Choose your battles in business wisely -- making a philosophical stand could have a heavy financial impact on you.
You may not "get fired" over taking a stand -- but it would probably put you in the "not a team player" camp.
Career-wise, that may be even worse (financially) than being fired. If your Company is planning an IPO, they probably have a substantial legal department... And enemies in Legal (the same people usually championing the patent process) are the worse kind of enemies to have. You may start getting the cold shoulder at review time, bonus time, and option-allotment time... Legal, unfortunately, isn't quiet when they have gripes -- and they usually have the means to pull strings like that!
KCEasy is simply a front-end. KCEasy makes use of giFT
KCEasy may be just a front-end, but it is a front-end developed by one of the guys heavily involved in reverse-engineering the KaZaA encryption algorithms (eg,/src/crypt/enc_type_*.c) for the giFT-fasttrack plug-in: mkern.
Ironport's product is targeted at companies that send tons of emails that they don't consider SPAM -- big companies like Sony or Blockbuster or Merrill Lynch that have huge customer bases who have "registered" to receive mail.
These big companies' mailservers are often blacklisted as spammers because of:
- the volume of email they send out,
- recipients who forget they've opted into receiving mail and report the mail as SPAM,
- etc.
IronPort's products are supposed to help these companies out and ensure they can keep pumping out mail.
I guess by buying SpamCop IronPort will be able to insert their own whitelist into the filtering process: "don't blacklist SPAM from Merrill Lynch because they're a customer."
Surviving Divorce: A Handbook for Men
by Gay Search
A well-written and challenging book which I bought for my Uncle Sandy as he attempts to cope with the aftershock of divorce. Unfortunately he thought the author's name was a coping strategy being suggested and he refused to read it.
The streambox vcr client sent the "secret handshake" to a realmedia server, and realmedia sued over this because it was very easy to 'fake out' a streaming server in this way, and then ignore the 'don't save' bit.
24. In order [*11] to gain access to RealMedia content located on a RealServer, the VCR mimics a RealPlayer and circumvents the authentication procedure, or Secret Handshake, that a RealServer requires before it will stream content. In other words, the Streambox VCR is able to convince the RealServer into thinking that the VCR is, in fact, a RealPlayer.
25. Having convinced a RealServer to begin streaming content, the Streambox VCR, like the RealPlayer, acts as a receiver. However, unlike the RealPlayer, the VCR ignores the Copy Switch that tells a RealPlayer whether an end-user is allowed to make a copy of (i.e., download) the RealMedia file as it is being streamed. The VCR thus allows the end-user to download RealMedia files even if the content owner has used the Copy Switch to prohibit end-users from downloading the files.
Hasn't the Patriot Act started to erode those rights?
I know for sure it allows "invasion of privacy" for wiretaps without a warrant -- and I've heard something about physical searches with "blank warrants" or something like that... Just a matter of time, I suppose.
Under the newly enacted Patriot Act of 2001, ISPs and network administrators may give law enforcement agents access to their networks without a warrant in order to track hacker activities.
The early versions will be vulnerable to anyone with the tools and patience to crack the hardware (e.g., get clear data on the bus between the CPU and the Fritz chip). However, from phase 2, the Fritz chip will disappear inside the main processor - let's call it the `Hexium' - and things will get a lot harder. Really serious, well funded opponents will still be able to crack it. However, it's likely to go on getting more difficult and expensive.
I agree that Gator sucks as a "product" for an end-user.
More importantly: I also agree that NYTimes has no "right" to require the client-side rendering of their website to match NYT's "expectations."
If the NYT wants that, they should deliver their homepage in some kind of encrypted protected fixed PDF-like format that doesn't allow modification.
If NYT delivers data in HTML, it is up to the user's browser (and any other software on the end user's computer) to render the HTML as they wish.
Will NYT sue JunkBuster or Proximitron next?
Finally, I disagree that Gator properly informs the end-user about their product at installation:
I'd bet that most people who have Gator installed have never been to Gator.com and GAIN.com -- the software was installed silently by accident (described better in other comments).
They better get ready to pay some google patent licensing fees:
People also make their feelings known in less direct ways, says Jhingran. "People actually vote their preferences by providing links to different documents," he explains. "You may be able to determine that a page is authoritative because lots of people have found it important enough to have links to it. People explicitly create links from page one to page two, and if many people point to page two it looks like it is an important link to something." Businesses could use such analytical capability to determine the "buzz" about their products found in chat rooms and forums on the Internet.
According to the movie, the first H1 was effective at sea, but not up to the inventor's desires.
