i've had a yahoo account since 1997-98, and it is only in the last three months that spam has started getting through. i use a hotmail account for most signups, yahoo for personal and "legit" stuff (travelocity receipts, etc). now i'm getting about 70 spams/day that are caught by the spam filter, and 4-5 that are missed.
i agree that you don't have the expectation of privacy (as in getting nekkid) in "public" places, but what about the freedom to assemble? which goes with the assumption that you won't be persecuted for assembling in certain places/supporting particular causes. i think the common belief/expectation is that the general public should be able to go where they like in public without fear of being tracked/recorded/stalked/oppressed. i'm gonna be investing in a few balaclavas...
look at the two lists - most of the "best" shows air before 9 pm (or on pax). most of the worst shows air AFTER 9 pm. 9 pm (at least to my knowledge) has always been the "watershed" time - perhaps that is just in the UK - when tv switches over to more adult themes. kids should be in bed or getting ready for it by that time. the more mature programs usually (or used to) kick in at 10.
hint to the PTC to tell parents: turn off the tv at 9!
i'd also take issue with their depiction of everwood - i'm not a viewer but i did watch an episode or two, and i tend to gravitate toward that teen drama type show. just because a show depicts someone acting irresponsibly does not mean there are no consequences; consequences ALWAYS show up cause they make good plot lines when the "irresponsible" behavior comes back to haunt them.
After my friend's car was broken into, I started to back up all of my CDs, so I have the original in the house (where I rarely listen to music, but can pop them in the DVD player or laptop), and the copies in the car. Some of the older albums I haven't backed up, as I rarely listen to them anyway. Sometimes when I rent a car, I'll forget to pop the CD out of the player, so it saves a little there.
And I really wish that I had started backing up DVDs - had my first scratched one a month ago. I work for an automaker, and change cars all of the time; 40% have DVD players in them, and there are 4-5 that I'll take in the car to listen to cause they adapt well with just the soundtrack. Shuffling in and out of the car ruined my copy of "Old School"; if I had done like my friends and bought something to back up the DVD's with, I wouldn't be out the $20 it is going to take to replace it. And I've been unsuccessful in getting DreamWorks to send me a new copy for my "license"...
How about if someone actually knew about the current system?
1) The "black box" keeps track of speed, acceleration, throttle position, gear engaged, brake usage, steering position, seat belt usage, air bag status.
2) It does not monitor stuff such as GPS (*)
3) It keeps five seconds worth of data at any time
4) The most recent 5 seconds are burned to memory in a crash or near crash event (usually when the airbag goes off).
5) Consent is currently an issue, as there are different situations with vehicles. In some cases, the driver is the owner of the vehicle, and would expect to have rights to the data. Insurance companies may question or override those rights (which is a case for the courts).
Other cases: driver is not the owner of the vehicle (friend, child, etc - who owns the data?); leased vehicle - company leasing the vehicle technically owns it, although may not have rights to it while it is under contract to the driver; driver has taken out a loan for the vehicle, so the bank technically owns the vehicle, and will likely be less interested in privacy than the driver.
This is an emerging question (who has rights to the data). There have been a few cases in the US and Canada where EDR (black box) data has been used to determine liability/guilt in auto accidents, so far only involved in homicides (to my knowledge). It may get to the point where users make it available (or refuse to make it available) for all accidents to prove/disprove innocence/guilt. But almost all new vehicles in the US have a similar system installed, if only to collect statistical data on air bag deployment.
(*) There have been trial cases where users voluntarily agreed to add in GPS devices and relay the location information to an insurance company for reduced premiums, but to my knowledge this did not go over well, and is not going on. Rental car companies are moving forward with GPS tracking to ensure vehicles don't leave the state, and I would expect some will begin to impose penalties for speeding/other trackable violations (they're also experimenting with requiring fingerprints, but that is a privacy question for another topic).
i think that kind of falls under "free speech", in that, you can make all the music you want for yourself, but you gots to get permission from the owner to "keep" anything not explictly posted to the public domain.
Apple is perfectly safe, as long as they don't try a "Rip. Mix. Burn." advertising campaign again. Apply this to the auto industry, you wouldn't be able to show cars doing over 65 to sell them. Due in part to the brevity of the bill, it seems to be overbroad...
