The author is right, nobody would have ever thought that the kind of people who lurk in the computer underground would ever use open source tools or methods to develop their malware. We all thought that "those people" were paying Microsoft for copies of Visual Studio and writing all of their code based explicitly on MSDN code samples.
It is not so much about hating Apple as it is that Apple is the perfect example of monetary imbalance. They made BILLIONS of dollars in profit LAST QUARTER. Three months, BILLIONS OF DOLLARS (13.06 billion according the article I read). They made those profits on the backs of slave laborers, working in harsh conditions. People with one shred of a social conscience recognize that those profits are obscene and morally wrong.
If Apple cannot produce their products in the US, they can at least improve the standard of living for the people who do make their products. I bet that one of those multiple billions that Apple made, divided evenly among the Foxconn workforce would equal one hell of a bonus check for the employees.
Of course it won't happen. Apple does not give two shits about their workers. They are not alone in that. They are just a bright, shining example of how capitalism is skewed in favor of the employer and away from the people who actually make the goods.
IP is about a lot more than Hollywood movies and music. All of that "manufacturing know-how, research, etc" that you are so concerned with is also IP.
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RTFA? Who has time for that? I post based on conjecture and wild ass guesses. I will leave article reading for those with free time.
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The title says it all.
Let Apple taste some of their medicine. They consider themselves to be so smart, and such savvy marketers. Yet they failed to do a few simple searches to make sure that they were not co-opting someone else's name? Or perhaps they did, and decided that it did not matter? If the latter, they double plus good on them getting sued.
These people use biofeedback to help with ADHD and other conditions.
http://www.drakeinstitute.com/
I did one of their treatment programs about a decade ago. There really is a "feeling" associated with being focused. Via biofeedback you can train the mind to recognize mental states in the brain. It is a very powerful and useful science.
It seems like the military is taking shortcuts. Rather than going through a 6 month program, they are just pumping some current through the areas of the brain related to the type of learning that they are trying to enhance. It seems like it would be effective. Once the synapses have been formed, the training is more or less permanent.
I wonder if they've considered piracetam or other nootropics to further enhance the process.
The Unincorporated Man is another great, recently written, dystopian future kind of book. The underlying premise to the book is that in the future, every person is a corporation unto themselves. People's stock is bought and sold on the market. In effect, people become investors in each other. Obviously the majority of people end up being owned by others. The greatest accomplishment for a person is to reach "majority", to have the controlling stake in themselves.
All in all, it is a well written and entertaining book. I will probably appeal to most
You have to have internal "firewalls" (yes, they stole the term from the networking world) in place to limit contact between the groups working on the different matters. Even with internal controls in place, you still have to inform the client that your firm is representing the other party.
Most of the time, only the largest firms can hope to have enough resources and controls in place to separate large litigations like that. I'm surprised that Pepper Hamilton dropped the ball on this one.
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