"The computing services department generated a list of several hundred e-mail addresses that used the college's name inappropriately, and sent warning letters to those accounts, Fiori said.
If the recipients do not comply, the college might try to learn their identity from Yahoo or Google, or it might search through its archives of faculty and student e-mails to locate information that could identify the e-mail users, Fiori said."
Thus the faculty and "other people" remark. They have no idea who they threatened.
I'VE been using touchscreen's for 11 years and MY 11 year old Palm Pilot Vx touchscreen drifts ALL THE TIME. It drifts from hour to hour as the temperature of the unit changes. It didn't do this when it was young, but it got so bad that I almost threw it out because sometimes I couldn't get into calibration mode the calibration was so bad. Then I found a Palm App called "Digifix", which lets you recalibrate the screen no matter how bad the drift is by entering calibration upon soft reset.
You do know that a stream gaging station requires spending on concrete, lumber, and rebar, right? Plus construction labor, and transportation expenses, right? Plus electronics, and solar cells.
If it's "At will", then it's "At will", meaning they can surely do this.
Your response is to inform your co-workers that giving 2 weeks notice results in immediate termination. The company will then discover that they don't get notice, and realize why it's bad practice to immediately terminate an employee who gives notice. Smart companies will accept notice, pay you your 2 weeks, and may or may not have you report to work for those 2 weeks.
So you're position is that if a cop and a prosecutor think you are guilty, then you must be guilty and we should just skip the whole "fair trial" thing?
it's a sad sad world when people don't understand the point of checks and balances.
"B happens to be a single man holding an H1-B. He knows that if he doesn't find a job in 60 days his visa will be canceled and is willing to work for significantly less than prevailing market wages to avoid being forced to leave the US and have to start the visa process all over again from scratch."
And amazingly enough you'd get in the same trouble for staring and commenting out loud on the size of her boobs even if they were completely covered! Imagine the closed mindedness of some people who can't appreciate compliments!
I get two newspapers each week. One is going broke, one is doing fine. One is skimmed, one is read front to back. One is full of AP content, one has no AP content. One is full of news I have already seen online, one is full of fresh stories.
Most newspapers are trying to churn out stories for the AP, hoping that their (version of the) story gets picked up and brings in some money. Meanwhile they have to pay for the expensive incoming AP stories, which they use liberally in their papers to justify the cost, filling their paper with barely readable, highly edited and condensed, dreck that has been widely available elsewhere.
Newspapers that will survive are covering the stories that no one else is covering.
The problem is that email addresses are not suitable for regex based validation. There are too many legacy formats, too many variations, that are legal addresses.
Why, back in the old days, you could send mail to things like "bob%example.com@example.org" which would shoot the email off to example.org, who's mail server would then shoot the email off to example.com. A way to hand route your email around a broken network link in the old days. Throw in a few UUCP hops, maybe getting final delivery to a BITNET connected system. Ah, those were the days!
The lock is there because everything outside that door is a security area. No unauthorized people are allowed accessed to the tarmac. Out there you have access to the planes, tools, checked baggage, airport vehicles, and fuel (probably including all of gas, diesel, and jet fuel).
I hooked everything through my VCR to my TV. Cable, (macrovision-free, region-free)DVD, PlayStation2. Why? Because my TV was so old that all it had was an RF Coax input. No remote either.
Turn it on to channel 3, and use all my other remotes to control source and volume.
I bought a new TV only when that one died. It had these things called *tubes*, and it took 5 seconds to warm up.
a vault maintained by a consortium of Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax
What?
I wouldn't trust them with that information. They caused the current problem. Not only do they "verify" your identity and creditworthiness, but they'll sell that information to basically anyone who wants to buy it. Any system where you provide your "identity" to a man-in-the-middle (i.e. a retailer, an employer), that "identity" is compromised.
I've always thought that little bit (the "sitekey") was a worthless, useless showmanship.
Since they don't show you the picture until you put in your username, what's to prevent a man in the middle from taking your username, sending it to the REAL site, getting the REAL picture, and then showing it to you?
