The terrorists only win when we lose the will to fight for our Freedoms. If anything, this shows that Comedy Central has surrendered to terrorism. But Matt and Trey are still fighting for Freedom of Speech.
I think the terrorists were fighting America and/or American ways, not Matt and Trey (Though with those two, you never know;)
So in the sense of what the terrorists were attempting, they won.
Matt, Trey, and a small number* of others have not lost. You guys get a cold one on me.
* Small compared to all of America, who has in most lost the will to fight for freedoms, as well as the will to not give freedoms away for conveniences.
What the parent was referring to is the fact Nagios itself internally does NOT do SNMP, nor see any SNMP data what so ever outside of a preprocessed result code. Nagios uses external programs (Mosty perl, but anything that can spit out exit codes and stdout text will work) which are what uses SNMP.
All of my SNMP monitored devices are polled by perl scripts that came with Nagios. All Nagios sees from them is a return code with one of three states, not the SNMP data.
While most people tell you to setup MRTG or Cacti for pretty SNMP graphs, Nagios can not do that same thing by itself, only due to not having SNMP support internally.
And in a way this makes sense, as it is a status monitor. It was designed to only provide a simple summary that is boiled down to 'up','warning', and 'critical'.
OpenNMS does poll devices itself and store the actual results, which are parsed and Those results also stored.
While it is a minor thing to nitpick on, it does affect how you use each tool, and even which tools in your suite.
For the record, I run Nagios and MRTG at work, however I've been wanting to look at an OpenNMS system as soon as I can re-purpose a machine for it that is capable.
If that's indeed the case, then why not simply put the MBR,/boot,/bin, and/usr on the SSD, then mount stuff like/home,/tmp, swap, and the like onto a spindle disk? No algorithm needed, thus no overhead needed to run it, etc.
Unfortunately, it usually works out that some of the most volatile places on disk (/home/tmp swap) are the very places one would see the best result in speeding up.
Also unfortunately those are the worst uses currently for a SSD
Then again, for anyone who really wants to speed up things like swap and/tmp, the best way is to simply quadruple your ram and get rid of swap, and use tmpfs in ram for/tmp.
The usual reason for not doing that is ram is expensive, and on top of that motherboards to handle a ton of ram are also expensive (At least compared to their max 4-8gb 4 slot lower end versions) However since SSDs are in the equation here, I'm guessing penny pinching is probably not that much of a concern.
But does it really matter anymore since CCs have become so ubiquitous? I hardly EVER use paper money anymore.
I used to live the same way, and only carried tiny amounts of cash, and even then only when I expected to need it (IE parking meters, work where the food/drink machines only take change and ones, etc)
One day my bank decided that they do not have to give me my money I had stored with them, due to some mixup error on their end.
They fully admitted to the error, said it was already corrected, but the lockout on the account would remain for a week as a security fraud measure. 7 whole days I had a six figure balance unavailable to me, and maybe just under $20 in cash on my person.
Ever since then I deal almost exclusively with cash. I deposit cash into my checking account once a month to pay bills like utilities that do not take cash. Nothing more, and never over a $100 balance at any point in time.
A bank is good and all, as long as after putting MY money in there, they will give me MY money back upon request. As this is no longer true, and all banks in my city have the same contracts stating they don't have to give you anything ever after taking your money, fuck them.
I built a small box with a USB hub IC and a number of parallel port USB chips for IO, which hangs off the plug computer. The thing fits in ceiling tiles and walls, really anywhere you have power and ethernet.
Unless of course you are going for the video output instead of usb, in which case the mac wins hands down.
I would imagine a secondary usage of the yellow dots is matching with documents on the same printer.
If someone was to counterfeit money and spend it, it will eventually make its way back to a bank and be detected, and sent to whomever handles such things in the government (treasury?)
I'd bet all one would need to show as evidence is the pattern of dots on a bill matched to the same pattern of dots on say a resume or printed bank statement or receipt from online shopping.
It would lead you directly to the person, or company, it was printed from.
If one had the ability to change the dots, I would imagine you would change them just to print the counterfeit money, then change them back to be correct afterward.
