Actually, this was about Apple helping these guys break non-compete agreements. As long as they moved to Cali, I don't see how this is a legal issue for Apple. Non-competes for employees are not enforceable in Apple's home state, so just move the employees there until the terms of the non-compete agreements laps. I guess if you cannot go after the ex-employee, go after their employer if they are a competitor...
From what I know about this, Apple was in the clear and despite my general negative feelings about the company, I don't think they did anything wrong. Why are they settling?
I pretty much agree, and as I said, I would have made the same "mistake" that I think C++ was. OO was in it's infancy, literally everybody was on the C bandwagon because of the limitations of COBOL and FORTRAN and Microsoft hadn't yet taken over the world. However, I think it was a mistake to adapt C into C++ and it still is. We should have invented a language and standard libraries that enforced type safety and made memory management less of an issue for OO work. Having this backward compatibility with ANSI C really was (and remains a mess) and all this OO stuff just doesn't fit in a language that supports access though pointers which simply cannot maintain type safety. They should have been different languages..
The true problem with C programmers is their crap coding styles. Even "clean" C code looks like 900 lines to do what C++ does in 20.
When will you newbies figure out that it's not how many lines of code it takes to do something, but how well you can understand what's happening by reading the code. In a well designed implementation, I'll bet that if you look at the 900 lines of C, you will find that there are about 20 lines of code that look almost EXACTLY the same as the C++ program. PLUS, it will run faster and you will be able to figure out *exactly* what it does. In C++, with all the OO garbage, sometimes it is not so clear how the compiler decided to implement that expression with mixed types in it.
Cobol is in attrition as far as most of the world is concerned. The starvation may take a while, but its occurring. Fortran is link compatible with C and to many actively maintained simulations are based on it. Fortran will be around for at least as long as C is around. It will take generations of programmers to abandon C++ before that becomes a reality a honestly what takes over will likely be a certified subset of C++ that is considered safer and easier to work with.
No way... Give me ANSI C over C++ ANY day. C++ was a really bad thing to do to C and IMHO was a mistake (although a mistake I would likely have made at the time). Literally ANYTHING you can do in C++, you can do in C and skip the hokey compile time Object Oriented stuff that really was only halfway implemented anyway and really just shoe horned into an already error prone language. Don't get me wrong, I make a living writing C++ code and previously did the same in C, it's just that trying to force OO into C code was not a good idea. They should have gone with something totally new (say Java) instead of adapting C to do OO.
I say this to explain that I think C is/should actually be the language of choice when doing the low level stuff. As such C will live on in kernels, protocol stacks and device drivers. There really is no other viable choice at this point. I see no pressing reason for another low level language, at least without a wholesale change in the underlying hardware architecture, where we move from pure "digital logic" so something else. C is here to stay but for C++ I'm not as sure. I suppose it will be around for a long time yet, but I don't see that it out lives just plan C. C++ is much more likely to be replaced and as such, I'm guessing it will be, C though will outlive everything.
IT WAS HER PHONE... I'm not handing my boss my phone....
Personally, I think I'd invest $15 in an old flip phone and use that for my "personal" phone for work... Run your tracking app on that, dear leader.... No sir, that I-Phone in my pocket is NOT for work.... It's so my ailing mother can do face time with me...
Being a civil suit, she doesn't even have to convince a majority - just 9 of the 12 jurors.
I do not think that word means what you think it means...
Oh it means what they said. Civil suits only require a simple majority of the jurors to agree with you. Criminal Juries must be 100%, civil juries only require more votes for one side than the other.
I like the idea of forwarding your calls to a "private" device and leaving your "tracked" device where ever it won't raise suspicions after hours. Need to call me? Just dial the number, I answer. Although I do like the idea of a brief swim...
Ray Rice is a public figure and as such a public face of the NFL. He as obligations to the NFL in his public persona which are spelled out in his contract.
So, in certain cases, what you do in your off times IS your employer's business, but only so far as it affects your employer's business. However, in this case, I don't think the employer had a "need to know" or a business reason to track employees in their off duty hours.
The solution: leave the phone at work when you are off duty.
I was thinking just turn off the phone, but leaving it at work is fine too.
Another thought was that you keep it in a metal box when off duty. My dad used to do this on "pager duty" when he didn't want to be bothered and then claim "I never got the page." The phone won't have access to GPS OR cell service to report in so even though the app is running, it won't be able to tell the boss anything. You tried to call me? I never got the call. This carrier has spotty service, especially after I leave the building...
Better yet, run a GPS spoofing application that has you on a tropical island the second you go off duty.
