had not been taken into account when evaluating job applicants
But they should have: No-one deciding to breach the terms of a security-relevant agreement (with the social networking provider in the instant case) for personal gain should work at a correctional facility. Only candidates declining this outrageous request should have deemed eligible for the job, as all others may be expected to become just as oblivious to provisions of the laws and contracts governing their high-risk employment.
He won't get that back until the end of the litigation, should he prevail, which this court at least currently thinks is less likely than that Sony will.
2000 days ago, when the mighty roaring penguin had just taken to flight, the weirdest words were "./configure && make && make install".;-)
Today, in the world of software freedom, the weirdest (win?)word is "Ick bin kein Trojaner."
As soon as HR are ordered to exert some rather literal firepower to help the head trojan horse (dropping a payload of Windows) "show how much he means it", yesterday's timesheets are all its going to take them them for compiling a hit list of perceived illoyal and/or unionized employees who "have asked to" be jettisoned off the "burning platform" first.
The likes of Lightman, in their high-school years at least, only had a chance at the Jennifers of this world in the movies rather than in meatspace a/k/a IRL until 1995 approx. is all I'm saying.;-)
On a more serious note, "beaten by the bully of the block" would have been his more likely fate back in the day, with Jen being with the team captain (through not much of a choice of or own), and most of their educators at least implicitly defending the notion that all of this was condoned as a "perfectly natural pecking order".
BTW must have been odd for Sheedy, herself and award-winning writer since age 12(!) IIRC, to be cast as someone needing Broderick's (hacking) help with her grades (and then ending up with the next nerd in Short Circuit soon thereafter)...
There's a lot of subtle references that approach things like ethics and morality in that movie while still being interesting and funny on a technical level.
Such as... acoustic *cough* couplers *cough*?
Though in stark contrast to any director (apparently all filming for a perceived tech-illiterate audience) at least ever since Colossus, no self-respecting sighted hacker would have needed, used or wanted a voice synthesizer.
Rumour (that spelling for a reason you'll see) has it that Commodore's sales took a hit in Europe that Christmas season as Wargames and/or rather its media reception got parents concerned of putting the tools (with 1541 drives, though not from the movie) for summoning Soviet-response armageddon under their kids' trees.
At any rate it wasn't until Gen'82 so much rather than Gen'62 that the geeks would really get the girls (and better yet, even geek girls worth any wait)...;-)
It turns out that President Ronald Reagan was due to deliver the State of the Union Address on that day, 25 years ago. The event was cancelled, and, instead, he gave this very moving speech, perhaps the best of his presidency.
I venture a guess that's because it had been sitting in a Resolute Desk drawer prepared for sad occasions like this ever since JFK or even longer.
NASA sure did prepare this kind of things for critical phases of their flights early on, e.g. in case an Apollo would get lost on the dark side of the moon or on re-entry.
"Call It The Digital Millenium Censorship Act" was the title of Julie E. Cohen's early warning (The New Republic, 2000) how the dreaded DMCA and other "overprotections of the lock" (i.e. Digital Restrictions Management) would turn many aspects even of one's own physical property into "Unfair Use".
...seems to make similar mistakes (and for decades has not had much of a place for budding engineers etc.) in this matter mostly left to each federal state.
Critics of its education system deplore divisive schooling oblivious to science and technology as well as business and economy:
The left-wing agenda behind proposed solutions does not take the truth out of the deficiencies identified in their argument.
As a matter of fact much of Europe has long suffered from a "brain drain" to the U.S. perceived to promise more recognition (and reward) in scientific careers.
Unfortunately its ingredients also make it an almost unaffordable unobtainium for now, with the first applications expected small enough to crown... neither your house nor your next iPhone, but (according to Technology Review) probably your teeth for a lifetime.
Yet the apparent concern with what might simply be shoddy wiring rather than a bugged bathroom (of all places) sounds an eerie lot like the kind of trouble that sometimes seems to afflict beautifulminds.
Of course, Lissa did not necessarily intend to read his books. She might want the computer only to write her midterm. But Dan knew she came from a middle-class family and could hardly afford the tuition, let alone her reading fees. Reading his books might be the only way she could graduate. [...]
Dan resolved the dilemma by doing something even more unthinkable—he lent her the computer, and told her his password. [...]
His decision to help her led to their marriage, and also led them to question what they had been taught about piracy as children. The couple began reading about the history of copyright, about the Soviet Union and its restrictions on copying, and even the original United States Constitution. [...] When the Tycho Uprising began in 2062, the universal right to read soon became one of its central aims.
Your reasoning is flawed, there is a reason why industrial and medical equipment costs thousands of dollars
It is not, as being expensive does not make anything immune to fatal flaws (think spacecraft, Therac-25). Actually more of the code than on an OS may have been written by people predominantly trained in fields other than computer systems engineering.
While allusions to Homer Simpson's workplace could not possibly be taken seriously, in fact trains are stopped for an hour and ERP systems are shut down that night for a reason - as experienced administrators are seriously inconvenienced by, if not feeling uneasy about, DST.
Really, these stories are starting to be VERY stupid. When did we start being such crying babies?
Because one of those days it won't be just an army of cellphones running amuck but something medical, chemical, "nucular" =;-o... you get the idea.
It's a disastrous bug waiting to happen, and I for one don't want to be near the Springfield Power Plant when Homer forgets they change the time that night.
It shifts the hours of usable daylight into hours people might actually use during the summer instead of it being light out at 5am or something stupid.
In winter there's a good 1.5 month period where you don't get to see much daylight -- as short as about 8h42m of daylight. DST doesn't fix this, but it gives us some of it back in the summer.
