More like crib from NERVA, and per a friend of mine who's father was one of these, in the 1980s someone had the bright idea of gathering the surviving team members and getting an infodump from them. Click on the Project Timberwind link, that was likely how it happened, the timing is right.
My hunch is fucking thank Oracle due to the lawsuit with Android the courts have now interpreted clean room implementations and look alikes as actual derivatives.
Fortunately it's not hardly this bad. That decision was made by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a court that was created in 1982 and that is very biased towards rights holders. They are the court of appeal for patent issues, and Oracle was able to go directly to it because they had both patent and copyright issues in their appeal.
So the "you can copyright APIs" precedent they established isn't binding on any lower courts, excluding of course the court for the Oracle case for just that case.
But it does show how absolutely sociopathic Oracle the corporation is, they were sanguine with the prospect of catastrophic damage to the US software industry as long as they could squeeze billions out of the Goolag, in fact, far more than they bought Sun for.
SCO provided a list of source code files in the Linux kernel that infringe SCO's copyrights.
What copyrights? As the article indicated, it was discovered at the end that SCO never owned the copyright to UNIX, they'd just bought for about 5% the value of that the right to administrate the licencing of it. And they demonstrated they knew this just before starting SCO v. The World by trying to get the rights from Novell.
Yeah, that's hard for me since I have problems finding jobs easily and quickly because of disabilities (don't even drive).:(
Well, speaking from experience with both, although I avoided rather than sought out jobs requiring a security clearance due to the prior restraints on speech that come with them, the D.C. area is the place to be. Although... the subway system is not in great shape, its governance is a mess, it's not being maintained like it needs to be, and violence on it is rising. Also an expensive place to live, but not like the Bay Area.
I read that you can't just apply and get one easily and quickly (like you said) too.
Right, security clearances only exist in the context of needing them for a job, and if you were to quit or lose such a job (which can easily happen when a contract finishes) without immediately taking another requiring a clearance at that level, your's lapses, but is easily renewed for the next few years if you again get such a job.
The problem with getting serious government clearance is that it goes first to active military service...
Last time I checked, and just now found a bit of confirmation on the web, all officers have to get a Secret clearance, but I seriously doubt that's high enough for this sort of career protection. Obviously many specialties in the military for all ranks require the sorts of serious clearances that can confer career security, but so do scads of contracting jobs, which is where my information from friends and acquaintances comes from.
Obviously not everyone can pull off the hiding trick, e.g. I'm the eldest of 4, and all of my siblings turned prematurely grey, whereas without any use of dye you have to look closely to see that's just starting with me, and with appropriate dress and wearing a backpack nearing 57 I'm still initially mistaken for someone quite a bit younger. As for work history, cut off it off at some point going, say, only 10 years back (the difficultly around age 35), and don't give any other clues like dates for your education.
Getting a clearance was covered by another reply, but to expand, you get someone who wants you enough to keep you on a bench or otherwise not doing the job you were hired to do while the government works through the clearance process. And this strategy is for higher ones,
e.g. above DoD Secret, you want something that requires at least a Single Scope Background Investigation, which is required for DoD Top Secret, DoE Q, or access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). Look at a copy of the Standard Form 86 and see if there are any serious warning signs, and as of a bit more than a decade ago there was a guy who for a modest sum would give you a good reading on whether you'd likely pass the process.
As far as Sandy Berger, the guy was on camera stuffing classified documents into his pants the day before Clinton left office...
Nit, he did that in late 2003, to destroy evidence pertaining to the Clinton Administration's handling of al-Qaeda's plots in 2000, before that was considered by the 9/11 Commission. Which continuing this theme of the parties covering for each other, included Jamie Gorelick, who should have been on the dock instead of in the commission, she had created the formerly notorious "wall", "unwarranted appearance[s]" of our Ruling Class are obviously much more important than the lives of 3,000+ peons, or the hundreds of thousands lost in the still ongoing "Global War on Terror".
If you can hide your age through the application process until you're hired and filling out forms like the US IRS I-9, I know from personal experience that can work.
I've heard that many embedded software vendors respect gray hairs, and I know from some friends and acquaintances that if you can get a serious government clearance, age doesn't matter much after that.
