Starting on December 6, 2012, Google will no longer offer new accounts for the free edition of Google Apps. Google Apps free edition is sometimes referred to as "Standard Edition." If you already have the free edition, you can continue to use it for free. This change has no impact on existing users of the free edition.
Please see the Google Enterprise Blog for additional details.
Was the famous Michael Atkinson. There was a massive backlash and he was forced to repeal it a rush. I suspect the same might happen here once the public realise the implications of such a law.
This might look like a good thing, but they're basically trying to undo the R18+ reforms, by making MA15+ the same as R18+. As many have pointed out, it will achieve nothing and add complication for retailers and buyers. Why can't we just accept the classifications boards definitions, like the rest of the states.
Under the legislation, movies like the Saw franchise can be seen by minors, but games like GTA and Mortal combat can't be played.
This is just typical Adelaide politics. We endured the idiot Michael Atkinson with his overly conservative views, holding Australian to ransom over game classification reform. He made us look like a joke for too many years. Now we have to suffer another idiot trying to do the same, pandering to a fringe group of religious do-gooders/ nuts-cases, that are hell bent on making this state a retirement village. We all bitch about Adelaide getting a bad rap, but it's this kind of crap that instils SA's backwater reputation.
if you cross the ATO (Australian Tax Office) you're in for a world of hurt, they are relentless and remorseless.
That's hardly the case. There's a few high profiled cases, the ATO brags about, but the reality is much different. CEO's like this guy are too small to bother about, unless he's burned some wealthy creditor, who will make a noise.
I've been involved in two Australian based start-ups and the CEO's/directors that skipped overseas with IP, fistfuls of investor cash and huge debts are quite happily living abroad. They even visit and live in Australia for extend periods without the fear of the ATO.
I sympathise with the employees. I went through a similar situation in 2007.
GEERS is your friend*, and the liquidator will help you with the information needed to complete your GEERS application. Unfortunately GEERS doesn't cover unpaid super and most companies in these circumstances just fail to pay super and accumulate fines for late super payments rather than the actual amount.
As the law currently stands it very simple for dodgy CEO's to thieve the IP and take operations overseas. The ATO and ASIC are either too slow, bogged down with redtape or just plain toothless.
The sad fact is CEO's/directors don't even need to move overseas. All you need to do is have a parent company overseas that the IP is assigned to. The local company then operates on the smell of an oily rag, runs up liabilities and even gets government RD grants/tax rebates. When creditors/employees come to collect, there's nothing, but a bit of office equipment and furniture. It's even possible to start a new company and then buy the salvaged office assets of the previous company and even trade from the very same office and the ATO and ASIC don't even batter an eye lid.
*As for GEERS and the liquidator, chase them ruthlessly. The department/program is biased to the liquidators findings. If there's incomplete, incorrect or absent employee entitlement records (as is often the case with poorly run companies), GEERS will not pay you a cent, if the liquidator can't provide support or evidence of he amounts. (I found out the hard way and lost 2 years AL)
Ask if the unit is FIPS 201 certified. If it is then you can be certain that no reproducible image leaves the unit. There's no more identifying data than a password or PIN that leaves the unit.
There are cheaper units on the market that centrally process the finger print image to speed up matching, which is open to abuse.
Disclaimer: I previously worked for a fingerprint / time-clock manufacture that produced FIPS compliant devices.
STK is clunky at best. It's a polling arrangement. The phone polls the sim and it then replies with what it wants the phone to do. You certainly couldn't get the throughput needed via the SIM slot. I haven't RTFA but given it takes about 20-30secs to download 100 contacts from your SIM, it unlikely this new card would be using the existing standards or SIM slots.
I was under the impression this was the case. I found even after syspreping a machine, if the WSUS keys were not cleared, it wouldn't register with the WSUS server. The fix is to stop the WU service, clear the keys then sysprep....So I found anyway.
GA isn't for everyone, but it does fit well for small business, educational institutions and community organisations that seek flexible access to data, any time, any place or are under budget constraints.
