Well, another isolated act of sensibility is in the process of concluding out in California (http://www.popehat.com/tag/prenda-law/ for background on it). Maybe things are finally starting to make sense?
Ahh, but that expansion/transition I was talking about? We're actually bringing the help desks back into the company from a few years of being outsourced. Its probably a side-effect of being a healthcare company (and a regional one no less), but management actually cares about their employees.
I think it depends on your office culture. I do phone tech support and can work remotely. Several of my coworkers don't ever drive into the office, several other coworkers work in other parts of the state and when we finish our transitional/expansion period (next 2 months or so), the goal is to have 10-15 people working remotely every day. I actually just had an email needing information to make sure our new VOIP setup will be compatible with everyone's home setups.
Actually lots of houses burn down due to floods. A gas line ruptures or electric power issues light the house up and then the fire Dept can't make it there due to the water.
Exactly. The houses in Breezy Point are a good example of this.
What a bunch of bullcrap. Oracle is not a person. The person who started the lawsuit should testify. That would be... Larry Ellison. Yes, that is why he is testifying. If he doesn't know, he should not have sued.
On top of that, he IS the CEO of the company. He should have been prepped prior to testifying to expect this question, especially since it appeared in deposition (aka, Google's interested in making sure the answer is in the court records).
Actually, if you go to the 0,0 coords on the map (possibly other places but thats where I saw it), there's a copyright notice for Squeenix, dated this year.
Well, considering the Oracle lawyers are involved with that slog known as SCO, maybe they have a high tolerance for boredom (or extremely low tolerance for change and like dealing with one litigation for a decade at a time?).
GPS systems are a huge distraction. Do you really need a GPS for day-to-day driving? For most people, how often do you really drive somewhere you don't know? No more than a few times a year. And do you really need a GPS in a city you don't know? No. READ THE ROAD SIGNS! CHECK A MAP BEFORE YOU LEAVE! Folks that drive with GPS seem like some of the worst drivers on the road. Why? They are watching the screen and not the road signs. They are missing the obvious visual clues to where they are going.
GPS laws might not get much traction. Most places it's illegal to drive while on the cell phone but people still do it. Somehow, you put that iPhone in a dash mount and people somehow thing it is now a legal "hands free" device. People need some common sense.
However, I live in a very large city and just moved further out the in suburbs than where I'd been living for the last 13 years. I'm not familiar with all the back roads where I live now, and the major road that I drive daily to get to work had an accident on it last week, completely blocking the road. I'd already studied maps of the area and had a vague notion that if I made a turn into the neighborhood next to where the accident was, that I could get back to a major road that connected to the interstate. However, which turns to take, and when, was not something I had yet memorized. Navigation would have been intensely helpful at that point.
Don't forget though, its not just Google doing this (though everyone's jumping on them for it). Facebook (hello known people to care less about privacy) does the exact same thing. So, why is no one jumping on FB for this (when every other potential for privacy stirs up the masses)? There are other sites as well, though I can't recall a list off-hand.
It looks to me that Google is doing exactly what their p3p policy says they will do.
No, it's doing the exact opposite. P3P is a list of things you *WILL USE* the cookie data for, not what you *WILL NOT* do. Per the spec, if it's not a valid tag it gets ignore, remove all the invalid stuff and google is effectively sending P3P="", or in other words, they wont use it for anything.
Then, since Google's p3p policy is sent as just a URL, shouldn't IE be ignoring it since its not valid?
My first thought when seeing the headline was an anime/manga from a couple of years ago, called Planetes, which is based on a group of people who clean up the garbage in space.
The vast majority of the store clerks just have to count out what the machine tells them to do. Any higher order math is not needed, and with plastic becoming more and more prevalent as a payment method, even that is becoming less necessary.
"The Fair Labor Association found that Apple's plant where iPhones and iPads are far better than those at garment factories or other facilities elsewhere in the country. A quote: 'The lead investigator stated "The facilities are first-class; the physical conditions are way, way above average of the norm."' Which leaves the question, what is the acceptable norm?"
Translation:
So the manacles are in better condition, they're punished with lifetime imprisonment versus death in other places, and the slaves are kept in slightly better conditions - but are still slaves given that one risks imprisonment or death if you speak out against Foxconn or the like.
So this organization is only a whitewash group for Apple.
Not so./. has the older story of the initial impressions by the FLA. The new one today (reported on by Bloomberg), instead says:
“We’re finding tons of issues,” van Heerden said en route to a meeting where FLA inspectors were scheduled to present preliminary findings to Foxconn management. “I believe we’re going to see some very significant announcements in the near future.”
