I recall a few years ago participating with a lot of others in a crowd source effort to categorize fuzzy pictures of possible galaxies. I think it was galaxy zoo.
So is this the result of our effort? Would be nice to know...
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
We go through this every time there is a DARPA challenge:
5 Intellectual Property
DARPA claims no rights to software developed by Open Track competitors as a result of participation in the CGC. DARPA does not intend to disclose the CQE and CFE Technical Papers outside the Government, with the following exception: CGC Technical Papers may be handled by DARPA support contractors for administrative purposes and/or to assist with technical evaluation. All DARPA support contractors performing this role are bound by nondisclosure agreements. DARPA does not intend to disclose CGC Technical Papers to contractors to duplicate, commercialize, or for reprocurement or reverse engineering purposes.
Do you think all the participants of the past DARPA grand challenges relating to autonomous vehicles have given away their IP? Of course not. Those teams that pushed through have made lucrative deals with car manufacturers and others.
All DARPA want's to do is spur innovation. A challenge like this is essentially a heads up that in 5 years they'd like to spend a lot of money on procuring services like these. In the past, they'd just give someone the money to build it, and maybe it worked, maybe it didn't. At least now it's a bit more market driven.
Also, i'm not sure if anyone else picked up on this, but he was giving out his box.com account credentials to clients so they could upload straight to the folder.
I gave them the email addresses of several people with whom I had shared files over the years, thinking maybe the account had been mistakenly assigned to them.
Hrrmm? that's odd. Why would you even think because you sent someone a link to your cloud shared folder that the cloud company would magically given them the account...unless you didn't send them some link....
My lovely and talented wife, with whom I collaborate on stories for Family Circle (where we used Box.com a lot), had apparently invited an employee of this PR firm to upload an image to one of our shared folders last April
Ahh, now this language seems a bit too obtuse. "Invited an employee to upload an image". At first glance, you'd think you send this PR employee a link and they uploaded to your box.com folder. But you can't do that with box.com.... Only way to let someone upload to your folder is via an E-mail ( which won't work for large files ) or the 'upload widget' which you have to host on a website and it's up to you to lock it down ( he didn't use this either ). Failing that, YOU HAVE TO GIVE YOUR ACCOUNT USERNAME/PW TO THE PERSON TO UPLOAD TO YOU.
They probably pulled all the accounts used from an IP range known to be the PR firm, and assumed that's "PR Firms" employees. Since this employee had the username/pw, what else were they to assume.
Not a brilliant move on Box.com's part, but also, a stupid move on this writers part.
Most of these large cloud storage apps make it difficult for someone else to 'contribute' (upload) files. Otherwise they get abused for warez or porn.
Long story short, this guy violated their terms of agreement and gave away his username and password and was amazed when his files disappeared.
If he wasn't a tech writer, they would have written him off and rightly so. If anything, this is "Treat me different, I'm the press" mentality.
I'd take a short story on a few of his Halloween parties. I imagine it reads like 120 days of sodom....
Not all are locked. It wasn't illegal to switch cars on the subway until 2005. And then it became a 75 dollar fine.
The ones that are locked are the newer models which the locks can be controlled by the conductor. Also, only the trains that have extreme turns or spots where there is a very large gap between the cars, get locked.
The 1/2/3 line weren't locked last time I hit a car with no AC in the summer.
Also, on the 1 line for south ferry you have to move between cars because only the first 5 reach the platform... Not sure how they handle this these days.
Same conflict exists in all the inspector type operations. We seem to do fine. Your job may be funded by Tyson Chicken, but your boss works for the USDA, and so do you. IG's make sure there's no shenanigans.
Also this: http://www.geonames.org/
That's one way to look at it.
The other way to look at it is, the USGIS name database should have been contracted and paid for in say 10 year increments. Any funding disruption less than a full year should not impact them...
Plenty of other departments of the government are running just fine off user fees too. Not sure if USGIS required a fee to use, but why not ask for 10 bucks a year to cover their data hosting costs.
Who else is going to deny every application to build safer, more modern reactors?
EPA kept 6% on staff.... probably enough to sign a piece of paper talking about some endangered owl on the future plant site....
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