How many Google Accounts does one need? Google presently maintains unrelated signons for...
- Google AdWords (to buy ads with Google) - Google AdSense (for webmasters who want to show Google's ads) - Google Answers (their rather obscure paid researcher solution) - Free SiteSearch (for webmasters who want a custom colorset when users use a Google box on their site) - Google API (for programmers who want to use Google via SOAP) - GMail (the hot webmail beta test) - Google Groups Beta (the new service we're talking about) - Blogger (the blog site they aquired)
Yahoo and MSN/Passort of course have the privacy implications of there being a single-signon accross a wide network of websites some of which are operated by partner companies... but Google is developing the reverse problem. As you move from one service of Google to another, and the user may very well have different passwords at each of the logon points. Very confusing, and an annoyance to users.
The good news is that Google appears to be in the process of merging these databases for the free services and an account created today for one free services now gets access to all of them except GMail. They are showing signs that they intend on getting AdWords and AdSense into that system as well. Hopefully we'll just need one google.com cookie to get everything Google has soon...
That's a true statement about the state of Verizon Wireless today, but neglects the history of where the bulk of their bandwidth licenses come from...
Verizon Wireless has heritage in the fact that FCC handed out the original cellular licenses in pairs in each area.. one went to the Baby Bell company of the area, and another went to a competor company. (Celluar being an unproven business at the time, the competitor slot went to the first company to stand up and be willing to invest in the technology... and there was sometimes a wait to find that newcomer.) As a result, Bell Atlantic, NYNEX and GTE (the Baby Bells who'd eventually merge into Verizon) all got into the wireless business that way. Those licenses are now in the hands of Verizon...
As a result, much of Verizon's bandwidth wasn't won at auction either.
This has been the FCC's way of dealing with spectrum allocations since the Clinton administration...
They're trusting the free market economy to decide who needs the bandwidth the most... an auction shows who is willing to pay the most for the right to use it, and assures the government gets the most money possible out of the transaction.
Kerry fact of the day: Missed 2/3 of all Senate votes, worst attendance record in US Senate.
And John Edwards has an equally bad voting record, it's quite hard to be a senator and run for office at the same time.
However, should Kerry's vote ever be needed to really decide an issue, the Democrats could simply filibuster until he returns to delay the vote.
The fact is, ever since the primary election season, whenever Kerry or any presidential-hopeful senator has been in town, the Republicans have used their control of the agenda to see to it that there would be no roll calls taken so that Kerry and Edwards could end up with the worst voting records.
So far, only one issue has been lost by the Democrats by one vote... but you even need to throw an asterisk next to that because it was an absolute lopsided issue with several Democrats voting with the Republicans. The exact number of Republicans needed crossed over and voted against a bill they actually supported in order to generate that one-vote decison "on the record" that wasn't one in reality.
Just how does Mozilla/FireFox think it's going to keep malware from tricking the users into granting permission when the clueless masses come over from IE?
$300k per employee is a high stat, but the typical office worker costs a company $100k-$150k a year when things beyond salary such as the cost of supplying that employee with the office space and supplies needed to do their job, insurance costs, administrative expenses, and other such costs are factored in.
Microsoft's major problem is that it's been a long time since they've released a totally new line of products that has been sucessful. Aside from Open Source, Microsoft also has to compete with its own prior versions... Why does somebody who has Windows 2000 need Windows XP? Why does somebody who has Office 2000 need Office XP?...
I think the solution to this problem should be to mirror something we have in the USA when the two houses of our Congress pass similar but mis-matched bills...
Those two bills are taken to a "conference comittee", where appointed members of the House and Senate hammer out the differences to each other's satisfaction, and report out one unified bill. However, that comittee can't pass their bill on to the President directly, both the full House and Senate must pass exactly same bill with a majority vote in order for that to happen. If either house amends the conference's bill and the other doesn't make the exact same change, then it's back to the comittee room to try again.
The point is that this meeting of the Ministers with briefs shouldn't be able to come up with a binding decision... they should come back with a suggested law their legislative bodies should review and cast the real vote on.
In the USA, the people don't directly elect the president. We might say we do, we might think we do, but really we don't.
What Americans actually vote for is "electors" who have been selected by campaign organizations to be the people who will represent the people who are running for president. Each state holds its own election to determine which slate of electors they will send to the "Electoral College"... whomever gets a majority of the votes for president there wins. (Should three candidates get electoral votes, and nobody gets a majority, the election is kicked to a special session of the House of Representatives where each state gets exactly one vote.)