That way your bills don't match up with your printer OR anything printed on it in the past or future, and it will match in the end if someone checks when it is serviced.
I'm surprised that serial is stored in a rewritable medium like that. This is one major advantage of the old PROM chips, where all bits are 1 until you blow the fuses with higher voltages to turn those bits to 0. You can always change more bits to 0, but can never put them back to 1's So you could still change the serial to print money, but could never put the original serial back, and as you said it would be very suspicious on its next servicing.
True, assy as it gets, but Apple already knew the employee.
I don't think he would be concerned with applying at apple and them finding out what he did:P
It's more his future would-be employers that are the big deal.
Of course there is the issue if that is anyones business or not (arguable it is), and also how people might over react needlessly (as people are, well, people)
You know how when a person is accused of having child porn, it doesn't matter if they ever did or not, in everyone's eyes they are a child molester as a matter of fact?
If this was an honest mistake or not, he will most likely be branded very poorly for his actions, which if they are an honest mistake is a real shame.
Not having all the details or facts I will refrain from passing judgment, but those tiny facts do make all the difference.
The mayor had a policy to not give anyone else the passwords but him. Childs did NOT give the passwords to others. Childs DID give it to the mayor, as the mayors policy stated to do.
Where from those facts to you jump all the way to holding anything hostage?
Is your wife holding your house hostage because she won't give a copy of your keys to a random kid down the street that asked?
The main confusion that could so easily be avoided, is that when using the ABC names of Alice Bob and Carl (+ Dave and Eve if needed), people speak as if these are people, when they should out right and explicitly state those are the names of the key pairs.
Once you realize the encryption only exists between named key-pairs, there shouldn't be confusion as to whom can send/read what.
If I use my Bob key pair to encrypt a message for Alice, I can actually be pretty sure that only the Alice key pair can read my message.
Now, as to what person has the Alice key pair, if it is indeed the person Alice or not, is not something public key cryptology even addresses.
Once that little incorrect link is removed (A key-pair is not a person), the rest falls into place.
Not quite. In most jurisdictions, the question "Is it theft?" is answered by the following tests.
That word implies you are using a legal context to define theft.
If that was what anyone else but you was doing here, you would be right.
The statement was not made in any legal context, so why would you randomly choose that definition knowing it is the worst possible fit?
In writing, one uses English, not law. In that case you DO use the English dictionary, which defines theft both as taking something tangible, and copying words.
As the speaker was writing, it only makes sense they would use words as writers use them, and thus the usage is correct.
We like to change the meaning of the words when it's convenient for us
It isn't exactly our fault that the word 'steal' has two very very different definitions, one in English, one in US Law.
In this particular case, it is an english use, so steal is correct, as that fits the dictionary definition.
The other cases are mostly referring to legal results (IE court cases) in which case if you use the dictionary, you will be wrong. Or more correctly, if you use the legal dictionary, it will be defined to mean something totally different.
It is the submitters at fault for using the english definition in a legal context incorrectly.
That's not really spoofing, though. It's the same number, it's your number. The law should be written to allow that, as well as ID forwarding (which isn't spoofing either).
I agree, as I would imagine most technical people would.
But unfortunately the definition of 'deceive' is now in the hands of lawyers and judges:/
I can't think of a single HONEST use for caller ID spoofing. What legitimate uses are there?
Where I work, with the phone switches I manage, not all of our phone extensions have outside numbers. Many are internal only phones and can only make outgoing calls to the POTS network.
If one of those extensions calls an outside number, the callerID is spoofed to our main receptionist number, so any return calls will actually work (You call that number, talk to receptionist, give extension, and she puts the call through)
A lot better than the alternate method with no callerid or fake callerid, in which no one will know how to get back in touch with that line.
Arguably this setup is now illegal. Laughably, every last single company on the fortune 500 list does this.
When the only thing making callerID spoofing legal is not trying to 'defraud or deceive', well, it is not possible to put in callerID that this phone has no phone number, so any result will be deceiving.
From the anti-circumvention section of the DMCA [cornell.edu]: "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."
The only part of the iPhone that falls under copyright at all, and thus the DMCA, is Apples firmware.
