And in other news today, the proliferation of social media has led to the decline of proof reading your posts, leaving out silly, little, unimportant words:
On average, we check our phones 50 times each day -- with some studies suggesting it could three times that amount.
Perhaps this might read better if it had a simple, little word in there:
On average, we check our phones 50 times each day -- with some studies suggesting it could BE three times that amount.
Yes, I did read the article. They left the word out there too. Oh, the irony of it all!
With the very recent event of the US pulling out of the TPP, I feel it's unlikely that others in the International Community, will take kindly to foreign powers accessing servers in their territories. Should US lawmakers update the law and change it to allow for US laws to operate in this manner, I imagine that companies like Microsoft, will outsource the administration of those non-US servers, so they have a non-US division operating them, thus leaving them outside of the reach of US laws.
So, what's the point of having a court system, if the truth no longer has meaning under this section of law? Why waste state and taxpayer money if the prosecution can basically manufacture evidence, then lie about where it came from? Just suspend the jury system, you're just wasting their time when one side is allowed, or even required, to lie in order to convict someone.
Why even have a public system at all? Just have "offenders" picked up by police, secret or not, and then disappear to prison, or simply disappear? Isn't that a more logical step under this standard of law?
While the Midwest isn't typically impacted as hard by H-1B activity. I'd certainly like to see the President overhaul the whole program and tighten it way down. I don't need it to go away, what I would like to see is for H-1B to be MORE EXPENSIVE than training someone locally. It should be an expensive option that you use when you don't have time to build the skill set locally.
However, I am from Missouri. You really have to Show Me, for me to believe.
I think the trouble with Geoblocking drones (and I'm not saying that it shouldn't be done, but pointing this out), is that if we Geoblock for prisons for reasons of security, then we do the same for government buildings, military bases; again, all for likely good security reasons. Then we add banks or other money storage facilities and clearing houses or places likely the target of prying eyes. Then we add primary schools, for the safety of the children. Then how about the universities, because they do sensitive research for the military..and so on and so forth. The question about Geoblocking is: Where do we draw the line?
Can I Geoblock my business or property because I do business with the government?
How far beyond my property line can I Geoblock? Just because you can't fly the drone directly over a prison, doesn't mean I can't fly high enough to get a good look into it.
So, to put this in perspective, let's think about the cost to hire a TSA worker to replace one you fire, vs. the cost to keep a bad one and "counsel" them, and print letters to send/give them to help them straighten up their act and flight right...so to speak.
I'm guessing it's "easier" to just "counsel" the employee, opposed to firing them and going about hiring someone else.
Any HR folks who can check my fuzzy math on this?
Bottom Line: The TSA may have a "values" issue, because in a "normal" security job, misconduct would likely get you fired on the first offense.
One of my small clients was able to get Small Business Google Fiber installed this last year. After the struggles of getting the physical installation going, things have been very nice. They like it very much, the way they expected it. However...
Recently Google has contacted us to say our "introductory rates" will be ending the middle of 2017. They're moving to a 3-tier model for their fiber speeds. For $250 you can keep your 1 gigabit speed, for $150 (I think), you an go down to 250 megabits, and for $75 (or $100 maybe), you can go down to 100 megabits. If we don't update our choice by the end of July, 2017, they'll kick us down to 250 Mbps automatically.
So, with the price change, that means we'll have to pay, basically, double to maintain our 1 Gbps, otherwise we lose 75% of our speed to pay the same price.
Let's not fool ourselves, replacing the minimum wage worker at McDonald's with a robot isn't a new idea. They've been working on that since the early 2000's. The increased minimum wage has been a slight, if not small, acceleration to the plan to do so.
Even when they were paying less than $8/hour, they were thinking they wanted to have a one-time-cost robot to do the work for them.
Adding CS to the US K-12 system sounds all well and good, but I might suggest that they step up their game. The US K-12 system exists because manufacturers needed folks to work in the Industrial Age, manufacturing, who had more wanted people to work for them with more than an 8th Grade education.
