14 CFR 91.21: Portable Electronic Devices (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, no person may operate, nor may any operator or pilot in command of an aircraft allow the operation of, any portable electronic device on any of the following U.S.-registered civil aircraft: (1) Aircraft operated by a holder of an air carrier operating certificate or an operating certificate; or (2) Any other aircraft while it is operated under IFR. (b) Paragraph (a) of this section does not apply to— (1) Portable voice recorders; (2) Hearing aids; (3) Heart pacemakers; (4) Electric shavers; or (5) Any other portable electronic device that the operator of the aircraft has determined will not cause interference with the navigation or communication system of the aircraft on which it is to be used. (c) In the case of an aircraft operated by a holder of an air carrier operating certificate or an operating certificate, the determination required by paragraph (b)(5) of this section shall be made by that operator of the aircraft on which the particular device is to be used. In the case of other aircraft, the determination may be made by the pilot in command or other operator of the aircraft.
Do you mean to tell me that an organization, even a for-profit business, might not be completely unbiased in criticizing its competition if doing so suited its best interests? I find this deeply troubling.
I'm forty-two and an independent developer and my rate has gone up every year. If, as the article suggests, you allow your skills to go stale, then yes you will find it hard to get work. Duh.
If you keep yourself up to date and manage your career like any other field, you'll do fine. This doesn't mean you have to spend all of your free time training yourself on the next new thing, but you find work that involves newer technology and you learn how it works on the job. If you have a reasonable amount of curiosity you'll do this anyway.
It's worthwhile to talk to recruiters now and then to learn what skills are pulling in the top rates in the market. You may not want to pick them up (no matter how valuable, I simply won't do SharePoint), but you can find out where the market is heading. Networking with recruiters and colleagues is priceless, and it doesn't take much more than an extensive LinkedIn profile.
Personally I find I'm most effective when I switch back and forth between architecture (which emphasizes soft skills and leadership) and hands-on development (to keep my technical skills sharp). It's fun, challenging, and based on my experiences in the market, highly valuable. I try to cover as much ground as possible so that I'm as marketable as I care to be. Also, I don't commit to a particular technology/process/tool as if it's the "holy grail" of development. These things are like fashion and you need to roll on to the next new thing as it comes, even though it may be worse than the technology that it replaces.
The MEMS gyros in an iPhone are worthless for this kind of application. Various people have tried to use them for emergency attitude indicators etc in small planes and they simply don't have the stability required. The GPS is nowhere near accurate enough for altitude: you need WAAS (which isn't available in all parts of the world) or LAAS (which you'd need to build yourself). The accelerometers are also not up to any kind of inertial guidance task: it's not what they're built for. iPhones have an amazing array of sensors, but they're intended for handheld operation.
The only way I could see this working would be a fairly large (6-20' wingspan) airplane or perhaps helicopter with a piston engine (you need the size and power to overcome inevitable mountain turbulence: mountains make their own wind, especially when they have snow/ice on them) and a whole pile of advanced avionics and software. Which wouldn't be cheap, or all that safe, really. I'd hate to be in the air with it unless it had some kind of see and avoid technology, and I'd hate to have it crash on me.
Also in the US as many others pointed out it wouldn't be legal.
I don't think Google is remotely invested in Android as a platform. They're interested in getting more ad revenue, and Android provides a convenient vector for that right now. But once the lawsuits start coming to completion I suspect the economic incentive to supporting the platform will dwindle to the point where Google will let it whither on the vine. It's a business decision; Google doesn't care about free and open, they need to make a buck just like everybody else.
No. In a GA aircraft (at least those flying under FAR 91, which covers private pilots) you can use whatever portable electronic devices you'd like. There are FCC regs that disallow the use of cell phones in flight, but I've never seen them obeyed, much less enforced.
Also I think you meant "untowered" airports. It's legal to land in controlled airspace without a radio, as long as that airspace is class E.
Aviation GPS uses WAAS to get increased accuracy (roughly 10'). Also aircraft, being up in the sky, can see many more satellites than somebody standing on a hill. WAAS informs the GPS receiver of errors in the signal, as well as failure of portions of the constellation.
The GPS on aircraft use RAIM to detect and predict GPS failures, and can use inertial guidance (among other) systems as a backup. The entire GPS system has never gone down, and there are backup satellites in place in the event of failures of nodes in the constellation.
I'd be happy if they started hosting the 6to4 anycast address (192.88.99.1) internally. I use 6to4 and am looking at 133ms just to hit the 6to4 gateway. Native IPv6 would be phenomenal.