These days, it is very odd that a company "forgets" to do something, especially if there is a cost involved (such as storage for billions of messages). Even if that cost is only a couple of hundred thousand a year, I find it hard to believe that someone didn't see that they could save some cash by getting rid of the text field after a few days.
Best Buy has (had? not sure) the same problem - a couple of times for road trips, my friends would go in, buy radar detectors, walkie talkies, cd players, etc, use them for the trip, and as long as they are back with the original packaging within 14 days, you get a refund no questions asked. A couple of the things that people liked, they kept, so it wasn't a total loss for Best Buy, but obviously not a great way for them to make money.
What do I do, when as a seller, a user gives negative feedback for an item damaged in the mail? I had pictures of the item before it was shipped (magazine), she sent pics when it was received, and it was obviously damaged in the mail, but I ended up with a "Item didn't meet description, was damaged and not in mint condition" on my record. So now I can make sure buyers choose insurance, or I can start a new ID, cause I will never have 100% again.
As many people point out, is that having a breathalyzer will encourage a number of people to try and get a higher score. Great, if someone else is driving.
Another issue is, the guy who is driving may test and come in at.07 or.09 (just under whatever the local limit is -.08 or.1 in most US states). So he has one more beer and drives everyone home. Gets stopped by the cops and says "Hey, I just tested at the bar, and I was fine." The bar (or whoever provided the test) can end up having some degree of liability for saying the person was "clean".
Also, alcohol isn't immediately recognized, so when the driver blows the.07, 30 minutes later without having another drink could blow a.08 or.95.
It is really just a bad idea. Good for personal use, for the occasional time when you might go out, have a couple of beers and wonder if you're at the limit (usually if you wonder you shouldn't drive), but most of the time you should just find a DD.
HIPAA would prevent this from happening in most cases. The law requires that agreements are in place with any companies/contractors with whom you share protected health information (I'm not sure if those transcripts would be PHI, but I believe they would).
The problem here is with the newness of the law and the size of the company. It looks like the subcontractors being used are all "home-office" type deals that don't know the laws, which say that if you've signed a contract to handle PHI (and not disclose it) and you want to subcontract, you need to get the subcontracting firm to sign a similar document. The people mentioned in the article obviously haven't done that. Also, the article made it sound like the Pakistani woman was pretty much working on her own. When dealing with a larger (or real) company, you can have them sign a contract which would be enforceable in their own country (this is why we have lawyers).
It is not a problem of laws not being enforcable as the article indicates, it is more of understanding the requirements of our laws and getting the right contracts into place that would be enforcable in other countries.
When stores (Radio Shack, Toys R Us, Target) or websites ask for my zip code I give them the one I had growing up on the Air Force base in England... 09238 (now discontinued, but 09237 works for systems checking for active codes). They're usually happy not to enter anything, but I prefer to give them the less obvious answer (the information is supposed to be used to see where to locate new stores... I'm hoping I can confuse them into building one in the North Atlantic).
Also one in downtown Detroit, passed it on the way to lunch on Friday... was odd cause I've walked that way before and never noticed it... will have to go back and take a look. At the corner of Randolph and Congress I think (on the south corner of Congress at the intersection).
I don't remember the last time I bought a DVD and watched it twice a day for 2 weeks, like I have with some of my more favourite recent albums.
Have you tried "Old School"? I bought it when it came out; have a DVD player in my car and listen to it on long trips, at least a couple of times a week (of course, I drive a little more than the average bear). Office Space, Billy Madison, Animal House, Empire Records and other dialog/music intensive movies (that you already know) work well too. And this DOES actually replace my CD usage in the car (might be a little harder at work).
If you look at is as *during the interview* they are presenting themselves to the public, you'll might see my point of view. I totally understand that people tend to work better when they're comfortable (working from home, wearing what they want, not having to worry about asinine rules) - there are just a few occassions when it is appropriate to put on your Sunday best to make an impression. Most of the people at my company wear business causal, upper management wears ties or sport coats, and a few of the more daring engineers wear jeans. It is not an issue unless you're meeting with someone (exteral, clients or for other reasons), and I firmly believe that you want to make the best impression possible in an interview. And if the candidate was truly special and came in underdressed, I'd discuss the issue and see if they could make me understand their point of view. I don't work with anyone that gets "stuck in a darm room" 100% of the time.
