People have been sued for "leering" and "brushing up against." Doesn't really matter whether they won or lost. Attorneys' fees will eat you alive either way.
IAAL, and I'm imagining the deposition in a hypothetical (inevitable?) sexual harassment suit.
Q: Were you, as a supervisor, aware of any sexual harassment at the workplace?
A: No.
Q: Did you have a "sexual harassment jar"?
A: Yes.
Q: And what was the purpose of the sexual harassment jar?
A: To curb employee sexual harassment. Every time someone said something that could be sexual or suggestive, they'd have to put a dollar in the jar.
Q: And how much money was eventually contributed to the jar?
A: The last time I cleaned it out, it had $562.
Q: So let me ask you again, were you aware of any sexual harassment at the workplace?
Correct. In the United States, all persons who hold themselves out as lawyers, "practice law", etc., must be licensed to do so, usually in the state in which they are practicing. There are, of course, exceptions and nuances, but this is the basic rule.
Every state except Wisconsin (see this article for example) requires a person to pass the bar exam (or to waive in from another state where that person is licensed, with varying requirements).
Thus, calling oneself a lawyer has considerably more meaning than calling oneself an economist, for example. Anyone can be an economist. I'm an economist. But not really.
But I am about to graduate from law school in a few days, so hear me out. Lawyers are a risk averse bunch. If you tried to tell a lawyer to use PGP (and the lawyer actually knew what PGP was), in the back of his mind he's thinking, "How is this going to nail me? How is this going to lead to a malpractice lawsuit? How is this going to get screwed up and cost me my career, my reputation, or my client's ass?" The answer is that we just don't know. What lawyers can and do trust is face-to-face communication.
Until PGP becomes widely adopted outside the legal context (and it hasn't), lawyers are not going to be the first to adopt it. The reasons proffered above--that the government can break PGP or tap into the end-users' computers--may be true, but I doubt they are the reasons lawyers don't use PGP.
Also, while I would concur with most of the comments about lawyers padding billable hours, in these cases it's probably not about that. Suspected terrorists likely don't have the kind of cash that typical corporate clients do. Many of these lawyers are working for suspected terrorists (especially those in Gitmo) on a pro-bono basis. Ahkmed from a tent in Afghanistan probably couldn't afford a lawyer in his country, much less one from the United States.
(IANAL, but ask me again after I take the bar in July.) That's not an entirely implausible story. If you fly across time zones such that you're sitting on the same date for more than 24 hours, then you could theoretically bill for more than 24 hours in one day. More likely, however, was that the lawyer billed one client for his time in the air (travel time) and then billed another client for the time spent in the air working on the other client's matter. This may be unethical in some jurisdictions, and it would certainly be frowned upon.
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"Intelligence analysts once assumed that terrorists organize in isolated cells. But social-network maps revealed that the 9/11 hijackers' cells morphed into a hub-and-spoke pattern with an obvious leader: Mohammed Atta. The active structure resembled that of an IBM project team." from discover.com
This raises a serious question: What is this "IBM" and what kind of "project" are they planning?
At night. It's hard to see what's on top/bottom, especially at an unlit intersection froma distance. Of course during the day the top/bottom thing works.
As far as traffic lights go - a good bit of that is rote memorization of "top/leftmost == red == stop", so even if a severely colorblind person saw a light they shouldn't be confused as to its state. It may, however, take longer to process the status than it does for a color-aware person (particularly for more complex traffic lights).
It's no problem in the day time. At night, when all you can see is the light and not the full signal, then there's a potential problem. But the red and green are distinguishable enough for me to read them anyway. It is a little hard to read it from really far away--but that's kinda unimportant.
I am red/green colorblind. This doesn't mean that I cannot distinguish red from green. I can tell that everything on Slashdot's main page is in a green motif. It's harder to distinguish when the colors are close together or very light/dark.
This colorblindness test illustrates the problems I have recognizing the difference between these colors. In plate 2 I read the number "3" and in plate 3 I see "70." Try it for yourself.
If people who are red/green colorblind could really not distinguish any difference between the two, traffic lights at night would be really confusing.
What a backwards concept...
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Now, instead of games with advertisements, we are going to get advertisements with games.
And how does anyone suspect it can be a $1 billion/year industry? I don't see how playing McQuake IV and blasting away the Hamburgler or helpless French fries could be considered fun.
But hey... How about iQuake: You're Steve Jobs as you battle for aesthetics against Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and their evil minions.
Of course, the real aesthetic enemy in the axis of ugly is Linux, but I digress (for fear of being modded flamebait).
I think the reason they want small drives is so that they can eventually sell the drives as "disposables"--and thus sell more of them. I know this one's is not removeable, but that's besides the point.
Either that, or this is just a first attempt to make a hd camcorder. If this one sells well they can always add bigger hd's to them.
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People have been sued for "leering" and "brushing up against." Doesn't really matter whether they won or lost. Attorneys' fees will eat you alive either way.
IAAL, and I'm imagining the deposition in a hypothetical (inevitable?) sexual harassment suit. Q: Were you, as a supervisor, aware of any sexual harassment at the workplace? A: No. Q: Did you have a "sexual harassment jar"? A: Yes. Q: And what was the purpose of the sexual harassment jar? A: To curb employee sexual harassment. Every time someone said something that could be sexual or suggestive, they'd have to put a dollar in the jar. Q: And how much money was eventually contributed to the jar? A: The last time I cleaned it out, it had $562. Q: So let me ask you again, were you aware of any sexual harassment at the workplace?
But see moral rights.