You already have a license to use the firmware on your phone. It would be illegal to power a non-jailbroken iphone on if that was the case.
Granted you are not allowed to distribute their software, but that is not at all a requirement to jailbreak, only to pirate.
So at no point in the jailbreaking process do you need any copyrighted material which you do not already have a license to use, and you don't need a license to distribute because that never has to happen.
If you are not violating copyright law, then the DMCA (aka a part of copyright law) also does not apply to you.
The only people in a DMCA covered area are those whom make and distribute the jailbreaking tool itself. At least it would apply to them if they lived in the USA:P
Where does the virtual machine run? on the local hardware, or on a remote server?
In this case the virtual machine runs on a remote server. The local hardware just runs the view client.
Part of the reason I started off that this option might be too expensive, is you will need some infrastructure in place for the vmware server(s) Where I work is an order of magnitude larger than the submitters, and it is hard to say where the cost of maintenance in ITs time is balanced by the cost of this sort of setup without more details.
Put really simply, each real workstation is loaded with a minimal system and the vmware view clients. When a user goes to login to a computer on your network, after authentication their virtual workstation pops up (Be it windows or ubuntu) and lets them work.
All of the actual 'workstations' being used are virtual machines, thus are the same unified image you are looking for with one set of drivers.
While I have not tested it with a multi-monitor setup, they claim it is supported.
The one main thing you do lose is full accelerated 3D support, and direct support for old eccentric hardware. (Think ISA card support and non-standard PCI interfaces) I can say USB support is simply amazing in how well it works.
Clients can even play full interactive flash media and video, and it runs well (As well as one would expect it to work in native OS anyway)
Just wanted to share my personal experience with NDAs/non-competes.
Personally, I have always rejected non-compete contracts almost out right. NDAs however I have no problems with.
Once that time comes up in the interview process, I state that being a professional I would not take their insider data to anywhere outside the company. As I would not expect that much trust right away, I have no problems signing an NDA (And I do read+sign them right as they are placed in front of me without question, or at least my questions are asked after I sign. Ive never yet had a concern I needed to ask about ahead of time.)
Not-compete however I will state as soon in that part of the process as I can, to avoid wasting time. Most times there is never an issue with that, and I was hired anyway.
The two times I remember where the company was leaning hard against me that it was required for employment and making an issue out of it, I offer my alternate.
I will agree to a modified version of the non-compete:
The max duration of the contract can not be over 24 months. It can be less but not more, the non-compete automatically expires for both of us after that time.
My salary must continue to be paid for the entire time after employment is terminated that you wish the non-compete to be active. You can stop payments at any time, but a payment over 30 days late with zero contact will void the agreement.
The rate of pay must be equal to the highest base pay rate I held in the past 13 months prior to termination. aka if I make $80k/yr, then suddenly get a pay cut down to $70k for 3 months, and another pay cut after just before being fired, then the 80k/yr is the price of non-compete. This gives me a good year to decide if I want to leave and lock in my normal pay rate, or stay for the year and accept the lower rate for that time plus after termination. Lowering my salary to $1/year and firing me 2 seconds after the change will not aid them in any way either. This leaves the choice of how long they don't want me working for competition fully in control with their checkbook.
One employer accepted those terms. They chose to retain me on a non-compete status for 6 months after I was laid off, then choose to end the agreement by not paying for the remaining 1.5 years. I refrained from working in my field at all for that time they paid my non-compete rate, and had a job a month or so after they terminated it. As it was not something they got for free, they had to calculate if it was worth the cost to them or not each month. They felt only 6 months of time was required, which they paid for in full. We both came out ahead.
For what it's worth, only one place out right rejected any modifications to the employee contract (Not just non-compete changes, but anything) and they choose not to hire me. Win for me at least, as I would not want to work at a company like that anyway. Probably a win for them too I assume.
You can mod me as troll, but you still failed to answer the question.
You imply it is not possible (or state it out right actually) yet are both making the post, and applying mod points, with a device you claim is impossible.
The ARPAnet pretty much was a failure, at least if you look at the goals list they had when inventing it.
This is the main reason they sold it off to the commercial phone companies, and changed its name to the Internet.
Once new goals were put in place, the technology worked pretty well for it. Much better than the original goals.
