“If I retired from the Army as a brain surgeon, wouldn’t it be OK for me to go into private practice and make money doing brain surgery?” he asked. “I’m a cyber guy. Can’t I go to work and do cyber stuff?”
The “brain surgery” analogy is not even close to be analogous. This is more like he was the administrator of an army hospital who has now retired and says, despite never having personally done a brain surgery, he’s now invented a miraculous new way to do brain surgeries so powerful people have only dreamed of them before. Naturally, most people should be skeptical of such claims.
Author: KS
Is the European Patent Office a rogue state?
It would be easy to assume that the European Patent Office (EPO) stands in the same relationship to the European Union as the USPTO does to the United States, but that’s actually wide of the mark. The EPO is a very strange beast indeed, as its Wikipedia entry makes clear:
The premises of the European Patent Office enjoy a form of extraterritoriality. In accordance with the Protocol on Privileges and Immunities, which forms an integral part of the European Patent Convention under Article 164(1) EPC, the premises of the European Patent Organisation, and therefore those of the European Patent Office, are inviolable. The authorities of the States in which the Organisation has its premises are not authorized to enter those premises, except with the consent of the President of the European Patent Office.
Australia’s metadata debate is an utter shambles
Within a single day of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, taking to the microphone with attorney-general George Brandis and foreign minister Julie Bishop to announce the plan as a raft of counter-terrorism measures, the PM has:
- Broadened the justification for metadata retention from preventing terrorism to crime-fighting “in general”;
- Stated that the new laws are needed because carriers already store the data the government wants;
- Asserted that metadata retention will involve no cost to carriers because they already collect the data the government wants; and
- Broadened the scope of the data collection to Web browsing history, while simultaneously trotting out the national security establishment’s falsehood that metadata collection is no more than “reading what’s on the envelope”.
I draw food, no?
No.
I draw food for you for money and everybody happy, no?
I want to draw food for people because i liek
When challenge i break pen and not fun because i paint on paint and i have to draw on paint and it cost money
Nearly 40% Of Those On The Government’s Terrorist Watchlist Have ‘No Affiliation With Recognized Terrorism Groups’
Another leak has surfaced at The Intercept, notably a non-Snowden leak (“obtained from a source in the intelligence community”) that shows the utter ridiculousness of the government’s terrorist watchlist. Nothing states it better than the universal shrug judiciously applied to the 280,000 people that make up the largest portion of the chart.
The culmination of post-9/11 policies and the steady erosion of civil liberties in the service of “fighting terrorism” has opened up nearly 300,000 people to additional scrutiny because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .
The list has increased 10-fold during Obama’s stay in office, growing from 47,000 at the end of Bush’s term to 680,000, 40% of whom the government is sure represent some sort of a threat, even if it can’t quantify that in any specific way.
Corporate Sovereignty Tribunal Makes $50 Billion Award Against Russia
In an historic arbitral award rendered on July 18, 2014, an Arbitral Tribunal sitting in The Hague under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) held unanimously that the Russian Federation breached its international obligations under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) by destroying Yukos Oil Company and appropriating its assets. The Tribunal ordered the Russian Federation to pay damages in excess of USD 50 billion to our clients who were the majority shareholders of Yukos Oil Company.
In relative terms, the compensation award is equivalent to around 11 per cent of Russia’s foreign exchange reserves, 10 per cent of annual national budget and 2.5 per cent of country’s GDP. Given the magnitude of compensation, the Award could be more damaging to the Russian economy than all the economic sanctions imposed by the West against Russia for its actions in Ukraine.
Travel Recon- Military grade intelligence for your travel!
Yes, I’ve always thought I should need some military grade recon when I go on vacation. Or not.
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ITW = ILLUMINATE THE WORLD
PORTABLE INFINITE ENERGY FOR EVERYONE
Growing up, I have always realized that every house is about the same as far as structure, circuital, and framed. I always wondered, does every house need to be identically built? does every house have to follow the same steps as the one before? why can’t there be a house you can take with you that doesn’t pollute? These questions have all caused me to look into an alternative means of energy, one that you can take anywhere in the world and one that will always shine the light for your way home.
Initially, there may be some skepticism as to my device being considered a battery, however, what i will attempt to present to individuals is that this energy is everlasting.
Everlasting energy is impossible, unless you’ve found a way to break physics.
Union Street Guest House in Hudson Burns Own Reputation To The Ground By Trying To Charge Customers $500 For Bad Reviews
If you stay here to attend a wedding and leave us a negative review on any internet site you agree to a $500. fine for each negative review.
If you have booked the Inn for a wedding or other type of event anywhere in the region and given us a deposit of any kind for guests to stay at USGH there will be a $500 fine that will be deducted from your deposit for every negative review of USGH placed on any internet site by anyone in your party and/or attending your wedding or event (this is due to the fact that your guests may not understand what we offer and we expect you to explain that to them).
Appeals Court Uses Bogus Sherlock Holmes Case To Slam Copyright Trolling For License Fees, Suggests Antitrust Violations
The Doyle estate’s business strategy is plain: charge a modest license fee for which there is no legal basis, in the hope that the “rational” writer or publisher asked for the fee will pay it rather than incur a greater cost, in legal expenses, in challenging the legality of the demand. The strategy had worked with Random House; Pegasus was ready to knuckle under; only Klinger (so far as we know) resisted. In effect he was a private attorney general, combating a disreputable business practice—a form of extortion—and he is seeking by the present motion not to obtain a reward but merely to avoid a loss. He has performed a public service—and with substantial risk to himself, for had he lost he would have been out of pocket for the $69,803.37 in fees and costs incurred at the trial and appellate levels ($30,679.93 + $39,123.44). The willingness of someone in Klinger’s position to sue rather than pay Doyle’s estate a modest license fee is important because it injects risk into the estate’s business model. As a result of losing the suit, the estate has lost its claim to own copyrights in characters in the Sherlock Holmes stories published by Arthur Conan Doyle before 1923. For exposing the estate’s unlawful business strategy, Klinger deserves a reward but asks only to break even.