A necessity to keep IP from being stolen by US entities. Prior art or prior use in other jurisdictions has little standing in US courts, so foreign manufacturers obtain US copyrights and patents.
Most movies are American.
Ah yes. The movie industry. One of the last bastions of organized crime in the USA. Most movies you watch are American because the US studio system throws roadblocks up for the distribution of content other then their own.
Who do you think created The Office? A few notable works do manage to push their way through the US distribution blockade to success like The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Even then, US studios had to try and appropriate that concept for their own with a shit US remake.
You can include practically any terms you want in a swap. I'm sure the lawyers could write up a clause covering 'unplanned change in head of state' to cover an assassination. In fact, it would not surprise me if paper traded by major banks are covered for a sudden change in the Fed's governing body.
<Tinfoil_hat_mode>I would not be surprised if the mortgage backed security market collapse was triggered in part by an 'unfavorable change in the Administration' clause in some contracts. </Tinfoil_hat_mode>
And therein lies the problem with printable guns. They can be manufactured easily as one-off items that won't be recognized from one instance to the next. Of course, the same can be done in a machine shop with metal.
Not the same thing. Your 'seeing' mathematics may or may not have persuaded you to study it further. But even in a healthy mind, there is no programmed revulsion to drive you away.
they can (under US law) just go take it whenever/however they feel like.
But the 'it' that they want to take may be thousands of miles and numerous legal jurisdictions apart from the corporation's legal address. One may not be evident from the other.
You're both wrong. That's not why our health care system went to hell. It's insurance companies.
This.
But one aspect of the insurance industry many people are overlooking: There is a quiet move afoot to securitize insurance. This means holding a policy (life, for example) on someone you do not have an "insurable interest" in. Essentially, a CDS against someone else's life. The problem the insurance companies face (Besides getting the above legislation. That's trivial. Just slip Congress some cash and its a done deal.) is that medical breakthroughs which affect mortality rates will affect the value of these securities. And that means risk and uncertainty, which discounts their value.
God forbid that Obamacare should suddenly decide to fund some lifesaving procedure (or demand insurance coverage for it) which would add years to the life of the insured. The rich folks holding your grandpa's policy will be pissed if he hangs on for another 10 years.
You don't have to publish the details of an intrusion. "My Brand X router was hacked with exploit Y", you just state that an intrusion has been discovered and contact the subset of customers adversely affected. As far as the embarrassment goes: I'd much rather do business with a company that comes clean about such problems and takes mitigating action rather than hiding it. Others, I would guess, probably believe the same way.
3. some parts of U.S. law apply to U.S. citizens no matter where they live.
Actually, that would be 'US persons'. The legal distinction is quite subtle, but think of a US citizen working for a foreign corporation. And some corporations might just wash their hands of the USA altogether. Move their operations overseas and hire local talent.
4) most foreign governments will do anything they can to please the USA
This seems to be changing quite rapidly. Domestic political pressure is being applied to politicians to cut their espionage ties with the USA. On top of that, I'm not so sure many heads of state appreciate their cell phones, e-mail and other communications being monitored by the NSA.
much of this surveillance is being done either without a warrant or with a warrant to your upstream provider rather than to you.
Fine. If the NSA thinks it can handle an Internet of encrypted communications, they are welcome to tap anything they want. Even if they just spool the encrypted traffic off to a server and hope to come back next month with a warrant for the keys: Sorry. We roll them over once a week. And we don't save the old ones. Not a US corporation. Not required to.
You do all the time. When was the last time you spoke to someone at Amazon? And its not an issue of not being clearly defined. There's a very clear process for contacting the company. Place a message in the public folder*.
*If some private communications is needed, upon determining the nature of your request, we can exchange encryption keys. All law enforcement will be requested to use double ROT13.
Corporation based in the Caymen Islands. Old solution. Very effective.
Attempts to follow ownership trails overseas by US LEAs do not share protection from disclosure like domestic operations do. There is no law in many jurisdictions stopping an overseas attorney from informing me (and anyone else interested) that people have been poking around, asking questions.
That and if your companies router is compromised at the firmware, who is to say that the company even knows it's data is being compromised?
However, upon discovering that my router has been compromised by persons unknown, there's nothing stopping me from raising a general alert with my customers.
The warrant problem can be solved by forcing law enforcement to deliver all warrants in the clear. My company exists purely in cyberspace. There is nobody in authority who can be contacted in person. All requests for assistance must be submitted in clear text, deposited in a publicly readable drop box on our server.
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Keeps my shop warm during the winter.
Not manufactured, but copyrighted.
A necessity to keep IP from being stolen by US entities. Prior art or prior use in other jurisdictions has little standing in US courts, so foreign manufacturers obtain US copyrights and patents.
Most movies are American.
Ah yes. The movie industry. One of the last bastions of organized crime in the USA. Most movies you watch are American because the US studio system throws roadblocks up for the distribution of content other then their own. Who do you think created The Office? A few notable works do manage to push their way through the US distribution blockade to success like The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Even then, US studios had to try and appropriate that concept for their own with a shit US remake.
