You need to get active and start trying to get facebook to put some money into lobbying for a federal law that makes it illegal for companies to ask for this kind of personal information.
You've already got too many laws. You don't need more. FB should sue (civil/tort law) to protect itself, is all.
One interpretation is that asking for the password is not illegal under current law. Another holds that the Facebook TOS forbidding said situation is enough that in other situations it would be considered hacking, which is illegal.
This is hopelessly confusing criminal law with civil/tort law. It's not presently illegal (criminal law) for the employer to ask for it. FB has said they will sue (civil/tort law) employers who do this as it debases FB's security systems (at least).
... if the article is correct they were going to fire her for something they thought she posted. Giving up her FB password would have prevented her from being fired, but her refusal to give up the password isn't why she was fired.
What?
She posted a photo of a colleague who had her pants down. BFD! Typical Murrican complained to the authorities. !@#$ hits fan. Sigh.
I'm more curious about what's going to happen to fools like me who don't have a Facebook account and have never used the site. If I fail to hand over a Facebook password, will they just think that I'm lying?
We're in "stealth mode." They think we're Luddites, never having learned that *everybody* is *supposed* to have a FB and Twitter account.
Meanwhile, we get to sit back, munching on popcorn, while crap like this happens to them. I'm off to the forest to memorize a book, a la Fahrenheit 451.
I would think it only permissible in the case of a clear conflict of interest.
I would think it only permissable in the case of a valid search warrant. Nobody should expect themselves to be allowed to login to a system as another user. root/Administrator can do it other ways less destructively. Users should not let *anyone* use their login credentials.
If the laser light doesn't scatter much, the only one who can track it back to its source is the target.
I'm not so sure either of these are correct. First, all you need to do is deflect the beam, not reflect it. "Point that thing at me, and one of your satellites is going to burn up!" Or, if you can split the beam into smaller pieces with multiple mirrors arranged around a cone pointed at the beam, you're done.
As for the second, I'd expect to see a plasma trail along the length of the beam consisting of steam and fried dust. That ought to be easily detectable.
... something like 70% of people did not see anything wrong with sharing music with family and friends.
And why should it be wrong?!? That's not commercial copying for profit. Those aren't "lost sales." It's free advertising! If family and friends like what you point at them, they'll probably go out and buy some.
I say boycott them until they turn to dust, if that's the way they want to play. They don't deserve to exist and I'm sick and tired of watching them freak out over every damned technical innovation we come up with.
Samurai isn't the right model for obligation to society at large. But what is?
I don't recognize any obligations I have to society at large. As long as my fist isn't impacting your nose, I shouldn't be any problem for you. I try to get along and cooperate with and support others when it's in my interest, as should you. I avoid and boycott bad behavior on the part of others, as should you. I don't think any more should be expected of either of us.
With all your friends upgrading to the latest and greatest bleeding edge stuff, you can find great stuff as hand-me-downs.
He wants to be the "envy of his friends", not fill his house with their hand-me-downs.
Install it all in a closet and your friends will never know what you've got. How are they going to know if the music you're playing is streamed, or if it's coming off fifteen year old cassette tapes (as mine often is)?
It doesn't happen often, but it happens. Besides, Firefox is smart enough to be able to restart opening all tabs just like they were, so you don't lose anything but the time to restart. Take a bathroom break or pour another cup of coffee.
I'm not an "audiophile" but I object to any claim you can get five (or six) decent speakers and an amplifier for under $500.
You're not trying hard enough. Hint: it doesn't have to be new. With all your friends upgrading to the latest and greatest bleeding edge stuff, you can find great stuff as hand-me-downs. I now have a Technics amp pumping beautiful stereo sound from my TV/DVD player through a couple of good but inexpensive Paradigm speakers. The only part of any of that I paid for was the speakers, probably a decade ago.
You'd be surprised what you can find used (or discarded) that's still going to work well for a long time if you want it to.
Do they work with all Flash sites out there especially games and videos like Hulu, Vimeo, YouTube, DailyMotion, etc.?
YouTube, yes, never any problems. I've never been to any of those others. I've used YouPorn and PornHub also (just to test them, you understand:-).
This's on both Debian stable and testing, and both boxes are AMD CPUs. Some videos can lock up the browser or confuse sound, but restarting the browser sorts it out every time.
The spirit of the Samurai still lives. This is good. I'd thought MacArthur had bled that out of the Japanese.
Samurai were conservative engineers? Who knew? I thought they were a warrior race.
Wikipedia: "From the earliest times, the Samurai felt that the path of the warrior was one of honor, emphasizing duty to one's master, and loyalty unto death." That's what I was talking about. He didn't just "build to code." He built what he believed was necessary to satisfy the requirements of the situation. He was also proved right.
