Yes but as an employer you will have to notify the works council of your planned monitoring including the reason why.
As the chairman of our works council I've been in that situation, there was indication one of our lab managers was in the process of setting up a competing lab in his own name.
He was released a day later, the proof was overwhelming, what a stupid idiot to use company mail for such a dirty trick.
As Carewolf writes in the EU (that includes Romania) there is the codified Expectation of Privacy.
Virtually all companies that use a law office for their contracts will have their employees sign a paper that they understand the company supplied mail and Internet access can be monitored.
Such a contract would include that you can to an extend use it for private conversations, abuse will not be accepted.
Another way to look at it is when the mail address includes my name it can hardly be claimed it is 100% company property, or do you want to say my hotmail.com address belongs to Microsoft making them responsible for what I write?
Interesting.
I am an avid photographer myself and I wouldn't dream of these kind of stupidities.
Yet I can very much understand technically challenged people not understanding the consequences of their decisions.
On the other hand, they did understand there was a need for specialist equipment that even on rent won't be cheap, and now they are told their insurance doesn't cover it.
At the end of the blog with scary pictures Zach Sutton writes he was surprise how few equipment was actually damaged yet he also writes this is only a small sample.
So now I get really interested to know what percentage came back damaged.
Then we can use that number to extrapolate how many personal equipment was burnt.
You are so right.
The type of comments we get are a nasty indication of how remote freedom is to many.
Not using Chrome and Edge are steps to at least claim back some of that freedom, Firefox and it's parent Mozilla were always at the forefront of that fight.
I've used Firefox so long that it's hotkey still is [Meta + N] and I see little problems with it, certainly nothing that warrants me trading in more of my privacy to Google Chrome.
Not long ago someone here asked for a listing of the privacy advantages of using Chromium (if any), so far I have not seen anything substantial but do assume most of the spying has not been ported to the latter.
For me Firefox works, it eats less memory than Chrome, has the extensions I want and I know developers (Tree style tabs) are working on porting to the new API or are ready (uBlock origin).
Oh yes, since a few years Firefox is probably the best versatile browser on Android.
Look here, the turnout in the 2016 election was about 56% of the electorate, of them a 46% minority voted for Trump.
So why are you surprised reasonable persons the world over, including a majority of US citizen, are upset with the outcome?
The biggest hurdle is the river, the road is on the public side and if I remember well there are some restrictions on stopping at this section facing Balmoral.
You get closer to the house the fences become more serious and I believe a lawn, however large, is not a field as intended by The Land Reform Act.
Yes but you bought an Apple product, good hardware but at a ridiculous price.
Those calls can just as well be made on an Android phone at a quarter of the price.
Spot on, when I turned 60 I became a full time mentor and instructor for the newly hired engineers.
It's a win-win for all, the new guys don't have to repeat the stupidities of the past, I get exposed to some of the new tech they bring out of university and the company keeps the good parts of its proven production methods yet advances with the new hires.
The older workers can be an effective glue between existing products, future developments and management.
What you seem to miss is we need different kinds of people for the different kinds of jobs at hand.
Yes you can use a group of smart fast thinking young ones for brute force production.
But you also need some more mature engineers for quality control and possible as mirrors for the developers coming up with new and (not always) brilliant ideas for new ways and products.
A smart company will recognise who is ready to move on to a next position, ultimately this include who you'd rather put on a less hours contract to wind down towards retirement.
Or like what happened to me, set up a Learning & Development department for support of freshly graduated engineers.
I think you just described why a mix of old hands and new engineers gives the best result.
Following your junior method of just throwing more memory and CPU cycles at the task is not often the best solution.
Both hardware cost and customer satisfaction might run away...
Sure, government regulation is a huge problem, but I think we should all acknowledge all the other impossible hurdles to a practicle Hyperloop first:
1) During normal temperature variance, the inaugural, proposed route will experience over three football fields worth of expansion and contraction. Your supports have to deal with this. The only real solution is flex couplings, but we don't know how to build flex couplings that can also maintain the kind of vacuum that is required for the Hyperloop to be anything but an insanely expensive monorail.
No, such connections are well understood and feasible, in the oil industry they are called slip joints.
