There is a real problem here, and that is that the so-called 3rd party reseller hasn't been brought into the action at bar. Here we go:
Planet 9, the reseller, had several interactions with the Navy, because as noted, Bitmanagement didn't do site licensing. The Navy ended up believing they were covered. Now, Bitmanagement is insisting that they have a beef with the Navy, when in fact it is with Planet 9. IOW, if you authorize someone to act on your behalf, you better either educate them thoroughly as to what they can and/or can't do in your name, or else you're going to end up mired down in lawsuits like this one.
Even if Planet 9 did not actually issue a site license, they sure gave that impression to the Navy, so there'd better be some paperwork backing their position, or else the Navy is gonna.... sail on this one. Bitmanagement is then going to go after Planet 9 for disrupting their business practices and costing them valid income.
The military uses a numbering system to denote occupational specialties. 11B stands for Basic Infantryman. In full, 11B is always suffixed with 10, 20 or greater to denote the level of training and demonstrated skill.
TaboToka sounds like he might've been there and done that, I admit that my specialty kept me away from that line of work.
So what's to stop the cable carriers from investing in enough channel capacity to actually deliver what they promise? They could just take some of that bail-out money and apply it where they told Congress/FCC they were gonna put it.... couldn't they?
I don't understand their rationale, but maybe that's why I don't get the big bucks.
I am not in love with this country. After all, it is only a geographical place on the planet where I happen to live - I could live almost anywhere, geographically speaking.
However, I am enthralled with the ideology of this particular country. Freedoms are only a part of that, but a big part nonetheless. I need not go into the why's and wherefore's, but suffice it to say that I'm a veteran, and as such, I'd like to offer up the followoing quote:
A veteran is a person who at one time wrote a blank check payable to the United States of America, for "any amount up to and including my life". That is honor, and sadly, too many Americans today don't understand that concept.
Where the original quotation used the word "honor", I happen to think that this is also about as pure a definition of patriotism as one can find, and sadly, far too many Americans take that blank check and wipe their butts with it. As noted above, some of us vets don't exactly fit the definition of "happy camper". I hope I've given some of you a better understanding as to why that is so.
Re: 'Think of the freedoms!' cried the people attacking them
Don't like it then don't watch it, or do something about the reason they're protesting.
THIS!!!!
IOW, treat the cause, not the symptom. And while you legislators are busy pissing and moaning, be damned glad that said kneeling protesters aren't taking a cue from Trump's book of "How To Protest". If you keep ignoring their reasons for protesting, it won't be long before they do start reading that book, and oh boy, I'm gonna start buying shares in both Excedrin and Phillips' Milk Of Magnesia.
Well, it could also be a case where he knows that he'll never lose an election, no matter what the public might think of him. Either he's got backers with some very deep pockets (and inversely proportional mental acuity), or he's got the vote counters/administrators up against the wall with some very damaging skeletons that those people don't want to see leave the closet.
Elmer Fudd's head would be spinning right about now....
First off the bat, Thompson approached the State asking for a license fee on his patent - that right there say that he intended to do business with the State, not with one of its employees. When he gets the brush-off, only then does he bring suit against an employee of said State. Not a good omen of things to come.
OK, but insofar as I'm aware, every state (and indeed, every government organizational unit) indemnifies their employees when they are performing their assigned duties. This should be enough to foreclose any suit against a public employee carrying out his public duties. But as we all know, sometimes courts can go all manner of pear-shaped, so take my words with a grain of salt.
And as it happens, the State could do one or more of several things. Presumably Thompson wants the court to order Melcher to have his department to stop using the app, and take steps to prevent its use in the future. All the State has to so is remove this ability (to stop the app's use) from Melcher's job description, and place it directly within the purview of either the Governer or the Legislature. Sayonara, Mr. Thompson.
Another thing would be to juggle Melcher's job assignment such that he's no longer in charge of the ODFW, someone else is. Back to court for you, Mr. Thompson - wrong name on the complaint.
This is one time where I'd root for the State to give a citizen the run-around. And that's all before Melcher's lawyers get serious and start proceedings to have the patent tossed as invalid, for reasons described in the article.
Keep in mind that Hansmeier was only one half of the operation - in all likelyhood, John Steele also got about half of that "income" (read as: proceeds from illegal activity). When Hansmeier testified that the income was about 3 million, he left out the magic word "each".
