It is not just yet another inbox that the employees have to monitor...it is yet another inbox and outbox that the employer monitors. Monitoring water cooler talk is far more difficult.
I see no value in the Facebooks of the world and a company internal social network is no different. There are several people that I work and communicate with on a regular basis either directly or through email and instant messaging. Aside from that I would have no idea what I would post on a social network. Bore everyone with what I am currently working on? Getting bored by the garbage everyone else is posting? Go all out about my hobbies that I already know nobody shares an interest in? And even if Mary or Joe do at the other end of the country, will they stop over on the weekend? I doubt it.
There is no value in these social networks and there never was except for those who have a dire case of egomania.
This is not a win for freedom, but an incredibly dangerous precedent!! Now ANYTHING can be claimed as against ones religious freedom. So now companies can claim they don't want to hire Hispanics, Blacks, Jews, Muslims because that is against their religious freedom. Paying taxes? No, violates religion. Paying fines? Nope, fining is against religious freedom. Basically any federal and state law can now be safely ignored playing the religion card.
This Supreme Court with its fascist religious rightwing extremist nutbags in the majority is the biggest danger to the USA that ever existed! With decisions like this one they totally dismantle the entire law system in the US. So what's next? Mass shooting in elementary schools can be excused because not doing so would be against the shooter's religious freedom?
The US administration should rather curtail the rampant use of poison that kills bees and also strictly regulate if not even prohibit bee travel. Bees are shipped across the country for thousands of miles causing tremendous stress to the bees and playing a role in the drastic decline. As so often, the US should look at Europe where many countries added bees to the list of protected animals, basically outlawing the killing of bees.
Such straight forward ideas will not work out in the US. They are cutting into the profits of chemical and trucking companies and since that is not pro-business and not cutting taxes it is instantly anti-american, socialist, and liberal hogwash. Besides that, all the food comes from supermarkets...so what do bees have to do with it?
The positions in college administration about doubled the past decade whereas academic positions stayed flat. Since tuition cannot compensate for all of that the cuts are made even more in academics by cutting instructor pay. Add to that college sports, which loses money across the board except for very few programs.
The fix is to cut admin jobs, split college sports off into self-organized clubs that can still coordinate with the university, but have no financial ties, and cut tuition in half. Otherwise we get colleges that have top of the line sports facilities and more admin jobs than graduates.
How can one trademark a letter? How about we band together and trademark the letter "i" and then take every company from Microsoft over iRobot to Apple (iMac, iPod, iPhone) to court for violating out trademark. One billion dollars please per infraction!
I agree, FF still leaks memory as if there is no tomorrow and with a dozen tabs open it eventually uses up so much RAM that it has no other choice than to crash. Desktop and mobile are two very distinct experiences. Crafting one UI that runs on both is nothing but pure laziness.
Take look at the FF forums and read the responses of the Mozillas. The FF team is filled with egocentric morons that use the FF project solely as a means for self-service. They code stuff that they like and give no thought to what users want despite user being quite clear about it. And then then Mozillas wonder why FF market share goes down.Well, the product sucks, that's why!
Entering a URL and entering a search term are two distinctly different things. They should not be mushed together into the same control, especially since FF has a dedicated control for searches. Searching in the address field is like calling your friend and getting directory assistance at the same time. In which universe does that make sense?
You can say whatever you want and that is guaranteed by the Constitution. What the Constitution does not protect anyone from is the consequences of statements made! And yes, that includes criminal prosecution as it happens plenty of times when people employ hate speech (as seen here in the comments by use of the word "faggot"). You are free to yell "Fire!", but not in a crowded theater.
Ask the gazillion folks that get fired from their jobs because the company doesn't make quarterly numbers that appease the shareholders. I find that to be an even worse reason than suggesting that someone steps down due to their medieval right extremist conservatives views that just do not jive with a corporation banking on innovation and modern thinking.
