The incorrect interpretation aside, that's a terrible law. It was done as a reaction to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Chris Dodd's father, a Senator at the time, literally had the Nazi gun-control law translated to use as a template.
What, that at one moment you are not allowed to buy a game where people are mowed down with machine guns but the very next moment you're allowed to sign up to do that in real life? Happy 18th birthday, young man.
Of course, they also claim none of the chemicals are known to get into the water.
Funny how that makes it hard to do a home-test. Suddenly if you want to prove the positive you're in for a full spectrographic analysis on every sample.
If we had stronger property rights they couldn't stand the barrage of lawsuits that would ensue.
If you ask me it's time we brought back the death penalty for unruly corporations.
That's exactly as it used to be. Pennsylvania was notorious for shutting down banks that were misbehaving in the 1810's and 1820's. All corporations of the time were for limited terms and for public benefit.
Come around towards 1870 and John D. Rockefeller finds he can use his "influence" in Congress to get corporations made permanent, and soon in Santa Clara a footnote to an unrelated case finds that corporations have human rights, and all three branches of government heartily embrace this bizzare idea.
Soon after the "Trust Busters" decided to break up Standard Oil and implemented the break-up plan that Rockefeller himself crafted (as he had found Standard Oil by that time to be too unwieldy to compete nimbly). They showed him, right?
Witness the transformation of the Wall Street banks in the 1990's from partnerships (where the owners' money is directly at risk) to corporate ownership and the resulting shenanigans that ensued.
Corporations remove that direct responsibility, and are, in essence, an agreement between the government and the managers to protect the managers from the People when they engage in malfeasance. Typically, those managers see to it that the representatives in Government are well taken care of, and thus the positive-feedback loop is complete.
Partnerships are the natural structure of companies that need to grow to a large size. There is a limit on their size, in contrast to giant multi-national corporations. Some will argue that the big multi-nationals are essential to provide some kind of product at some kind of price, but the evidence against them is far too compelling to support those arguments of a net-utility benefit.
I'll get a bunch of responses here that we need a big government to protect us from corporations (from well-meaning folks educated in government education centers) but I hope I've given enough of a kernel of information to lead you to read up on how government action is the root problem here, and that corporations exist only at its pleasure.
People don't realize that every single thing they do online can, at some point along the pipe, be potentially seen by someone.
Not if you're using end-to-end encryption without a public CA. Computer scientists have known this since 1977 and end-users have had tools since at least 1991. Key distribution is still hard, so it's not quite popular. We could really use some apps that securely exchange keys via phone "bumps".
The article is probably wrong. It's likely a reference to 2061, where they find that Mt. Zeus on Ganymede is a giant diamond. The message sent back to Earth is, "LUCY IS HERE".
t's that he was doing it using government funds and on government time
No, it's the porn. People do personal stuff at work all the time - call their doctors' office, make a photocopy, answer personal e-mail. In fact, I'm sure other Australian government workers do those things all the time, and nobody really cares.
They helped make robber barons rich and delayed reduced the greatness we could have achieved without robber barons leaching off all the wealth
The facts don't prove out the "robber baron" hypothesis. Middle class net wealth increased 6-fold during the Industrial Revolution and abject poverty nearly disappeared.
I use DynDNS for nearly all my registrations (I have the one with my NS elsewhere, just to keep not all my eggs in one basket). Also send my clients there.
I know a few of the guys who work at the office, and they're all great upstanding folk, and their management has a stellar local reputation.
So they're $15 instead of $8. $7/year doesn't make any difference to me for anything that has value. If you're a domain squatter you should probably look elsewhere.
I think the "iPhone funeral" will come back to be one of the biggest laughing-stock moments of Microsoft.
They can't even mock Apple right. I mean, yeah, they'll probably copy most of the iOS features to compete, but a "Windows Phone Pride Parade"? C'mon, the whole Apple-Users-Are-Gay thing isn't one that they're supposed to be copying. Some people don't know when to stop.
Isn't that how it works in the US where you have (at least in some states) employment "at will" and it is very easy for a company to fire someone? The innocent until proven guilty only works for criminal cases. This sort of thing is exactly why you need laws protecting employees....
Only if you feel you have a right to a certain job. It's much simpler to just see it as an arrangement of services for a fee until either side feels the arrangement is no longer mutually beneficial.
And save up some money for when that happens. I've heard the most jump for government action from folks who lost their jobs and have no savings and fully extended their credit, and have much nicer things than I do as a result.
You clearly have enemies, and they were not honest enough to say it to your face and say "this is employment at will and we don't will it anymore". Move on.
If he gets control of the accounts, most have an IP audit trail. Talk to a lawyer, but if this is a set-up job, it's probably qualified under libel or some other torts, perhaps even crimes. With IP logs clearly not his, he might have enough for a judge to issue a subpoena.
If I were set up this way, I'd want to make sure the offending party didn't see it as a profitable tactic.
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The incorrect interpretation aside, that's a terrible law. It was done as a reaction to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Chris Dodd's father, a Senator at the time, literally had the Nazi gun-control law translated to use as a template.
You mean if you're storing data in the cloud? I was talking about 2-way communication, I think obviously since that's what the article is about.
Something is out of whack here
What, that at one moment you are not allowed to buy a game where people are mowed down with machine guns but the very next moment you're allowed to sign up to do that in real life? Happy 18th birthday, young man.
Minors are prohibited by federal law from purchasing or possessing guns, so not sure how you read it that way.
Purchasing, yes (Federal), possessing, no. Some States do
Of course, they also claim none of the chemicals are known to get into the water.