Disclaimer: In actuality, I don't know that for a fact, I'm deducing such from reported accounts and not from a direct transcription of the court proceedings.
Side note: Kudos to Agent Kary for going through the (cooked) books in an attempt to piece together the trail of stolen cash. If his compass is still pointing North, then my hat's off to him - I know I couldn't've remained sane after wallowing in that particular cesspool.
They never attach strings to handouts unless they're going to the poor.
I'm fairly certain that you've not been reading the financial press vis-a-vis the American auto industry for the past several decades. Take a look at this article, which details the requirements placed upon Chrysler and General Motors, in 2009:
Those two are the tip of the iceberg. In point of fact, the (American) government has a specific program for exactly this kind of thing, and it's not what's you' might call "free and easy" to get through all the hoops. If you're truly interested in this kind of stuff, look up "Troubled Asset Relief Program" (aka TARP).
Trust me, I've got plenty to do. My Honey-do list is so long that when she passes on, her daughter will inherit the thing, and I'll be still be working off that list until it's my turn to meet my maker.
And for the record..... I don't hand out advice, I "give you the benefit of some of my life's experiences". There is a difference, subtle though it may seem. ;)
I also have no less than 3 XP machines, all running just fine, TYVM. Two of them are in daily production, the last is kept as a spare, just in case ('cause they're all old). The CNC machinery they operate will run on Win7, but why bother - if it works, don't mess with it.
Oh, yeah... they are both connected to the world only via sneaker-net.
I might be repeating myself, but so what, it never hurts to hear it again: When it comes to connecting to computers outside of your immediate physical control, you must adhere to the Prime Maxim of security - Practice Safe Hex! If you depend on someone ele's soft/firm/hardware to protect you, then you've already lost, you just don't know it yet. Actually THINKING about security - there's no acceptable substitute.
A human quicker than a computer/sensor? Only if the firmware had a built-in delay before taking action, or at least sending out an alert. Like pointed out in all of the above comments, that would be a designed-in failure just waiting for exploitation.
Time to get Clifford Stoll on the job, and find this bugger - he (or she) is obviously intent on more than just molesting a government system, they're out to cause radical, and possibly irreversible, harm to an undeserving populace.
For years, the Obama DOJ refused to indict him, in part due to the recognition that nearly all of Assange's activities were similar to the kinds of things that journalists do all the time.
It would be unfortunately if Biden continued along the same path the Obama administration did in pretending that journalism is a form of espionage.
I think my sentence parsing mechanism just blew a gasket - it's insisting that these are two opposing viewpoints. Either that, or the second sentence should've used the name of a different former president. I dunno.
I have to applaud Musk for at least doing something, which is miles better than any of the big ISP's. I'll let the subsidy business ride for a moment, 'cause I want to look at the very first figures posted by Karl:
$600 first month;
$100 a month after that;
and
$500 hardware charge
That's $1100 bucks just to say "I do", and another hundred smackers a month after that. What's not known to me at this time is, does the hardware charge mean it's yours forever, or is that a "deposit" in case something goes pear-shaped in the future? But as much or more to the point, I'm assuming that theses dollars are what an actual customer will pay in order to get Starlink into his/her home, yes? Well, let's observe the demograpics along side of the geographics, eh.
In order to live in the targeted service area, aka the "out back", where connectivity is spotty or non-existent, you have to be in one of two classes - you're so rich that you can afford to have water trucked into your compound every other day, or you're so poor that you can't afford to live where they tax you half way to death before you even get out of bed in the morning. That second set of citizens has learned to make the land provide for them, and while they may not be happy about it, they're dealing with it as best as they can. But that money charge? That's off the table for them, you can make bank on that one. Unless that's part of what's called the subsidy.... If so, then I'll back off quietly, TYVM.
Otherwise, we'er right back where we started; same shit, different target of whining.
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There is a real problem here, and that is that the so-called 3rd party reseller hasn't been brought into the action at bar. Here we go:
Planet 9, the reseller, had several interactions with the Navy, because as noted, Bitmanagement didn't do site licensing. The Navy ended up believing they were covered. Now, Bitmanagement is insisting that they have a beef with the Navy, when in fact it is with Planet 9. IOW, if you authorize someone to act on your behalf, you better either educate them thoroughly as to what they can and/or can't do in your name, or else you're going to end up mired down in lawsuits like this one.
