Rules don't just apply everywhere, they have to state where they apply.
Now we're assuming their rules say "ALL planes", and then that would include private jets, and I'm ok with that, but why does the rule have to include private jets?
I'm not arguing about the enforcement, but rather about the rule. Isn't it reasonable to assume owners of private jets are assuming responsibility for their own security against their passengers trying to hijack them?
Really, anymore if kids want to cheat they're going to. However, in math it's a wee bit difficult so long as you require them to show their work for the solution. If they're going to spend their entire time cheating, they're paying themselves to remain stupid so... Let them I guess.
Only problem there is it harms the credibility of your school. A diploma from a school that is known to ignore cheaters loses value against one from a school that fights cheating and makes their students earn their grades.
But addressing some other posts, jamming is not a perfect option. One method of wireless cheating is asking questions over IM via your cell phone, and you can't legally jam cell phone traffic. The faraday cage idea is probably the best to prevent external resourcing, but doesn't address student-to-student collaboration during the test. Savvy students could set up an ad-hoc chat room with each other during the test, breaking it up into questions each knew best, providing the group with answers, and make out like bandits. So you'd almost need a combination of the two... good faraday cage and jamming of wifi and cell within the cage. (which should be legal as long as the cage holds in the cell jamming?)
ok attention getter subject line. BUT... did you notice, very close to 100% of the cats in the video had completely white fur? There were a couple all non-white I spotted, and several with dark patches such as head or feet, but the rest, all white.
Maybe they figured white cat hair would be easier to clean up after tho. I have a pair of ocicats myself, and let me tell you, striped hairs show up on anything. (thank god they don't shed much)
well it was flight testing after all. you're gonna lawn-dart a few drones from time to time.
I'd like to have seen more details on the why and how though... good bet it was at landing or takeoff. I've smashed up my model heli numerous times that way. I've only mortared it twice. Flying, meh. Takeoff, not too bad. Landing, can be quite tricky.
And never forget, takeoff is compulsory, but landing is mandatory.;)
Not that it's surprising that this happens, but it is a bit surprising that our "diplomats" are allowed to sign agreements that our own court system has already determined to be illegal. Though in this instance it appears they're not just signing off on it, but pushing for it.
Should try them for treason when they get back stateside;)
I was surprised at the bumping the first ball got without tilting. And that player held the ball a lot more than the 2nd player/ball. Got boring after that for me tho so that was my limit.
I got a cheap home pinball machine one year for christmas. I thought the name was "flying circus" but looking around I don't see it. The scoreboard was analog - it was a giant wheel numbered 1-100 around its circumference, and showed the score by showing a small patch of the dial at the top. Every time you hit a ramp or a bumper bell a server would kick the dial another position and ring a bell.
Very basic game, but I quickly got good enough at it to play almost indefinitely on a ball. Over time though, the contacts on the ramps got dirty and the balls started to rust so it didn't keep score nearly so well anymore. Still fun to play though.
that's actually a very nice idea. drive to a mall or shopping area for an afternoon of shopping, parking in the lower level of a parking garage. (no signal) Have some friend lift it off the car (with gloves etc) while you shop and get tagged by video cameras all over the mall. Mail it to said FBI office in a box lined with aluminum foil that will force them to call in the bomb squad to open it since it won't xray clearly (or transmit out while in transit), and then suddenly/finally the PD get an update on the location.... and a phonecall.
Make sure your car's not parked in a spot that's on camera for the garage tho.
For Japanese, base kanji understanding is what,10,000 characters, fairly high comprehension is upwards of 40,000. (I thought I read somewhere there's over 70,000 in all?) That's just way too much. The written language is just too out of date to use.
Japanese has Kanji and then Kana. I assume Kanji is on par with written chinese for character count, with kana simplified basically as phonetic, and is what, 46 characters? Funny thing there though, newspapers etc written in kana are considered somewhat embarrassing to be seen reading, they assume you're dumb because you don't know your kanji. But that's where it needs to be going. The time of needing to know 40,000 different characters to read and write fluently in a language is OVER. (someone please correct me here where needed, my memory on these numbers is very fuzzy) I also recall reading somewhere that characters require usually between 4 and 7 keystrokes to draw a character, but those represent entire words, not letters, so typing speed I suppose is about on par, it just requires a good chunk of memory.
Does chinese even have a phonetic variation for written language?
So we're basically dealing with misappropriation and and sale of trade secrets here? (selling privileged information that he was almost certainly bound by NDA or similar on)
Then, if we find a tracker attached to our vehicle,
is it ours? What's the law regarding when someone abandons their possessions on your property?
