I know a woman who used to work for a law office in southern california. What many employers do is abuse the waive to privacy on their computers to sniff out passwords. They sniff the passwords then log in secretly to check!
I told her that is illegal! They can't do that since the only thing you can monitor is what an employee does on company time. Not use that login outside of work hours. However she said, "The loophole is that they agreed that logging in and using passwords on company equipment and they can do that whenever at the employers desecration!"... in other words employers can wire tap you and the laws against hacking do not apply as you voluntarily agreed to do so and then check your gmail or facebook privately.
I was shocked as I agree employers need to monitor and discipline employees to protect themselves against sexual harassment lawsuits but to use that to sneak around is a whole other matter. I NEVER check my gmail at work during lunch hour anymore as a result. That is too far
I would more respect people willing to give up liberties and put up with it to feed their families. If you have been out of work for more than 6 months they need to come first. Sacrafice in this economy is unfortunate but inevitable.
When they are hungry and about to go homeless you need to suck it up if you care about them. If this were 1999 I would agree
What ever happened to "Give me liberty, or give me death"
People too often just go with the flow, allowing themselves to be trampled by corporations and government. No one willing to take a stand for what is right and just.
I applaud the decision. (To make it illegal)
I am appalled by the problem.
When your wife is ready to leave you, your kids are crying because they are hungry and all you have is mac n cheese and top ramen, the repo man is giving you a 48 hour notice to take your car, all because ypu have been out of work for over a year!
What are you going to do? Stand by your priciples?! How about taking care of your family!
Sadly in thiseconomy I just described 20 million people! They are either under or unemployed.
This is Microsoft's fault. One thing that blows about Vista/7 is sound is all software only! No hardware acceleration as it was removed. EAX had to be removed as it relied on the chips in the card. What a shame man as I used to use creative labs products in the Xp years but without that there is little to no sound difference and performance is the same since it is emulated in software.
Windows 7 is much better in soo many ways. It is very lite, asthetically pleasing, and all the bugs were worked out. Vista has terrible networking, buggy, and the indexing goes bizerk. The services packs helped but it is still very bad. Windows 7 is just done right regardless of drivers. I am glad I am not running that POS anymore and was happy to go to 7 fast!
True, but if it is a DPI issue then that is too low of a level for a webmaster to worry about and the OS/Browsers job to implement that properly so they can focus on element contents and styles. Not rendering. The webmaster is responsible for the content and unfortunately, IE 6 taught them they are responsible for working around bugs in the OS/browser too which should have never been their job if it was not such a piece of shit.
Since that dinosaur is going away we need to blame IE 10/Win 8 for this.
Stock tickers, okcupid, weather, and other things where you do not have to open a web browser then type the name of the address, then login info if it is not saved, etc.
The apps can provide more functionality too and can sync with your phone. Ask any Mac user with an IPhone?
Vista had a lot of good changes yet it was wise to enjoy them in Windows 7 and stick with XP at the time. It is not a resistance to change other than MS really does blow adding new products and features. IE, NT, Word, Windows, all pretty much much sucked goatballs and only took off after they had a few versions out already and used their existing marketshare to create inertia for their other products.
Not really resistance to change but rather great things implemented poorly not QAed so to speak. I will try the Windows 8 features in Windows 9 when they fix the UI. It is not ready nor appropriate for a monitor and keyboard and mouse. The desktop has great advantages and so does instant search and peak in Windows 7 which ms killed. Sorry the Metro cellphone UI blocks everything and is not nearly as powerful. I tried. I used it 3 times and while I started to get used to the dekstop mode a little bit I found it buggy and inconsistent in an on integrated way. Why do that when Windows 7 has a better desktop. I love my aero and think its pretty, I love instant search that doesn't take the full screen so I can use it while reading a word doc on what to type, I like how it just works. On a cell phone I will consider the modern UI but I do not care for the flat looks and bizaare notations to do anything useful with it.
How the hell can a grandma figure it out if we are experts and almost all of us had to google on how to shut it down? Frankly it is not ready just like Vista.
I love my ATI card and AMD chpset and view them as great quality. However, the drivers are very problematic. I am very careful to watch the version number as I have HDMI setup with my monitor due to a flaky on board sound (... dont ask). Sometimes I have a black edge as the driver thinks my monitor is a TV with underscan. Sometimes it goes away, but VMWare goes bizerk with my USB chipset drivers even when I do not use it. Yes I went into the registry to make sure the AMD filter driver was not installed but no luck.
