How they figure that is his fault rather than actually part of the cost of their network I'm not sure. .
You break it, you buy it.
The geek seems to have trouble grasping the concept that he is responsible for the consequences of his actions.
I sometimes think the geek expects his life to play out like a cartoon - that being "smarter than the average bear" is his escape clause - his "Get Out Of Jail Free" card.
Most of Hasbro's board is so old they probably have to have oxygen tents built into the boardroom. You'd be about as lucky lecturing a buggy whip company on the potential of the horseless carriage. .
The toy business is about kids, their parents and grandparents. Changes come slowly and changes are subtle - never so much as to destroy a toy's essential appeal and recognition across three generations. Beloved Characters as Reimagined for the 21st Century
Hasbro is one of the largest toy makers in the U.S., second only to Mattel.
Hasbro is the largest producer of board games in the world: Clue, Dungeons & Dragons, {as Wizards of the Coast], Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit.Hasbro Board games are social and tactile. Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Knife. They bring out the elemental relationships within a family. That is why they endure.
RJ: [Lays down some Monopoly play pieces to signify what they will do] Okay, this is us.
Hammy: Can I be the car?
Bucky: I wanna be the car!
Spike: I'm the car. You be the shoe.
Bucky: The shoe is lame.
Lou: Why don't you be that snazzy-looking iron there?
RJ: Hey! It's not important. Besides, I'm the car. I'm *always* the car. Over The Hedge (2006)
Adventures of Captain Marvel. Serial. The first comic book superhero on screen and in live action.
Dumbo
Here Comes Mr. Jordan. As fine and original a fantasy as we have.
High Sierra. Bogart and Huston.
Lady Be Good. "Facinating Rhythm," "The Last Time I Saw Paris"
Man Hunt. Fritz Lang directs Rogue Male
Meet John Doe. Capra and Cooper.
Pimpernel Smith. Leslie Howard in a telling and subtle updating of one of his greatest roles. The ispiration for Raoul Wallenberg's rescue of perhaps 15,000 Jews.
Road to Zanzibar. Hope, Crosby and Dorothy Lamour
Sergeant York. Gary Cooper and Howard Hawks
Sullivan's Travels. Preston Sturges
Superman The first in the lavishly produced Max Fleischer cartoon series.
Suspicion. Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock
Topper Returns. Should make anyone's list of the all-time great ghost comedies, expertly navigating a witty and stylish murder mystery - with one very pissed-off young woman as both victim and detective!
and there is more. more from Disney. Bugs Bunny, Bob Hope, Tom and Jerry. Abbot and Costello, The Three Stooges, W.C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, The Thin Man...
It also means that Windows can compete - very successfully - in the same space: ASUS Eee PC 1000H (Windows XP) [June 18]
The gate crasher
With the momentum is has already gathered, could the Eee beat off its rivals to become the Holy Grail of Linux computing - that killer product that brings Linux into the mainstream?
Don't bet on it, says Hugo Ortega, principal of Tegatech, a distributor that handles the Eee alongside competing devices such as HP's 2133 Mini-Note PC and ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs) that run Windows XP and Vista and range well past the $3000 mark.
"The HP 2133s are outselling the Eee PC 20 to 1," Ortega says, "and Linux only accounts for probably 20% of Eee PC sales and less than 5% of overall UMPC sales. The fact that there's a $500 notebook out there is a big plus, but we find most [buyers] are more than happy to use a license in their office to upgrade them to [Windows] XP."
Acer, which continues its commitment to Linux, is likely to take a similar path. "It's a give and take between simplicity of usage for the masses versus full customisation," says [Henry Lee of Acer.] "The Linux version is really only to use exactly what is provided, and someone in the know can easily remove what's been installed. But consumers are accustomed to the Windows environment, and the Windows version will be a stronger player eventually."
Indeed, despite the philosophical appeal, faster performance and ease of use that these Linux machines provide, the availability of a Windows alternative may have already started taking its toll as buyers opt for the more familiar option. "The bulk of the requests and requirements we see in the marketplace are for the model with Windows rather than Linux," Lee admits.
Microsoft's efforts to push Windows XP into this space, even after it terminated the operating system's general availability on June 30, are reflected in the fact that XP-based Eee PCs somehow became $50 cheaper than their Linux counterparts. That price disparity has since been eliminated after Asustek bowed to critics who pointed out that the lack of Windows licensing fees - traditionally equivalent to around one-quarter the price of the entire system - should have more than made up for the cost of the expanded onboard storage in the Linux devices.