In fact even back in 1992 before the web took off, most people online didn't know of the existence of ARPAnet, only the Internet. No one but us geeks even remembers ARPAnet today.
That should show how successful each project was to the layman. One disappeared into non-existence, the other changed most peoples way of life.
I don't want flying cars; I want cars that can drive themselves more safely than people can. That's my SF car of the future.
You mean, like trains?
To be fair, even in countries with very well off public transportation, the majority of people live in the same city as they work, and a train will not run door to door or even close.
In the US at least, there are plenty of places you are lucky to find ONE train station in a city, and its sole purpose is taking you in or out of said city.
As a car replacement option, walking would be a better replacement, as with all the suck that comes with walking, at least it will eventually do the same thing as driving (IE get you to and from the places you want to get at 99% of the time)
But I can't subscribe to the announce list for every free software product I use, I'd do nothing else but read these lists.
Wait, you'd spend 100% of your time by reading 2-3 emails a month? No wonder your email servers are suffering;}
Kidding aside, -announce is not like -user or -help lists.
For me personally in gmail all lists except announcement ones are auto sorted to labels and marked read. It's mainly to search through for reference when I need it.
Announcement lists however go right to my inbox. I'm on roughly 20 announce lists and get maybe at most 10 emails a month from them, but usually much less.
Just make sure the list you are subscribing to is the one only their staff can post to, and only contains important announcement information. You definitely don't want to accidentally get the main user group list and try to keep up on everything if you are on more than about 3 lists at any given time. That would be hell;}
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The terrorists only win when we lose the will to fight for our Freedoms.
If anything, this shows that Comedy Central has surrendered to terrorism.
But Matt and Trey are still fighting for Freedom of Speech.
I think the terrorists were fighting America and/or American ways, not Matt and Trey (Though with those two, you never know ;)
So in the sense of what the terrorists were attempting, they won.
Matt, Trey, and a small number* of others have not lost. You guys get a cold one on me.
* Small compared to all of America, who has in most lost the will to fight for freedoms, as well as the will to not give freedoms away for conveniences.
but the muslims have a different culture and some of them aren't used to coping with that.
Hopefully the Koran teaches them how to call the waaaamberlamps
And for the record, Nagios does do SNMP
What the parent was referring to is the fact Nagios itself internally does NOT do SNMP, nor see any SNMP data what so ever outside of a preprocessed result code.
Nagios uses external programs (Mosty perl, but anything that can spit out exit codes and stdout text will work) which are what uses SNMP.
All of my SNMP monitored devices are polled by perl scripts that came with Nagios. All Nagios sees from them is a return code with one of three states, not the SNMP data.
While most people tell you to setup MRTG or Cacti for pretty SNMP graphs, Nagios can not do that same thing by itself, only due to not having SNMP support internally.
And in a way this makes sense, as it is a status monitor. It was designed to only provide a simple summary that is boiled down to 'up','warning', and 'critical'.
OpenNMS does poll devices itself and store the actual results, which are parsed and Those results also stored.
While it is a minor thing to nitpick on, it does affect how you use each tool, and even which tools in your suite.
For the record, I run Nagios and MRTG at work, however I've been wanting to look at an OpenNMS system as soon as I can re-purpose a machine for it that is capable.
If that's indeed the case, then why not simply put the MBR, /boot, /bin, and /usr on the SSD, then mount stuff like /home, /tmp, swap, and the like onto a spindle disk? No algorithm needed, thus no overhead needed to run it, etc.
Unfortunately, it usually works out that some of the most volatile places on disk (/home /tmp swap) are the very places one would see the best result in speeding up.
Also unfortunately those are the worst uses currently for a SSD
Then again, for anyone who really wants to speed up things like swap and /tmp, the best way is to simply quadruple your ram and get rid of swap, and use tmpfs in ram for /tmp.
The usual reason for not doing that is ram is expensive, and on top of that motherboards to handle a ton of ram are also expensive (At least compared to their max 4-8gb 4 slot lower end versions)
However since SSDs are in the equation here, I'm guessing penny pinching is probably not that much of a concern.