Sandy Berger as a Clinton insider who actually got some real punishments, albeit wrist slaps aside from losing his law license, doesn't do a good job of making my greater point that there's a Ruling Class that's essentially not subject to the Rule of Law we peons in theory live under.
On the other hand, he's a good example of how this crosses nominal party lines, this particular crime of his was done while Team Bush was at least nominally running the Executive, they should have nailed him to the wall.
More generally a member of our Ruling Class. See for example John Deutch per Wikipedia:
Soon after Deutch's departure from the CIA [as Director] in 1996 it was revealed that classified materials had been kept on several of Deutch's laptop computers designated as unclassified. In January 1997, the CIA began a formal security investigation of the matter. Senior management members at the CIA declined to fully pursue the security breach. More than two years after his departure, the matter was referred to the Department of Justice, where Attorney General Janet Reno declined to prosecute. She did, however, recommend an investigation to determine whether Deutch should retain his security clearance. President Clinton issued a Presidential pardon on his last day in office.
Very specifically, according to local newspaper reports (I was living in the D.C. area at the time), he took materials out of a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, the sort of thing that you swear each time you enter one not to do, and did the above with one or more computers he used at home that were attached to the Internet, as I recall, even emailed stuff based on this Top Secret material.
More recently, many of Hillary's retinue did the same or worse, e.g. with raw NSA intercepts, and of course nothing happened to them.
What really worries me here is that Kaspersky apparently deleted the NSA malware and source code once they realized what it was. They should have analyzed it, generated signatures and published details.
Doing that with Officially Classified materials has legal consequences. For example, I assume employees of Kaspersky want to be able to travel outside of Russia without getting arrested and imprisoned. And to be able to travel to the US for security conferences.
This unit's works are well know, such as the Orange Book and SELinux. On the other hand, the latter was released in 2000, and since then it's entirely possible that group has been corrupted.
But it's a 5 years later airplane, at a time when technology was moving very quickly.
First, that excuse can be used to never do anything. Better to build them and then follow on with upgrades.
Which would be why I immediately followed the sentence you quote with:
How does it compare to contemporary late 1950s US competitors, and note that link doesn't include all of the planes for which prototypes were flown but not procured.
Maybe you could try answering that question instead of constructing strawmen?
"The first Dagger couldn't go super-sonic. They did get super-sonic figured out, but Wikipedia says the max speed was still only Mach 1.22. The first prototype Arrow went Mach 1.9 the same year Dagger hit Mach 1.22, and Arrow Mark 2 promised to easily pass Mach 2 due to an engine upgrade.
None of which is very interesting, seeing as how the Dagger's followon F-106 Delta Dart first flew 3 years after the Dagger and 2 years before the Arrow, achieved Mach 3 in a test flight 8 months after the Arrow's first flight, and was generally a Mach 2.3 plane (all at 40,000 feet). And that's not even looking at the other Century Series fighters or whatever the Navy was doing with their constrained to fly on carriers planes.
I have no dog in the Canadian tech politics angle of this, except for noting that a company I saved when it was young, Lisp Machines Inc. (Symbolics' competitor), was killed off by Canadian politics aimed at an out of favor businessman. As G. W. Bush said, the French have no word for "entrepreneur" ^_^.
But it's a 5 years later airplane, at a time when technology was moving very quickly. How does it compare to contemporary late 1950s US competitors, and note that link doesn't include all of the planes for which prototypes were flown but not procured.
Not sure about the CF-105 Arrow, I mean, the first flight of the US F-102 Delta Dagger was 5 years before, I'd have to look a lot harder to see if they had any special sauce we didn't. But Colossus et. al. were the equivalent of ASICs, useless once Nazi Germany was defeated and no one was sending messages using their particular devices. But in general purpose AKA "stored program" as it was called back then computing the U.K. was quite competitive with the US in the immediate post-WWII period, especially given the economic constraints. See for example the EDSAC and Mark I.
What started out as a well-supported observation that the earth was starting to slowly warm...
Actually that's just the recent history, going back to, say, the early '80s. The dogma before then was that human action was forcing the next Ice Age early, particularly through sulfur dioxide emissions from burning coal increasing the reflectivity of clouds. And it was a very big thing, e.g. strongly influencing the science fiction of the time.