Even pricing parity, however, may not be enough to save Linux. As market expectations push the low-end machines towards having larger screens, more storage, and faster processors, they will begin to resemble low-end conventional notebooks - potentially diluting the low-cost appeal that has driven their success.
Linux fans, who saw the devices as low-cost and highly portable Linux workstations with a nearly infinite variety of uses, can still buy the Windows devices for the hardware and install Linux on top, but there seems little doubt the mass-market demand Linux-only devices will struggle to maintain itself.
"It's going to be tough in the long term" for Linux-based mini-notebooks, says IDC's Rego. "Microsoft will play tough in this space, where there's a massive presence of Windows. We don't have expectations yet for Eee sales of XP vs Linux, but Linux definitely needs to create increased awareness. If you go into the mainstream, people just want something easy that they recognise." Linux not essential to Eee PC success: ASUS [July 14]
Most of these are very poorly thought out designs, especially today's link. Most will fail in the marketplace, only a few will even get into mass retail channels as even the morons at Best Buy can smell the fail. But all it takes is for ONE to succeed and that will probably happen. When that happens everything changes. .
The geek will blow a C-note on a fantasy that comes with a thirty-second warranty - but there is an old saying that the poor can't afford to be cheap.
This has been the death knell for OEM Linux at Walmart.
The geek hype machine goes into overdrive every time something like gOS hits the shelves - but after the dust settles - the ratio of Windows to Linux product at Walmart remains 50 to 1.
Now Vista has gotten such a bad rap as having horrible performance that it will probably never be able to live it down .
The ratio of OEM Vista to OEM Linux at Walmart.com is perilously close to 50 to 1.
But more importantly, I think, Vista is available at very price point and every specification but absolute rock bottom - and there XP is quite capable of holding the fort until hardware prices drop a little lower.
The XO isn't meeting the reception the Geek thought it would. Not every education minister believes in constructivism.
Some are worried that what would be buying is an overpriced e-book reader -- because his teachers won't have the experience, training, or resources to use it any other way - and neither will his kids - no matter often the geek fantasies otherwise.
The PC outside the grade school classroom looks much like Windows. It may very well be Windows.
That matters to the minister who wants to see kids make a smooth transition into the higher grades, channel them into secondary education, job training and employment.
The biggest problem with many discount PCs is that they typically come with very small amounts of RAM, 1 GB (sometimes even 512MB). .
The $349 Vista Basic desktop at Walmart.com ships with 2 GB RAM
Walmart.com has 30 Vista desktops and 20 Vista desktops that ship with at least 2 GB RAM. 3 or 4 GB is not uncommon. 64-bit Vista is gaining visibility as well.
The 512 MB PC runs XP Home or - wait for it - Linux.
This follows a depressingly familiar pattern. The moment OEM Linux begins to gain some traction, hardware prices fall and the Windows system with eye-popping specs becomes suddenly very affordable.
Every time some big player starts pushing Linux, Microsoft makes it go away. Wal-Mart has sold Linux machiens twice, then backed off; they no longer seem to sell any Linux machines. Fry's has stopped selling Linux machines. .
WalMart has tried to make a go of every OEM Linux distro known to man.
But inevitably the Linux product becomes the bottom feeder.
The gOS system that ships without a working modem in a market that is often still dependent on dial-up. That is installed in the biggest case anyone can find to make it look more impressive. Rather like a flea-market stereo.
the first thing you see is "Not sure Open Source is for You? The main thing to note is that when you choose open source you don't get a Windows® operating system"
WalMart puts the same warnings on its web site.
The Linux system gets a lukewarm send-off as a passable web browser. OpenOffice.org might get a sideline glance, but there has never, ever, been a link to a compatible printer.
1. It presupposes that most/all elderly are stupid
It is not stupid to admit that you are old.
That the days when you thought nothing of cracking open a 50 lb case to reset a video card are gone forever. That fighting the good fight for Linux doesn't matter to you any more.
2. It's easier to install the major Linux distributions than it is to install Windows of any flavor.
The OEM system install is the gold standard in the home and SOHO market. Service under warranty. In-home service. The-no-questions-asked return.
Chances are your DIY Linux install will be successful. If it isn't you are in deep shit.