So in actual fact this is an argument for your region to take steps to choose&apply a time zone appropriate for its location, rather than making the rest of the world change their clocks twice a year for admittedly no benefit at all.
High time this ineffective measure causing so much more harm&hassle than good got abolished (before it kills people as e.g. a medical device fails in the same way).
It's always been a doubtful privilege for those keen to play golf after work at everyone else's expense anyway...
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But they should have: No-one deciding to breach the terms of a security-relevant agreement (with the social networking provider in the instant case) for personal gain should work at a correctional facility.
Only candidates declining this outrageous request should have deemed eligible for the job, as all others may be expected to become just as oblivious to provisions of the laws and contracts governing their high-risk employment.
Not all that is cumbersome qualifies as Legalese.
...military dictatorship as the American Way into the future (Starship Troopers style), then yes.
Here's hoping the Internet will rather make the people(s) call in unison for democratic ways and peaceful international relations.
...the cover page of their personnel file.
As soon as HR are ordered to exert some rather literal firepower to help the head trojan horse (dropping a payload of Windows) "show how much he means it", yesterday's timesheets are all its going to take them them for compiling a hit list of perceived illoyal and/or unionized employees who "have asked to" be jettisoned off the "burning platform" first.
...forever. ;-)
The likes of Lightman, in their high-school years at least, only had a chance at the Jennifers of this world in the movies rather than in meatspace a/k/a IRL until 1995 approx. is all I'm saying. ;-)
On a more serious note, "beaten by the bully of the block" would have been his more likely fate back in the day, with Jen being with the team captain (through not much of a choice of or own), and most of their educators at least implicitly defending the notion that all of this was condoned as a "perfectly natural pecking order".
BTW must have been odd for Sheedy, herself and award-winning writer since age 12(!) IIRC, to be cast as someone needing Broderick's (hacking) help with her grades (and then ending up with the next nerd in Short Circuit soon thereafter)...
Such as... acoustic *cough* couplers *cough*?
Though in stark contrast to any director (apparently all filming for a perceived tech-illiterate audience) at least ever since Colossus, no self-respecting sighted hacker would have needed, used or wanted a voice synthesizer.
Rumour (that spelling for a reason you'll see) has it that Commodore's sales took a hit in Europe that Christmas season as Wargames and/or rather its media reception got parents concerned of putting the tools (with 1541 drives, though not from the movie) for summoning Soviet-response armageddon under their kids' trees.
At any rate it wasn't until Gen'82 so much rather than Gen'62 that the geeks would really get the girls (and better yet, even geek girls worth any wait)... ;-)
I venture a guess that's because it had been sitting in a Resolute Desk drawer prepared for sad occasions like this ever since JFK or even longer.
A memorably great and very appropriate speech it was, but at any rate doesn't sound like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minutes at all...
NASA sure did prepare this kind of things for critical phases of their flights early on, e.g. in case an Apollo would get lost on the dark side of the moon or on re-entry.
"Call It The Digital Millenium Censorship Act" was the title of Julie E. Cohen's early warning (The New Republic, 2000) how the dreaded DMCA and other "overprotections of the lock" (i.e. Digital Restrictions Management) would turn many aspects even of one's own physical property into "Unfair Use".
Another one was http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html by RMS (Communications of the ACM, 1997).
Critics of its education system deplore divisive schooling oblivious to science and technology as well as business and economy:
The left-wing agenda behind proposed solutions does not take the truth out of the deficiencies identified in their argument.
As a matter of fact much of Europe has long suffered from a "brain drain" to the U.S. perceived to promise more recognition (and reward) in scientific careers.
...also apply to what the authors discard as "less capable states and sub-state actors".
Unfortunately its ingredients also make it an almost unaffordable unobtainium for now, with the first applications expected small enough to crown ... neither your house nor your next iPhone, but (according to Technology Review) probably your teeth for a lifetime.
It's just like nucular, you know. ;-)
But if they shoot well, who cares how they spell...
Custody? Restraining order?
Yet the apparent concern with what might simply be shoddy wiring rather than a bugged bathroom (of all places) sounds an eerie lot like the kind of trouble that sometimes seems to afflict beautiful minds.
Not just yet another less-than-stellar electrical installation? What exactly is supposedly suspiciously spooky about them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing#United_Kingdom
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
2.5 millennia at a minimum: http://ijlit.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/3/257.full?ijkey=rF2MI0t8NYrGuJJ&keytype=ref#p-103
...programming language in the end are covered at http://occupyfun.com/jokes/joke.php?title=Wittle-Wabbit ;-)
It is not, as being expensive does not make anything immune to fatal flaws (think spacecraft, Therac-25). Actually more of the code than on an OS may have been written by people predominantly trained in fields other than computer systems engineering.
While allusions to Homer Simpson's workplace could not possibly be taken seriously, in fact trains are stopped for an hour and ERP systems are shut down that night for a reason - as experienced administrators are seriously inconvenienced by, if not feeling uneasy about, DST.
Because one of those days it won't be just an army of cellphones running amuck but something medical, chemical, "nucular" =;-o ... you get the idea.
It's a disastrous bug waiting to happen, and I for one don't want to be near the Springfield Power Plant when Homer forgets they change the time that night.
So in actual fact this is an argument for your region to take steps to choose&apply a time zone appropriate for its location, rather than making the rest of the world change their clocks twice a year for admittedly no benefit at all.
High time this ineffective measure causing so much more harm&hassle than good got abolished (before it kills people as e.g. a medical device fails in the same way).
It's always been a doubtful privilege for those keen to play golf after work at everyone else's expense anyway...