The problems is that Think Geek obtain information freely from normal information gathering techniques such as social engineering and trend research using the internet. A California law prohibits divulging trade secrets yet if I remember correctly there is a set of laws each state agreed to abide by when joining. This law is freedom of the press and freedom of speech. Think Geek never signed a non-disclosure agreement thus if you or a representative of your company tells me something than that information is no longer protected as a trade secret unless there is a contracted obligation - the entity didn't adequately protect it's information. Case closed unless the corporation wants to sue the party in oblivion, which might be the case that we are seeing today. I don't see how this case can even get to the court level, as it should be dismissed under the grounds of no contractual agreement between the parties; thus, his speech is protected at the federal level.
As for the party that disclosed the information then they would be in breach of the NADA contract. Does Think Geek have to tell apple that divulged the information? Anyone remember Oliver North who forgot a lot of information during the Iran Contra scandal can attest that Think Geek surely can't remember the names either. Should Think Geek have to tell? Does the press have to cite sources? Nope they can protect their sources but if they can become in content in the courts and spend a little jail time - but were not talking about a murder trial or a treason tiral.
The contract stated that Lee would get 'him to 10 percent of TV, movie and merchandising deals'. **AA can't use only the laws it likes; I just wish more actors would (could) go freelance and rid us of this type of cancer. If more people had similar clauses then it would be more cost effective to cut out the middleman and figure out someway to produce entertainment material on their own - visionary may be seeing some kind of internet distribution system for just a mere fraction of the cost of big name distributors. This won't happen anytime soon because Stephen King tried it already and it didn't work but he was a visionary and one day it will work.
Now that Intel ceased banning Linux on Laptops then I should be able to call Dell or HP and say I want a laptop that runs Linux out of the box right? Then why hasn't AMD captured the Linux laptop market? Oh yeah the vendors don't see a market. I imagine that it is time for a small time vendor to start making 100% Linux compatible laptops and if they survive and make money then great - this is similar on how Dell started in the desktop market. If the market is big enough than the small vendor took a big risk but it would pay off; if the market doesn't support the small vendor then the big name vendors will avoid Linux like the plague and say to share holders 'see I told you so - Linux is ready for primetime'. Either way works out best as I just want a Linux latop.
The Social Security System will fail Shortly after 2031. Could you imagine getting paid to not work for 935 years? You would have to have a population growth 935 times what it is today to sustain that growth! This is one reason that SS is fundamentally flawed.
Deux in french means two so I thought it was a play on words where RE - 2 meant that it was kindof like version 2.
Yet I looked up the definition: redux(postnominal) - brought back. Which is goofy on a remake yet would be good for somthing like Tron 2.0 like a poster said later - no.
Apple's lawsuit alleges that Think Secret is illegally soliciting Apple employees to violate confidentiality agreements and disclosing that information online without Apple's permission.
The core problem is that any information your employee tells me is free for me to use. Social engineering has to be thwarted by educating Apple's employees just like some government employees. If you divulge secret information owned by the government you go to jail; you divulge company secrets you get fired or if you have an agreement to work for the company it could have a damages clause forcing you to pay compensations. Case closed
"I employ the same legal newsgathering practices used by any other journalist," he wrote. "I talk to sources of information, investigate tips, follow up on leads, and corroborate details. I believe these practices are reflected in Think Secret's track record."
Based on the little evidence I have been given, I see no legal stance from Apple that will hold up in court.
Choose any of the definitions and you will see that the context of free is subjective. The first five definitions put into context of what free is and until you get to sub-definition 10 you get the wording of costing nothing. However, there is a license agreement you must abided by; the agreement any number of provision they wanted. Say right of attorney, release of any damages against the company and even that you can't say bad things publicly about the software (I haven't read the license but I have seen other software licenses with these stipulations). So the free definition has to be taken into context as the license may be actually transferring value from you to the license holder.