Oh sure, but not so easy to get if you don't know all the details on the document to start with. The point here is that it's NOT stupid easy to get for and ID thief, unless you go around publishing stupid information on the internet and stuff. I shudder every time I see a birth announcement on Facebook, where parents just cough up all the details to share with their friends... Especially when the mother uses her birth name in some way...
YA THINK??? Sorry sorry sorry. That's a little unfair, now that they're trying to do something more reasonable. Too bad it took a shot to the pocketbook, though.
They are sorry to be caught... If they really cared, they'd provide a DRM "fix" kit for anybody who owns a 2.0 device.... Betcha they don't do that..
Starbucks is good coffee? I've not had a good cup of coffee from them in years. They used to be good, but things kept getting worse and worse as they automated all the "process" stuff away and went nuts on portion control. (i.e. it became about money and not good coffee).
Easy to get a copy only if you know the birth name, date of birth and mother and father's names.... Oh, and you have to know which county to ask and you usually need to have a good story about who YOU are if your picture ID doesn't match one of the names on the birth certificate...
I wouldn't say birth certificates are easy to get for fraudulent purposes...
Your first statement is true, we do spend more per person. Your second statement is false, unless you are cherry picking what you mean by "public health".
Also, I'd like to point out that the rest of the world benefits from the US spending on healthcare. Want a new drug for x or y, you can bet it was funded by US consumers, so why those outside this country like to draw comparisons here is beyond me. You want to go back to the speed of medical advancement we saw in the dark ages? No thanks..
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Then disallow calling 911 from NSI phones
This is EXACTLY what the FCC is trying to do.... The rest? Don't we already have free cell phone programs?
(( checking to makes sure I don't have that stock anyplace ))
Trust me, you don't own any, or if you do, it's worthless anyway. They went bankrupt and got sold off by the courts. Stockholders got nothing.
Dirty rotten poachers.... Who would have guessed?
Actually, this was about Apple helping these guys break non-compete agreements. As long as they moved to Cali, I don't see how this is a legal issue for Apple. Non-competes for employees are not enforceable in Apple's home state, so just move the employees there until the terms of the non-compete agreements laps. I guess if you cannot go after the ex-employee, go after their employer if they are a competitor...
From what I know about this, Apple was in the clear and despite my general negative feelings about the company, I don't think they did anything wrong. Why are they settling?
Spaceballs spitballs.
Barf and Lonestar where messing around doing some target practice with the Spitball cannon... Don't worry, Mega-Maid will clean it up eventually.
I pretty much agree, and as I said, I would have made the same "mistake" that I think C++ was. OO was in it's infancy, literally everybody was on the C bandwagon because of the limitations of COBOL and FORTRAN and Microsoft hadn't yet taken over the world. However, I think it was a mistake to adapt C into C++ and it still is. We should have invented a language and standard libraries that enforced type safety and made memory management less of an issue for OO work. Having this backward compatibility with ANSI C really was (and remains a mess) and all this OO stuff just doesn't fit in a language that supports access though pointers which simply cannot maintain type safety. They should have been different languages..
The true problem with C programmers is their crap coding styles. Even "clean" C code looks like 900 lines to do what C++ does in 20.
When will you newbies figure out that it's not how many lines of code it takes to do something, but how well you can understand what's happening by reading the code. In a well designed implementation, I'll bet that if you look at the 900 lines of C, you will find that there are about 20 lines of code that look almost EXACTLY the same as the C++ program. PLUS, it will run faster and you will be able to figure out *exactly* what it does. In C++, with all the OO garbage, sometimes it is not so clear how the compiler decided to implement that expression with mixed types in it.
Not all jury trials have 12 jurors. Civil juries can use less, and I think if both sides agree, criminal juries can be too..
Cobol is in attrition as far as most of the world is concerned. The starvation may take a while, but its occurring. Fortran is link compatible with C and to many actively maintained simulations are based on it. Fortran will be around for at least as long as C is around. It will take generations of programmers to abandon C++ before that becomes a reality a honestly what takes over will likely be a certified subset of C++ that is considered safer and easier to work with.
No way... Give me ANSI C over C++ ANY day. C++ was a really bad thing to do to C and IMHO was a mistake (although a mistake I would likely have made at the time). Literally ANYTHING you can do in C++, you can do in C and skip the hokey compile time Object Oriented stuff that really was only halfway implemented anyway and really just shoe horned into an already error prone language. Don't get me wrong, I make a living writing C++ code and previously did the same in C, it's just that trying to force OO into C code was not a good idea. They should have gone with something totally new (say Java) instead of adapting C to do OO.