Also, an underground tube does not suffer the same expansion issues, have a look at the world's great tunnels.
2) In the event of failure, there's no good way to evacuate people. Decompression of a car, even if controlled will kill the passengers because even compressed pure oxygen can't provide enough oxygen to them to survive in the vacuum conditions.
Crap, the relevant segment of the tunnel can be pressurised in seconds, enough time to save the passengers.
By the way, do you know a plane at 30,000 ft. needs pressurisation?
3) A simply pipe bomb, detonated anywhere along the line, will cause explosive decompression of the entire tube, killing anyone in the tube, and immediately scrapping the entire route.
What a load of baloney, why would the entire tube decompress? The damn thing IS already decompressed:)
Also, the tube is not made of paper, it'll be steel and lots of concrete. Also because of segmentation only part of it will pressurise.
4) Even with conservative projections, and assuming the above problems magically go away, the cost of building the Hyperloop based on the technologies that we can forecast, the cost is astronomical (see the light rail fiasco in California already).
You've really not looked into this right?
The Hyperloop tube is much smaller than a conventional tunnel and thus much easier to bore, also, over the past 10 or so years there has been a lot learned from those large tunnelling projects.
5) While cool, and faster, the Monorail has limited capacity, limited flexibility (it can't carry much or large cargo), so it is less useful than existing forms of transportation that are already "fast enough" in most cases. This means it is of limited use, which massively effects the viability of such an expensive project.
Yes it is of relatively small diameter but it is plenty big enough for things that require fast transport, think of people.
And who says it is to replace conventional means of transport like ships?
But, yeah, other than the EVERYTHING else, the Hyperloop is probably doomed by government regulation.
Indeed, when regulation is done by idiots like you that don't have a clue yet spout off an opinion.
In a lot of (Western) Europe the mineral rights are governed by laws from the days of Napoleon.
Meaning most things more than a meter below ground (or your building) belongs to the the state.
Yes it makes this sort of planning much easier.
In The Netherlands we have one of the densest rail networks in the world yet it becomes ever more difficult to fit in new lines.
That's why the Dutch are not just watching what Elon Musk is doing but we actually contribute to the development of the Hyperloop, by going below ground it would solve many of our space problems.
Most if not all these technicalities have been addressed, like the expansion joints would be at the various stations where the speed would also be lower.
Yes it is a huge vacuum chamber but for maintenance it would obviously be segmented, in case of an emergency it or parts of it could be pressurised to atmospheric in less than 30 seconds by means of the many valves placed at fairly close distances.
Most of the required technology is used daily in for example the oil field.
About the thermal expansion, have a look at surface pipelines like that one in Alaska, at regular intervals it has expansion loops, not useful for a hyperloop, long underground pipelines don't need such expansion loops by design.
Oh yes, that gun is fairly useless when the loop is 20-50 meters below the surface, also, putting a few.50? holes in the worlds largest vacuum chamber is not going to cause an immediate catastrophe.
Anyway, in case the US legal system is too high a hurdle there are going to be other countries with a more forward system to actually build a loop.
I assume this tunnel is to cover a greater distance, hence it can be dug much deeper and below many of these issues.
Not that there are no different problems at greater depth...
But looking at the slow but eventually successful tunnelling of for example the Amsterdam Metro, even outright swampland under a major city is no reason to stop the work.
Same here, when you use Chrome you know you share your browsing habits with Google.
Aside from the memory footprint an important reason to avoid that browser.
I sometimes use Chromiium for some multi media sites that just won't work in FF and assume it has better privacy than Chrome but would love to see an expert's view on this.
Maybe to you, but me as an EU citizen I prefer having a European border agency controlled by the EU parliament instead of all kinds of small (Like Albanian, Montenegrin and Macedonian) local governments setting their individual policies.
A bit like the Mexican-US border, what would work better, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California each policing by themselves or the Federal border force?
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Yes but as an employer you will have to notify the works council of your planned monitoring including the reason why.
As the chairman of our works council I've been in that situation, there was indication one of our lab managers was in the process of setting up a competing lab in his own name.
He was released a day later, the proof was overwhelming, what a stupid idiot to use company mail for such a dirty trick.
No it's most certainly not end of story.
