Umm, yeah. SAIC is a defense contractor, headquartered right in the middle of TLA government land. I wouldn't be surprised if the settlement for infringement is 'we either sue your company into the ground or you route all traffic through a central server with our taps on it'.
True. But when you went out into the real world and had to solve engineering problems, did you grind out repetitive problems on a slide rule? I doubt it. You probably key punched a Fortran program to be run on a mainframe. And that is something you probably learned in school (OTJ training aside).
The calculator vs slide rule comparison as a numerical calculating device isn't the issue. Its the availability of a tool that can assist in learning coding practices. Its just more convenient to roll the two functions into one machine that can be easily carried.
Programming is a tool. Sure, Slashdot is host to a preponderance of people who consider it a profession unto itself. But in physics, engineering, economics, even math, basic skills in programming are going to be a part of your job. And even if the task at hand demands a specialist, you will be expected to understand the terminology and concepts used in order to communicate your requirements to the experts.
Where did they get the frequency allocation? If it was here in the USA, all available channels would have been put out for bid by the FCC and snapped up by the incumbents. Running a system on "their" channels would be frowned upon.
Right. But then Kennedy started to see the light. The Communist vs Democracy conflict was a by-product of who was supporting which side. The underlying conflict was a civil war. The Gulf of Tonkin incident was played up to escalate the war, not start it.
The presidency is like a piano player in a whorehouse. He knows what is going on upstairs, but there's not much he can do about it other than to drown out the sounds.
Iraq and Vietnam were different cases. In Iraq, the evidence was manufactured at the outset to get us in there. In Vietnam, it was a misunderstanding of the internal politics (a civil war) plus lies later on about how badly things were going.
I think you missed the point. The race will be run as usual. The presentation to the viewers on TV and online will be 'enhanced' so you can see features of the course not clearly visible. Or as in the case of wind direction, invisible. Its like the first down yellow line in football. Sure, you can see the sideline marker. But where the play is taking place on the field relative to some invisible line is made more clear by the graphics.
If all of this intellectual property stuff is so much like real property, then why don't we see law enforcement treat IP theft like the car thieves in my town? Steal my shitbox beater and the cops will risk their own lives, the lives of the criminals plus any innocent bystanders in pursuit of the crapmobile. They'll put down spike strips or ram it to get hold of the thieves.
So, when Microsoft, Apple, or Google steals my invention, who do I call to bring on the SWAT team?
We already do. Its called fuel prices. Not enough to affect use patterns? Then add a 'carbon tax' to the fuel. That could be a buck or two a gallon. But that doesn't seem to affect driving habits much either. So raise the tax higher. What will happen before people switch from 30 to 50 mpg cars is that the cost of agricultural production and shipping food into population centers will rise so high, people in cities will begin to starve.
Oh, and forget 30 mpg cars. For the purpose of your argument, try getting them out of 10 mpg trucks first. At the height of the gas prices here, the local dealership was still selling Kodiaks at a brisk pace.
I' more concerned with them knowing where I earn it. Aside from having the government officials front running my investment decisions based on their inside information*, they tend to like to extract additional political donations from profitable businesses.
*It wasn't until Obama's administration that there was some small move to stop our legislators from legally trading stocks based upon inside information. There are still lots of loopholes.
... for purchases. The gov't will see my garage full of Porsches and Ferraris and the yacht at the dock. What I need to do is to disconnect my means of income from expenditures.
No problem with taxes. I'll pay them. But I don't need the IRS snooping on my investments and calling their buddies with stock tips so they can front run me.
I used to work for an outfit that bid (but lost) a major IT contract to support IRS operations. The story was that they bid way below their cost. But they figured that getting their hands on taxpayer data and using it for their own purposes would more then make up for their loss. To this day I wonder what the contract winner is doing.
I wonder how contractors like Booz Alan Hamilton bid NSA contracts.
Criminals work our neighborhoods during the day. Because that's when everyone is at work. The reason they come out in business districts at night is because that is when the people are not there. Except for muggers. They go where the people are, brightly lit or not.
The whole light == security thing is a sales pitch by the power companies who want to sell street lighting.
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What freaking customers? The NSA?
Umm, yeah. SAIC is a defense contractor, headquartered right in the middle of TLA government land. I wouldn't be surprised if the settlement for infringement is 'we either sue your company into the ground or you route all traffic through a central server with our taps on it'.
Time to open an office in Dublin and move the operations.
