I think the use of the Apple G5 systems with a funny NT kernel running indicate that the XBox2 is going to have a lot more in common with the Apple G5 than the common PC. Afterall, there just aren't a lot of PC motherboards in circulation built for the IBM PowerPC chips.
Clearly, the final specs for the XBox2 aren't set in stone. So, since they can't deliver any XBox2 motherboards because they're not exactly fully designed yet, Apple's a reasonable place to turn for successful implementation of the IBM processor chips. It's likely that the Apple logo within the software was part of the price Microsoft had to pay for Apple's assitance in supplying a little help in writing that NT-on-PowerPC kernel...
Labor unions are a great idea on paper, but sometimes in implementation they go wrong. In this case, it did. Any time a strike results in being the death blow to a weak business, it's a misuse of the tool. The union doesn't benefit from the destruction of the employer.
Most company busts are looked at as a tragic comedy in the end... these people went on strike fearing job cuts when they learned that their bankrupt company was about to be merged with a not bankrupt operation. It's hard to feel sympathy for a group that couldn't take their layoff gracefully when they're being told in an impersonal way.
These people also went on strike trying to get blood from a stone. The managers they were talking to were in charge of a division that was nearly bankrupt and about to get merged back into the mothership company... which means most of the people on the other side of the table also are likely to lose their jobs too.
These people were on strike. They couldn't be told at the end of their next shift because there was no next shift for them. So, the only way to get them in person would be to summon them via text message for an annoucement...
This really wasn't PC instant messages but SMS text messages, which they use over there a whole lot more than we ever do. Since these workers were on strike, they couldn't very well be told at the office anyway.
Unless and until there's an open standard for subscription digital video from signal distributor to consumer, cable comapanies and DBS companies will always need their own box connected to your TV. Therefore, having any given codec in the DVD player isn't going to lower the cost of selecting that same codec for signal distributors...
It seems as if TerraLycos is cleaning house and pulling the plug on unprofitable operations. Furthermore, it seems as if the Lycos search engine itself is one of those elements being downplayed.
The current Lycos Home Page still has the search box, but they're talking about the "new Lycos" which is all about the non-search sites that are part of the Lycos Network. It seems as if Lycos has fallen into an also-ran status.
Another classic search engine met the same fate a few years ago. When Infoseek was bought up by Disney, it was supposed to be the anchor of the Go Network. When that didn't work out, the core part of the Go Network shut down, leading to a Go Network homepage that does nothing but link to stories on the surviving Disney-owned sites and provide a Google-powered search box.
When we see Lycos Search powered by Google, we'll know that the layoff spree is complete...
In my opinion, the rightfull owner of whitehouse.gov should be the National Parks Service. The White House itself is a historical office and residental building operated by the government. It's a tourist attraction just as much as the Washington Monument is. It belongs to the American People just like the Capitol Building does. There are some things that the White House always does no matter who the president is, those events are run by the National Parks Service and really are nothing but national entertainment that our highest elected official, whomever he is, participates in.
The office of head of the executive branch certainly deservives a governemnt website, but that should be president.gov, or some other domain that makes it clear that what comes from the Office of the Preseident is important, but it is not necessarily the opinion of the entire government, and it certainly is never the opinion of the building itself.
The people who actually operate the White House rarely have much to say to the media. A "White House Spokesperson" usually is a term used for somebody who is speaking on behalf of the President and cabinet-level officals. They are people who work in the office space inside The White House, but they don't exactly work for the White House. There's a big difference between the owners of a building and the tenants of a building...
The federal prison system also has a lot fewer violent people behind their bars. Yeah, they have a "Supermax" where the Oaklahoma City bomber meets the Unabomber and they become friends, but that's the rare exception for the Federal system.
Most federal criminals are white-collar offenders. Afterall, typical murderers, armed robbers and rapists all end up in a state prison, not a federal one. Most federal crimes involve business transactions gone fraudlent. Since the feds have a lot more non-violent offenders, and the ability to transport offenders from state to state, they can group all of the white-collar criminals together into a Club Fed situation in a way that the states just can't.
But what if 300 or so people delayed their trip?
We might cause a small congestion towards the start of our trip, but as we spread, we'd all eventually will find ourselves on highways all to ourselves at that time of night...
What'd really be useful is that the person who did the reverse engineering publishes a log of their experience. Therefore, unless that log can be shown as a total forgery... it's pretty clear reverse engineering rather than a secret leak happened.
That's all a radio traffic report really cares about. More or less, if it doesn't bother their target demographic listener, it doesn't need to be reported. Obscure road traffic jams only get reported if A: It's a fallback from a main road that's being over used or B: There's nothing else to report in the traffic report airtime.
