Texas also has some interesting laws I am running into just now regarding lay offs and severance package requirements that heavily favors the laid off employee.
By penetrating computer systems that control the communications, transportation, energy and other basic services in a country, cyber-weapons can have serious cascading effects, disrupting not only military operations but civilian life.
Okay, you're assuming that other less-developed countries have the same computer infrastructure that we do. What's next? We distrupt the one working computer in Somalia?
The only countries this will work against are those that are like the US, and sorry, but despite our ethnocentric view of the world, most countries are not us except Canada and the UK (didn't turning on one's allies work for Hitler?).
The officers refereeing the wargame told him that U.S. electronic warfare planes had zapped his microwave communications systems. "You're going to have to use cellphones and satellite phones now, they told me. I said no, no, no - we're going to use motorcycle messengers and make announcements from the mosques," [Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper, who played the role of Saddam Hussein] says. "But they refused to accept that we'd do anything they wouldn't do in the west.
~ piracy will lead to fewer books, movies, video
games, albums, etc. being produced.
This is not
correct. If left unchecked, piracy will lead to fewer
trashy books, overpriced movies, pointless
video games, culturally-void albums, etc. being
produced.
Two points:
Let the price reflect what the
market will bear. If I can buy a CD with only the songs I
want, on demand, with no DRM, for something like US$0.25-$0.50 per
song, I'd probably never download a copious amount. Yes, I'd
probably get some stuff to see if I really wanted it, but if I
liked it I'd eventually buy it. Charging me US$16-$20 (or more)
for one or two songs I want is ludicrous.
Take a page from
the bottled water market. Somehow bottled water manages to eke
out comfortable
sales despite the availability of free water in every
home.
The old, broken-down business model that the media
conglomerates enjoy today will either have to adapt to what people
want, or the purchasing public will go somewhere else to get it.
Should we expect you to be running for the Republican party in 2004?
Shrub asked her to be the Secretary of the next department he will create after the war: Volkssicherheitsministerium.
Once Congress bows to Shrub's will (how can they resist after his decisive victory in Iraq when he sends wave after wave of his own men at Saddam?), all you whiny/. pukes will be the first in line to get CHIPPED!
MyMP3 (part of MP3.com) was a service where you put your CD in the drive, let 'em scan it to prove you owned it. You could then access the songs from anywhere over the internet.
They got their pants sued off, and they had to pay massive fines...which ultimately led to their demise.
Digital sucks when it comes to zooming, panning, tilting, or yawing (i.e., any camera movement). The sad fact is that you get artifacts and skips no matter what your speed or resolution. Until the capture rate is high enough that the human eye can't perceive the problems (that ol' DA boxcar versus the analog sine wave), it will never look good enough. At that point (petabyte storage, anyone?) you have achieved quality that analog film had for the past 40 years.
I can't believe that the person you reference was able to consistently break the "Pick two from: On Time, On Budget or Right" rule.
That is a very simplistic concept of project management, and leaves out many essential aspects.
Project management is about managing change and results. If "marketing" says they want to add X, then the project manager will help them understand the effect adding X on both the budget and schedule. If they want to go ahead and add it anyway, then the PM will update the schedule and budget--everyone then understands what is expected, what will be delivered, how much it will cost, and how long it will take. Most people, when confronted with the cost and schedule impact of their change, tend to rethink their position (in my current experience it runs about 4 out of 5).
Note that, like everything else, there are poor project managers who are unable to manage change. You can tell which projects have these guys in charge because they "start over," "switch engines," and are "undeniably late."
And people wonder why it is so hard to make money in the computer game industry...
It is hard if you don't know what you are a doing. Unfortunately, creating software is much like any construction project: without proper planning and design, the only thing you're going to do is spend a lot of money and put out a crappy product. Now, there are exceptions -- particularly if you are working on a single-developer, small project, or you are incredibly lucky -- lucky like my 90-year old grandma who smoked a pack a day ever since she was nine.
Let me quote from the article:
"We're undeniably late and we know it. We've switched engines a couple of times, and we've started over a couple of times. We've made some mistakes, and we've learned from them. --George Broussard, President, 3D Realms
That pretty much says it all: they had no plan, they're making all of the classic mistakes of software development, and they are burning through the cash as if it were marshmallows at a boy scout outing.
The least they can do is hire a competent project manager to slap those ho's back on track.
Way I figure it, if they had 3 developers and one manager working full time for five years, they've already burned through close to two million dollars and have nothing to show for it. Hope they figure they can sell enough copies to *cough* at least break even. Do'o!
At the beginning of the process, the user enters a password on the watch~.
Isn't the point so that lazy people don't have to be bothered with remembering passwords? Doesn't this defeat the purpose? (sigh)
What happens if you take your watch off and leave it next to the computer? It never encrypts!
Worse yet---what happens if your watch gets stolen? Now you can't get at your data! Better make sure you get the Casio watch option instead of the Breitling. No one would want to steal a Casio POS, so you should be safe.
It is everything BUT a vacuum, not that a vacuum is an especially healthy environment either...
From micrometeors to smaller dust particles, ions from the solar wind, extreme temperature variations, you have no idea what Pioneer has had to endure for the past 30 years!
Space is not like on TeeVee, with all kinds of happy aliens popping out of every asteroid, Imperial Battlecruisers overtaking rebel blockade runners, or terribly mysterious Cosmic Rays turning people into invisible-stretchy-firey-rocky superheroes!
