Look for an exit, now. They'll be looking for an excuse to can you and be collecting evidence to withhold benefits (or even sue you if they can). Fortunately, if it comes to a court case, evidence does matter, so have some hard copy offsite backups of anything you might need.
his first instinct is to pass the blame to the subordinate. If it were not for email, it would simply become a he-said/she-said loop, with the manager always winning, simply because they are more trusted due to their title.
When my boss would claim he'd told me something, but I recalled the opposite, and I proved it by quoting his email, he just yelled louder and blamed me more. Since he was actually the owner of the company, there was no appeal. Eventually of course I quit. Rationality and evidence don't count for a lot with many people in management (or government).
Ask anyone (especially an American) whether they'd give up TV for the rest of their lives for $1,000,000. I doubt you'd find many "yes" answers
I watch TV at least 20 hours a week. I'd take the million in a moment.
Lots of ways to fill my time. Books. Cinema. Theatre. Music. Sport. Travel. Sex. Restaurants. Alcohol. Drugs. Education....
Anyway, The Sopranos is finished, 24 has jumped the shark. About the only thing I'd really miss is Doctor Who, but I got through the last 18 year hiatus. So, yes, sign me up.
The surveys are paid for by major corporations and governments and health organisations.
Governments determine policies, and corporations design products and price points based on the data within the surveys.
However, this survey was designed to get "Carphone Warehouse" mentioned for free in articles like the one linked. What actions or policies, pray tell, could a government, or company, take based on the results of this "survey"? It's just a stunt designed to get publicity, nothing more.
Maybe they realised it was an idiotic question, that no one would give them a penny to give up their phone, let alone a million pounds, so they gave whatever answer seemed more amusing.
Except in.au the phonebook is indeed copyrighted. The main telco Telstra and their information services arm Sensis have successfully shutdown businesses selling phonebooks on CD. I'm not sure of any legal cases, but at least one network has claimed their TV listings are copyright as well
I find this hard to believe. Did they actually win a court ruling, or just intimidate with legal threats?
As for "claim", businesses "claim" lots of things they have no right to.
stations here have said they won't make this info freely available, and we can't scrape it as its copyrighted information.
You can't copyright information. Court cases in various countries have found that telephone listings, and databases in general lack the qualities (creativity, basically) to be copyrightable. Online, Google scrapes news sites, lots of sites scrape eBay. Summarising information, especially not-for-profit, is generally accepted as fair use even if the original information is copyright. Of course,large companies can still threaten you with lawyers regardless of merit.
I don't doubt it. My point was that it's not a novel idea, lots of peopel have done it before.
However, as a side note, I once suggested as a small child (perhaps 7 or 8) that it only made sense for the world to go completely to electronic currency. I kept trying to convince adults that physical currency is not only inconvenient, but it is easier to steal, and harder to track.
To the contrary, I think electronic currency is frighteningly easy to steal. And why do I want my spending tracked?
I saw a story on CNN about a guy who paid his yearly taxes with a huge truck and pennies.
I've heard that story a dozen times in my life. But in most countries, the creditor could refuse to accept them. Eg, in the US 1 cent coins are only "legal tender" for amounts not exceeding
25 cents.
In Hong Kong lots of shops are refusing 10 and 20 cent coins ($1US = $7.8 HK), because the banks charge a handling fee to deposit them. Stored payment cards are in common use, for almost all public transport, now being extended to convenience stores.
Regardless of scoring points in the OS/browser pissing competitions, I'd just like to know what OS and browser are vulnerable, so I know whether I personally have to worry about this.
The summary and linked articles don't even say that. Only Panda's MPack report, a dozen pages in, starts to list the actual vulnerabilities targetted. Which are IE, WMP and one Opera bug. However, the malware is actually modular in which new vulnerabilities can be plugged in, so this isn't static, and they say new versions come out about once a month.
Nevertheless, unless the WMP vulnerability works on multiple browsers, it's just Windows IE (duh) and Opera. No mention of Linux, Mac or Firefox I saw.