(And for the record, I'm much less PHB than Michael Bolton from Office Space with a promotion.)
i even interviewed for my current job in jeans and tshirt
Yeah, but were you told ahead of time that the interview would be casual, or did you just go balls out (so to speak) in what you were comfortable with?
Waaaay back for one of my first interviews out of college (1996), I had an interview with a certain software company where the interviewer showed up in dirty jeans and a t-shirt, with five piercings in his head and a chain going from his pants to the ring in his nose. I was decked out in my Sunday best. He told me he dressed for interviews the same way he dressed for work every day. I thought that was nice, but some notice that "casual" clothing was appropriate would have been nice.
And as a manager now, if someone were to show up for an interview with me without a tie, they've pretty much lost the job, even if the usual dress is casual, unless they've been told otherwise beforehand that dressing formally is unnecessary (if I have to wear a tie, so do you).
According to this more people in the world speak languges OTHER than english
Actually, if you look at the notes on the statistics, they are only the first language speakers in each country.
From a Time article last year:
Mandarin may have the largest number of native speakers (about 800 million), but English, with 1.9 billion speakers--including some 350 million native speakers--is far and away the largest global lingua franca. The next largest, Spanish, claims 450 million competent speakers worldwide, while French is spoken by a mere 130 million. The most vital statistic is that some 1.5 billion people around the globe speak English as a second language. "It has become the working language of the global village," says ESU chairman Lord Alan Watson.
For native speakers, Chinese wins. For overall comprehension, English is out in front (which doesn't affect the need for good translation tools).
I think that would have to be referring to the ability to detect *locally* where the best place is to stop as sundown approaches (such as not going into a valley if the sun will go down before it can get to the other side, or stopping on a hilltop to catch the earliest rays in the morning).
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There was a decent article in Esquire a month or so ago (Arnie was on the cover) about his current involvement with after-school programs and his thoughts on running for office (in Cali or for President). It is worth a read (although it must be taken with a grain of salt) - he came through in the article as very concerned for the kids in the programs he supports, and very intelligent overall.
See Bodah v. Lakeville Motor Express Inc., from the Minnesota Court of Appeals from Aug 20 last year - the case set precedent (IANAL but I work with a few) stating that an actionable invasion of privacy exists if it can be shown that an individual or organization's actions "unreasonably exposed [plaintiffs] to a significant risk that their social security numbers would be misused".
The case in question dealt with a company faxing SSNs to unattended fax machines, quite different from holding SSNs within a database. But if it can be shown that the security UT had in place was significantly inadequate, a case could probably be made for invasion of privacy
As a (recent) UT Alum, I'd hate to see a meaningless class action suit filed (draining educational funds), but am frustrated that my SNN is probably going to be used to falsify my identity in the near future because of this.
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i've had a yahoo account since 1997-98, and it is only in the last three months that spam has started getting through. i use a hotmail account for most signups, yahoo for personal and "legit" stuff (travelocity receipts, etc). now i'm getting about 70 spams/day that are caught by the spam filter, and 4-5 that are missed.
i agree that you don't have the expectation of privacy (as in getting nekkid) in "public" places, but what about the freedom to assemble? which goes with the assumption that you won't be persecuted for assembling in certain places/supporting particular causes. i think the common belief/expectation is that the general public should be able to go where they like in public without fear of being tracked/recorded/stalked/oppressed. i'm gonna be investing in a few balaclavas...
hint to the PTC to tell parents: turn off the tv at 9!
i'd also take issue with their depiction of everwood - i'm not a viewer but i did watch an episode or two, and i tend to gravitate toward that teen drama type show. just because a show depicts someone acting irresponsibly does not mean there are no consequences; consequences ALWAYS show up cause they make good plot lines when the "irresponsible" behavior comes back to haunt them.
