Several companies pushed things a little to far in recent years and collected information in ways and amounts that would have made the StaSi (or any other secret police) proud. The new law would not not only put a limit to these (in several cases already illegal) practices, but also give the companies clear guidelines on what to do if they suspect theft or abuse. Lidl (a large discount chain) did especially well in the illegal data collection field if you need something to Google.
If you do not trust your employees by default you are not worthy of loyalty.
The sad truth is that a vast number of slashdot users will go to great lengths to defend a point that would be invalidated the second they clicked on the link and maybe (I know, I'm asking a lot here...) read more then the headline. *sigh*
What about a muggers interface for this? You could even write an App for "your" (the last owner didn't really need it anyway) IPhone so it tells you the location of other "revenue sources" around you. Or the stalker App (also runs on your basement desktop pc), or the "more than 5 IPhones per 10m^2, so let's drop something" addon for flying drones, or the...
It's not like the stop you on the street and ask you for ID just for the sake of it. On the other hand a friend of mine had to spend an our at a police station while waiting for his mother to pick up the wallet he forgot at home. Why? Well apart from his ID card the wallet also contained his monthly bus ticket that he could not show to the other guy asking for "die Fahrkarten bitte". After being able to show both ticket and ID card the wished him a nice day and that's it. It always depends on what you do and what people around you do. Had the event (streetgolfing) in question happened in Germany, they of probably would have asked for the IDs of everyone present, as either witnesses or possible being the one shooting Styrofoam balls into other peoples faces and mocking them about it. So they would have known whom to contact if the whole thing went to court. If one of them did not have an ID (or didn't want to admit it) they probably would have let him leave if someone else confirmed his identity. Even if they took him with them, he would not have been under arrest and would have been free to go, as soon as his identity was confirmed.
In Germany you are at all times required to carry your ID card (Personalausweis) or a passport and to show it to a police officer when asked to do so. Not carrying one can result in a fine and you can be held in custody until your identity is proven. If the ID card is outdated, a small fine is also possible. Please note the "can" part in all that. Police aren't usually bullying people and in most cases they simply remind you of the fact. Also the proof of your identity might be someone with ID willing to confirm yours or in some cases the police driving you back home so you can pick up your wallet. This is also not a criminal offense and a minor fine is the most that can happen to you.
Actually, by the time his "rescuer" reached him he was already standing on the ground and didn't really want to talk to this strange woman who climbed over the fence for whatever reason. After being addressed by staff on issues of "what are you doing here" she got very excited and ran away (over the fence again). The mother of said boy seems to be quite happy on how the staff reacted and that his "rescuer" was not able to scare him any more than she did. Citation? A few posts down by harryjohnston... Good example of staff did their work perfectly, weird stranger comes by, gets questioned and the school has newspapers coming down like hyenas on them.
Agreed. I never really understood the point of those against this. On the other hand I never understood how people in a developed country like the US would be barred from medical treatment that is needed.
I'm not saying the introduced system is perfect, but coming from a place with universal health care I'd say this is an important first step that should have been taken decades ago.
As a side node: Probably any universal health care system in existence sucks in any number of aspects, but compared to having none at all, they are like shining diamonds.
I once was riding in a russian electric bus (interesting concept btw.). The door didn't close completly, so the driver got out and gave it a few good kicks. On of our local friends turned around and said with a smile (insert strong accent here): "Russian technology". That really made our day
Actually 1907 is considered the beginning of the scout movement. But I suppose it took a few years for the Americans to join this "little" club a retired british general started.
Now you see what happens if you chop of a kings head - His coat of Arms gets grabbed by the NFL...
IMHO companies and organisations should be suable for beeing stupid and pissing everybody off in the process. Maybe we could ask the French to sue them about it. Or the Boy Scouts, or a few thousand city councils, a country or two and a lot of other people
The dean calls in the heads of the university departments for budget issues. Dean: Come on physics, do you really need all this expensive equipment? Look at mathematics, all they need is paper, pencils and a wastebasket. Mathematics: Even better, why not look at philosopy. They don't even need a wastebasket...
In Germany, there should a hotspot in every internet cafe, major railway stations and airports. Recently quite a couple of Cafe's/Bars started adding Hotspots to attract additional customers. This is backed by a huge initiative by T-Mobile Germany, offering cafes uplink and equipment. And you could also invest in some decent wardriving euipment and go downton or drive up a hill. Many little APs and many clueless users...
We used to have an agreement on password security I liked a lot in the physics departmant: Choose any password you like and change it as often or rarely as you like. Just be aware there is a little cracking program running in the background which will disable your account if it succeeds. And btw. all those lucky fellows also had to bring a cake to the christmas party.
Not that I had to do this before on several occasions, but you can saw the cylinder of quite cleanly (less than 1mm steel). If you are careful this won't even scratch the surface - At least with older Kensingtons, did't have to cut a newer model yet.
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Several companies pushed things a little to far in recent years and collected information in ways and amounts that would have made the StaSi (or any other secret police) proud. The new law would not not only put a limit to these (in several cases already illegal) practices, but also give the companies clear guidelines on what to do if they suspect theft or abuse.