One of the biggest tests in traffic reporter training... just what are you going to say if every major roadway in your area has zero problems? That'll never happen in a major city, but in minor ones it happens all the time, particularly during days that a lot of people took the day off.
As if things don't spread from small. Four people that each share it with four people and so on... By the time a court would even look at those four, it's all over the net. But, if they want to keep their reality distortion field...
If you want to be the leaker of a trade secret, go ahead. However, you'll be bankrupt a million times over if you get identified as the one who did it...
DeCSS ok, but not DVD X-Copy. Why is that? Because DeCSS doesn't do anything by itself, but having X Copy demonstrates criminal intent?
Yep. That's an apparent contradiction. This is why we have appeals courts. When contradictory rulings start happening at the first-levels, the appeals courts have to sort them out. If the appeals courts can't get their act together, that's what Supreme Courts are for.
"The court stated that trade secret status should not be deemed destroyed merely because the information was posted on the Internet..."
Holy crap, what exactly *would* destroy trade secret status if posting to the internet doesn't do the job?
Bringing in a server log or two that show that a few million people downloaded the former trade secret.
Posting to the Internet alone is an attempt at publication. However, if nobody knows it's there, it's not a very damaging one to the secret. So, if only four people downloaded the "secret", those four people could just be told to keep quiet and the trade secret is still in tact.
However, if four million people saw it... oops, secret's out of the bag. At that point, the owners of the former trade secret can go after the source of the leak, but they've lost control of their secret and it now longer gets its protection from further spreading. That secret is now public information, sorry.
The preliminary injuction fell out of force when the original case that caused the injunction to be issued got dismissed. Afterall, a preliminary injution is a request for the court to implement some of the relief that is going to be the result of winning the trial because its needed right away and can't wait that long. In order to get one, the court has to be convinced that it's pretty likely that the plantiff is going to win. If the case is dismissed, there's no chance left the plantiff can win that case, so the injunction goes away.
But, this issue over whether the injunction should have been granted in the first place got appealed and hadn't been decided yet. Well, actually, it had been already decided that this violated the free speach protections in the US Constitution by the appeals court, but the CA Supreme Court overturned that ruling. However, the CA Supreme Court returned the case to the appeals court to let them rule on the argument that the injunction was an improper use of the CA trade secret laws.
That's where the appeals case was when the DVD CCA abaondoned the original case that generated the injunction and the appeal. Now, normally, such an appeal automatically dies as a moot point when that kind of thing happens, but the appeals court rejected the DVD CCA's request to dismiss because this was such a novel argument, it really needs an appeals ruling to guide future cases.
And here comes that ruling... that the injunction shouldn't have been granted in the first place. That's now on the record as an appeals ruling and can be cited in other future cases.
The DVD CCA balled out of the original lawsuit fearing that they were going to lose, and furthermore lose in a way that'd get them in trouble in future cases. Well, guess what, their worst nightmare came true. A declarative ruling that the preemptive injunction that they got was one they shouldn't have, so that set of legal paper goes in the "Don't try that again" pile. The key arguement to their case has basically been shot down... CSS doesn't appear to be a trade secret anymore in CA.
Here's one thing to think about. If we have and fully debug a system that reports what the car is doing to the surronding cars, we have a key component in the plans for cars that are capable of driving themselves on highway routes.
Having the speed being broadcast be detected seperately from the system that's supposed to be controling the speed is key... because it's when those numbers don't match that the other cars know they need to eject that car from the formation stat.
Not quite. The cheap webcam wastes a lot of bandwidth by transmitting a picture when all we really want is a sample of the speed numbers and a weather report. Therefore, there is some justification for extracting only the useful data at the point of collection.
Having the sensors move with the car rather than stay in place is an interesting debate. Stationairy sensors can only tell about where they are, moving sensors would have less resolution, but cover more places...
But Ford doesn't sell roads, they sell cars. That's why they'd love a car-based system to come out on top... but you're right, the same data can be observed by sensors in and near the road that stay in place as well, and that'd be a harder to corrupt system.
A unique transmitter ID is needed so that they can discard results from anybody who's trying to corrupt the system... say a rivial radio station who wants this system to fail.
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I think the use of the Apple G5 systems with a funny NT kernel running indicate that the XBox2 is going to have a lot more in common with the Apple G5 than the common PC. Afterall, there just aren't a lot of PC motherboards in circulation built for the IBM PowerPC chips.
