You can bet he knew why he was called in: intimidation factor.
Even if he just sat in the corner quietly, he should understand that this created an implied threat of custody. And inform the school district of laws and policies regarding questioning underage people outside the presence of a guardian. Tell the school officials, "Either you get a parent's OK before the questioning starts or I'm out of here."
School districts, being public entities, may not be able to enter into confidentiality agreements like private people/corporations can. Their finances are open to public inspection, so eventually someone will go through and ask, "What was that $70K for?"
In the USA, its all about taking up space and resources. Two airline seats per butt, supersized meals, park across two spaces. And blubber and cry when you don't have the undivided attention of at least one clerk (extra points if you can tie two up).
A nearby grocery chain just pulled out all their self-serve checkout lanes. One cashier trying to help four clueless customer* has lower throughput than just adding one line and having the employees handle the transactions.
*Mostly people who just got one error and then stood there until the clerk scanned everything for them anyway. Which ended up with the three other customers standing there on the verge of tears, waiting for their own personal service. I'm fairly certain some of it was on purpose. Most of the errors occurred when one customer was getting help and everyone else just said, "Screw it. If I whine, they'll scan mine for me as well."
I don't think they are proposing shooting a laser at a black hole (that might make it mad). The researchers are proposing a mechanism similar to what happens in a laser as a possible method for preserving information as it is simultaneously swallowed by the black hole. The problem remaining to be solved is one of figuring out if some of the radiation leaving the event horizon is produced by this process as opposed to a random process. In one case, information is preserved. In the other, not (no information was present to begin with).
It doesn't matter. Bartering with anything of value imposes a requirement upon all involved parties to report the transaction and compute the value in the fiat currency.
The only ways I see this working is if you barter or trade totally within a virtual world, where no other currency is accepted for trades. So it would be impossible to assign a value to any of the items or virtual currencies traded. Or you could figure out how discount coupons work, where they say "Cash value 1/20th of one cent".
Ok, so if I decide to live without any currency whatsoever, and I live entirely on bartering, and I trade my cow for 20 chickens, am I supposed to send a chicken or two to the government?
No. You are supposed to send the market value of that chicken in the form of the accepted fiat currency. Which means dealing with the established financial systems, banking, etc.
That's how they keep you in the company town. And if you try to escape the plantation to a free state, we have treaties that oblige them to send you back. There is no sanctuary.
The money is stored in a heavily secured enclosure within the ATM.
It comes down to exposure time for the thief. Popping an access plate off the USB ports, plugging in and feeding $20s out, one at a time is going to take a while. The stolen tow truck, chain and winch is much faster.
Their roots are in brokering deals. They bought some rights from Patterson and got them cheap by concealing their end customer (IBM). They then hired Patterson and tossed him another $50K for the remaining rights to distribute. $75K altogether. If Patterson had said "No thanks" to the employment offer and hung onto distribution rights, SCP might have done a better job building upon DOS and they'd be the rich people. Microsoft would have gone on to be one of many apps developers in a diverse DOS-based ecosystem.
Microsoft has always feared the independent developer. They have become adept in killing off potential competition or buying up expertise and burying it somewhere in the Redmond campus.
Logan's, in his Q&A session on Slashdot (link in summary). I never did the search, but if there is in fact no such Bill Pepper touchscreen patent, then Logan was making stuff up to blow smoke up Slashdot's ass. In which case, he earns a quick Plonk.
Logan says he wanted his product to be digital but just didn't get there.
In his Slashdot Q&A, Logan gives his reasoning as to why inventors should not be required to create a working copy of their invention. But the example he cites, the capacitive tough screen, was actually produced by its original inventor, Bill Pepper. Pepper just couldn't find a market for his invention (originally developed as an input device for music synthesizers). So he sold the patent rights to Logan's company who successfully marketed it.
This is as it should be. Pepper put in the work and received compensation for it. Logan couldn't even glue existing bits of technology together.
Well, in his Slashdot Q&A session, Logan says "filed in 1996". But then he went on to sell prerecorded cassette tapes. And yet, the technology to distribute and play digital audio predates that by nearly 10 years. My Macintosh SE could do it, albeit without "the web" or RSS.
Even without an HTTP-based client server, adding an RSS-like capability to a player-client was a trivial adaption of existing technology. And his company couldn't do it, so they went back to cassette tapes.
Patents are supposed to be issued for innovations that are non-trivial. Can't hook together existing technology to sort a list by by date, fetch a file off a server and play it? No patent for you!
The "one foot" style of driving is simply a poor carryover from manual transmissions. If automatic-transmission cars were designed from scratch today with no backstory, we'd have the brake over on the left, the gas on the right. Simple, obvious.
Slashdot Mirror
We attach something to the thing we attached to our glasses.
You can bet he knew why he was called in: intimidation factor.
Even if he just sat in the corner quietly, he should understand that this created an implied threat of custody. And inform the school district of laws and policies regarding questioning underage people outside the presence of a guardian. Tell the school officials, "Either you get a parent's OK before the questioning starts or I'm out of here."
So Zuckerberg needs to drag their ass into court. It won't make up for the ill will over Oculus Rift, but its a start.