Correct. In the United States, all persons who hold themselves out as lawyers, "practice law", etc., must be licensed to do so, usually in the state in which they are practicing. There are, of course, exceptions and nuances, but this is the basic rule. Every state except Wisconsin (see this article for example) requires a person to pass the bar exam (or to waive in from another state where that person is licensed, with varying requirements). Thus, calling oneself a lawyer has considerably more meaning than calling oneself an economist, for example. Anyone can be an economist. I'm an economist. But not really.
If I were an accused Saudi billionaire, I'd want my lawyer physically holding my hand.
Judge Wake isn't going anywhere. He's an Article III judge (part of that Constitution thing)--meaning that he's got his bench for life.
But I am about to graduate from law school in a few days, so hear me out. Lawyers are a risk averse bunch. If you tried to tell a lawyer to use PGP (and the lawyer actually knew what PGP was), in the back of his mind he's thinking, "How is this going to nail me? How is this going to lead to a malpractice lawsuit? How is this going to get screwed up and cost me my career, my reputation, or my client's ass?" The answer is that we just don't know. What lawyers can and do trust is face-to-face communication.
Until PGP becomes widely adopted outside the legal context (and it hasn't), lawyers are not going to be the first to adopt it. The reasons proffered above--that the government can break PGP or tap into the end-users' computers--may be true, but I doubt they are the reasons lawyers don't use PGP.
Also, while I would concur with most of the comments about lawyers padding billable hours, in these cases it's probably not about that. Suspected terrorists likely don't have the kind of cash that typical corporate clients do. Many of these lawyers are working for suspected terrorists (especially those in Gitmo) on a pro-bono basis. Ahkmed from a tent in Afghanistan probably couldn't afford a lawyer in his country, much less one from the United States.
(IANAL, but ask me again after I take the bar in July.) That's not an entirely implausible story. If you fly across time zones such that you're sitting on the same date for more than 24 hours, then you could theoretically bill for more than 24 hours in one day. More likely, however, was that the lawyer billed one client for his time in the air (travel time) and then billed another client for the time spent in the air working on the other client's matter. This may be unethical in some jurisdictions, and it would certainly be frowned upon.
Can I whack the tires first? Where's the pushy used carrier salesman?
"There are mostly four kinds of coins in circulation in the U.S: 1 cent, 5 cents, 18 cents, and 25 cents."
I swear, I turn my head for one minute and now we have 18-cent coins?
Can michael moderate for noncents?
Why must they soil the good name of America by appending it to their dubious business?
eMarketersAmerica, more like eMarketersNigeria
Now that Safari supports AutoFill Form, I'll actually have something to do all day.
Cmd-shift-A all day long.
from Googlism:
cmdrtaco is getting married to the fine woman this website is run by
cmdrtaco is still known to post hoaxes or wild
cmdrtaco is gay
cmdrtaco is brilliant
cmdrtaco is nothing more than a perl script
cmdrtaco is lame
cmdrtaco is my hero
cmdrtaco is the one that is laying on the purple couch with the notebook
cmdrtaco is a torvelian
cmdrtaco is an idiot
And my favorite...
cmdrtaco is psychic
Now, instead of duplicate sotries, SlashDot will call them "updates." I'd say we should check up on them in a few hours to see how their doing.
I rest my case:
"Intelligence analysts once assumed that terrorists organize in isolated cells. But social-network maps revealed that the 9/11 hijackers' cells morphed into a hub-and-spoke pattern with an obvious leader: Mohammed Atta. The active structure resembled that of an IBM project team." from discover.com
This raises a serious question: What is this "IBM" and what kind of "project" are they planning?
But here are the two most important questions:
1) How will this prevent spam?
and
2) How will it stop terrorism?
As soon as it stops spam and terrorism, I'm ready to invest.
...people start buying laptops that are bigger than their desktops.
At night. It's hard to see what's on top/bottom, especially at an unlit intersection froma distance. Of course during the day the top/bottom thing works.
As far as traffic lights go - a good bit of that is rote memorization of "top/leftmost == red == stop", so even if a severely colorblind person saw a light they shouldn't be confused as to its state. It may, however, take longer to process the status than it does for a color-aware person (particularly for more complex traffic lights).
It's no problem in the day time. At night, when all you can see is the light and not the full signal, then there's a potential problem. But the red and green are distinguishable enough for me to read them anyway. It is a little hard to read it from really far away--but that's kinda unimportant.
I am red/green colorblind. This doesn't mean that I cannot distinguish red from green. I can tell that everything on Slashdot's main page is in a green motif. It's harder to distinguish when the colors are close together or very light/dark.
This colorblindness test illustrates the problems I have recognizing the difference between these colors. In plate 2 I read the number "3" and in plate 3 I see "70." Try it for yourself.
If people who are red/green colorblind could really not distinguish any difference between the two, traffic lights at night would be really confusing.
Now, instead of games with advertisements, we are going to get advertisements with games.
And how does anyone suspect it can be a $1 billion/year industry? I don't see how playing McQuake IV and blasting away the Hamburgler or helpless French fries could be considered fun.
But hey... How about iQuake: You're Steve Jobs as you battle for aesthetics against Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and their evil minions.
Of course, the real aesthetic enemy in the axis of ugly is Linux, but I digress (for fear of being modded flamebait).
And I thought that UFOs were real.
Guess this Raelian thing just isn't for me.
3 Responses:
1. iPod
2. iPod
3. iPod
What's the use of a tiny camcorder if you can't use it?
I think the reason they want small drives is so that they can eventually sell the drives as "disposables"--and thus sell more of them. I know this one's is not removeable, but that's besides the point.
Either that, or this is just a first attempt to make a hd camcorder. If this one sells well they can always add bigger hd's to them.
They probably would find the same Slashdot stories from last week.