You give us what we want and we won't bomb you into oblivion. Now that's what we call an offer you can't refuse.
hunting down and killing those who target them for assassination.
So don't miss. Put enough money on the table and some real pros might be attracted to the contract.
As far as those funding the operation: That's what BitCoin/Crowdfunding is for. Good luck finding the responsible parties.
I already had trouble understanding Marissa Meyer.
Credit Default Swaps.
You can include practically any terms you want in a swap. I'm sure the lawyers could write up a clause covering 'unplanned change in head of state' to cover an assassination. In fact, it would not surprise me if paper traded by major banks are covered for a sudden change in the Fed's governing body.
<Tinfoil_hat_mode>I would not be surprised if the mortgage backed security market collapse was triggered in part by an 'unfavorable change in the Administration' clause in some contracts. </Tinfoil_hat_mode>
And therein lies the problem with printable guns. They can be manufactured easily as one-off items that won't be recognized from one instance to the next. Of course, the same can be done in a machine shop with metal.
Not the same thing. Your 'seeing' mathematics may or may not have persuaded you to study it further. But even in a healthy mind, there is no programmed revulsion to drive you away.
This may be the last time Google returns a link to that article.
"The days of Red Baiting should be over"
Putin is doing his best to bring it back.
Except Putin is only targeting the red states.
they can (under US law) just go take it whenever/however they feel like.
But the 'it' that they want to take may be thousands of miles and numerous legal jurisdictions apart from the corporation's legal address. One may not be evident from the other.
Have to live in New Jersey. Can't participate in one of the few worthwhile activities.
There is a social cost to gambling. Areas with legal gambling tend to have ...... prostitution,
So, its not all bad.
Sorry. It's far too easy to spoof phone numbers already. Even E911 can be fooled into mis-identifying the source of a prank call.
If you need to establish trust with some remote party, that will have to be based on some protocol which assumes an untrusted network.
You're both wrong. That's not why our health care system went to hell. It's insurance companies.
This.
But one aspect of the insurance industry many people are overlooking: There is a quiet move afoot to securitize insurance. This means holding a policy (life, for example) on someone you do not have an "insurable interest" in. Essentially, a CDS against someone else's life. The problem the insurance companies face (Besides getting the above legislation. That's trivial. Just slip Congress some cash and its a done deal.) is that medical breakthroughs which affect mortality rates will affect the value of these securities. And that means risk and uncertainty, which discounts their value.
God forbid that Obamacare should suddenly decide to fund some lifesaving procedure (or demand insurance coverage for it) which would add years to the life of the insured. The rich folks holding your grandpa's policy will be pissed if he hangs on for another 10 years.
You don't have to publish the details of an intrusion. "My Brand X router was hacked with exploit Y", you just state that an intrusion has been discovered and contact the subset of customers adversely affected. As far as the embarrassment goes: I'd much rather do business with a company that comes clean about such problems and takes mitigating action rather than hiding it. Others, I would guess, probably believe the same way.
3. some parts of U.S. law apply to U.S. citizens no matter where they live.
Actually, that would be 'US persons'. The legal distinction is quite subtle, but think of a US citizen working for a foreign corporation. And some corporations might just wash their hands of the USA altogether. Move their operations overseas and hire local talent.
4) most foreign governments will do anything they can to please the USA
This seems to be changing quite rapidly. Domestic political pressure is being applied to politicians to cut their espionage ties with the USA. On top of that, I'm not so sure many heads of state appreciate their cell phones, e-mail and other communications being monitored by the NSA.
much of this surveillance is being done either without a warrant or with a warrant to your upstream provider rather than to you.
Fine. If the NSA thinks it can handle an Internet of encrypted communications, they are welcome to tap anything they want. Even if they just spool the encrypted traffic off to a server and hope to come back next month with a warrant for the keys: Sorry. We roll them over once a week. And we don't save the old ones. Not a US corporation. Not required to.
You do all the time. When was the last time you spoke to someone at Amazon? And its not an issue of not being clearly defined. There's a very clear process for contacting the company. Place a message in the public folder*.
*If some private communications is needed, upon determining the nature of your request, we can exchange encryption keys. All law enforcement will be requested to use double ROT13.
Follow the money to the identity of the person
Corporation based in the Caymen Islands. Old solution. Very effective.
Attempts to follow ownership trails overseas by US LEAs do not share protection from disclosure like domestic operations do. There is no law in many jurisdictions stopping an overseas attorney from informing me (and anyone else interested) that people have been poking around, asking questions.
Think of the popcorn we could make.
Yo, dawg! .....
That and if your companies router is compromised at the firmware, who is to say that the company even knows it's data is being compromised?
However, upon discovering that my router has been compromised by persons unknown, there's nothing stopping me from raising a general alert with my customers.
The warrant problem can be solved by forcing law enforcement to deliver all warrants in the clear. My company exists purely in cyberspace. There is nobody in authority who can be contacted in person. All requests for assistance must be submitted in clear text, deposited in a publicly readable drop box on our server.
The bar at your local tavern can move your beer out of reach when it thinks you've had enough.