While your characterization of the environmentalists is more or less accurate (except that they've been pushing this since the '60s or so and they're essentially a religious cult) I think you've constructed a straw man for the "other side". Ignoring the tiny fraction of people who are Objectivists let alone the small fraction who are that sort of extreme libertarian, your idea that the other side blindly trusts "mega-corporations" is entirely without foundation.
Seriously, do you think we're that stupid or naive? Suffix something with big- or mega- and we're less inclined to view it favorably, let alone trust it. Although we at least (mostly) don't object to the very ideas of capitalism or profit, so corporation are not born with some form of Original Sin.
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I guess they'll be suing ARM any day now.
The Meltdown paper reports warning signs for AMD and ARM chip, but the researchers couldn't get a proof of concept to work (see section 6.4). As of the 3rd ARM has reported that 4 out of their 10 Spectre vulnerable designs are also vulnerable to Meltdown or a variant of it that they discovered.
More like crib from NERVA, and per a friend of mine who's father was one of these, in the 1980s someone had the bright idea of gathering the surviving team members and getting an infodump from them. Click on the Project Timberwind link, that was likely how it happened, the timing is right.
Fortunately it's not hardly this bad. That decision was made by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a court that was created in 1982 and that is very biased towards rights holders. They are the court of appeal for patent issues, and Oracle was able to go directly to it because they had both patent and copyright issues in their appeal.
So the "you can copyright APIs" precedent they established isn't binding on any lower courts, excluding of course the court for the Oracle case for just that case.
But it does show how absolutely sociopathic Oracle the corporation is, they were sanguine with the prospect of catastrophic damage to the US software industry as long as they could squeeze billions out of the Goolag, in fact, far more than they bought Sun for.
What copyrights? As the article indicated, it was discovered at the end that SCO never owned the copyright to UNIX, they'd just bought for about 5% the value of that the right to administrate the licencing of it. And they demonstrated they knew this just before starting SCO v. The World by trying to get the rights from Novell.
Well, speaking from experience with both, although I avoided rather than sought out jobs requiring a security clearance due to the prior restraints on speech that come with them, the D.C. area is the place to be. Although ... the subway system is not in great shape, its governance is a mess, it's not being maintained like it needs to be, and violence on it is rising. Also an expensive place to live, but not like the Bay Area.
Right, security clearances only exist in the context of needing them for a job, and if you were to quit or lose such a job (which can easily happen when a contract finishes) without immediately taking another requiring a clearance at that level, your's lapses, but is easily renewed for the next few years if you again get such a job.
Last time I checked, and just now found a bit of confirmation on the web, all officers have to get a Secret clearance, but I seriously doubt that's high enough for this sort of career protection. Obviously many specialties in the military for all ranks require the sorts of serious clearances that can confer career security, but so do scads of contracting jobs, which is where my information from friends and acquaintances comes from.
Obviously not everyone can pull off the hiding trick, e.g. I'm the eldest of 4, and all of my siblings turned prematurely grey, whereas without any use of dye you have to look closely to see that's just starting with me, and with appropriate dress and wearing a backpack nearing 57 I'm still initially mistaken for someone quite a bit younger. As for work history, cut off it off at some point going, say, only 10 years back (the difficultly around age 35), and don't give any other clues like dates for your education.
Getting a clearance was covered by another reply, but to expand, you get someone who wants you enough to keep you on a bench or otherwise not doing the job you were hired to do while the government works through the clearance process. And this strategy is for higher ones, e.g. above DoD Secret, you want something that requires at least a Single Scope Background Investigation, which is required for DoD Top Secret, DoE Q, or access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). Look at a copy of the Standard Form 86 and see if there are any serious warning signs, and as of a bit more than a decade ago there was a guy who for a modest sum would give you a good reading on whether you'd likely pass the process.
Nit, he did that in late 2003, to destroy evidence pertaining to the Clinton Administration's handling of al-Qaeda's plots in 2000, before that was considered by the 9/11 Commission. Which continuing this theme of the parties covering for each other, included Jamie Gorelick, who should have been on the dock instead of in the commission, she had created the formerly notorious "wall", "unwarranted appearance[s]" of our Ruling Class are obviously much more important than the lives of 3,000+ peons, or the hundreds of thousands lost in the still ongoing "Global War on Terror".