If you do something stupid then piercing the S-Corp layer isn't that hard. At the end of the day you are really a sole proprietor, and having paid a few hundred bucks to file some paperwork isn't going to work any magic in court.
Not remotely true. If you keep your paperwork in order (not just upfront, but ongoing) piercing the veil is nearly impossible. The upfront paperwork takes a few yours, after that you're looking at one or two hours per year.
This would work if the owner of the S-Corp was someone else. As the sole owner of the S-Corp and the only person who does any work for the S-Corp then you are deemed to be an "active" owner. You owe SS and Medicare on all of the income, including the pass through income. You may not report the income this way, but you should be. I'm guessing you haven't been audited yet.
The IRS allows you to pay distributions to shareholders that are above "reasonable" compensation for the work done. They haven't yet defined "reasonable," although there's never been a case where employee/shareholders have been prosecuted if they are paying a fair amount of tax. Google John Edwards and Payroll Tax for more information.
As an S-Corp owner I legally reduce my tax burden by thousands of dollars while shielding my personal assets from lawsuits. Yes I need to file an additional return and do some additional paperwork, but the benefits far outweigh the costs.
OpenDNS allows you to turn off said feature. I did, and get NXDOMAIN back instead of the IP of their goofy page when I typo or try to resolve a non-existent name.
The charge is that the contests of the hard drive are illegal. That's not just "evidence", that's the entire crux of the case. The question at hand is, "are the contents of this drive illegal?" If the prosecution can't prove that it is, that's their tough luck. If they can't view the contents of the drive then what the hell business do they have prosecuting this guy? Their inability to break encryptioon isn't the defendent's fault or problem. The state wants to prove that the guy did something wrong? Okay, let's see the proof. You have the guy's laptop, let's see why you think he's doing something illegal.
The prosecution could move forward with the case without the decrypted documents, presenting the sworn testimony of the ICE agent, but they're within their rights not to. They've decided that they need to examine the contents of the drive, shown probable cause to a judge (based on the testimony of the ICE agent), and gotten a warrant. The judge compelled the defendant to supply the documents pursuant to the warrant. He's not complying, therefore he's in contempt of a court order.
The defendant could easily claim to have forgotten the password, and the case would move forward without the evidence (although that's clearly not the prosecution's preferred outcome), but the judge would then instruct the jury about the defendant's claim, and let them weigh that against the ICE agent's sworn testimony. That doesn't look like a good option for the defense, so they're trying this first.
In any case, the 5th amendment doesn't protect defendants from handing over incriminating evidence, only from making self-incriminating statements to the government.
As many others pointed out, had the defendant not shown the documents to the ICE officer, the prosecution would not have probable cause to search the drive, a warrant would not have been issue, and we'd all be wasting our time discussing something else on slashdot right now.
The guy hasn't claimed he forgot the password. If he did that, the case would move forward without it, and the judge would instruct the jury that the defendant claims to have forgotten a password to documents that a sworn officer testified under oath were child porn.
That doesn't sound so good.
So the defense is trying this first. If it doesn't pan out (and it won't, because the 5th amendment doesn't apply to a subpoena for evidence), then they can try the "I forgot" defense at trial.
Wow. You must live in a country where everyone is perfectly moral (by everyone else on the planet's standards) and nobody has ever committed a crime. Where is this wondrous place? Cause last time I checked pretty much every country has citizens who have done much worse than what you describe.
The courts pretty routinely take one person's word over another's, if that one person is a sworn peace officer.
Second, even if the courts doubt the peace officer's word (or the defense wants to refute it) there's a fairly straightforward way to handle that: compel the guy to cough up the documents. The password itself is not incriminating, therefore it's not protected by the 5th. Even still, the court is not demanding the password, just the unencrypted contents of the drive. Again, they have probable cause (the ICE officer's sworn testimony).
Last, the contents of the hard drive is not self-incrimination (though it may be incriminating). It's evidence. Evidence is not protected by the 5th. This guy is withholding evidence that the prosecution wishes to present at trial to make its case. The judge has ruled that the evidence is material to the case, and that a warrant has been issued for it. The defendant is refusing to comply with the warrant. That's all this case is about: there's no 5th amendment element to it.
Miranda doesn't kick in until you've been arrested and questioned by an officer. He wasn't under arrest, thus the officers didn't need to Mirandize him. Hell, this guy wasn't even a suspect at this point. Just a perv who probably forgot his unencrypted kiddie porn drive was mounted when he handed it to the officer.
