No but someone else's bank did take a thumb print once when I was cashing a check. (Company that wrote me the check was the customer of that bank, I was not). My understanding was that it was for non-repudiation purposes (since they had nothing to compare it to for identification purposes).
And with an economy that isn't doing that great, the employers can simply hire someone who is willing to comply.
Yes, that is how the free market works. You get to quit and go work for someone who doesn't have (perfectly legal) policies that you don't like. And your former gets to hire someone who doesn't whine about policies they think are in their best interest.
...I already see a LOT of posts pushing the idea of not working for this employer. This is not a solution. If we don't fight it and win, it will be adopted by more and more employers until it snowballs into something too big to fight. If we think this is a bad idea, it needs to be fought now while it's still in its infancy.
1) Not working there IS how we fight it (if we are so inclined). 2) I don't get what the freak-out about your employer having your finger prints is about. If it was DNA I'm with you - since that reveals personal details I might not want an employer to have. Fingerprints reveal.... how many fingers I have. Other than that its just another way to identify that I'm me and not someone pretending to be me. 3) This is NOT in its infancy. Most employees at any brokerage company (and probably many other financial companies) are required to be fingerprinted. This was the case when I was hired by a mutual fund, 15 years ago, and I'm pretty sure it was a rule that had already been around for a while.
Again why should I, the taxpayer, be punished because of the voters bad choices ?
You are free to move to a school district that isn't ran by idiots*. Then your tax money will (hopefully) be spent more closely with how you'd like it spent.
A real programmer can do all 25 in one line of code.
Why don't I just make a copy of sh, setuid it to root, and configure it to be a CGI script for my website. Zero lines of code -- and I think that probably covered a good percent of the 25:-)
As a more slashdot friendlier terms, do you really care how a pizza place makes your pizza? No. You only care about how good it tastes when you eat it.
Ideally your IT people should also be able to say "I see you eat your pizza with one hand frequently, and often end up with sauce all over yourself. Maybe you'd like us to start making calzones for you instead." Move beyond simple order-taking and understand the business you are supporting if you want provide real value.
When was this, when it was occupied by the Romans?
Maybe it was sometime after the 17th, and 18th centuries when they sent all of the religious nuts and criminals to the US and Australia, respectively. At least Australia eventually recovered -- the US, not so much.
I think they all probably have messed up billing systems. I've been getting a "This is not a bill"-bill for a $0.06 credit from Spring every month since I canceled -- 12 months ago.
I estimate they've spent about $10 or more telling me they owe me 6 cents. I'd call and tell them to stop, but at this point I'm curious to see just how long they keep sending the notices.
That's irrelevant (unless he tries to sue the paper or something). The problem is that the Post violated the privacy of its web user because they are too lazy to do anything professional with their commenting system.
I am canceling my subscription to the PD. Oh wait, I don't subscribe. I am going to stop buying their paper and get my news from online sources. Oh wait, I already do that. I am going block all the ads from their website. Oh wait, I already do that. I am going to stop using their classified ads and use craig's list instead. Oh wait, I already do that.
I guess all I can do is sit around and wait for them to finish circling the drain.
With people like that Iraq is doomed to remain the well of ignorance, superstition and tribal violence that it is, and that it has been for hundred of years.
Not Iraq, the entire middle east.
Not the entire middle east, all of humanity. Do you think 90% of the people here (US) think any differently?
...when you bear in mind that the Neanderthals are believed to have been quite powerfully built. A male human might be at risk of having the crap beaten out of him if his advances were unwelcome.
Maybe you haven't worked it out, but the male Neanderthals would have been powerfully built relative to the human females also -- and I'm guessing they probably didn't care so much about consent.
With any luck, maybe he'll test out his newfound abilities on a tall building.
I'm assuming you mean testing it from the top of the tall building. Because if you fail while trying to 'leap tall buildings in a single bound' its much less spectacular if you were starting at the bottom.
Isn't the University of Oregon a part of the State of Oregon? - Isn't the professor a state employee? So Oregon is trying to sue itself for infringing on itself? (On top of the overall stupid-ness of this claim in the first place)
Once the petition is signed by more than 500 signatures the government has to make a response.
Over here in the states we have in our constitution that we have the right to "petition the government for redress of grievances". Although, unfortunately, no one had the bright idea to make it a requirement that the government actually give a damn -- or even pretend to - when we do.
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Your bank fingerprints you?
No but someone else's bank did take a thumb print once when I was cashing a check. (Company that wrote me the check was the customer of that bank, I was not). My understanding was that it was for non-repudiation purposes (since they had nothing to compare it to for identification purposes).
If only some prominent writer had already coined a phrase for this sort of thing...
You mean like: "Making a mountain out of a molehill" (John Fox - 1570)
And with an economy that isn't doing that great, the employers can simply hire someone who is willing to comply.
Yes, that is how the free market works. You get to quit and go work for someone who doesn't have (perfectly legal) policies that you don't like. And your former gets to hire someone who doesn't whine about policies they think are in their best interest.
It's work study. That means that the job is a requirement of his federal financial aid package. If he quits, then he can't pay for school.
No, it means he'd have to go find an real, UNSUBSIDIZED job for himself. (Or get a loan, or any number of other solutions.)
