Yeah. But the French never really hid the fact that they were spying on their own population. Look at their restrictions on encryption and similar technologies and try to come up with alternate justifications.
Fortunately, thanks to France's policies on linguistic purism, if you insert a few borrowed English words, the authorities are not allowed to listen.
"Oh, and you aliens. Your browsers have a back door for which we discovered a zero day exploit. You should have given the adoption of IE some careful thought."
Good point. Unlike real property, where its misappropriation is quite evident, IP does not always share that attribute. In some cases, where the patent covers some observable physical characteristic, a patent violation can be seen. However, if the patent covers a process used to produce a product and there are other processes which would produce the same thing, examining the product tells you nothing. But then if the process isn't provably unique, why has it been granted a patent?
How many people use their workplace computer during coffee/lunch breaks to make on-line purchases? And how many of these corporate intranets appear as VPNs to the outside world? That is; a gateway beyond which no IP or location data can be deduced. Are MasterCard and Visa willing to pass up such aa large chunk of business?
Not every VPN service is named TorrentFreak, iPredator or sets the IPv4 'evil' bit. Some smart people will set one up with a 'respectable' name and probably bypass the MasterCard/Visa ban.
This is _exactly_ the kind of thing the patent system was designed for!
Except that this technology has been in use for how many years? And between 1995 and last fall, BU has filed how many suits?
There is a legal principle called laches. Which basically says: If you don't defend your rights in a timely manner, you lose them. Had BU stepped in and exercised its patent rights from the outset, manufacturers could have negotiated reasonable licensing fees. And BU would be the recipients of a tidy subsidy for their institution over the past decade. Springing stuff on Apple and others* a this point is a tactic akin to blackmail and shouldn't be allowed.
*It could be argued that the LED suppliers Apple used should have the responsibility to ensure that their processes are clear of patent infringement. If you have a laptop, stereo system or automobile with blue LEDs, should we stop by your house to pick them up? At what point do we draw the line?
People who have had a need for privacy/anonymity have been aware of the USPS role in law enforcement for decades. That they are snapping a photo (probably OCR the addresses straight into a database as well) doesn't surprise me.
Decades ago, before Al Gore invented the Internet, mail was a primary means of communication. Back then, I used to live in apartment buildings. Most apartment buildings have a central bank of mailboxes. I was surprised to see how many apartment buildings had more boxes than apartments. In one case, an entire extra floor of numbers. And they all appeared to be in use. I imagine the management makes a decent amount of extra cash renting these out.
I always wanted to watch when SWAT/Homeland Security attempted to storm Apartment #405 in a three story building.
Coventry logic fails when the enemy is no longer known. In the case of Coventry, we (the British) new the enemy and their tactics. All that remained was to identify the current target. The NSA is engaged in trawling for unknown enemies in a sea of innocuous communications. So they are looking at everyone.
In addition, intelligence and law enforcement agencies have changed their policies since 9/11. There are now several information sharing, "connect the dots" initiatives that place more of their gathered data in the hands of other law enforcement agencies who have other agendas. In fact, it is understood that, should other criminal activity be uncovered in the course of anti terrorism work, it will be acted upon.
Interesting note: None of the Snowden/Manning data grabs would have happened (or at least been as easy) under the pre 9/11 intelligence policy of data compartmentalization. Back in the old days, even an officer with "secret" clearances would have been investigated had they reached out to obtain data beyond their "need to know". Now, with inter-agency sharing, any political appointee or elected law enforcement agent looking to make some PR points or recruit powerful friends can go to the servers and grab a copy of practically anything for their own purposes.
And yet, we wet ourselves over the idea that Iran might build one. Oh noes! A Muslim bomb! In case anyone has been paying attention, they already have one. Over in Pakistan.
What possession of "the bomb" does is give its owners a place at the big people's negotiating table. And that's a club we want to control the membership of very carefully. Even if it means killing tens of thousands of people with conventional weapons. Perhaps more than would be killed with a nuke.
Sounds like something he pulled from a consulting firm white paper.
We have a new director....
If he's willing to learn your processes and identify specific places where overspending occurs, I'd say keep him. Otherwise it sounds like one of these people who swoop in, wring their hands over budgets, bring in the consulting firm and go on to the next job (or go to work for the consultants themselves) before implementation/restructuring is done.