He's off to prison for a long time, whether he gives up the keys (conviction) or not (contempt). I have no issue with that.
There used to be a GUI app which sort of helped you mount SSHFS volumes, but it was very unsupported and I could never get it to work at all.
I built sshfs for MacFUSE 1, and the binaries still work under MacFuse 2, which is handy. However, it was an PITA to build, as MacFuse had to generate the makefiles for sshfs, gettext, et al. If you followed the directions it did work, but it took a long time to get running.
A GUI sshfs that was supported and worked would be a great addition. A protocol helper would be even better, so that I could tell somebody to hit command K from the Finder, enter "sshfs:user@host:/path" and hit return and have the volume show up on their desktop.
All the jobs I've held have had an "... or equivalent experience" clause in the position description. As a professional software engineering consultant (18+ years consulting experience) nobody cares if I got the degree or not.
That said, it's not easy to get in the door at most organizations as a programmer without a degree, although if you could demonstrate your ability and you had the attitude and aptitude for the job, I know I'd hire you.
Try remote controlling a Mac over VNC. The animations and effects (menus fade in/out, the doc animations, the "shadow" on the front-most window) all make VNC horribly slow.
It's not as bad if you use Apple's built-in VNC client from another mac, but controlling a mac from windows is painful. I don't know what protocol Apple uses in their own VNC client, but I cannot find another client that supports it.
Wouldn't it be easier (ok, not easier, but less legally contentious) to require NewEgg et al to provide NYS with a list of everybody from NYS who bought stuff and what they bought? Then NYS can go after the folks who are violating the use tax laws as they see fit.
I know this is a lot more work for NYS, but the whole "charge sales tax even though you're out of state" thing seems invalid on its face, and likely to be thrown out of court. This way NYS can go after the biggest violators, at least.
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14 CFR 91.21: Portable Electronic Devices
(a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this section, no person may operate, nor may any operator or pilot in command of an aircraft allow the operation of, any portable electronic device on any of the following U.S.-registered civil aircraft:
(1) Aircraft operated by a holder of an air carrier operating certificate or an operating certificate; or
(2) Any other aircraft while it is operated under IFR.
(b) Paragraph (a) of this section does not apply to—
(1) Portable voice recorders;
(2) Hearing aids;
(3) Heart pacemakers;
(4) Electric shavers; or
(5) Any other portable electronic device that the operator of the aircraft has determined will not cause interference with the navigation or communication system of the aircraft on which it is to be used.
(c) In the case of an aircraft operated by a holder of an air carrier operating certificate or an operating certificate, the determination required by paragraph (b)(5) of this section shall be made by that operator of the aircraft on which the particular device is to be used. In the case of other aircraft, the determination may be made by the pilot in command or other operator of the aircraft.
Do you mean to tell me that an organization, even a for-profit business, might not be completely unbiased in criticizing its competition if doing so suited its best interests? I find this deeply troubling.
I'm forty-two and an independent developer and my rate has gone up every year. If, as the article suggests, you allow your skills to go stale, then yes you will find it hard to get work. Duh.
If you keep yourself up to date and manage your career like any other field, you'll do fine. This doesn't mean you have to spend all of your free time training yourself on the next new thing, but you find work that involves newer technology and you learn how it works on the job. If you have a reasonable amount of curiosity you'll do this anyway.
It's worthwhile to talk to recruiters now and then to learn what skills are pulling in the top rates in the market. You may not want to pick them up (no matter how valuable, I simply won't do SharePoint), but you can find out where the market is heading. Networking with recruiters and colleagues is priceless, and it doesn't take much more than an extensive LinkedIn profile.
Personally I find I'm most effective when I switch back and forth between architecture (which emphasizes soft skills and leadership) and hands-on development (to keep my technical skills sharp). It's fun, challenging, and based on my experiences in the market, highly valuable. I try to cover as much ground as possible so that I'm as marketable as I care to be. Also, I don't commit to a particular technology/process/tool as if it's the "holy grail" of development. These things are like fashion and you need to roll on to the next new thing as it comes, even though it may be worse than the technology that it replaces.
Stay humble, stay curious.
The MEMS gyros in an iPhone are worthless for this kind of application. Various people have tried to use them for emergency attitude indicators etc in small planes and they simply don't have the stability required. The GPS is nowhere near accurate enough for altitude: you need WAAS (which isn't available in all parts of the world) or LAAS (which you'd need to build yourself). The accelerometers are also not up to any kind of inertial guidance task: it's not what they're built for. iPhones have an amazing array of sensors, but they're intended for handheld operation.