Take our solar system. Do you realize that a cube containing everything in the system would be made up of mostly... nothing?! Why should areas outside of out solar system have more stuff? See, in real life, things are much different:
(From the Pioneer Mission Status page) Now, Pioneer is in the vacuum of space where the average spatial density of molecules is one trillionth the density of the best vacuum we can draw on Earth. We expect Pioneer to last an indeterminate period of time, probably outlasting its home planet, the Earth.
...directing an intense coherent beam of invisible light ~ to produce a bright highly-focused pattern of light at the intersection of the beam and an opaque surface ~.
(emphasis mine) Now I don't know about them, but all those years of college physics taught me that unless the wavelength is altered, "invisible" light cannot become "visible," and focusing light doesn't alter its wavelength. Therefore, this patent is impossible to implement, and therefore a waste of cash and ink.
In light of this (har har), I will now patent the following:
A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of visible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall or other opaque surface in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser so as to cause the bright pattern of light to move in an irregular way fascinating to cats, and to any other animal with a chase instinct. --Patent #39210293874-a.1, Safety Cap, Inc.
I believe "manufacture" is typically interpreted to mean producing something with the intent of selling it.
What is the source for your idea?
In our common law system, the "typical definition" is not always the correct one. It depends upon how a previous court interpreted the meaning of that word. If you can find a case that defines the manufacturing process as one requiring intent to sell, then you have "a case," otherwise it is wild speculation and we all know where that ends up.:)
No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that -
(A)
is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; *********************
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The only countries this will work against are those that are like the US, and sorry, but despite our ethnocentric view of the world, most countries are not us except Canada and the UK (didn't turning on one's allies work for Hitler?).
This idea is not new. When the military staged a wargame where they tried this very same thing, they got their arse handed to them in a brown paper sack:
Two points:
- Let the price reflect what the
market will bear. If I can buy a CD with only the songs I
want, on demand, with no DRM, for something like US$0.25-$0.50 per
song, I'd probably never download a copious amount. Yes, I'd
probably get some stuff to see if I really wanted it, but if I
liked it I'd eventually buy it. Charging me US$16-$20 (or more)
for one or two songs I want is ludicrous.
- Take a page from
the bottled water market. Somehow bottled water manages to eke
out comfortable
sales despite the availability of free water in every
home.
The old, broken-down business model that the media conglomerates enjoy today will either have to adapt to what people want, or the purchasing public will go somewhere else to get it.You're not far off! Volkssicherheitsministerium translates to "People Safety Ministry."
Once Congress bows to Shrub's will (how can they resist after his decisive victory in Iraq when he sends wave after wave of his own men at Saddam?), all you whiny /. pukes will be the first in line to get CHIPPED!
The public which currently inhabits the US will only settle for the government which we currently have (and deserve).
Go here and create your own discussion.
They got their pants sued off, and they had to pay massive fines...which ultimately led to their demise.
Since picking a lock is trivial, why do you bother locking your house and vehicle?
Digital sucks when it comes to zooming, panning, tilting, or yawing (i.e., any camera movement). The sad fact is that you get artifacts and skips no matter what your speed or resolution. Until the capture rate is high enough that the human eye can't perceive the problems (that ol' DA boxcar versus the analog sine wave), it will never look good enough. At that point (petabyte storage, anyone?) you have achieved quality that analog film had for the past 40 years.
Project management is about managing change and results. If "marketing" says they want to add X, then the project manager will help them understand the effect adding X on both the budget and schedule. If they want to go ahead and add it anyway, then the PM will update the schedule and budget--everyone then understands what is expected, what will be delivered, how much it will cost, and how long it will take. Most people, when confronted with the cost and schedule impact of their change, tend to rethink their position (in my current experience it runs about 4 out of 5).
Note that, like everything else, there are poor project managers who are unable to manage change. You can tell which projects have these guys in charge because they "start over," "switch engines," and are "undeniably late."
Let me quote from the article:
That pretty much says it all: they had no plan, they're making all of the classic mistakes of software development, and they are burning through the cash as if it were marshmallows at a boy scout outing.The least they can do is hire a competent project manager to slap those ho's back on track.
Way I figure it, if they had 3 developers and one manager working full time for five years, they've already burned through close to two million dollars and have nothing to show for it. Hope they figure they can sell enough copies to *cough* at least break even. Do'o!
What happens if you take your watch off and leave it next to the computer? It never encrypts!
Worse yet---what happens if your watch gets stolen? Now you can't get at your data! Better make sure you get the Casio watch option instead of the Breitling. No one would want to steal a Casio POS, so you should be safe.
Take our solar system. Do you realize that a cube containing everything in the system would be made up of mostly... nothing?! Why should areas outside of out solar system have more stuff? See, in real life, things are much different:
(From the Pioneer Mission Status page)
Now, Pioneer is in the vacuum of space where the average spatial density of molecules is one trillionth the density of the best vacuum we can draw on Earth. We expect Pioneer to last an indeterminate period of time, probably outlasting its home planet, the Earth.
He had "eyes" in the series finale, whatever-it-was-called.
In light of this (har har), I will now patent the following:
A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of visible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall or other opaque surface in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser so as to cause the bright pattern of light to move in an irregular way fascinating to cats, and to any other animal with a chase instinct.
--Patent #39210293874-a.1, Safety Cap, Inc.
In our common law system, the "typical definition" is not always the correct one. It depends upon how a previous court interpreted the meaning of that word. If you can find a case that defines the manufacturing process as one requiring intent to sell, then you have "a case," otherwise it is wild speculation and we all know where that ends up. :)
US Code Title 17, Chapter 12, 1201 says (emphasis mine):
(2)
No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that -
(A)
is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
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Check out this article for more.