Yeah I agree. Why is it okay for employers to post a job listing, when they know they're going to remove you from your position, and yet it's not okay the other way around? Foul play.
You should be able to quit on the spot with whatever termination package you were entitled to in the first place or lay off status.
But that's not the question to ask. The question to ask is, if your employer posts a job listing for your job, are you allowed to quit? Unless your under a contract, the answer is yes. So, why should employees be allowed to terminate the relationship when employers post their job, but employers aren't allowed to terminate the relationship when an employee posts a resume?
The most serious design flaw of the C64 was the fact that you needed one of those! The PETs didn't have that problem. I always attributed the slower disk speed of the C64 to the fact that it was connected via a serial port vs. the parallel IEEE-488 interface on the PET. But the existence of the Fastload cartridge and software that did the same thing revealed that basically, the designers of the C64 serial bus simply screwed up. The C64 was a good machine, but it would have been an EXCELLENT machine if it didn't suffer from that one design flaw.
Commodore PET in 1978.. It belonged to a friend's dad.. I was completely taken with it, and so wished I could have something like that..
Same here. My dad was a teacher and he took an 8 week computer course during which time he was able to take the computer home with him. It was an 8K PET Model 2001, which a cassette drive built right in, beside the too small keyboard. One of my happiest memories from childhood was playing Adventure on that computer. It was awful when he had to bring it back.
A few years later the schools in our district bought PET 4032 computers, and my dad was able to bring one home on the odd weekend. I remember how thrilling it was when he first brought home a disk drive and I could fit all the games I had on about a dozen tapes onto two floppy disks. And it was amazing how much faster they loaded.
When we finally bought a C64, I was blown away by the graphics and sound and its gaming capability in general (I never went back to my Atari 2600), but I also remember being disappointed in how slow the disk drive was compared to the PET.
Although the poster doesn't mention the country where they are located, it might be useful to note that the First Sale Doctrine in the United States means that libraries don't have to pay any royalty or PLR fee to lend books at all. So, if you're in the US, anyone can start up a library.
Actually, Evergreen, which the parent was recommending is backed by the free PostgreSQL database, rather than Oracle. My university library recently switched from Voyager to an Evergreen derived system for that very reason.
But all of that said... the books have to be in order and the card catalog has to be accurate. If people are going to procrastinate about organizing the books until the software is installed then do it backwards. But that's way more important then the database. A library with the books out of order is dysfunctional unless it's tiny.
Actually, the software can help tremendously in getting the books in order. Most ILS systems have the capability to download MARC records for all the books, which automates the process of cataloguing. Good software will not only print the barcode stickers, but also the catalog stickers for the spine of the book, which you then use in shelving.
And do blanket filtering. never trust input. always filter to extreme, as long as you can get away with it. as much as you can get away with it.
And remember, filtering input is only half the story. The other half is to harden the server itself by using a good, solid, external hardware firewall, and being careful to run only those services which are absolutely essential. And make sure all those services are patched and up to date. It does no good to harden your web app in the extreme if you're running an old and buggy ssh server on the same system.
As do I. All these nut bags that refuse to use their signals are a danger on the road.
Turn signals are dangerous. They provide your adversaries with advance notice of your intention; it's much better to take them by surprise. (I came to understand this when I lived in Boston.)
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination." (Lev 8:22)
How do we know that when God said "lie" he didn't mean not tell the truth, as in: it's okay to lie to a woman (eg. "That dress doesn't make you look fat") but it's not okay to lie to a man ("I'll mail you a check for the money I owe you.").
In fact there isn't much evidence that the biblical verse in question had anything to do with homosexuality at all.
Reading the CNN article you link to, I see the following quote: "It would apply to hands-free as well as hand-held devices, but devices installed in the vehicle by the manufacturer would be allowed, the NTSB said." So it appears only devices installed by the manufacturer are exempt.
Whether or not the NTSB has jurisdiction to pass such a regulation is another matter. I thought the states regulated traffic rules, not the federal government. I could be wrong as IANAL.
"The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior."
http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556
Yeah. Whoda thunk cattle rustling was against the law?
.. they were lost by the 10% of commuters stupid enough to lose an USB stick.
Why is this modded troll? Is it unreasonable to assume there might be some correlation between those people who are less careful with possessions and those who are less careful about encryption/malware, etc.? I'm not suggesting that it is impossible for a very careful person to drop something or have it fall through an unknown hole in the pocket, but at the same time, I don't think it is unreasonable to suspect that a population of those who left their USB sticks on the subway aren't necessarily perfectly representative of the population of USB stick users as a whole.
