You have it exactly right. You cannot enter into a legal agreement where you sign away one of your rights. For instance, I couldn't sign a binding contract that said "you may not vote". Courts would throw it out.
That's not what these clauses mean. They means that, under the terms of this contract, all disputes will be handled by an arbitrator.
You can of course go to court anyway, but then you're in violation of the contract. At this point, the party you've now chosen to sue is basically unbound from the terms of the contract, as you've voided it.
Arbitration is almost always vastly superior to the Court system in terms of cost, time, outcomes, and efficiency, for all parties. Most business contracts contain such clauses these days because nobody wants to wind up in court.
Yeah, I bought a box of a thousand personal calling cards from VistaPrint a few years back and that's probably the best ~$7 I ever spent. People are continually impressed that I have cards that aren't "business" cards (I carry both, use the appropriate one for the appropriate occasion). BTW, you have two back pockets - one is for a wallet, the other for a card holder (Staples' store brand has nice onces).
Perhaps the 23-year-old hipsters haven't encountered situations where they'd be useful. Their loss, not ours.
Some day they'll emerge from their echoic cultural bubble.
There's also nothing to prevent them from simply charging you more than you can afford for said coverage, either.
Right. My family doesn't have health insurance because of a pre-existing condition law. I had a package all set to go that I could afford with a rider for two conditions (each controlled by a $4 generic) but then they realized I was in NH so they couldn't do the rider and would have to charge me $550/mo more for the full coverage.
There's no magic $6600 in my budget, so we're uninsured. Senator Shaheen can kiss my uninsured ass.
'IMAX Movie of Body' Allows Stanford Geneticist To See Type 2 Diabetes Progress Like Never Before
Stop with the IMAX. It's a stupid analogy (I know, not yours) and this is a tech site. Perhaps:
"Comprehensive time-series body data analysis sheds new light on Type 2 Diabetes Progression."
Next thing you know, they'll be changing the Big & Tall Section at the department store to the IMAX Clothing section. I wonder if attendance is down at real IMAX theatres since the brand's destruction.
Yup, you're right. Foolishly enough I listened to an NPR commentator talking about the story.:sigh:
From Apple's 2011 report:
For all chemicals in the workplace, Appleâ(TM)s Code requires adequate ventilation systems, proper handling and disposal, and robust processes for risk assessments, training, and emergency response. In 2010, we learned that 137 workers at the Suzhou facility of Wintek, one of Appleâ(TM)s suppliers, had suâered adverse health eâects following exposure to n-hexane, a chemical in cleaning agents used in some manufacturing processes. We discovered that the factory had reconfigured operations without also changing their ventilation system. Apple considered this series of incidents to be a core violation for worker endangerment. We required Wintek to stop using n-hexane and to provide evidence that they had removed the chemical from their production lines. In addition, Apple required them to fix their ventilation system. Since these changes, no new workers have suâered diâ'culties from chemical exposure. To prevent future incidents at this facility, we required Wintek to work with a consultant to improve their Environmental Health and Safety processes and management systems. We are monitoring the implementation of these corrective actions and preventive measures, and will conduct a complete reaudit of the facility in 2011. In parallel, Apple has verified that all aâected workers have been treated successfully, and we continue to monitor their medical reports until full recuperation. Following China law, Wintek has paid medical treatment, meals, and foregone wages for sick or recuperating workers. A majority of the 137 workers have returned to employment at the same factory. We are aware of another reported incident involving n-hexane. Apple learned that a logo supplier and its subcontractor were using the chemical. When we investigated, we found that the subcontractor had been shut down by local oâ'cials. We audited the logo supplier and verified that n-hexane was no longer in use. However, we found poor management systems for Environmental Health and Safety, and we are working with the facility to expedite corrections. We are also following up on the health of workers who were exposed to n-hexane at this facility.
the stories checked out, and were real events... it just turns out that Daisey didn't personally witness them.
And that they didn't involve Apple products or Foxxcon.
Don't get me wrong, the hexane scandal is a problem, it just has nothing to do with the thesis.
I guess the 'why it happened' is the place to learn some lessons. Apparently it wasn't just because Ira was upset that Apple decided to popularize Gorilla Glass.
Yup, and *talk* to them. Tell them a few funny stories. Give them an understanding of what you do but also who you are.
Despite the dour advice I'm seeing from those on the Slashdot suicide watch, you have an opportunity to sell yourself and your group to the rest of the company, and learn how to do it on company time - so allow them to like you.
Even if you don't stay with this company, those skills are transportable. That you're even asking the question shows that you've got some ambition beyond the basement-dwelling naysayers.
You might even watch a few 90's Steve Jobs presentations. Say what you will about the guy's motives, but he knew how to capture an audience.
You need a single document to sell me your new language. If you can't explain the concepts, basically, to a programmer in a page or two
Quite so, though a narrative works even better (which can overcome the page limit). The first chapter of Learning Perl (at least in the 1st edition) is a masterpiece to this concept. Everybody who wants to promote a language should read it.
