whole hell of a lot more to keep them safe than any kind of monitoring software or any absurd volume of legislation.
Interestingly, Marston is also frequently credited as the inventor of the Polygraph. He discouraged its use as a law enforcement device.
William Marsden created Wonder Woman as a role model of what he considered feminine strengths. These are very much the traditional 'yin' feminine values and focused less on female empowerment and much more on beauty, demure behavior, and obedience. Women can be strong, Marsden reasoned, by focusing on their womanhood and need not waste time trying to fit into male roles.
Marsden was also a bit of a pervert. His wife and their live-in slave... er... maid, lived in more-or-less open polygamy. They were his bondage slaves, and were apparently quite happy to be so. This theme, of feminine happiness through obedience and subservience, is repeated frequently through Wonder Woman. Not only did Wonder Woman frequently get tied up with her own magic lasso, but pretty much all the Amazon girls loved being bound, spanked, or otherwise disciplined by their superiors.
While you may disagree with Marsden's symbolism, any retelling of Wonder Woman that leaves out the bondage isn't really doing the subject very much justice. Wonderwoman need not end up stuffed in a refrigerator, but she does need to be frequently paddled to keep the story moving.
And if you ever wonder why you're resented and hated by your employees, this is why. When you wonder why the employee loyalty your business needs (or you even crave) isn't there, this is the reason. You look at people as cogs in your machine and not fellows. They're there to be exploited and not to be part of the company.
A business isn't one man or one man's risk no matter how much you'd like to put it in those terms. Your business belongs not only to you, but to everyone who works for you.
Let's put it in realistic terms. Your client has a relationship with your company, and not just with you. He has a relationship with the salesmen who talk to him, the support people he calls when he's got a problem, and the people who manufactures the product he's buying.
When you eliminate any one of those people for anything but the most important of reasons (no, not profit. The long-term survival of your company is what your eyes SHOULD be focused on) you are diminishing your company's relationship with that client.
When your client says he has a problem with a single member of that team, you need to think long and hard about why. Is your client prejudiced? Is your client sane? More importantly, is your client looking out for your company's best interests? Almost certainly not.
Don't agree? Fire your important employees and replace their jobs with cheaper, less-experienced people. 'Outsource' if you dare. Watch your clients start to complain. Their money is about to go elsewhere.
Instead, why don't you learn to treat your employees as not only cogs in a machine, but individual people with cares and concerns of their own who are also important parts of your company? Your company's long-term health will show you the value of that. Profit will follow.
1. Create a 'Container' partition is created. Let's name it 'Private.tc' To anyone not knowing the keyphrase, it's random noise.
2. Place some bullshit 'sensitive' data inside the container that you don't mind your enemy reading. Scans of bills, paystubs, personal letters and the like. This is your 'plausible deniability' layer. Think of it as being similar to 'Mugger Money'. This is the fiver you keep handy to distract the armed muggers so you can run. These files are written to the beginning of the container. The unallocated 'empty' space is random noise.
Use a good, but easily memorable passphrase on this container so that when your enemy forces you to reveal your key, you can surrender fairly early.
3. Create 'Hidden Container' partition. This is generated at the end of the container and looks like noise. In fact, you can try to mount ANY truecrypt volume as 'hidden', but it won't work unless you've got a passphrase that renders a readable filesystem. Don't reveal this passphrase.
This hidden container is where you place your state secrets... say if you're a Chinese dissident, this is where your open web proxy list goes.
(The 'hidden' component even has a built-in self-destruct mechanism. If you copy over the empty space with 'bullshit' files, it becomes unencryptable.)
4. Your computers are seized for whatever reason. You are compelled to release the contents of your drive or else BAD THINGS will happen. (Say for our theoretical dissident, he's going to rot in a secret prison unless he plays the People's ball game.) After holding out for a bit and feigning indignation and grief, you finally release the passphrase. The investigators use it to get terribly embarrassing, badly written love poetry to Imelda Marcos and confidential, but non-damaging business receipts. They don't get your truly damaging information, such as our dissident's list of web proxies or email addresses of his pro-democracy contacts.
