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Well, some of the issues seem to be:

1. The movie "Gravity" is primarily an action/special-effects pageant about an astronaut trying to get safely back to Earth after an accident destroys the space station she was on. The book "Gravity" is a medical techno-thriller about a doctor in space fighting a disease outbreak on a space station. Reasonable people can probably disagree about whether the movie, given its significantly different plot, is even a derivative of the book at this point.

2. The lawsuit was not regarding plagiarism, but rather for breach of contract related to the film rights for the book. Gerritsen alleges that Warner Brothers was bound by and failed to observe the terms of a contract she had signed with a company which became a subsidiary of New Line, which in turn became a subsidiary of Warner Brothers. The court found that even if all allegations in her complaint were taken to be true, they still would not establish that Warner Brothers was bound by that contract. This mostly seems to depend on the arcana of contract law and how mergers and acquisitions pass obligations on (or don't pass them on), and suggests that the main issue was either she or her attorney did not sufficiently understand those arcana (given that she apparently contracted for a percentage of net rather than gross, a lack of experience in what makes a good contract for film rights seems likely) in order to build a successful complaint.
That sounds like a regular lead developer, but I agree a good lead dev is worth more than any software architect.
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Did you miss the part about the person who wrote the script for the movie being involved in the original project, based on the book?
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FYI, this is standard fare for any undergraduate-level E&M class.

The interesting part of deriving the wave equation from Maxwell's Laws, in my opinion, is how the permittivity and permeability of free space (epsilon_0 and mu_0) can both measured macroscopically in a small laboratory, by measuring forces between electric charges and current-carrying wires. Put these two seemingly unrelated values together and they give you the speed of light!

Another FYI - the author of the wiki proof in step 8 showed the vector calculus proof the 'long' (and boring) way, those vector calculus relations can usually be solved MUCH more easily and concisely using the Levi-Cevita algebra.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi-Civita_symbol
Did you miss the part where this was a contract issue? Where the author of the book said, literally, "Yeah, Gravity is a great film, but it's not based on my book"? She's trying to argue that a contract she made with one company would somehow jump across multiple acquisitions, mergers and organizational changes and begin binding a different company that made a movie she admits wasn't based on her book. And that's why it comes down to contract law, and contracts do not represent an easy, straightforward, intuitive body of law.

You don't particularly have to like the way that stuff works, but the simple truth is that changing it to make it work the intuitive and desired way in this particular case would probably result in many more other types of cases suddenly coming out in ways you wouldn't like.
Cloudflare offer free SSL now, so if you are small and can't afford a certificate, they could be a good choice.
The last third of the ruling covers the cases under California law in which an acquirer gains successor-in-interest liabilities, and they seem to address exactly the kind of fraud you're referring to.

Also, Gerritsen specifically alleged "fraud", and so the ruling considers whether sufficient facts were presented which, stipulated as true, would have led to a colorable fraud claim.
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The author clarifies in another post on her blog[1] that she isn't claiming that the film is sufficiently similar to the book that it would infringe on her intellectual property. Rather, she is arguing that she has a contract which guarantees her certain compensation if the studio make a film "based on" her book, and that "based on" doesn't require that the film be so similar to the book that it would infringe her copyright. She references an earlier court case (about the film "Coming to America") which distinguishes what would count as copyright infringement from what would count as a film being "based on" a story, when the words "based on" are used in a contract[2]. This does seem like a slightly headache-inducing legal subtlety.

[1]: http://www.tessgerritsen.com/difference-breach-contract-copy...

[2]: http://web.archive.org/web/20111108152730/http://www.degenev...
At least some of those big numbers are overnight loans that were granted in exchange for collateral (i.e., they were secured by some asset or another) and paid back the next day.

That doesn't meet 'not paid back'. You can probably call it unfair.

I don't know the timeline of it, but the fed published a bunch of the data on one of the facilities here:

http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/reform_pdcf.htm

Note that on that page, it says All loans extended under this facility were repaid in full, with interest, in accordance with the terms of the facility.

The Bloomberg articles don't really talk about where the numbers come from, but I expect most of the other loans were similar, short term and secured by assets.

