This is just one of many reasons not to give personal information to business entities. It doesn't matter how many promises are made, or how good a relationship you have with them, or what contracts or legal cleverness you have going on, the fact remains that they have your information and they can be compromised even if they themselves take every possible action to prevent this.
The only way to not have this happen is to not supply the information in the first place.
Might be fun to set up a low profile Icelandic legal entity whose sole function is to automatically renew the domain and pay the associated fees for the next thirty years. Could really annoy someone who was screwing with your finances to try and prevent you paying the bill.
It'd make a fun scene in a story. "Actually, we can hold you for 48 hours without release - it's total coincidence that this timeframe will also prevent you from renewing your domain... unless you turn over all the information to US! Bwa ha ha! Wait - why are you not looking concerned?"
And do some research to find out what domain-stealing possibilities exist that are not listed on the contract. Who can put political and/or financial pressure on the registry operator? And who can put pressure on those people? At the top levels, are the political leaders of the country the registry operators operate in able to hold their own in international politics, or are they signatories of any international agreements the US (or any of its allies past or present) has created or been heavily involved in pushing?
Bribe some bland yet charismatic young senator with so much money that they are able to win the Presidency. Stuff the US Congress with paid tools of your own devising. Pass a law to squash the *AA very messily.
If Microsoft thinks they're not getting good value from Google, why don't they advertise on other services instead - like Bing? Surely they're not implying that they've been making the choice of their own free will to pay Google's rates to date because advertising on Google has been AT LEAST fifty times as effective as advertising on Bing?
I'm waiting for the creating company to stop putting billions into the cancer cure, and start marketing it as the latest in hair dye tech. "Regain your natural hair color! No dye, no chemicals, no surgery! (Also cures cancer.)"
The TSA is revamped. Its new job is to follow John Mica around and strip-search him 30 times a month at random hours of the night for the rest of his life. His story is then to be made into a documentary which is mandatory viewing for any politician submitting a bill.
Concrete used to solidify faster, a century or so back. The industry actually changed standard formulations to get a slower-setting concrete because it was solidifying before the workers could get it into place.
Sounds like it might be time to dig up and dust off the old methods.
Short answer: Nobody wants an all-concrete house. Professor K is a great mechanical engineer, and the concrete printer did what it said on the tin, but at the end of the day it only printed out concrete.
(Source: I was an international rep for Contour Crafting for a while.)
I still think the idea's great - it just needs to be combined with printers/assemblers for other materials in order to not be relegated to a niche market of printing out driveways, ornamental walls, and statues.
"'All things: equal and opposite' - prose:
Vogon poets at work de-compose.
So to keep things as terse
As a singular 'verse
Needs a limerick. Cosmos enclosed."
I wonder what they'd do if you took the contract, swapped a couple of "first party" and "second party" clauses around, reprinted it, and signed it. Would they notice it in time to stop you owning everything the company (and owners and shareholders) did 24/7?
From what I've heard firsthand from women who worked in all-female whitecollar shops, this workplace attitude is not always due to the presence of men. Just as all-male sites have a weakness for gravitating towards recreations of highschool locker rooms, all-female sites have a higher chance of drifting into claws-out Backstab Central.
Good management can prevent both occurrences, but not everywhere has good management. And while some places may have a concentration of extremely intelligent staff, that intelligence may not be in the field of recognizing and handling social constructs.
Anyone renting a laptop should first boot from a CD and wipe the hard disk, or at least disable booting *from* the hard disk. Put electrical tape over the webcam, stick something muffling or a white noise generator over the microphone, wrap it in tinfoil to prevent GPS records being kept or any cell-based tracking hardware from phoning home...
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This is just one of many reasons not to give personal information to business entities. It doesn't matter how many promises are made, or how good a relationship you have with them, or what contracts or legal cleverness you have going on, the fact remains that they have your information and they can be compromised even if they themselves take every possible action to prevent this.
The only way to not have this happen is to not supply the information in the first place.