You've been publicly humiliated, but you apparently don't have the information your enemy thought you did. Your enemy no longer has reason to coerce you and the information in your 'hidden' container is safe from prying eyes.
Even though your enemy knows it's possible that you still have a hidden container, you've already complied with their demands. No, this is not a perfect scheme. It is, however, a scheme that is designed to fail in the most possibly graceful manner.
Yeah. Truecrypt does this.
http://www.truecrypt.org/hiddenvolume.php
Truecrypt is pretty nifty all around.
While the above poster is obviously in jest, it's worth pointing out the difficulties with his suggestion.
The only way we currently have of energizing protons to even a measurable fraction of energy like this is in particle accelerators. They're spun around in magnetic fields to faster and faster speeds, gaining mass and energy or energy as they go. That energy ultimately comes from some kind of generator and the fuel it uses.
Eventually, they're slammed into a stationary target or a particle going the other way in the same accelerator. The more mass and energy the particles have accumulated, the more exotic the reactions that occur when that happens. The point of the experiment is to funnel a massive amount of fuel energy into one spot and see what happens when it goes 'boom'.
The super-energetic cosmic rays use the magnetic shockwave created by a Supernova to achieve about the same effect. Rather than being spun around a particle accelerator, they're being spun around the coiled loops of magnetic flux created when a super-massive star decides to disembowel itself.
So, to get anywhere near the ability to create one of these, let alone some kind of ray weapon utilizing them, we'd need a particle accelerator larger than the Sun (or able to churn out more energy than the Sun does). By the time we were able to build one, we'd be dismantling planets by other means anyway.
So, imagine the energy level to be 8-9 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE (or around a billion times) more energetic than a nuclear fission chain reaction.
Why the hell does anyone even care what this guy thinks when he's brought ruin and strife to more MMO communities than most people will ever subscribe to?
Raph's ideas and theories have REPEATEDLY proven inaccurate, unworkable, stupid, and wrong. The gaming industry as a whole would be better off if he were filtered off into the black hole of FAIL with Romero.
What you may be missing is that despite the fact that Microsoft's actions are part of a business plan, they're still organized and criminal. The term has not been misappropriated at all.
Just because the RICO statutes were conceived with the idea of fighting mafia families does not mean they don't apply to all organized criminals.
For those unfamiliar with it, 'Lunar Legend Tsukihime' is an anime based on what was originally a well-written 'visual novel' by a certain Mr. Nasu. The software was an amateur production (a 'Doujin' work) and ties in VERY loosely with other works by Nasu, such as 'Fate/Stay Night'. Like most 'ero-games', the novel features multiple story paths, and explicit sex.
The anime is considered VASTLY inferior to the original visual novel. Like the second 'Highlander' movie, many fans have tried to block it entirely and pretend that it never happened.
Princess Kaguya is the traditional main character in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. She's something of a Japanese 'Tom Thumb'.
Kaguya is a golden-haired princess sent to the Earth from her Moon kingdom to learn about the joys and sadness of life. In various versions of the tale, she's required to return to the moon once she reaches adulthood.
Anime fans will note that the 'Moon Princess' motif is used repeatedly in modern stories, such as 'Sailor Moon', 'Mammotte Syugogetten' and more recently, 'Oh, Edo Rocket!'.
Everyone knows that the FBI's most important priority, and the largest percentage of their manpower is devoted to lobbying congress for more power.
How the HELL is this not a felony?!
would be a world where you didn't ever have to RECOM-FUCKING-PILE the kernel to install major drivers.
No, it's not that bad any more, especially in User-oriented distros like Ubuntu. There are quite a few user-space drivers out there, especially for non-hardware related tasks like filesystems (as opposed to disk IO). There are still times when, to get something to work properly, you simply have to recompile the kernel. This is especially true for 'nonstandard' hardware that likes direct IO, like disk-arrays.
Client Side Includes, while enabling a certain range of features, would also make an excellent backdoor to information theft.
t ains_your_credit_card_numbers.txt
Imagine something like:
input type=hidden name=allyourccnumbersarebelongtous value=
include c:\windows\well_known_app's_buggy_config_that_con
input type=submit value="Refresh Page"
IANAPP.