Merriam-Webster free:
1 a : having the legal and political rights of a citizen b : enjoying civil and political liberty (free citizens) c : enjoying political independence or freedom from outside domination d : enjoying personal freedom : not subject to the control or domination of another
2 a : not determined by anything beyond its own nature or being : choosing or capable of choosing for itself b : determined by the choice of the actor or performer (free actions) c : made, done, or given voluntarily or spontaneously
3 a : relieved from or lacking something unpleasant or burdensome (free from pain) (a speech free of political rhetoric) b : not bound, confined, or detained by force
4 a : having no trade restrictions b : not subject to government regulation c of foreign exchange : not subject to restriction or official control ...
10 : not costing or charging anything
Why should RMS have to redefine what free means to him and what a lot of people of recognized by the meaning free? Wouldn't it make more sense for people touting that their software is free to put the actual meaning in to it by saying it may be free but you have give up your soul.
The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0)
The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2)
The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this
The only sticky part is the licensing of free software - total freedom would allow me to fork the source for profit yet that would then restrict the freedom of others in using said free software thus making the software not free anymore. So to remain free I cant do certain things to software restricting my own freedom.
As for Opera thanks but no thanks I have the desire to keep using as much really free software as possible promoting further development.
imagine where AMD would be if they scrapped 64-bit from the start and released the Athlon 64/Opteron as a dual core from the get go
I don't quite see where you going with this? Are you saying that Intel is far behind the curve or that AMD has went in a less than optimal direction? As far as I can tell AMD is driving their future and isn't locked into any pre-defined path - 64bit and/or dual core is still possible. Elaborate please.
When I read the story and it said SAR - Specific Absorption Rate I kept reading SARS and started wondering if the stories could be linked. Maybe SARS is related to SAR by changing a DNA strain just a little over the global trillion cell phone radiations seconds. It could possibly change one little strand of the common cold or our own DNA over that many seconds causing a new strain of disease.
ICANN can give.* extensions and one day people are going to abandon that idea and start using AOL keywords type of scheme.
Now we'll have whitehouse.gov - the real one, whitehouse.com - the sexy one, whitehouse.mobi - while Clinton was sleeping on the couch, whitehouse.sux - advocate site for the Whitehouse, whitehouse.net - no not Watergate, whitehouse.letsmakeanewdotextentiontomakemoremoney - An example of how the ICANN just makes up new dot names to generate more revenue as a businesses don't want customers to confuse extensions with a competing web squatter.
Have you noticed that people have already ceased using www. on most advertisements? At least my domain the www is optional, as most other websites have adopted this too.
This is a response to your question about 'How Do You Handle Home Media?'.
In reading the question, you have actually answered the solution yourself. As you point at problems simply eliminate that area. You pointed to Tivo not streaming then eliminate that component from the problem.
There is nothing preventing you from hooking the computer to a stereo tuner solving the issue or hooking a composite video card to a TV (better would be a DVI input directly to a flat panel). If the component doesn't suite your needs then that component is not part of the solution. That goes for the Windows Centric issue you addressed; if it doesn't solve the need than there are non-proprietary solutions, I think the name start with L or something someone.
Really, Tivo and other you named are fighting a battle that may be hard won. The proprietary market seems to have slowed in response, yet the onslaught of FOSS solutions hasn't eroded over the years. The FOSS solutions seem to now fit needs faster than their proprietary relatives. Now if the true lower level hardware could be non-proprietary so you could order a manufacture to assemble components you designed in a collective community. Don't like Intel great IBM has some neat PowerPC chips don't like the video card drivers great we'll build it to your specs - this is a dream not achievable just yet.
I have worked at CIMM level -3 and at CMMi level 5 groups. Starting at level 5, you're about as likely to win the lottery and while on the vacation at the moon than getting fired for bad software; at level 1 your highly likely to get fired for a bad programming mistake; level -3 you try to point the finger for anything.
Now there's a mathematical formula (let me see if I can derive one) for each level you go down, the half-life of bad software divided by the software engineer goes up a log base 10 (4 - 95%, 3 - 90%, 2 - 75%, 1 - 50%, 0 - 25%, -1 10%, -2 - 2%, -3 -.01%). Thus, if you want management to point fingers go down in levels but if you want the group to be aware of problems then look for a high CMM level group to work for. Disclaimer this is now way scientific but used as illustrative purposes; objects may be closer than they appear; no left turn on red; do not pass Go.