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It is not just yet another inbox that the employees have to monitor...it is yet another inbox and outbox that the employer monitors. Monitoring water cooler talk is far more difficult.
I see no value in the Facebooks of the world and a company internal social network is no different. There are several people that I work and communicate with on a regular basis either directly or through email and instant messaging. Aside from that I would have no idea what I would post on a social network. Bore everyone with what I am currently working on? Getting bored by the garbage everyone else is posting? Go all out about my hobbies that I already know nobody shares an interest in? And even if Mary or Joe do at the other end of the country, will they stop over on the weekend? I doubt it. There is no value in these social networks and there never was except for those who have a dire case of egomania.
This is not a win for freedom, but an incredibly dangerous precedent!! Now ANYTHING can be claimed as against ones religious freedom. So now companies can claim they don't want to hire Hispanics, Blacks, Jews, Muslims because that is against their religious freedom. Paying taxes? No, violates religion. Paying fines? Nope, fining is against religious freedom. Basically any federal and state law can now be safely ignored playing the religion card. This Supreme Court with its fascist religious rightwing extremist nutbags in the majority is the biggest danger to the USA that ever existed! With decisions like this one they totally dismantle the entire law system in the US. So what's next? Mass shooting in elementary schools can be excused because not doing so would be against the shooter's religious freedom?
The US administration should rather curtail the rampant use of poison that kills bees and also strictly regulate if not even prohibit bee travel. Bees are shipped across the country for thousands of miles causing tremendous stress to the bees and playing a role in the drastic decline. As so often, the US should look at Europe where many countries added bees to the list of protected animals, basically outlawing the killing of bees. Such straight forward ideas will not work out in the US. They are cutting into the profits of chemical and trucking companies and since that is not pro-business and not cutting taxes it is instantly anti-american, socialist, and liberal hogwash. Besides that, all the food comes from supermarkets...so what do bees have to do with it?
The positions in college administration about doubled the past decade whereas academic positions stayed flat. Since tuition cannot compensate for all of that the cuts are made even more in academics by cutting instructor pay. Add to that college sports, which loses money across the board except for very few programs. The fix is to cut admin jobs, split college sports off into self-organized clubs that can still coordinate with the university, but have no financial ties, and cut tuition in half. Otherwise we get colleges that have top of the line sports facilities and more admin jobs than graduates.
How can one trademark a letter? How about we band together and trademark the letter "i" and then take every company from Microsoft over iRobot to Apple (iMac, iPod, iPhone) to court for violating out trademark. One billion dollars please per infraction!
Read a book or paper about ethical engineering. The rest will fall in place.
I agree, FF still leaks memory as if there is no tomorrow and with a dozen tabs open it eventually uses up so much RAM that it has no other choice than to crash. Desktop and mobile are two very distinct experiences. Crafting one UI that runs on both is nothing but pure laziness. Take look at the FF forums and read the responses of the Mozillas. The FF team is filled with egocentric morons that use the FF project solely as a means for self-service. They code stuff that they like and give no thought to what users want despite user being quite clear about it. And then then Mozillas wonder why FF market share goes down.Well, the product sucks, that's why!
Entering a URL and entering a search term are two distinctly different things. They should not be mushed together into the same control, especially since FF has a dedicated control for searches. Searching in the address field is like calling your friend and getting directory assistance at the same time. In which universe does that make sense?
You can say whatever you want and that is guaranteed by the Constitution. What the Constitution does not protect anyone from is the consequences of statements made! And yes, that includes criminal prosecution as it happens plenty of times when people employ hate speech (as seen here in the comments by use of the word "faggot"). You are free to yell "Fire!", but not in a crowded theater. Ask the gazillion folks that get fired from their jobs because the company doesn't make quarterly numbers that appease the shareholders. I find that to be an even worse reason than suggesting that someone steps down due to their medieval right extremist conservatives views that just do not jive with a corporation banking on innovation and modern thinking.