...is what the company gives you in return for things you give up. When you sign something new, new consideration is required.
So I'd ask the question, what is my consideration for signing this? They can't say, "your job." You already have that. And to threaten you with being fired to get you to sign it is duress - which isn't legal.
Personally I never sign anything I don't agree with, and certainly nothing that doesn't offer something in return.
While over the years employers have taken issue with my stance, I've never lost a job because of it, and I frequently have gotten what I felt was fair and acceptable consideration in return.
I had, as an experiment, a linux box on the net for well over three years running a very old version of linux. sshd, httpd and others all also were rather old and most likely riddled with holes of various kinds. It was never compromised.
I would see attacks on it occasionaly, but nobody ever cracked the box. It seemed that for the most part the attacks were script kiddie style and were focused on more modern versions and exploits.
So, while in this specific case keeping things old worked -- I'm sure that it was still quite a hackable box and if it were a serious server that I wasn't using in this way I wouldn't have kept it out in the open.
It's one thing for governmenet computers to capture conversations, it's quite another to have a human listen to them. The main difference here is that the current administration has authorized the NSA to listen to those conversation without judicial oversight. No other administration has done this before.
I know that stopping SPIM is what they have publicly said, but reading this article it would seem that they also plan to keep changing the protocols at a rather frequent pace. Meaning that nobody will be able to keep up and yet another IM war has started.
It is nice to see some activity against patents like this. It just seems that for all the frustration about software patents that there is so little action being taken to fight them.
The article does seem to skip around and leaves you wanting more details. As you go from page to page you feel like you missed a chapter.... I would like to have seen more, especially the influences of the arcade games.
And whatever happened to "Colossal Caves" AKA The Original Adventure?
I seem to recall that for a 50 user server, Real was free. Now that may be a non-commercial license but it makes for a good price tag. Also, a vote here against windows media since those of us on Linux will never see any of it.
This movie should be taken about as seriously as the latest Elvis sighting. Network television has a history repleat with silliness that does complete injustice to things that would otherwise be of true value.
When "Superman" was release on Network TV they used one of the false endings instead of the one the director intended. I mean really, how can hoards of police and rescue works find Superman's fortress of solitude.
Tom Clancy must have been desperate when he gave the movie rights to Network TV for one of his movies. They made an otherwise really good suspence thriller into what amounted to a love story and removed all the real suspense. The only suspense left was, when will they kiss?
So what can "Y2K, The Movie" really hope to be? Nothing more than opportunistic trash that is trying to score on the fears of those less technically savy than us. In reality most people with more than half a brain usually avoid any movie that is "Made for TV" or what was a good movie that has shredded to make room for commercials and non-existent plots added.
Oh yeah, and in case you didn't know, "Y2K, The Movie" isn't about technology problems, its a love story. So if you do decide to watch, don't look for the plot line (there isn't one), and keep asking yourself, "When will they kiss?"
Many years ago I bought an ONKYO stereo that came with a Universal remote. The neatest thing about it was that it had a learn mode that could set it to. You point another remote at it and it captured the signal and assigned it to the button of your choice.
A friend of mine bought the TV remote software for his palm pilot and his only complaint is the short range of the pilot's IR beam, other than that he thought it was the best remote he had ever had. Right now he's looking for a way to boost the signal.....
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...is what the company gives you in return for things you give up. When you sign something new, new consideration is required.
So I'd ask the question, what is my consideration for signing this? They can't say, "your job." You already have that. And to threaten you with being fired to get you to sign it is duress - which isn't legal.
Personally I never sign anything I don't agree with, and certainly nothing that doesn't offer something in return.
While over the years employers have taken issue with my stance, I've never lost a job because of it, and I frequently have gotten what I felt was fair and acceptable consideration in return.
I had, as an experiment, a linux box on the net for well over three years running a very old version of linux. sshd, httpd and others all also were rather old and most likely riddled with holes of various kinds. It was never compromised.
I would see attacks on it occasionaly, but nobody ever cracked the box. It seemed that for the most part the attacks were script kiddie style and were focused on more modern versions and exploits.
So, while in this specific case keeping things old worked -- I'm sure that it was still quite a hackable box and if it were a serious server that I wasn't using in this way I wouldn't have kept it out in the open.
It's one thing for governmenet computers to capture conversations, it's quite another to have a human listen to them. The main difference here is that the current administration has authorized the NSA to listen to those conversation without judicial oversight. No other administration has done this before.
I'm not sure that theory works, the Yahoo IM for Linux that I use doesn't have any ads that I have noticed.....
It is nice to see some activity against patents like this. It just seems that for all the frustration about software patents that there is so little action being taken to fight them.
The stock price may not enter into their ability to pay legal fees if much of the cash comes in boxes with a return address in Redmond.
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The article does seem to skip around and leaves you wanting more details. As you go from page to page you feel like you missed a chapter.... I would like to have seen more, especially the influences of the arcade games.
And whatever happened to "Colossal Caves" AKA The Original Adventure?
How does this relate to the question at hand about avoiding the corporate filtering of websites?
I seem to recall that for a 50 user server, Real was free. Now that may be a non-commercial license but it makes for a good price tag. Also, a vote here against windows media since those of us on Linux will never see any of it.
One word, Google.
When "Superman" was release on Network TV they used one of the false endings instead of the one the director intended. I mean really, how can hoards of police and rescue works find Superman's fortress of solitude.
Tom Clancy must have been desperate when he gave the movie rights to Network TV for one of his movies. They made an otherwise really good suspence thriller into what amounted to a love story and removed all the real suspense. The only suspense left was, when will they kiss?
So what can "Y2K, The Movie" really hope to be? Nothing more than opportunistic trash that is trying to score on the fears of those less technically savy than us. In reality most people with more than half a brain usually avoid any movie that is "Made for TV" or what was a good movie that has shredded to make room for commercials and non-existent plots added.
Oh yeah, and in case you didn't know, "Y2K, The Movie" isn't about technology problems, its a love story. So if you do decide to watch, don't look for the plot line (there isn't one), and keep asking yourself, "When will they kiss?"
A friend of mine bought the TV remote software for his palm pilot and his only complaint is the short range of the pilot's IR beam, other than that he thought it was the best remote he had ever had. Right now he's looking for a way to boost the signal.....