I'd say Randall and Tim O'Reilly had as much to do with Perl's success as Larry Wall did.
And then there's something to the infrastructure that had to have been in place. If I hadn't picked up the BatBook at a CompUSA the year before I heard about Perl I wouldn't have gone to the bookstore to find Learning Perl. Many of the marketing hurdles had already been cleared. Today the channels are different, but the same concepts apply. This would give 'Go' an advantage, assuming Google does other things right (community, community, community - and not top-down 'community').
They're a border control point, they're stopping EVERYONE. The courts have consistently ruled that if you're stopping everyone utilizing a privilege, then there is no unlawful stop.
Which flies in the face of at least the 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendments.
They also say your personal garden is regulable as interstate commerce and that the governmnet is justified to put people in concentration camps on the basis of their race, but those are bullshit too.
EB could have walked all over Encarta if they had charged, say, $100 or so for their CDROM. But they were simply too slow to realize just how the new technologies were shifting their industry.
If you want to chase it even further, it's hubris that killed them. This is third-hand hearsay, but the story I heard is that "Brittanica is fine bound leather in proper homes" or something to that effect. Going mass-market was seen as beneath them and dangerous to their brand.
Come to think of it, I bet one of those custom-run book publishers could handle a leather-bound run of the PDF versio of Wikipedia, for folks who still want that sort of library decoration. And if that's true, I assume somebody is already selling it.
Come 2013, when the US is mandated to support EMV, card skimming will be a thing of the past. Stick your card wherever you like, nobody can do anything with your bank account
These folks at Cambridge say the system needs an 'entire rewrite' to be secure. Is there data to refute them?
2) Tell Mossad to stop assassinating their scientists, or face sanctions of their own.
Iran is also using this for cover on a few of their own problems. The guy who got hit with the motorcycle/magnetic bomb was a string theorist and a political dissident.
Of course the news focuses on Israel taking out their 'nuclear scientists'. Which they probably are, also. Which is troubling as Israeli intelligence doesn't even think that Iran is working on an actual nuclear bomb at this point.
There's a reason why VLC [videolan.org] can play basically anything, on any system, far better and more reliably then anything else on the planet.
Yeah, they're based in France which has a sane legal regime about this sort of thing.
Mozilla's problem is 100% a legal one, not a technical one (for those who don't like uncomfortable euphemisms, that means they have a government problem).
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And who was mother to Cain and Able's children? This is what you want to stake your reputation on?
You have it exactly right. You cannot enter into a legal agreement where you sign away one of your rights. For instance, I couldn't sign a binding contract that said "you may not vote". Courts would throw it out.
That's not what these clauses mean. They means that, under the terms of this contract, all disputes will be handled by an arbitrator.
You can of course go to court anyway, but then you're in violation of the contract. At this point, the party you've now chosen to sue is basically unbound from the terms of the contract, as you've voided it.
Arbitration is almost always vastly superior to the Court system in terms of cost, time, outcomes, and efficiency, for all parties. Most business contracts contain such clauses these days because nobody wants to wind up in court.
Yeah, I bought a box of a thousand personal calling cards from VistaPrint a few years back and that's probably the best ~$7 I ever spent. People are continually impressed that I have cards that aren't "business" cards (I carry both, use the appropriate one for the appropriate occasion). BTW, you have two back pockets - one is for a wallet, the other for a card holder (Staples' store brand has nice onces).
Perhaps the 23-year-old hipsters haven't encountered situations where they'd be useful. Their loss, not ours.
Some day they'll emerge from their echoic cultural bubble.
There's also nothing to prevent them from simply charging you more than you can afford for said coverage, either.
Right. My family doesn't have health insurance because of a pre-existing condition law. I had a package all set to go that I could afford with a rider for two conditions (each controlled by a $4 generic) but then they realized I was in NH so they couldn't do the rider and would have to charge me $550/mo more for the full coverage.
There's no magic $6600 in my budget, so we're uninsured. Senator Shaheen can kiss my uninsured ass.
I posted this for submission yesterday and it was declined. Its already old news by now.
Who cares if this news is a day old? It's no less relevant.
The tragedy is that your summary couldn't have been worse than this one!
'IMAX Movie of Body' Allows Stanford Geneticist To See Type 2 Diabetes Progress Like Never Before
Stop with the IMAX. It's a stupid analogy (I know, not yours) and this is a tech site. Perhaps:
"Comprehensive time-series body data analysis sheds new light on Type 2 Diabetes Progression."
Next thing you know, they'll be changing the Big & Tall Section at the department store to the IMAX Clothing section. I wonder if attendance is down at real IMAX theatres since the brand's destruction.
Yup, you're right. Foolishly enough I listened to an NPR commentator talking about the story. :sigh:
From Apple's 2011 report:
the stories checked out, and were real events... it just turns out that Daisey didn't personally witness them.
And that they didn't involve Apple products or Foxxcon.
Don't get me wrong, the hexane scandal is a problem, it just has nothing to do with the thesis.
I guess the 'why it happened' is the place to learn some lessons. Apparently it wasn't just because Ira was upset that Apple decided to popularize Gorilla Glass.