If I found one of these on my vehicle, then I can take possession of it? Didn't someone recently get into the press for finding such a device and ebaying it? iirc the police or whoever contacted ebay and got the auction taken down. I didn't see what happened after that.
but how does that compare with taxes on that much money, considering this guy's tax bracket, if he were to just have it in savings?
tho of course good investments would be the place to put it. but most of those are tracked. Pretty much anytime you have taxable income anywhere, be it savings or investments, someone's going to catch you.
I see his mother put up the deed to her house for his bond, for whenever he manages to meet the judges's requirements. (specifically, that all money he stashed in foreign accounts get moved back to the USA)
Prosecutors say that Devine shared confidential information on Apple products such as the iPod and iPhone in exchange for cash kickbacks. He allegedly provided suppliers with projected sales figures, data on how much it cost Apple to produce the products, and pricing bids from supply chain competitors.
This looks a lot more like "corporate espionage" than "kickbacks". I usually consider kickbacks to mean that he accepted bribes from clients for favoritism. But this guy was basically getting paid to spy on his employer and provide intelligence.
speaking of gold, just how does printer ink compare for price, ounce for ounce, with gold?
And really, how much can it cost to make the stuff? It's little wonder that with such an insane profit margin that they get litigious, they have all the money in the world to play patent bully and feed their sharks.
Problem is everybody thinks that he's the king and the rest is wasting time.
And some of us are right about it. I'd be willing to bet my paycheck double or nothing here every single week that I'm on-task a higher percentage of the day than anyone else in the building.
I realize the opinion isn't going to be popular around here, but I do agree with you. And I'm not a business owner, I'm just a pain ol employee.
As far as I see the arrangement, you're paying me for a portion of my available time, with expectations to accomplish work for you. You're expecting to get a specific value for your money you pay me, and really, you're "renting my time". With few exceptions, I expect you to have the right to monitor this time I spend working for you, to insure you're getting treated fairly.
I work in a small business, and I'm fairly sure I'm the most dedicated worker there. I come to work on time, do my job, and go home. During that time, I see people watching TV, browsing web pages (some of them almost constantly), stepping out for "social hour" to have long cigarette breaks in groups, playing flash games, etc. I don't do that, and I don't consider it fair to the company that they do it. Part of it I assume is I get paid more for my specific job, so you might say I have less reason to grumble about it since I'm being compensated more for the higher quality of work I provide. It still irks me a little bit, but I suppose I just need to let it go, since technically they're being treated as fairly as I am.
But that's part of it. You as an employer should be able to evaluate your employees' performance on the job so that you can make an assessment as to the value you're getting from those employees. You should either be able to re-negotiate wages etc for unproductive employees, or bring this to their attention at evaluations if you don't feel you're getting your money's worth out of that time that you're renting from them. Any employee that believes they have the "right to hide unproductive behavior at work" is being unethical IMHO.
To claim some extended "right of privacy" is to take a privilege that you have no claim to. It would be like working at a factory, assembling widgets. You're being paid to assemble 500 of them a day. But the widgets you assemble are being tossed into the big bin and there's no way to tell how many you personally assembled. So the boss wants to put a bin in front of each worker, so at the end of the day they can see who's meeting expectations and who's not. And the employees are complaining that it's not fair. Yes it is fair. The employer has as much right to monitor your productivity as you have to monitor the amount deposited into your bank account at the end of the week.
Obviously there are a few rights of privacy that are exceptions to the rule. We don't expect cameras in the rest rooms for example. But that's more a case of civil rights than of anything else. But then you start seeing employees taking advantage of even that, like using the bathroom for frequent extended cigarette breaks. IMHO people that try to cheat the system and use basic civil protections for personal gain deserve to get fired.
It's funny to read people crying "Slavery!" We're talking employment-at-will here. Don't like the deal you're getting? Go somewhere else. BIG difference.
And I'm just astounded to see the email thing. You're using company property and company paid for services on company time to do unproductive, un-business-related activities. NO, NO, and NO You don't have that right. Nobody told you that you had that right, you should have no expectation of that right unless you're one of those pathetic people that believe they're entitled to everything they need to be happy. If I'm paying you by the hour to assemble widgets, and you stop working for awhile to do personal business at work I have the right to clock your ass out while you're doing personal activities at the very least, and to have a talking to you at your next review about your unproductive behavior, since some of what I give you is "overhead" that is irrespective of your productivity. i.e. Lets say you slacked off 100% of the time, as in, got NO work done for me. So I giv
The narrow data connector is usually right beside the wider but very similar looking data connector on most sata drives now. (100% of laptop drives, about 90% of desktop drives) So the provision seems to be there for power, just in an additional adjacent connector.