I'm not sure if this was added for drama or not, but the plot went like this: SPOILER? his calculations differed from the captain's calculations at a critical point in the voyage.
Disagreeing with the captain at sea was not a good idea at the time -- it would have been considered mutiny.
They were following the captain's calculations, but they had the inventor's concerns in mind. Because of these concerns, they were able to determine they were in fact off course before it was "too late" and were able to change to a safe course.
The captain chose not to put this incident into the ship's log, so the inventor had no evidence of this until a first mate came forward.
The inventor then got the funding to continue development with the H2, where more significant accuracy issues were discovered...
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Does the phrase "at will employment" ring a bell?
Choose your battles in business wisely -- making a philosophical stand could have a heavy financial impact on you.
You may not "get fired" over taking a stand -- but it would probably put you in the "not a team player" camp.
Career-wise, that may be even worse (financially) than being fired. If your Company is planning an IPO, they probably have a substantial legal department... And enemies in Legal (the same people usually championing the patent process) are the worse kind of enemies to have. You may start getting the cold shoulder at review time, bonus time, and option-allotment time... Legal, unfortunately, isn't quiet when they have gripes -- and they usually have the means to pull strings like that!
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KCEasy may be just a front-end, but it is a front-end developed by one of the guys heavily involved in reverse-engineering the KaZaA encryption algorithms (eg, /src/crypt/enc_type_*.c) for the giFT-fasttrack plug-in: mkern.
See:
http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gift-faMaybe the KaZaA people are miffed at his reverse-engineering ways and chose to attack here rather than at the gift-fasttrack plug-in level?
Ironport's product is targeted at companies that send tons of emails that they don't consider SPAM -- big companies like Sony or Blockbuster or Merrill Lynch that have huge customer bases who have "registered" to receive mail.
These big companies' mailservers are often blacklisted as spammers because of:
- the volume of email they send out,
- recipients who forget they've opted into receiving mail and report the mail as SPAM,
- etc.
IronPort's products are supposed to help these companies out and ensure they can keep pumping out mail.
I guess by buying SpamCop IronPort will be able to insert their own whitelist into the filtering process: "don't blacklist SPAM from Merrill Lynch because they're a customer."
err, forget forgetting. Too bad preview can't wake me up.
err, forget the less than -- bar has to equal zero. (its early :) )
If foo is called with bar less than or equal to zero, b is not initialized at the point it is used in:
a += b;
Check out Henry Raddick's stuff -- I think the guy's got a dry British sense of humor and he can be really funny:
Henry Raddick's reviewsQuick sample:
The streambox vcr client sent the "secret handshake" to a realmedia server, and realmedia sued over this because it was very easy to 'fake out' a streaming server in this way, and then ignore the 'don't save' bit.
http://www.law.uh.edu/faculty/cjoyce/copyright/rel ease10/Real.html
Hasn't the Patriot Act started to erode those rights?
I know for sure it allows "invasion of privacy" for wiretaps without a warrant -- and I've heard something about physical searches with "blank warrants" or something like that... Just a matter of time, I suppose.
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2001/1105carrier.htmWhen it gets into CPU, you're pretty much dead.
I agree that Gator sucks as a "product" for an end-user.
More importantly: I also agree that NYTimes has no "right" to require the client-side rendering of their website to match NYT's "expectations."
If the NYT wants that, they should deliver their homepage in some kind of encrypted protected fixed PDF-like format that doesn't allow modification.
If NYT delivers data in HTML, it is up to the user's browser (and any other software on the end user's computer) to render the HTML as they wish.
Will NYT sue JunkBuster or Proximitron next?
Finally, I disagree that Gator properly informs the end-user about their product at installation:
I'd bet that most people who have Gator installed have never been to Gator.com and GAIN.com -- the software was installed silently by accident (described better in other comments).
According to the movie, the first H1 was effective at sea, but not up to the inventor's desires.
I'm not sure if this was added for drama or not, but the plot went like this: SPOILER? his calculations differed from the captain's calculations at a critical point in the voyage.
Disagreeing with the captain at sea was not a good idea at the time -- it would have been considered mutiny.
They were following the captain's calculations, but they had the inventor's concerns in mind. Because of these concerns, they were able to determine they were in fact off course before it was "too late" and were able to change to a safe course.
The captain chose not to put this incident into the ship's log, so the inventor had no evidence of this until a first mate came forward.
The inventor then got the funding to continue development with the H2, where more significant accuracy issues were discovered...
Longitude the movie was pretty cool, and has been airing on A&E a lot recently late at night...
And you get to see a prop version of the H1 running -- some cool mechanical engineering; even though the first 3 didn't really work on the open sea.
Longitude