Incorporating is a no brainer. You always want to have some legal padding between you and the job, if possible. Sometimes though, they make you get liability insurance. It can be very expensive.
Ah, but if it's classified, it's created by the government, no copyright at all. Work would automatically be in the public domain, if it ever got out... that is.
OEMs hold the keys here. They'll sell anything they think people will buy. But the problem is that Microsoft basically owns the OEMs. At least for now. Looks like Ms is working incredibly hard to alienate everyone.
Copyright is generally assumed for any work that benefits society. Can you even claim copyright on something like a virus, or other piece of maulware? I wonder if there's a legal argument that Maulware is profane, and not eligible to begin with. Might be interesting if this line of reasoning is ever pursued.
I think more developers should get their heads out of the asses and become entrepreneurs. Seriously. Where exactly does experience as a developer get you, other than more dead end jobs as a developer? Unless developers become entrepreneurs, they run the serious risk of working their butts off, and having nothing to show for it three, five, twenty years later. Seriously, it's a fucking terrifying idea.
Really sorry. It's still x86. I downloaded several million AMD64 business card cd's last month for various personal reasons. Didn't mean to skew the statistics.
Twitter crashes when it's overloaded. Earthquakes, and events like it cause a high enough amount of traffic to bring twitter down. People's lives depend on earthquake information systems. What happens if there's an earthquake at the same time as a Kardashian sex video? Or a Politician saying something stupid at a convention? We're all screwed then.
Data caps and throttling are understandable now as demand is far outpacing infrastructure growth.
What color is the sky on your planet? Data caps and throttling are not acceptable, because the whole notion of them is a complete fraud, and anyone with half a brain knows it. The fact that they're running their networks at or over capacity should be a good thing. This should mean that they have the money to upgrade and rebuild their networks. After all, they have been fleecing their users and the government in the form of broadband subsidies for years. There's no excuse for not building a new network where "caps" are not necessary, or expanding the capacity of the existing ones. I hope Google wipes them all off the face of the earth.
Define "bad." If the code works, can be maintained, and meets the client requirement, then there's no such thing as bad. We all make sacrifices when there are deadlines.
Yeah, that's a brilliant approach. Or, you can have three or four rock-stars of different disciplines that don't tread on each other. Force them to sit in a room and collaborate, and it works out. That's what the company I work for does, and I've found it to be an enlightened, and positive approach. They let me hang my eight foot pirate flag too. That's nice. I've also picked up Oracle dba stuff I didn't know before, and I'm getting help learning C. Good stuff.
Good point on the first one. But in both cases, that's why I have the alternate passport in another name. It happens to be an Israeli passport, which has a couple of advantages:
1. My name won't be on a list of wanted persons, because nobody knows I have it.
2. Visa free travel to almost all South American countries.
:)
Hypothetically, assuming the scenario was actually true and I had these resources, that is.
until you realize that there's no such thing as "safe" software. All software is potentially exploitable, and potentially dangerous. As developers, we can do our best to make sure that we get the obvious defects, but given enough time and motivation, any piece of software can be cracked. It's just the way computers work. To assume negligence by default is dangerous for everyone, and could have the opposite effect that they are intending (think gun laws). It will lead to less innovation, and more software companies shielding themselves from these kinds of suits. Not a good scenario.
Sure they do. I've stayed in five star hotels without a card before. Worst case, you use a pre-paid mall card. Those are anonymous, and easy to come by.
I don't know why the outline said you wanted to hide out for a short period of time. I assumed a week would suffice. Like I said though: If I was going to hide out for a longer period of time, I would get myself on a slow boat to Ecuador. Nobody really expects you to be on a cargo ship. By the time anyone figured it out, you would be long gone.
Yeah, but if you hadn't thought of that ahead of time, it's not going to do you any good the first day, unless you have the time to file the paperwork in belize or the cook islands, unless you want a passthrough LLC in your state; which isn't really going to do you much good. Even then, to do the whole thing in a day would still be a bitch. You would need a lot of cash, because there's no way you would be able to establish a bank account for your new holding company anywhere.And then there's real estate: closing is going to be a problem in that time frame. Not saying it can't be done... but you're pushing it.
