If dishonesty on an employment application or any other document is cause for termination the answer is obvious. This is a lot like the bit of "give me your password" compliance would be a clear and obvious expression of a character flaw -- so ignore the request. If necessary "unfriend" any and all company folk.
There are also risks to you and the company because a "lie" is obvious intent to defraud should the product lack anything, anything at all.that costs the customer money or loss of money.
This is one company memo that should go to hard copy and then to a safe place. Hide it behind a wall, misfiled under rut-ro or some such thing perhaps inside the company so there is no transgression of other company policy that might kick in at the door.
However this is common, the key issue is that you never used or owned the product and are being asked to lie.
Street signs even the big green interstate signs have become less and less informative. How often have you passed a street -- aha that was my turn when a sign correctly displayed would have got you in the correct lane in time to signal and make the turn.
In a can't get there from here world navigation tools ARE needed the trick is to get them to work safely.
On point the codgers pondering the rules are like my 75 year old neighbor that took her GPS back because she could not figure it out. Give them an OFF button and be done with it.
I am with you on the problematic use of source material that is likely copyright.
HOWEVER look at a handful of sports pubs on line and look for the club jerseys and colors in the background. Often there are autographed jerseys -- the uniform is covered by trademark and the signature real. The result is a collage of art and color that is pulled from the sport club franchise lock stock and barrel.
Not correct, Zaentz really owns "Hobbit" US trademark, not only one but in multiple categories (besides the usual stuff also including rare things like "Play houses", "Storage sheds"). Might be a cunning move, if the upcoming film is any good he will command the merchandise revenue. If you own the trademark you own pretty much everything...
Yes -- yet he has also abandoned many trademarks that use the word Hobbit. It may be interesting to map all the uses over time. Gaps in time may be enough window to negotiate terms and conditions that are also confidential.
To me the pub is clearly riding on the coat tails of the movie but that is just so darn common in the bar/ pub business that I do not see where Zaentz gets to play a thump card and pound the business to submission especially after 20 years. Especially since the previous owner was lax in defending the property for 15 years. It would not be the first time that a buyer missed something important in a business purchase.
It is a bar so add a bar to the sign as any mathematical text book would demonstrate that the bar is notation for something unique and not the same as without the bar. In some cases NOT.
Students would know that it did not refer to the Hobbit and would also appreciate the apparent double entendre of the BAR (macron).
Others might paint over the word THE and replace it with NE or a ~ to negate Hobbit.... Or even "Not the Hobbit". Then repaint the hat to be a Tam o' Shanter.
Everybody knows that everything causes cancer in California.
Yes... the state of California is known to the State of California to contain substances cause cancer.
It was interesting about 15 years ago -- all the large commercial apartment buildings posted warning signs on their property. Someone noticed that automobiles have gas tanks and gas tanks contain gasoline and gasoline can contain some unknown amount of a substance on the hit parade (benzine IIRC).
BTW: That had them covered when HPV was identified as cancer causing. Any tenant with an HPV infection would be known to contain substances known to cause cancer. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/hpv/
It all depends on what you are working on. High level user space -- it does not matter.
Low level down and dirty there is nothing closer to the bone than Gentoo. http://www.gentoo.org/
Embedded hardware constraints demands that you know how to prune and tune the lowest bits. Gentoo is the bleeding edge but by the time you are ready to ship anything your bits will not be. Gentoo users demand that all the knobs get exposed.
Desktops for the developers are also important. They need big displays and a full set of compilers and cross compilers; editors; and other development tools. You also need full and rich kickstart tool set to load and reload systems to a known state. Fedora or Ubunto make good desktops. After your engineers "emerge world" a couple times they will move to an RPM based system with a smile on their face. You will also find value in a set of build machines to anchor releases on.
Source code control server is also important: If you do not understand the list of source code control tool options that is the first anchor to set in your new project world.
When you have no clue hook on to another with no clue.
I think the cat will do it to the pooch when the courts force the FCC to scrap it's standards. The only thing funnier was a company that requires employees to abide by the Geneva Conventions... I asked for a copy... and did not get one.