Can you get around to changing the toner in the LJ5 in Finance anytime soon?
Don't you remember? You outsourced all those support positions to India. Just call the HellDesk and sign the cheque (for the airfare to fly them in) when it crosses your desk.
It's no surprise to me that Adobe doesn't want to support a market that's no more than a rounding error. Ok, sure, there are 4 basement dwelling slashdot nerds using desktop Linux, but you don't matter. You four do not constitute a significant market.
I don't suppose it's ever occurred to you that whatever you choose to use on your box doesn't matter in the least to us? Whether you want or don't want to use Linux is utterly irrelevant to me. I don't care.
Enjoy your malware and exorbitant licensing costs. No, I don't want to fix it for you when it breaks.
How close are we to an open source alternative that actually works for most flash tasks...
These work fine for what I do (Debian):
i browser-plugin-gnash - GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player - Plugin for Mozill i A gnash - GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player i A gnash-common - GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player - Common files/libr
Of course many aren't doing their voting part in the "western" democracy very well (otherwize something as unpopular as the TSA would be eliminated long ago)...
You just keep on tellin' yourself that. "The system still works as it should!" Chyaa, right.
You go through the checkout at the grocery store because someone told you you had to or else you'd be arrested for shoplifting (or simply can't get anything from the store). You clicked the "submit" button to post your comment because the person who programmed the webpage told you that you had to click the submit button to submit your comment.
Some things you're expected to do because that's what makes that system work. Some things you're expected to do by argument from authority; edict.
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You need to get active and start trying to get facebook to put some money into lobbying for a federal law that makes it illegal for companies to ask for this kind of personal information.
You've already got too many laws. You don't need more. FB should sue (civil/tort law) to protect itself, is all.
If anything, employers should ban their employees from HAVING facebook pages ...
Jeebus. There goes the First Amendment. Yeah, I know, it really only applies to gov't, but still ...
Who picks your clothes in the morning that you'll wear for the day? Why the !@#$ should I care what my employer wants me to think?!?
Posting an offensive picture of a co-worker with pants around ankles could be considered sexual harassment.
That is possibly the silliest thing I've ever read. What's offensive about it? Can anyone recognize those ankles? WTF is sexual about it?!?
Holy two by four up your ass, Batman! Chill out and get a grip.
The district has no authorization from Facebook to access the teacher's account ...
But if the user handed over their password, the user would have given authorization. Contrary to FB's ToS, yes. Authorized, yes.
She jokingly posted a picture of a co-worker's pants around her ankles and a pair of shoes ...
Ask yourself where the teacher got the picture of the partially undressed coworker ...
So what!?! It's a picture of pants around ankles. It does nothing to identify the subject. Who was harmed, and in what way?!?
You sound like the douche who reported the TA.
One interpretation is that asking for the password is not illegal under current law. Another holds that the Facebook TOS forbidding said situation is enough that in other situations it would be considered hacking, which is illegal.
This is hopelessly confusing criminal law with civil/tort law. It's not presently illegal (criminal law) for the employer to ask for it. FB has said they will sue (civil/tort law) employers who do this as it debases FB's security systems (at least).
... if the article is correct they were going to fire her for something they thought she posted. Giving up her FB password would have prevented her from being fired, but her refusal to give up the password isn't why she was fired.
What?
She posted a photo of a colleague who had her pants down. BFD! Typical Murrican complained to the authorities. !@#$ hits fan. Sigh.
I'm more curious about what's going to happen to fools like me who don't have a Facebook account and have never used the site. If I fail to hand over a Facebook password, will they just think that I'm lying?
We're in "stealth mode." They think we're Luddites, never having learned that *everybody* is *supposed* to have a FB and Twitter account.
Meanwhile, we get to sit back, munching on popcorn, while crap like this happens to them. I'm off to the forest to memorize a book, a la Fahrenheit 451.
I would think it only permissible in the case of a clear conflict of interest.
I would think it only permissable in the case of a valid search warrant. Nobody should expect themselves to be allowed to login to a system as another user. root/Administrator can do it other ways less destructively. Users should not let *anyone* use their login credentials.
High power lasers will smoke a typical mirror.
Maybe, maybe not.
If the laser light doesn't scatter much, the only one who can track it back to its source is the target.
I'm not so sure either of these are correct. First, all you need to do is deflect the beam, not reflect it. "Point that thing at me, and one of your satellites is going to burn up!" Or, if you can split the beam into smaller pieces with multiple mirrors arranged around a cone pointed at the beam, you're done.
As for the second, I'd expect to see a plasma trail along the length of the beam consisting of steam and fried dust. That ought to be easily detectable.
A Nazi on a train is ranting nonstop about the Jews. Someone pipes up and says:
"Yes, and those cyclists, too!"