Today's Knowledge Age employers need to not merely be asking for CS, they need to be asking for a Pre-K through Bachelors system to get the sort of workers they really want.
Since Lucasfilm/Disney would be better served by not having lawyers running after a good-will event like this, it seems like everyone might be better served if Lucanfilm/Disney would require them to collect a $1 entry fee, all of which is required to go to a charity. Now, no on looks like the bad guy, everyone has fun, and people get some help.
I joke about Liam having a cousin Mail who'll be assembling iPhones in the next building over, but if you can use Liam to dismantle the phones, anywhere in the world, why couldn't you soon use something very similar, to assemble the iPhone/iPad/iPod, anywhere in the world. (And suddenly, Apple was assembling iDevices in the United States.)
Yes, yes...I know, I know. It's far less complicated and easier to disassemble the devices than build them. You're not nearly as worried about damaged parts. However, I'm guessing that Liam isn't a dumb-robot, I suspect there's some programming in there for him to learn how to deal with devices in slightly different ways as it encounters something new.
Not unlimited powers, but powers that are within their domain. For example a judge couldn't order Tim Cook to fire Ives, or require him to move the Apple HQ to Timbuktu. But, the judge can order the company to cooperate with a search warrant, which is within their rights under the All Writs Act, (when broadly read).
Actually, a judge can compel US citizens to do things that are within their purview. This is effectively a search warrant, which puts it in the judges power. However, the law it's based on, the All Writs Act, is what's in contest for Apple. Broadly interpreted, the judge does have the power to compel this assistance, in the same way that a judge can compel someone to give testimony even if they want to plead the 5th, because they are guaranteeing immunity from self-incrimination. Failure to comply, means the judge can hold you on charges of contempt indefinitely.
You are absolutely right. However, as long as their corporate leadership reside in the boundaries of the jurisdiction of the courts, they're subject to their court orders.
I think this would be something that Apple might take to crazy levels in its defense. Imagine if Apple has to stop selling products that have the type of encryption that's being perused here. Would they have to stop sell Mac's that have iMessage on them, as it too is encrypted?
This might be the Olympic Year for countries, big and small, to make a statement to the IOC and the world. It's not just an issue for Rio, but other countries as well. And while it would suck for Olympic Athletes to skip this year, it would draw attention to an issue that even the US faces at home because of greed. Asking for clean drinking water isn't some special request that only the privileged should get, we need to consider it a human right.
The Olympics will only be there for a year, the change that the Olympics can have might have a chance to linger way, way longer. So, just how much is a Gold Medal worth compared to generations of clean drinking water?
Legislation is unnecessary. If this is an order from a Judge, then failure to comply means they're in contempt of court, for which there isn't much legal recourse. The Judge can simply have corporate officers jailed until they comply.
While I agree that we should be Professional IT workers, but I believe there's even a more practical reason we say nothing about the 'interesting' things we see on Executives personal computers, or even the company owner's business computer: We've got more pressing matters. Or in layman terms: We ain't got time for that.
There's always something more core to the business that should be done to spin our wheels with whatever personal or private information someone has on their computer. The exceptions might center around the IT Security guy, safeguarding trade secrets.
This is merely another way to send poor people to jail. If a person couldn't pay the original fine, what makes us believe they can pay the original fine plus 25%? So, the result is they go to jail, and the tax payers then pay even more money to house and feed them, but...still never get the original fine, do we?
Someone has not thought this through, completely.
Meanwhile, when they're in jail, they're being housed likely by a 3rd party whose making money on keeping people in jail, because they're providing security or food, or the physical facilities, or the parole services you offer when they get out, but they can't pay that either...so they go back to jail, where the cycle never ends.
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And in other news today, the proliferation of social media has led to the decline of proof reading your posts, leaving out silly, little, unimportant words:
On average, we check our phones 50 times each day -- with some studies suggesting it could three times that amount.
Perhaps this might read better if it had a simple, little word in there:
On average, we check our phones 50 times each day -- with some studies suggesting it could BE three times that amount.
Yes, I did read the article. They left the word out there too. Oh, the irony of it all!