But does it really matter anymore since CCs have become so ubiquitous? I hardly EVER use paper money anymore.
I used to live the same way, and only carried tiny amounts of cash, and even then only when I expected to need it (IE parking meters, work where the food/drink machines only take change and ones, etc)
One day my bank decided that they do not have to give me my money I had stored with them, due to some mixup error on their end.
They fully admitted to the error, said it was already corrected, but the lockout on the account would remain for a week as a security fraud measure. 7 whole days I had a six figure balance unavailable to me, and maybe just under $20 in cash on my person.
Ever since then I deal almost exclusively with cash.
I deposit cash into my checking account once a month to pay bills like utilities that do not take cash. Nothing more, and never over a $100 balance at any point in time.
A bank is good and all, as long as after putting MY money in there, they will give me MY money back upon request.
As this is no longer true, and all banks in my city have the same contracts stating they don't have to give you anything ever after taking your money, fuck them.
Not quite as beefy as a mac mini, but for my own home automation I've found these to be excellent:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SheevaPlug
http://www.plugcomputer.org/
I built a small box with a USB hub IC and a number of parallel port USB chips for IO, which hangs off the plug computer. The thing fits in ceiling tiles and walls, really anywhere you have power and ethernet.
Unless of course you are going for the video output instead of usb, in which case the mac wins hands down.
I would imagine a secondary usage of the yellow dots is matching with documents on the same printer.
If someone was to counterfeit money and spend it, it will eventually make its way back to a bank and be detected, and sent to whomever handles such things in the government (treasury?)
I'd bet all one would need to show as evidence is the pattern of dots on a bill matched to the same pattern of dots on say a resume or printed bank statement or receipt from online shopping.
It would lead you directly to the person, or company, it was printed from.
If one had the ability to change the dots, I would imagine you would change them just to print the counterfeit money, then change them back to be correct afterward.
That way your bills don't match up with your printer OR anything printed on it in the past or future, and it will match in the end if someone checks when it is serviced.
I'm surprised that serial is stored in a rewritable medium like that. This is one major advantage of the old PROM chips, where all bits are 1 until you blow the fuses with higher voltages to turn those bits to 0.
You can always change more bits to 0, but can never put them back to 1's
So you could still change the serial to print money, but could never put the original serial back, and as you said it would be very suspicious on its next servicing.
You must be a writer. Or an Apple customer.
Better than a troll.
If you truly think pointless insults are adding to a conversation, your conversation is not something i need to see. Foed.
True, assy as it gets, but Apple already knew the employee.
I don't think he would be concerned with applying at apple and them finding out what he did :P
It's more his future would-be employers that are the big deal.
Of course there is the issue if that is anyones business or not (arguable it is), and also how people might over react needlessly (as people are, well, people)
You know how when a person is accused of having child porn, it doesn't matter if they ever did or not, in everyone's eyes they are a child molester as a matter of fact?
If this was an honest mistake or not, he will most likely be branded very poorly for his actions, which if they are an honest mistake is a real shame.
Not having all the details or facts I will refrain from passing judgment, but those tiny facts do make all the difference.
Childs essentially held the City IT hostage.
Please explain your statement.
The mayor had a policy to not give anyone else the passwords but him.
Childs did NOT give the passwords to others.
Childs DID give it to the mayor, as the mayors policy stated to do.
Where from those facts to you jump all the way to holding anything hostage?
Is your wife holding your house hostage because she won't give a copy of your keys to a random kid down the street that asked?
Very well said.
The main confusion that could so easily be avoided, is that when using the ABC names of Alice Bob and Carl (+ Dave and Eve if needed), people speak as if these are people, when they should out right and explicitly state those are the names of the key pairs.
Once you realize the encryption only exists between named key-pairs, there shouldn't be confusion as to whom can send/read what.
If I use my Bob key pair to encrypt a message for Alice, I can actually be pretty sure that only the Alice key pair can read my message.
Now, as to what person has the Alice key pair, if it is indeed the person Alice or not, is not something public key cryptology even addresses.
Once that little incorrect link is removed (A key-pair is not a person), the rest falls into place.
Not quite. In most jurisdictions, the question "Is it theft?" is answered by the following tests.