Clearly, the final specs for the XBox2 aren't set in stone. So, since they can't deliver any XBox2 motherboards because they're not exactly fully designed yet, Apple's a reasonable place to turn for successful implementation of the IBM processor chips. It's likely that the Apple logo within the software was part of the price Microsoft had to pay for Apple's assitance in supplying a little help in writing that NT-on-PowerPC kernel...
Nah... such a post would usually get modded as offtopic and flamebait despite being informative. It could never reach +5 and keep it for very long.
Labor unions are a great idea on paper, but sometimes in implementation they go wrong. In this case, it did. Any time a strike results in being the death blow to a weak business, it's a misuse of the tool. The union doesn't benefit from the destruction of the employer.
Most company busts are looked at as a tragic comedy in the end... these people went on strike fearing job cuts when they learned that their bankrupt company was about to be merged with a not bankrupt operation. It's hard to feel sympathy for a group that couldn't take their layoff gracefully when they're being told in an impersonal way.
These people also went on strike trying to get blood from a stone. The managers they were talking to were in charge of a division that was nearly bankrupt and about to get merged back into the mothership company... which means most of the people on the other side of the table also are likely to lose their jobs too.
Stamps cost money. We're talking about the last gasps of a bankrupt operation here...
You'd think that registered mail would be more appropriate, more traceable, and more reliable.
And much more expensive. When a company is bankrupt and shutting down, things like that just aren't quite an option.
These people were on strike. They couldn't be told at the end of their next shift because there was no next shift for them. So, the only way to get them in person would be to summon them via text message for an annoucement...
This really wasn't PC instant messages but SMS text messages, which they use over there a whole lot more than we ever do. Since these workers were on strike, they couldn't very well be told at the office anyway.
Unless and until there's an open standard for subscription digital video from signal distributor to consumer, cable comapanies and DBS companies will always need their own box connected to your TV. Therefore, having any given codec in the DVD player isn't going to lower the cost of selecting that same codec for signal distributors...
It seems as if TerraLycos is cleaning house and pulling the plug on unprofitable operations. Furthermore, it seems as if the Lycos search engine itself is one of those elements being downplayed.
The current Lycos Home Page still has the search box, but they're talking about the "new Lycos" which is all about the non-search sites that are part of the Lycos Network. It seems as if Lycos has fallen into an also-ran status.
Another classic search engine met the same fate a few years ago. When Infoseek was bought up by Disney, it was supposed to be the anchor of the Go Network. When that didn't work out, the core part of the Go Network shut down, leading to a Go Network homepage that does nothing but link to stories on the surviving Disney-owned sites and provide a Google-powered search box.
When we see Lycos Search powered by Google, we'll know that the layoff spree is complete...
In my opinion, the rightfull owner of whitehouse.gov should be the National Parks Service. The White House itself is a historical office and residental building operated by the government. It's a tourist attraction just as much as the Washington Monument is. It belongs to the American People just like the Capitol Building does. There are some things that the White House always does no matter who the president is, those events are run by the National Parks Service and really are nothing but national entertainment that our highest elected official, whomever he is, participates in.
The office of head of the executive branch certainly deservives a governemnt website, but that should be president.gov, or some other domain that makes it clear that what comes from the Office of the Preseident is important, but it is not necessarily the opinion of the entire government, and it certainly is never the opinion of the building itself.
The people who actually operate the White House rarely have much to say to the media. A "White House Spokesperson" usually is a term used for somebody who is speaking on behalf of the President and cabinet-level officals. They are people who work in the office space inside The White House, but they don't exactly work for the White House. There's a big difference between the owners of a building and the tenants of a building...
The federal prison system also has a lot fewer violent people behind their bars. Yeah, they have a "Supermax" where the Oaklahoma City bomber meets the Unabomber and they become friends, but that's the rare exception for the Federal system.
Most federal criminals are white-collar offenders. Afterall, typical murderers, armed robbers and rapists all end up in a state prison, not a federal one. Most federal crimes involve business transactions gone fraudlent. Since the feds have a lot more non-violent offenders, and the ability to transport offenders from state to state, they can group all of the white-collar criminals together into a Club Fed situation in a way that the states just can't.
So placing said secret on freenet wouldnt be illegal because there is no actual way to tell if said data actualy exists on the network.
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Yes, but publishing the information needed to retrieve said data from freenet would then become illegal, since that'd be what releases the secret.
But what if 300 or so people delayed their trip? We might cause a small congestion towards the start of our trip, but as we spread, we'd all eventually will find ourselves on highways all to ourselves at that time of night...