With the very recent event of the US pulling out of the TPP, I feel it's unlikely that others in the International Community, will take kindly to foreign powers accessing servers in their territories. Should US lawmakers update the law and change it to allow for US laws to operate in this manner, I imagine that companies like Microsoft, will outsource the administration of those non-US servers, so they have a non-US division operating them, thus leaving them outside of the reach of US laws.
Other carriers, such as Verizon, have been offering this exact plan for a while now.
Welcome to the present, AT&T.
I wonder if Apple is still looking for companies they can pick up and diversify nicely, even in the US market?
So, what's the point of having a court system, if the truth no longer has meaning under this section of law? Why waste state and taxpayer money if the prosecution can basically manufacture evidence, then lie about where it came from? Just suspend the jury system, you're just wasting their time when one side is allowed, or even required, to lie in order to convict someone.
Why even have a public system at all? Just have "offenders" picked up by police, secret or not, and then disappear to prison, or simply disappear? Isn't that a more logical step under this standard of law?
If there wasn't money to be made in the system as it is now, then it wouldn't be something that a Presidential candidate made part of their platform.
While the Midwest isn't typically impacted as hard by H-1B activity. I'd certainly like to see the President overhaul the whole program and tighten it way down. I don't need it to go away, what I would like to see is for H-1B to be MORE EXPENSIVE than training someone locally. It should be an expensive option that you use when you don't have time to build the skill set locally.
However, I am from Missouri. You really have to Show Me, for me to believe.
I think the trouble with Geoblocking drones (and I'm not saying that it shouldn't be done, but pointing this out), is that if we Geoblock for prisons for reasons of security, then we do the same for government buildings, military bases; again, all for likely good security reasons. Then we add banks or other money storage facilities and clearing houses or places likely the target of prying eyes. Then we add primary schools, for the safety of the children. Then how about the universities, because they do sensitive research for the military..and so on and so forth. The question about Geoblocking is: Where do we draw the line?
Can I Geoblock my business or property because I do business with the government?
How far beyond my property line can I Geoblock? Just because you can't fly the drone directly over a prison, doesn't mean I can't fly high enough to get a good look into it.
So, to put this in perspective, let's think about the cost to hire a TSA worker to replace one you fire, vs. the cost to keep a bad one and "counsel" them, and print letters to send/give them to help them straighten up their act and flight right...so to speak.
I'm guessing it's "easier" to just "counsel" the employee, opposed to firing them and going about hiring someone else.
Any HR folks who can check my fuzzy math on this?
Bottom Line: The TSA may have a "values" issue, because in a "normal" security job, misconduct would likely get you fired on the first offense.
One of my small clients was able to get Small Business Google Fiber installed this last year. After the struggles of getting the physical installation going, things have been very nice. They like it very much, the way they expected it. However...
Recently Google has contacted us to say our "introductory rates" will be ending the middle of 2017. They're moving to a 3-tier model for their fiber speeds. For $250 you can keep your 1 gigabit speed, for $150 (I think), you an go down to 250 megabits, and for $75 (or $100 maybe), you can go down to 100 megabits. If we don't update our choice by the end of July, 2017, they'll kick us down to 250 Mbps automatically.
So, with the price change, that means we'll have to pay, basically, double to maintain our 1 Gbps, otherwise we lose 75% of our speed to pay the same price.
Welcome to the "business."
Am I the only one waiting to hear that Axiom is backed by Buy-N-Large? ;-)
Let's not fool ourselves, replacing the minimum wage worker at McDonald's with a robot isn't a new idea. They've been working on that since the early 2000's. The increased minimum wage has been a slight, if not small, acceleration to the plan to do so.
Even when they were paying less than $8/hour, they were thinking they wanted to have a one-time-cost robot to do the work for them.
Adding CS to the US K-12 system sounds all well and good, but I might suggest that they step up their game. The US K-12 system exists because manufacturers needed folks to work in the Industrial Age, manufacturing, who had more wanted people to work for them with more than an 8th Grade education.
