If the employees' jobs are relocated which forces them to quit, many state unemployment departments will categorize that as involuntary termination without cause and will allow unemployment benefits, no matter what the employer says. Know that first hand, so does my former employer. Thank you Colorado (residence/remote location) and North Carolina (official worksite state) departments of labor. When a clown coup of narrowminded Rhode Islanders took over the formerly enlighted tech division of a Big Green Financial Company and told a bunch of us "your job is now either in North Carolina or Rhode Island", they thought they were getting rid of us Colorado and Florida telecommuters, who had been promised "you never have to come in to the office", real easy. Not so easy.
"They moved your job across the country. You get benefits. End of story." -- Unemployment rep.
Ironically, Google killing iGoogle may help Yahoo. My Yahoo is the only worthwhile part of Yahoo IMHO. I switched from it to iGoogle years ago, had all sorts of customized news feeds and widgets on it, and pretty much ignored My Yahoo. When Google announced iGoogle's impending execution, I went back to my abandoned My Yahoo! page, found they had cleaned up the design some, and was able to totally recreate everything I had on iGoogle.
My Yahoo supports more tabs, and has a reader feature that lets you preview articles without going to the site. Slightly different approach than the click-arrow to read a feed on iGoogle but gets the job done, in some ways better.
My Yahoo! is ridiculously unintegrated with the rest of Yahoo including even the Yahoo home page. That is a big part of where they fall down. They need something like the Google black bar (and the larger grey bar under it on some sites) that keeps you aware of the rest of Google no matter where you are. But as a portal page, My Yahoo works fine.
What will stop you from changing prepaid all the time is the need to keep your number. Unless no-one ever calls you or so, and it doesn't matter that your number changes all the time.
Which is why you use Google Voice, giving out only your Google Voice number to people. I've got a persistent, well-known number for me that all family, friends, colleagues have. They think it's my cell number. Maybe some think it's my home number. The underlying cell phone has changed about a half-dozen or more times, between being a Straight Talk SIM (native T-mobile version so I get HSPA+ on my T-mo ex-contract Android), an ancient Nokia CDMA from Verizon running on PagePlus, a Straight Talk cheapo LG fliphone (CDMA VZ-dominant Sprint-roaming on ST MVNA) when I was spending a lot of time in the intermountain west where GSM sucks, and a Telestial/ekit international roaming SIM that has both a Boston, MA US and a London, UK number, as a way to make my US number ring relatively cheaply when I'm in South America and away from a Gmail page or don't have mobile data/wifi for my GrooVeIP app on the native Uruguay prepaid SIM in the phone.
Nobody has the underlying numbers of any of those phones. If I fly back to the States and decide to reactivate the cheapo POS LG Straight Talk phone for $30 for a month, I just log into Google, point Google Voice to ring at the new phone number, and everyone can still reach me.
There are scanners and TSA upon arrival at many USA airports. If you got out of your basement and traveled the world you would see them at SEA (Seattle-Taccoma International), MEM (Memphis International), and at least up until a year or so ago, at ATL (Atlanta International). In those and likely some others, US Customs (which happens after US Immigration) exits into the airside "sterile" section of the airport, not "landside". So in order to arrive in the USA and exit the airport, yes, you do have to clear through TSA. I've flown into the USA into all three airports internationally and have had to go through TSA to get out.
More common in US airport layout is where the US ICE section exits to the outside, or to the main concourse, such as Boston Logan Terminal E, Denver International, the TBIT terminal at LAX, the various terminals at JFK, O'Hare International in Chicago, etc. But not all.
BTW there are no X-Ray whole-body scanners in Amsterdam, as the EU doesn't allow them. What there is at AMS is at-gate security of the typical x-ray carryon bag scanner, before you are able to enter the actual departure lounge area. Plus if flying out of AMS on a USA-based airline, a contract employee asking you the stupid questions that they stopped asking in the USA 10 years ago. "Who packed your bag?", etc.
vinehair could have hit scanners and the TSA full monty in the USA. If flying out of AMS to the USA, there is a high likelihood he was on either Delta or KLM, a Delta hub because of the old KLM-Northwest joint venture, and two of the AMS-US likely routes are into either MEM or ATL. With SEA also a possibility; I think KL still flies that.