The point is that these electors were selected by the campaign of the candidate they're supposed to vote for, and are contractually and legally bound to do so... but, uh, what if they don't? That's just plain uncharted Consitutional territory. The Supreme Court would most likely have to issue a ruling that'd end up deciding the outcome, deciding if the votes would stand as originally cast, or if the "expected" result should be used instead effectively making the Electoral College meeting the formality we all want it to be.
That's exactly the situation the EU seems to have worked themselves into here. They've ended up with "unfaithful" representatives who didn't do as they were expected to, and the EU hasn't exactly pondered what to do in such a situation yet.
I'm just saying, it's not like this is a situation that could never happen in the USA...
This could be a scandal that might rock the comparatively-new EU system for a loop. Ministers were being trusted to represent the view of the government that sent them... but it seems as if business interests have found that these individuals are a weak link that can easily be "bought off" and convinced to act on their own.
Of course, the USA didn't get things right on the first try either. We created a national government under the Articles Of Confederation that had so little power it couldn't tax and therefore quickly ran into problems getting anything done. (The writing of the US Constitution was actually a rather peaceful overthrow of the existing US government of the time rather than the creation of a government where there was none.)
However, to qualify as a "home office" your family must never enter that room for non-business reasons. If your daughter's PlayStation is also on the TV in that room some of the time, then it doesn't count anymore...
Verizon's landline telephone support system has the simple fix. It asks "Is the line you are calling in to report trouble with the line you are using right now? Press 1 for Yes, 2 for No."
If somebody says yes, it reads back and confirms the number it thinks you're on, or if not then you're asked to input the number. That's all it'd take...
If being certified to fly is something that wasn't a requirement when you got the job, and then becomes one to "keep the your job" without them providing the training... then they've just changed your job description. They can't fire you for not meeting the new description, if they let you go they've laid you off.
Big difference between the too... it means you're entitled to a full cash-out of your vacation time, severance, and unemployment. Suddenly, that cost savings for making you take the training on their own gets wiped out with the cost of having to get rid of you...
I'd rather carry my own personal cell phone because I don't want to have two devices in my pocket and I want to be able to make personal calls on my own dime.
However, if they're calling, I wanna be on the overtime clock. Sure, I'm not gonna bother if all they're asking for is a "Where'd the X wind up? or How do I?..." kind of question, but if things are crashing on the weekend then that's usually there fault for not buying the upgrade that woulda kept the system from doing that. You want to make sure that buying that upgrade is cheaper than ruining your weekends...
Depending on state laws and the size of a company, there comes a point where a company can't even publish an employee directory that contains home landline numbers, nevermind cell phone numbers.
If your company is subject to such laws, then the only way they can publish an after-hours contact number for you is to be paying for a cell phone that they gave you. Otherwise, your number can only be given out by yourself.
Yes, but just like auto milage you can only write off things that can be itemized towards work-related use. Since most people pay for broadband on an "unmetered" basis, those extra 20 MB for work usage didn't cost you anything more than you would have paid for all your personal use of the connection which of course is not tax deductable. Therefore, you get to deduct a big fat ZERO.
Nobody really needs to carry a blackbery, a cell phone, and a pager in this day and age. The three devices are so close tech they all fit in one shell with your choice of form factors ranging from the T-Mobile Sidekick to the standard Nokia models.
Business calls should only be a few minutes a month anyway, nothing you should lose money over. If you're being called regularly on the weekends, then the business has more serious issues about staffing...
In my experience, it's been assumed that IT pros would have home Internet access because, well, what IT pro wouldn't have at least a consumer dial-up account if not broadband.
Paying for those things is a company's way of passing the employee some cash-value compensation without it being considered taxable income. So, add 20%-30% (depending on your personal tax rate) to the cost and consider that as have been subtracted from your pay package... consider yourself insulted.
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How many Google Accounts does one need? Google presently maintains unrelated signons for...