Don't knock it though. Being a traveling rainmaker for consulting firms can be a lucrative career.
At this point, it's looking more like his goal is notariety at the expense of us all.
Right now, he's stuck in the international terminal in Moscow (as far as we know), incommunicado. So what we know about his actions subsequent to his own statements may very well be manufactured.
If you are going to assassinate somebody* (character or otherwise), the first thing you have to do is cut off their communications and replace that with your own PR.
* In what passes for a democracy. A totalitarian regime would just say "Fuck public opinion" and carry on.
Cheaper? How so? They still have to pay the pilot, whether she is siting on the ground or not.
I guess it could get cheaper if they can have one pilot supervising a dozen flights. Over mid-ocean, there's not much to do. So stagger the flight times and have them land/take off another plane elsewhere. Rotating shifts could be an advantage on long flights. At the end of eight hours, hand over the controls to a ground center where the pilots are wide awake on local time.
... for "reporting abuse, registrar responsibilities for reseller compliance, enhancement of compliance tools, audit rights, certification requirements,...".
Pile enough crap on and small enterprises and individuals won't be able to handle a domain on their own. Enter the management companies, who will extract fees for handling all of this overhead. Worse yet, it will push owners of domains who can no longer afford to maintain them to put them back on the market, where the big corporations can get their hands on them.
I have known a number of people who registered valuable domains, not as squatters but small businesses who were smart or quick enough to get there first. Some have fallen for the trap of companies that 'manage' domains in return for signing over ownership. The result was their losing the domain when their 'manager' unilaterally determined the domain had more value on the market than the present user gave it.
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Yeah. But the French never really hid the fact that they were spying on their own population. Look at their restrictions on encryption and similar technologies and try to come up with alternate justifications.
Fortunately, thanks to France's policies on linguistic purism, if you insert a few borrowed English words, the authorities are not allowed to listen.
"Oh, and you aliens. Your browsers have a back door for which we discovered a zero day exploit. You should have given the adoption of IE some careful thought."
And perhaps the last when the alien invasion force, of which we observed the launch, reaches earth.
Good point. Unlike real property, where its misappropriation is quite evident, IP does not always share that attribute. In some cases, where the patent covers some observable physical characteristic, a patent violation can be seen. However, if the patent covers a process used to produce a product and there are other processes which would produce the same thing, examining the product tells you nothing. But then if the process isn't provably unique, why has it been granted a patent?
For patents, it isn't quite that simple.
Why not? Do patents have an exception for this part of civil law? And if so, should this be something that is thrown out by patent reform legislation?
The glory of the collective over that of the individual. And now for another "In Soviet Russia" joke ....
How many people use their workplace computer during coffee/lunch breaks to make on-line purchases? And how many of these corporate intranets appear as VPNs to the outside world? That is; a gateway beyond which no IP or location data can be deduced. Are MasterCard and Visa willing to pass up such aa large chunk of business?
Not every VPN service is named TorrentFreak, iPredator or sets the IPv4 'evil' bit. Some smart people will set one up with a 'respectable' name and probably bypass the MasterCard/Visa ban.
This is _exactly_ the kind of thing the patent system was designed for!
Except that this technology has been in use for how many years? And between 1995 and last fall, BU has filed how many suits?
There is a legal principle called laches. Which basically says: If you don't defend your rights in a timely manner, you lose them. Had BU stepped in and exercised its patent rights from the outset, manufacturers could have negotiated reasonable licensing fees. And BU would be the recipients of a tidy subsidy for their institution over the past decade. Springing stuff on Apple and others* a this point is a tactic akin to blackmail and shouldn't be allowed.
*It could be argued that the LED suppliers Apple used should have the responsibility to ensure that their processes are clear of patent infringement. If you have a laptop, stereo system or automobile with blue LEDs, should we stop by your house to pick them up? At what point do we draw the line?
People who have had a need for privacy/anonymity have been aware of the USPS role in law enforcement for decades. That they are snapping a photo (probably OCR the addresses straight into a database as well) doesn't surprise me.