Not who you were asking, but a lot of places in Latin America are in fact more free than the USA.
I'm living in Uruguay. Starting legal residency is very simple and cheap, unless you are one of those types that "needs to hire professional experts" for everything. In which case WTF are you doing on/.?
Overall cost of living is cheaper than the USA, which along with the whole freedom-vs-march-to-facism thing is why my wife and I moved. Electric is expensive but other utilities, including internet, are cheaper by more than enough to offset it. Climate (and latitude) similar to North Carolina but with a lot fewer cyclones (I would have said "we don't get hurricanes" but we got a couple of extratropical cyclones a few months ago). I'm in an old beachside resort town that is also within commuting distance, barely, of the capital, Montevideo. Some of the area is dirt roads, along which Antel the state telecom semi-monopoly is pulling fiber optic to home. Even on copper, the Antel DSL installer told me that my home could get 12Mbps. For now I am on a cheapo combo plan of 996 pesos (about $50USD/mo más-o-menos depending on the exchange rate) that includes 3072 down/512 up ADSL, a landline without any minutes, and 10GB/mo of 3G/quasi-4G (called 3.7G here) HSDPA/HSPA+ on a datastick.
Power is as reliable as any other small town where sometimes a substation gets a lightning hit or a tree downs a wire. More reliable than my experience in the Colorado Rockies. AC if you want it, just keep in mind electric is kinda pricy. I paid about $120 last month (no AC) for about 650kWh. In Colorado that would have been about $50, in Tacoma where I was for a year, with nonprofit city-owned power, about $30. But everybody cooks with bottled Supergas, around $20 for a tank that will last you 3-4 months of cooking 3 meals daily.
Health care is a state right if you have no money. If you have "activity", a local job or you are set up as a unipersonal (think a formalized one-person LLC or S-corp) paying in to BPS (social security), you can join any of the many "mutualistas" (HMO-like groups that run their own hospitals and clinics, somewhat like the KaiserPermanante model) for free. Without working (or freelance digital nomad working paid via Elance, Google Wallet, Paypal) it costs about 1650 pesos a month, about $85 US. With a $4 copay to see a doctor. All prescriptions about $8. An MRI is only about 1000 pesos, or 50 dollars, while even with insurance it would be about 1000 of dollars in the States.
Fascinating mix of socialist in some areas and libertarian in others. Nobody wears bicycle helmets because a bike is a mode of going places, not an "activity" that you do that requires special equipment. Moto (scooter and low-end motorcycle) riders rarely wear helmets, but some do. Nobody gives a crap if you put up clotheslines or an antenna or have a dog. No frakking HOAs.
A military used almost exclusively for UN Peacekeeping missions. No "enemies" to speak of. Ok terms with the USA but not an "ally". Legalized gay marriage, legalized abortion (forward thinking for latin america), legalizing marijuana.
Not nearly as much USA-style or Global North consumerism, though it's here if you want to be a spendy jerk and attempt to recreate a Boca Raton, Florida lifestyle. In which case please go to Punta del Este and spend stupid money, leaving the rest of us alone to enjoy a great quality of life. Yes, electronics cost 70-100% more due to our 22% IVA (Value Added Tax) baked into the price, and the high import duty. But we get value for it, overall, and there are deals to be had. Law recently changed to allow residents and citizens to get up to 5 packages per year of up to $200USD each shipment at zero duty. "Content" as defined by the *AAs (books, disks, software, etc.) is duty-free so order from Amazon Global if you want. We have big supermarkets and good local groceries, But you won't get canned prepared food, no Chef-Boy-R-Di or Dinty Moore. But lots of freshly-made in-store stuff.
Chrome comes with a built-in, supported-by-google. inline-process version of Adobe Flash. Yes, even in Linux, in fact that is the only supported Linux version of Flash going forward. Sounds to me like you have a misconfigured Chrome with it using the separate Adobe Flash Netscape-type plugin, the one you have for Mozilla-based products. Chrome's built-in Flash works fine, even on relatively low-resource machines. Since you are on Windows, you should be able to use it without problems on anything approximating an 8-year-old machine or newer. Unless you have totally horked your system, in which case have fun..
