I am not personally in the IT field, but I know several who are and they have never been compelled to sign anything close to this. Either you are one innovative dude, or your company is going draconian. To me sixth-months is a ridiculously long time after termination. At six months after the fact you would be well beyond any compensation or capital from the company, be it severance or whatever. This sounds like a very raw deal. If you plan on doing anything particularly innovating I'd move on if possible. If that's not feasible, I feel your pain.
Anyone who doesn't wipe a new drive first off is just begging for this sort of thing. Secondly, I guess it's a new competition for Chinese manufacturers to see what's the worst secret addition to a product sent overseas. Lead in toys, GHB in toys, phone-homes on HDD's... what's next killer bees in new TV's... really. Consumerism bites!!
You don't need to worry. Really you can rest assured that your state will certify only the best e-voting machines based on the most expensive lobbying...er... i mean performance tests. Really no need to worry about what happens to your vote.
Why does the government promote creating new encryption methods when encrypting data so clearly means you have something to hide and are therefore guilty? I mean COME ON!
So true! Journalists are a powerful group. They are the eyes and ears of the public and have a tremendous influence on public opinion. The lead up to the war in Iraq. No journalists asked questions, no politicians. Journalists wield the power to shape perception, and perception might as well be reality for most people.
The fact that facebook and privacy can be mentioned in the same sentence without the "lack of" somewhere in the mix is crazy. Facebook, for the most part, is a place to post information about yourself for the community to see. That is fundamentally in contrast with the practice of privacy. "Another privacy debacle?" Please, people know privacy is not something you're getting with social networking.
As long as the users don't care I don't see the problem. Think about a lot of the people that use facebook. This is they're dream. They seek attention constantly with bawdy pictures and things. As long as facebook refrains from using pictures of users that have restricted accounts, I could see this being a bonus for particularly attention seeking users.
Why not just say anyone of middle-eastern descent is automatically a threat? That's basically what it's come down to. How in the world is food purchasing data related to terror suspects. Alienation only leads to more strife. This doesn't do anything but make relations worse.
Good luck getting that through to the press. It's really hard to get someone to understand technology isn't always extremely expensive. It's the corporate mentality the tech is purely a cost center. People still don't get the idea of exactly what technology implicates. It's just really expensive boxes with magic in them.
As for SETI, I say it is well worth it. If anything the Magellan and Columbus types taught us that exploration can bring tremendous benefits. Even if we don't find ET we're still gleaning tremendous amounts of data on our universe
Isn't the whole point of this article that Americans are being denied the best of the best when it comes to robotic overlords to welcome. It's a shame what this country has become... it really is.
I generally hate those who start railing about how "America == fascism" and whatnot. However, in these telco cases it's hard not to see the correlation. When you break it down the government allows these guys to break the law (most likely in a crooked way of supporting a campaign). When they get caught do they get punished? No. They get immunity and screwed up data retention rights with which to make a profit.
Granted, the EFF is a group of lawyers, but they are lawyers working for a better Internet. Sometimes they make me just want to cry. Hopefully this is just the beginning. The NSA has gone way beyond breaking the law. The ease at which they put people under surveilance and on watchlists flies in the face of the constitutional ban on unreasonable searches and bills of attainder. This is great news.
I'm no doctor, so could someone explain what the concrete benefits this would bring over regular probe images, other than being able to translate to Imax.
I think we should all take the high road and not take a swing at the underhanded pitch thrown to us here. Bush administration references are just too easy. Save yourself the time and just laugh preemptively.
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I am not personally in the IT field, but I know several who are and they have never been compelled to sign anything close to this. Either you are one innovative dude, or your company is going draconian. To me sixth-months is a ridiculously long time after termination. At six months after the fact you would be well beyond any compensation or capital from the company, be it severance or whatever. This sounds like a very raw deal. If you plan on doing anything particularly innovating I'd move on if possible. If that's not feasible, I feel your pain.
Anyone who doesn't wipe a new drive first off is just begging for this sort of thing. Secondly, I guess it's a new competition for Chinese manufacturers to see what's the worst secret addition to a product sent overseas. Lead in toys, GHB in toys, phone-homes on HDD's... what's next killer bees in new TV's... really. Consumerism bites!!
That's splitting hairs there. Why would anyone encrypt something unless they wanted it to remain untampered with?
You don't need to worry. Really you can rest assured that your state will certify only the best e-voting machines based on the most expensive lobbying...er... i mean performance tests. Really no need to worry about what happens to your vote.
My bad, maybe I should think about it before I post something meant to be funny... NAH! This is slashdot. Anyways, thanks for the correction.
Why does the government promote creating new encryption methods when encrypting data so clearly means you have something to hide and are therefore guilty? I mean COME ON!
So true! Journalists are a powerful group. They are the eyes and ears of the public and have a tremendous influence on public opinion. The lead up to the war in Iraq. No journalists asked questions, no politicians. Journalists wield the power to shape perception, and perception might as well be reality for most people.
The fact that facebook and privacy can be mentioned in the same sentence without the "lack of" somewhere in the mix is crazy. Facebook, for the most part, is a place to post information about yourself for the community to see. That is fundamentally in contrast with the practice of privacy. "Another privacy debacle?" Please, people know privacy is not something you're getting with social networking.
As long as the users don't care I don't see the problem. Think about a lot of the people that use facebook. This is they're dream. They seek attention constantly with bawdy pictures and things. As long as facebook refrains from using pictures of users that have restricted accounts, I could see this being a bonus for particularly attention seeking users.
Why not just say anyone of middle-eastern descent is automatically a threat? That's basically what it's come down to. How in the world is food purchasing data related to terror suspects. Alienation only leads to more strife. This doesn't do anything but make relations worse.
Good luck getting that through to the press. It's really hard to get someone to understand technology isn't always extremely expensive. It's the corporate mentality the tech is purely a cost center. People still don't get the idea of exactly what technology implicates. It's just really expensive boxes with magic in them.
As for SETI, I say it is well worth it. If anything the Magellan and Columbus types taught us that exploration can bring tremendous benefits. Even if we don't find ET we're still gleaning tremendous amounts of data on our universe
Isn't the whole point of this article that Americans are being denied the best of the best when it comes to robotic overlords to welcome. It's a shame what this country has become... it really is.
Well seeing as how..."of all the friends I've had... you're the first." OK!
I generally hate those who start railing about how "America == fascism" and whatnot. However, in these telco cases it's hard not to see the correlation. When you break it down the government allows these guys to break the law (most likely in a crooked way of supporting a campaign). When they get caught do they get punished? No. They get immunity and screwed up data retention rights with which to make a profit.
Granted, the EFF is a group of lawyers, but they are lawyers working for a better Internet. Sometimes they make me just want to cry. Hopefully this is just the beginning. The NSA has gone way beyond breaking the law. The ease at which they put people under surveilance and on watchlists flies in the face of the constitutional ban on unreasonable searches and bills of attainder. This is great news.
I'm no doctor, so could someone explain what the concrete benefits this would bring over regular probe images, other than being able to translate to Imax.
In that vein, the red M&M's probably remind of the blood of a fresh kill!
I think we should all take the high road and not take a swing at the underhanded pitch thrown to us here. Bush administration references are just too easy. Save yourself the time and just laugh preemptively.