Imagine if it were illegal to reformat your harddrive on your PC.
It's not really a fair comparison. When you buy a hard drive, you are generally buying the actual hard drive. But when you buy software, you aren't usually buying the software, but rather a license to use the software, and the license can include terms which may prohibit modification of the software or using a modified version of the software.
Many of the hardware devices we buy, such as smart phones and video game consoles, contain a good deal of sophisticated software or firmware (which is just software stored in some form of semi-permanent storage, such as flash memory or ROM chips). When you buy such a device, you are buying hardware, as well as a license to use the included software or firmware often under the condition that the software not be modified by the end user. This is where many of the physical good analogies break down.
Makes me wonder whether or not we'd be using as many Windows machines had the government allowed AT&T to sell and market Unix.
No. Windows got ahead because it was designed primarily as a platform for running high level applications, such as word processors and spreadsheets, by single users on microcomputers rather than being designed as a multi-user, general purpose platform for programmers and other users who could invest a little more time in learning their way around the operating system. Also, Windows was backwards compatible with an operating system (DOS) which ran on older computers that did not have the hardware resources to support a full, multi-user operating system (x86 processors before the 80386 did not have the memory protection features necessary for a multi-user operating system). Microsoft got in early with DOS on the PCs, and kept their lead going forward through backward compatibility and name recognition.
The first computer games I ever played were TPUG tapes full of games for the Commodore PET computer. Years before the Commodore 64, I first learned programming on a Commodore PET model 2001 with 8K of RAM and a cassette tape drive built right into the unit. A few years later, all the schools in our area acquired PET 4032 computers for the computer science classes, and my dad, who was a teacher, used to bring one home for the holidays. I still remember how exciting it was when he brought home a Commodore 2031 disk drive for the first time, and I bought my first floppy disk. (Yes they were sold singly back then!) I fit the contents of all my old TPUG tapes on two floppies!
We had a local chapter in my home town of Windsor called PEG (for PET Educators Group), and I remember attending meetings regularly. One of the most exciting days of my childhood was when we had Jim Butterfield as a guest speaker! Sadly, I heard he passed away a few years ago.
I still remember fondly my days of playing Adventure, Miser, Miner, Space Invaders, Dungeon, and other games on the old PETs. I'm glad to hear TPUG is still around.
Maybe not... The law firm is probably not a HIPAA covered agency.
Which leads to an obvious question: why isn't everyone covered by HIPPA? Okay, not everyone would normally have medical records in their possession, and so they wouldn't run afoul of HIPPA, but why should anyone be able to disclose medical records to the public without permission of the patient? Seems like a rather giant loophole.
Electromagnetism and weak nuclear force have a solid unification theory and supporting experiments since the 70's (and a few nobel prizes as back as '79 at least). Higgs boson is involved in electroweak symmetry breaking, and possibly unification of electroweak with the strong force.
Umm, without a mechanism for symmetry breaking, the current model for electroweak unification doesn't work (the Higgs is ultimately supposed to be responsible for the difference in mass between the photon (massless) and the W and Z particles (massive). The unification of the strong force with the electroweak force is the subject of grand unified theories (GUTs), and has nothing whatsoever to do with the Higgs boson. Proton decay, for instance, would be a signature for a GUT.
The court order isn't directed or served to Facebook.
True. They couldn't be charged with failing to comply with a court order. But if they deleted the account knowing that it's contents were subject to a court order they could certainly be charged with destruction of evidence, which is a felony.
Mod parent up! You're absolutely right. Facebook is an American-based company, and German citizens have to voluntarily visit facebook.com, taking them to the American site, then set up an account, and then supply them with information. That American company shouldn't then be hauled into a German court and ordered to restructure it's website to meet German standards. China doesn't like Facebook's model, so they block the website; they don't try to dictate how Facebook should run its business.
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Yeah I agree. Why is it okay for employers to post a job listing, when they know they're going to remove you from your position, and yet it's not okay the other way around? Foul play.
You should be able to quit on the spot with whatever termination package you were entitled to in the first place or lay off status.
But that's not the question to ask. The question to ask is, if your employer posts a job listing for your job, are you allowed to quit? Unless your under a contract, the answer is yes. So, why should employees be allowed to terminate the relationship when employers post their job, but employers aren't allowed to terminate the relationship when an employee posts a resume?
For the FASTLOAD Cartridge!!!!!