I suspect the real reason they pulled it was that many people pointed out it was exactly the same as Ghostery but without Ghostery being given any credit. Exact same process flow, exact same number of items in the blocklist, despite their CEO claiming on their forum that it was entirely their own code and entirely their own list. The only differences were the icon and a few less preference settings, but the ones that were there were identical. https://forums.comodo.com/news-announcements-feedback-cd/comodo-dragon-ver-232-is-now-available-for-download-t89032.30.html
I like a lot of Comodo stuff, I use a lot of it, I have Comodo Internet Security running right now, System Utilities (new name for Comodo System Cleaner), and I do have Dragon installed. But they have a massive and unsophisticated hype machine over there, complete with fanboy moderators who will "put you on our radar" if you dare to post anything other than a 100% rave about Comodo and buy whatever spin that Melih is selling. Ever since they pushed a forced-branding of Dragon about 6 or 7 releases back, I have lost a lot of trust in Comodo. They disabled theme changes somewhere around 16 or 17, put it back after an uproar, then for 2 versions disabled being able to use the New Tab Page - even if set, you opened up to comodo.com as your homepage instead of the non-web Chromium-Chrome style New Tab page. In both cases on the forum Melih made claims it shouldt have happened and would change.
I am not saying that they are lying about the source of the Privalert extension they pushed out. But it is amazingly similar. I am not saying they pushed the forced branding on purpose. But that means if it was an accident, one might suppose that they have bad QA, and if it were deliberate but not approved at the top, one might suppose that they have a flawed software quality process.
Note that I said: "one might suppose" and I specifically denied the interpretation that "they are lying" so if you are a lawyer for Comodo, I didn't accuse your client of anything. I commented on how non-Comodo people might possibly perceive things which may or may not be true with no way for me to tell.
I continue to use some Comodo products. But until I see more transparency about these seemingly-sketchy issues, I am reluctant to resume recommending them. Something I used to do wholeheartedly.
Depending on how many other "someone elses" there are. And possibly on an overall Human Value Score brought to you by TransUnion, Experian, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, weighted by your Medical Insurance Information Bureau records - and theirs.
Do the magic gas fairies provide the money? Because otherwise, it's an issue. Just where do you think the PUC or the Commonwealth of Mass. analog is going to get that money they give to the gas company? Have you noticed how broke and dysfunctional your state and its budget are?
Older inventions like perhaps, "It's got a radio in it and it makes phone calls and has some type of traditional telephone keypad buttons that appear, and has an antenna, and authenticates to the cellular telephone network, and has a processor in it?"
Pretty sure that Motorola has patents on all of those things and gazillions more. Maybe Apple can downgrade iPhone functionality to iPod Touch if they don't want to settle. But only over WiFi. No touching the cellular/mobile data network. There's A Patent For That.
This is going to be fun to watch. The obvious win for everyone except the now-turned-to-the-Dark-Side Apple is for Apple to STFU about patenting rectangles with screens and actually start innovating and competing on merits again.
no, the TSA is fine. defund homeland security, and then TSA could crate actually effective security measures.
Few days late checking the moronicity on this thread. Bless your heart, do you even know what the TSA is? And what Cabinet Level department it is housed within? And which was created (initially as an Executive Branch Department until getting Cabinet-level Status), at essentially the same time?
We didn't have a TSA or a Department of Homeland Security until both were created in the weeks post-9/11- there was no TSA without the Heimatsicherheitministerium (as the/. or Flyertalk poster whom I forget but crib this from says, "DHS sounds better in the original German")
Yeah, somebody is gonna cite a difference of days or weeks in the enabling laws. It still was all of one, post-9/11, overreaction. In essence created together in one action.
"Private-run airport security is fine. defund homeland security, and then the TSA could crate(sic) actually effective security measures." FTFY
The real solution is to have 2 planes. 1 plane that allows anyone on board the way it use to be. The 2nd plane to have people that went though security. After a few months we would know what the really people want.
Holy Green Jesus just how many years has this idiotic false dilemma, worded nearly exactly every time, been on idiotic non-thinker comments on article pages from Fox News, NY Daily News, NY Post, MSNBC, Chicago Trib, LA Times, HuffPo, Drudge, every outlet from every part of the so-called political spectrum.