There's a heap of US universities using the education edition of Google Apps. Some of them with massive deployments of >50,000 users.
The thing to keep in mind is that GA is very flexible and it's a trade off between cost, flexibility and security. You can choose which parts you want (email, calendaring, docs, chat, sites, video, etc) If you are concerned about confidential data and trade secrets, then it probably not for you. But to declares anyone who considers Google Apps or other SaaS providers, totally fsckin' stupid is pretty short sighted.
Google Apps excels in calendaring. Free busy that just works. Superior calendar sharing controls. Free SMS notifications. Activesync (OMA) out of the box.
Google Apps Premier edition also supports external directories like AD, NDS and LDAP.
The free edition is quite good, but most businesses will need the premier edition if they seek features found in some of the solutions you mentioned.
Yes, the premier edition does have this ability to leverage an external directory. Many of the edu users make good use of this feature. Resource calendars are also supported in the premier edition.
Nick Xenophon actually announced is withdrawl of support for the filter around Jan 20th.
The news is, it was revealed the government will require full senate cooperation to introduce new legislation, that will surely fail to pass without Xenophon's support.
While these things last longer, you should see the cost of these replacements, somewhere around $200 a unit. They had a trial out at the Walkley Heights depot in 2005-06 to test reliability. Sure they last longer, but the savings in power and maintenance are eaten up in the increased cost per unit.
Also you have to feel for the poor suckers who take a pole out and lumped with the bill.
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Was the famous Michael Atkinson. There was a massive backlash and he was forced to repeal it a rush. I suspect the same might happen here once the public realise the implications of such a law.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/victory-atkinson-loosens-gag/story-e6frea6u-1225826104175
The "attourney" is a female.
Tell that to the 3+ million business that already use Google Apps which does have an SLA.
No only South Australian's.
This might look like a good thing, but they're basically trying to undo the R18+ reforms, by making MA15+ the same as R18+. As many have pointed out, it will achieve nothing and add complication for retailers and buyers. Why can't we just accept the classifications boards definitions, like the rest of the states.
Under the legislation, movies like the Saw franchise can be seen by minors, but games like GTA and Mortal combat can't be played.
This is just typical Adelaide politics. We endured the idiot Michael Atkinson with his overly conservative views, holding Australian to ransom over game classification reform. He made us look like a joke for too many years. Now we have to suffer another idiot trying to do the same, pandering to a fringe group of religious do-gooders/ nuts-cases, that are hell bent on making this state a retirement village. We all bitch about Adelaide getting a bad rap, but it's this kind of crap that instils SA's backwater reputation.
Don't forget Stern Hu and three colleagues of mining giant Rio Tinto, who were jailed in a secret trial after stealing state secrets and taking bribes. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/12/2818526.htm
Huh? What has colour or polarization got to do with it? You need two eyes to properly preceive depth.
Obviously the mods are from TAS and think it's normal. :-)
Sorry your app was reject for being too heterosexual.
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if you cross the ATO (Australian Tax Office) you're in for a world of hurt, they are relentless and remorseless.
That's hardly the case. There's a few high profiled cases, the ATO brags about, but the reality is much different. CEO's like this guy are too small to bother about, unless he's burned some wealthy creditor, who will make a noise.
I've been involved in two Australian based start-ups and the CEO's/directors that skipped overseas with IP, fistfuls of investor cash and huge debts are quite happily living abroad. They even visit and live in Australia for extend periods without the fear of the ATO.
I sympathise with the employees. I went through a similar situation in 2007.
GEERS is your friend*, and the liquidator will help you with the information needed to complete your GEERS application. Unfortunately GEERS doesn't cover unpaid super and most companies in these circumstances just fail to pay super and accumulate fines for late super payments rather than the actual amount.
As the law currently stands it very simple for dodgy CEO's to thieve the IP and take operations overseas. The ATO and ASIC are either too slow, bogged down with redtape or just plain toothless.