After my friend's car was broken into, I started to back up all of my CDs, so I have the original in the house (where I rarely listen to music, but can pop them in the DVD player or laptop), and the copies in the car. Some of the older albums I haven't backed up, as I rarely listen to them anyway. Sometimes when I rent a car, I'll forget to pop the CD out of the player, so it saves a little there. And I really wish that I had started backing up DVDs - had my first scratched one a month ago. I work for an automaker, and change cars all of the time; 40% have DVD players in them, and there are 4-5 that I'll take in the car to listen to cause they adapt well with just the soundtrack. Shuffling in and out of the car ruined my copy of "Old School"; if I had done like my friends and bought something to back up the DVD's with, I wouldn't be out the $20 it is going to take to replace it. And I've been unsuccessful in getting DreamWorks to send me a new copy for my "license"...
Maybe now those 1000 monkeys with their 1000 typewriters will get to work and start cranking out some Shakespeare.
1) The "black box" keeps track of speed, acceleration, throttle position, gear engaged, brake usage, steering position, seat belt usage, air bag status.
2) It does not monitor stuff such as GPS (*)
3) It keeps five seconds worth of data at any time
4) The most recent 5 seconds are burned to memory in a crash or near crash event (usually when the airbag goes off).
5) Consent is currently an issue, as there are different situations with vehicles. In some cases, the driver is the owner of the vehicle, and would expect to have rights to the data. Insurance companies may question or override those rights (which is a case for the courts).
Other cases: driver is not the owner of the vehicle (friend, child, etc - who owns the data?); leased vehicle - company leasing the vehicle technically owns it, although may not have rights to it while it is under contract to the driver; driver has taken out a loan for the vehicle, so the bank technically owns the vehicle, and will likely be less interested in privacy than the driver.
This is an emerging question (who has rights to the data). There have been a few cases in the US and Canada where EDR (black box) data has been used to determine liability/guilt in auto accidents, so far only involved in homicides (to my knowledge). It may get to the point where users make it available (or refuse to make it available) for all accidents to prove/disprove innocence/guilt. But almost all new vehicles in the US have a similar system installed, if only to collect statistical data on air bag deployment.
(*) There have been trial cases where users voluntarily agreed to add in GPS devices and relay the location information to an insurance company for reduced premiums, but to my knowledge this did not go over well, and is not going on. Rental car companies are moving forward with GPS tracking to ensure vehicles don't leave the state, and I would expect some will begin to impose penalties for speeding/other trackable violations (they're also experimenting with requiring fingerprints, but that is a privacy question for another topic).
i think that kind of falls under "free speech", in that, you can make all the music you want for yourself, but you gots to get permission from the owner to "keep" anything not explictly posted to the public domain.
Apple is perfectly safe, as long as they don't try a "Rip. Mix. Burn." advertising campaign again. Apply this to the auto industry, you wouldn't be able to show cars doing over 65 to sell them. Due in part to the brevity of the bill, it seems to be overbroad...
These days, it is very odd that a company "forgets" to do something, especially if there is a cost involved (such as storage for billions of messages). Even if that cost is only a couple of hundred thousand a year, I find it hard to believe that someone didn't see that they could save some cash by getting rid of the text field after a few days.
Best Buy has (had? not sure) the same problem - a couple of times for road trips, my friends would go in, buy radar detectors, walkie talkies, cd players, etc, use them for the trip, and as long as they are back with the original packaging within 14 days, you get a refund no questions asked. A couple of the things that people liked, they kept, so it wasn't a total loss for Best Buy, but obviously not a great way for them to make money.
What do I do, when as a seller, a user gives negative feedback for an item damaged in the mail? I had pictures of the item before it was shipped (magazine), she sent pics when it was received, and it was obviously damaged in the mail, but I ended up with a "Item didn't meet description, was damaged and not in mint condition" on my record. So now I can make sure buyers choose insurance, or I can start a new ID, cause I will never have 100% again.
Another issue is, the guy who is driving may test and come in at .07 or .09 (just under whatever the local limit is - .08 or .1 in most US states). So he has one more beer and drives everyone home. Gets stopped by the cops and says "Hey, I just tested at the bar, and I was fine." The bar (or whoever provided the test) can end up having some degree of liability for saying the person was "clean".
Also, alcohol isn't immediately recognized, so when the driver blows the .07, 30 minutes later without having another drink could blow a .08 or .95.
It is really just a bad idea. Good for personal use, for the occasional time when you might go out, have a couple of beers and wonder if you're at the limit (usually if you wonder you shouldn't drive), but most of the time you should just find a DD.