One pair of gloves is not going to do it. What if the food in lunch box A was contaminated by Mom-A. then the inspector touches Lunch box B C D E.... and then box-I which has influenza contamination by dad-I who made a super lunch but sneezed in his own home.
Next time you fly and the TSA inspects your kit. Are the gloves that they push your tooth brush to one side with clean (not the last time I was inspected). Are the TSA inspectors required to take food and health handler training and screening. Are they screened and inoculated for TB, HEP-A, HEP-B etc.
Travel may never be the safe again. Organizations and nations could data mine social media and issue warrants for a gazillion folk and as soon as you disembark on foreign soil find yourself behind bars.
Like border towns in Mexico in the 60's they would then turn you upside down and what ever money they could shake loose was the bail and fine. Often it was the bail and fine for one... who then had to find cash to spring his friends.
Female Facebook pix too much skin... arrest at the gate. Male Facebook showing alcohol.. arrest at the gate.
The reason they are refurbished may be that the system they went into was infected with a virus. For this reason alone you need to format/ dev/zero the drives. Do not forget the MBR...
If you do look at the data then you have a potential liability. What if the twit visited a site that hacked the box and cached kiddie porn... you would be OH so screwed.
All the reasons for returning the drive are not evil but how the heck would you know.
So what to do....pop it in a system and boot that system with a DVD/ CDROM/ USBkey based OS and give it a look...;)
OK the subject is odd but have you ever retold a joke? Have you ever hummed a tune heard on the radio? If so you have committed a crime and SOPA could ball gag you and make you disappear.
Theft is a real issue but the draft law has no balance or consequences for abuse.
With all the cameras and sensors for parking it is a simple matter of software to trigger some insane driver cut me off logic.
Turn on the turn signal the trailing speed delta and location for the previous 30 seconds (800 yards) would be logged and merged with additional data to the point where the signal was turned off or the lane change completed.
The department of homeland safety would download the data from all vehicles involved in accidents and the abusers prosecuted as terrorists. Since 32,000 auto deaths were recorded in 2010 this is clearly a threat with a magnitude fully justifying the attention. Especially given the large percentage of women and children involved.
The root cause of course is building codes that drive families far from industrial and office work places.
So enumerate the group so they can be policed and purged, transported to another place and made impotent in a dark secret place.
We are talking about a communication media, make a list: Paper, pen, ink, photography, voice, lights, flags, semaphores, bells, whistles, drums, tapping code on a water pipe, smoke, one if by land and two if by sea.
In reality the speed and effectiveness of these communication tools are generating changes at rates that boggle the mind. The poll swings in the US Republican pres. preliminaries are perhaps another example of a high gain un-dampened feed back loop.
The law is interesting... Hezbollah and al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab do trigger some activity under the law. But the question of how to act on this issue is unclear. More importantly these organizations are bringing services including health services to people that need them. These people are not likely to un-friend and un-follow these positives.
A hammer is not the right tool here. Bring charges in a Sharia law court perhaps, when and where it applies. The rule of law has become separated from the government in places where corruption and poverty rule. Law outside of the law is the issue and problem.
In that case, I don't think it really makes sense to let children play Angry Birds on battery with your critical safety device. The problem seems to be that people expect a critical safety device to be useful as a toy, phone, computer, car battery and who knows what else.... which is of course rather a lot to ask from a retail device that you are literally risking your life on hoping it functions correctly in critical situations.
I am with you -- yet the parents that give their kids "smart" phones are not thinking about a quake or a regional power outage. My guess is they are thinking -- is my kid home yet, has he stopped at his GF house to neck blow smoke.
It starts with the very young kids, too young to exercise personal restraint especially where Angry Birds is considered safe and blowing smoke and having sex at age 11 is not.
Yes, but then the issue is that the device is only for people who need more than three hours at full operating capacity without access to any kind of powersource... and in reality that is not necessarily very many people... especially if you consider that a $100 device can compete with a $600 iPad for most people's needs. My laptop only gets about 4 hours on battery with dimmed screen and wifi and blue tooth off and I have never really found that to be a major limitation of its portability or usefulness.