Is there some Official Ministry of Stupid that hands this out as a talking points memo? And how did one of its subscribers get onto/.?
Still very limited options with limited coverage, plus very USA-centric. CDMA may well be better technically than the TDMA-based GSM but as a flexible solution maximizing freedom of choice, it is far worse. (Yes I know that 3G/4G HSPDA/HSUPA/HSPA+ & 4G LTE all use a CDMA air interface and WDCDMA. I'm talking GSM vs CDMA as in VHS vs Betamax.)
I can pop out my Straight Talk SIM and pop in an Antel, Claro, or Movistar Prepago SIM in 2 weeks when I go back to Uruguay. I can use my cheap international calling ekit/Telestial SIM while on layovers in Peru or Chile. Buy a cheap prepaid SIM in Europe or Asia. Pop the ST SIM back in next time I'm back in the States.
Is it because you foolishly bought CDMA phones from a lock down carrier so you cannot move to another with your shiny toy? Or is it just your self-described fear of losing your "good deal"?
Suck it up, man, and buy a couple of used Android phones of the same generation or newer than your Verizon jail. Two Straight Talk SIMs matching the native network/UMTS frequencies of the AT&T or Tmo phones, for 1-time $15 each. $45/mo + couple bucks tax each for unlimited voice, web, SMS, MMS at your phone's full 3G/quasi-4G HSPA+ speed. Voice/text/2G across the combine Tmo and AT&T network regardless of which SIM you buy. It will prefer its native net but work on both as the Straight Talk GSM "Home" network.
BTW Simple Mobile only works on native non-roaming Tmo and the $40 3G plan is throttled to 116kbps. Not a good deal.
Plenty of companies, including those I've worked for whose names you would recognize, install software that prevents any writing or even reading from USB drives, CD/DVD/Blu-Ray, any external ports. Only devices whose fingerprint matches the list of approved devices, sometimes even by a specific serial number, are allowed to talk to the USB port. This can be managed remotely, and they can send updates over the open internet even if you haven't VPN'd into the company network.
I had a personally-owned Sprint USB datastick work fine from my hotel in my company laptop one night just fine. Didn't connect to the VPN, watched a couple of TV shows streaming on Hulu. Left it on overnight connected to the public internet. In the morning laptop would not recognize the USB datastick at all. Sprint hadn't done anything. PC was fine. Later I had reason to contact corporate Information Security on another matter. They told me, "oh by the way, we disallowed your unauthorized USB device."
Later I was able to get my manager to approve my getting a mobile broadband card. Sprint. But the one supplied by the company was whitelisted. My personal one was not.
Note that my use of the laptop on off hours, and occasionally for non-work use, was itself not a violation of this company's policy, which did allow "incidental personal use that does not take away from work productivity." But plugging in any device not authorized by them was not allowed, was logged, and could be remotely disabled.
If I had a stick for each person with who uses the hackneyed phrase "digital nomad", after allowing for breakage from thrashing them so hard with the sticks, I could still build the world's largest tree castle.
With thorned branches for anyone who added "location independent" to their "digital nomad" description.
This is still reactive damage control to foolish arrogance by Asa "we don't give a crap about enterprises" Dotzler. That's what you get why you hire a fanboy to become the voice of your company.
If you think that, in practice, "the US has explicitly recognized electronic signatures for years", you have not dealt with many financial services or law firms lately. Yes, there is a decades old E-Signature act. Please explain that to my 2 separate banks and credit union, none of them among the evil banksters, or the law firm I am dealing with in Tacoma and another in Denver. who will not even take document with my scanned signature pasted into it. Even though I now live in Uruguay and sending an overnight mail document is both impossible overnight and insanely costly on a 2-3 day basis.
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If the employees' jobs are relocated which forces them to quit, many state unemployment departments will categorize that as involuntary termination without cause and will allow unemployment benefits, no matter what the employer says. Know that first hand, so does my former employer. Thank you Colorado (residence/remote location) and North Carolina (official worksite state) departments of labor. When a clown coup of narrowminded Rhode Islanders took over the formerly enlighted tech division of a Big Green Financial Company and told a bunch of us "your job is now either in North Carolina or Rhode Island", they thought they were getting rid of us Colorado and Florida telecommuters, who had been promised "you never have to come in to the office", real easy. Not so easy.