That is how the game is played.
Most, if not all, Linux trojans need some sort of user interaction to work. One needs to deliberately shoot one's self in the foot for them to work
Which is simply another way of saying that infecting a Linux machine is more a matter of applied psychology, social engineering - as long as a user can be seduced into launching an executable the problem doesn't go away
A. Windows users think it's normal to wipe and reinstall every quarter
No they don't.
I've used an XP restore disk perhaps five times in five years to open the Recovery Console and run CHKDSK. I haven't found a reason for reinstalling Windows other than replacing an aging hard drive.
Alcohol makes one forget their responsibilities, cannabis does not. Probably the people you saw (or claim to have seen) were what we call 'stronken' which, in English would translate to 'strunk', a combination of stoned and drunken, a very bad combination. .
Tell me how you get stoned and drunk while remembering your responsibilites.
Could you forward your emails to a personal account on one of the big three webmail providers? IANAL but it seems like that might limit the company's liability while allowing you to automatically archive your emails in a fully searchable format. .
because your boss loves to start the morning with the sound of a time bomb ticking in the background.
The Austin, Tex. company is also adding functionality to Ubuntu Linux [CC] on its desktops and laptops. It began by adding DVD-playback to its systems shipping with Ubuntu 7.10 .
Michael Robertson spent seven years trying to hammer this lesson home with Linspire and CNR.
One the sidelines, that is a mega-ton of sales in popcorn and cola.
The Batman franchise alone is worth billions.
--- most of which will ultimately come to rest in the big electoral states of California, Florida and New York - or at least make a stop or two there along the way.
This is where the movies are financed, produced and marketed. This is where they build the theme parks.
Who do you think all the kind folks who live in these states are going to vote for in November? The eternal sophomore who wants his free movie fix? Or the Senator talking up clean industries, skilled labor, export dollars?
You know that as soon as some really unbreakable OSS project takes the place of skype .
Telephony 101.
Calls through Skype can reach any phone, anywhere. Your FOSS client can reach a compatible FOSS client.
There are other lines of attack than brute-forcing the encryption. The geek can spend so much time worrying about the back door he forgets the front door, the cellar, the windows and the roof.
I don't use Skype (or VoIP for that matter) but I would be curious if anyone knows of any alternatives that is completely open. .
It doesn't matter if the alternatives are "completely open" if no one but the geek is using them. You might as well be a kid playing in the yard with two tin cans and a length of string.
But if there isn't prior art of those sorts objects being displayed graphically as such on computer screens, it's one of those ideas that's so good it's blindingly obvious. But in retrospect.... .
Everything looks obvious in retrospect.
But you aren't patenting an idea. You are patenting a workable implementation of that idea.
If he was still alive and having to defend himself in court, he'd probably plead temporary insanity. Insanity means without reason or utterly foolish. .
You cannot plead insanity simply because the motive or impulse which lead to your crime makes no sense.
The legal issues are defined as moral judgment and self-control:
In 1972, the American Law Institute developed a new rule for insanity as part of the Model Penal Code. This rule says that a defendant is not responsible for criminal conduct where (s)he, as a result of mental disease or defect, did not possess "substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law."Forensic Psychiatry and Medicine: The McNaughton rule
Reagan era Federal law marked a return to the McNaughton rule, with its Victorian English roots, requiring a defendant to show clearly and convincingly that he did not not understand what he was doing or could not comprehend the wrongfulness of his actions.
The "DeliverBot" idea is cute, but highly impractical. For one thing, the stores will immediately do what they do best: charge you a fee for the cost of the delivery and packing on top of the cost of your food .
This is how middle and upper-class suburbanites shopped before the automobile.
The "Downtown Merchants Delivery Service" in Buffalo, New York, would collect and deliver your parcels to a distance of perhaps sixty miles or so.
In those days shops and stores in Buffalo had something of the variety and sophistication of those in New York - if you had the money it was well worth making the day trip into the city by interurban electric.
The AI is not so powerful. Most animals can navigate in traffic of their own kind, even insects. .
but you aren't navigating in traffic of your own kind. you are sharing the road with vehicles of every type and purpose. there can be pedestrians on the road, there can be animals.
driving a well-engineered expressway is a pleasure. merging in and out of traffic is smooth and safe. ramps do not terminate unexpectedly. your exit does not appear without warning.
you are far more likely to meet injury or death on the city street or the back country road. the more complex and chaotic environment.