If the first 24 hours are all I care about, I go to my safe and pull out the alternate passport, which happens to be in a different name and a couple of bucks from the stash. Then I go to another city to rent a five star hotel room and lay low for a week or so. First, nobody ever expects you to lay low in a nice place. Secondly, the systems that track you aren't especially bright, or tied together in the ways you would think they might be from watching tv and movies. If I cared about a larger span of time, I would probably pull a larger chunk of money out, and head to Ecuador with the family. I might do that anyway, though.
It's arguable that Apple has ever innovated in the first place. Steve Jobs used to brag about how he was the best thief in the industry. And to his credit, he was. He even went so far as to fly the Jolly Rodger above Apple headquarters.
All depends on how they defined lifetime. I don't know this case specifically, but I would be shocked if lifetime was defined as anything but "the lifetime of the product" or as long as we feel like doing it. Sucks, I know, but I doubt it's illegal.
South America, I think, has it's best days ahead of it. I'm seriously considering Buenos Aires in Argentina, or Guayaquil in Ecuador. The advantage to most countries in South America is that the dollar usually stands up pretty well against local currency, and they often have generous immigration programs for the "investor" (anyone who's willing to drop $25k in a CD) class. I'm not sure about Argentina, but I know Ecuador has such a program.
When looking at countries for stability, I like to look at how well capitalized the banking systems are. The theory being that the more capitol the banks have on hand, the less likely they are to totally screw up the local economy. The banks all over south America have ridiculously good capitalization, some even holding as much as 30% of deposits in liquid. Contrast that with American banks that hold less than 6% in liquid, and the places you want to be become obvious. There are a couple spots in Europe where it's good to be a foreigner right now, but I would avoid anywhere on the continent until things start looking up.
Lots of good places in Asia too. For example, Hong Kong looks promising. Very business friendly, if that's what turns you on.
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Incorporating is a no brainer. You always want to have some legal padding between you and the job, if possible. Sometimes though, they make you get liability insurance. It can be very expensive.
Ah, but if it's classified, it's created by the government, no copyright at all. Work would automatically be in the public domain, if it ever got out... that is.
And you get more time with your family, if you want it. For me, that would be valuable.
OEMs hold the keys here. They'll sell anything they think people will buy. But the problem is that Microsoft basically owns the OEMs. At least for now. Looks like Ms is working incredibly hard to alienate everyone.
Copyright is generally assumed for any work that benefits society. Can you even claim copyright on something like a virus, or other piece of maulware? I wonder if there's a legal argument that Maulware is profane, and not eligible to begin with. Might be interesting if this line of reasoning is ever pursued.
I think more developers should get their heads out of the asses and become entrepreneurs. Seriously. Where exactly does experience as a developer get you, other than more dead end jobs as a developer? Unless developers become entrepreneurs, they run the serious risk of working their butts off, and having nothing to show for it three, five, twenty years later. Seriously, it's a fucking terrifying idea.
Really sorry. It's still x86. I downloaded several million AMD64 business card cd's last month for various personal reasons. Didn't mean to skew the statistics.
Twitter crashes when it's overloaded. Earthquakes, and events like it cause a high enough amount of traffic to bring twitter down. People's lives depend on earthquake information systems. What happens if there's an earthquake at the same time as a Kardashian sex video? Or a Politician saying something stupid at a convention? We're all screwed then.
Data caps and throttling are understandable now as demand is far outpacing infrastructure growth.
What color is the sky on your planet? Data caps and throttling are not acceptable, because the whole notion of them is a complete fraud, and anyone with half a brain knows it. The fact that they're running their networks at or over capacity should be a good thing. This should mean that they have the money to upgrade and rebuild their networks. After all, they have been fleecing their users and the government in the form of broadband subsidies for years. There's no excuse for not building a new network where "caps" are not necessary, or expanding the capacity of the existing ones. I hope Google wipes them all off the face of the earth.
Yes. It's okay to call yourself a ninja. As long as you're never actually seen doing the job.
Define "bad." If the code works, can be maintained, and meets the client requirement, then there's no such thing as bad. We all make sacrifices when there are deadlines.
