Part of the argument for suing CC at least with respect to the license it "wrote" for the photographer is that CC fails to warn its "client" that the license doesn't consider privacy issues for the subjects in the photo.
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IANAL but that seems to say to me that CC disclaims any knowlege of specifics in useage of their license and any damages caused by the usage of their license. This was a resolvable problem with a 5 minute phone call from Virgin Marketing to Virgin Legal, except that some dumb ass thought he "knew the law" My suspicion is the dumb ass knew the law, but seriously mis-judged the cost of getting permissions vs. the likely hood of getting caught with an ocean for insulation. At least the caption wasn't "free text, perverted slut-puppy to virgin"
I would assume that a summer camp corporation would have a responsibility to hire employees that are resonably mature, and display sound judgement and then train those employyes in the policies of the organization and varius applicable legal matters. Publishing photographs of easily recognisable minors in a venue and under licensing terms that allow commercial usage without model releases and parental consent in hand seems to me to display a lack of sound judgement, the camp probably has some major liability issues here. Imagine if instead some pornographer had pasted her head on a naked body.
In some state the law doesn't distinguish between a man being topless in public and a female being topless in public (Females can because Males can), which leads to an interesting situation, in New York it's equally legal for males and females to be topless in public, yet if a television news crew films a topless female legally on the street in NY, the FCC can fine them if they broadcast it.
The judge was a fucktard, should have just given the case a 6 month recess , and your cousin's three kids should be suing the shit out of the dirbag for wrongful death. OJ was found not guilty and they are taken every penny he can lay his hands on; and if Los Vegas gets it's way, he'll have free room and board for the rest of his life.
Well go watch a video showing a cock fight, then imagine looking a banty roster eye to eye, of course these guys, the Cassowary should be able to make your blood run cold with out using your imagination.
That would be a "Personal Holding Corporation" and they tend to get raped at tax time, 70% tax rate comes to mind for some reason. Additional just because a corporation wishes to conduct business, it doesn't mean that an other corporations can be compelled to reciprocate. It's typical for a dentist to form a professional corporation to work for, which in turn is contracted to work for a second PC which may even be conducting business under an assumed name. We tend to want a fleshy to cosign with the corporation, corps get dissolved to easily, so everybody is wise to that trick.
WOW that was hugely advanced at the time, I remember jumping from working on a RCA CPU that was nand chips wire-wrapped together by day to building an RCA 1802 in the barracks in the evening.
It was another section that actually worked on the IFF for our system, but I assumed when somebody at that level sees an antenna rotating, it's always a "radar"
I doubt it, for the aircraft to be available in the 80's, considerable development would have happened in the 70's and the military computers I seen in the 70's consisted of wire-wrapped nand chips for a CPU and ferrite core memory; not really suitable for use in fighter aircraft, Hell I think the Patriot Missile is powered by a 80186 cpu.
Usually there a code that causes any transponders to respond generically for air-traffic control, in military aircraft this is over-rideable so the transponder only responds to certain queries and the response differs depending on the querry code, so by knowing the "secret" code you can tell if the response is correct. The secret code is normally changed regularly.
The article is nonsensical but I assume they just sent out some IFF interrogations and recorded what was returned by other aircrafts transponders; get a big enough sample and you can crack the under-lying code, just like cracking WEP keys only several orders of magnitude simpler. If hostilities break out the first thing the combatants do is change the keys daily anyways.
They are talking about IFF codes, Interrogator, Friend or Foe, most call it the "Transponder", basically when the shit hits the fan, you get the commercial traffic out of the area, then anything that isn't a known friend is considered a possible foe. The codes to ID friends are changed daily, the codes for commercial are fixed and therefore spoofable. It's not like the codes are that complicated, were talking 80186 or 80286 class computers.
The gizmo your looking at isn't the gizmo, it's a demo for the press that shows that they can irradiate a 1 mm^2, has a range of a millimeter or two and can cause some serious discomfort without physical damage, it a toy. The real deal is a system that irradiates a couple hundred square meters and has a range of 800m. There is no need to do that, the ray gun would be used for minutes, not for weeks. You are approaching this from design positions of a backup diesel generator of a military communications facility. This gizmo is nowhere close to that. except the manufacturer, Raytheon is a longtime defense contractor and they are not going to let this out of there control, every aspect is going to be bought and sold through them with the High cost/ high profit margin milspec everything. Let me know when your friends mange to transmit at 100GHz at 2KW DC input!
These thing are not point weapons they are terrain-denial weapons, they're just not going to get the required power-densities in a man-package unit it's a vehicle mount. What your really trying to do with something like this or even CS,tear-gas, or water cannons is to separate the hard-core professional cadre from the typical followers.
I bet the Israelis would order a couple hundred once Hillary is president; and they'd be much more likely to do a lot of the "chilling" things than just about any other country I can think of.