Does esata provide power? USB power (1-2) sucks, and nobody seems to want to use firewire which is awesome for providing power. Maybe they just need to change the data format.
I recently bought an out-of-contract iphone 3G, and have gotten around to getting it jailbroken and unlocked, and will be looking around this weekend for a carrier. Does this mean that if I say, sign up with iwireless, in a month Apple can do something to my iphone that makes it no longer usable with iwireless? (or brick it?) It would seem that once you're out of your plan and especially not even the original owner that signed away any rights, that they wouldn't have the legal right to do this? Just because you manufactured it doesn't entitle you to mess with it down the road after it's hit the open market?
mainly the need to be thin. The proc and gpu generally define the thickness of a notebook. They're a fixed height already, are on top of the mobo, and have the heatsink and keyboard on top of them. Add to that the thickness of the bottom case, and there's your notebook. Even the really low profile sockets will add over 1/8" to the overall thickness of the computer.
But then for the larger notebooks that don't much care about being thin, there's really no excuse.
I worked for a phone store a few years back, and some of our motorola models(with miniUSB jack) could only be charged using motorola brand chargers because of currency issues.
And ipods/iphones are the same way. Sneaky drop resistors tweaking the voltage specs on the lines. (nothing digital, just a very basic analog "signature") But they did appear to have a legitimate reason for doing it, it communicates the amount of current the ipod can safely try to draw from the charger, allowing for both aftermarket quick and slow chargers without adding a lot of complexity/cost. (usb communications)
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In other news, SCO still has customers.
I'm still in awe of the powers of positive thinking that all three of them are capable of...
you are subjected to the same rules
Rules don't just apply everywhere, they have to state where they apply.
Now we're assuming their rules say "ALL planes", and then that would include private jets, and I'm ok with that, but why does the rule have to include private jets?
I'm not arguing about the enforcement, but rather about the rule. Isn't it reasonable to assume owners of private jets are assuming responsibility for their own security against their passengers trying to hijack them?
Really, anymore if kids want to cheat they're going to. However, in math it's a wee bit difficult so long as you require them to show their work for the solution. If they're going to spend their entire time cheating, they're paying themselves to remain stupid so... Let them I guess.
Only problem there is it harms the credibility of your school. A diploma from a school that is known to ignore cheaters loses value against one from a school that fights cheating and makes their students earn their grades.
But addressing some other posts, jamming is not a perfect option. One method of wireless cheating is asking questions over IM via your cell phone, and you can't legally jam cell phone traffic. The faraday cage idea is probably the best to prevent external resourcing, but doesn't address student-to-student collaboration during the test. Savvy students could set up an ad-hoc chat room with each other during the test, breaking it up into questions each knew best, providing the group with answers, and make out like bandits. So you'd almost need a combination of the two... good faraday cage and jamming of wifi and cell within the cage. (which should be legal as long as the cage holds in the cell jamming?)
ok attention getter subject line. BUT... did you notice, very close to 100% of the cats in the video had completely white fur? There were a couple all non-white I spotted, and several with dark patches such as head or feet, but the rest, all white.
Maybe they figured white cat hair would be easier to clean up after tho. I have a pair of ocicats myself, and let me tell you, striped hairs show up on anything. (thank god they don't shed much)
well it was flight testing after all. you're gonna lawn-dart a few drones from time to time.
I'd like to have seen more details on the why and how though... good bet it was at landing or takeoff. I've smashed up my model heli numerous times that way. I've only mortared it twice. Flying, meh. Takeoff, not too bad. Landing, can be quite tricky.
And never forget, takeoff is compulsory, but landing is mandatory. ;)
It's not "treason" when your country desires it
But that hinges on what you define as "your ountry"... so, is it what the government desires, or what its citizens desire?
Naturally, the government would have it be the former, tho I prefer the latter.
Not that it's surprising that this happens, but it is a bit surprising that our "diplomats" are allowed to sign agreements that our own court system has already determined to be illegal. Though in this instance it appears they're not just signing off on it, but pushing for it.
Should try them for treason when they get back stateside ;)
I was surprised at the bumping the first ball got without tilting. And that player held the ball a lot more than the 2nd player/ball. Got boring after that for me tho so that was my limit.