AVG began pissing me off when it kept insisting on not running after an update unless I rebooted. I just booted the machine, I'm not rebooting just because you have an update.
Seriously. Google the phrase "except as allowed by law", you will find tons of privacy policies that look like this "BlahCo does not share your data except as allowed by law".
Oh great! They won't break the law. That's comforting. Thanks for spending money telling me how you won't do anything to break the law. You'll just distribute my info to anyone to whom it is legal to do so.
How about "BlahCo will not share your data except as REQUIRED by law." Oh no, that would stop their marketing efforts....
And if you install iTunes, it will silently replace Quicktime with a newer version, without even giving you an option. Which is how my Quicktime Pro license went *poof* with no warning.
And this is why I will never keep my deposit accounts and my credit accounts at the same institution.
For example, did you know that Citibank can sell your stock out of a Smith Barney brokerage account (a Citi subsidiary) to collect on your credit card debt?
The content of the medium is the only possible thing you could bring a copyright infringement action on.
And my original post was in response to the people asking "when was it ever legal for you to make tapes of your albums?". And the answer is "right after the AHRA was passed."
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65% of Massachusetts voters disagree with you. Possession was decriminalized by voters in the last state election.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Sensible_Marijuana_Policy_Initiative
Read further:
"The computing services department generated a list of several hundred e-mail addresses that used the college's name inappropriately, and sent warning letters to those accounts, Fiori said.
If the recipients do not comply, the college might try to learn their identity from Yahoo or Google, or it might search through its archives of faculty and student e-mails to locate information that could identify the e-mail users, Fiori said."
Thus the faculty and "other people" remark. They have no idea who they threatened.
Perhaps you would be more enlightened if you read the linked to article and didn't just TRUST the summary.
It says that IF the addresses don't stop being used THEN they might try to find out who owns these google and yahoo accounts.
The implication is certainly that they have NO IDEA who they just sent threatening letters to.
*headsmack*
RTFM - Really Terrible Flu... Maybe
PCFlu - Politically Correct Flu
WWF - World Wide Flu
WTF - World Terrorizing Flu
if that's true, it's an out and out lie.
I mean just look http://www.iwf.org.uk/ at the big red button used to create their blacklist.
Even their FAQ says that they distribute a blacklist
One anecdote is not data.
I'VE been using touchscreen's for 11 years and MY 11 year old Palm Pilot Vx touchscreen drifts ALL THE TIME.
It drifts from hour to hour as the temperature of the unit changes. It didn't do this when it was young, but it got so bad that I almost threw it out because sometimes I couldn't get into calibration mode the calibration was so bad.
Then I found a Palm App called "Digifix", which lets you recalibrate the screen no matter how bad the drift is by entering calibration upon soft reset.
Two anecdotes. Now we have data.
Drift happens.
You do know that a stream gaging station requires spending on concrete, lumber, and rebar, right?
Plus construction labor, and transportation expenses, right?
Plus electronics, and solar cells.
http://geology.com/articles/gaging-station.shtml
If it's "At will", then it's "At will", meaning they can surely do this.
Your response is to inform your co-workers that giving 2 weeks notice results in immediate termination.
The company will then discover that they don't get notice, and realize why it's bad practice to immediately terminate an employee who gives notice. Smart companies will accept notice, pay you your 2 weeks, and may or may not have you report to work for those 2 weeks.
Um..... WHAT?!
So you're position is that if a cop and a prosecutor think you are guilty, then you must be guilty and we should just skip the whole "fair trial" thing?
it's a sad sad world when people don't understand the point of checks and balances.
Let me fix that for you:
"B happens to be a single man holding an H1-B. He knows that if he doesn't find a job in 60 days his visa will be canceled and is willing to work for significantly less than prevailing market wages to avoid being forced to leave the US and have to start the visa process all over again from scratch."
And amazingly enough you'd get in the same trouble for staring and commenting out loud on the size of her boobs even if they were completely covered! Imagine the closed mindedness of some people who can't appreciate compliments!
I get two newspapers each week.
One is going broke, one is doing fine.
One is skimmed, one is read front to back.