My computer's ASLR protection is SHUTDOWN because of the crappy driver version. The latest fucks up VMWare where it takes 5 minutes to mount a flash drive and the version in between forgets my HDMI settings and puts the black underscan back in but the later too put ASLR sandboxing protection back into the kernel for safe browsing.
So 12.3 is my lucky driver number and I have flash uninstalled except for Chrome as it is a security risk due to the terrible drivers. I would recommend Junior Samples to try 12.3 as they are the most stable.... sadly I only went ATI because I had issues with Nvidia BSOD due to buggy hardware. I can never get a break. Crappy drivers is an understatement.
Bah Vista is fine. Just people hate change for no apparent reason as there are tons of reasons to love Vista on the netbook with only 1 gig of ram right? They need to learn to put up with it and then they will see the light.
I mean how can their be a negative product ever! Just blame the user for hating the familiar.
Not where I work. We are now evaluating Office 365 seriously as we still use IE 7 and are paying big bucks to now move to 8. Both which Google is giving a finger too.
Business #1, the customer is always right. We dictate beowser support and office formats. Its Googles job to comply if they want our business. I guess not.
Ancient IE and Office IT standardized a decade ago. Conplain all you want but that is the standard. Corps wont change
First no IE 6 support, now they are dropping IE 8 and consequiently XP as only IE is enterprise grade. To now this?!
Don't give me crap that its because html 5 is so much capable. Have any of their engineers had a feal job before Google? Or are they fresh cs grads out of college? Corporate America has too much invested to just adopt and be hip without a business case on why upgrading can help raise the share price. Infact MBA wisdom shows it as an unneccesary cost that doesnt add value.
Maybe I should give the ms sales rep a call? All Google is doing is pushing these users to Office 365! Not freeing them.
I meant Windows desktops with mediocre hardware acceleration due to XP support/DirectX 9, IE 8, and crappy desktop resolutions, and websites degraded to support old IE users if the agent detects a desktop.
My android displays okcupid with beautiful gradients, animations, and graphics in web mode or the stand alone app. It looks like crap regardless of the browser on my Windows desktop because of legacy users.
It is up to the web browser. The only thing the web master should do is put a CSS if it is a mobile screen to take away some complexity or change the dimensions of the text for readability.
The web browser is what takes care of integrating the images with the operating system and rendering them on screen. Windows 8 supports high DPI but I am fairly shocked IE 10 which is an excellent browser contrary to past releases of IE does not fully support it. IE 10 needs to be patched asap as it is used in Windows 8 mobile as well where phones have bizaare resolutions and DPI combos.
The problem is apps are not tested with anything other than 100dpi because thats what people use. People only use 100 dpi because that is what programs are optimized for. Only Apple and Google have broken this.
Again it shows just how much better your cell phone is with hardware accelerated smooth graphics, html 5, and ppi and dpi with web browser over your computer. Too much legacy is really holding everyone back. Old IE, ancient java, and older apps using GDI for the low 15% of users hold things back for the other 85%.
I have not even read up on HTML 5 yet as IE 7 and 8 wont die for a very long time. Even though they represent so little of hte market I can't lose them so everyone else needs to suffer.
One of the arguments to leave XP behind is that it can't work at all beyond 100 DPI or the apps will break. I assumed Windows 8 Modern UI took care of this? This issue alone made me weary of a macbook as 200 DPI will not run so great in bootcamp with Windows with most of the apps all misrendered.
100 DPI is so ancient and it is time to get rid of it. The fact that Windows 8 has mostly but not 100% got rid of it is problematic. Lets hope Windows 9 fixes this or at least a service pack in win 8.
Not a biggie in 2012 but in 2016 1080p will be the next 1024 x 768.
Go to my workplace. HTML 5 can not happen as we and millions around the world still use IE 7 and are still working on partial CSS 2 support all with java applets that the beancounters see no need to upgrade as it would come out of the CEO's bonus.
You expect us to replace our 200k Cisco equipment because CiscoConnect requires Java 1.4.x and XP? I THINK NOT.
Bank of America's corporate portal, Manpower, KRONOS (if you had an hour job you used such a system), all require ancient java that is administred only by old IE and java applets. All which costs millions to replace and frankly work fine according to the accountants who set the IT budget.