I got a cheap home pinball machine one year for christmas. I thought the name was "flying circus" but looking around I don't see it. The scoreboard was analog - it was a giant wheel numbered 1-100 around its circumference, and showed the score by showing a small patch of the dial at the top. Every time you hit a ramp or a bumper bell a server would kick the dial another position and ring a bell.
Very basic game, but I quickly got good enough at it to play almost indefinitely on a ball. Over time though, the contacts on the ramps got dirty and the balls started to rust so it didn't keep score nearly so well anymore. Still fun to play though.
that's actually a very nice idea. drive to a mall or shopping area for an afternoon of shopping, parking in the lower level of a parking garage. (no signal) Have some friend lift it off the car (with gloves etc) while you shop and get tagged by video cameras all over the mall. Mail it to said FBI office in a box lined with aluminum foil that will force them to call in the bomb squad to open it since it won't xray clearly (or transmit out while in transit), and then suddenly/finally the PD get an update on the location.... and a phonecall.
Make sure your car's not parked in a spot that's on camera for the garage tho.
For Japanese, base kanji understanding is what,10,000 characters, fairly high comprehension is upwards of 40,000. (I thought I read somewhere there's over 70,000 in all?) That's just way too much. The written language is just too out of date to use.
Japanese has Kanji and then Kana. I assume Kanji is on par with written chinese for character count, with kana simplified basically as phonetic, and is what, 46 characters? Funny thing there though, newspapers etc written in kana are considered somewhat embarrassing to be seen reading, they assume you're dumb because you don't know your kanji. But that's where it needs to be going. The time of needing to know 40,000 different characters to read and write fluently in a language is OVER. (someone please correct me here where needed, my memory on these numbers is very fuzzy) I also recall reading somewhere that characters require usually between 4 and 7 keystrokes to draw a character, but those represent entire words, not letters, so typing speed I suppose is about on par, it just requires a good chunk of memory.
Does chinese even have a phonetic variation for written language?
Tho I'm sure they'll ultimately pin the blame on the driver or whoever was doing the refueling, i wonder what really caused it?
So we're basically dealing with misappropriation and and sale of trade secrets here? (selling privileged information that he was almost certainly bound by NDA or similar on)
Then, if we find a tracker attached to our vehicle,
is it ours? What's the law regarding when someone abandons their possessions on your property?
If I found one of these on my vehicle, then I can take possession of it? Didn't someone recently get into the press for finding such a device and ebaying it? iirc the police or whoever contacted ebay and got the auction taken down. I didn't see what happened after that.
but how does that compare with taxes on that much money, considering this guy's tax bracket, if he were to just have it in savings?
tho of course good investments would be the place to put it. but most of those are tracked. Pretty much anytime you have taxable income anywhere, be it savings or investments, someone's going to catch you.
I see his mother put up the deed to her house for his bond, for whenever he manages to meet the judges's requirements. (specifically, that all money he stashed in foreign accounts get moved back to the USA)
from TFA:
Prosecutors say that Devine shared confidential information on Apple products such as the iPod and iPhone in exchange for cash kickbacks. He allegedly provided suppliers with projected sales figures, data on how much it cost Apple to produce the products, and pricing bids from supply chain competitors.
This looks a lot more like "corporate espionage" than "kickbacks". I usually consider kickbacks to mean that he accepted bribes from clients for favoritism. But this guy was basically getting paid to spy on his employer and provide intelligence.
speaking of gold, just how does printer ink compare for price, ounce for ounce, with gold?
And really, how much can it cost to make the stuff? It's little wonder that with such an insane profit margin that they get litigious, they have all the money in the world to play patent bully and feed their sharks.
Problem is everybody thinks that he's the king and the rest is wasting time.
And some of us are right about it. I'd be willing to bet my paycheck double or nothing here every single week that I'm on-task a higher percentage of the day than anyone else in the building.
the Kirk Enterprise.
To say nothing of the movies
And in Voyager, a time traveling antagonist was an ongoing part of the plot for quite some time
I realize the opinion isn't going to be popular around here, but I do agree with you. And I'm not a business owner, I'm just a pain ol employee.
As far as I see the arrangement, you're paying me for a portion of my available time, with expectations to accomplish work for you. You're expecting to get a specific value for your money you pay me, and really, you're "renting my time". With few exceptions, I expect you to have the right to monitor this time I spend working for you, to insure you're getting treated fairly.