The only way I could see this working would be a fairly large (6-20' wingspan) airplane or perhaps helicopter with a piston engine (you need the size and power to overcome inevitable mountain turbulence: mountains make their own wind, especially when they have snow/ice on them) and a whole pile of advanced avionics and software. Which wouldn't be cheap, or all that safe, really. I'd hate to be in the air with it unless it had some kind of see and avoid technology, and I'd hate to have it crash on me.
Also in the US as many others pointed out it wouldn't be legal.
I don't think Google is remotely invested in Android as a platform. They're interested in getting more ad revenue, and Android provides a convenient vector for that right now. But once the lawsuits start coming to completion I suspect the economic incentive to supporting the platform will dwindle to the point where Google will let it whither on the vine. It's a business decision; Google doesn't care about free and open, they need to make a buck just like everybody else.
No. In a GA aircraft (at least those flying under FAR 91, which covers private pilots) you can use whatever portable electronic devices you'd like. There are FCC regs that disallow the use of cell phones in flight, but I've never seen them obeyed, much less enforced.
Also I think you meant "untowered" airports. It's legal to land in controlled airspace without a radio, as long as that airspace is class E.
Aviation GPS uses WAAS to get increased accuracy (roughly 10'). Also aircraft, being up in the sky, can see many more satellites than somebody standing on a hill. WAAS informs the GPS receiver of errors in the signal, as well as failure of portions of the constellation.
The GPS on aircraft use RAIM to detect and predict GPS failures, and can use inertial guidance (among other) systems as a backup. The entire GPS system has never gone down, and there are backup satellites in place in the event of failures of nodes in the constellation.
No you're not. You're just not identifiable.
I'd be happy if they started hosting the 6to4 anycast address (192.88.99.1) internally. I use 6to4 and am looking at 133ms just to hit the 6to4 gateway. Native IPv6 would be phenomenal.
If you do something stupid then piercing the S-Corp layer isn't that hard. At the end of the day you are really a sole proprietor, and having paid a few hundred bucks to file some paperwork isn't going to work any magic in court.
Not remotely true. If you keep your paperwork in order (not just upfront, but ongoing) piercing the veil is nearly impossible. The upfront paperwork takes a few yours, after that you're looking at one or two hours per year.
This would work if the owner of the S-Corp was someone else. As the sole owner of the S-Corp and the only person who does any work for the S-Corp then you are deemed to be an "active" owner. You owe SS and Medicare on all of the income, including the pass through income. You may not report the income this way, but you should be. I'm guessing you haven't been audited yet.
The IRS allows you to pay distributions to shareholders that are above "reasonable" compensation for the work done. They haven't yet defined "reasonable," although there's never been a case where employee/shareholders have been prosecuted if they are paying a fair amount of tax. Google John Edwards and Payroll Tax for more information.
As an S-Corp owner I legally reduce my tax burden by thousands of dollars while shielding my personal assets from lawsuits. Yes I need to file an additional return and do some additional paperwork, but the benefits far outweigh the costs.
OpenDNS allows you to turn off said feature. I did, and get NXDOMAIN back instead of the IP of their goofy page when I typo or try to resolve a non-existent name.
The charge is that the contests of the hard drive are illegal. That's not just "evidence", that's the entire crux of the case. The question at hand is, "are the contents of this drive illegal?" If the prosecution can't prove that it is, that's their tough luck. If they can't view the contents of the drive then what the hell business do they have prosecuting this guy? Their inability to break encryptioon isn't the defendent's fault or problem. The state wants to prove that the guy did something wrong? Okay, let's see the proof. You have the guy's laptop, let's see why you think he's doing something illegal.
The prosecution could move forward with the case without the decrypted documents, presenting the sworn testimony of the ICE agent, but they're within their rights not to. They've decided that they need to examine the contents of the drive, shown probable cause to a judge (based on the testimony of the ICE agent), and gotten a warrant. The judge compelled the defendant to supply the documents pursuant to the warrant. He's not complying, therefore he's in contempt of a court order.
The defendant could easily claim to have forgotten the password, and the case would move forward without the evidence (although that's clearly not the prosecution's preferred outcome), but the judge would then instruct the jury about the defendant's claim, and let them weigh that against the ICE agent's sworn testimony. That doesn't look like a good option for the defense, so they're trying this first.