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You break it, you buy it.
The geek seems to have trouble grasping the concept that he is responsible for the consequences of his actions.
I sometimes think the geek expects his life to play out like a cartoon - that being "smarter than the average bear" is his escape clause - his "Get Out Of Jail Free" card.
.
The toy business is about kids, their parents and grandparents.
Changes come slowly and changes are subtle - never so much as to destroy a toy's essential appeal and recognition across three generations. Beloved Characters as Reimagined for the 21st Century
Hasbro is one of the largest toy makers in the U.S., second only to Mattel.
Hasbro is the largest producer of board games in the world:
Clue, Dungeons & Dragons, {as Wizards of the Coast], Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit.Hasbro
Board games are social and tactile. Colonel Mustard in the Library with the Knife. They bring out the elemental relationships within a family. That is why they endure.
RJ: [Lays down some Monopoly play pieces to signify what they will do] Okay, this is us.
Hammy: Can I be the car?
Bucky: I wanna be the car!
Spike: I'm the car. You be the shoe.
Bucky: The shoe is lame.
Lou: Why don't you be that snazzy-looking iron there?
RJ: Hey! It's not important. Besides, I'm the car. I'm *always* the car. Over The Hedge (2006)
So we can expect another tech demo from Carmack and not a game?
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among the missing in your list:
Adventures of Captain Marvel.
Serial. The first comic book superhero on screen and in live action.
Dumbo
Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
As fine and original a fantasy as we have.
High Sierra.
Bogart and Huston.
Lady Be Good.
"Facinating Rhythm," "The Last Time I Saw Paris"
Man Hunt.
Fritz Lang directs Rogue Male
Meet John Doe.
Capra and Cooper.
Pimpernel Smith.
Leslie Howard in a telling and subtle updating of one of his greatest roles.
The ispiration for Raoul Wallenberg's rescue of perhaps 15,000 Jews.
Road to Zanzibar.
Hope, Crosby and Dorothy Lamour
Sergeant York.
Gary Cooper and Howard Hawks
Sullivan's Travels.
Preston Sturges
Superman
The first in the lavishly produced Max Fleischer cartoon series.
Suspicion.
Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock
Topper Returns.
Should make anyone's list of the all-time great ghost comedies, expertly navigating a witty and stylish murder mystery - with one very pissed-off young woman as both victim and detective!
and there is more. more from Disney. Bugs Bunny, Bob Hope, Tom and Jerry. Abbot and Costello, The Three Stooges, W.C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, The Thin Man...
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It also means that Windows can compete - very successfully - in the same space:
ASUS Eee PC 1000H (Windows XP) [June 18]
The gate crasher
With the momentum is has already gathered, could the Eee beat off its rivals to become the Holy Grail of Linux computing - that killer product that brings Linux into the mainstream?
Don't bet on it, says Hugo Ortega, principal of Tegatech, a distributor that handles the Eee alongside competing devices such as HP's 2133 Mini-Note PC and ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs) that run Windows XP and Vista and range well past the $3000 mark.
"The HP 2133s are outselling the Eee PC 20 to 1," Ortega says, "and Linux only accounts for probably 20% of Eee PC sales and less than 5% of overall UMPC sales. The fact that there's a $500 notebook out there is a big plus, but we find most [buyers] are more than happy to use a license in their office to upgrade them to [Windows] XP."
Acer, which continues its commitment to Linux, is likely to take a similar path. "It's a give and take between simplicity of usage for the masses versus full customisation," says [Henry Lee of Acer.] "The Linux version is really only to use exactly what is provided, and someone in the know can easily remove what's been installed. But consumers are accustomed to the Windows environment, and the Windows version will be a stronger player eventually."
Indeed, despite the philosophical appeal, faster performance and ease of use that these Linux machines provide, the availability of a Windows alternative may have already started taking its toll as buyers opt for the more familiar option. "The bulk of the requests and requirements we see in the marketplace are for the model with Windows rather than Linux," Lee admits.
Microsoft's efforts to push Windows XP into this space, even after it terminated the operating system's general availability on June 30, are reflected in the fact that XP-based Eee PCs somehow became $50 cheaper than their Linux counterparts. That price disparity has since been eliminated after Asustek bowed to critics who pointed out that the lack of Windows licensing fees - traditionally equivalent to around one-quarter the price of the entire system - should have more than made up for the cost of the expanded onboard storage in the Linux devices.