Therefore please allow me to ask in all seriousness of those who have stated that Higgs is not associated with gravity, what is the difference between granting mass to a particle and granting it a gravitational field?
My understanding is that the symmetry of bosons indicate that all of them exchange a force between two other particles, even other bosons. (Since gluons have color-charge they can interact with each other via the Strong Nuclear force as well as quarks.)
Isn't the Higgs boson, or even a virtual Higgs, required to exchange Gravitational force between two other particles, massless or massive?
Like I said, I'm not trying to argue here, but genuinely asking for clarification.
am actually hoping AGAINST either Fermilab or Cern managing to isolate a Higgs particle.
No, I don't wish any harm to the scientists or their reputations. However, I think it would be fun if Gravity didn't fit so nicely in the Standard Model like everyone is hoping it will.
Having something else, such as a massive Baryon, appear at the energies where the Higgs boson is 'supposed' to be means that scientists all over the world in many disciplines are going to have to go back to the drawing board and reevaluate their theories.
... do remember that it's never been easier to commit a sex crime that requires that you're place in a registry. Even people who get busted for 'indecent exposure' while urinating in an unwise place can end up on a sex offender registry.
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http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/terms/i
Theoretically, you have to be trying to 'assualt' someone by exposing yourself. Of course any DA with an agenda can make certain charges stick with a plea-bargain deal, even when they might not otherwise be applicable.
How many people can afford to hire lawyers necessary to try to defend themselves in such a case? If you do try to fight it, I hope you've got a damn good Public Defender.
The ultimate point of these conferences is not to propose sci-fi 'what if' scenarios. Nor is it an indictment of archaic medical procedure. Instead, they're more to improve the current body of medical knowledge by applying modern science to archaic, but well-documented cases.
Leale, Lincoln's surgeon, made a number of choices on how to treat his patient given the best science of the time. These included heating Lincoln's body with hot water bottles to try to prevent shock and removing the from his brain with a probe.
Even with EXACTLY the same instruments available to Leale (say to a squad of paramedics or a field team of secret service medics), it's advisable to make a slightly different set of choices on how to treat the injury with today's knowledge.
In particular, more attention would be paid to keeping the patient's blood pressure up via fluid infusion or blood transfusion. The bullet would also be left in place to avoid aggravating the injuries it caused.
Assassination attempts happen, even for the stupidest of reasonsjodie foster. This particular exercise helps modern medical professionals understand the situation better than they might have when facing a similar scenario.
Interestingly enough, there is a very real defeat of the DMCA here: massive disobedience.
The DMCA is an unpopular law passed by surreptitious means. The more people run into it, the more they're disgusted with it.
Most Americans don't feel that it is ethically wrong to behave in ways that the DMCA marks as illegal. Worse, they're inconvenienced by the law and are actively looking for workarounds for the technology it impacts.
The Digg vs. Hex number story is a good example. Digg tried to comply with the law, but its users revolted and forced the site's admins to acquiesce. Even if Digg is shut down by federal authorities, arresting thousands of users for posting a 32bit number is going to prove... difficult.
The RIAA's spam lawsuit settlements have proven that it's massively difficult and probably more trouble than it's worth to go after widespread casual copyright infringement. Widespread casual DMCA infringement, like many other 'casual' crimes simply won't be prosecutable to the degree even the most vicious police force would like.
The Doom9 Xbox crack is much the same. It's certainly a very technical challenge to the AACS scheme. Both its undertaking and disseminating how it's done is illegal under the DMCA. However, nobody cares any more.
What's the worst that can happen? You get arrested, have to pay a fine, and maybe even go to jail. The RIAA is already trying to apply that same punishment to innocent people.
Obeying this law doesn't even carry the benefit of being free from prosecution. Why should anyone worry about breaking it if those behind it are going to press charges anyway?
The DMCA is dead-- killed by apathy.
Wow, that's a great idea, but it sounds like your particular example has a flaw. The carving tool's vibrations would be damped a lot simply by being held in a fleshy hand.
There's got to be some other examples of standing waves being frozen in prehistoric media, however.