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HuckleCom writes: Many years ago when I was 15 (22 now), I entered a project for a pay-for-news site with a 'client'. There was no signed or written contract (There was a quote, which later meant nothing because the scope of the project changed). I eventually finished the project and had moved across the US in the process where I finally received payment. After many years of free support, and even some free hosting — I instructed the client to pay for their hosting and I would transfer the site to the new server. This request was never met, so I pulled the plug on the site and archived the files. Yesterday, I received a demand letter from an attorney requesting I send the code, data and content to the client. I was threatened with court seeking personal property seizure and/or wage garnishment with no monetary amount mentioned. I am fine with sending the data/content. But the code itself contains a few 'trade' secrets and redistributable code. My understanding is that the code belongs to me, the author under US copyright law. Is it reasonable to require monetary reimbursement to give ownership of all the site code? How would this case go over in a court?
Maybe it's just me - but it's like the U.S. media when all we see are 'LHC fails this, LHC fails that', not even newsworthy here.
A town without power is a bigger deal than this but we don't spam/. about it...
Because hopefully the purpose is to handle taxation to keep our roads and interstates in shape.... why not take that wasted $154mil and put that into the roads right now... that's a good start.
Think about it - $154mil to 'study' how to spend another $300mil? $1bil? $2bil? to 'implement' the outcomes of their study...
riiiiiggghhht...
I take that back...
Hasn't anyone learned anything from the Mars Rover? They have to be super careful to keep them flipin panels clean on the rover... something tells me nasa uses better solar panels then what would be on the roads...
Undersea transmission lines, backhoe to the fiber, natural disasters, botnets, worms, viruses, ddos, slashdotting - and to add icing to the cake, a presidential killswitch?
Brilliant.
1. That means it's new - sorry to break it to you.
2. Fiber is fiber, the switches that run that fiber aren't always owned by the government....
You -can- turn the internet for the US off by enforcing ISP's to implement a new protocol or procedure - whether it be human interaction or something technical - it's possible.
what you're leaving out is that there's many more gap fillers that essentially give the government full discretion of what is 'vital' or not - do you honestly trust them to keep their mitts on their own servers?
You should get out of your bubble. Some very large open source projects user mercurial now - Mozilla and Xen to name a few - there's a budding community just like github called bitbucket for mercurial.
Hell, Tovalds made git for kernel development....