We've also gone beyond TARP here.
S/MIME != SSL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S/MIME
I've noticed the same thing. Management tends to be older white men with MBAs and there's a big culture divide between them and the developers who control their destiny. So what do they do? They go hire a guy about their age with a CS degree and an MBA to be the trusted representative and they pay him more than any developer. It doesn't just happen in software either, I've seen the same thing with biologists at bio tech companies. Some brand new white baby boomer ends up in charge of the biology team that's been there for years all because the white baby boomer boss doesn't want to handle the mostly female and non-white employees.
I can appreciate what you're saying, as the truth is that the cost of public transport varies wildly. I remember being surprised at how much better (cheaper, more frequent, higher quality buses) the bus service in Cardiff was compared to my home city (Bath). It's a bit of a lottery, not much you can do as (in my experience) it tends to be a single company that dominates the bus transport in an area.

Worth cycling home from work?
Interesting that this article discusses the Big Bang as happening after Inflation. I always assumed Inflation was the initial stage of the Big Bang. Is that just assumed in casual descriptions, but technically not true?
At one point the judge rebuts one of Gerritsen's arguments, regarding the nature of WB's control over New Line, by acknowledging "judicial notice" of WB's 10-K filings while refusing to evaluate them for truth. What does it mean to "take notice" of something without "considering it for truth"?
The instructions in the link I gave very clearly result in a certificate using 1024-bit RSA. Anyone can download the installer or openvpn.zip from there and check for themselves.

% wget https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/openvpn/openvpn.zip
% unzip openvpn.zip
% openssl x509 -in ca.crt -text -noout | grep Public.*Key
Subject Public Key Info:
Public Key Algorithm: rsaEncryption
Public-Key: (1024 bit)

The vpn-encryption page you linked only compounds the problem, because it gives people a false impression that you actually are providing acceptably strong crypto.
Mangosteens! Good, fresh ones are spectacular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_mangosteen

Unfortunately they keep really badly and insects love them, so imports are banned in much of the world. The name also doesn't help, as they have nothing to do with mangoes.
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With Apple dropping the ball with Yosemite, I am keeping an eye out for alternatives. I’m hoping someone will pick up that ball and provide the world with an easy-to-use, “intelligently designed”, innovative, secure operating system that is performant and doesn’t kill your laptop’s battery life.
I think this was similar to the argument he made.
My biggest concern: currently, programming is 10% thinking and 90% plumbing.

Most applications, even in the distributed web-service age, are just about sending data from A to B. Or updating results based on changes of inputs. If we cannot solve these problems in a simple and generic way, then most of our intellectual capacity is lost to basic plumbing work.

And unfortunately, new programming languages and frameworks are not making the tasks fundamentally simpler, only superficially (like reducing the required number of lines-of-code by merely a constant factor).

Another problem I see is that functionality is often duplicated among multiple languages. For example, there's a library for doing computational geometry, written in Python, in C++, in Haskell, in Javascript, etc. This is of course enormously wasteful, and the only thing necessary to solve this is a decent mapping between languages.

In other words, we need better tools to get ourselves out of this mess.
Her contract stipulated she gets "based upon" and a percentage of net profits.

Now I know nothing about Hollywood but I do know that if you have a percentage of the net then everyone you meet sees a great big L on your forehead. Almost no movie makes a net profit.

You get a percentage of the gross or you are not taken seriously.
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Indeed you've got to wonder if the studio would have tried to screw over the writer so blatantly if it had been a he.
Usually it's quite easy to pass this (a single vendor) - you just need to get verified by a WebTrust recognized company (E&Y or some other bookkeeping company) and be able to convince the vendor (the process is pretty much the same with each vendor).

However you'll need to build and run your infrastructure upfront so you're already burning some years money just to get those documents. When you finally get them and become ready to apply for inclusion with the vendors (Apple/MSFT/GOOG/Mozilla/Debian etc) it will take another couple of months. Even when you're included there is a big chance that it will take a couple of years to reach a high enough distribution rate to be acceptable for business purposes (think of old android devices or Windows XP).

Getting cross-signed by another CA costs money and they will re-validate your setup as you will sign "below" their root CA.

I wonder what the total initial and running costs of starting up a CA (including WebTrust & yearly re-audit) are today...
In my experience, design patterns encourage two big problems:

- Deciding on a solution before having explored the problem. "I have a pattern for that."

- They act as shared context only on the surface; all the details and subtleties of the pattern as an implemented artifact are rarely shared, and communication suffers.