Doesn't #3 bother anyone else? It is explicit instructions on how to commit insurance fraud. If I were Dell management, I'd want it taken down for that reason alone. ( How would you feel if someone posted your bank password on the net, thus enabling any reader to defraud you? )
Yes, it's dishonest, but it's not at all comparable to exposing a bank password. It's more like saying "you can stuff a packet of smokes in your pocket at a supermarket and sneak out without paying". Dishonest, but anyone who was dishonest enough to do it can work that out for themself. Also, I think insurance companies will notice if you make pattern of making much claims, like shoplifting it's not risk free.
I tend to agree with Crichton's stance. Global warming is real. Humans are part of the cause. We just don't know how much or how, and taking drastic action in the wrong direction because nobody can get funding to look in other directions is incredibly stupid. This whole attitude of "if you don't agree with this model of global warming you are being paid off" needs to stop so real science can start
Crichton's book dramatised the view that climate science was all being influenced by some conspiracy of greenies/commies/whatever. It was a thriller, as credible as anythng Tom Clancy has produced. For people, like the president of Poland, to explicitly cite this is shocking. I love SF, but given a real world problem, I have to go with science, not fiction.
As for "so the real science can start"? The last two decades has seen thousands of real scientists doing real science. The "deniers" now can't say there is no evidence, they resort to claiming it's being produced by a sinister conspiracy out to destroy capitalism. They accuse climatologists of persecuting anyone who doesn't follow the (Green/Red) party line. No evidence is given of this, just bloggers and politicans all endlessly quoting each other trying to talk up a controversy.
He might have more expertise in these matters than you know.
He's also a politician, and he quotes Michael Crichton as an authority. He can't find an actual scientist to quote? Of course, they're all part of the Vast Anti-carbon Conspiracy. So can we rebut "State of Fear" with "The Day After Tomorrow"? At least the latter didn't pretend it was anything but fantasy.
Why not just ask actual questions?
Big db of easy questions, sets of which are rotated often.
No matter how "big" the set, in a few days or weeks at the most, enough will have been collected and solved and sold to spammers to make them useless. Even a million questions would be fairly trivial to collect and defeat.
they might as well just start folding their money into paper airplanes and throw em into Redmond
Duh. Microsoft is paying them, not vice-versa.
Microsoft and LG did not release financial terms of the deal, but said in a press release that Microsoft would make a "net balancing" payment to LG and MicroConnect for patents related to operating systems and computer systems.
So while this story has been posted twice, there has been no meaningful discussion of an interesting topic. So - do I blame the editors for grammar/dupe problems, or the community for failing to look past some minor annoyances and actually talk about what is going on here?
This illustrates I think why Slashdot's editorial sloppiness does matter. Their mistakes attract attention and irritate, more as time goes on. I went through a phase of trying to get them to correct their errors (spelling, factual, etc) but realised, like everyone else, that they just don't care. So now I just ridicule them or ignore them, depending on how I feel at the time.
But anyway, there are 414 comments on the first story. It's rather an exaggeration to claim there is "no meaningful discussion" amongst that. Just page down once or twice to get past the first-posters and such.
AFAIK Corel PhotoPaint, Ulead PhotoImpact and PaintShop Pro don't have PhotoShop's Healing Brush....
Fine. If you define "alternative" as meaning "having every single feature exactly the same" then there is no alternative. Save as the MSOffice weenies will never try anything else because of some VB macro they MUST have.
I thought we were talking about tools that can produce professional graphics. Of which there are many, and probably even including the Gimp as so many advocate.
Adobe is moving into having a monopoly on graphic design applications
But you don't have to have the latest verion of everything. You can get "obsolete" versions of Photoshop very very cheap.
Adobe itself offers capable alternatives to Phoitoshop: PhotoShop Elements, PhotoDeluxe, with less power than current version of PhotoShop, but file compatible with it and capable of just about any real world task.
Alternatives to Illustrator: CorelDraw, Freehand.
All these apps are capable of outputting files for professional printing -- I've done it.
Photoshop is like MS Office; years ago it had more features than one could learn. People just think they have to have the latest and greatest. Hardly anyone actually uses the new features, no matter how cool they seem in the demos.