The most serious design flaw of the C64 was the fact that you needed one of those! The PETs didn't have that problem. I always attributed the slower disk speed of the C64 to the fact that it was connected via a serial port vs. the parallel IEEE-488 interface on the PET. But the existence of the Fastload cartridge and software that did the same thing revealed that basically, the designers of the C64 serial bus simply screwed up. The C64 was a good machine, but it would have been an EXCELLENT machine if it didn't suffer from that one design flaw.
Commodore PET in 1978.. It belonged to a friend's dad.. I was completely taken with it, and so wished I could have something like that..
Same here. My dad was a teacher and he took an 8 week computer course during which time he was able to take the computer home with him. It was an 8K PET Model 2001, which a cassette drive built right in, beside the too small keyboard. One of my happiest memories from childhood was playing Adventure on that computer. It was awful when he had to bring it back.
A few years later the schools in our district bought PET 4032 computers, and my dad was able to bring one home on the odd weekend. I remember how thrilling it was when he first brought home a disk drive and I could fit all the games I had on about a dozen tapes onto two floppy disks. And it was amazing how much faster they loaded.
When we finally bought a C64, I was blown away by the graphics and sound and its gaming capability in general (I never went back to my Atari 2600), but I also remember being disappointed in how slow the disk drive was compared to the PET.
But the C64 did give me many years of joy.
It depends where your library lives. Some countries have royalty fee Public Lending Right programs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Lending_Right
Others don't.
Although the poster doesn't mention the country where they are located, it might be useful to note that the First Sale Doctrine in the United States means that libraries don't have to pay any royalty or PLR fee to lend books at all. So, if you're in the US, anyone can start up a library.
Actually, Evergreen, which the parent was recommending is backed by the free PostgreSQL database, rather than Oracle. My university library recently switched from Voyager to an Evergreen derived system for that very reason.
But all of that said... the books have to be in order and the card catalog has to be accurate. If people are going to procrastinate about organizing the books until the software is installed then do it backwards. But that's way more important then the database. A library with the books out of order is dysfunctional unless it's tiny.
Actually, the software can help tremendously in getting the books in order. Most ILS systems have the capability to download MARC records for all the books, which automates the process of cataloguing. Good software will not only print the barcode stickers, but also the catalog stickers for the spine of the book, which you then use in shelving.
And do blanket filtering. never trust input. always filter to extreme, as long as you can get away with it. as much as you can get away with it.
And remember, filtering input is only half the story. The other half is to harden the server itself by using a good, solid, external hardware firewall, and being careful to run only those services which are absolutely essential. And make sure all those services are patched and up to date. It does no good to harden your web app in the extreme if you're running an old and buggy ssh server on the same system.
As do I. All these nut bags that refuse to use their signals are a danger on the road.
Turn signals are dangerous. They provide your adversaries with advance notice of your intention; it's much better to take them by surprise. (I came to understand this when I lived in Boston.)
Fortunately Boston has an awesome subway system.
The main quote on the topic is:
How do we know that when God said "lie" he didn't mean not tell the truth, as in: it's okay to lie to a woman (eg. "That dress doesn't make you look fat") but it's not okay to lie to a man ("I'll mail you a check for the money I owe you.").
In fact there isn't much evidence that the biblical verse in question had anything to do with homosexuality at all.
Cell Phones are banned while driving in Ontario Canada
Same is true in many states. The key difference is this ban would cover hands-free phones as well. I really can't see this passing.
Reading the CNN article you link to, I see the following quote: "It would apply to hands-free as well as hand-held devices, but devices installed in the vehicle by the manufacturer would be allowed, the NTSB said." So it appears only devices installed by the manufacturer are exempt.
Whether or not the NTSB has jurisdiction to pass such a regulation is another matter. I thought the states regulated traffic rules, not the federal government. I could be wrong as IANAL.
Quoting from the VERY article you link to:
"It would apply to hands-free as well as hand-held devices, but devices installed in the vehicle by the manufacturer would be allowed, the NTSB said."
So, hands free devices not installed by the manufacturer of the car would NOT be exempt.
"The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior." http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556
Yeah. Whoda thunk cattle rustling was against the law?
US Senate never ratified the International Criminal Court treaty, so it doesn't apply to US DoD.
And nonsense like that described in this article is part of the reason why.
.. they were lost by the 10% of commuters stupid enough to lose an USB stick.