The missile launcher I worked on had an on-board 60KW generator driver by the prime mover's power-plant, and trust me a military grade 45Kw genarator isn't going to fit a a Hummv's engine bay.
Yes a civilian 45 KW generator is a moderately sized package, but we are talking about a military system so you 64 Hp civilian grows to 130 Hp to increase reliability. The 45 KW generator has to be able to maintain 45 KW constantly and also be able to service 60Kw surges in demand on a 10% duty cycle on top of the 45KW, and don't forget that you have to have a dual oiling systems so the oil can be changed without shutting down the generator engine. All the electrical and electronics parts also have to be harden against EMP, there could always be a nuke going off or the equipment might get hit with lightening. Nope all that isn't going to fit in a "white van".
Sure at those frequencies you could get a nice tight beam with a 10 lambda parabolic reflector, if I were make one, I'd just grab one of those DirectTV dishes, but we are talking about Raytheon corporation, why would they sell a $5.00 dish when they can sell a $10,000.00 electronicly steered phase-array emitter? I think you are also under-estimating the engineering required to generate the a 95 GHz signal at the required power-density, this isn't police technology it's military technology, with a vendor supplied tech-rep that makes more money per year than any cop I know of.
Except this isn't the type of thing that a police office can you stuff into his gun-belt for field use, L. A. might be able to field one or two city wide, the tactical unit is truck-mounted unit and very probably very expensive, when has Raytheon every built anything inexpensive for the government? I see it more likely to be issue to National Guard unit at a state or Brigade level, maybe three or for per state, and it would remain federal property which adds a level of oversight, maintenance record are going to record everytime the unit is energized and put into radiate, and every time one rolls out of motor-pool the press is going to be crawling up our asses with a microscope.
That is a demo unit for the press that bearly works, if you READ the article instead of just looking at the pictures, you'd have seen that the trollish reporter had to be instructed to move his finger closer, and the unit the size of a bread basket was necessary to irradiate one finger tip.
well the table top demo unit was about the size of a bread-basket and ran on 110 volts AC, and if it didn't hurt you were asked to hold your finger closer to the apperture yeah that's just what every tough guy cop wants to have in his back pocket, of course the weapons grade unit is truck-mounted so it really available to every lose-canon on the police force.
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IANAL but that seems to say to me that CC disclaims any knowlege of specifics in useage of their license and any damages caused by the usage of their license.
This was a resolvable problem with a 5 minute phone call from Virgin Marketing to Virgin Legal, except that some dumb ass thought he "knew the law"
My suspicion is the dumb ass knew the law, but seriously mis-judged the cost of getting permissions vs. the likely hood of getting caught with an ocean for insulation. At least the caption wasn't "free text, perverted slut-puppy to virgin"
I would assume that a summer camp corporation would have a responsibility to hire employees that are resonably mature, and display sound judgement and then train those employyes in the policies of the organization and varius applicable legal matters. Publishing photographs of easily recognisable minors in a venue and under licensing terms that allow commercial usage without model releases and parental consent in hand seems to me to display a lack of sound judgement, the camp probably has some major liability issues here. Imagine if instead some pornographer had pasted her head on a naked body.
I would agree except for the fact that the RIAA plays the "innocent victim" card frequently and loudly as well.
In some state the law doesn't distinguish between a man being topless in public and a female being topless in public (Females can because Males can), which leads to an interesting situation, in New York it's equally legal for males and females to be topless in public, yet if a television news crew films a topless female legally on the street in NY, the FCC can fine them if they broadcast it.
Child abuse is child abuse.
The judge was a fucktard, should have just given the case a 6 month recess , and your cousin's three kids should be suing the shit out of the dirbag for wrongful death. OJ was found not guilty and they are taken every penny he can lay his hands on; and if Los Vegas gets it's way, he'll have free room and board for the rest of his life.
We know it's the right person because AOL didn't say it was!
Well go watch a video showing a cock fight, then imagine looking a banty roster eye to eye, of course these guys, the Cassowary should be able to make your blood run cold with out using your imagination.
That would be a "Personal Holding Corporation" and they tend to get raped at tax time, 70% tax rate comes to mind for some reason. Additional just because a corporation wishes to conduct business, it doesn't mean that an other corporations can be compelled to reciprocate. It's typical for a dentist to form a professional corporation to work for, which in turn is contracted to work for a second PC which may even be conducting business under an assumed name. We tend to want a fleshy to cosign with the corporation, corps get dissolved to easily, so everybody is wise to that trick.
WOW that was hugely advanced at the time, I remember jumping from working on a RCA CPU that was nand chips wire-wrapped together by day to building an RCA 1802 in the barracks in the evening.
