What's amazing to me from reading the previous 350 or so posts is the prevailing attitude towards kids like those whose records weren't proected -- they are foster kids, who are all too often "snatched" from their parents, who are all too often put up for forced adoptions, and who are all too often abused in their new "placements." All for money -- the local government gets federal money according to the number of children taken away. And it doesn't just happen to "them" -- being normal by geek standards is enough get your kid snatched in many jurisdictions. Lots of these victimized kids get killed. And all the records of the child deaths, thousands every year, are sealed to prevent public scrutiny. It's not just the data that doesn't get protected.
They used to have just one huge toy store in Manhattan. It was a destination in itself, with floors and floors of one-of-a-kind imported, educational, high-margin toys you couldn't get anywhere else.
Then the MBA Borg moved in, took the company public, opened FAO Schwarzes in shopping malls (e.g. Caesars Palace in Las Vegas), dumped the one-of-a kind toys that had distinguished the FAO Schwarz brand, and filled the stores with the same crap as Toys-R-Us. This resulted in the 150 year-old company's going into Chapter 11 and eventually oblivion.
What's weird is that WP Co. prints a free, dumbed-down (think My Weekly Reader) edition called Express. They even pay people to hand them out at DC Metro stations. (I say "no thanks," because I read the WP, free and so far registration-less, on my PDA-phone via AvantGo, thus saving trees.)
I think they are trying to get people to read the Express in the hope people will eventually subscribe to the print edition of the WP, but no sale. The WP used to be a great newspaper (i.e. Woodward and Bernstein's famed expose of President Richard M. Nixon) but no more, it is just another right-wing propaganda outlet like Faux News.
If the shill who hands out the Express were to ask me for my home address, birthdate, etc. I would slug him!
There's no joy in it, because 1) you get no credit for your contribution, unless somebody takes the trouble to wade thru the diff files; 2) your article will be endlessly vandalized and trashed by cretins and ideologues; 3) your article will be deleted by someone in the clique of admins; 4) the servers are maddeningly slow and 5) you will eventually give up.
As we here at Brookhaven celebrate having found the value of the G-factor, we would like to enlist the help of Slashdot readers in a related problem, namely, finding the exact coordinates of the G-Spot.
When are they going to let you pay for stuff with your cellphone? 5 years ago this was going to happen "next year." (Reason for rant: I forgot my wallet and wound up eating Mickey D's using $2 in change.) Even simpler, when are they going to have cellphones that contain Speedpasses or transit-system fare cards?
Forgive my lack of scientific knowledge, but if we were to transfer massive amounts of water to mars, what would the reaction be in terms of it having an effect on the planetary system?
Spammers who violate the Can-Spam law should be treated the same under the Sentencing Guidelines as are nonviolent drug offenders. For example, possession of one tab (100 ug) of LSD dissolved in a 12 oz can (355 ml) of Coca-Cola carries a base offense level of 38 (235-290 months in prison). This is because the "carrier weight," i.e. the weight of the Coca-Cola, is deemed part of the quantity of drugs. Chapman v. California, 500 U.S. 453 (1991). (By contrast, 2nd degree murder is but a level 33 offense.)
Using the same logic as Chapman, spammers should be given extra prison time if they pad their messages with filter-foiling gibberish. The extra verbiage should be counted in determining the weight of the spam, thus earning the offender the label of Spam Kingpin and a correspondingly long stretch behind bars.
I'd like to add that I think Davies has come up with a good idea, but it needs one thing - property rights.
The problem is, how are you going to do that now, when no one's actually there?
AND, who is enforcing these property rights? That's the bigger issue.
Easy. Somebody squats on your km^2 of red desert, SUE!! (You will probably win, since the squatters probably won't be able to get back to Earth in time to file opposition to your eviction papers with the court clerk.) (IAAL.)
Plethora Technologies develops and licenses Plethora Perspective, an enterprise, Java-based, Linux-server, Windows-client IM/remote access product that has single-ended FIPS-compliant RSA encryption (that is, transmissions are encrypted, and no keying information is stored on the client). The client needs only Java Web Start + a download of the Plethora Java applet. I don't know how much it costs. It would appear to be good for HIPAA or other uses requiring security and privacy.
Since they were traveling on a one-way ticket, they would have to have "SSSS" stamped on their tickets and be strip searched before they could blast-off.
Reading your post again, it appears you are not actually a "contractor," but a W-2 Employee of the contractor. So your legal question then becomes does the contractor relationship between your direct employer and the ultimate hirer attenuate the obligations the hirer would otherwise have under the ADA. Probably not, but, again, ask a lawyer.
When you sign up to work as a "1099" or other type of "contractor," your contract probably said in big, bold letters, "I Agree That I'm Not An Employee." However, the law favors employment relationships and disfavors "contractor" relationships, especially where the intent is to evade employment laws that are supposed to help employees.
