Granted, it was all gums, mints and off the shelf medications (no prescriptions, sorry).
Pfizer employees can also get reimbursed for their Pfizer-produced prescription meds. They just can't walk into the company store and get them.
Drugs are also patented many years before they are launched, so the window of patent protection overlaps the development process. You don't get patent protection from the day the FDA gives the 'thumbs up'.
I am told by a friend of mine who works for selling drugs to doctors that appoximately 70% of the cost of the drug is marketing expenses.
While that is true, it is only true for the small number of drugs that actually get LAUNCHED. The vast majority of the drugs developed never make a dime for the company. Add the fact that a drug may be in development for 15 years before it is DROPPED and you have a situation where marketing the drugs that make it is extremely important.
I know it wasn't ACTUALLY steroids, but a nutritional supplement that has the same effect as steroids: it builds muscle mass and power
They don't build muscle mass and power, the hours that McGwire puts into strength training do that. The supplements are no good if you are just sitting on the couch. By the way, not many of McGwires HRs would have been in play even if you took 10 feet off them.
We're treading onto some very thin ice with this subject. I personally use port scanners all the time. But if anybody else on my network is caught using one,
then I'm gonna get very suspicious.
You are right to be suspicious, and any good admin will investigate. However, it makes perfect sense that you shouldn't be able to sue the scanner for the time you lost investigating it.
However, if through the use of a port scanner, a script kiddie finds a weakness in one of your web servers and proceeds to take down your network, then I
think it does "impair the integrity nor availability of the network."
I think the weakness itself impairs the integrity of the network, and the taking down of the network to be a crime. The use of the port scanner itself doesn't impair the network.
Well, considering it is a microsoft.com page, I think that it is entirely correct to attribute the author's intentions as malice (or at least intentional misinformation). I do agree on your last point however.
That may be legal, but it makes smoke pour out of Bill Gates' ears. It is also getting more tricky w/ vendor specific install media (ie. my company's gateway2k laptops came with win2k CD's that check if they are being installed on a gateway2k).
Hey, the only things passwords protect on this site are preferences and Karma. Lots of people have seen the slash code and no one thought that Karma was so important.
it's obvious that you don't get this. The/. crowd generally favors opt-in rather than pain-in-the-arse opt-out company policies. When such policies are implemented by a company that has negative karma (MS), we like it even less.
Unfortunately, no one actually believes that the enemy's IP missiles can really destroy them, so they aren't afraid to fire. Everyone gets screwed and the lawyers get rich, same old same old.
He is charging that amount because he is not going to sell as many copies as he would if it was a paper book. King could sell his grocery list at Walden Books and sell a million copies. This is his way of using his clout to test new waters.
If you make an agreement you don't like, it's ok to break it.
Like it said in the summary, some states actually give legal exemption from EULAs in cases of mass mailings, etc. DC gave away their product with the assumption that all consumers are idiots.
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That'd be a vivisection.
The retail package from launch has included 1 controller and 1 nunchuck.
The first generation shuffle had it too. It has a three-way switch: Off, Sequential, & Shuffle.
Granted, it was all gums, mints and off the shelf medications (no prescriptions, sorry).
Pfizer employees can also get reimbursed for their Pfizer-produced prescription meds. They just can't walk into the company store and get them.
I think you're right on the money... this is a way to pass the buck to the ISPs
If my Linux box wasn't kept up to date, there would be quite a few remote root exploits similar to this.
If you had read a little further:
The kicker is that a patched system can be rendered vulnerable again by a hostile web site or HTML email.
Drugs are also patented many years before they are launched, so the window of patent protection overlaps the development process. You don't get patent protection from the day the FDA gives the 'thumbs up'.
While that is true, it is only true for the small number of drugs that actually get LAUNCHED. The vast majority of the drugs developed never make a dime for the company. Add the fact that a drug may be in development for 15 years before it is DROPPED and you have a situation where marketing the drugs that make it is extremely important.
He broke the law. - umm... he has been accused of breaking the law
The law hasn't been ruled unconstitutional yet because it hasn't been challenged yet. Lets not forget that it hasn't been upheld either.
They don't build muscle mass and power, the hours that McGwire puts into strength training do that. The supplements are no good if you are just sitting on the couch. By the way, not many of McGwires HRs would have been in play even if you took 10 feet off them.
When the copyright runs out and the work enters the public domain, the DMCA will protect the work beyond copyright.
Piracy increases the costs for people who aren't thieves.
So does anti-piracy technology
If we remove the tools, we remove the crime, and the world is better off in the end.
How many classes of crime have ever been eliminated through removal of tools?
You are right to be suspicious, and any good admin will investigate. However, it makes perfect sense that you shouldn't be able to sue the scanner for the time you lost investigating it.
I think the weakness itself impairs the integrity of the network, and the taking down of the network to be a crime. The use of the port scanner itself doesn't impair the network.
well, standing on the sidewalk and looking at your neighbors door isn't illegal.
We are supposed to be waving the flag saying 'hey, install linux, we got cool games etc etc.'
Flag waving isn't going to accomplish much. This may persuade some game developers to break away from their dependence on everything MS.
Well, considering it is a microsoft.com page, I think that it is entirely correct to attribute the author's intentions as malice (or at least intentional misinformation). I do agree on your last point however.
That may be legal, but it makes smoke pour out of Bill Gates' ears. It is also getting more tricky w/ vendor specific install media (ie. my company's gateway2k laptops came with win2k CD's that check if they are being installed on a gateway2k).
Hey, the only things passwords protect on this site are preferences and Karma. Lots of people have seen the slash code and no one thought that Karma was so important.
it's obvious that you don't get this. The /. crowd generally favors opt-in rather than pain-in-the-arse opt-out company policies. When such policies are implemented by a company that has negative karma (MS), we like it even less.
Unfortunately, no one actually believes that the enemy's IP missiles can really destroy them, so they aren't afraid to fire. Everyone gets screwed and the lawyers get rich, same old same old.
bitchin' and moaning on /. does make a difference!! ;)
He is charging that amount because he is not going to sell as many copies as he would if it was a paper book. King could sell his grocery list at Walden Books and sell a million copies. This is his way of using his clout to test new waters.
Think about the percentages back when everything he wrote seemed to push 1000 pages...
Well King already had a hugely successful serial novel called The Green Mile. So yes, people are willing to wait for his story to unfold.
Like it said in the summary, some states actually give legal exemption from EULAs in cases of mass mailings, etc. DC gave away their product with the assumption that all consumers are idiots.