I was always told by my music composition teachers to never "give away" my i.p. -- the general sentiment being that it is harmful to not only myself, but to all the other composers trying to make a living, too.
Too bad. Once you've played that music, you've "given away" the IP. You never know if some sneaky pirate like Mozart is in the audience, memorizing each note for later recording.
d) if you've got the right policies on your network (disabling USB media, filtering of all out-going mail, filtering of web content and no uploads - basically all of the controls they have in place where I work) then the whistle blower couldn't leak the document anyway because there wouldn't be a way out of the network (especially when combined with unprintable PDFs or similar).
Besides the fact that your place is either a limited-purpose production environment or a hellhole where security constantly gets in the way of getting work done, you've failed to consider photographs of the screen. Unless you're searching your employees as they come in the door.
and access required nothing more than a 4096-bit PSK
Now there would be an interesting defense. Defendant asserts that he didn't realize he was supposed to have a key to the system. Rather, he thought the system required a simple intelligence test for entry; just enter the discrete log of a given number over a given field...
Pretty smart, though. The former Apple staff can help both people switching back to Microsoft products. Stealing ideas used to be so subtle. I never thought I'd see the day when Microsoft chases Apple down the street yelling "ME TOO! ME TOO!"
You must have missed the first time they did that, April 20, 1985. (release of Windows 1.0)
Will micropayments be the downfall of quality news?
No. Because the downfall of quality news has already happened. The TV news stations have the murder/robbery/assault of the day (with an "on scene" report where nothing is happening), followed by ads thinly disguised as stories, then weather, then sports (the single largest part of the newscast). The local newspaper (Philadelphia Inquirer) simply prints an abridged version of the news from the New York Times of the day before. The radio news is still good if you want the traffic and weather report (and you'll get the murder of the day sooner), but the medium lends itself to a fairly superficial treatment... which is unfortunately just as good as the treatment you'll get in the Inquirer the next day.
We're going to have datacenters (the fact that you're posting to/. makes you a hypocrite otherwise). So which is worse? Cooling them with electrically powered air-conditioning? Or using something else as a heat sink?
Radiate the excess heat into space. But not in any direction where any hypothetical aliens might live.
In short, unless TI uses DRM software resident in their firmware to protect OTHER titles from copying, this clearly falls WELL outside the realm of the DMCA.
If I were an evil and nasty copyright lawyer, I could find a DMCA 1201 hook to hang this on. Even if I couldn't get DMCA 1201(a), I could go for DMCA 1201(b)
(1) 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 protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof; (B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof; or (C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof.
I'd claim the firmware signing key prevented people from making unauthorized derivative works of the copyrighted TI firmware, by preventing such unauthorized works from running.
It's a stretch, but the courts (and juries) are sympathetic to big corporations who look like Authority, not eeevil hackers, who look like people trying to weasel around the law.
Now, the DMCA takedown is a different matter. The keys are (supposedly) randomly generated; they can't possibly be subject to copyright. DMCA 512 covers only regular copyright violations, not DMCA 1201 violations. So the DMCA takedown was bogus.
The food that gets distributed to schools, prisons and food banks is labelled similarly.
I don't know where you were incarcerated, but I've never seen a USDA marking on such food. I did see the markings on some of the boxes at the University of Maryland. Definitely not USDA Prime... rather "Grade D" and "For institutional use". (Yes, I know snopes denies the existence of "Grade D" meat. I know what I saw. The grading was not necessarily a USDA grading).
I wonder if there's any laws in Mexico (or US) for the product known as Tequila. Contrast Tequila with mezcal, and only the latter ever contains a "worm", etc.
Yes, IIRC in both countries Tequila must be derived at least 50% (100% if marked "100% de Agave", which is the only kind worth buying) from the syrup of the blue agave, grown in the state of Jalisco.
It's only Prime Rib if it comes from Prime beef. Otherwise, it's just a standing rib roast (which itself is a noble thing). Chances are, you're not buying Prime at the supermarket.
A prime rib is a prime rib regardless of whether it comes from USDA Prime beef; it's an exception.
Cursive handwriting is a kludge, because the english alphabet is terribly slow to write by hand compared to more writing friendly alphabets around the world.
It wasn't made to be written; it was made to be carved in stone. (Well, OK, the uppercase letters were. Except the "U" and "J".)
The same employees who complain about being fired despite their productivity would have left at the first offer of a higher salary anyway.
Nonsense. Very few people get offers out of the blue, and the people who employ those people know who they are. So all an employer has to do to prevent employees from leaving at the first offer of a higher salary is to keep them happy enough that they're not constantly looking for a new position. If an employee is actively looking, it probably means he's not satisfied with something about his current position.
Once you persevere from the more plebeian positions into the management/executive level, your body of work is far more important.
Which means the only body of work which is important is management work. Which means a developer's body of work is _never_ important. Great news for those of us with no interest in management.
The essential implication seems to be that your longevity in employment has absolutely nothing to do with your actual work. Rather, it has everything to do with someone else's perception of you, and said perception doesn't necessarily need to have any honest or factual relationship with your work output whatsoever.