Might be fun to set up a low profile Icelandic legal entity whose sole function is to automatically renew the domain and pay the associated fees for the next thirty years. Could really annoy someone who was screwing with your finances to try and prevent you paying the bill.
It'd make a fun scene in a story. "Actually, we can hold you for 48 hours without release - it's total coincidence that this timeframe will also prevent you from renewing your domain... unless you turn over all the information to US! Bwa ha ha! Wait - why are you not looking concerned?"
And do some research to find out what domain-stealing possibilities exist that are not listed on the contract. Who can put political and/or financial pressure on the registry operator? And who can put pressure on those people? At the top levels, are the political leaders of the country the registry operators operate in able to hold their own in international politics, or are they signatories of any international agreements the US (or any of its allies past or present) has created or been heavily involved in pushing?
Bribe some bland yet charismatic young senator with so much money that they are able to win the Presidency. Stuff the US Congress with paid tools of your own devising. Pass a law to squash the *AA very messily.
If Microsoft thinks they're not getting good value from Google, why don't they advertise on other services instead - like Bing? Surely they're not implying that they've been making the choice of their own free will to pay Google's rates to date because advertising on Google has been AT LEAST fifty times as effective as advertising on Bing?
I'm waiting for the creating company to stop putting billions into the cancer cure, and start marketing it as the latest in hair dye tech. "Regain your natural hair color! No dye, no chemicals, no surgery! (Also cures cancer.)"
The TSA is revamped. Its new job is to follow John Mica around and strip-search him 30 times a month at random hours of the night for the rest of his life. His story is then to be made into a documentary which is mandatory viewing for any politician submitting a bill.
Yes, but Canada isn't completely fucking retarded.
Concrete used to solidify faster, a century or so back. The industry actually changed standard formulations to get a slower-setting concrete because it was solidifying before the workers could get it into place.
Sounds like it might be time to dig up and dust off the old methods.
Short answer: Nobody wants an all-concrete house. Professor K is a great mechanical engineer, and the concrete printer did what it said on the tin, but at the end of the day it only printed out concrete.
(Source: I was an international rep for Contour Crafting for a while.)
I still think the idea's great - it just needs to be combined with printers/assemblers for other materials in order to not be relegated to a niche market of printing out driveways, ornamental walls, and statues.
What would it cost to buy one and a half tons of pelleted steel from a car scrapyard?
Also, it's a lot easier for established companies to rip off the garage inventor and lodge the paperwork (and fees) first.
They will if Microsoft tells them to, and they're too lazy to research alternatives.
Yes, swamp gas vapor... reflected off Venus... weather balloon...
Underwater Floor-hugging Object.
Shh, no-one suspects yet!
"'All things: equal and opposite' - prose:
Vogon poets at work de-compose.
So to keep things as terse
As a singular 'verse
Needs a limerick. Cosmos enclosed."
I wonder what they'd do if you took the contract, swapped a couple of "first party" and "second party" clauses around, reprinted it, and signed it. Would they notice it in time to stop you owning everything the company (and owners and shareholders) did 24/7?
The media?! NO!
From what I've heard firsthand from women who worked in all-female whitecollar shops, this workplace attitude is not always due to the presence of men. Just as all-male sites have a weakness for gravitating towards recreations of highschool locker rooms, all-female sites have a higher chance of drifting into claws-out Backstab Central.
Good management can prevent both occurrences, but not everywhere has good management. And while some places may have a concentration of extremely intelligent staff, that intelligence may not be in the field of recognizing and handling social constructs.
"grom" is actually the perfect word for the dark-gritty-oh-so-serious genre.
"Citizen, hand over computer for checking of dissident TELEX client software! Also, you need new door!"
Anyone renting a laptop should first boot from a CD and wipe the hard disk, or at least disable booting *from* the hard disk. Put electrical tape over the webcam, stick something muffling or a white noise generator over the microphone, wrap it in tinfoil to prevent GPS records being kept or any cell-based tracking hardware from phoning home...
"Street-legal airplane" doesn't sell papers or be online Googlebait for zillions of cybertards lookin' fer flyin' carz.
"<-- I'm with stupid"