Maybe in your little world in your college dorm it is no biggie but expect a world of pain when you enter the real world.
The CEOs clearly are being overburdened and need a tax break. I am sure if we give them more tax payer money they will help us out from the goodness of their hearts. Trickle down is here to stay
Not even MIT teaches LISP anymore. Nor do people need to write programs. They do all need to write papers, know how to do Boolean searches in google and nexus to find searches, insert footnotes in papers.
Not play around in the CLI in latex to write their history of basket weaving paper. Wake up. All statistics today is done with Excel add-ons and it is what employers demand when they graduate. I learned it with MegaStat inside Excel. Infact, Citigroup uses excel macros for everything they do
Worse I have to clean machines which use Java 1.4.2 on the clients using IE 7. They get infected ALOT but use them for their banking apps online. Can't upgrade them because the 9 year old Kronos app is not compatible with any other version and this would hurt the shareprice.
Part of this is not Oracle's or Sun's fault. It is the customers who uses 10 year old software that relies on these exploits to provide functionality like COM integration with Excel and other useless features.
The more Oracle plugs these holes the more users will demand to keep XP and Java 1.4.2 around the office. Corporate customers hate change and fixes make them nervous.
Java does run on every platform. The problem is it does not run on past versions of itself and like ancient versions of IE they create lockin. Most regular users do not use it as an applet. Chrome and Firefox wont even let you run Java applets believe it or not by default if you have Java installed. Just IE because no one uses it.
Sadly I use eclipse and Aptana and I know many users who use Vuze for bittorents so java i snot going away but at least most of us can upgrade. I use the insecure version but double check to make sure it wont work on my browser so I am good.
Java and ancient browsers are EVERYWHERE. Worse they all use Java 1.4.2 which is like the holy grail of CISCO equipment and some bank websites. It wont work on any other browser besides IE 6/7 with that java combo. Unless of course you want to upgrade... HA that would cost money silly.
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I know a woman who used to work for a law office in southern california. What many employers do is abuse the waive to privacy on their computers to sniff out passwords. They sniff the passwords then log in secretly to check!
I told her that is illegal! They can't do that since the only thing you can monitor is what an employee does on company time. Not use that login outside of work hours. However she said, "The loophole is that they agreed that logging in and using passwords on company equipment and they can do that whenever at the employers desecration!" ... in other words employers can wire tap you and the laws against hacking do not apply as you voluntarily agreed to do so and then check your gmail or facebook privately.
I was shocked as I agree employers need to monitor and discipline employees to protect themselves against sexual harassment lawsuits but to use that to sneak around is a whole other matter. I NEVER check my gmail at work during lunch hour anymore as a result. That is too far
I would more respect people willing to give up liberties and put up with it to feed their families. If you have been out of work for more than 6 months they need to come first. Sacrafice in this economy is unfortunate but inevitable.
When they are hungry and about to go homeless you need to suck it up if you care about them. If this were 1999 I would agree
What ever happened to "Give me liberty, or give me death"
People too often just go with the flow, allowing themselves to be trampled by corporations and government. No one willing to take a stand for what is right and just.
I applaud the decision. (To make it illegal)
I am appalled by the problem.
When your wife is ready to leave you, your kids are crying because they are hungry and all you have is mac n cheese and top ramen, the repo man is giving you a 48 hour notice to take your car, all because ypu have been out of work for over a year!
What are you going to do? Stand by your priciples?! How about taking care of your family!
Sadly in thiseconomy I just described 20 million people! They are either under or unemployed.
This is Microsoft's fault. One thing that blows about Vista/7 is sound is all software only! No hardware acceleration as it was removed. EAX had to be removed as it relied on the chips in the card. What a shame man as I used to use creative labs products in the Xp years but without that there is little to no sound difference and performance is the same since it is emulated in software.
Windows 7 is much better in soo many ways. It is very lite, asthetically pleasing, and all the bugs were worked out. Vista has terrible networking, buggy, and the indexing goes bizerk. The services packs helped but it is still very bad. Windows 7 is just done right regardless of drivers. I am glad I am not running that POS anymore and was happy to go to 7 fast!