One thing to remember, not only do the older folk have more experience (and thus, want higher wages), they're starting to look down the barrel of retirement. Most 20 year olds don't even think about retirement and are happy to put minimal amounts in, because they have the time to let it grow. 40 year olds don't have the luxury of as much time, and with most companies matching 401(k) deposits, thats even more money out of the window.
I agree with you and I'd bring up the example of how adult DVDs are usually (if they're displayed at all), displayed with the covers covered up if not in another room entirely (this includes explicit CD covers) and also how adult stores put their more explicit items in the back of the store with the arrangement of things done in such a way as to prevent someone walking by to see in. If the library wants to continue to let someone watch adult content, set up a room for it or at least put it in a far corner of the library (as far from the kid's section as feasible).
I have no caps on my internet, 10/2 Mbps, fiber and including TV (HD+DVR+top package without extra sports/premium channels) for $80/mon down here in the States. My provider is actually not a national provider, just a regional one and is much more known for telephone service (including cell phones), but I also get a discount (all of $10/mon) for being in my apartment complex.
The only part you're missing is that B&N was claiming that Microsoft was misusing their (trivial/invalid) patents to maintain a monopoly on the desktop. Without reading what Mueller wrote (and mostly just reading Groklaw's take, including comments there), this ruling appears to be that the ITC won't continue to consider the patent misuse argument... for now. However, it is an initial ruling and not all of the information has been provided (and it looks like the majority of B&N's patent misuse defense rests on information that it is trying to get Nokia and MOSAID to provide via currently pending motions which wouldn't be available for any rulings right now).
You forget, this is happening in Japan, the land where everything is done via cellphone (I do kid... kinda). I'd bet typical data usage there is different than typical data usage here in the States (or even Europe).
Sure there's something you can do. Contact your government representative and tell them to put pressure on the US'. Foreign governmental pressure might actually do more than the blackouts and voters. If nothing else, it'll alert your representative that you're against such laws anyways, hopefully preventing a similar situation in your own country.
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Well, another isolated act of sensibility is in the process of concluding out in California (http://www.popehat.com/tag/prenda-law/ for background on it). Maybe things are finally starting to make sense?
Ahh, but that expansion/transition I was talking about? We're actually bringing the help desks back into the company from a few years of being outsourced. Its probably a side-effect of being a healthcare company (and a regional one no less), but management actually cares about their employees.
I think it depends on your office culture. I do phone tech support and can work remotely. Several of my coworkers don't ever drive into the office, several other coworkers work in other parts of the state and when we finish our transitional/expansion period (next 2 months or so), the goal is to have 10-15 people working remotely every day. I actually just had an email needing information to make sure our new VOIP setup will be compatible with everyone's home setups.
Well, its currently only needing 10,125 signatures, so some people are signing it (and I'm one who created an account to sign it myself).
Actually lots of houses burn down due to floods. A gas line ruptures or electric power issues light the house up and then the fire Dept can't make it there due to the water.
Exactly. The houses in Breezy Point are a good example of this.
Trillian's pretty good too, and its what I've been using for months.
What a bunch of bullcrap. Oracle is not a person. The person who started the lawsuit should testify. That would be ... Larry Ellison. Yes, that is why he is testifying. If he doesn't know, he should not have sued.
On top of that, he IS the CEO of the company. He should have been prepped prior to testifying to expect this question, especially since it appeared in deposition (aka, Google's interested in making sure the answer is in the court records).
Then again, how much time do you think xkcd put into their AF's joke?
Actually, if you go to the 0,0 coords on the map (possibly other places but thats where I saw it), there's a copyright notice for Squeenix, dated this year.
Well, considering the Oracle lawyers are involved with that slog known as SCO, maybe they have a high tolerance for boredom (or extremely low tolerance for change and like dealing with one litigation for a decade at a time?).
GPS systems are a huge distraction. Do you really need a GPS for day-to-day driving? For most people, how often do you really drive somewhere you don't know? No more than a few times a year. And do you really need a GPS in a city you don't know? No. READ THE ROAD SIGNS! CHECK A MAP BEFORE YOU LEAVE! Folks that drive with GPS seem like some of the worst drivers on the road. Why? They are watching the screen and not the road signs. They are missing the obvious visual clues to where they are going. GPS laws might not get much traction. Most places it's illegal to drive while on the cell phone but people still do it. Somehow, you put that iPhone in a dash mount and people somehow thing it is now a legal "hands free" device. People need some common sense.