"They moved your job across the country. You get benefits. End of story." -- Unemployment rep.
Ironically, Google killing iGoogle may help Yahoo. My Yahoo is the only worthwhile part of Yahoo IMHO. I switched from it to iGoogle years ago, had all sorts of customized news feeds and widgets on it, and pretty much ignored My Yahoo. When Google announced iGoogle's impending execution, I went back to my abandoned My Yahoo! page, found they had cleaned up the design some, and was able to totally recreate everything I had on iGoogle.
My Yahoo supports more tabs, and has a reader feature that lets you preview articles without going to the site. Slightly different approach than the click-arrow to read a feed on iGoogle but gets the job done, in some ways better.
My Yahoo! is ridiculously unintegrated with the rest of Yahoo including even the Yahoo home page. That is a big part of where they fall down. They need something like the Google black bar (and the larger grey bar under it on some sites) that keeps you aware of the rest of Google no matter where you are. But as a portal page, My Yahoo works fine.
What will stop you from changing prepaid all the time is the need to keep your number. Unless no-one ever calls you or so, and it doesn't matter that your number changes all the time.
Which is why you use Google Voice, giving out only your Google Voice number to people. I've got a persistent, well-known number for me that all family, friends, colleagues have. They think it's my cell number. Maybe some think it's my home number. The underlying cell phone has changed about a half-dozen or more times, between being a Straight Talk SIM (native T-mobile version so I get HSPA+ on my T-mo ex-contract Android), an ancient Nokia CDMA from Verizon running on PagePlus, a Straight Talk cheapo LG fliphone (CDMA VZ-dominant Sprint-roaming on ST MVNA) when I was spending a lot of time in the intermountain west where GSM sucks, and a Telestial/ekit international roaming SIM that has both a Boston, MA US and a London, UK number, as a way to make my US number ring relatively cheaply when I'm in South America and away from a Gmail page or don't have mobile data/wifi for my GrooVeIP app on the native Uruguay prepaid SIM in the phone.
Nobody has the underlying numbers of any of those phones. If I fly back to the States and decide to reactivate the cheapo POS LG Straight Talk phone for $30 for a month, I just log into Google, point Google Voice to ring at the new phone number, and everyone can still reach me.
There are scanners and TSA upon arrival at many USA airports. If you got out of your basement and traveled the world you would see them at SEA (Seattle-Taccoma International), MEM (Memphis International), and at least up until a year or so ago, at ATL (Atlanta International). In those and likely some others, US Customs (which happens after US Immigration) exits into the airside "sterile" section of the airport, not "landside". So in order to arrive in the USA and exit the airport, yes, you do have to clear through TSA. I've flown into the USA into all three airports internationally and have had to go through TSA to get out.
More common in US airport layout is where the US ICE section exits to the outside, or to the main concourse, such as Boston Logan Terminal E, Denver International, the TBIT terminal at LAX, the various terminals at JFK, O'Hare International in Chicago, etc. But not all.
BTW there are no X-Ray whole-body scanners in Amsterdam, as the EU doesn't allow them. What there is at AMS is at-gate security of the typical x-ray carryon bag scanner, before you are able to enter the actual departure lounge area. Plus if flying out of AMS on a USA-based airline, a contract employee asking you the stupid questions that they stopped asking in the USA 10 years ago. "Who packed your bag?", etc.
vinehair could have hit scanners and the TSA full monty in the USA. If flying out of AMS to the USA, there is a high likelihood he was on either Delta or KLM, a Delta hub because of the old KLM-Northwest joint venture, and two of the AMS-US likely routes are into either MEM or ATL. With SEA also a possibility; I think KL still flies that.
Not who you were asking, but a lot of places in Latin America are in fact more free than the USA.
I'm living in Uruguay. Starting legal residency is very simple and cheap, unless you are one of those types that "needs to hire professional experts" for everything. In which case WTF are you doing on /.?