I say this to explain that I think C is/should actually be the language of choice when doing the low level stuff. As such C will live on in kernels, protocol stacks and device drivers. There really is no other viable choice at this point. I see no pressing reason for another low level language, at least without a wholesale change in the underlying hardware architecture, where we move from pure "digital logic" so something else. C is here to stay but for C++ I'm not as sure. I suppose it will be around for a long time yet, but I don't see that it out lives just plan C. C++ is much more likely to be replaced and as such, I'm guessing it will be, C though will outlive everything.
There's no version of this story where I install that app on my personal phone.
If they want to issue me a company phone to put that on, then so be it. And I'll leave that phone behind at work when I leave.
There's no version of the story that says it's her phone. It IS a company phone. RTFA!
TFA got it wrong. Read the lawsuit. It was her phone.
They were tracking the iPhone, which they own.
I understood that it was HER phone...
IT WAS HER PHONE... I'm not handing my boss my phone....
Personally, I think I'd invest $15 in an old flip phone and use that for my "personal" phone for work... Run your tracking app on that, dear leader.... No sir, that I-Phone in my pocket is NOT for work.... It's so my ailing mother can do face time with me...
Being a civil suit, she doesn't even have to convince a majority - just 9 of the 12 jurors.
I do not think that word means what you think it means...
Oh it means what they said. Civil suits only require a simple majority of the jurors to agree with you. Criminal Juries must be 100%, civil juries only require more votes for one side than the other.
"she was required to have the phone on her 24/7"
So go swimming.
I like the idea of forwarding your calls to a "private" device and leaving your "tracked" device where ever it won't raise suspicions after hours. Need to call me? Just dial the number, I answer. Although I do like the idea of a brief swim...
Excellent Idea... Then you can leave the phone in an "expected" location like your home, and carry your personal device which they don't track.
Ray Rice is a public figure and as such a public face of the NFL. He as obligations to the NFL in his public persona which are spelled out in his contract.
So, in certain cases, what you do in your off times IS your employer's business, but only so far as it affects your employer's business. However, in this case, I don't think the employer had a "need to know" or a business reason to track employees in their off duty hours.
The solution: leave the phone at work when you are off duty.
I was thinking just turn off the phone, but leaving it at work is fine too.
Another thought was that you keep it in a metal box when off duty. My dad used to do this on "pager duty" when he didn't want to be bothered and then claim "I never got the page." The phone won't have access to GPS OR cell service to report in so even though the app is running, it won't be able to tell the boss anything. You tried to call me? I never got the call. This carrier has spotty service, especially after I leave the building...
Better yet, run a GPS spoofing application that has you on a tropical island the second you go off duty.
Oh sure, but not so easy to get if you don't know all the details on the document to start with. The point here is that it's NOT stupid easy to get for and ID thief, unless you go around publishing stupid information on the internet and stuff. I shudder every time I see a birth announcement on Facebook, where parents just cough up all the details to share with their friends... Especially when the mother uses her birth name in some way...
But you showed them an existing ID, a Passport none the less. Now THAT is a pretty good ID if you ask me.
> "Quite honestly, we were wrong."
YA THINK??? Sorry sorry sorry. That's a little unfair, now that they're trying to do something more reasonable. Too bad it took a shot to the pocketbook, though.
They are sorry to be caught... If they really cared, they'd provide a DRM "fix" kit for anybody who owns a 2.0 device.... Betcha they don't do that..
Starbucks is good coffee? I've not had a good cup of coffee from them in years. They used to be good, but things kept getting worse and worse as they automated all the "process" stuff away and went nuts on portion control. (i.e. it became about money and not good coffee).
Writing hot checks is easy, especially if you have an actual account number to work with... Getting away with it is harder, at least these days.
Easy to get a copy only if you know the birth name, date of birth and mother and father's names.... Oh, and you have to know which county to ask and you usually need to have a good story about who YOU are if your picture ID doesn't match one of the names on the birth certificate...
I wouldn't say birth certificates are easy to get for fraudulent purposes...
They don't really use SSN as a secret identifier, they use it as a NON-SECRET identifier.
Not really.. The SSN is supposed to be a UNIQUE KEY when coupled with your birthday.
causes a lot of bad
And socialism creates a whole lot more, according to the history we are doomed to repeat because most don't know it.
Your first statement is true, we do spend more per person. Your second statement is false, unless you are cherry picking what you mean by "public health".
Also, I'd like to point out that the rest of the world benefits from the US spending on healthcare. Want a new drug for x or y, you can bet it was funded by US consumers, so why those outside this country like to draw comparisons here is beyond me. You want to go back to the speed of medical advancement we saw in the dark ages? No thanks..