Pardon my naivety, but exactly what is so "immoral" about it? I've never really understood that. "I've got a radio station. You've got a song. Let's talk." Seems perfectly natural to me.
Natural, yes. Immoral, yes. They were (are) lying to their listeners, by saying that particular songs are popular. The various "Top-XX" are supposedly of sales, or requests from listeners. When in fact their rankings were often simply purchased by the record companies.
If you say no harm was done, consider that artists and companies that didn't pay such payola never got on air, got very little publicity, and often went out of business. And the audience missed out on hearing the best music.
It's a lot like a restaurant supplier who gives a backhander to a restaurant buyer to order from him. Will the patrons get the best food? How does an honest supplier break in to the business?
And the problem with Cambodia was that we stopped the bombing -- hence the Khmer Rogue took over, and countless people were killed.
Well, it's also possible that Lon Nol already weak, lost his legitimacy completely because he was seen as complicit in the bombing. But North Vietnam was pushing hard anyway, Cambodia was probably doomed regardless of American actions.
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Look for an exit, now. They'll be looking for an excuse to can you and be collecting evidence to withhold benefits (or even sue you if they can). Fortunately, if it comes to a court case, evidence does matter, so have some hard copy offsite backups of anything you might need.
When my boss would claim he'd told me something, but I recalled the opposite, and I proved it by quoting his email, he just yelled louder and blamed me more. Since he was actually the owner of the company, there was no appeal. Eventually of course I quit. Rationality and evidence don't count for a lot with many people in management (or government).
I watch TV at least 20 hours a week. I'd take the million in a moment.
Lots of ways to fill my time. Books. Cinema. Theatre. Music. Sport. Travel. Sex. Restaurants. Alcohol. Drugs. Education....
Anyway, The Sopranos is finished, 24 has jumped the shark. About the only thing I'd really miss is Doctor Who, but I got through the last 18 year hiatus. So, yes, sign me up.
However, this survey was designed to get "Carphone Warehouse" mentioned for free in articles like the one linked. What actions or policies, pray tell, could a government, or company, take based on the results of this "survey"? It's just a stunt designed to get publicity, nothing more.
Maybe they realised it was an idiotic question, that no one would give them a penny to give up their phone, let alone a million pounds, so they gave whatever answer seemed more amusing.
I find this hard to believe. Did they actually win a court ruling, or just intimidate with legal threats?
As for "claim", businesses "claim" lots of things they have no right to.
You can't copyright information. Court cases in various countries have found that telephone listings, and databases in general lack the qualities (creativity, basically) to be copyrightable. Online, Google scrapes news sites, lots of sites scrape eBay. Summarising information, especially not-for-profit, is generally accepted as fair use even if the original information is copyright. Of course,large companies can still threaten you with lawyers regardless of merit.
I don't doubt it. My point was that it's not a novel idea, lots of peopel have done it before.
However, as a side note, I once suggested as a small child (perhaps 7 or 8) that it only made sense for the world to go completely to electronic currency. I kept trying to convince adults that physical currency is not only inconvenient, but it is easier to steal, and harder to track.
To the contrary, I think electronic currency is frighteningly easy to steal. And why do I want my spending tracked?
I've heard that story a dozen times in my life. But in most countries, the creditor could refuse to accept them. Eg, in the US 1 cent coins are only "legal tender" for amounts not exceeding 25 cents.
In Hong Kong lots of shops are refusing 10 and 20 cent coins ($1US = $7.8 HK), because the banks charge a handling fee to deposit them. Stored payment cards are in common use, for almost all public transport, now being extended to convenience stores.
The summary and linked articles don't even say that. Only Panda's MPack report, a dozen pages in, starts to list the actual vulnerabilities targetted. Which are IE, WMP and one Opera bug. However, the malware is actually modular in which new vulnerabilities can be plugged in, so this isn't static, and they say new versions come out about once a month.
Nevertheless, unless the WMP vulnerability works on multiple browsers, it's just Windows IE (duh) and Opera. No mention of Linux, Mac or Firefox I saw.
Yes, it's dishonest, but it's not at all comparable to exposing a bank password. It's more like saying "you can stuff a packet of smokes in your pocket at a supermarket and sneak out without paying". Dishonest, but anyone who was dishonest enough to do it can work that out for themself. Also, I think insurance companies will notice if you make pattern of making much claims, like shoplifting it's not risk free.