Overall cost of living is cheaper than the USA, which along with the whole freedom-vs-march-to-facism thing is why my wife and I moved. Electric is expensive but other utilities, including internet, are cheaper by more than enough to offset it. Climate (and latitude) similar to North Carolina but with a lot fewer cyclones (I would have said "we don't get hurricanes" but we got a couple of extratropical cyclones a few months ago). I'm in an old beachside resort town that is also within commuting distance, barely, of the capital, Montevideo. Some of the area is dirt roads, along which Antel the state telecom semi-monopoly is pulling fiber optic to home. Even on copper, the Antel DSL installer told me that my home could get 12Mbps. For now I am on a cheapo combo plan of 996 pesos (about $50USD/mo más-o-menos depending on the exchange rate) that includes 3072 down/512 up ADSL, a landline without any minutes, and 10GB/mo of 3G/quasi-4G (called 3.7G here) HSDPA/HSPA+ on a datastick.
Power is as reliable as any other small town where sometimes a substation gets a lightning hit or a tree downs a wire. More reliable than my experience in the Colorado Rockies. AC if you want it, just keep in mind electric is kinda pricy. I paid about $120 last month (no AC) for about 650kWh. In Colorado that would have been about $50, in Tacoma where I was for a year, with nonprofit city-owned power, about $30. But everybody cooks with bottled Supergas, around $20 for a tank that will last you 3-4 months of cooking 3 meals daily.
Health care is a state right if you have no money. If you have "activity", a local job or you are set up as a unipersonal (think a formalized one-person LLC or S-corp) paying in to BPS (social security), you can join any of the many "mutualistas" (HMO-like groups that run their own hospitals and clinics, somewhat like the KaiserPermanante model) for free. Without working (or freelance digital nomad working paid via Elance, Google Wallet, Paypal) it costs about 1650 pesos a month, about $85 US. With a $4 copay to see a doctor. All prescriptions about $8. An MRI is only about 1000 pesos, or 50 dollars, while even with insurance it would be about 1000 of dollars in the States.
Fascinating mix of socialist in some areas and libertarian in others. Nobody wears bicycle helmets because a bike is a mode of going places, not an "activity" that you do that requires special equipment. Moto (scooter and low-end motorcycle) riders rarely wear helmets, but some do. Nobody gives a crap if you put up clotheslines or an antenna or have a dog. No frakking HOAs.
A military used almost exclusively for UN Peacekeeping missions. No "enemies" to speak of. Ok terms with the USA but not an "ally". Legalized gay marriage, legalized abortion (forward thinking for latin america), legalizing marijuana.
Not nearly as much USA-style or Global North consumerism, though it's here if you want to be a spendy jerk and attempt to recreate a Boca Raton, Florida lifestyle. In which case please go to Punta del Este and spend stupid money, leaving the rest of us alone to enjoy a great quality of life. Yes, electronics cost 70-100% more due to our 22% IVA (Value Added Tax) baked into the price, and the high import duty. But we get value for it, overall, and there are deals to be had. Law recently changed to allow residents and citizens to get up to 5 packages per year of up to $200USD each shipment at zero duty. "Content" as defined by the *AAs (books, disks, software, etc.) is duty-free so order from Amazon Global if you want. We have big supermarkets and good local groceries, But you won't get canned prepared food, no Chef-Boy-R-Di or Dinty Moore. But lots of freshly-made in-store stuff.
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Chrome comes with a built-in, supported-by-google. inline-process version of Adobe Flash. Yes, even in Linux, in fact that is the only supported Linux version of Flash going forward. Sounds to me like you have a misconfigured Chrome with it using the separate Adobe Flash Netscape-type plugin, the one you have for Mozilla-based products. Chrome's built-in Flash works fine, even on relatively low-resource machines. Since you are on Windows, you should be able to use it without problems on anything approximating an 8-year-old machine or newer. Unless you have totally horked your system, in which case have fun..