If you can hide your age through the application process until you're hired and filling out forms like the US IRS I-9, I know from personal experience that can work.
I've heard that many embedded software vendors respect gray hairs, and I know from some friends and acquaintances that if you can get a serious government clearance, age doesn't matter much after that.
They might on the source code, which is what this incident is primarily about.
Sandy Berger as a Clinton insider who actually got some real punishments, albeit wrist slaps aside from losing his law license, doesn't do a good job of making my greater point that there's a Ruling Class that's essentially not subject to the Rule of Law we peons in theory live under.
On the other hand, he's a good example of how this crosses nominal party lines, this particular crime of his was done while Team Bush was at least nominally running the Executive, they should have nailed him to the wall.
Do you think that would matter for a political prosecution? A concept we know Russians are very aware of.
Very specifically, according to local newspaper reports (I was living in the D.C. area at the time), he took materials out of a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, the sort of thing that you swear each time you enter one not to do, and did the above with one or more computers he used at home that were attached to the Internet, as I recall, even emailed stuff based on this Top Secret material.
More recently, many of Hillary's retinue did the same or worse, e.g. with raw NSA intercepts, and of course nothing happened to them.
Doing that with Officially Classified materials has legal consequences. For example, I assume employees of Kaspersky want to be able to travel outside of Russia without getting arrested and imprisoned. And to be able to travel to the US for security conferences.
Fuzzers are pretty impartial, and I don't find it hard to believe that the Chromium/Chrome team is the best at security.
And HTC is the manufacturer of their current flagship phones, the Pixel and Pixel XL.
This unit's works are well know, such as the Orange Book and SELinux. On the other hand, the latter was released in 2000, and since then it's entirely possible that group has been corrupted.
Verbally he's been saying SpaceX expects two things out of this launch: to collect a lot of data, and to put on a good show for the spectators.
Which would be why I immediately followed the sentence you quote with:
Maybe you could try answering that question instead of constructing strawmen?
None of which is very interesting, seeing as how the Dagger's followon F-106 Delta Dart first flew 3 years after the Dagger and 2 years before the Arrow, achieved Mach 3 in a test flight 8 months after the Arrow's first flight, and was generally a Mach 2.3 plane (all at 40,000 feet). And that's not even looking at the other Century Series fighters or whatever the Navy was doing with their constrained to fly on carriers planes.
I have no dog in the Canadian tech politics angle of this, except for noting that a company I saved when it was young, Lisp Machines Inc. (Symbolics' competitor), was killed off by Canadian politics aimed at an out of favor businessman. As G. W. Bush said, the French have no word for "entrepreneur" ^_^.
But it's a 5 years later airplane, at a time when technology was moving very quickly. How does it compare to contemporary late 1950s US competitors, and note that link doesn't include all of the planes for which prototypes were flown but not procured.
Not sure about the CF-105 Arrow, I mean, the first flight of the US F-102 Delta Dagger was 5 years before, I'd have to look a lot harder to see if they had any special sauce we didn't. But Colossus et. al. were the equivalent of ASICs, useless once Nazi Germany was defeated and no one was sending messages using their particular devices. But in general purpose AKA "stored program" as it was called back then computing the U.K. was quite competitive with the US in the immediate post-WWII period, especially given the economic constraints. See for example the EDSAC and Mark I.
What started out as a well-supported observation that the earth was starting to slowly warm...
Actually that's just the recent history, going back to, say, the early '80s. The dogma before then was that human action was forcing the next Ice Age early, particularly through sulfur dioxide emissions from burning coal increasing the reflectivity of clouds. And it was a very big thing, e.g. strongly influencing the science fiction of the time.
While your characterization of the environmentalists is more or less accurate (except that they've been pushing this since the '60s or so and they're essentially a religious cult) I think you've constructed a straw man for the "other side". Ignoring the tiny fraction of people who are Objectivists let alone the small fraction who are that sort of extreme libertarian, your idea that the other side blindly trusts "mega-corporations" is entirely without foundation.
Seriously, do you think we're that stupid or naive? Suffix something with big- or mega- and we're less inclined to view it favorably, let alone trust it. Although we at least (mostly) don't object to the very ideas of capitalism or profit, so corporation are not born with some form of Original Sin.