That's not corruption; thats the real world. It's the manager's job to find out the reality of the situation, but often enough managers just can't do it. Corruption would be (e.g.) if you kicked back 10% of your pay not to get fired.
If this is the case, I seriously wonder how much longer contemporary human society can last. Is it really so completely, unsparingly rotten out there these days?
Yes, but not just "these days". It is as it ever was.
Make yourself damn good at solving the difficult customer problems no one else can solve. Do it so that customers and executives at your own company request you by name
Doesn't always work. I've been in the unfortunate position of having to tell a customer that X was "no longer with the company", and I've seen it other times as well.
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Too bad. Once you've played that music, you've "given away" the IP. You never know if some sneaky pirate like Mozart is in the audience, memorizing each note for later recording.
No, sorry, the baby drowned years ago.
Besides the fact that your place is either a limited-purpose production environment or a hellhole where security constantly gets in the way of getting work done, you've failed to consider photographs of the screen. Unless you're searching your employees as they come in the door.
Nuclear fusion was just around the corner. So were high efficiency solar cells. Some things got a lot better. Some things didn't.
Now there would be an interesting defense. Defendant asserts that he didn't realize he was supposed to have a key to the system. Rather, he thought the system required a simple intelligence test for entry; just enter the discrete log of a given number over a given field...
Only the regular ones. Geniuses are unlimited season, no bag limit.
You must have missed the first time they did that, April 20, 1985.
(release of Windows 1.0)
Another world changing technology that's just around the corner.
No. Because the downfall of quality news has already happened. The TV news stations have the murder/robbery/assault of the day (with an "on scene" report where nothing is happening), followed by ads thinly disguised as stories, then weather, then sports (the single largest part of the newscast). The local newspaper (Philadelphia Inquirer) simply prints an abridged version of the news from the New York Times of the day before. The radio news is still good if you want the traffic and weather report (and you'll get the murder of the day sooner), but the medium lends itself to a fairly superficial treatment... which is unfortunately just as good as the treatment you'll get in the Inquirer the next day.
Radiate the excess heat into space. But not in any direction where any hypothetical aliens might live.
If I were an evil and nasty copyright lawyer, I could find a DMCA 1201 hook to hang this on. Even if I couldn't get DMCA 1201(a), I could go for DMCA 1201(b)
I'd claim the firmware signing key prevented people from making unauthorized derivative works of the copyrighted TI firmware, by preventing such unauthorized works from running.
It's a stretch, but the courts (and juries) are sympathetic to big corporations who look like Authority, not eeevil hackers, who look like people trying to weasel around the law.
Now, the DMCA takedown is a different matter. The keys are (supposedly) randomly generated; they can't possibly be subject to copyright. DMCA 512 covers only regular copyright violations, not DMCA 1201 violations. So the DMCA takedown was bogus.
The central processor in this thing isn't a computer at all... it's a dead salmon!
I don't know where you were incarcerated, but I've never seen a USDA marking on such food. I did see the markings on some of the boxes at the University of Maryland. Definitely not USDA Prime... rather "Grade D" and "For institutional use". (Yes, I know snopes denies the existence of "Grade D" meat. I know what I saw. The grading was not necessarily a USDA grading).
The burden of proof is on the manufacturer to show that they are.
Yes, IIRC in both countries Tequila must be derived at least 50% (100% if marked "100% de Agave", which is the only kind worth buying) from the syrup of the blue agave, grown in the state of Jalisco.
I'm not sure about mezcal.
A prime rib is a prime rib regardless of whether it comes from USDA Prime beef; it's an exception.
It's good of you to be teaching your kids the modern classics (like _1984_) so young.
It wasn't made to be written; it was made to be carved in stone. (Well, OK, the uppercase letters were. Except the "U" and "J".)
Hey! I'm a barbarian, not a philistine, you ignorant clod.
(still don't give a fuck about cursive, and can write it as well as I ever could -- i.e., not very.).
No. Child leashes were a step too far. This is about 100 miles down the road of paranoia and accelerating fast.
Nonsense. Very few people get offers out of the blue, and the people who employ those people know who they are. So all an employer has to do to prevent employees from leaving at the first offer of a higher salary is to keep them happy enough that they're not constantly looking for a new position. If an employee is actively looking, it probably means he's not satisfied with something about his current position.
A couple of prepaid cellphones and some voice-acting lessons?
That's NOT creme.
Once you persevere from the more plebeian positions into the management/executive level, your body of work is far more important.
Which means the only body of work which is important is management work. Which means a developer's body of work is _never_ important. Great news for those of us with no interest in management.
That's not corruption; thats the real world. It's the manager's job to find out the reality of the situation, but often enough managers just can't do it. Corruption would be (e.g.) if you kicked back 10% of your pay not to get fired.
Yes, but not just "these days". It is as it ever was.
Doesn't always work. I've been in the unfortunate position of having to tell a customer that X was "no longer with the company", and I've seen it other times as well.
In my experience, managers hate doing them and employees hate getting them. So they often simply don't get done.