My understanding is that it's based on the length of your pay period, and you're usually expected to give one pay-period of notice. So, most salaried people I know in the US are paid twice-monthly and would only have to give 2 weeks (well, 1/2 month) notice. In the UK, monthly pay is more common and you'd give 1 month notice. I believe folks on an hourly rate get paid every week, so would only be expected to give one week notice.
As other people have said, it's then up to the employer to decide if you're a risk. Where I work right now, anyone who hands in a letter of resignation is generally escorted to the door immediately. Other places have expected me to work right up to the end, doing a brain-dump to someone else.
Wait, is the Client Access licence client-side (allowing the client to access the network) or server-side (allowing the server to be accessed)?? Around here there are a bunch of networked printers - I don't have to access any server other than what's built into, say, the Xerox Phase down the hall. Does that require a CAL?? I don't think there's an actual printer server anywhere in the building...
I haven't read the MS EULA recently either, but most EULAs state something to the effect that "this software isn't even guaranteed to work at all, let alone do what you bought it for". So yeah, you buy the thing, bugs and all, and if it doesn't work, they don't care.
I don't know that it would even be necessary to hide behind anything. I mean, right now the most likely place to deploy this thing is Iraq, and that's mostly a big fricken desert. What does the normal daytime temperature get up to, especially in the urban areas?? Are people even going to *notice* a heat ray??
Computer expert W. Herbert Horner could certainly do with *some* training. I thought the whole point of spyware was to lurk out of sight and steal information, forwarding it to an offsite location in the hopes that it will include userids and passwords. Why would spyware announce itself to the world by popping up browser windows??
Maybe that's going to form the basis for an appeal, "Well, yer Honor, the prosecution's 'expert' is clearly a dipshit that doesn't know what he's talking about..."
I guess MS thought they needed to do the gummint's bidding and protect us from seeing a classified thing.
Dude, it was a weather balloon. You know, one of those things the Air Force is always blaming for UFO sightings, the only difference being that you were seeing the topside from a satellite instead of the circles of flashing light that run around the underneath...
In all seriousness, does this actually surprise anyone?
Actually, no, given that a boatload of scientists just went public with a statement protesting political interference. Seems like exactly the way the current White House operates. I wouldn't be too surprised if Bush added a signing statement to the next Bill out of Congress, "and I plan to ignore the scientists protest", regardless of the Bill's content.
I read somewhere that when Dan Quayle was vice President, the Secret Service had standing orders that, if anything happened to the President, they were to shoot Quayle immediately. I suppose we could hope the same might be the case for Cheney, but I suspect it was just a scurrilous rumour anyway, or some stand-up comic's joke...
When I was in school, the science labs had a padlocked cupboard under the stairs with a radiation marker on it. That was where the radiation sources were kept in a lead-lined box. The actual sources were maybe 1cm in diameter, with a tiny speck of alpha, beta or gamma emitter embedded in one end. Ah, the fun the physics teacher had with those... Funnier yet was his watch, which was far, far more radioactive than the officially sanctioned sources. The dial was luminous, using some kind of radium compound. Funniest of all was the day he sent someone up to the organic chemistry lab to fetch a certain reagent from the open shelf in the classroom. Man, that stuff made the geiger counter hum! Uranyl Acetate (at least, *some* kind of uranium compound), I think it was, a standard reagent used to confirm (or deny) the presence of some chemical.
I'm fairly sure *that* class got dumbed down quite a lot when that particular teacher retired.
They are perfectly willing to spend millions of dollars on doing recounts, fighting lawsuits, and don't apparently mind that America is becoming ever more cynical about the integrity of our voting system, but they won't spend a little extra money on voting machines?
What, and take away someone's favorite pork barrel?? I guess the voting machine makers lobby is more powerful than the pencil makers lobby.
Paper receipts would only be "verifiable" if you were in a small town and gathered up everyone with proof of who they voted for and matched the results to the totals. But good luck trying that with 100 million people.
Something similar actually happened a couple of years ago. One candidate in some town scored zero votes, then someone came forward and claimed to have voted for that person. I think that's as far as it went. Of course, it could be that the ballot was voided in some way.
Open source or not, how does anyone know that the program being executed is the one that was compiled from the verified source?? How easy would it be to hide a flash chip in the circuitry with an alternative program that was tripped on voting day and not before??
But never mind the machines themselves, it was proven by Diebold's own internal memos and messages that the vote tabulating database was easily modified without having to use a password. Individual voters would be able to see that their vote was correctly noted at the polling place, but the only way to prove foul play in a given district would be essentially to get people back to the polls. That's where the paper trail becomes useful.
Well, she's armless, so no hands, but there's a toga/sheet hanging off her hips. If that butt-crack is anything to go by, she would have been a pretty good plumber...
It wasn't so much of a joke, really. It wasn't so long ago that various "think of the children!!" activists were insisting that libraries filter internet content. Then it turned out that the filters block some political websites, as well as one (or more) showing the Constitution, and don't even *consider* trying to look up information about breast cancer...
And then there was that stupidity about disallowing the Ten Commandments to be displayed in a courthouse, except in cases where it is allowed
Some of his classmates -- these are people who are planning on becoming high-school teachers, remember -- were saying "I think it's awful that they'd show Michangelo's David in public"
Any idea how those folks feel about the Venus de Milo?? I mean, there seems to be this kind of double standard in censorship, where it may or may not be perfectly OK to show boobs and even pubes, as long as they're on a female, but you'll *never* see a guys' dangly bits...