In any case, the 5th amendment doesn't protect defendants from handing over incriminating evidence, only from making self-incriminating statements to the government.
As many others pointed out, had the defendant not shown the documents to the ICE officer, the prosecution would not have probable cause to search the drive, a warrant would not have been issue, and we'd all be wasting our time discussing something else on slashdot right now.
The guy hasn't claimed he forgot the password. If he did that, the case would move forward without it, and the judge would instruct the jury that the defendant claims to have forgotten a password to documents that a sworn officer testified under oath were child porn.
That doesn't sound so good.
So the defense is trying this first. If it doesn't pan out (and it won't, because the 5th amendment doesn't apply to a subpoena for evidence), then they can try the "I forgot" defense at trial.
Wow. You must live in a country where everyone is perfectly moral (by everyone else on the planet's standards) and nobody has ever committed a crime. Where is this wondrous place? Cause last time I checked pretty much every country has citizens who have done much worse than what you describe.
The courts pretty routinely take one person's word over another's, if that one person is a sworn peace officer.
Second, even if the courts doubt the peace officer's word (or the defense wants to refute it) there's a fairly straightforward way to handle that: compel the guy to cough up the documents. The password itself is not incriminating, therefore it's not protected by the 5th. Even still, the court is not demanding the password, just the unencrypted contents of the drive. Again, they have probable cause (the ICE officer's sworn testimony).
Last, the contents of the hard drive is not self-incrimination (though it may be incriminating). It's evidence. Evidence is not protected by the 5th. This guy is withholding evidence that the prosecution wishes to present at trial to make its case. The judge has ruled that the evidence is material to the case, and that a warrant has been issued for it. The defendant is refusing to comply with the warrant. That's all this case is about: there's no 5th amendment element to it.
Miranda doesn't kick in until you've been arrested and questioned by an officer. He wasn't under arrest, thus the officers didn't need to Mirandize him. Hell, this guy wasn't even a suspect at this point. Just a perv who probably forgot his unencrypted kiddie porn drive was mounted when he handed it to the officer.
He's off to prison for a long time, whether he gives up the keys (conviction) or not (contempt). I have no issue with that.
This could cost consumers literally incalculable amounts of synergy and innovation.
Just because the amount of "synergy and innovation" is incalculable, that doesn't mean it's very much. Of whatever "synergy and innovation" is.
Why won't the government just let capitalism work?
Hear, hear! Just look what deregulated capitalism has done for the financial markets!
I second the motion.
QuickBooks Pro (at least the Mac version) uses SQLite as its file format, which makes getting direct access to accounting data really, really simple.
Here's the copyright filing from government records, 1/24/08...
There used to be a GUI app which sort of helped you mount SSHFS volumes, but it was very unsupported and I could never get it to work at all.
I built sshfs for MacFUSE 1, and the binaries still work under MacFuse 2, which is handy. However, it was an PITA to build, as MacFuse had to generate the makefiles for sshfs, gettext, et al. If you followed the directions it did work, but it took a long time to get running.
A GUI sshfs that was supported and worked would be a great addition. A protocol helper would be even better, so that I could tell somebody to hit command K from the Finder, enter "sshfs:user@host:/path" and hit return and have the volume show up on their desktop.
Sadly I don't have the time to put it together.
All the jobs I've held have had an "... or equivalent experience" clause in the position description. As a professional software engineering consultant (18+ years consulting experience) nobody cares if I got the degree or not.
That said, it's not easy to get in the door at most organizations as a programmer without a degree, although if you could demonstrate your ability and you had the attitude and aptitude for the job, I know I'd hire you.
Try remote controlling a Mac over VNC. The animations and effects (menus fade in/out, the doc animations, the "shadow" on the front-most window) all make VNC horribly slow.
It's not as bad if you use Apple's built-in VNC client from another mac, but controlling a mac from windows is painful. I don't know what protocol Apple uses in their own VNC client, but I cannot find another client that supports it.
Your comment is so ill-conceived it's hard to know where to start.
What about the white voters who voted against Obama because of his race? If they had voted with their demographic on other issues, Obama still wins.
Wouldn't it be easier (ok, not easier, but less legally contentious) to require NewEgg et al to provide NYS with a list of everybody from NYS who bought stuff and what they bought? Then NYS can go after the folks who are violating the use tax laws as they see fit.
I know this is a lot more work for NYS, but the whole "charge sales tax even though you're out of state" thing seems invalid on its face, and likely to be thrown out of court. This way NYS can go after the biggest violators, at least.