Even if Planet 9 did not actually issue a site license, they sure gave that impression to the Navy, so there'd better be some paperwork backing their position, or else the Navy is gonna.... sail on this one. Bitmanagement is then going to go after Planet 9 for disrupting their business practices and costing them valid income.
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Re: The CIA doesn't do assassinations...
Actually, the correct term is "Sanction, with extreme prejudice".
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Re:
OK, Brook, we get it.
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Re: Re: Re:
For those not in the know.....
The military uses a numbering system to denote occupational specialties. 11B stands for Basic Infantryman. In full, 11B is always suffixed with 10, 20 or greater to denote the level of training and demonstrated skill.
TaboToka sounds like he might've been there and done that, I admit that my specialty kept me away from that line of work.
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Re: Make sense
So what's to stop the cable carriers from investing in enough channel capacity to actually deliver what they promise? They could just take some of that bail-out money and apply it where they told Congress/FCC they were gonna put it.... couldn't they?
I don't understand their rationale, but maybe that's why I don't get the big bucks.
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Re:
That was a low blow, insulting gastropods like that.
On the post: Tennessee Politicians Ask State Colleges To Forbid Student-Athletes From Kneeling During The National Anthem
I am not in love with this country. After all, it is only a geographical place on the planet where I happen to live - I could live almost anywhere, geographically speaking.
However, I am enthralled with the ideology of this particular country. Freedoms are only a part of that, but a big part nonetheless. I need not go into the why's and wherefore's, but suffice it to say that I'm a veteran, and as such, I'd like to offer up the followoing quote:
Where the original quotation used the word "honor", I happen to think that this is also about as pure a definition of patriotism as one can find, and sadly, far too many Americans take that blank check and wipe their butts with it. As noted above, some of us vets don't exactly fit the definition of "happy camper". I hope I've given some of you a better understanding as to why that is so.
On the post: Tennessee Politicians Ask State Colleges To Forbid Student-Athletes From Kneeling During The National Anthem
Re: 'Think of the freedoms!' cried the people attacking them
THIS!!!!
IOW, treat the cause, not the symptom. And while you legislators are busy pissing and moaning, be damned glad that said kneeling protesters aren't taking a cue from Trump's book of "How To Protest". If you keep ignoring their reasons for protesting, it won't be long before they do start reading that book, and oh boy, I'm gonna start buying shares in both Excedrin and Phillips' Milk Of Magnesia.
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Re: Re:
I first read that as "/s amused", because I did find it humorous.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Evidence
That got my vote for Insightful!
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Re: Telling argument
Well, it could also be a case where he knows that he'll never lose an election, no matter what the public might think of him. Either he's got backers with some very deep pockets (and inversely proportional mental acuity), or he's got the vote counters/administrators up against the wall with some very damaging skeletons that those people don't want to see leave the closet.
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There's something scwewy around here!
Elmer Fudd's head would be spinning right about now....
First off the bat, Thompson approached the State asking for a license fee on his patent - that right there say that he intended to do business with the State, not with one of its employees. When he gets the brush-off, only then does he bring suit against an employee of said State. Not a good omen of things to come.
OK, but insofar as I'm aware, every state (and indeed, every government organizational unit) indemnifies their employees when they are performing their assigned duties. This should be enough to foreclose any suit against a public employee carrying out his public duties. But as we all know, sometimes courts can go all manner of pear-shaped, so take my words with a grain of salt.
And as it happens, the State could do one or more of several things. Presumably Thompson wants the court to order Melcher to have his department to stop using the app, and take steps to prevent its use in the future. All the State has to so is remove this ability (to stop the app's use) from Melcher's job description, and place it directly within the purview of either the Governer or the Legislature. Sayonara, Mr. Thompson.
Another thing would be to juggle Melcher's job assignment such that he's no longer in charge of the ODFW, someone else is. Back to court for you, Mr. Thompson - wrong name on the complaint.
This is one time where I'd root for the State to give a citizen the run-around. And that's all before Melcher's lawyers get serious and start proceedings to have the patent tossed as invalid, for reasons described in the article.
On the post: Appeals Court Affirms $1.5 Million Restitution Judgment Against Paul Hansmeier
Re: So if I Rob a bank?