For example, if Roofing Corp. hires you as an Independent Contractor to do roofing, and you fall off the roof and file a workers' comp claim against Roofing Corp., chances are that the workers' comp courts will rule in favor of you, the guy with the broken back. The fact that you might have signed a document purporting to waive your rights to workers' comp is probably not going to float, especially in industries such as roofing where workers' comp is expensive (because lots of people break their backs falling off roofs), and employers routinely try to scam their way around the law by making people sign "contractor" documents.
So, in your case, you might not be out of luck in claiming whatever your ADA or other claim might be. It depends on the many complex legal factors that determine what-is-a-contractor-and-what-is-an-employee (the IRS website has the most comprehensive list of these), the nature of the legal rights you are claiming, the law in your state (California, good; Texas, bad), and a whole bunch of other issues / factors that are best spotted by the local labor and employment law attorney with whom you need to make an appointment. IAAL but IANYL.
"Knowifi's Casino Marketing Event Manager (cMEM) allows you to track the movement of guests throughout your property. Give your convention or event guest a promotional item with an embedded WiFi tag and find out where they travel on your property and how long they stay in each venue (casino, food & beverage outlets, entertainment, etc.). Now you can have accurate information about whether your promotional events drive customers to the casino.
"Here's how the system works:
"Event attendee information is entered or uploaded from the convention system, event listing, registration system or entertainment system into the cMEM database. Attendee information can be anonymous.
"Event attendees are issued a promotional item (hat, key chain, comp, coupon, etc.) with an embedded WiFi tracking tag.
"Either standalone or as part of an existing WiFi network, access points are positioned cover key zones throughout the property (e.g. casino, buffet, hotel, entertainment, etc.).
"As guests move through the zones, the WiFi access points detect the guest and sends data about their movement to update the cMEM database.
"At the conclusion of the event, the event manager prints out reports that analyze the movement of the guests for that event throughout the property.
"Now property marketing managers can use actual data, instead of pro forma estimates, to determine whether their promotional events are driving casino traffic!"
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What's amazing to me from reading the previous 350 or so posts is the prevailing attitude towards kids like those whose records weren't proected -- they are foster kids, who are all too often "snatched" from their parents, who are all too often put up for forced adoptions, and who are all too often abused in their new "placements." All for money -- the local government gets federal money according to the number of children taken away. And it doesn't just happen to "them" -- being normal by geek standards is enough get your kid snatched in many jurisdictions. Lots of these victimized kids get killed. And all the records of the child deaths, thousands every year, are sealed to prevent public scrutiny. It's not just the data that doesn't get protected.
They used to have just one huge toy store in Manhattan. It was a destination in itself, with floors and floors of one-of-a-kind imported, educational, high-margin toys you couldn't get anywhere else.
Then the MBA Borg moved in, took the company public, opened FAO Schwarzes in shopping malls (e.g. Caesars Palace in Las Vegas), dumped the one-of-a kind toys that had distinguished the FAO Schwarz brand, and filled the stores with the same crap as Toys-R-Us. This resulted in the 150 year-old company's going into Chapter 11 and eventually oblivion.
What's weird is that WP Co. prints a free, dumbed-down (think My Weekly Reader) edition called Express. They even pay people to hand them out at DC Metro stations. (I say "no thanks," because I read the WP, free and so far registration-less, on my PDA-phone via AvantGo, thus saving trees.)
I think they are trying to get people to read the Express in the hope people will eventually subscribe to the print edition of the WP, but no sale. The WP used to be a great newspaper (i.e. Woodward and Bernstein's famed expose of President Richard M. Nixon) but no more, it is just another right-wing propaganda outlet like Faux News.
If the shill who hands out the Express were to ask me for my home address, birthdate, etc. I would slug him!
P.S. The Zip code for Nome, Alaska is 99762.
There's no joy in it, because 1) you get no credit for your contribution, unless somebody takes the trouble to wade thru the diff files; 2) your article will be endlessly vandalized and trashed by cretins and ideologues; 3) your article will be deleted by someone in the clique of admins; 4) the servers are maddeningly slow and 5) you will eventually give up.
What about the (few and far between) hotel rooms with internet access? Do they have to put cameras in the rooms?
As we here at Brookhaven celebrate having found the value of the G-factor, we would like to enlist the help of Slashdot readers in a related problem, namely, finding the exact coordinates of the G-Spot.
Oops, wait, this is Slashdot....
...according to the California Court of Appeal, it's perfectly Constitutional to require videotaping of cyber cafe patrons in Garden Grove, California unless the California Supreme Court or the U.S. Supreme Court decides otherwise.
When are they going to let you pay for stuff with your cellphone? 5 years ago this was going to happen "next year." (Reason for rant: I forgot my wallet and wound up eating Mickey D's using $2 in change.) Even simpler, when are they going to have cellphones that contain Speedpasses or transit-system fare cards?
Cellphones/gizmos with larger buttons so that people with big fingers and/or bad eyesight can actuate them.
mod parent up
It's the judges who've forgotten all about it, which is why it ain't all that useful even in the US.