- Google AdWords (to buy ads with Google)
- Google AdSense (for webmasters who want to show Google's ads)
- Google Answers (their rather obscure paid researcher solution)
- Free SiteSearch (for webmasters who want a custom colorset when users use a Google box on their site)
- Google API (for programmers who want to use Google via SOAP)
- GMail (the hot webmail beta test)
- Google Groups Beta (the new service we're talking about)
- Blogger (the blog site they aquired)
Yahoo and MSN/Passort of course have the privacy implications of there being a single-signon accross a wide network of websites some of which are operated by partner companies... but Google is developing the reverse problem. As you move from one service of Google to another, and the user may very well have different passwords at each of the logon points. Very confusing, and an annoyance to users.
The good news is that Google appears to be in the process of merging these databases for the free services and an account created today for one free services now gets access to all of them except GMail. They are showing signs that they intend on getting AdWords and AdSense into that system as well. Hopefully we'll just need one google.com cookie to get everything Google has soon...
That's a true statement about the state of Verizon Wireless today, but neglects the history of where the bulk of their bandwidth licenses come from...
Verizon Wireless has heritage in the fact that FCC handed out the original cellular licenses in pairs in each area.. one went to the Baby Bell company of the area, and another went to a competor company. (Celluar being an unproven business at the time, the competitor slot went to the first company to stand up and be willing to invest in the technology... and there was sometimes a wait to find that newcomer.) As a result, Bell Atlantic, NYNEX and GTE (the Baby Bells who'd eventually merge into Verizon) all got into the wireless business that way. Those licenses are now in the hands of Verizon...
As a result, much of Verizon's bandwidth wasn't won at auction either.
This has been the FCC's way of dealing with spectrum allocations since the Clinton administration...
They're trusting the free market economy to decide who needs the bandwidth the most... an auction shows who is willing to pay the most for the right to use it, and assures the government gets the most money possible out of the transaction.
if your house blocks the highway, they pay you fair market value for it.
And what's fairer than an equal-size slice of RF bandwidth?
Then again, Verizon got most of its cell-phone bandwidth simply for being the Baby Bell company of record... not at an auction.
It's hard to claim the "free lunch" argument when you're munching on one as well...
Kerry fact of the day: Missed 2/3 of all Senate votes, worst attendance record in US Senate.
And John Edwards has an equally bad voting record, it's quite hard to be a senator and run for office at the same time.
However, should Kerry's vote ever be needed to really decide an issue, the Democrats could simply filibuster until he returns to delay the vote.
The fact is, ever since the primary election season, whenever Kerry or any presidential-hopeful senator has been in town, the Republicans have used their control of the agenda to see to it that there would be no roll calls taken so that Kerry and Edwards could end up with the worst voting records.
So far, only one issue has been lost by the Democrats by one vote... but you even need to throw an asterisk next to that because it was an absolute lopsided issue with several Democrats voting with the Republicans. The exact number of Republicans needed crossed over and voted against a bill they actually supported in order to generate that one-vote decison "on the record" that wasn't one in reality.
Well, for all those who are browser-shopping after seeing this story FireFox gets marked off the list of contenders. Who's next?
I can't help but think that this thread from earlier today can be seen as good news from a security context...
Just how does Mozilla/FireFox think it's going to keep malware from tricking the users into granting permission when the clueless masses come over from IE?
$300k per employee is a high stat, but the typical office worker costs a company $100k-$150k a year when things beyond salary such as the cost of supplying that employee with the office space and supplies needed to do their job, insurance costs, administrative expenses, and other such costs are factored in.
Microsoft's major problem is that it's been a long time since they've released a totally new line of products that has been sucessful. Aside from Open Source, Microsoft also has to compete with its own prior versions... Why does somebody who has Windows 2000 need Windows XP? Why does somebody who has Office 2000 need Office XP?...
I don't know of any legal limit on caffeine consumption, but it is known that there is a point where you can fatally overdose on caffeine.
He's a computer programmer. Therefore, he's powered by caffeine. Without it he does not function.
Just wondering if he's been keeping track of the health effects of going to Starbuck's so offten...
I think the solution to this problem should be to mirror something we have in the USA when the two houses of our Congress pass similar but mis-matched bills...
Those two bills are taken to a "conference comittee", where appointed members of the House and Senate hammer out the differences to each other's satisfaction, and report out one unified bill. However, that comittee can't pass their bill on to the President directly, both the full House and Senate must pass exactly same bill with a majority vote in order for that to happen. If either house amends the conference's bill and the other doesn't make the exact same change, then it's back to the comittee room to try again.
The point is that this meeting of the Ministers with briefs shouldn't be able to come up with a binding decision... they should come back with a suggested law their legislative bodies should review and cast the real vote on.