Even pricing parity, however, may not be enough to save Linux. As market expectations push the low-end machines towards having larger screens, more storage, and faster processors, they will begin to resemble low-end conventional notebooks - potentially diluting the low-cost appeal that has driven their success.
Linux fans, who saw the devices as low-cost and highly portable Linux workstations with a nearly infinite variety of uses, can still buy the Windows devices for the hardware and install Linux on top, but there seems little doubt the mass-market demand Linux-only devices will struggle to maintain itself.
"It's going to be tough in the long term" for Linux-based mini-notebooks, says IDC's Rego. "Microsoft will play tough in this space, where there's a massive presence of Windows. We don't have expectations yet for Eee sales of XP vs Linux, but Linux definitely needs to create increased awareness. If you go into the mainstream, people just want something easy that they recognise." Linux not essential to Eee PC success: ASUS [July 14]
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God god.
Industrial tech is built to meet industrial standards.
For safety and reliability in dangerous, often extreme environments.
The cheap-ass solution kills people. It destroys property. It destroys product.
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The geek will blow a C-note on a fantasy that comes with a thirty-second warranty - but there is an old saying that the poor can't afford to be cheap.
This has been the death knell for OEM Linux at Walmart.
The geek hype machine goes into overdrive every time something like gOS hits the shelves - but after the dust settles - the ratio of Windows to Linux product at Walmart remains 50 to 1.
This tells me that you happy with the performance of KDE at 400 MHz - and that is all it tells me.
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The ratio of OEM Vista to OEM Linux at Walmart.com is perilously close to 50 to 1.
But more importantly, I think, Vista is available at very price point and every specification but absolute rock bottom - and there XP is quite capable of holding the fort until hardware prices drop a little lower.
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Confirmed sales of the XO as of May 2008 were 667,000 units. Summary of laptop orders
The XO isn't meeting the reception the Geek thought it would. Not every education minister believes in constructivism.
Some are worried that what would be buying is an overpriced e-book reader -- because his teachers won't have the experience, training, or resources to use it any other way - and neither will his kids - no matter often the geek fantasies otherwise.
The PC outside the grade school classroom looks much like Windows. It may very well be Windows.
That matters to the minister who wants to see kids make a smooth transition into the higher grades, channel them into secondary education, job training and employment.
.
Why the hell should they?
The Dual-Core Vista desktop with 20 inch widescreen monitor and 500 MB HDD is $700 at Walmart.
The 64-bit Vista Quad-Core desktop with 4 GB RAM, a Blu-Ray Drive, NVIDIA 8800 GT video, an ATSC tuner and 1 TB of hard disk storage is $1700.
That isn't far distant from the price of the P4 six or seven years ago without any adjustment for inflation.
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The $349 Vista Basic desktop at Walmart.com ships with 2 GB RAM
Walmart.com has 30 Vista desktops and 20 Vista desktops that ship with at least 2 GB RAM. 3 or 4 GB is not uncommon. 64-bit Vista is gaining visibility as well.
The 512 MB PC runs XP Home or - wait for it - Linux.
This follows a depressingly familiar pattern. The moment OEM Linux begins to gain some traction, hardware prices fall and the Windows system with eye-popping specs becomes suddenly very affordable.
.
WalMart has tried to make a go of every OEM Linux distro known to man.
But inevitably the Linux product becomes the bottom feeder.
The gOS system that ships without a working modem in a market that is often still dependent on dial-up. That is installed in the biggest case anyone can find to make it look more impressive. Rather like a flea-market stereo.
the first thing you see is "Not sure Open Source is for You? The main thing to note is that when you choose open source you don't get a Windows® operating system"
WalMart puts the same warnings on its web site.
The Linux system gets a lukewarm send-off as a passable web browser. OpenOffice.org might get a sideline glance, but there has never, ever, been a link to a compatible printer.
.
1. It presupposes that most/all elderly are stupid
It is not stupid to admit that you are old.
That the days when you thought nothing of cracking open a 50 lb case to reset a video card are gone forever. That fighting the good fight for Linux doesn't matter to you any more.
2. It's easier to install the major Linux distributions than it is to install Windows of any flavor.
The OEM system install is the gold standard in the home and SOHO market. Service under warranty. In-home service. The-no-questions-asked return.