Decades ago, before Al Gore invented the Internet, mail was a primary means of communication. Back then, I used to live in apartment buildings. Most apartment buildings have a central bank of mailboxes. I was surprised to see how many apartment buildings had more boxes than apartments. In one case, an entire extra floor of numbers. And they all appeared to be in use. I imagine the management makes a decent amount of extra cash renting these out.
I always wanted to watch when SWAT/Homeland Security attempted to storm Apartment #405 in a three story building.
Damned right! Look at all that technology they stole from that great American, Wernher von Braun.
No. They are a bunch of upstarts that broke away fro Mexico. And if we cut off the pipeline of federal subsidies, they'll just go back.
On the heels of revelations about US spying on its European Allies, why are you people putting up with this crap?
If we are going with the band name theme, I vote for a series based on Zappa/Mothers of Invention.
Why was my first impression one of an accomplice having baked a file into a cake for Snowden?
Coventry logic fails when the enemy is no longer known. In the case of Coventry, we (the British) new the enemy and their tactics. All that remained was to identify the current target. The NSA is engaged in trawling for unknown enemies in a sea of innocuous communications. So they are looking at everyone.
In addition, intelligence and law enforcement agencies have changed their policies since 9/11. There are now several information sharing, "connect the dots" initiatives that place more of their gathered data in the hands of other law enforcement agencies who have other agendas. In fact, it is understood that, should other criminal activity be uncovered in the course of anti terrorism work, it will be acted upon.
Interesting note: None of the Snowden/Manning data grabs would have happened (or at least been as easy) under the pre 9/11 intelligence policy of data compartmentalization. Back in the old days, even an officer with "secret" clearances would have been investigated had they reached out to obtain data beyond their "need to know". Now, with inter-agency sharing, any political appointee or elected law enforcement agent looking to make some PR points or recruit powerful friends can go to the servers and grab a copy of practically anything for their own purposes.
And yet, we wet ourselves over the idea that Iran might build one. Oh noes! A Muslim bomb! In case anyone has been paying attention, they already have one. Over in Pakistan.
What possession of "the bomb" does is give its owners a place at the big people's negotiating table. And that's a club we want to control the membership of very carefully. Even if it means killing tens of thousands of people with conventional weapons. Perhaps more than would be killed with a nuke.
But please, silence your firearms during the performance. And pick up your brass and dispose of it in the proper receptacle.
Thank you. The management.
How did this manager get to this 50% number?
Sounds like something he pulled from a consulting firm white paper.
We have a new director....
If he's willing to learn your processes and identify specific places where overspending occurs, I'd say keep him. Otherwise it sounds like one of these people who swoop in, wring their hands over budgets, bring in the consulting firm and go on to the next job (or go to work for the consultants themselves) before implementation/restructuring is done.
Don't knock it though. Being a traveling rainmaker for consulting firms can be a lucrative career.
No room for a condom.
At this point, it's looking more like his goal is notariety at the expense of us all.
Right now, he's stuck in the international terminal in Moscow (as far as we know), incommunicado. So what we know about his actions subsequent to his own statements may very well be manufactured.
If you are going to assassinate somebody* (character or otherwise), the first thing you have to do is cut off their communications and replace that with your own PR.
* In what passes for a democracy. A totalitarian regime would just say "Fuck public opinion" and carry on.
Cheaper? How so? They still have to pay the pilot, whether she is siting on the ground or not.
I guess it could get cheaper if they can have one pilot supervising a dozen flights. Over mid-ocean, there's not much to do. So stagger the flight times and have them land/take off another plane elsewhere. Rotating shifts could be an advantage on long flights. At the end of eight hours, hand over the controls to a ground center where the pilots are wide awake on local time.
Pile enough crap on and small enterprises and individuals won't be able to handle a domain on their own. Enter the management companies, who will extract fees for handling all of this overhead. Worse yet, it will push owners of domains who can no longer afford to maintain them to put them back on the market, where the big corporations can get their hands on them.
I have known a number of people who registered valuable domains, not as squatters but small businesses who were smart or quick enough to get there first. Some have fallen for the trap of companies that 'manage' domains in return for signing over ownership. The result was their losing the domain when their 'manager' unilaterally determined the domain had more value on the market than the present user gave it.