BUT a phone is a critical safety device. Dialing 911 or 999 for emergency services when stuck in a snow drift or calling to tell your safe and sound kids to stay put after a tornado has passed... but wait the kids phone battery is exhausted because they were playing Angry Birds now you do not know....
The compilers, libs and more for x86 and friends are so much more mature this is hardly a fair game. The best high school players paired against the winner of the superbowl....
And it is not just the processor the comparison seemed to depend a lot on graphics drivers that are just now using graphics hardware.
I would like to see a 12 hour benchmark that reported normalized results in terms of Kg of battery. All these processors are in the ball park for operations per second but many can NOT do it all day long.
Twelve and 24 hour results are needed to be sure. But a smart phone with a three hour battery life is not a smart design. Simply from the safety point of view this is important.
At this point the issue is less innovation limited then litigation limited.
Combine the U.S. patent system with digital rights management and things grind to a halt.
Nations with less limiting laws have an advantage much larger than we are inclined to believe. Combine with financial pressures and what ya see is what ya get.
Why are you so gullible....snip... The loss of GPS is already anticipated in American aircraft and weaponry since the cold war. The Soviet Union routinely jammed GPS in areas like North Korea. Hell LightSquared jams GPS with a WiFI broadcast, its nothing new. That's why since the 80s missiles use terrain mapping to either continue to the target or leave the jamming area. Once GPS is lost planes and missiles can use TERCOM or INS how did the Iranians get by that?...snip...
Yes but it is likely that there are patents hiding under patent secrecy order.... It is necessary to know what vendor has what patent and what knowledge the development team has a need to know about.;-)
Technology from the '80s is effectively a generation too old and not available to the current generation. After an event like this it will be dusted off or reinvented. A big part of the multi-zillion dollar cost is management process to keep secrets secret and this can include folks and teams that need to know except those that know do not have a need to know what teams that do not know and might need to know. Since I do not have a need to know I clearly do not know what the frell I am talking about.
.....snip... US carriers can easily strike China from beyond the reach of Chinese missiles. Chinese submarines aren't silent as their US counterparts......snip....
The new generation of diesel electric Chicom subs are very quiet.
A couple years ago one surfaced in the middle of a naval exercise. It had gone undetected by a big old battle group.
The geographic location was well marked and could be seen from space as a big brown slick on the ocean.
A carrier is still interesting because air is still the high ground.
One should also note that a carrier has serious value in the aid of coastal emergencies and far reaching surveillance. Surveillance can include weather drones....
Then there is the issue of rare earth magnetic materials. Perhaps this is the still secret reason for the Vietnam war. N.E. Vietnam is one of the richer locations out there.... A floating airbase makes a good support tool for a land invasion. An old boat might be a pawn gambit to speed or slow the response from other parts of the globe.
Simple: for $20000, Medi-Jackass will offer to settle our of court, with both sides knowing full well that litigation will cost the doctor $100,000+. The doctor's insurance company will then inform him that if he screws up like that again, they will drop him, making him effectively unable to practice.
See how easy that was?
But a less expensive strategy is to file a "amicus curiae" ( "friend of the court") brief that states that this company is blowing smoke and extorting (a threat is all it takes) money on a national and global scale.
Some folks call it the/. effect where a site is hammered -- heck hammer the litigant in a way that each letter must be documented logged and addressed all asserting that the invention is also not novel.
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Um, could you please point to the tangible media to which the copyrighted work is fixed?
(TL;DR: Magic tricks are not copyrightable material.)
Read the bit where the kit was available for $3000 bucks.
i.e. tangible media
TSA thieves are an evil twist of the knife.
http://gizmodo.com/5902383/a-tsa-agent-has-been-stealing-ipads-from-passenger-luggage
If dishonesty on an employment application or any other document is
cause for termination the answer is obvious. This is a lot like the
bit of "give me your password" compliance would be a clear and
obvious expression of a character flaw -- so ignore the request.