As Carewolf writes in the EU (that includes Romania) there is the codified Expectation of Privacy.
Virtually all companies that use a law office for their contracts will have their employees sign a paper that they understand the company supplied mail and Internet access can be monitored.
Such a contract would include that you can to an extend use it for private conversations, abuse will not be accepted.
Another way to look at it is when the mail address includes my name it can hardly be claimed it is 100% company property, or do you want to say my hotmail.com address belongs to Microsoft making them responsible for what I write?
Interesting.
I am an avid photographer myself and I wouldn't dream of these kind of stupidities.
Yet I can very much understand technically challenged people not understanding the consequences of their decisions.
On the other hand, they did understand there was a need for specialist equipment that even on rent won't be cheap, and now they are told their insurance doesn't cover it.
At the end of the blog with scary pictures Zach Sutton writes he was surprise how few equipment was actually damaged yet he also writes this is only a small sample.
So now I get really interested to know what percentage came back damaged.
Then we can use that number to extrapolate how many personal equipment was burnt.
Hmm, this is the fourth time you show you are probably an illegal immigrant, sorry, alien.
Let me be helpful; there is not their.
According to the previous /. article about millennial the minorities include older people.
You are so right.
The type of comments we get are a nasty indication of how remote freedom is to many.
Not using Chrome and Edge are steps to at least claim back some of that freedom, Firefox and it's parent Mozilla were always at the forefront of that fight.
I've used Firefox so long that it's hotkey still is [Meta + N] and I see little problems with it, certainly nothing that warrants me trading in more of my privacy to Google Chrome.
Not long ago someone here asked for a listing of the privacy advantages of using Chromium (if any), so far I have not seen anything substantial but do assume most of the spying has not been ported to the latter.
For me Firefox works, it eats less memory than Chrome, has the extensions I want and I know developers (Tree style tabs) are working on porting to the new API or are ready (uBlock origin).
Oh yes, since a few years Firefox is probably the best versatile browser on Android.
Look here, the turnout in the 2016 election was about 56% of the electorate, of them a 46% minority voted for Trump.
So why are you surprised reasonable persons the world over, including a majority of US citizen, are upset with the outcome?
That BBC is in no way connected to Fake News outlets like say the Daily Mail or The Sun.
Maybe you confused the BBC with Rupert Murdoch.
Melania watches Game of Thrones and after the last episode she warned Donald that walls are not dragon proof...
The biggest hurdle is the river, the road is on the public side and if I remember well there are some restrictions on stopping at this section facing Balmoral.
You get closer to the house the fences become more serious and I believe a lawn, however large, is not a field as intended by The Land Reform Act.
He might not explicitly ask the why but the question is certainly implied in his writings.
And both would have their valid reasons to do so :)
Yes but you bought an Apple product, good hardware but at a ridiculous price.
Those calls can just as well be made on an Android phone at a quarter of the price.
I see you've yet to reach KDE and it's players.
Spot on, when I turned 60 I became a full time mentor and instructor for the newly hired engineers.
It's a win-win for all, the new guys don't have to repeat the stupidities of the past, I get exposed to some of the new tech they bring out of university and the company keeps the good parts of its proven production methods yet advances with the new hires.
The older workers can be an effective glue between existing products, future developments and management.
What you seem to miss is we need different kinds of people for the different kinds of jobs at hand.
Yes you can use a group of smart fast thinking young ones for brute force production.
But you also need some more mature engineers for quality control and possible as mirrors for the developers coming up with new and (not always) brilliant ideas for new ways and products.
A smart company will recognise who is ready to move on to a next position, ultimately this include who you'd rather put on a less hours contract to wind down towards retirement.
Or like what happened to me, set up a Learning & Development department for support of freshly graduated engineers.
Very well said.
I think you just described why a mix of old hands and new engineers gives the best result.
Following your junior method of just throwing more memory and CPU cycles at the task is not often the best solution.
Both hardware cost and customer satisfaction might run away...
Sure, government regulation is a huge problem, but I think we should all acknowledge all the other impossible hurdles to a practicle Hyperloop first:
1) During normal temperature variance, the inaugural, proposed route will experience over three football fields worth of expansion and contraction. Your supports have to deal with this. The only real solution is flex couplings, but we don't know how to build flex couplings that can also maintain the kind of vacuum that is required for the Hyperloop to be anything but an insanely expensive monorail.