In practice, they tend to make the easy stuff easier, but the hard stuff harder.
At risk of sounding xenophobic, you have to wonder if this is simply an effort to have Chinese-issued certificates become common place in the west. A common form of certificate pinning is based on the CA that issued the certificate (to allow certificate rotation). More Chinese issued certificates being used intentionally will make the mere fact that a certificate was issued by a Chinese CA less suspicious.
The number was larger than 32,768, the largest integer storeable in a 16 bit signed integer, and thus the conversion failed.

The largest 16-bit signed integer is actually 32767... although it probably would not have mattered in that case, it's a little ironic to find an off-by-one error on a page about numerical errors.

One event that comes to mind, not really a disaster, but a rather costly mistake caused by units confusion, is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
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Something I've wondered for a while: why was the decision made to write yet another dynamic language VM+JIT (MoarVM) instead of taking advantage of all the work the PyPy folks have done and using PyPy for Perl 6? Was PyPy even evaluated as a possible target?
Ah, interesting approach! I'd been stuck thinking about it in terms of replicating my standard multi-monitor setup in VR, but without the physical constraints of my desk and the manufacturing costs of large panels, there's really no need to set it up that way. Neat!
I really wonder why nobody did use an off the shelf high payload drone, e.g. an octocopter, to attack a drone pilot on its way home, at home, at the football match, or when he picks up his children from school. Those drone pilots are combatants and therefore legal targets of war, regardless how deep they hide in the hinterland.

I don't think that Pakistan will declare war to US. The relation is totally odd, with US financing Pakistan military on one side, while bombing those parts where Pakistan lost control on the other hand side. Pakistan and US are close allies, who both know that staying allies is the best they can do.

But some self declared Islamic state might do. Its just retaliation from their viewpoint. And that kind of attack is plain cheap to execute, would perfectly fit into the picture of an asymmetrical war, and even be legal as drone pilots are combatants.

So I really wonder, why nobody did so far.
Would you be happy if the your country lend them your taxes money, knowing that they decide the loan terms, not knowing when and if they will pay you back?

I wouldnt.
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I think it's completely rational to assume that mergers and acquisitions would assign all assets, liabilities, and obligations to the purchasing entity. Given the history of Hollywood Accounting, I think it's also rational to assume that WB is trying to use legal loopholes to weasel their way out of obligations.

That being said, I thought the bulk of WBs case wasn't that they weren't beholden to her contract, but that the movie GRAVITY is a derivative of a different work entirely.
Make sure to read the thoughtful criticism in the comments below the article, which add a lot of perspective to the original article. The people who wrote the comments seem to know more about software engineering than the original author, and argue convincingly that climate model code is no different from other code: it needs to be modular and well-written so that it can be understood and maintained; it needs to be tested to insure that it's working correctly; etc.

The author seems to have a rather cavalier attitude about the correctness of code, which one of the commenters (George Crews) picked up on:

"Then there is the statement: 'The software has huge societal importance, but the impact of software errors is very limited.' I don’t see how it can be both ways. How can something be of great importance whether or not it is correct? IMHO, the most serious consequence of a climate software being defective would be to then use it to make a defective political decision costing trillions of dollars to society."
How about requiring it for some optional features?
The notion of an "original" product causally linked to the WB-produced film _Gravity_ assumes facts not in evidence.

Gerritsen alleges that the film she worked with Katja on formed a basis for WB's film by dint of Cuaron's involvement in both projects. In the earlier project, Cuaron is alleged to have been "attached" to the project. In the WB production, Cuaron and his son wrote the entire screenplay.

The film term of art "attached" doesn't have a precise meaning. "Attached" can be an indicator of someone's commitment to a project --- a spectrum from "aware of" through "interested in" through "attached" through "committed". It could also mean that the person is sponsoring the project and shepherding it through the development process.

At no point does Gerritsen allege that Cuaron's screenplay included any of Gerritsen's writing. At best, her claim is to the storyline --- the ideas --- of the WB film.

What Gerritsen is saying --- informally, in explaining her reason for deciding to pursue the case, and also in rebutting WB's claim that Gerritsen had already conceded the film wasn't based on her work --- is that she had always felt that the WB project had an uncanny resemblance to her own story, but that she didn't have a smoking gun until she discovered Cuaron has been "attached" to the earlier project without her knowledge.

The fact that the author of the book and a contributor to the punch-up of the screenplay was unaware that one of the most famous directors in Hollywood was "attached" to the project suggests that the word "attached" was meant in its more casual meaning.

But the fact that Cuaron and his son wrote a screenplay involving a novice astronaut marooned on the ISS after being made aware of a project with a similar story suggests that there's some link.
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