It was another section that actually worked on the IFF for our system, but I assumed when somebody at that level sees an antenna rotating, it's always a "radar"
right, I've seen equipment made by Raytheon that used 4CX1000's for DC regulation.
I doubt it, for the aircraft to be available in the 80's, considerable development would have happened in the 70's and the military computers I seen in the 70's consisted of wire-wrapped nand chips for a CPU and ferrite core memory; not really suitable for use in fighter aircraft, Hell I think the Patriot Missile is powered by a 80186 cpu.
Usually there a code that causes any transponders to respond generically for air-traffic control, in military aircraft this is over-rideable so the transponder only responds to certain queries and the response differs depending on the querry code, so by knowing the "secret" code you can tell if the response is correct. The secret code is normally changed regularly.
The article is nonsensical but I assume they just sent out some IFF interrogations and recorded what was returned by other aircrafts transponders; get a big enough sample and you can crack the under-lying code, just like cracking WEP keys only several orders of magnitude simpler. If hostilities break out the first thing the combatants do is change the keys daily anyways.
Let me guess, my boss always used 1111
They are talking about IFF codes, Interrogator, Friend or Foe, most call it the "Transponder", basically when the shit hits the fan, you get the commercial traffic out of the area, then anything that isn't a known friend is considered a possible foe. The codes to ID friends are changed daily, the codes for commercial are fixed and therefore spoofable. It's not like the codes are that complicated, were talking 80186 or 80286 class computers.
The gizmo your looking at isn't the gizmo, it's a demo for the press that shows that they can irradiate a 1 mm^2, has a range of a millimeter or two and can cause some serious discomfort without physical damage, it a toy. The real deal is a system that irradiates a couple hundred square meters and has a range of 800m.
There is no need to do that, the ray gun would be used for minutes, not for weeks. You are approaching this from design positions of a backup diesel generator of a military communications facility. This gizmo is nowhere close to that. except the manufacturer, Raytheon is a longtime defense contractor and they are not going to let this out of there control, every aspect is going to be bought and sold through them with the High cost/ high profit margin milspec everything. Let me know when your friends mange to transmit at 100GHz at 2KW DC input!
These thing are not point weapons they are terrain-denial weapons, they're just not going to get the required power-densities in a man-package unit it's a vehicle mount. What your really trying to do with something like this or even CS ,tear-gas, or water cannons is to separate the hard-core professional cadre from the typical followers.
I bet the Israelis would order a couple hundred once Hillary is president; and they'd be much more likely to do a lot of the "chilling" things than just about any other country I can think of.
The missile launcher I worked on had an on-board 60KW generator driver by the prime mover's power-plant, and trust me a military grade 45Kw genarator isn't going to fit a a Hummv's engine bay.
Yes a civilian 45 KW generator is a moderately sized package, but we are talking about a military system so you 64 Hp civilian grows to 130 Hp to increase reliability. The 45 KW generator has to be able to maintain 45 KW constantly and also be able to service 60Kw surges in demand on a 10% duty cycle on top of the 45KW, and don't forget that you have to have a dual oiling systems so the oil can be changed without shutting down the generator engine. All the electrical and electronics parts also have to be harden against EMP, there could always be a nuke going off or the equipment might get hit with lightening. Nope all that isn't going to fit in a "white van".
Sure at those frequencies you could get a nice tight beam with a 10 lambda parabolic reflector, if I were make one, I'd just grab one of those DirectTV dishes, but we are talking about Raytheon corporation, why would they sell a $5.00 dish when they can sell a $10,000.00 electronicly steered phase-array emitter? I think you are also under-estimating the engineering required to generate the a 95 GHz signal at the required power-density, this isn't police technology it's military technology, with a vendor supplied tech-rep that makes more money per year than any cop I know of.
Except this isn't the type of thing that a police office can you stuff into his gun-belt for field use, L. A. might be able to field one or two city wide, the tactical unit is truck-mounted unit and very probably very expensive, when has Raytheon every built anything inexpensive for the government? I see it more likely to be issue to National Guard unit at a state or Brigade level, maybe three or for per state, and it would remain federal property which adds a level of oversight, maintenance record are going to record everytime the unit is energized and put into radiate, and every time one rolls out of motor-pool the press is going to be crawling up our asses with a microscope.
That is a demo unit for the press that bearly works, if you READ the article instead of just looking at the pictures, you'd have seen that the trollish reporter had to be instructed to move his finger closer, and the unit the size of a bread basket was necessary to irradiate one finger tip.
well the table top demo unit was about the size of a bread-basket and ran on 110 volts AC, and if it didn't hurt you were asked to hold your finger closer to the apperture yeah that's just what every tough guy cop wants to have in his back pocket, of course the weapons grade unit is truck-mounted so it really available to every lose-canon on the police force.