You can tether to your phone via Bluetooh or USB cable and save a lot of battery life. You don't need to use WiFi hotspot for this. If they want to find a way to make the WiFi hotspots secure, I'm all for this. But what they did had no security benefit and was a pure money play.
Wanting to include this in FIPS seems to also who an incredibly level of incompetence. Imagine the NSA forcing a backdoor into the crypto algorithm only to have an adversary take advantage of it to have an backdoor into the US government. It's possible that there was a parallel plot to turn this off on every FIPS certified device purchased by US government agencies but given the level of competence that can be found in the bureaucracy it's likely that the whole thing would have backfired. The NSA is lucky that they failed here. What's "regrettable" is that they didn't think things through before even trying something so ridiculous.
The market for good software seems to be shrinking and consolidating. There are so few crumbs left that people are fighting over a few pennies of revenue for installing crapware. There is very little that is needed anymore beyond what comes with the operating system, an office suite, and a text editor. I bought Textpad years ago. I have Microsoft office (corporate) and Visual Studio paid but I could use the free edition. Really no other commercial software. A few true OSS apps, password safe and cygwin. I doubt any of the most popular downloads actually do much that is useful.
You probably disclaim enforcement of the patents as part of your normal employment agreement which should pretty much solve everything. They are included. The patents themselves don't make you more valuable, but rather the skills required to get them. That should be reflected in salary negotiations.
If you bring up the subject during an interview, you will strike fear into the heart of the person interviewing you. Before they can make an offer, they will have to consult legal, HR, and a host of other corporate entities whose knee-jerk reaction is always to say no.
Impress the potential employer first with your technical skills and personality and then with your excellent salary negotiation abilities! Consider yourself well compensated for the patents.
Your friend could have bought out their car for the same price as the used car somewhere else. One of the big advantages of closed-end auto leasing (the most common kind) is that there is a lease buyout price at the end. If the car is worth more than that, you buy the care for the buyout price. If it is worth less than the fair market value of the car, you negotiate to buy it at fair market value. The leasing company doesn't have a magic way to turn the used car into an asset worth as much as the lease buyout price. They are going to sell it at FMV. There are legal differences between leases and loans but from a financial standpoint, the lease is just a simple-interest loan where you also get a put option to sell the vehicle back for the buyout price.
Many large international airports have US pre-clearance areas where you take care of US customs / immigration before boarding. It's a completely isolated area of the airport. When you land in the US, you are considered a domestic flight. I don't know about Abu Dhabi but this is the norm when flying from Canada. It's nice because if you do customs in the US, you have to pick up your checked baggage. Since some items are allowed in checked baggage but not carryon, you now have to rescreen to make sure you didn't transfer any of those items. If you do pre-clearance it's only one security check.
I don't know how planes are allocated in Australia, but many larger planes fly a mix of domestic and international routes. I've taken local flights (Chicago to Orlando, I believe) on a 757. Sure, at secondary airports, there are only small turbo-props. And some of them don't have security. Getting dumped off in the insecure area and then having to screen once you get to a larger airport is considered terribly inconvenient. The largest airports have the longest security lines and they are unpredictable. You have to either have long layovers to ensure plenty of time to screen and get back to a gate or deal with a stream of missed connections. Generally it's a hassle. Better to just screen at your origin and never leave the secure area.
Many people have commented that this isn't how the laws are written in the US and I believe that they are correct. My wife is Taiwanese and car / scooter collisions are a big problem. Scooters (a motor vehicle) are now required to make the turns just as you described. I don't know the statistics on how much this has improved safety but it certainly seems reasonable. I imagine that many cyclists wouldn't mind this. Also I'm not aware of any law prohibiting a cyclist from stopping at an intersection and crossing like a pedestrian, so this could be done today.
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You can tether to your phone via Bluetooh or USB cable and save a lot of battery life. You don't need to use WiFi hotspot for this. If they want to find a way to make the WiFi hotspots secure, I'm all for this. But what they did had no security benefit and was a pure money play.
Wanting to include this in FIPS seems to also who an incredibly level of incompetence. Imagine the NSA forcing a backdoor into the crypto algorithm only to have an adversary take advantage of it to have an backdoor into the US government. It's possible that there was a parallel plot to turn this off on every FIPS certified device purchased by US government agencies but given the level of competence that can be found in the bureaucracy it's likely that the whole thing would have backfired. The NSA is lucky that they failed here. What's "regrettable" is that they didn't think things through before even trying something so ridiculous.
The market for good software seems to be shrinking and consolidating. There are so few crumbs left that people are fighting over a few pennies of revenue for installing crapware. There is very little that is needed anymore beyond what comes with the operating system, an office suite, and a text editor. I bought Textpad years ago. I have Microsoft office (corporate) and Visual Studio paid but I could use the free edition. Really no other commercial software. A few true OSS apps, password safe and cygwin. I doubt any of the most popular downloads actually do much that is useful.
You probably disclaim enforcement of the patents as part of your normal employment agreement which should pretty much solve everything. They are included. The patents themselves don't make you more valuable, but rather the skills required to get them. That should be reflected in salary negotiations. If you bring up the subject during an interview, you will strike fear into the heart of the person interviewing you. Before they can make an offer, they will have to consult legal, HR, and a host of other corporate entities whose knee-jerk reaction is always to say no. Impress the potential employer first with your technical skills and personality and then with your excellent salary negotiation abilities! Consider yourself well compensated for the patents.
Your friend could have bought out their car for the same price as the used car somewhere else. One of the big advantages of closed-end auto leasing (the most common kind) is that there is a lease buyout price at the end. If the car is worth more than that, you buy the care for the buyout price. If it is worth less than the fair market value of the car, you negotiate to buy it at fair market value. The leasing company doesn't have a magic way to turn the used car into an asset worth as much as the lease buyout price. They are going to sell it at FMV. There are legal differences between leases and loans but from a financial standpoint, the lease is just a simple-interest loan where you also get a put option to sell the vehicle back for the buyout price.
Many large international airports have US pre-clearance areas where you take care of US customs / immigration before boarding. It's a completely isolated area of the airport. When you land in the US, you are considered a domestic flight. I don't know about Abu Dhabi but this is the norm when flying from Canada. It's nice because if you do customs in the US, you have to pick up your checked baggage. Since some items are allowed in checked baggage but not carryon, you now have to rescreen to make sure you didn't transfer any of those items. If you do pre-clearance it's only one security check.
I don't know how planes are allocated in Australia, but many larger planes fly a mix of domestic and international routes. I've taken local flights (Chicago to Orlando, I believe) on a 757. Sure, at secondary airports, there are only small turbo-props. And some of them don't have security. Getting dumped off in the insecure area and then having to screen once you get to a larger airport is considered terribly inconvenient. The largest airports have the longest security lines and they are unpredictable. You have to either have long layovers to ensure plenty of time to screen and get back to a gate or deal with a stream of missed connections. Generally it's a hassle. Better to just screen at your origin and never leave the secure area.
Many people have commented that this isn't how the laws are written in the US and I believe that they are correct. My wife is Taiwanese and car / scooter collisions are a big problem. Scooters (a motor vehicle) are now required to make the turns just as you described. I don't know the statistics on how much this has improved safety but it certainly seems reasonable. I imagine that many cyclists wouldn't mind this. Also I'm not aware of any law prohibiting a cyclist from stopping at an intersection and crossing like a pedestrian, so this could be done today.