In the USA, the people don't directly elect the president. We might say we do, we might think we do, but really we don't.
What Americans actually vote for is "electors" who have been selected by campaign organizations to be the people who will represent the people who are running for president. Each state holds its own election to determine which slate of electors they will send to the "Electoral College"... whomever gets a majority of the votes for president there wins. (Should three candidates get electoral votes, and nobody gets a majority, the election is kicked to a special session of the House of Representatives where each state gets exactly one vote.)
The point is that these electors were selected by the campaign of the candidate they're supposed to vote for, and are contractually and legally bound to do so... but, uh, what if they don't? That's just plain uncharted Consitutional territory. The Supreme Court would most likely have to issue a ruling that'd end up deciding the outcome, deciding if the votes would stand as originally cast, or if the "expected" result should be used instead effectively making the Electoral College meeting the formality we all want it to be.
That's exactly the situation the EU seems to have worked themselves into here. They've ended up with "unfaithful" representatives who didn't do as they were expected to, and the EU hasn't exactly pondered what to do in such a situation yet.
I'm just saying, it's not like this is a situation that could never happen in the USA...
This could be a scandal that might rock the comparatively-new EU system for a loop. Ministers were being trusted to represent the view of the government that sent them... but it seems as if business interests have found that these individuals are a weak link that can easily be "bought off" and convinced to act on their own.
Of course, the USA didn't get things right on the first try either. We created a national government under the Articles Of Confederation that had so little power it couldn't tax and therefore quickly ran into problems getting anything done. (The writing of the US Constitution was actually a rather peaceful overthrow of the existing US government of the time rather than the creation of a government where there was none.)
However, to qualify as a "home office" your family must never enter that room for non-business reasons. If your daughter's PlayStation is also on the TV in that room some of the time, then it doesn't count anymore...
Verizon's landline telephone support system has the simple fix. It asks "Is the line you are calling in to report trouble with the line you are using right now? Press 1 for Yes, 2 for No."
If somebody says yes, it reads back and confirms the number it thinks you're on, or if not then you're asked to input the number. That's all it'd take...
A company is a group of people... it gains a personality that is formed out of what the people in charge of do on behalf of the company.
If being certified to fly is something that wasn't a requirement when you got the job, and then becomes one to "keep the your job" without them providing the training... then they've just changed your job description. They can't fire you for not meeting the new description, if they let you go they've laid you off.
Big difference between the too... it means you're entitled to a full cash-out of your vacation time, severance, and unemployment. Suddenly, that cost savings for making you take the training on their own gets wiped out with the cost of having to get rid of you...
I'd rather carry my own personal cell phone because I don't want to have two devices in my pocket and I want to be able to make personal calls on my own dime.
However, if they're calling, I wanna be on the overtime clock. Sure, I'm not gonna bother if all they're asking for is a "Where'd the X wind up? or How do I?..." kind of question, but if things are crashing on the weekend then that's usually there fault for not buying the upgrade that woulda kept the system from doing that. You want to make sure that buying that upgrade is cheaper than ruining your weekends...
Depending on state laws and the size of a company, there comes a point where a company can't even publish an employee directory that contains home landline numbers, nevermind cell phone numbers.
If your company is subject to such laws, then the only way they can publish an after-hours contact number for you is to be paying for a cell phone that they gave you. Otherwise, your number can only be given out by yourself.
Yes, but just like auto milage you can only write off things that can be itemized towards work-related use. Since most people pay for broadband on an "unmetered" basis, those extra 20 MB for work usage didn't cost you anything more than you would have paid for all your personal use of the connection which of course is not tax deductable. Therefore, you get to deduct a big fat ZERO.
Nobody really needs to carry a blackbery, a cell phone, and a pager in this day and age. The three devices are so close tech they all fit in one shell with your choice of form factors ranging from the T-Mobile Sidekick to the standard Nokia models.
Business calls should only be a few minutes a month anyway, nothing you should lose money over. If you're being called regularly on the weekends, then the business has more serious issues about staffing...
In my experience, it's been assumed that IT pros would have home Internet access because, well, what IT pro wouldn't have at least a consumer dial-up account if not broadband.
Paying for those things is a company's way of passing the employee some cash-value compensation without it being considered taxable income. So, add 20%-30% (depending on your personal tax rate) to the cost and consider that as have been subtracted from your pay package... consider yourself insulted.