So what's next after games that show a brief shot of a breast?? Pornographic literature?? It should be really interesting watching the fallout from that... The Song of Solomon is fairly explicit, and there's all kinds of violence in the other books of the Old Testament. But wait, the government can't get involved in religion, so they can't ban the Bible. But wait, it's pornographic and violent!! Arggh...:)
Anyway, does the game show a shot of a *real* breast, or one drawn by an artist?? If drawn breasts are as bad as the real thing, a lot of famous artworks are going to be banned too...
You buy a subsidised product based on paying for it over an N-month contract, and you either stick to that contract or you don't.
My daughter reached the end of her contract with T-Mobile, renewed and got a new phone. She wanted to give her sister the old phone, to use with a Cingular account. Even though T-Mobile has a policy that allows customers to get the unlock codes after about 90 days (I think) of starting a contract, she can't get an unlock code for that old phone. I took it to a local cellphone repair shop, and they said they couldn't unlock it either. They didn't even touch it, just took one look and said "no". It's a Siemens phone.
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Nope, can't say I have. Maybe it's just me, but the ads just never seem to catch my eye... :)
As other people have said, it's then up to the employer to decide if you're a risk. Where I work right now, anyone who hands in a letter of resignation is generally escorted to the door immediately. Other places have expected me to work right up to the end, doing a brain-dump to someone else.
I wouldn't be surprised if that were true. The pharma reps drop off boxes of free samples for the docs to hand out. Marketing by free handouts...
No, it's just the start of the Vista Hard Sell
Wait, is the Client Access licence client-side (allowing the client to access the network) or server-side (allowing the server to be accessed)?? Around here there are a bunch of networked printers - I don't have to access any server other than what's built into, say, the Xerox Phase down the hall. Does that require a CAL?? I don't think there's an actual printer server anywhere in the building...
I haven't read the MS EULA recently either, but most EULAs state something to the effect that "this software isn't even guaranteed to work at all, let alone do what you bought it for". So yeah, you buy the thing, bugs and all, and if it doesn't work, they don't care.
Makes me glad I work for a company that does contract work for people who are legally allowed to deploy *very* large pieces of artillery...
I don't know that it would even be necessary to hide behind anything. I mean, right now the most likely place to deploy this thing is Iraq, and that's mostly a big fricken desert. What does the normal daytime temperature get up to, especially in the urban areas?? Are people even going to *notice* a heat ray??
Maybe that's going to form the basis for an appeal, "Well, yer Honor, the prosecution's 'expert' is clearly a dipshit that doesn't know what he's talking about..."
Wait - you're supposed to give *real* info to those sites??
And the person who wrote that response probably either lives or works here
Dude, it was a weather balloon. You know, one of those things the Air Force is always blaming for UFO sightings, the only difference being that you were seeing the topside from a satellite instead of the circles of flashing light that run around the underneath...
Actually, no, given that a boatload of scientists just went public with a statement protesting political interference. Seems like exactly the way the current White House operates. I wouldn't be too surprised if Bush added a signing statement to the next Bill out of Congress, "and I plan to ignore the scientists protest", regardless of the Bill's content.
I read somewhere that when Dan Quayle was vice President, the Secret Service had standing orders that, if anything happened to the President, they were to shoot Quayle immediately. I suppose we could hope the same might be the case for Cheney, but I suspect it was just a scurrilous rumour anyway, or some stand-up comic's joke...
I'm fairly sure *that* class got dumbed down quite a lot when that particular teacher retired.
What, and take away someone's favorite pork barrel?? I guess the voting machine makers lobby is more powerful than the pencil makers lobby.
Something similar actually happened a couple of years ago. One candidate in some town scored zero votes, then someone came forward and claimed to have voted for that person. I think that's as far as it went. Of course, it could be that the ballot was voided in some way.
But never mind the machines themselves, it was proven by Diebold's own internal memos and messages that the vote tabulating database was easily modified without having to use a password. Individual voters would be able to see that their vote was correctly noted at the polling place, but the only way to prove foul play in a given district would be essentially to get people back to the polls. That's where the paper trail becomes useful.
Yep, another good idea finally makes it across the pond... :)
Don't feel too bad - that one would be banned too, judging by the exposed nipples... :)
Well, she's armless, so no hands, but there's a toga/sheet hanging off her hips. If that butt-crack is anything to go by, she would have been a pretty good plumber...
And then there was that stupidity about disallowing the Ten Commandments to be displayed in a courthouse, except in cases where it is allowed
Any idea how those folks feel about the Venus de Milo?? I mean, there seems to be this kind of double standard in censorship, where it may or may not be perfectly OK to show boobs and even pubes, as long as they're on a female, but you'll *never* see a guys' dangly bits...
Anyway, does the game show a shot of a *real* breast, or one drawn by an artist?? If drawn breasts are as bad as the real thing, a lot of famous artworks are going to be banned too...
My daughter reached the end of her contract with T-Mobile, renewed and got a new phone. She wanted to give her sister the old phone, to use with a Cingular account. Even though T-Mobile has a policy that allows customers to get the unlock codes after about 90 days (I think) of starting a contract, she can't get an unlock code for that old phone. I took it to a local cellphone repair shop, and they said they couldn't unlock it either. They didn't even touch it, just took one look and said "no". It's a Siemens phone.
The dude's in Seattle... Just avoid Vista and you should be good. :)