I would like to think Marky is a really great Tech Leader after all, he did sell his company to Yahoo for more than I can remember making him several hundred million in the transaction purchasing the Dallas Mavericks to entertain him (living pretty good). But then you get to read his blog and he just now has discovered the compression algorithms everyone has been using to put DVD on CD (SVCD at 600 or so MB). He thinks that making larger formats is going to thwart piracy yet he didn't connect the dots where you can always take a higher format and compress it to a lower quality format of any size you want. Lets say that today we would have 50gb HD-DVDs what would prevent me from squeezing that file to 600mb know? Piracy isn't the problem, it the business model. People want to view a moving they OWN on whatever media they choose. In fact the best of all worlds would be to have a Google type service where you purchase a movie and it is stored online for you. You can watch it whenever, put it on whatever media and sell your rights after your done. The future of media is not Video On Demand (that was last year) it Video On Demand ownership over Wireless (well maybe not the ownership).
The PGP Phone Project is dead now but it would be great of GPGP would revive it. The script kiddes would have a much tougher time cracking this and this is why the goverment is wanting a little help.
I try to shop online to get a 7% discount avoiding the sales tax penalty for local purchases. I would not mind buy locally but I ran into just as many problems at a local retailer as online.
The only rebate I have been denied was for a ViewSonic monitor I bought from BestBuy about 5 years ago. Back then, the rebates stated that if you do not include all necessary documents, you can resubmit. I forgot to include the UPC symbol and that was a $100 mistake. 8 weeks later, I got the letter stating that I did not include all information and that it would not be paid. 8 weeks is longer than the 30-day return policy. I think nowadays, you have the right to resubmit in these cases. Do not really know but I have not ever bought another viewsonic since and I have not ever forgot to re-read the fine print to know exactly what to send. The rebate hand in the middle of the paragraph what to include. I read the bottom that said it needed the receipt and a sticker from the box. It was my fault but I am still mad about that it was a $100 and local retailers only have customer service going for them.
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The problems is that Think Geek obtain information freely from normal information gathering techniques such as social engineering and trend research using the internet. A California law prohibits divulging trade secrets yet if I remember correctly there is a set of laws each state agreed to abide by when joining. This law is freedom of the press and freedom of speech. Think Geek never signed a non-disclosure agreement thus if you or a representative of your company tells me something than that information is no longer protected as a trade secret unless there is a contracted obligation - the entity didn't adequately protect it's information. Case closed unless the corporation wants to sue the party in oblivion, which might be the case that we are seeing today. I don't see how this case can even get to the court level, as it should be dismissed under the grounds of no contractual agreement between the parties; thus, his speech is protected at the federal level.
As for the party that disclosed the information then they would be in breach of the NADA contract. Does Think Geek have to tell apple that divulged the information? Anyone remember Oliver North who forgot a lot of information during the Iran Contra scandal can attest that Think Geek surely can't remember the names either. Should Think Geek have to tell? Does the press have to cite sources? Nope they can protect their sources but if they can become in content in the courts and spend a little jail time - but were not talking about a murder trial or a treason tiral.
The contract stated that Lee would get 'him to 10 percent of TV, movie and merchandising deals'. **AA can't use only the laws it likes; I just wish more actors would (could) go freelance and rid us of this type of cancer. If more people had similar clauses then it would be more cost effective to cut out the middleman and figure out someway to produce entertainment material on their own - visionary may be seeing some kind of internet distribution system for just a mere fraction of the cost of big name distributors. This won't happen anytime soon because Stephen King tried it already and it didn't work but he was a visionary and one day it will work.
Now that Intel ceased banning Linux on Laptops then I should be able to call Dell or HP and say I want a laptop that runs Linux out of the box right? Then why hasn't AMD captured the Linux laptop market? Oh yeah the vendors don't see a market. I imagine that it is time for a small time vendor to start making 100% Linux compatible laptops and if they survive and make money then great - this is similar on how Dell started in the desktop market. If the market is big enough than the small vendor took a big risk but it would pay off; if the market doesn't support the small vendor then the big name vendors will avoid Linux like the plague and say to share holders 'see I told you so - Linux is ready for primetime'. Either way works out best as I just want a Linux latop.