Keep in mind that Hansmeier was only one half of the operation - in all likelyhood, John Steele also got about half of that "income" (read as: proceeds from illegal activity). When Hansmeier testified that the income was about 3 million, he left out the magic word "each".
Disclaimer: In actuality, I don't know that for a fact, I'm deducing such from reported accounts and not from a direct transcription of the court proceedings.
Side note: Kudos to Agent Kary for going through the (cooked) books in an attempt to piece together the trail of stolen cash. If his compass is still pointing North, then my hat's off to him - I know I couldn't've remained sane after wallowing in that particular cesspool.
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Re:
I'm fairly certain that you've not been reading the financial press vis-a-vis the American auto industry for the past several decades. Take a look at this article, which details the requirements placed upon Chrysler and General Motors, in 2009:
https://www.thebalance.com/auto-industry-bailout-gm-ford-chrysler-3305670
But this bailout was predicated on history. Try this article on for size:
https://www.heritage.org/government-regulation/report/the-chrysler-bail-out-bust
Those two are the tip of the iceberg. In point of fact, the (American) government has a specific program for exactly this kind of thing, and it's not what's you' might call "free and easy" to get through all the hoops. If you're truly interested in this kind of stuff, look up "Troubled Asset Relief Program" (aka TARP).
HTH
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Re: Re: Re: Re:
Trust me, I've got plenty to do. My Honey-do list is so long that when she passes on, her daughter will inherit the thing, and I'll be still be working off that list until it's my turn to meet my maker.
And for the record..... I don't hand out advice, I "give you the benefit of some of my life's experiences". There is a difference, subtle though it may seem. ;)
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I also have no less than 3 XP machines, all running just fine, TYVM. Two of them are in daily production, the last is kept as a spare, just in case ('cause they're all old). The CNC machinery they operate will run on Win7, but why bother - if it works, don't mess with it.
Oh, yeah... they are both connected to the world only via sneaker-net.
I might be repeating myself, but so what, it never hurts to hear it again: When it comes to connecting to computers outside of your immediate physical control, you must adhere to the Prime Maxim of security - Practice Safe Hex! If you depend on someone ele's soft/firm/hardware to protect you, then you've already lost, you just don't know it yet. Actually THINKING about security - there's no acceptable substitute.
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Re: Re: That shouldn't even be an option
A human quicker than a computer/sensor? Only if the firmware had a built-in delay before taking action, or at least sending out an alert. Like pointed out in all of the above comments, that would be a designed-in failure just waiting for exploitation.
Time to get Clifford Stoll on the job, and find this bugger - he (or she) is obviously intent on more than just molesting a government system, they're out to cause radical, and possibly irreversible, harm to an undeserving populace.
On the post: Civil Rights Groups Argue That Biden Should Drop Assange Prosecution; Noting That It Is An Attack On Journalism
I think my sentence parsing mechanism just blew a gasket - it's insisting that these are two opposing viewpoints. Either that, or the second sentence should've used the name of a different former president. I dunno.
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Would said optics perhaps involve a glass belly button, the kind that distorts one's vision??
On the post: Annoyance Builds At Elon Musk Getting A Billion In Subsidies For Starlink Broadband
I have to applaud Musk for at least doing something, which is miles better than any of the big ISP's. I'll let the subsidy business ride for a moment, 'cause I want to look at the very first figures posted by Karl:
$600 first month;
$100 a month after that;
and
$500 hardware charge
That's $1100 bucks just to say "I do", and another hundred smackers a month after that. What's not known to me at this time is, does the hardware charge mean it's yours forever, or is that a "deposit" in case something goes pear-shaped in the future? But as much or more to the point, I'm assuming that theses dollars are what an actual customer will pay in order to get Starlink into his/her home, yes? Well, let's observe the demograpics along side of the geographics, eh.
In order to live in the targeted service area, aka the "out back", where connectivity is spotty or non-existent, you have to be in one of two classes - you're so rich that you can afford to have water trucked into your compound every other day, or you're so poor that you can't afford to live where they tax you half way to death before you even get out of bed in the morning. That second set of citizens has learned to make the land provide for them, and while they may not be happy about it, they're dealing with it as best as they can. But that money charge? That's off the table for them, you can make bank on that one. Unless that's part of what's called the subsidy.... If so, then I'll back off quietly, TYVM.
Otherwise, we'er right back where we started; same shit, different target of whining.
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