True, but if it is a DPI issue then that is too low of a level for a webmaster to worry about and the OS/Browsers job to implement that properly so they can focus on element contents and styles. Not rendering. The webmaster is responsible for the content and unfortunately, IE 6 taught them they are responsible for working around bugs in the OS/browser too which should have never been their job if it was not such a piece of shit.
Since that dinosaur is going away we need to blame IE 10/Win 8 for this.
Stock tickers, okcupid, weather, and other things where you do not have to open a web browser then type the name of the address, then login info if it is not saved, etc.
The apps can provide more functionality too and can sync with your phone. Ask any Mac user with an IPhone?
I disagree.
Vista had a lot of good changes yet it was wise to enjoy them in Windows 7 and stick with XP at the time. It is not a resistance to change other than MS really does blow adding new products and features. IE, NT, Word, Windows, all pretty much much sucked goatballs and only took off after they had a few versions out already and used their existing marketshare to create inertia for their other products.
Not really resistance to change but rather great things implemented poorly not QAed so to speak. I will try the Windows 8 features in Windows 9 when they fix the UI. It is not ready nor appropriate for a monitor and keyboard and mouse. The desktop has great advantages and so does instant search and peak in Windows 7 which ms killed. Sorry the Metro cellphone UI blocks everything and is not nearly as powerful. I tried. I used it 3 times and while I started to get used to the dekstop mode a little bit I found it buggy and inconsistent in an on integrated way. Why do that when Windows 7 has a better desktop. I love my aero and think its pretty, I love instant search that doesn't take the full screen so I can use it while reading a word doc on what to type, I like how it just works. On a cell phone I will consider the modern UI but I do not care for the flat looks and bizaare notations to do anything useful with it.
How the hell can a grandma figure it out if we are experts and almost all of us had to google on how to shut it down? Frankly it is not ready just like Vista.
UGH.
I love my ATI card and AMD chpset and view them as great quality. However, the drivers are very problematic. I am very careful to watch the version number as I have HDMI setup with my monitor due to a flaky on board sound (... dont ask). Sometimes I have a black edge as the driver thinks my monitor is a TV with underscan. Sometimes it goes away, but VMWare goes bizerk with my USB chipset drivers even when I do not use it. Yes I went into the registry to make sure the AMD filter driver was not installed but no luck.
My computer's ASLR protection is SHUTDOWN because of the crappy driver version. The latest fucks up VMWare where it takes 5 minutes to mount a flash drive and the version in between forgets my HDMI settings and puts the black underscan back in but the later too put ASLR sandboxing protection back into the kernel for safe browsing.
So 12.3 is my lucky driver number and I have flash uninstalled except for Chrome as it is a security risk due to the terrible drivers. I would recommend Junior Samples to try 12.3 as they are the most stable. ... sadly I only went ATI because I had issues with Nvidia BSOD due to buggy hardware. I can never get a break. Crappy drivers is an understatement.
Bah Vista is fine. Just people hate change for no apparent reason as there are tons of reasons to love Vista on the netbook with only 1 gig of ram right? They need to learn to put up with it and then they will see the light.
I mean how can their be a negative product ever! Just blame the user for hating the familiar.
Users hate the ribbon and would freak out and fire me if I put it on their desktops. Office 2k3 runs fine so why upgrade?
Not where I work. We are now evaluating Office 365 seriously as we still use IE 7 and are paying big bucks to now move to 8. Both which Google is giving a finger too.
Business #1, the customer is always right. We dictate beowser support and office formats. Its Googles job to comply if they want our business. I guess not.
Ancient IE and Office IT standardized a decade ago. Conplain all you want but that is the standard. Corps wont change
First no IE 6 support, now they are dropping IE 8 and consequiently XP as only IE is enterprise grade. To now this?!
Don't give me crap that its because html 5 is so much capable. Have any of their engineers had a feal job before Google? Or are they fresh cs grads out of college? Corporate America has too much invested to just adopt and be hip without a business case on why upgrading can help raise the share price. Infact MBA wisdom shows it as an unneccesary cost that doesnt add value.
Maybe I should give the ms sales rep a call? All Google is doing is pushing these users to Office 365! Not freeing them.
I meant Windows desktops with mediocre hardware acceleration due to XP support/DirectX 9, IE 8, and crappy desktop resolutions, and websites degraded to support old IE users if the agent detects a desktop.