That word implies you are using a legal context to define theft.
If that was what anyone else but you was doing here, you would be right.
The statement was not made in any legal context, so why would you randomly choose that definition knowing it is the worst possible fit?
In writing, one uses English, not law. In that case you DO use the English dictionary, which defines theft both as taking something tangible, and copying words.
As the speaker was writing, it only makes sense they would use words as writers use them, and thus the usage is correct.
We like to change the meaning of the words when it's convenient for us
It isn't exactly our fault that the word 'steal' has two very very different definitions, one in English, one in US Law.
In this particular case, it is an english use, so steal is correct, as that fits the dictionary definition.
The other cases are mostly referring to legal results (IE court cases) in which case if you use the dictionary, you will be wrong.
Or more correctly, if you use the legal dictionary, it will be defined to mean something totally different.
It is the submitters at fault for using the english definition in a legal context incorrectly.
That's not really spoofing, though. It's the same number, it's your number. The law should be written to allow that, as well as ID forwarding (which isn't spoofing either).
I agree, as I would imagine most technical people would.
But unfortunately the definition of 'deceive' is now in the hands of lawyers and judges :/
I can't think of a single HONEST use for caller ID spoofing. What legitimate uses are there?
Where I work, with the phone switches I manage, not all of our phone extensions have outside numbers.
Many are internal only phones and can only make outgoing calls to the POTS network.
If one of those extensions calls an outside number, the callerID is spoofed to our main receptionist number, so any return calls will actually work (You call that number, talk to receptionist, give extension, and she puts the call through)
A lot better than the alternate method with no callerid or fake callerid, in which no one will know how to get back in touch with that line.
Arguably this setup is now illegal.
Laughably, every last single company on the fortune 500 list does this.
When the only thing making callerID spoofing legal is not trying to 'defraud or deceive', well, it is not possible to put in callerID that this phone has no phone number, so any result will be deceiving.
From the anti-circumvention section of the DMCA [cornell.edu]: "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."
The only part of the iPhone that falls under copyright at all, and thus the DMCA, is Apples firmware.
You already have a license to use the firmware on your phone. It would be illegal to power a non-jailbroken iphone on if that was the case.
Granted you are not allowed to distribute their software, but that is not at all a requirement to jailbreak, only to pirate.
So at no point in the jailbreaking process do you need any copyrighted material which you do not already have a license to use, and you don't need a license to distribute because that never has to happen.
If you are not violating copyright law, then the DMCA (aka a part of copyright law) also does not apply to you.
The only people in a DMCA covered area are those whom make and distribute the jailbreaking tool itself. :P
At least it would apply to them if they lived in the USA
Where does the virtual machine run? on the local hardware, or on a remote server?
In this case the virtual machine runs on a remote server. The local hardware just runs the view client.
Part of the reason I started off that this option might be too expensive, is you will need some infrastructure in place for the vmware server(s)
Where I work is an order of magnitude larger than the submitters, and it is hard to say where the cost of maintenance in ITs time is balanced by the cost of this sort of setup without more details.
WOOOOOOOOOSH.
Was that the joke, or just the shuttle? *shakes watch*
It's not cheap so might not be a viable option for a smaller shop, but VMware has been making some very interesting strides in this area.
Check out VMware View, also known as PCoIP (Yes, that is personal computer over internet protocol)
http://www.vmware.com/products/view/
http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10083
Put really simply, each real workstation is loaded with a minimal system and the vmware view clients.
When a user goes to login to a computer on your network, after authentication their virtual workstation pops up (Be it windows or ubuntu) and lets them work.
All of the actual 'workstations' being used are virtual machines, thus are the same unified image you are looking for with one set of drivers.
While I have not tested it with a multi-monitor setup, they claim it is supported.
The one main thing you do lose is full accelerated 3D support, and direct support for old eccentric hardware. (Think ISA card support and non-standard PCI interfaces)
I can say USB support is simply amazing in how well it works.
Clients can even play full interactive flash media and video, and it runs well (As well as one would expect it to work in native OS anyway)
Just wanted to share my personal experience with NDAs/non-competes.
Personally, I have always rejected non-compete contracts almost out right.