Privalert lasted all of about a week. They pulled it for "stability" reasons with an auto-update. https://forums.comodo.com/news-announcements-feedback-cd/23400-update-removes-privalert-t89212.0.html
I suspect the real reason they pulled it was that many people pointed out it was exactly the same as Ghostery but without Ghostery being given any credit. Exact same process flow, exact same number of items in the blocklist, despite their CEO claiming on their forum that it was entirely their own code and entirely their own list. The only differences were the icon and a few less preference settings, but the ones that were there were identical. https://forums.comodo.com/news-announcements-feedback-cd/comodo-dragon-ver-232-is-now-available-for-download-t89032.30.html
I like a lot of Comodo stuff, I use a lot of it, I have Comodo Internet Security running right now, System Utilities (new name for Comodo System Cleaner), and I do have Dragon installed. But they have a massive and unsophisticated hype machine over there, complete with fanboy moderators who will "put you on our radar" if you dare to post anything other than a 100% rave about Comodo and buy whatever spin that Melih is selling. Ever since they pushed a forced-branding of Dragon about 6 or 7 releases back, I have lost a lot of trust in Comodo. They disabled theme changes somewhere around 16 or 17, put it back after an uproar, then for 2 versions disabled being able to use the New Tab Page - even if set, you opened up to comodo.com as your homepage instead of the non-web Chromium-Chrome style New Tab page. In both cases on the forum Melih made claims it shouldt have happened and would change.
I am not saying that they are lying about the source of the Privalert extension they pushed out. But it is amazingly similar. I am not saying they pushed the forced branding on purpose. But that means if it was an accident, one might suppose that they have bad QA, and if it were deliberate but not approved at the top, one might suppose that they have a flawed software quality process.
Note that I said: "one might suppose" and I specifically denied the interpretation that "they are lying" so if you are a lawyer for Comodo, I didn't accuse your client of anything. I commented on how non-Comodo people might possibly perceive things which may or may not be true with no way for me to tell.
I continue to use some Comodo products. But until I see more transparency about these seemingly-sketchy issues, I am reluctant to resume recommending them. Something I used to do wholeheartedly.
Zeroth law problem.
Depending on how many other "someone elses" there are. And possibly on an overall Human Value Score brought to you by TransUnion, Experian, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, weighted by your Medical Insurance Information Bureau records - and theirs.
Do the magic gas fairies provide the money? Because otherwise, it's an issue. Just where do you think the PUC or the Commonwealth of Mass. analog is going to get that money they give to the gas company? Have you noticed how broke and dysfunctional your state and its budget are?
Older inventions like perhaps, "It's got a radio in it and it makes phone calls and has some type of traditional telephone keypad buttons that appear, and has an antenna, and authenticates to the cellular telephone network, and has a processor in it?"
Pretty sure that Motorola has patents on all of those things and gazillions more. Maybe Apple can downgrade iPhone functionality to iPod Touch if they don't want to settle. But only over WiFi. No touching the cellular/mobile data network. There's A Patent For That.
This is going to be fun to watch. The obvious win for everyone except the now-turned-to-the-Dark-Side Apple is for Apple to STFU about patenting rectangles with screens and actually start innovating and competing on merits again.
When were the tubes born?
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I see what you did there.
no, the TSA is fine. defund homeland security, and then TSA could crate actually effective security measures.
Few days late checking the moronicity on this thread. Bless your heart, do you even know what the TSA is? And what Cabinet Level department it is housed within? And which was created (initially as an Executive Branch Department until getting Cabinet-level Status), at essentially the same time?
We didn't have a TSA or a Department of Homeland Security until both were created in the weeks post-9/11- there was no TSA without the Heimatsicherheitministerium (as the /. or Flyertalk poster whom I forget but crib this from says, "DHS sounds better in the original German")
Yeah, somebody is gonna cite a difference of days or weeks in the enabling laws. It still was all of one, post-9/11, overreaction. In essence created together in one action.
"Private-run airport security is fine. defund homeland security, and then the TSA could crate(sic) actually effective security measures."
FTFY
The real solution is to have 2 planes. 1 plane that allows anyone on board the way it use to be. The 2nd plane to have people that went though security. After a few months we would know what the really people want.
Holy Green Jesus just how many years has this idiotic false dilemma, worded nearly exactly every time, been on idiotic non-thinker comments on article pages from Fox News, NY Daily News, NY Post, MSNBC, Chicago Trib, LA Times, HuffPo, Drudge, every outlet from every part of the so-called political spectrum.
Is there some Official Ministry of Stupid that hands this out as a talking points memo? And how did one of its subscribers get onto /.?