My android displays okcupid with beautiful gradients, animations, and graphics in web mode or the stand alone app. It looks like crap regardless of the browser on my Windows desktop because of legacy users.
It is up to the web browser. The only thing the web master should do is put a CSS if it is a mobile screen to take away some complexity or change the dimensions of the text for readability.
The web browser is what takes care of integrating the images with the operating system and rendering them on screen. Windows 8 supports high DPI but I am fairly shocked IE 10 which is an excellent browser contrary to past releases of IE does not fully support it. IE 10 needs to be patched asap as it is used in Windows 8 mobile as well where phones have bizaare resolutions and DPI combos.
The problem is apps are not tested with anything other than 100dpi because thats what people use. People only use 100 dpi because that is what programs are optimized for. Only Apple and Google have broken this.
Again it shows just how much better your cell phone is with hardware accelerated smooth graphics, html 5, and ppi and dpi with web browser over your computer. Too much legacy is really holding everyone back. Old IE, ancient java, and older apps using GDI for the low 15% of users hold things back for the other 85%.
I have not even read up on HTML 5 yet as IE 7 and 8 wont die for a very long time. Even though they represent so little of hte market I can't lose them so everyone else needs to suffer.
What about the java problem?
One of the arguments to leave XP behind is that it can't work at all beyond 100 DPI or the apps will break. I assumed Windows 8 Modern UI took care of this? This issue alone made me weary of a macbook as 200 DPI will not run so great in bootcamp with Windows with most of the apps all misrendered.
100 DPI is so ancient and it is time to get rid of it. The fact that Windows 8 has mostly but not 100% got rid of it is problematic. Lets hope Windows 9 fixes this or at least a service pack in win 8.
Not a biggie in 2012 but in 2016 1080p will be the next 1024 x 768.
Go to my workplace. HTML 5 can not happen as we and millions around the world still use IE 7 and are still working on partial CSS 2 support all with java applets that the beancounters see no need to upgrade as it would come out of the CEO's bonus.
You expect us to replace our 200k Cisco equipment because CiscoConnect requires Java 1.4.x and XP? I THINK NOT.
Bank of America's corporate portal, Manpower, KRONOS (if you had an hour job you used such a system), all require ancient java that is administred only by old IE and java applets. All which costs millions to replace and frankly work fine according to the accountants who set the IT budget.
Maybe in your little world in your college dorm it is no biggie but expect a world of pain when you enter the real world.
The CEOs clearly are being overburdened and need a tax break. I am sure if we give them more tax payer money they will help us out from the goodness of their hearts. Trickle down is here to stay
How much do you want to bet vendors like Oracle and others will still be selling software that requires XP long after the EOL on 3/2014?
Not even MIT teaches LISP anymore. Nor do people need to write programs. They do all need to write papers, know how to do Boolean searches in google and nexus to find searches, insert footnotes in papers.
Not play around in the CLI in latex to write their history of basket weaving paper. Wake up. All statistics today is done with Excel add-ons and it is what employers demand when they graduate. I learned it with MegaStat inside Excel. Infact, Citigroup uses excel macros for everything they do
Worse I have to clean machines which use Java 1.4.2 on the clients using IE 7. They get infected ALOT but use them for their banking apps online. Can't upgrade them because the 9 year old Kronos app is not compatible with any other version and this would hurt the shareprice.
Part of this is not Oracle's or Sun's fault. It is the customers who uses 10 year old software that relies on these exploits to provide functionality like COM integration with Excel and other useless features.
The more Oracle plugs these holes the more users will demand to keep XP and Java 1.4.2 around the office. Corporate customers hate change and fixes make them nervous.
Java does run on every platform. The problem is it does not run on past versions of itself and like ancient versions of IE they create lockin. Most regular users do not use it as an applet. Chrome and Firefox wont even let you run Java applets believe it or not by default if you have Java installed. Just IE because no one uses it.
Sadly I use eclipse and Aptana and I know many users who use Vuze for bittorents so java i snot going away but at least most of us can upgrade. I use the insecure version but double check to make sure it wont work on my browser so I am good.
You haven't supported corporate America yet.
Java and ancient browsers are EVERYWHERE. Worse they all use Java 1.4.2 which is like the holy grail of CISCO equipment and some bank websites. It wont work on any other browser besides IE 6/7 with that java combo. Unless of course you want to upgrade ... HA that would cost money silly.