What'd really be useful is that the person who did the reverse engineering publishes a log of their experience. Therefore, unless that log can be shown as a total forgery... it's pretty clear reverse engineering rather than a secret leak happened.
That's all a radio traffic report really cares about. More or less, if it doesn't bother their target demographic listener, it doesn't need to be reported. Obscure road traffic jams only get reported if A: It's a fallback from a main road that's being over used or B: There's nothing else to report in the traffic report airtime.
One of the biggest tests in traffic reporter training... just what are you going to say if every major roadway in your area has zero problems? That'll never happen in a major city, but in minor ones it happens all the time, particularly during days that a lot of people took the day off.
As if things don't spread from small. Four people that each share it with four people and so on... By the time a court would even look at those four, it's all over the net. But, if they want to keep their reality distortion field... If you want to be the leaker of a trade secret, go ahead. However, you'll be bankrupt a million times over if you get identified as the one who did it...
DeCSS ok, but not DVD X-Copy. Why is that? Because DeCSS doesn't do anything by itself, but having X Copy demonstrates criminal intent?
Yep. That's an apparent contradiction. This is why we have appeals courts. When contradictory rulings start happening at the first-levels, the appeals courts have to sort them out. If the appeals courts can't get their act together, that's what Supreme Courts are for.
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"The court stated that trade secret status should not be deemed destroyed merely because the information was posted on the Internet..."
Holy crap, what exactly *would* destroy trade secret status if posting to the internet doesn't do the job?
Bringing in a server log or two that show that a few million people downloaded the former trade secret.
Posting to the Internet alone is an attempt at publication. However, if nobody knows it's there, it's not a very damaging one to the secret. So, if only four people downloaded the "secret", those four people could just be told to keep quiet and the trade secret is still in tact.
However, if four million people saw it... oops, secret's out of the bag. At that point, the owners of the former trade secret can go after the source of the leak, but they've lost control of their secret and it now longer gets its protection from further spreading. That secret is now public information, sorry.
The preliminary injuction fell out of force when the original case that caused the injunction to be issued got dismissed. Afterall, a preliminary injution is a request for the court to implement some of the relief that is going to be the result of winning the trial because its needed right away and can't wait that long. In order to get one, the court has to be convinced that it's pretty likely that the plantiff is going to win. If the case is dismissed, there's no chance left the plantiff can win that case, so the injunction goes away.
But, this issue over whether the injunction should have been granted in the first place got appealed and hadn't been decided yet. Well, actually, it had been already decided that this violated the free speach protections in the US Constitution by the appeals court, but the CA Supreme Court overturned that ruling. However, the CA Supreme Court returned the case to the appeals court to let them rule on the argument that the injunction was an improper use of the CA trade secret laws.
That's where the appeals case was when the DVD CCA abaondoned the original case that generated the injunction and the appeal. Now, normally, such an appeal automatically dies as a moot point when that kind of thing happens, but the appeals court rejected the DVD CCA's request to dismiss because this was such a novel argument, it really needs an appeals ruling to guide future cases.
And here comes that ruling... that the injunction shouldn't have been granted in the first place. That's now on the record as an appeals ruling and can be cited in other future cases.
The DVD CCA balled out of the original lawsuit fearing that they were going to lose, and furthermore lose in a way that'd get them in trouble in future cases. Well, guess what, their worst nightmare came true. A declarative ruling that the preemptive injunction that they got was one they shouldn't have, so that set of legal paper goes in the "Don't try that again" pile. The key arguement to their case has basically been shot down... CSS doesn't appear to be a trade secret anymore in CA.
Here's one thing to think about. If we have and fully debug a system that reports what the car is doing to the surronding cars, we have a key component in the plans for cars that are capable of driving themselves on highway routes.
Having the speed being broadcast be detected seperately from the system that's supposed to be controling the speed is key... because it's when those numbers don't match that the other cars know they need to eject that car from the formation stat.
Not quite. The cheap webcam wastes a lot of bandwidth by transmitting a picture when all we really want is a sample of the speed numbers and a weather report. Therefore, there is some justification for extracting only the useful data at the point of collection.
Having the sensors move with the car rather than stay in place is an interesting debate. Stationairy sensors can only tell about where they are, moving sensors would have less resolution, but cover more places...
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But Ford doesn't sell roads, they sell cars. That's why they'd love a car-based system to come out on top... but you're right, the same data can be observed by sensors in and near the road that stay in place as well, and that'd be a harder to corrupt system.
A unique transmitter ID is needed so that they can discard results from anybody who's trying to corrupt the system... say a rivial radio station who wants this system to fail.