The Social Security System will fail Shortly after 2031. Could you imagine getting paid to not work for 935 years? You would have to have a population growth 935 times what it is today to sustain that growth! This is one reason that SS is fundamentally flawed.
Oops a play on words.
Deux in french means two so I thought it was a play on words where RE - 2 meant that it was kindof like version 2.
Yet I looked up the definition: redux(postnominal) - brought back. Which is goofy on a remake yet would be good for somthing like Tron 2.0 like a poster said later - no.
Good thing for bugmenot someone has already registered the link for us and latest newsflash tron guy gets a job!
I just hope they don't reuse the name Tron; do like Apocalypse Now did on a remake adding the word Redux to the title.
Apple's lawsuit alleges that Think Secret is illegally soliciting Apple employees to violate confidentiality agreements and disclosing that information online without Apple's permission.
The core problem is that any information your employee tells me is free for me to use. Social engineering has to be thwarted by educating Apple's employees just like some government employees. If you divulge secret information owned by the government you go to jail; you divulge company secrets you get fired or if you have an agreement to work for the company it could have a damages clause forcing you to pay compensations. Case closed
"I employ the same legal newsgathering practices used by any other journalist," he wrote. "I talk to sources of information, investigate tips, follow up on leads, and corroborate details. I believe these practices are reflected in Think Secret's track record."
Based on the little evidence I have been given, I see no legal stance from Apple that will hold up in court.
Choose any of the definitions and you will see that the context of free is subjective. The first five definitions put into context of what free is and until you get to sub-definition 10 you get the wording of costing nothing. However, there is a license agreement you must abided by; the agreement any number of provision they wanted. Say right of attorney, release of any damages against the company and even that you can't say bad things publicly about the software (I haven't read the license but I have seen other software licenses with these stipulations). So the free definition has to be taken into context as the license may be actually transferring value from you to the license holder.
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Merriam-Webster free:
1 a : having the legal and political rights of a citizen b : enjoying civil and political liberty (free citizens) c : enjoying political independence or freedom from outside domination d : enjoying personal freedom : not subject to the control or domination of another
2 a : not determined by anything beyond its own nature or being : choosing or capable of choosing for itself b : determined by the choice of the actor or performer (free actions) c : made, done, or given voluntarily or spontaneously
3 a : relieved from or lacking something unpleasant or burdensome (free from pain) (a speech free of political rhetoric) b : not bound, confined, or detained by force
4 a : having no trade restrictions b : not subject to government regulation c of foreign exchange : not subject to restriction or official control
10 : not costing or charging anything
Why should RMS have to redefine what free means to him and what a lot of people of recognized by the meaning free? Wouldn't it make more sense for people touting that their software is free to put the actual meaning in to it by saying it may be free but you have give up your soul.
GNU defines free software:
The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0)
The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this
The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2)
The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this
The only sticky part is the licensing of free software - total freedom would allow me to fork the source for profit yet that would then restrict the freedom of others in using said free software thus making the software not free anymore. So to remain free I cant do certain things to software restricting my own freedom.
As for Opera thanks but no thanks I have the desire to keep using as much really free software as possible promoting further development.
comatose, homeland security, rape me, and how about not broadcasting an ssid?
imagine where AMD would be if they scrapped 64-bit from the start and released the Athlon 64/Opteron as a dual core from the get go
I don't quite see where you going with this? Are you saying that Intel is far behind the curve or that AMD has went in a less than optimal direction? As far as I can tell AMD is driving their future and isn't locked into any pre-defined path - 64bit and/or dual core is still possible. Elaborate please.
When I read the story and it said SAR - Specific Absorption Rate I kept reading SARS and started wondering if the stories could be linked. Maybe SARS is related to SAR by changing a DNA strain just a little over the global trillion cell phone radiations seconds. It could possibly change one little strand of the common cold or our own DNA over that many seconds causing a new strain of disease.
ICANN can give .* extensions and one day people are going to abandon that idea and start using AOL keywords type of scheme.
y - An example of how the ICANN just makes up new dot names to generate more revenue as a businesses don't want customers to confuse extensions with a competing web squatter.
