"I've been a tech journalist on and off for 21 years and I can't remember any company having a worse month news cycle-wise than Uber is now."
Not that Uber isn't evil, because they are. But it would be interesting to know who holds the most shorts on them.
And, pay a lawyer enough, and they'll "sign off" on anything. Doing it for obstruction of justice seems to be a risky proposition, though. I'd think that would (or should) put the lawyers into a disbarring type situation, if not criminal sanctions.
It depends on what one means by "RF". If it's a synonym for EM radiation, sure, you can get sunburn. But it's more often used to refer to much lower frequencies (Wiki says <300 GHz, for what it's worth). Sunburn is caused mostly by ultraviolet, at more like 1000000 GHz (1 PHz).
I believe the OP was using the more limited, and common, definition, and I don't believe there's enough solar energy at those frequencies to cause harm.
"PWC probably just had some low level employee do it."
I believe it was all on the 2 employees (who are now banned from working the Oscars). It's been reported that they were the only ones allowed to have knowledge of the winners - they were responsible for everything, beginning with tallying the votes, through handing out the envelopes.
Yeah, nothing about how they got to that number? Did they consider that while there was certainly business which didn't happen during the outage, it may have simply been time-shifted to a few hours later?
This appears to be nothing but opportunistic marketing BS from Cyence.
Don't forget HRC's failure to comply with the Federal Records Act, until long after she left her government position, and only after she was exposed. From the reports, it appears that Pence's requirements under the similar state law were already in the process of being fulfilled before this story broke. If that weren't the case, the story wouldn't have had any detail on what those emails contained.
It's moot. Contrary to what the GP implied, the reference to "homeland security" emails had nothing to do with the Feds.
Going to the source, one finds that "sensitive state... issues related to homeland security" are nothing more than
[Correspondence] with his then-chief of staff, Jim Atterholt, and his top public safety and homeland security adviser John Hill, on subjects including Pence's efforts to prevent the resettlement of Syrian refugees and the state's response to a shooting at Canada's national parliament building... Much if not all of that information appears to have been reported in the media at the time.
... and absolutely nothing to indicate any communications with the Federal DHS, which the GP seems to woven from whole cloth to match his worldview.
Fine, cite the Federal law, and provide evidence that the reference to "homeland security" was in relation to communications with the DHS which was covered by that law.
Whoosh. Do you understand what "not mutually exclusive" means? It's exactly the opposite of your "either this or that." There's no reason a phone can't support both USB audio with advanced function and the ubiquitous 3.5 mm jack for near-universal connectivity without the power consumption required for noise cancellation and DSP tweaking. Contrary to the claim, there is no need to remove the jack in order to support USB audio, so the rationalization given in the summary is bullshit.
"Unlike, Apple, though, the company didn't make the move to save space, but rather to incorporate its "USonic" feature, which lets the [USB] phones' headphones calibrate themselves to your ears and provide noise cancellation."
Oh, bullshit. There's no reason the headphone jack has to be removed to support that. They're not mutually exclusive.
"Do you see the Waltons giving bonuses to their employees?"
John-boy has employees?
Seriously, Mayer has taken a going business and run it into the ground (which is merely saying she couldn't overcome the inertia). Walmart continues to grow, even in the face of Amazon, where few other retailers have had success. Isn't it better for them to spread the benefit wider through growth and more employees, rather than deeper with fewer? In any case, they do pay bonuses, in addition to employing about 1000x more people that Yahoo.
"she will be redistributing her annual bonus and equity stock grant to Yahoo employees."
Not hard to do, if you already have more money than you could ever reasonably spend. At her level, money is not a means of exchange, it's just a tally on a scorecard.
Software is an even more extreme case - there's no reasonable argument that continued copyright protection for Apple 2, or Nintendo NES, or MS-DOS programs promote the progress of science and useful arts, yet all are still under protection. A 5-10 year term for software copyright would be reasonable.
Also, a requirement that in order to even get copyright protection at all, the source code must be placed into a depository which can be publicly accessed upon term expiration - without which the protected work can't be considered contribute to progress in the first place.
It doesn't matter. The purpose of IP (in the US) is "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
If a patent or copyright makes a reasonable profit during it's term, the intent of those exclusive rights is met. Beyond that, locking up IP impedes progress, since others can't freely build on the original. Disney built their business using the works of the bros. Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Kipling, etc., but now work diligently to steal our culture from us by preventing newcomers from doing similar.
There are very, very, few inventions or works which are created with an expectation of not making good profit in less than 20 years (or for copyright, 14 years, plus one extension if the author was still alive, which was the original copyright term - patents were a bit shorter in general). And if something is going to take that long to provide enough public benefit to make a profit, it's probably better to open it up to 3rd party improvement sooner, so there's an opportunity to make it better.
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"I've been a tech journalist on and off for 21 years and I can't remember any company having a worse month news cycle-wise than Uber is now."
Not that Uber isn't evil, because they are. But it would be interesting to know who holds the most shorts on them.