NDAs however I have no problems with.
Once that time comes up in the interview process, I state that being a professional I would not take their insider data to anywhere outside the company. As I would not expect that much trust right away, I have no problems signing an NDA (And I do read+sign them right as they are placed in front of me without question, or at least my questions are asked after I sign. Ive never yet had a concern I needed to ask about ahead of time.)
Not-compete however I will state as soon in that part of the process as I can, to avoid wasting time.
Most times there is never an issue with that, and I was hired anyway.
The two times I remember where the company was leaning hard against me that it was required for employment and making an issue out of it, I offer my alternate.
I will agree to a modified version of the non-compete:
The max duration of the contract can not be over 24 months. It can be less but not more, the non-compete automatically expires for both of us after that time.
My salary must continue to be paid for the entire time after employment is terminated that you wish the non-compete to be active. You can stop payments at any time, but a payment over 30 days late with zero contact will void the agreement.
The rate of pay must be equal to the highest base pay rate I held in the past 13 months prior to termination.
aka if I make $80k/yr, then suddenly get a pay cut down to $70k for 3 months, and another pay cut after just before being fired, then the 80k/yr is the price of non-compete.
This gives me a good year to decide if I want to leave and lock in my normal pay rate, or stay for the year and accept the lower rate for that time plus after termination. Lowering my salary to $1/year and firing me 2 seconds after the change will not aid them in any way either.
This leaves the choice of how long they don't want me working for competition fully in control with their checkbook.
One employer accepted those terms. They chose to retain me on a non-compete status for 6 months after I was laid off, then choose to end the agreement by not paying for the remaining 1.5 years.
I refrained from working in my field at all for that time they paid my non-compete rate, and had a job a month or so after they terminated it.
As it was not something they got for free, they had to calculate if it was worth the cost to them or not each month. They felt only 6 months of time was required, which they paid for in full. We both came out ahead.
For what it's worth, only one place out right rejected any modifications to the employee contract (Not just non-compete changes, but anything) and they choose not to hire me. Win for me at least, as I would not want to work at a company like that anyway. Probably a win for them too I assume.
LOL classy
You can mod me as troll, but you still failed to answer the question.
You imply it is not possible (or state it out right actually) yet are both making the post, and applying mod points, with a device you claim is impossible.
Again, why?
The ARPAnet pretty much was a failure, at least if you look at the goals list they had when inventing it.
This is the main reason they sold it off to the commercial phone companies, and changed its name to the Internet.
Once new goals were put in place, the technology worked pretty well for it. Much better than the original goals.
In fact even back in 1992 before the web took off, most people online didn't know of the existence of ARPAnet, only the Internet. No one but us geeks even remembers ARPAnet today.
That should show how successful each project was to the layman.
One disappeared into non-existence, the other changed most peoples way of life.
I don't want flying cars; I want cars that can drive themselves more safely than people can. That's my SF car of the future.
You mean, like trains?
To be fair, even in countries with very well off public transportation, the majority of people live in the same city as they work, and a train will not run door to door or even close.
In the US at least, there are plenty of places you are lucky to find ONE train station in a city, and its sole purpose is taking you in or out of said city.
As a car replacement option, walking would be a better replacement, as with all the suck that comes with walking, at least it will eventually do the same thing as driving (IE get you to and from the places you want to get at 99% of the time)
But you can't do it with machine-like proficiency on a mass scale.
Why exactly?
But I can't subscribe to the announce list for every free software product I use, I'd do nothing else but read these lists.
Wait, you'd spend 100% of your time by reading 2-3 emails a month? ;}
No wonder your email servers are suffering
Kidding aside, -announce is not like -user or -help lists.
For me personally in gmail all lists except announcement ones are auto sorted to labels and marked read. It's mainly to search through for reference when I need it.
Announcement lists however go right to my inbox. I'm on roughly 20 announce lists and get maybe at most 10 emails a month from them, but usually much less.
Just make sure the list you are subscribing to is the one only their staff can post to, and only contains important announcement information. ;}
You definitely don't want to accidentally get the main user group list and try to keep up on everything if you are on more than about 3 lists at any given time. That would be hell