I work in a small business, and I'm fairly sure I'm the most dedicated worker there. I come to work on time, do my job, and go home. During that time, I see people watching TV, browsing web pages (some of them almost constantly), stepping out for "social hour" to have long cigarette breaks in groups, playing flash games, etc. I don't do that, and I don't consider it fair to the company that they do it. Part of it I assume is I get paid more for my specific job, so you might say I have less reason to grumble about it since I'm being compensated more for the higher quality of work I provide. It still irks me a little bit, but I suppose I just need to let it go, since technically they're being treated as fairly as I am.
But that's part of it. You as an employer should be able to evaluate your employees' performance on the job so that you can make an assessment as to the value you're getting from those employees. You should either be able to re-negotiate wages etc for unproductive employees, or bring this to their attention at evaluations if you don't feel you're getting your money's worth out of that time that you're renting from them. Any employee that believes they have the "right to hide unproductive behavior at work" is being unethical IMHO.
To claim some extended "right of privacy" is to take a privilege that you have no claim to. It would be like working at a factory, assembling widgets. You're being paid to assemble 500 of them a day. But the widgets you assemble are being tossed into the big bin and there's no way to tell how many you personally assembled. So the boss wants to put a bin in front of each worker, so at the end of the day they can see who's meeting expectations and who's not. And the employees are complaining that it's not fair. Yes it is fair. The employer has as much right to monitor your productivity as you have to monitor the amount deposited into your bank account at the end of the week.
Obviously there are a few rights of privacy that are exceptions to the rule. We don't expect cameras in the rest rooms for example. But that's more a case of civil rights than of anything else. But then you start seeing employees taking advantage of even that, like using the bathroom for frequent extended cigarette breaks. IMHO people that try to cheat the system and use basic civil protections for personal gain deserve to get fired.
It's funny to read people crying "Slavery!" We're talking employment-at-will here. Don't like the deal you're getting? Go somewhere else. BIG difference.
And I'm just astounded to see the email thing. You're using company property and company paid for services on company time to do unproductive, un-business-related activities. NO, NO, and NO You don't have that right. Nobody told you that you had that right, you should have no expectation of that right unless you're one of those pathetic people that believe they're entitled to everything they need to be happy. If I'm paying you by the hour to assemble widgets, and you stop working for awhile to do personal business at work I have the right to clock your ass out while you're doing personal activities at the very least, and to have a talking to you at your next review about your unproductive behavior, since some of what I give you is "overhead" that is irrespective of your productivity. i.e. Lets say you slacked off 100% of the time, as in, got NO work done for me. So I giv
Also the danger that the drive actually breaks is relatively low.
Citation Needed
(seeing as this is a very new application of the technology, just making sure you're not pulling that out of your arse)
The narrow data connector is usually right beside the wider but very similar looking data connector on most sata drives now. (100% of laptop drives, about 90% of desktop drives) So the provision seems to be there for power, just in an additional adjacent connector.
Does esata provide power? USB power (1-2) sucks, and nobody seems to want to use firewire which is awesome for providing power. Maybe they just need to change the data format.
I recently bought an out-of-contract iphone 3G, and have gotten around to getting it jailbroken and unlocked, and will be looking around this weekend for a carrier. Does this mean that if I say, sign up with iwireless, in a month Apple can do something to my iphone that makes it no longer usable with iwireless? (or brick it?) It would seem that once you're out of your plan and especially not even the original owner that signed away any rights, that they wouldn't have the legal right to do this? Just because you manufactured it doesn't entitle you to mess with it down the road after it's hit the open market?
This is no different than if your PCIe controller died. You can't replace that. You don't want a socketed BGA.
I repair computers for a living.
Better than 50% of the repairs I do are to replace failing/failed hard drives.
Irreplaceable mass storage is a really bad idea
Number of bad PCIe controllers I've ran into: 0
mainly the need to be thin. The proc and gpu generally define the thickness of a notebook. They're a fixed height already, are on top of the mobo, and have the heatsink and keyboard on top of them. Add to that the thickness of the bottom case, and there's your notebook. Even the really low profile sockets will add over 1/8" to the overall thickness of the computer.
But then for the larger notebooks that don't much care about being thin, there's really no excuse.
I worked for a phone store a few years back, and some of our motorola models(with miniUSB jack) could only be charged using motorola brand chargers because of currency issues.
And ipods/iphones are the same way. Sneaky drop resistors tweaking the voltage specs on the lines. (nothing digital, just a very basic analog "signature") But they did appear to have a legitimate reason for doing it, it communicates the amount of current the ipod can safely try to draw from the charger, allowing for both aftermarket quick and slow chargers without adding a lot of complexity/cost. (usb communications)