Why is this modded troll? Is it unreasonable to assume there might be some correlation between those people who are less careful with possessions and those who are less careful about encryption/malware, etc.? I'm not suggesting that it is impossible for a very careful person to drop something or have it fall through an unknown hole in the pocket, but at the same time, I don't think it is unreasonable to suspect that a population of those who left their USB sticks on the subway aren't necessarily perfectly representative of the population of USB stick users as a whole.
Imagine if it were illegal to reformat your harddrive on your PC.
It's not really a fair comparison. When you buy a hard drive, you are generally buying the actual hard drive. But when you buy software, you aren't usually buying the software, but rather a license to use the software, and the license can include terms which may prohibit modification of the software or using a modified version of the software.
Many of the hardware devices we buy, such as smart phones and video game consoles, contain a good deal of sophisticated software or firmware (which is just software stored in some form of semi-permanent storage, such as flash memory or ROM chips). When you buy such a device, you are buying hardware, as well as a license to use the included software or firmware often under the condition that the software not be modified by the end user. This is where many of the physical good analogies break down.
Makes me wonder whether or not we'd be using as many Windows machines had the government allowed AT&T to sell and market Unix.
No. Windows got ahead because it was designed primarily as a platform for running high level applications, such as word processors and spreadsheets, by single users on microcomputers rather than being designed as a multi-user, general purpose platform for programmers and other users who could invest a little more time in learning their way around the operating system. Also, Windows was backwards compatible with an operating system (DOS) which ran on older computers that did not have the hardware resources to support a full, multi-user operating system (x86 processors before the 80386 did not have the memory protection features necessary for a multi-user operating system). Microsoft got in early with DOS on the PCs, and kept their lead going forward through backward compatibility and name recognition.
The first computer games I ever played were TPUG tapes full of games for the Commodore PET computer. Years before the Commodore 64, I first learned programming on a Commodore PET model 2001 with 8K of RAM and a cassette tape drive built right into the unit. A few years later, all the schools in our area acquired PET 4032 computers for the computer science classes, and my dad, who was a teacher, used to bring one home for the holidays. I still remember how exciting it was when he brought home a Commodore 2031 disk drive for the first time, and I bought my first floppy disk. (Yes they were sold singly back then!) I fit the contents of all my old TPUG tapes on two floppies!
We had a local chapter in my home town of Windsor called PEG (for PET Educators Group), and I remember attending meetings regularly. One of the most exciting days of my childhood was when we had Jim Butterfield as a guest speaker! Sadly, I heard he passed away a few years ago.
I still remember fondly my days of playing Adventure, Miser, Miner, Space Invaders, Dungeon, and other games on the old PETs. I'm glad to hear TPUG is still around.
Very interesting hack. It would be perfect for laptops that are used while travelling (watching pr0n during your flight?).
Funny you should mention that given this story was published in CNN today! There might be a market for these things.
Maybe not... The law firm is probably not a HIPAA covered agency.
Which leads to an obvious question: why isn't everyone covered by HIPPA? Okay, not everyone would normally have medical records in their possession, and so they wouldn't run afoul of HIPPA, but why should anyone be able to disclose medical records to the public without permission of the patient? Seems like a rather giant loophole.
Electromagnetism and weak nuclear force have a solid unification theory and supporting experiments since the 70's (and a few nobel prizes as back as '79 at least). Higgs boson is involved in electroweak symmetry breaking, and possibly unification of electroweak with the strong force.
Umm, without a mechanism for symmetry breaking, the current model for electroweak unification doesn't work (the Higgs is ultimately supposed to be responsible for the difference in mass between the photon (massless) and the W and Z particles (massive). The unification of the strong force with the electroweak force is the subject of grand unified theories (GUTs), and has nothing whatsoever to do with the Higgs boson. Proton decay, for instance, would be a signature for a GUT.
The court order isn't directed or served to Facebook.
True. They couldn't be charged with failing to comply with a court order. But if they deleted the account knowing that it's contents were subject to a court order they could certainly be charged with destruction of evidence, which is a felony.
Really. It's version 23 before the year ends.
Why was the parent modded troll? Does anyone actually disagree?
Mod parent up! You're absolutely right. Facebook is an American-based company, and German citizens have to voluntarily visit facebook.com, taking them to the American site, then set up an account, and then supply them with information. That American company shouldn't then be hauled into a German court and ordered to restructure it's website to meet German standards. China doesn't like Facebook's model, so they block the website; they don't try to dictate how Facebook should run its business.
I could do without ym face being recognized as well.
And I could do without German judges deciding how an American based social networking site should be run.