The problem here is with the newness of the law and the size of the company. It looks like the subcontractors being used are all "home-office" type deals that don't know the laws, which say that if you've signed a contract to handle PHI (and not disclose it) and you want to subcontract, you need to get the subcontracting firm to sign a similar document. The people mentioned in the article obviously haven't done that. Also, the article made it sound like the Pakistani woman was pretty much working on her own. When dealing with a larger (or real) company, you can have them sign a contract which would be enforceable in their own country (this is why we have lawyers).
It is not a problem of laws not being enforcable as the article indicates, it is more of understanding the requirements of our laws and getting the right contracts into place that would be enforcable in other countries.
When stores (Radio Shack, Toys R Us, Target) or websites ask for my zip code I give them the one I had growing up on the Air Force base in England... 09238 (now discontinued, but 09237 works for systems checking for active codes). They're usually happy not to enter anything, but I prefer to give them the less obvious answer (the information is supposed to be used to see where to locate new stores... I'm hoping I can confuse them into building one in the North Atlantic).
Also one in downtown Detroit, passed it on the way to lunch on Friday... was odd cause I've walked that way before and never noticed it... will have to go back and take a look. At the corner of Randolph and Congress I think (on the south corner of Congress at the intersection).
The music is titled "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", which I believe came after Nietzsche's writings of the same name (both around 1880s-90s).
Have you tried "Old School"? I bought it when it came out; have a DVD player in my car and listen to it on long trips, at least a couple of times a week (of course, I drive a little more than the average bear). Office Space, Billy Madison, Animal House, Empire Records and other dialog/music intensive movies (that you already know) work well too. And this DOES actually replace my CD usage in the car (might be a little harder at work).
(And for the record, I'm much less PHB than Michael Bolton from Office Space with a promotion.)
Yeah, but were you told ahead of time that the interview would be casual, or did you just go balls out (so to speak) in what you were comfortable with?
Waaaay back for one of my first interviews out of college (1996), I had an interview with a certain software company where the interviewer showed up in dirty jeans and a t-shirt, with five piercings in his head and a chain going from his pants to the ring in his nose. I was decked out in my Sunday best. He told me he dressed for interviews the same way he dressed for work every day. I thought that was nice, but some notice that "casual" clothing was appropriate would have been nice.
And as a manager now, if someone were to show up for an interview with me without a tie, they've pretty much lost the job, even if the usual dress is casual, unless they've been told otherwise beforehand that dressing formally is unnecessary (if I have to wear a tie, so do you).
Actually, if you look at the notes on the statistics, they are only the first language speakers in each country.
From a Time article last year:
Mandarin may have the largest number of native speakers (about 800 million), but English, with 1.9 billion speakers--including some 350 million native speakers--is far and away the largest global lingua franca. The next largest, Spanish, claims 450 million competent speakers worldwide, while French is spoken by a mere 130 million. The most vital statistic is that some 1.5 billion people around the globe speak English as a second language. "It has become the working language of the global village," says ESU chairman Lord Alan Watson.
For native speakers, Chinese wins. For overall comprehension, English is out in front (which doesn't affect the need for good translation tools).
I think that would have to be referring to the ability to detect *locally* where the best place is to stop as sundown approaches (such as not going into a valley if the sun will go down before it can get to the other side, or stopping on a hilltop to catch the earliest rays in the morning).
There was a decent article in Esquire a month or so ago (Arnie was on the cover) about his current involvement with after-school programs and his thoughts on running for office (in Cali or for President). It is worth a read (although it must be taken with a grain of salt) - he came through in the article as very concerned for the kids in the programs he supports, and very intelligent overall.
This is also done on US military bases located outside of the US (at least in the UK - to avoid confusion with the similar looking British pennies).
have you tried looking at www.bookcrossing.com for how they do it? i believe they tie into an ISBN database somehow...
The case in question dealt with a company faxing SSNs to unattended fax machines, quite different from holding SSNs within a database. But if it can be shown that the security UT had in place was significantly inadequate, a case could probably be made for invasion of privacy
As a (recent) UT Alum, I'd hate to see a meaningless class action suit filed (draining educational funds), but am frustrated that my SNN is probably going to be used to falsify my identity in the near future because of this.