Funny how that makes it hard to do a home-test. Suddenly if you want to prove the positive you're in for a full spectrographic analysis on every sample.
If we had stronger property rights they couldn't stand the barrage of lawsuits that would ensue.
If you ask me it's time we brought back the death penalty for unruly corporations.
That's exactly as it used to be. Pennsylvania was notorious for shutting down banks that were misbehaving in the 1810's and 1820's. All corporations of the time were for limited terms and for public benefit.
Come around towards 1870 and John D. Rockefeller finds he can use his "influence" in Congress to get corporations made permanent, and soon in Santa Clara a footnote to an unrelated case finds that corporations have human rights, and all three branches of government heartily embrace this bizzare idea.
Soon after the "Trust Busters" decided to break up Standard Oil and implemented the break-up plan that Rockefeller himself crafted (as he had found Standard Oil by that time to be too unwieldy to compete nimbly). They showed him, right?
Witness the transformation of the Wall Street banks in the 1990's from partnerships (where the owners' money is directly at risk) to corporate ownership and the resulting shenanigans that ensued.
Corporations remove that direct responsibility, and are, in essence, an agreement between the government and the managers to protect the managers from the People when they engage in malfeasance. Typically, those managers see to it that the representatives in Government are well taken care of, and thus the positive-feedback loop is complete.
Partnerships are the natural structure of companies that need to grow to a large size. There is a limit on their size, in contrast to giant multi-national corporations. Some will argue that the big multi-nationals are essential to provide some kind of product at some kind of price, but the evidence against them is far too compelling to support those arguments of a net-utility benefit.
I'll get a bunch of responses here that we need a big government to protect us from corporations (from well-meaning folks educated in government education centers) but I hope I've given enough of a kernel of information to lead you to read up on how government action is the root problem here, and that corporations exist only at its pleasure.
People don't realize that every single thing they do online can, at some point along the pipe, be potentially seen by someone.
Not if you're using end-to-end encryption without a public CA. Computer scientists have known this since 1977 and end-users have had tools since at least 1991. Key distribution is still hard, so it's not quite popular. We could really use some apps that securely exchange keys via phone "bumps".
Good for you, really. Some of us have netbooks.
Actually Mt. Zeus was on Europa, not Ganymede.
Ah, thanks. The old noodle is a bit rusty - a good read back in high school!
The article is probably wrong. It's likely a reference to 2061, where they find that Mt. Zeus on Ganymede is a giant diamond. The message sent back to Earth is, "LUCY IS HERE".
2004 to 2010 is like the blink of an eye on a stellar timescale.
You tell us, why are you posting as AC?
t's that he was doing it using government funds and on government time
No, it's the porn. People do personal stuff at work all the time - call their doctors' office, make a photocopy, answer personal e-mail. In fact, I'm sure other Australian government workers do those things all the time, and nobody really cares.
And it would set the community quaking in its boots...
Only the knuckleheads who can't figure out how to install elinks.
glass houses.
The root problem is that you think you need more than 140 characters to do what Tweets are designed to do.
Since when do people use a tool for what it's designed to do? Certainly not hackers.
You do know that Somalia has the fastest growing economy in all of sub-Saharan Africa, right?
That sounds almost exactly like Karl Marx's rhetoric. His ideas don't work. It turns out a profit motive is required to grow an economy.
They helped make robber barons rich and delayed reduced the greatness we could have achieved without robber barons leaching off all the wealth
The facts don't prove out the "robber baron" hypothesis. Middle class net wealth increased 6-fold during the Industrial Revolution and abject poverty nearly disappeared.
I read elsewhere that FoxConn's rate is 3x lower than the population at average in the same locations. But that makes for poor headlines.
I use DynDNS for nearly all my registrations (I have the one with my NS elsewhere, just to keep not all my eggs in one basket). Also send my clients there.
I know a few of the guys who work at the office, and they're all great upstanding folk, and their management has a stellar local reputation.
So they're $15 instead of $8. $7/year doesn't make any difference to me for anything that has value. If you're a domain squatter you should probably look elsewhere.
I think the "iPhone funeral" will come back to be one of the biggest laughing-stock moments of Microsoft.
They can't even mock Apple right. I mean, yeah, they'll probably copy most of the iOS features to compete, but a "Windows Phone Pride Parade"? C'mon, the whole Apple-Users-Are-Gay thing isn't one that they're supposed to be copying. Some people don't know when to stop.
Isn't that how it works in the US where you have (at least in some states) employment "at will" and it is very easy for a company to fire someone? The innocent until proven guilty only works for criminal cases. This sort of thing is exactly why you need laws protecting employees....
Only if you feel you have a right to a certain job. It's much simpler to just see it as an arrangement of services for a fee until either side feels the arrangement is no longer mutually beneficial.
And save up some money for when that happens. I've heard the most jump for government action from folks who lost their jobs and have no savings and fully extended their credit, and have much nicer things than I do as a result.
You clearly have enemies, and they were not honest enough to say it to your face and say "this is employment at will and we don't will it anymore". Move on.
If he gets control of the accounts, most have an IP audit trail. Talk to a lawyer, but if this is a set-up job, it's probably qualified under libel or some other torts, perhaps even crimes. With IP logs clearly not his, he might have enough for a judge to issue a subpoena.
If I were set up this way, I'd want to make sure the offending party didn't see it as a profitable tactic.
Not USB. I want a BlueTooth keyboard & mouse.
So, you want USB and a $9 dongle, perhaps built-in.