If necessary "unfriend" any and all company folk.
There are also risks to you and the company because a "lie" is
obvious intent to defraud should the product lack anything, anything
at all.that costs the customer money or loss of money.
This is one company memo that should go to hard copy and
then to a safe place. Hide it behind a wall, misfiled under rut-ro
or some such thing perhaps inside the company so there is no
transgression of other company policy that might kick in at the door.
However this is common, the key issue is that you never used
or owned the product and are being asked to lie.
Try it! Heck you might love it if you try it.
Street signs even the big green interstate signs have
become less and less informative. How often have
you passed a street -- aha that was my turn when a
sign correctly displayed would have got you in the correct
lane in time to signal and make the turn.
In a can't get there from here world navigation tools ARE needed
the trick is to get them to work safely.
On point the codgers pondering the rules are like my 75
year old neighbor that took her GPS back because she
could not figure it out. Give them an OFF button and
be done with it.
I am with you on the problematic use of source material
that is likely copyright.
HOWEVER look at a handful of sports pubs on line and
look for the club jerseys and colors in the background.
Often there are autographed jerseys -- the uniform is
covered by trademark and the signature real. The result
is a collage of art and color that is pulled from the sport
club franchise lock stock and barrel.
Not correct, Zaentz really owns "Hobbit" US trademark, not only one but in multiple categories (besides the usual stuff also including rare things like "Play houses", "Storage sheds"). Might be a cunning move, if the upcoming film is any good he will command the merchandise revenue. If you own the trademark you own pretty much everything...
Yes -- yet he has also abandoned many trademarks that use the word Hobbit.
It may be interesting to map all the uses over time. Gaps in time may be
enough window to negotiate terms and conditions that are also confidential.
To me the pub is clearly riding on the coat tails of the movie but that
is just so darn common in the bar/ pub business that I do not see where
Zaentz gets to play a thump card and pound the business to submission
especially after 20 years. Especially since the previous owner was
lax in defending the property for 15 years. It would not be the first
time that a buyer missed something important in a business purchase.
It is a bar so add a bar to the sign
as any mathematical text book would demonstrate
that the bar is notation for something unique and
not the same as without the bar. In some cases NOT.
Students would know that it did not refer
to the Hobbit and would also appreciate
the apparent double entendre of the BAR
(macron).
Others might paint over the word THE
and replace it with NE or a ~ to negate
Hobbit.... Or even "Not the Hobbit".
Then repaint the hat to be a Tam o' Shanter.
Everybody knows that everything causes cancer in California.
Yes... the state of California is known to the State of California to
contain substances cause cancer.
It was interesting about 15 years ago -- all the large commercial
apartment buildings posted warning signs on their property.
Someone noticed that automobiles have gas tanks and gas
tanks contain gasoline and gasoline can contain some unknown
amount of a substance on the hit parade (benzine IIRC).
BTW: That had them covered when HPV was identified as cancer causing.
Any tenant with an HPV infection would be known to contain substances
known to cause cancer.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/hpv/
It all depends on what you are working on.
High level user space -- it does not
matter.
Low level down and dirty there is nothing closer to the bone than Gentoo.
http://www.gentoo.org/
Embedded hardware constraints demands that you know how to
prune and tune the lowest bits. Gentoo is the bleeding edge but
by the time you are ready to ship anything your bits will not be.
Gentoo users demand that all the knobs get exposed.
Desktops for the developers are also important. They need big displays
and a full set of compilers and cross compilers; editors; and other
development tools. You also need full and rich kickstart tool set to load and
reload systems to a known state. Fedora or Ubunto make good desktops.
After your engineers "emerge world" a couple times they will move to an RPM
based system with a smile on their face. You will also find value in a set of build
machines to anchor releases on.
Source code control server is also important: If you do not understand
the list of source code control tool options that is the first anchor to
set in your new project world.
When you have no clue hook on to another with no clue.
I think the cat will do it to the pooch when the courts
force the FCC to scrap it's standards. The only thing
funnier was a company that requires employees to abide
by the Geneva Conventions... I asked for a copy... and
did not get one.