Crichton's book dramatised the view that climate science was all being influenced by some conspiracy of greenies/commies/whatever. It was a thriller, as credible as anythng Tom Clancy has produced. For people, like the president of Poland, to explicitly cite this is shocking. I love SF, but given a real world problem, I have to go with science, not fiction.
As for "so the real science can start"? The last two decades has seen thousands of real scientists doing real science. The "deniers" now can't say there is no evidence, they resort to claiming it's being produced by a sinister conspiracy out to destroy capitalism. They accuse climatologists of persecuting anyone who doesn't follow the (Green/Red) party line. No evidence is given of this, just bloggers and politicans all endlessly quoting each other trying to talk up a controversy.
He's also a politician, and he quotes Michael Crichton as an authority. He can't find an actual scientist to quote? Of course, they're all part of the Vast Anti-carbon Conspiracy. So can we rebut "State of Fear" with "The Day After Tomorrow"? At least the latter didn't pretend it was anything but fantasy.
See here for commentary on State of Fear
The rationale for the fuel tax is to pay for road construction and repair, approximating a mileage tax, retardless of what kind of fuel you use.
Install filter before logs are made. Problem solved.
Filtering a log pretty much makes it useless as evidence. Though the Feds can just disappear you regardless of legal procedure these days.
RTFA. I'm not going to paste it in for you, but it is explained.
No matter how "big" the set, in a few days or weeks at the most, enough will have been collected and solved and sold to spammers to make them useless. Even a million questions would be fairly trivial to collect and defeat.
Duh. Microsoft is paying them, not vice-versa.
This illustrates I think why Slashdot's editorial sloppiness does matter. Their mistakes attract attention and irritate, more as time goes on. I went through a phase of trying to get them to correct their errors (spelling, factual, etc) but realised, like everyone else, that they just don't care. So now I just ridicule them or ignore them, depending on how I feel at the time.
But anyway, there are 414 comments on the first story. It's rather an exaggeration to claim there is "no meaningful discussion" amongst that. Just page down once or twice to get past the first-posters and such.
The discussion about the topic is in the original post. The dupe is the meta-discussion.
Fine. If you define "alternative" as meaning "having every single feature exactly the same" then there is no alternative. Save as the MSOffice weenies will never try anything else because of some VB macro they MUST have.
I thought we were talking about tools that can produce professional graphics. Of which there are many, and probably even including the Gimp as so many advocate.
Adobe is moving into having a monopoly on graphic design applications
Obviously. That wasn't the question though.
Bollocks.
Corel Photopaint. Ulead PhotoImpact. Paintshop Pro.
But you don't have to have the latest verion of everything. You can get "obsolete" versions of Photoshop very very cheap.
Adobe itself offers capable alternatives to Phoitoshop: PhotoShop Elements, PhotoDeluxe, with less power than current version of PhotoShop, but file compatible with it and capable of just about any real world task.
Alternatives to Illustrator: CorelDraw, Freehand.
All these apps are capable of outputting files for professional printing -- I've done it.
Photoshop is like MS Office; years ago it had more features than one could learn. People just think they have to have the latest and greatest. Hardly anyone actually uses the new features, no matter how cool they seem in the demos.
Natural, yes. Immoral, yes. They were (are) lying to their listeners, by saying that particular songs are popular. The various "Top-XX" are supposedly of sales, or requests from listeners. When in fact their rankings were often simply purchased by the record companies.
If you say no harm was done, consider that artists and companies that didn't pay such payola never got on air, got very little publicity, and often went out of business. And the audience missed out on hearing the best music.
It's a lot like a restaurant supplier who gives a backhander to a restaurant buyer to order from him. Will the patrons get the best food? How does an honest supplier break in to the business?
I thought the point of GPL was that you can't stop anyone using it.
Well, it's also possible that Lon Nol already weak, lost his legitimacy completely because he was seen as complicit in the bombing. But North Vietnam was pushing hard anyway, Cambodia was probably doomed regardless of American actions.