Walk around. Vary the intonation of your voice.
Yup, and *talk* to them. Tell them a few funny stories. Give them an understanding of what you do but also who you are.
Despite the dour advice I'm seeing from those on the Slashdot suicide watch, you have an opportunity to sell yourself and your group to the rest of the company, and learn how to do it on company time - so allow them to like you.
Even if you don't stay with this company, those skills are transportable. That you're even asking the question shows that you've got some ambition beyond the basement-dwelling naysayers.
You might even watch a few 90's Steve Jobs presentations. Say what you will about the guy's motives, but he knew how to capture an audience.
don't worry about keeping their interest. you are not an entertainer and not paid to be one. don't even try.
It's possible that he's not resigned to be stuck in this job for the next 65 years and can spend company time learning how to do a good presentation.
Make lemonade.
You need a single document to sell me your new language. If you can't explain the concepts, basically, to a programmer in a page or two
Quite so, though a narrative works even better (which can overcome the page limit). The first chapter of Learning Perl (at least in the 1st edition) is a masterpiece to this concept. Everybody who wants to promote a language should read it.
I'd say Randall and Tim O'Reilly had as much to do with Perl's success as Larry Wall did.
And then there's something to the infrastructure that had to have been in place. If I hadn't picked up the BatBook at a CompUSA the year before I heard about Perl I wouldn't have gone to the bookstore to find Learning Perl. Many of the marketing hurdles had already been cleared. Today the channels are different, but the same concepts apply. This would give 'Go' an advantage, assuming Google does other things right (community, community, community - and not top-down 'community').
Want to do something ostensibly illegal? Pay cash money to ignore the laws.
You must be new here.
On the other hand, there are so many other ways to get through, why bother with the effort and expense of attacking this particular security surface?
You're ignoring the graft that government contractors are getting through this system as though it's not relevant or a driving factor in the program.
Oh, wait, their primary motivation for this program is safe travel and efficient use of your time and taxpayer funds, right?
Does that mean we should attack ourselves?
Perhaps you forgot to read the title of this story?
equipment not available to the general public
I will not talk about the Sony Boobiecam, I will not talk about the Sony Boobiecam. Oh, wait, those were withdrawn from the market. Phew.
I get people want to smoke it and I could care less but its illegal people need to stop complaining when they get caught.
Congrats, you're what's wrong with the system. The People have a responsibility to evaluate the legitimacy of the laws, not just the courts.
It was illegal to help slaves escape to Canada too, or to hide Jews in Germany. Congrats on being a 'fine law-abiding-citizen'.
They're a border control point, they're stopping EVERYONE. The courts have consistently ruled that if you're stopping everyone utilizing a privilege, then there is no unlawful stop.
Which flies in the face of at least the 1st, 4th, and 5th Amendments.
They also say your personal garden is regulable as interstate commerce and that the governmnet is justified to put people in concentration camps on the basis of their race, but those are bullshit too.
EB could have walked all over Encarta if they had charged, say, $100 or so for their CDROM. But they were simply too slow to realize just how the new technologies were shifting their industry.
If you want to chase it even further, it's hubris that killed them. This is third-hand hearsay, but the story I heard is that "Brittanica is fine bound leather in proper homes" or something to that effect. Going mass-market was seen as beneath them and dangerous to their brand.
Come to think of it, I bet one of those custom-run book publishers could handle a leather-bound run of the PDF versio of Wikipedia, for folks who still want that sort of library decoration. And if that's true, I assume somebody is already selling it.
Come 2013, when the US is mandated to support EMV, card skimming will be a thing of the past. Stick your card wherever you like, nobody can do anything with your bank account
These folks at Cambridge say the system needs an 'entire rewrite' to be secure. Is there data to refute them?
Just to clarify:
2) Tell Mossad to stop assassinating their scientists, or face sanctions of their own.
Iran is also using this for cover on a few of their own problems. The guy who got hit with the motorcycle/magnetic bomb was a string theorist and a political dissident.
Of course the news focuses on Israel taking out their 'nuclear scientists'. Which they probably are, also. Which is troubling as Israeli intelligence doesn't even think that Iran is working on an actual nuclear bomb at this point.
Is that quality coffee with or without caffeine?
Both - home roasting decafs will yield a larger quality delta than home roasting regular, but the taste and cost are still better in both cases.
There's a reason why VLC [videolan.org] can play basically anything, on any system, far better and more reliably then anything else on the planet.
Yeah, they're based in France which has a sane legal regime about this sort of thing.
Mozilla's problem is 100% a legal one, not a technical one (for those who don't like uncomfortable euphemisms, that means they have a government problem).
I always use the maximum number of characters and the largest character set (letters, numbers, symbols) the site will let me.
How do you communicate the requirements for the password field to LastPass? I was thinking this is an open problem but perhaps it's already solved.
I almost instantly came up against the limit you describe - it's just not really doable in practice because of this limit.
Given the requirements of the website, an extension could hash your human password into the highest entropy password that a site would allow.