Chances are your DIY Linux install will be successful. If it isn't you are in deep shit.
That is how the game is played.
Most, if not all, Linux trojans need some sort of user interaction to work. One needs to deliberately shoot one's self in the foot for them to work
Which is simply another way of saying that infecting a Linux machine is more a matter of applied psychology, social engineering - as long as a user can be seduced into launching an executable the problem doesn't go away
- for all the Geek's talk of "Active Yecchs."
Microsoft to ratchet IE8 security another notch in Beta 2
A. Windows users think it's normal to wipe and reinstall every quarter
No they don't.
I've used an XP restore disk perhaps five times in five years to open the Recovery Console and run CHKDSK. I haven't found a reason for reinstalling Windows other than replacing an aging hard drive.
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Tell me how you get stoned and drunk while remembering your responsibilites.
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because your boss loves to start the morning with the sound of a time bomb ticking in the background.
sensitive correspondence stored beyond his reach.
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You are flying high and your judgment and self-control are seriously impaired.
You never come in to land.
["High on your own time as much as you want." Do you remember...remember... remember?]
You are taking the drug to escape reality.
To escape responsibility.
So tell me what keeps you from getting behind the wheel?
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Michael Robertson spent seven years trying to hammer this lesson home with Linspire and CNR.
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The estimated production budget for the The Dark Knight is $180 million USD.
--- of which very big chunks went straight into a geek's paycheck:
"Where does he get all those wonderful toys?"
Productions on this scale employ - and credit - hundreds of artists and craftsman. Do you see that kind of public recognition of your work?
The opening weekend grossed $158 million USD from 4,366 screens. The Dark Knight: Business and Box Office
One the sidelines, that is a mega-ton of sales in popcorn and cola.
The Batman franchise alone is worth billions.
--- most of which will ultimately come to rest in the big electoral states of California, Florida and New York - or at least make a stop or two there along the way.
This is where the movies are financed, produced and marketed. This is where they build the theme parks.
Who do you think all the kind folks who live in these states are going to vote for in November? The eternal sophomore who wants his free movie fix? Or the Senator talking up clean industries, skilled labor, export dollars?
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Telephony 101.
Calls through Skype can reach any phone, anywhere. Your FOSS client can reach a compatible FOSS client.
There are other lines of attack than brute-forcing the encryption. The geek can spend so much time worrying about the back door he forgets the front door, the cellar, the windows and the roof.
.
It doesn't matter if the alternatives are "completely open" if no one but the geek is using them. You might as well be a kid playing in the yard with two tin cans and a length of string.
.
Everything looks obvious in retrospect.
But you aren't patenting an idea. You are patenting a workable implementation of that idea.
It doesn't matter that Dick Tracy has a two-way wrist radio in 1946 or Maxwell Smart a shoe phone in 1965 - even when the theatrical prop sells for $39,000 on eBay.
What matters is that your work contributes to the evolution of a real-life cellular phone and cellular network.
Insanity means without reason or utterly foolish.
.
You cannot plead insanity simply because the motive or impulse which lead to your crime makes no sense.
The legal issues are defined as moral judgment and self-control:
In 1972, the American Law Institute developed a new rule for insanity as part of the Model Penal Code. This rule says that a defendant is not responsible for criminal conduct where (s)he, as a result of mental disease or defect, did not possess "substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality of his conduct or to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law." Forensic Psychiatry and Medicine: The McNaughton rule
Reagan era Federal law marked a return to the McNaughton rule, with its Victorian English roots, requiring a defendant to show clearly and convincingly that he did not not understand what he was doing or could not comprehend the wrongfulness of his actions.
.
This is how middle and upper-class suburbanites shopped before the automobile.
The "Downtown Merchants Delivery Service" in Buffalo, New York, would collect and deliver your parcels to a distance of perhaps sixty miles or so.
In those days shops and stores in Buffalo had something of the variety and sophistication of those in New York - if you had the money it was well worth making the day trip into the city by interurban electric.
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but you aren't navigating in traffic of your own kind. you are sharing the road with vehicles of every type and purpose. there can be pedestrians on the road, there can be animals.
driving a well-engineered expressway is a pleasure. merging in and out of traffic is smooth and safe. ramps do not terminate unexpectedly. your exit does not appear without warning.
you are far more likely to meet injury or death on the city street or the back country road. the more complex and chaotic environment.