The sad fact is CEO's/directors don't even need to move overseas. All you need to do is have a parent company overseas that the IP is assigned to. The local company then operates on the smell of an oily rag, runs up liabilities and even gets government RD grants/tax rebates. When creditors/employees come to collect, there's nothing, but a bit of office equipment and furniture. It's even possible to start a new company and then buy the salvaged office assets of the previous company and even trade from the very same office and the ATO and ASIC don't even batter an eye lid.
*As for GEERS and the liquidator, chase them ruthlessly. The department/program is biased to the liquidators findings. If there's incomplete, incorrect or absent employee entitlement records (as is often the case with poorly run companies), GEERS will not pay you a cent, if the liquidator can't provide support or evidence of he amounts. (I found out the hard way and lost 2 years AL)
All the best with your fight.
Ask if the unit is FIPS 201 certified. If it is then you can be certain that no reproducible image leaves the unit. There's no more identifying data than a password or PIN that leaves the unit.
There are cheaper units on the market that centrally process the finger print image to speed up matching, which is open to abuse.
Disclaimer: I previously worked for a fingerprint / time-clock manufacture that produced FIPS compliant devices.
Foreign executives being arrested for political reasons?
And detained without charge for over 6 months. It was just last week, charges were layed.
The gutless Australian goverment did little for fear of upsetting a huge trading partner.
It's call STK or SIM Application Toolkit. Fairly old GSM standard. A small update for 3G was made a while back. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_Application_Toolkit
STK is clunky at best. It's a polling arrangement. The phone polls the sim and it then replies with what it wants the phone to do. You certainly couldn't get the throughput needed via the SIM slot. I haven't RTFA but given it takes about 20-30secs to download 100 contacts from your SIM, it unlikely this new card would be using the existing standards or SIM slots.
I was under the impression this was the case. I found even after syspreping a machine, if the WSUS keys were not cleared, it wouldn't register with the WSUS server. The fix is to stop the WU service, clear the keys then sysprep....So I found anyway.
...the logical method of accepting market forces and lowering the price of new releases to compete.
If I had mod points, you'd get them.
GA isn't for everyone, but it does fit well for small business, educational institutions and community organisations that seek flexible access to data, any time, any place or are under budget constraints.
There's a heap of US universities using the education edition of Google Apps. Some of them with massive deployments of >50,000 users.
The thing to keep in mind is that GA is very flexible and it's a trade off between cost, flexibility and security. You can choose which parts you want (email, calendaring, docs, chat, sites, video, etc) If you are concerned about confidential data and trade secrets, then it probably not for you. But to declares anyone who considers Google Apps or other SaaS providers, totally fsckin' stupid is pretty short sighted.
Google Apps excels in calendaring. Free busy that just works. Superior calendar sharing controls. Free SMS notifications. Activesync (OMA) out of the box.
Google Apps Premier edition also supports external directories like AD, NDS and LDAP.
The free edition is quite good, but most businesses will need the premier edition if they seek features found in some of the solutions you mentioned.
Yes, the premier edition does have this ability to leverage an external directory. Many of the edu users make good use of this feature. Resource calendars are also supported in the premier edition.
Nick Xenophon actually announced is withdrawl of support for the filter around Jan 20th.
The news is, it was revealed the government will require full senate cooperation to introduce new legislation, that will surely fail to pass without Xenophon's support.
That's well and good. But Google aren't even eating their (version of OpenID) dog food.
The only Google provider ATM is gmail. Groups, Adsense, Apps, Apps for your domain, don't support consumer or provider mechanism.
If Google doesn't embrace its own initiatives then why would anyone else?
Big players like Google aren't supporting the OpenID spec as it stands today.
Today you can't get true OpenID with any of Googles products, yet Gmail/Google Apps would make a perfect OpenID provider.
While these things last longer, you should see the cost of these replacements, somewhere around $200 a unit. They had a trial out at the Walkley Heights depot in 2005-06 to test reliability. Sure they last longer, but the savings in power and maintenance are eaten up in the increased cost per unit.
Also you have to feel for the poor suckers who take a pole out and lumped with the bill.