What are the sanitation rules for the inspectors.
One pair of gloves is not going to do it. What if the ....
food in lunch box A was contaminated by Mom-A.
then the inspector touches Lunch box B C D E
and then box-I which has influenza contamination by
dad-I who made a super lunch but sneezed in his
own home.
Next time you fly and the TSA inspects your kit.
Are the gloves that they push your tooth brush to
one side with clean (not the last time I was inspected).
Are the TSA inspectors required to take food and health
handler training and screening. Are they screened and
inoculated for TB, HEP-A, HEP-B etc.
Travel may never be the safe again.
Organizations and nations could data mine social media and
issue warrants for a gazillion folk and as soon as you disembark
on foreign soil find yourself behind bars.
Like border towns in Mexico in the 60's they would then
turn you upside down and what ever money they could shake
loose was the bail and fine. Often it was the bail and fine for
one... who then had to find cash to spring his friends.
Female Facebook pix too much skin... arrest at the gate.
Male Facebook showing alcohol.. arrest at the gate.
Social media becomes antisocial ammunition.
The reason they are refurbished may be that
the system they went into was infected with a
virus. For this reason alone you need to format/ dev/zero
the drives. Do not forget the MBR...
If you do look at the data then you have a potential liability.
What if the twit visited a site that hacked the box and cached
kiddie porn... you would be OH so screwed.
All the reasons for returning the drive are not evil
but how the heck would you know.
So what to do... .pop it in a system and boot that ;)
system with a DVD/ CDROM/ USBkey based OS and
give it a look...
OK the subject is odd but have you ever retold a joke? Have you ever hummed a tune heard on the radio? If so you have committed a crime and SOPA could ball gag you and make you disappear.
Theft is a real issue but the draft law has no balance or consequences for abuse.
It is called hyper links....
Build an annotated page of links
same as you would a bibliography.
heck -- word knows how to make such
stuff purdy.
Note that pdf files can have links (URL)
that let you write an internal document
that can reference this that and whatever.
With all the cameras and sensors for parking it is
a simple matter of software to trigger some insane
driver cut me off logic.
Turn on the turn signal the trailing speed delta and location
for the previous 30 seconds (800 yards) would be logged
and merged with additional data to the point where the
signal was turned off or the lane change completed.
The department of homeland safety would download the
data from all vehicles involved in accidents and the
abusers prosecuted as terrorists. Since 32,000 auto
deaths were recorded in 2010 this is clearly a threat
with a magnitude fully justifying the attention. Especially
given the large percentage of women and children involved.
The root cause of course is building codes that drive families
far from industrial and office work places.
So enumerate the group so they can be policed and purged,
transported to another place and made impotent in a dark secret
place.
We are talking about a communication media, make a list:
Paper, pen, ink, photography, voice, lights, flags, semaphores,
bells, whistles, drums, tapping code on a water pipe, smoke,
one if by land and two if by sea.
In reality the speed and effectiveness of these communication
tools are generating changes at rates that boggle the mind.
The poll swings in the US Republican pres. preliminaries are
perhaps another example of a high gain un-dampened feed
back loop.
The law is interesting... Hezbollah and al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab
do trigger some activity under the law. But the question of how
to act on this issue is unclear. More importantly these organizations
are bringing services including health services to people that
need them. These people are not likely to un-friend and un-follow
these positives.
A hammer is not the right tool here. Bring charges in a Sharia law
court perhaps, when and where it applies. The rule of law has become
separated from the government in places where corruption and
poverty rule. Law outside of the law is the issue and problem.
In that case, I don't think it really makes sense to let children play Angry Birds on battery with your critical safety device. The problem seems to be that people expect a critical safety device to be useful as a toy, phone, computer, car battery and who knows what else.... which is of course rather a lot to ask from a retail device that you are literally risking your life on hoping it functions correctly in critical situations.
I am with you -- yet the parents that give their kids "smart" phones are not thinking
about a quake or a regional power outage. My guess is they are thinking -- is
my kid home yet, has he stopped at his GF house to neck blow smoke.