No, such connections are well understood and feasible, in the oil industry they are called slip joints.
Also, an underground tube does not suffer the same expansion issues, have a look at the world's great tunnels.
2) In the event of failure, there's no good way to evacuate people. Decompression of a car, even if controlled will kill the passengers because even compressed pure oxygen can't provide enough oxygen to them to survive in the vacuum conditions.
Crap, the relevant segment of the tunnel can be pressurised in seconds, enough time to save the passengers.
By the way, do you know a plane at 30,000 ft. needs pressurisation?
3) A simply pipe bomb, detonated anywhere along the line, will cause explosive decompression of the entire tube, killing anyone in the tube, and immediately scrapping the entire route.
What a load of baloney, why would the entire tube decompress? The damn thing IS already decompressed :)
Also, the tube is not made of paper, it'll be steel and lots of concrete. Also because of segmentation only part of it will pressurise.
4) Even with conservative projections, and assuming the above problems magically go away, the cost of building the Hyperloop based on the technologies that we can forecast, the cost is astronomical (see the light rail fiasco in California already).
You've really not looked into this right?
The Hyperloop tube is much smaller than a conventional tunnel and thus much easier to bore, also, over the past 10 or so years there has been a lot learned from those large tunnelling projects.
5) While cool, and faster, the Monorail has limited capacity, limited flexibility (it can't carry much or large cargo), so it is less useful than existing forms of transportation that are already "fast enough" in most cases. This means it is of limited use, which massively effects the viability of such an expensive project.
Yes it is of relatively small diameter but it is plenty big enough for things that require fast transport, think of people.
And who says it is to replace conventional means of transport like ships?
But, yeah, other than the EVERYTHING else, the Hyperloop is probably doomed by government regulation.
Indeed, when regulation is done by idiots like you that don't have a clue yet spout off an opinion.
In a lot of (Western) Europe the mineral rights are governed by laws from the days of Napoleon.
Meaning most things more than a meter below ground (or your building) belongs to the the state.
Yes it makes this sort of planning much easier.
Yes trains are a great mode of mass transport.
In The Netherlands we have one of the densest rail networks in the world yet it becomes ever more difficult to fit in new lines.
That's why the Dutch are not just watching what Elon Musk is doing but we actually contribute to the development of the Hyperloop, by going below ground it would solve many of our space problems.
Most if not all these technicalities have been addressed, like the expansion joints would be at the various stations where the speed would also be lower. .50? holes in the worlds largest vacuum chamber is not going to cause an immediate catastrophe.
Yes it is a huge vacuum chamber but for maintenance it would obviously be segmented, in case of an emergency it or parts of it could be pressurised to atmospheric in less than 30 seconds by means of the many valves placed at fairly close distances.
Most of the required technology is used daily in for example the oil field.
About the thermal expansion, have a look at surface pipelines like that one in Alaska, at regular intervals it has expansion loops, not useful for a hyperloop, long underground pipelines don't need such expansion loops by design.
Oh yes, that gun is fairly useless when the loop is 20-50 meters below the surface, also, putting a few
Anyway, in case the US legal system is too high a hurdle there are going to be other countries with a more forward system to actually build a loop.
I assume this tunnel is to cover a greater distance, hence it can be dug much deeper and below many of these issues.
Not that there are no different problems at greater depth...
But looking at the slow but eventually successful tunnelling of for example the Amsterdam Metro, even outright swampland under a major city is no reason to stop the work.
Same here, when you use Chrome you know you share your browsing habits with Google.
Aside from the memory footprint an important reason to avoid that browser.
I sometimes use Chromiium for some multi media sites that just won't work in FF and assume it has better privacy than Chrome but would love to see an expert's view on this.
Maybe to you, but me as an EU citizen I prefer having a European border agency controlled by the EU parliament instead of all kinds of small (Like Albanian, Montenegrin and Macedonian) local governments setting their individual policies.
A bit like the Mexican-US border, what would work better, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California each policing by themselves or the Federal border force?