However, I live in a very large city and just moved further out the in suburbs than where I'd been living for the last 13 years. I'm not familiar with all the back roads where I live now, and the major road that I drive daily to get to work had an accident on it last week, completely blocking the road. I'd already studied maps of the area and had a vague notion that if I made a turn into the neighborhood next to where the accident was, that I could get back to a major road that connected to the interstate. However, which turns to take, and when, was not something I had yet memorized. Navigation would have been intensely helpful at that point.
Well, at least in one instance, a lawsuit was required: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore
Don't forget though, its not just Google doing this (though everyone's jumping on them for it). Facebook (hello known people to care less about privacy) does the exact same thing. So, why is no one jumping on FB for this (when every other potential for privacy stirs up the masses)? There are other sites as well, though I can't recall a list off-hand.
Well, Oracle already has to pay some of Google's legal fees (specifically, the ones incurred for dealing with Oracle's 3rd damages report).
It looks to me that Google is doing exactly what their p3p policy says they will do.
No, it's doing the exact opposite. P3P is a list of things you *WILL USE* the cookie data for, not what you *WILL NOT* do. Per the spec, if it's not a valid tag it gets ignore, remove all the invalid stuff and google is effectively sending P3P="", or in other words, they wont use it for anything.
Then, since Google's p3p policy is sent as just a URL, shouldn't IE be ignoring it since its not valid?
My first thought when seeing the headline was an anime/manga from a couple of years ago, called Planetes, which is based on a group of people who clean up the garbage in space.
The vast majority of the store clerks just have to count out what the machine tells them to do. Any higher order math is not needed, and with plastic becoming more and more prevalent as a payment method, even that is becoming less necessary.
"The Fair Labor Association found that Apple's plant where iPhones and iPads are far better than those at garment factories or other facilities elsewhere in the country. A quote: 'The lead investigator stated "The facilities are first-class; the physical conditions are way, way above average of the norm."' Which leaves the question, what is the acceptable norm?"
Translation: So the manacles are in better condition, they're punished with lifetime imprisonment versus death in other places, and the slaves are kept in slightly better conditions - but are still slaves given that one risks imprisonment or death if you speak out against Foxconn or the like.
So this organization is only a whitewash group for Apple.
Not so. /. has the older story of the initial impressions by the FLA. The new one today (reported on by Bloomberg), instead says:
“We’re finding tons of issues,” van Heerden said en route to a meeting where FLA inspectors were scheduled to present preliminary findings to Foxconn management. “I believe we’re going to see some very significant announcements in the near future.”
Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-17/foxconn-auditor-finds-tons-of-issues-.html
Sadly, it is possible to get a waiver to allow a child to attend school even without having a vaccine. Source (and list): http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/health/school-immunization-exemption-state-laws.aspx
One thing to remember, not only do the older folk have more experience (and thus, want higher wages), they're starting to look down the barrel of retirement. Most 20 year olds don't even think about retirement and are happy to put minimal amounts in, because they have the time to let it grow. 40 year olds don't have the luxury of as much time, and with most companies matching 401(k) deposits, thats even more money out of the window.
I agree with you and I'd bring up the example of how adult DVDs are usually (if they're displayed at all), displayed with the covers covered up if not in another room entirely (this includes explicit CD covers) and also how adult stores put their more explicit items in the back of the store with the arrangement of things done in such a way as to prevent someone walking by to see in. If the library wants to continue to let someone watch adult content, set up a room for it or at least put it in a far corner of the library (as far from the kid's section as feasible).
I have no caps on my internet, 10/2 Mbps, fiber and including TV (HD+DVR+top package without extra sports/premium channels) for $80/mon down here in the States. My provider is actually not a national provider, just a regional one and is much more known for telephone service (including cell phones), but I also get a discount (all of $10/mon) for being in my apartment complex.
The only part you're missing is that B&N was claiming that Microsoft was misusing their (trivial/invalid) patents to maintain a monopoly on the desktop. Without reading what Mueller wrote (and mostly just reading Groklaw's take, including comments there), this ruling appears to be that the ITC won't continue to consider the patent misuse argument... for now. However, it is an initial ruling and not all of the information has been provided (and it looks like the majority of B&N's patent misuse defense rests on information that it is trying to get Nokia and MOSAID to provide via currently pending motions which wouldn't be available for any rulings right now).
You forget, this is happening in Japan, the land where everything is done via cellphone (I do kid... kinda). I'd bet typical data usage there is different than typical data usage here in the States (or even Europe).
Sure there's something you can do. Contact your government representative and tell them to put pressure on the US'. Foreign governmental pressure might actually do more than the blackouts and voters. If nothing else, it'll alert your representative that you're against such laws anyways, hopefully preventing a similar situation in your own country.