It starts with the very young kids, too young to exercise personal restraint
especially where Angry Birds is considered safe and blowing smoke and having
sex at age 11 is not.
Yes, but then the issue is that the device is only for people who need more than three hours at full operating capacity without access to any kind of powersource... and in reality that is not necessarily very many people... especially if you consider that a $100 device can compete with a $600 iPad for most people's needs. My laptop only gets about 4 hours on battery with dimmed screen and wifi and blue tooth off and I have never really found that to be a major limitation of its portability or usefulness.
BUT a phone is a critical safety device. Dialing 911 or 999 for emergency services ... but wait the kids phone battery is exhausted because they were playing
when stuck in a snow drift or calling to tell your safe and sound kids to stay put after a tornado has
passed
Angry Birds now you do not know....
The compilers, libs and more for x86 and friends
are so much more mature this is hardly a fair game.
The best high school players paired against the
winner of the superbowl....
And it is not just the processor the comparison
seemed to depend a lot on graphics drivers that are
just now using graphics hardware.
I would like to see a 12 hour benchmark that reported normalized results
in terms of Kg of battery. All these processors are in the ball park for
operations per second but many can NOT do it all day long.
Twelve and 24 hour results are needed to be sure. But a smart phone with a three hour
battery life is not a smart design. Simply from the safety point of view this is important.
At this point the issue is less innovation limited then litigation limited.
Combine the U.S. patent system with digital rights management and things grind to a halt.
Nations with less limiting laws have an advantage much larger than
we are inclined to believe. Combine with financial pressures and
what ya see is what ya get.
Why are you so gullible....snip... The loss of GPS is already anticipated in American aircraft and weaponry since the cold war. The Soviet Union routinely jammed GPS in areas like North Korea. Hell LightSquared jams GPS with a WiFI broadcast, its nothing new. That's why since the 80s missiles use terrain mapping to either continue to the target or leave the jamming area. Once GPS is lost planes and missiles can use TERCOM or INS how did the Iranians get by that? ...snip...
Yes but it is likely that there are patents hiding under patent secrecy order.... ;-)
It is necessary to know what vendor has what patent and what knowledge
the development team has a need to know about.
Technology from the '80s is effectively a generation too old
and not available to the current generation. After an event like
this it will be dusted off or reinvented. A big part of the
multi-zillion dollar cost is management process to keep secrets
secret and this can include folks and teams that need to know
except those that know do not have a need to know what
teams that do not know and might need to know. Since I do
not have a need to know I clearly do not know what the frell
I am talking about.
.....snip... .....snip....
US carriers can easily strike China from beyond the reach of Chinese missiles. Chinese submarines aren't silent as their US counterparts.
The new generation of diesel electric Chicom subs are very quiet.
A couple years ago one surfaced in the middle of a naval exercise.
It had gone undetected by a big old battle group.
The geographic location was well marked and could
be seen from space as a big brown slick on the ocean.
A carrier is still interesting because air is still the high ground.
One should also note that a carrier has serious value in the aid
of coastal emergencies and far reaching surveillance. Surveillance
can include weather drones....
Then there is the issue of rare earth magnetic materials. Perhaps
this is the still secret reason for the Vietnam war. N.E. Vietnam is
one of the richer locations out there.... A floating airbase makes
a good support tool for a land invasion. An old boat might be a pawn
gambit to speed or slow the response from other parts of the globe.
Simple: for $20000, Medi-Jackass will offer to settle our of court, with both sides knowing full well that litigation will cost the doctor $100,000+. The doctor's insurance company will then inform him that if he screws up like that again, they will drop him, making him effectively unable to practice.
See how easy that was?
But a less expensive strategy is to file a "amicus curiae" ( "friend of the court")
brief that states that this company is blowing smoke and extorting (a threat is
all it takes) money on a national and global scale.
Some folks call it the /. effect where a site is hammered -- heck hammer
the litigant in a way that each letter must be documented logged and
addressed all asserting that the invention is also not novel.
And sure IMNAL....