Ok. Mr. Billionaire,
Move to Mars.
And when you want a blowjob, what will you do?
Deejah Thoris.
I'm near a Dunkin Donuts next to a Catholic Church with a bar across the street
That doesn't narrow it down at all in Boston. That's a common occurrence about ever 4 blocks.
Still very limited options with limited coverage, plus very USA-centric. CDMA may well be better technically than the TDMA-based GSM but as a flexible solution maximizing freedom of choice, it is far worse. (Yes I know that 3G/4G HSPDA/HSUPA/HSPA+ & 4G LTE all use a CDMA air interface and WDCDMA. I'm talking GSM vs CDMA as in VHS vs Betamax.)
I can pop out my Straight Talk SIM and pop in an Antel, Claro, or Movistar Prepago SIM in 2 weeks when I go back to Uruguay. I can use my cheap international calling ekit/Telestial SIM while on layovers in Peru or Chile. Buy a cheap prepaid SIM in Europe or Asia. Pop the ST SIM back in next time I'm back in the States.
Is it because you foolishly bought CDMA phones from a lock down carrier so you cannot move to another with your shiny toy? Or is it just your self-described fear of losing your "good deal"?
Suck it up, man, and buy a couple of used Android phones of the same generation or newer than your Verizon jail. Two Straight Talk SIMs matching the native network/UMTS frequencies of the AT&T or Tmo phones, for 1-time $15 each. $45/mo + couple bucks tax each for unlimited voice, web, SMS, MMS at your phone's full 3G/quasi-4G HSPA+ speed. Voice/text/2G across the combine Tmo and AT&T network regardless of which SIM you buy. It will prefer its native net but work on both as the Straight Talk GSM "Home" network.
BTW Simple Mobile only works on native non-roaming Tmo and the $40 3G plan is throttled to 116kbps. Not a good deal.
Not to mention the occasional cameos as a robotic destroyer of small Colorado towns.
You mean this was really her?
Plenty of companies, including those I've worked for whose names you would recognize, install software that prevents any writing or even reading from USB drives, CD/DVD/Blu-Ray, any external ports. Only devices whose fingerprint matches the list of approved devices, sometimes even by a specific serial number, are allowed to talk to the USB port. This can be managed remotely, and they can send updates over the open internet even if you haven't VPN'd into the company network.
I had a personally-owned Sprint USB datastick work fine from my hotel in my company laptop one night just fine. Didn't connect to the VPN, watched a couple of TV shows streaming on Hulu. Left it on overnight connected to the public internet. In the morning laptop would not recognize the USB datastick at all. Sprint hadn't done anything. PC was fine. Later I had reason to contact corporate Information Security on another matter. They told me, "oh by the way, we disallowed your unauthorized USB device."
Later I was able to get my manager to approve my getting a mobile broadband card. Sprint. But the one supplied by the company was whitelisted. My personal one was not.
Note that my use of the laptop on off hours, and occasionally for non-work use, was itself not a violation of this company's policy, which did allow "incidental personal use that does not take away from work productivity." But plugging in any device not authorized by them was not allowed, was logged, and could be remotely disabled.
If I had a stick for each person with who uses the hackneyed phrase "digital nomad", after allowing for breakage from thrashing them so hard with the sticks, I could still build the world's largest tree castle.
With thorned branches for anyone who added "location independent" to their "digital nomad" description.
This is still reactive damage control to foolish arrogance by Asa "we don't give a crap about enterprises" Dotzler.
That's what you get why you hire a fanboy to become the voice of your company.
i would never stick my daughter in a suburban, tahoe or expedition. ...
You really shouldn't be sticking your daughter at all.
Now as for the rest of us...
If you think that, in practice, "the US has explicitly recognized electronic signatures for years", you have not dealt with many financial services or law firms lately. Yes, there is a decades old E-Signature act. Please explain that to my 2 separate banks and credit union, none of them among the evil banksters, or the law firm I am dealing with in Tacoma and another in Denver. who will not even take document with my scanned signature pasted into it. Even though I now live in Uruguay and sending an overnight mail document is both impossible overnight and insanely costly on a 2-3 day basis.
+1 for the Millennium ref in your sig.