...and buy some green, hardcover West Hornbooks, or some softcover In A Nutshell summaries of copyright, patent and trademark law.
Or you could try sites such as The Intellectual Property Page or one of several hundred other sites that a search engine would provide.
Didn't Captain Kangaroo invent the Ping-Pong ball avalanche back in '55??
No, actually it's George Carlin.
Forgive my lack of scientific knowledge, but if we were to transfer massive amounts of water to mars, what would the reaction be in terms of it having an effect on the planetary system?
Your water bill would go up.
Oops. The correct title of the 1991 Supreme Court case on carrier weight is Chapman v. United States.
Spammers who violate the Can-Spam law should be treated the same under the Sentencing Guidelines as are nonviolent drug offenders. For example, possession of one tab (100 ug) of LSD dissolved in a 12 oz can (355 ml) of Coca-Cola carries a base offense level of 38 (235-290 months in prison). This is because the "carrier weight," i.e. the weight of the Coca-Cola, is deemed part of the quantity of drugs. Chapman v. California, 500 U.S. 453 (1991). (By contrast, 2nd degree murder is but a level 33 offense.)
Using the same logic as Chapman, spammers should be given extra prison time if they pad their messages with filter-foiling gibberish. The extra verbiage should be counted in determining the weight of the spam, thus earning the offender the label of Spam Kingpin and a correspondingly long stretch behind bars.
I'd like to add that I think Davies has come up with a good idea, but it needs one thing - property rights.
The problem is, how are you going to do that now, when no one's actually there?
AND, who is enforcing these property rights? That's the bigger issue.
Easy. Somebody squats on your km^2 of red desert, SUE!! (You will probably win, since the squatters probably won't be able to get back to Earth in time to file opposition to your eviction papers with the court clerk.) (IAAL.)
Who will do the actual evicting?
The MARS-hal........
Plethora Technologies develops and licenses Plethora Perspective, an enterprise, Java-based, Linux-server, Windows-client IM/remote access product that has single-ended FIPS-compliant RSA encryption (that is, transmissions are encrypted, and no keying information is stored on the client). The client needs only Java Web Start + a download of the Plethora Java applet. I don't know how much it costs. It would appear to be good for HIPAA or other uses requiring security and privacy.
Since they were traveling on a one-way ticket, they would have to have "SSSS" stamped on their tickets and be strip searched before they could blast-off.
Reading your post again, it appears you are not actually a "contractor," but a W-2 Employee of the contractor. So your legal question then becomes does the contractor relationship between your direct employer and the ultimate hirer attenuate the obligations the hirer would otherwise have under the ADA. Probably not, but, again, ask a lawyer.
When you sign up to work as a "1099" or other type of "contractor," your contract probably said in big, bold letters, "I Agree That I'm Not An Employee." However, the law favors employment relationships and disfavors "contractor" relationships, especially where the intent is to evade employment laws that are supposed to help employees.
For example, if Roofing Corp. hires you as an Independent Contractor to do roofing, and you fall off the roof and file a workers' comp claim against Roofing Corp., chances are that the workers' comp courts will rule in favor of you, the guy with the broken back. The fact that you might have signed a document purporting to waive your rights to workers' comp is probably not going to float, especially in industries such as roofing where workers' comp is expensive (because lots of people break their backs falling off roofs), and employers routinely try to scam their way around the law by making people sign "contractor" documents.
So, in your case, you might not be out of luck in claiming whatever your ADA or other claim might be. It depends on the many complex legal factors that determine what-is-a-contractor-and-what-is-an-employee (the IRS website has the most comprehensive list of these), the nature of the legal rights you are claiming, the law in your state (California, good; Texas, bad), and a whole bunch of other issues / factors that are best spotted by the local labor and employment law attorney with whom you need to make an appointment. IAAL but IANYL.
(from Knowifi.com)
"Knowifi's Casino Marketing Event Manager (cMEM) allows you to track the movement of guests throughout your property. Give your convention or event guest a promotional item with an embedded WiFi tag and find out where they travel on your property and how long they stay in each venue (casino, food & beverage outlets, entertainment, etc.). Now you can have accurate information about whether your promotional events drive customers to the casino.
"Here's how the system works:
"Event attendee information is entered or uploaded from the convention system, event listing, registration system or entertainment system into the cMEM database. Attendee information can be anonymous.
"Event attendees are issued a promotional item (hat, key chain, comp, coupon, etc.) with an embedded WiFi tracking tag.
"Either standalone or as part of an existing WiFi network, access points are positioned cover key zones throughout the property (e.g. casino, buffet, hotel, entertainment, etc.).
"As guests move through the zones, the WiFi access points detect the guest and sends data about their movement to update the cMEM database.
"At the conclusion of the event, the event manager prints out reports that analyze the movement of the guests for that event throughout the property.
"Now property marketing managers can use actual data, instead of pro forma estimates, to determine whether their promotional events are driving casino traffic!"
Then, go outside and sniff for the leak....
Does your blue vision suck? Pop some Viagra!