The Nazi thinks a minute and says:
"Why the cyclists?"
To which the other person replies:
"Why the Jews?"
... something like 70% of people did not see anything wrong with sharing music with family and friends.
And why should it be wrong?!? That's not commercial copying for profit. Those aren't "lost sales." It's free advertising! If family and friends like what you point at them, they'll probably go out and buy some.
I say boycott them until they turn to dust, if that's the way they want to play. They don't deserve to exist and I'm sick and tired of watching them freak out over every damned technical innovation we come up with.
Samurai isn't the right model for obligation to society at large. But what is?
I don't recognize any obligations I have to society at large. As long as my fist isn't impacting your nose, I shouldn't be any problem for you. I try to get along and cooperate with and support others when it's in my interest, as should you. I avoid and boycott bad behavior on the part of others, as should you. I don't think any more should be expected of either of us.
With all your friends upgrading to the latest and greatest bleeding edge stuff, you can find great stuff as hand-me-downs.
He wants to be the "envy of his friends", not fill his house with their hand-me-downs.
Install it all in a closet and your friends will never know what you've got. How are they going to know if the music you're playing is streamed, or if it's coming off fifteen year old cassette tapes (as mine often is)?
Otherwise, great! Less competition for me. :-)
Bah, restarting web browser? Annoying. :P
It doesn't happen often, but it happens. Besides, Firefox is smart enough to be able to restart opening all tabs just like they were, so you don't lose anything but the time to restart. Take a bathroom break or pour another cup of coffee.
That'd make a great .sig ...
I'm not an "audiophile" but I object to any claim you can get five (or six) decent speakers and an amplifier for under $500.
You're not trying hard enough. Hint: it doesn't have to be new. With all your friends upgrading to the latest and greatest bleeding edge stuff, you can find great stuff as hand-me-downs. I now have a Technics amp pumping beautiful stereo sound from my TV/DVD player through a couple of good but inexpensive Paradigm speakers. The only part of any of that I paid for was the speakers, probably a decade ago.
You'd be surprised what you can find used (or discarded) that's still going to work well for a long time if you want it to.
Do they work with all Flash sites out there especially games and videos like Hulu, Vimeo, YouTube, DailyMotion, etc.?
YouTube, yes, never any problems. I've never been to any of those others. I've used YouPorn and PornHub also (just to test them, you understand :-).
This's on both Debian stable and testing, and both boxes are AMD CPUs. Some videos can lock up the browser or confuse sound, but restarting the browser sorts it out every time.
The spirit of the Samurai still lives. This is good. I'd thought MacArthur had bled that out of the Japanese.
Samurai were conservative engineers? Who knew? I thought they were a warrior race.
Wikipedia: "From the earliest times, the Samurai felt that the path of the warrior was one of honor, emphasizing duty to one's master, and loyalty unto death." That's what I was talking about. He didn't just "build to code." He built what he believed was necessary to satisfy the requirements of the situation. He was also proved right.
... we cannot say that there is no need to question a company's actions just because they are not a crime under the law.
The spirit of the Samurai still lives. This is good. I'd thought MacArthur had bled that out of the Japanese.
Can you get around to changing the toner in the LJ5 in Finance anytime soon?
Don't you remember? You outsourced all those support positions to India. Just call the HellDesk and sign the cheque (for the airfare to fly them in) when it crosses your desk.
"We are helping!" -- Reboot.
It's no surprise to me that Adobe doesn't want to support a market that's no more than a rounding error. Ok, sure, there are 4 basement dwelling slashdot nerds using desktop Linux, but you don't matter. You four do not constitute a significant market.
I don't suppose it's ever occurred to you that whatever you choose to use on your box doesn't matter in the least to us? Whether you want or don't want to use Linux is utterly irrelevant to me. I don't care.
Enjoy your malware and exorbitant licensing costs. No, I don't want to fix it for you when it breaks.
How close are we to an open source alternative that actually works for most flash tasks ...
These work fine for what I do (Debian):
i browser-plugin-gnash - GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player - Plugin for Mozill
i A gnash - GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player
i A gnash-common - GNU Shockwave Flash (SWF) player - Common files/libr
Of course many aren't doing their voting part in the "western" democracy very well (otherwize something as unpopular as the TSA would be eliminated long ago)...
You just keep on tellin' yourself that. "The system still works as it should!" Chyaa, right.
Your vote's worth less than snot.
You go through the checkout at the grocery store because someone told you you had to or else you'd be arrested for shoplifting (or simply can't get anything from the store). You clicked the "submit" button to post your comment because the person who programmed the webpage told you that you had to click the submit button to submit your comment.
Some things you're expected to do because that's what makes that system work. Some things you're expected to do by argument from authority; edict.
It's good to distinguish between the two.
Are you Japanese? Just curious.