Now we'll have whitehouse.gov - the real one, whitehouse.com - the sexy one, whitehouse.mobi - while Clinton was sleeping on the couch, whitehouse.sux - advocate site for the Whitehouse, whitehouse.net - no not Watergate, whitehouse.letsmakeanewdotextentiontomakemoremone
Have you noticed that people have already ceased using www. on most advertisements? At least my domain the www is optional, as most other websites have adopted this too.
This is a response to your question about 'How Do You Handle Home Media?'.
In reading the question, you have actually answered the solution yourself. As you point at problems simply eliminate that area. You pointed to Tivo not streaming then eliminate that component from the problem.
There is nothing preventing you from hooking the computer to a stereo tuner solving the issue or hooking a composite video card to a TV (better would be a DVI input directly to a flat panel). If the component doesn't suite your needs then that component is not part of the solution. That goes for the Windows Centric issue you addressed; if it doesn't solve the need than there are non-proprietary solutions, I think the name start with L or something someone.
Really, Tivo and other you named are fighting a battle that may be hard won. The proprietary market seems to have slowed in response, yet the onslaught of FOSS solutions hasn't eroded over the years. The FOSS solutions seem to now fit needs faster than their proprietary relatives. Now if the true lower level hardware could be non-proprietary so you could order a manufacture to assemble components you designed in a collective community. Don't like Intel great IBM has some neat PowerPC chips don't like the video card drivers great we'll build it to your specs - this is a dream not achievable just yet.
I have worked at CIMM level -3 and at CMMi level 5 groups. Starting at level 5, you're about as likely to win the lottery and while on the vacation at the moon than getting fired for bad software; at level 1 your highly likely to get fired for a bad programming mistake; level -3 you try to point the finger for anything.
.01%). Thus, if you want management to point fingers go down in levels but if you want the group to be aware of problems then look for a high CMM level group to work for. Disclaimer this is now way scientific but used as illustrative purposes; objects may be closer than they appear; no left turn on red; do not pass Go.
Now there's a mathematical formula (let me see if I can derive one) for each level you go down, the half-life of bad software divided by the software engineer goes up a log base 10 (4 - 95%, 3 - 90%, 2 - 75%, 1 - 50%, 0 - 25%, -1 10%, -2 - 2%, -3 -
I would like to think Marky is a really great Tech Leader after all, he did sell his company to Yahoo for more than I can remember making him several hundred million in the transaction purchasing the Dallas Mavericks to entertain him (living pretty good). But then you get to read his blog and he just now has discovered the compression algorithms everyone has been using to put DVD on CD (SVCD at 600 or so MB). He thinks that making larger formats is going to thwart piracy yet he didn't connect the dots where you can always take a higher format and compress it to a lower quality format of any size you want. Lets say that today we would have 50gb HD-DVDs what would prevent me from squeezing that file to 600mb know? Piracy isn't the problem, it the business model. People want to view a moving they OWN on whatever media they choose. In fact the best of all worlds would be to have a Google type service where you purchase a movie and it is stored online for you. You can watch it whenever, put it on whatever media and sell your rights after your done. The future of media is not Video On Demand (that was last year) it Video On Demand ownership over Wireless (well maybe not the ownership).
The PGP Phone Project is dead now but it would be great of GPGP would revive it. The script kiddes would have a much tougher time cracking this and this is why the goverment is wanting a little help.
I try to shop online to get a 7% discount avoiding the sales tax penalty for local purchases. I would not mind buy locally but I ran into just as many problems at a local retailer as online.
The only rebate I have been denied was for a ViewSonic monitor I bought from BestBuy about 5 years ago. Back then, the rebates stated that if you do not include all necessary documents, you can resubmit. I forgot to include the UPC symbol and that was a $100 mistake. 8 weeks later, I got the letter stating that I did not include all information and that it would not be paid. 8 weeks is longer than the 30-day return policy. I think nowadays, you have the right to resubmit in these cases. Do not really know but I have not ever bought another viewsonic since and I have not ever forgot to re-read the fine print to know exactly what to send. The rebate hand in the middle of the paragraph what to include. I read the bottom that said it needed the receipt and a sticker from the box. It was my fault but I am still mad about that it was a $100 and local retailers only have customer service going for them.
developers of p2p file sharing software cannot be held liable for any copyright infringement
The dam is just about to break.