School districts, being public entities, may not be able to enter into confidentiality agreements like private people/corporations can. Their finances are open to public inspection, so eventually someone will go through and ask, "What was that $70K for?"
Is it possible that their security people have poured over the millions of lines of C and assembly
The idea that this is done by some Aspie code geek is wrong. There are some good tools for checking code for bugs, back doors, etc.
In the USA, its all about taking up space and resources. Two airline seats per butt, supersized meals, park across two spaces. And blubber and cry when you don't have the undivided attention of at least one clerk (extra points if you can tie two up).
What does Mr. Blackwell have to say?
The selfies taken by the creatures from Apollo 18 should be entertaining. But nothing more unusual than what you'd find on /b/.
A nearby grocery chain just pulled out all their self-serve checkout lanes. One cashier trying to help four clueless customer* has lower throughput than just adding one line and having the employees handle the transactions.
*Mostly people who just got one error and then stood there until the clerk scanned everything for them anyway. Which ended up with the three other customers standing there on the verge of tears, waiting for their own personal service. I'm fairly certain some of it was on purpose. Most of the errors occurred when one customer was getting help and everyone else just said, "Screw it. If I whine, they'll scan mine for me as well."
I don't think they are proposing shooting a laser at a black hole (that might make it mad). The researchers are proposing a mechanism similar to what happens in a laser as a possible method for preserving information as it is simultaneously swallowed by the black hole. The problem remaining to be solved is one of figuring out if some of the radiation leaving the event horizon is produced by this process as opposed to a random process. In one case, information is preserved. In the other, not (no information was present to begin with).
Well then, they haul you into court. They state their opinion, you state yours and the judge decides who is right.
Tax court. They aren't going to risk this in a judicial court.
It doesn't matter. Bartering with anything of value imposes a requirement upon all involved parties to report the transaction and compute the value in the fiat currency.
The only ways I see this working is if you barter or trade totally within a virtual world, where no other currency is accepted for trades. So it would be impossible to assign a value to any of the items or virtual currencies traded. Or you could figure out how discount coupons work, where they say "Cash value 1/20th of one cent".
Ok, so if I decide to live without any currency whatsoever, and I live entirely on bartering, and I trade my cow for 20 chickens, am I supposed to send a chicken or two to the government?
No. You are supposed to send the market value of that chicken in the form of the accepted fiat currency. Which means dealing with the established financial systems, banking, etc.
That's how they keep you in the company town. And if you try to escape the plantation to a free state, we have treaties that oblige them to send you back. There is no sanctuary.
The money is stored in a heavily secured enclosure within the ATM.
It comes down to exposure time for the thief. Popping an access plate off the USB ports, plugging in and feeding $20s out, one at a time is going to take a while. The stolen tow truck, chain and winch is much faster.
Their roots are in brokering deals. They bought some rights from Patterson and got them cheap by concealing their end customer (IBM). They then hired Patterson and tossed him another $50K for the remaining rights to distribute. $75K altogether. If Patterson had said "No thanks" to the employment offer and hung onto distribution rights, SCP might have done a better job building upon DOS and they'd be the rich people. Microsoft would have gone on to be one of many apps developers in a diverse DOS-based ecosystem.
Microsoft has always feared the independent developer. They have become adept in killing off potential competition or buying up expertise and burying it somewhere in the Redmond campus.
Logan's, in his Q&A session on Slashdot (link in summary). I never did the search, but if there is in fact no such Bill Pepper touchscreen patent, then Logan was making stuff up to blow smoke up Slashdot's ass. In which case, he earns a quick Plonk.
Logan says he wanted his product to be digital but just didn't get there.
In his Slashdot Q&A, Logan gives his reasoning as to why inventors should not be required to create a working copy of their invention. But the example he cites, the capacitive tough screen, was actually produced by its original inventor, Bill Pepper. Pepper just couldn't find a market for his invention (originally developed as an input device for music synthesizers). So he sold the patent rights to Logan's company who successfully marketed it.
This is as it should be. Pepper put in the work and received compensation for it. Logan couldn't even glue existing bits of technology together.
2009?
Well, in his Slashdot Q&A session, Logan says "filed in 1996". But then he went on to sell prerecorded cassette tapes. And yet, the technology to distribute and play digital audio predates that by nearly 10 years. My Macintosh SE could do it, albeit without "the web" or RSS.
Even without an HTTP-based client server, adding an RSS-like capability to a player-client was a trivial adaption of existing technology. And his company couldn't do it, so they went back to cassette tapes.
Patents are supposed to be issued for innovations that are non-trivial. Can't hook together existing technology to sort a list by by date, fetch a file off a server and play it? No patent for you!
The "one foot" style of driving is simply a poor carryover from manual transmissions. If automatic-transmission cars were designed from scratch today with no backstory, we'd have the brake over on the left, the gas on the right. Simple, obvious.
What about people that drive both auto and stick?
But why not use two feet since we have them?
Because I have three pedals.
Customer buys Microsoft product. Gets less that they were led to expect. Customer buys another Microsoft product, gets screwed again.
Sounds like their core business plan. Nothing to see here, move along.
Someone has to pay to use the public right of way to run their fiber optics.
Man's discovery of fire and golf date back equally far.