One is full of AP content, one has no AP content.
One is full of news I have already seen online, one is full of fresh stories.
Most newspapers are trying to churn out stories for the AP, hoping that their (version of the) story gets picked up and brings in some money. Meanwhile they have to pay for the expensive incoming AP stories, which they use liberally in their papers to justify the cost, filling their paper with barely readable, highly edited and condensed, dreck that has been widely available elsewhere.
Newspapers that will survive are covering the stories that no one else is covering.
Right, now they have an incentive to spend up to $1.5M per year challenging bogus DMCA notices instead of rolling over.
The problem is that email addresses are not suitable for regex based validation.
There are too many legacy formats, too many variations, that are legal addresses.
Why, back in the old days, you could send mail to things like "bob%example.com@example.org" which would shoot the email off to example.org, who's mail server would then shoot the email off to example.com. A way to hand route your email around a broken network link in the old days. Throw in a few UUCP hops, maybe getting final delivery to a BITNET connected system. Ah, those were the days!
The lock is there because everything outside that door is a security area.
No unauthorized people are allowed accessed to the tarmac.
Out there you have access to the planes, tools, checked baggage, airport vehicles, and fuel (probably including all of gas, diesel, and jet fuel).
Expand your horizons a bit.
I hooked everything through my VCR to my TV. Cable, (macrovision-free, region-free)DVD, PlayStation2.
Why? Because my TV was so old that all it had was an RF Coax input. No remote either.
Turn it on to channel 3, and use all my other remotes to control source and volume.
I bought a new TV only when that one died. It had these things called *tubes*, and it took 5 seconds to warm up.
a vault maintained by a consortium of Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax
What?
I wouldn't trust them with that information. They caused the current problem. Not only do they "verify" your identity and creditworthiness, but they'll sell that information to basically anyone who wants to buy it. Any system where you provide your "identity" to a man-in-the-middle (i.e. a retailer, an employer), that "identity" is compromised.
You're omitting the difficulty in figuring out the tax status of items.
For example, in MA if you buy 1,2 or 3 donuts, that's taxable. If you buy a dozen donuts, that's not taxable. Why? One is consider "a meal", and one is considered "food" (i.e. groceries). Snacks over $3.50, taxable. Under $3.50, not taxable. Some clothing is taxable, some is not. Books are taxable, Textbooks are not. What makes a textbook a textbook? Retailers have fancy computer programs to figure out the tax status of each item, and even they get it wrong. The MA DOR recommends that you call or write for specific determinations "Because of the complexity of the law". http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=dorterminal&L=6&L0=Home&L1=Individuals+and+Families&L2=Personal+Income+Tax&L3=Forms+%26+Publications&L4=Publications&L5=Publications+Index&sid=Ador&b=terminalcontent&f=dor_publ_sales_use&csid=Ador#exempt
I've always thought that little bit (the "sitekey") was a worthless, useless showmanship.
Since they don't show you the picture until you put in your username, what's to prevent a man in the middle from taking your username, sending it to the REAL site, getting the REAL picture, and then showing it to you?
AVG began pissing me off when it kept insisting on not running after an update unless I rebooted.
I just booted the machine, I'm not rebooting just because you have an update.
Seriously. Google the phrase "except as allowed by law", you will find tons of privacy policies that look like this "BlahCo does not share your data except as allowed by law".
Oh great! They won't break the law. That's comforting. Thanks for spending money telling me how you won't do anything to break the law. You'll just distribute my info to anyone to whom it is legal to do so.
How about "BlahCo will not share your data except as REQUIRED by law." Oh no, that would stop their marketing efforts....
And this is why I will never keep my deposit accounts and my credit accounts at the same institution.
For example, did you know that Citibank can sell your stock out of a Smith Barney brokerage account (a Citi subsidiary) to collect on your credit card debt?
Financial supermarkets, a bad idea.
The content of the medium is the only possible thing you could bring a copyright infringement action on.
And my original post was in response to the people asking "when was it ever legal for you to make tapes of your albums?". And the answer is "right after the AHRA was passed."