Today's Knowledge Age employers need to not merely be asking for CS, they need to be asking for a Pre-K through Bachelors system to get the sort of workers they really want.
Since Lucasfilm/Disney would be better served by not having lawyers running after a good-will event like this, it seems like everyone might be better served if Lucanfilm/Disney would require them to collect a $1 entry fee, all of which is required to go to a charity. Now, no on looks like the bad guy, everyone has fun, and people get some help.
This sounds like a great business model: Let's post losses for years one end, and see how well that works for us.
I'm sure they're losing a little on each transaction, but they're planning to make it up in volume!
I joke about Liam having a cousin Mail who'll be assembling iPhones in the next building over, but if you can use Liam to dismantle the phones, anywhere in the world, why couldn't you soon use something very similar, to assemble the iPhone/iPad/iPod, anywhere in the world. (And suddenly, Apple was assembling iDevices in the United States.)
Yes, yes...I know, I know. It's far less complicated and easier to disassemble the devices than build them. You're not nearly as worried about damaged parts. However, I'm guessing that Liam isn't a dumb-robot, I suspect there's some programming in there for him to learn how to deal with devices in slightly different ways as it encounters something new.
Not to be confused with his cousin, Mail, who will be assembling new iPhones, the next building over.
I can just see it now as a Disney blockbuster title: Disneyland Surge Pricing: The Quest for More Money!
Seriously?
Honestly?
Really?
Not unlimited powers, but powers that are within their domain. For example a judge couldn't order Tim Cook to fire Ives, or require him to move the Apple HQ to Timbuktu. But, the judge can order the company to cooperate with a search warrant, which is within their rights under the All Writs Act, (when broadly read).
Actually, a judge can compel US citizens to do things that are within their purview. This is effectively a search warrant, which puts it in the judges power. However, the law it's based on, the All Writs Act, is what's in contest for Apple. Broadly interpreted, the judge does have the power to compel this assistance, in the same way that a judge can compel someone to give testimony even if they want to plead the 5th, because they are guaranteeing immunity from self-incrimination. Failure to comply, means the judge can hold you on charges of contempt indefinitely.
You are absolutely right. However, as long as their corporate leadership reside in the boundaries of the jurisdiction of the courts, they're subject to their court orders.
I think this would be something that Apple might take to crazy levels in its defense. Imagine if Apple has to stop selling products that have the type of encryption that's being perused here. Would they have to stop sell Mac's that have iMessage on them, as it too is encrypted?
This might be the Olympic Year for countries, big and small, to make a statement to the IOC and the world. It's not just an issue for Rio, but other countries as well. And while it would suck for Olympic Athletes to skip this year, it would draw attention to an issue that even the US faces at home because of greed. Asking for clean drinking water isn't some special request that only the privileged should get, we need to consider it a human right.
The Olympics will only be there for a year, the change that the Olympics can have might have a chance to linger way, way longer. So, just how much is a Gold Medal worth compared to generations of clean drinking water?
Legislation is unnecessary. If this is an order from a Judge, then failure to comply means they're in contempt of court, for which there isn't much legal recourse. The Judge can simply have corporate officers jailed until they comply.
While I agree that we should be Professional IT workers, but I believe there's even a more practical reason we say nothing about the 'interesting' things we see on Executives personal computers, or even the company owner's business computer: We've got more pressing matters. Or in layman terms: We ain't got time for that.
There's always something more core to the business that should be done to spin our wheels with whatever personal or private information someone has on their computer. The exceptions might center around the IT Security guy, safeguarding trade secrets.
This is merely another way to send poor people to jail. If a person couldn't pay the original fine, what makes us believe they can pay the original fine plus 25%? So, the result is they go to jail, and the tax payers then pay even more money to house and feed them, but ...still never get the original fine, do we?
Someone has not thought this through, completely.
Meanwhile, when they're in jail, they're being housed likely by a 3rd party whose making money on keeping people in jail, because they're providing security or food, or the physical facilities, or the parole services you offer when they get out, but they can't pay that either...so they go back to jail, where the cycle never ends.