...I already see a LOT of posts pushing the idea of not working for this employer. This is not a solution. If we don't fight it and win, it will be adopted by more and more employers until it snowballs into something too big to fight. If we think this is a bad idea, it needs to be fought now while it's still in its infancy.
1) Not working there IS how we fight it (if we are so inclined).
2) I don't get what the freak-out about your employer having your finger prints is about. If it was DNA I'm with you - since that reveals personal details I might not want an employer to have. Fingerprints reveal.... how many fingers I have. Other than that its just another way to identify that I'm me and not someone pretending to be me.
3) This is NOT in its infancy. Most employees at any brokerage company (and probably many other financial companies) are required to be fingerprinted. This was the case when I was hired by a mutual fund, 15 years ago, and I'm pretty sure it was a rule that had already been around for a while.
Again why should I, the taxpayer, be punished because of the voters bad choices ?
You are free to move to a school district that isn't ran by idiots*. Then your tax money will (hopefully) be spent more closely with how you'd like it spent.
(*) Assumes such a district exists
A real programmer can do all 25 in one line of code.
Why don't I just make a copy of sh, setuid it to root, and configure it to be a CGI script for my website. :-)
Zero lines of code -- and I think that probably covered a good percent of the 25
How many clients have you ever met that actually ~know~ what they want? :-)
I think the guy in this Dilbert cartoon knows what he wants: http://www.michelleyaiser.com/blog/?p=63 :-)
I have yet to find a game based on a movie that hasn't sucked.
ET For the Atari 2600?
As a more slashdot friendlier terms, do you really care how a pizza place makes your pizza? No. You only care about how good it tastes when you eat it.
Ideally your IT people should also be able to say "I see you eat your pizza with one hand frequently, and often end up with sauce all over yourself. Maybe you'd like us to start making calzones for you instead." Move beyond simple order-taking and understand the business you are supporting if you want provide real value.
Now... figure out which side I'm on :-P
The side that wants to watch both sides of the abortion debate battle it out on UFC?
The UK used to be cool?
When was this, when it was occupied by the Romans?
Maybe it was sometime after the 17th, and 18th centuries when they sent all of the religious nuts and criminals to the US and Australia, respectively. At least Australia eventually recovered -- the US, not so much.
Guess how much it finally said I owed? $0
I think they all probably have messed up billing systems. I've been getting a "This is not a bill"-bill for a $0.06 credit from Spring every month since I canceled -- 12 months ago.
I estimate they've spent about $10 or more telling me they owe me 6 cents. I'd call and tell them to stop, but at this point I'm curious to see just how long they keep sending the notices.
Besides, maybe I misread but he resigned.
That's irrelevant (unless he tries to sue the paper or something). The problem is that the Post violated the privacy of its web user because they are too lazy to do anything professional with their commenting system.
I am canceling my subscription to the PD. Oh wait, I don't subscribe.
I am going to stop buying their paper and get my news from online sources. Oh wait, I already do that.
I am going block all the ads from their website. Oh wait, I already do that.
I am going to stop using their classified ads and use craig's list instead. Oh wait, I already do that.
I guess all I can do is sit around and wait for them to finish circling the drain.
and 144 terabytes of main memory — 100,000 times as much as your computer has.
What is that in library-of-congresses?
I'd rather be surrounded by loving, well meaning idiots than intelligent malevolent douche bags.
Well, the jokes on you then. You're likely to be surrounded with malevolent, idiot douche bags. Or maybe that's just New Jersey.
(When) does the Cylon attack come
Based on the latest Maxim cover, not soon enough.
With people like that Iraq is doomed to remain the well of ignorance, superstition and tribal violence that it is, and that it has been for hundred of years.
Not Iraq, the entire middle east.
Not the entire middle east, all of humanity. Do you think 90% of the people here (US) think any differently?
...when you bear in mind that the Neanderthals are believed to have been quite powerfully built. A male human might be at risk of having the crap beaten out of him if his advances were unwelcome.
Maybe you haven't worked it out, but the male Neanderthals would have been powerfully built relative to the human females also -- and I'm guessing they probably didn't care so much about consent.
With any luck, maybe he'll test out his newfound abilities on a tall building.
I'm assuming you mean testing it from the top of the tall building. Because if you fail while trying to 'leap tall buildings in a single bound' its much less spectacular if you were starting at the bottom.
... will now play the Imperial March ....
My phone does that now -- but only when my ex-wife calls.
Isn't the University of Oregon a part of the State of Oregon? - Isn't the professor a state employee? So Oregon is trying to sue itself for infringing on itself? (On top of the overall stupid-ness of this claim in the first place)
Once the petition is signed by more than 500 signatures the government has to make a response.
Over here in the states we have in our constitution that we have the right to "petition the government for redress of grievances". Although, unfortunately, no one had the bright idea to make it a requirement that the government actually give a damn -- or even pretend to - when we do.
Would it be essential to have mastered the tech, though, if we want long term space living?
No. Eating meat isn't a prerequisite for space living.
I squirted milk out my nose when I read that.
> Had you been drinking milk at the time or are you just really wierd?
You must have gotten Eric Cartman's bad kidney.