Yeah, that's a brilliant approach. Or, you can have three or four rock-stars of different disciplines that don't tread on each other. Force them to sit in a room and collaborate, and it works out. That's what the company I work for does, and I've found it to be an enlightened, and positive approach. They let me hang my eight foot pirate flag too. That's nice. I've also picked up Oracle dba stuff I didn't know before, and I'm getting help learning C. Good stuff.
Good point on the first one. But in both cases, that's why I have the alternate passport in another name. It happens to be an Israeli passport, which has a couple of advantages:
1. My name won't be on a list of wanted persons, because nobody knows I have it.
2. Visa free travel to almost all South American countries.
:)
Hypothetically, assuming the scenario was actually true and I had these resources, that is.
until you realize that there's no such thing as "safe" software. All software is potentially exploitable, and potentially dangerous. As developers, we can do our best to make sure that we get the obvious defects, but given enough time and motivation, any piece of software can be cracked. It's just the way computers work. To assume negligence by default is dangerous for everyone, and could have the opposite effect that they are intending (think gun laws). It will lead to less innovation, and more software companies shielding themselves from these kinds of suits. Not a good scenario.
Sure they do. I've stayed in five star hotels without a card before. Worst case, you use a pre-paid mall card. Those are anonymous, and easy to come by.
I don't know why the outline said you wanted to hide out for a short period of time. I assumed a week would suffice. Like I said though: If I was going to hide out for a longer period of time, I would get myself on a slow boat to Ecuador. Nobody really expects you to be on a cargo ship. By the time anyone figured it out, you would be long gone.
Skynet is brilliant at capturing data. Not so good at mining it. I'm really not all that worried.
Yeah, but if you hadn't thought of that ahead of time, it's not going to do you any good the first day, unless you have the time to file the paperwork in belize or the cook islands, unless you want a passthrough LLC in your state; which isn't really going to do you much good. Even then, to do the whole thing in a day would still be a bitch. You would need a lot of cash, because there's no way you would be able to establish a bank account for your new holding company anywhere.And then there's real estate: closing is going to be a problem in that time frame. Not saying it can't be done... but you're pushing it.
If the first 24 hours are all I care about, I go to my safe and pull out the alternate passport, which happens to be in a different name and a couple of bucks from the stash. Then I go to another city to rent a five star hotel room and lay low for a week or so. First, nobody ever expects you to lay low in a nice place. Secondly, the systems that track you aren't especially bright, or tied together in the ways you would think they might be from watching tv and movies. If I cared about a larger span of time, I would probably pull a larger chunk of money out, and head to Ecuador with the family. I might do that anyway, though.
It's arguable that Apple has ever innovated in the first place. Steve Jobs used to brag about how he was the best thief in the industry. And to his credit, he was. He even went so far as to fly the Jolly Rodger above Apple headquarters.
The death worked.... if only there was something other than rocks to shoot at.
All depends on how they defined lifetime. I don't know this case specifically, but I would be shocked if lifetime was defined as anything but "the lifetime of the product" or as long as we feel like doing it. Sucks, I know, but I doubt it's illegal.
Why would you screw up a perfectly good macbook pro by putting Unity crapware on it?
South America, I think, has it's best days ahead of it. I'm seriously considering Buenos Aires in Argentina, or Guayaquil in Ecuador. The advantage to most countries in South America is that the dollar usually stands up pretty well against local currency, and they often have generous immigration programs for the "investor" (anyone who's willing to drop $25k in a CD) class. I'm not sure about Argentina, but I know Ecuador has such a program.
When looking at countries for stability, I like to look at how well capitalized the banking systems are. The theory being that the more capitol the banks have on hand, the less likely they are to totally screw up the local economy. The banks all over south America have ridiculously good capitalization, some even holding as much as 30% of deposits in liquid. Contrast that with American banks that hold less than 6% in liquid, and the places you want to be become obvious. There are a couple spots in Europe where it's good to be a foreigner right now, but I would avoid anywhere on the continent until things start looking up.
Lots of good places in Asia too. For example, Hong Kong looks promising. Very business friendly, if that's what turns you on.
Easier said than done for a lot of IT shops that depend on having the latest ms products.
In practice, there's no difference between an exclusive license with enforcement powers. and complete ownership.