And, pay a lawyer enough, and they'll "sign off" on anything. Doing it for obstruction of justice seems to be a risky proposition, though. I'd think that would (or should) put the lawyers into a disbarring type situation, if not criminal sanctions.
It depends on what one means by "RF". If it's a synonym for EM radiation, sure, you can get sunburn. But it's more often used to refer to much lower frequencies (Wiki says <300 GHz, for what it's worth). Sunburn is caused mostly by ultraviolet, at more like 1000000 GHz (1 PHz).
I believe the OP was using the more limited, and common, definition, and I don't believe there's enough solar energy at those frequencies to cause harm.
With or without a tinfoil hat?
"PWC probably just had some low level employee do it."
I believe it was all on the 2 employees (who are now banned from working the Oscars). It's been reported that they were the only ones allowed to have knowledge of the winners - they were responsible for everything, beginning with tallying the votes, through handing out the envelopes.
"I thought Trump blamed Obama for the outage?"
Hillary wiped the server.
Yeah, nothing about how they got to that number? Did they consider that while there was certainly business which didn't happen during the outage, it may have simply been time-shifted to a few hours later?
This appears to be nothing but opportunistic marketing BS from Cyence.
Don't forget HRC's failure to comply with the Federal Records Act, until long after she left her government position, and only after she was exposed. From the reports, it appears that Pence's requirements under the similar state law were already in the process of being fulfilled before this story broke. If that weren't the case, the story wouldn't have had any detail on what those emails contained.
You're the one claiming illegal activity. Are you now admitting that you had no evidence to support that claim?
Going to the source, one finds that "sensitive state
... and absolutely nothing to indicate any communications with the Federal DHS, which the GP seems to woven from whole cloth to match his worldview.
Pence didn't have AOL/Yahoo! wipe his emails (like, with a cloth or something?), and there's no indication that he's tried to hide anything.
Fine, cite the Federal law, and provide evidence that the reference to "homeland security" was in relation to communications with the DHS which was covered by that law.
"Homeland security" is a very broad term.
"not illegal? sounds illegal to me."
Then it will be a simple matter for you to cite the relevant Indiana state law which applies.
BeauHD displays his noble prize right next to his Master of Farts degree.
Whoosh. Do you understand what "not mutually exclusive" means? It's exactly the opposite of your "either this or that." There's no reason a phone can't support both USB audio with advanced function and the ubiquitous 3.5 mm jack for near-universal connectivity without the power consumption required for noise cancellation and DSP tweaking. Contrary to the claim, there is no need to remove the jack in order to support USB audio, so the rationalization given in the summary is bullshit.
"Unlike, Apple, though, the company didn't make the move to save space, but rather to incorporate its "USonic" feature, which lets the [USB] phones' headphones calibrate themselves to your ears and provide noise cancellation."
Oh, bullshit. There's no reason the headphone jack has to be removed to support that. They're not mutually exclusive.
Urine, although not sterile as often thought, is pretty close to it. Pool chlorine takes care of the rest.
To quote William Claude Dukenfield, "I don't drink water. Fish fuck in it."
s/1000/100/
"Do you see the Waltons giving bonuses to their employees?"
John-boy has employees?
Seriously, Mayer has taken a going business and run it into the ground (which is merely saying she couldn't overcome the inertia). Walmart continues to grow, even in the face of Amazon, where few other retailers have had success. Isn't it better for them to spread the benefit wider through growth and more employees, rather than deeper with fewer? In any case, they do pay bonuses, in addition to employing about 1000x more people that Yahoo.
"she will be redistributing her annual bonus and equity stock grant to Yahoo employees."
Not hard to do, if you already have more money than you could ever reasonably spend. At her level, money is not a means of exchange, it's just a tally on a scorecard.
Software is an even more extreme case - there's no reasonable argument that continued copyright protection for Apple 2, or Nintendo NES, or MS-DOS programs promote the progress of science and useful arts, yet all are still under protection. A 5-10 year term for software copyright would be reasonable.
Also, a requirement that in order to even get copyright protection at all, the source code must be placed into a depository which can be publicly accessed upon term expiration - without which the protected work can't be considered contribute to progress in the first place.
Why is common sense news? Shut up and drive.
Be sure not to leave an "I'm out of the office, returning..." message on your VM.
"make it a pure registration system where you must prove the patent valid when you try to enforce it."
So, weight the scales even more toward large corporations with lawyers on retainer, and against the small startup?
It doesn't matter. The purpose of IP (in the US) is "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries."
If a patent or copyright makes a reasonable profit during it's term, the intent of those exclusive rights is met. Beyond that, locking up IP impedes progress, since others can't freely build on the original. Disney built their business using the works of the bros. Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Kipling, etc., but now work diligently to steal our culture from us by preventing newcomers from doing similar.
There are very, very, few inventions or works which are created with an expectation of not making good profit in less than 20 years (or for copyright, 14 years, plus one extension if the author was still alive, which was the original copyright term - patents were a bit shorter in general). And if something is going to take that long to provide enough public benefit to make a profit, it's probably better to open it up to 3rd party improvement sooner, so there's an opportunity to make it better.
"Small" is a relative term.