True. But when you went out into the real world and had to solve engineering problems, did you grind out repetitive problems on a slide rule? I doubt it. You probably key punched a Fortran program to be run on a mainframe. And that is something you probably learned in school (OTJ training aside).
The calculator vs slide rule comparison as a numerical calculating device isn't the issue. Its the availability of a tool that can assist in learning coding practices. Its just more convenient to roll the two functions into one machine that can be easily carried.
Programming is a tool. Sure, Slashdot is host to a preponderance of people who consider it a profession unto itself. But in physics, engineering, economics, even math, basic skills in programming are going to be a part of your job. And even if the task at hand demands a specialist, you will be expected to understand the terminology and concepts used in order to communicate your requirements to the experts.
Just say neigh to horse meat.
Name two.
No? So, take a boat.
The tax will be collected, so its just a matter of everyone stepping up with their own pork barrel projects to get a piece of it.
Where did they get the frequency allocation? If it was here in the USA, all available channels would have been put out for bid by the FCC and snapped up by the incumbents. Running a system on "their" channels would be frowned upon.
Right. But then Kennedy started to see the light. The Communist vs Democracy conflict was a by-product of who was supporting which side. The underlying conflict was a civil war. The Gulf of Tonkin incident was played up to escalate the war, not start it.
Assuming any survived, that is.
The presidency is like a piano player in a whorehouse. He knows what is going on upstairs, but there's not much he can do about it other than to drown out the sounds.
Iraq and Vietnam were different cases. In Iraq, the evidence was manufactured at the outset to get us in there. In Vietnam, it was a misunderstanding of the internal politics (a civil war) plus lies later on about how badly things were going.
I think you missed the point. The race will be run as usual. The presentation to the viewers on TV and online will be 'enhanced' so you can see features of the course not clearly visible. Or as in the case of wind direction, invisible. Its like the first down yellow line in football. Sure, you can see the sideline marker. But where the play is taking place on the field relative to some invisible line is made more clear by the graphics.
"The damage, on a scale of 1 to 10, is a 12,â said a former intelligence official"
Nigel Tufnel went up to eleven. This is clearly worse.
If all of this intellectual property stuff is so much like real property, then why don't we see law enforcement treat IP theft like the car thieves in my town? Steal my shitbox beater and the cops will risk their own lives, the lives of the criminals plus any innocent bystanders in pursuit of the crapmobile. They'll put down spike strips or ram it to get hold of the thieves.
So, when Microsoft, Apple, or Google steals my invention, who do I call to bring on the SWAT team?
We already do. Its called fuel prices. Not enough to affect use patterns? Then add a 'carbon tax' to the fuel. That could be a buck or two a gallon. But that doesn't seem to affect driving habits much either. So raise the tax higher. What will happen before people switch from 30 to 50 mpg cars is that the cost of agricultural production and shipping food into population centers will rise so high, people in cities will begin to starve.
Oh, and forget 30 mpg cars. For the purpose of your argument, try getting them out of 10 mpg trucks first. At the height of the gas prices here, the local dealership was still selling Kodiaks at a brisk pace.
Or the NSA.
Edward Snowden in a fish tank. No risk of that hopping on plane to Hong Kong.
Or software coders. Link them right into the build environment. Developers, developers, developers in a jar.
You can feed your zombies that farm raised stuff if you want. Nothing but the best free range brains for my zombies.
Copyright still in effect? No worries then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union
I' more concerned with them knowing where I earn it. Aside from having the government officials front running my investment decisions based on their inside information*, they tend to like to extract additional political donations from profitable businesses.
*It wasn't until Obama's administration that there was some small move to stop our legislators from legally trading stocks based upon inside information. There are still lots of loopholes.
... for purchases. The gov't will see my garage full of Porsches and Ferraris and the yacht at the dock. What I need to do is to disconnect my means of income from expenditures.
No problem with taxes. I'll pay them. But I don't need the IRS snooping on my investments and calling their buddies with stock tips so they can front run me.
I used to work for an outfit that bid (but lost) a major IT contract to support IRS operations. The story was that they bid way below their cost. But they figured that getting their hands on taxpayer data and using it for their own purposes would more then make up for their loss. To this day I wonder what the contract winner is doing.
I wonder how contractors like Booz Alan Hamilton bid NSA contracts.
Bull.
Criminals work our neighborhoods during the day. Because that's when everyone is at work. The reason they come out in business districts at night is because that is when the people are not there. Except for muggers. They go where the people are, brightly lit or not.
The whole light == security thing is a sales pitch by the power companies who want to sell street lighting.
Vegas != culture
Its where dumb rednecks go to get ripped off.