Lidl (a large discount chain) did especially well in the illegal data collection field if you need something to Google.
If you do not trust your employees by default you are not worthy of loyalty.
RTFA? You must be new here...
The sad truth is that a vast number of slashdot users will go to great lengths to defend a point that would be invalidated the second they clicked on the link and maybe (I know, I'm asking a lot here...) read more then the headline. *sigh*
nice...
What about a muggers interface for this? You could even write an App for "your" (the last owner didn't really need it anyway) IPhone so it tells you the location of other "revenue sources" around you. ...
Or the stalker App (also runs on your basement desktop pc), or the "more than 5 IPhones per 10m^2, so let's drop something" addon for flying drones, or the
sigh.
Considering that more than once people dead and buried won an election, I'd say no.
Please let this be a joke. Pleeeaaaaaasseee!!!
Come on, we all know there is just one kind of person in the world and that person is Chuck Norris.
Everyone else just doesn't count.
Should you disagree Mr. Norris will be more than happy to give you one of his rounhouse kick math lessons.
Sidenote: "Bock" is usualy two to three times stronger than ordinary beer - some up to 12% Alkohol.
It's not like the stop you on the street and ask you for ID just for the sake of it.
On the other hand a friend of mine had to spend an our at a police station while waiting for his mother to pick up the wallet he forgot at home. Why? Well apart from his ID card the wallet also contained his monthly bus ticket that he could not show to the other guy asking for "die Fahrkarten bitte". After being able to show both ticket and ID card the wished him a nice day and that's it.
It always depends on what you do and what people around you do.
Had the event (streetgolfing) in question happened in Germany, they of probably would have asked for the IDs of everyone present, as either witnesses or possible being the one shooting Styrofoam balls into other peoples faces and mocking them about it. So they would have known whom to contact if the whole thing went to court. If one of them did not have an ID (or didn't want to admit it) they probably would have let him leave if someone else confirmed his identity. Even if they took him with them, he would not have been under arrest and would have been free to go, as soon as his identity was confirmed.
In Germany you are at all times required to carry your ID card (Personalausweis) or a passport and to show it to a police officer when asked to do so. Not carrying one can result in a fine and you can be held in custody until your identity is proven. If the ID card is outdated, a small fine is also possible.
Please note the "can" part in all that. Police aren't usually bullying people and in most cases they simply remind you of the fact.
Also the proof of your identity might be someone with ID willing to confirm yours or in some cases the police driving you back home so you can pick up your wallet.
This is also not a criminal offense and a minor fine is the most that can happen to you.
Actually, by the time his "rescuer" reached him he was already standing on the ground and didn't really want to talk to this strange woman who climbed over the fence for whatever reason. After being addressed by staff on issues of "what are you doing here" she got very excited and ran away (over the fence again).
The mother of said boy seems to be quite happy on how the staff reacted and that his "rescuer" was not able to scare him any more than she did.
Citation? A few posts down by harryjohnston...
Good example of staff did their work perfectly, weird stranger comes by, gets questioned and the school has newspapers coming down like hyenas on them.
Very interesting to see the difference between the news story (and the comments here) and what really happened.
Agreed. I never really understood the point of those against this. On the other hand I never understood how people in a developed country like the US would be barred from medical treatment that is needed.
I'm not saying the introduced system is perfect, but coming from a place with universal health care I'd say this is an important first step that should have been taken decades ago.
As a side node: Probably any universal health care system in existence sucks in any number of aspects, but compared to having none at all, they are like shining diamonds.
Burn! Burn! Burn!
(No this is not flaming, it's a correct answer)
I once was riding in a russian electric bus (interesting concept btw.). The door didn't close completly, so the driver got out and gave it a few good kicks. On of our local friends turned around and said with a smile (insert strong accent here): "Russian technology".
That really made our day
Actually 1907 is considered the beginning of the scout movement. But I suppose it took a few years for the Americans to join this "little" club a retired british general started.
for further reading: http://scout.org/ and of course http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Organization_of_the_Scout_Movement
In related headlines: "Haggis - dish or dare?"
Now you see what happens if you chop of a kings head - His coat of Arms gets grabbed by the NFL...
IMHO companies and organisations should be suable for beeing stupid and pissing everybody off in the process. Maybe we could ask the French to sue them about it. Or the Boy Scouts, or a few thousand city councils, a country or two and a lot of other people
The dean calls in the heads of the university departments for budget issues.
Dean: Come on physics, do you really need all this expensive equipment? Look at mathematics, all they need is paper, pencils and a wastebasket.
Mathematics: Even better, why not look at philosopy. They don't even need a wastebasket...
Not beamed, but to space anyway (BBC News)
Rest in peace
and the www too!
In Germany, there should a hotspot in every internet cafe, major railway stations and airports. Recently quite a couple of Cafe's/Bars started adding Hotspots to attract additional customers. This is backed by a huge initiative by T-Mobile Germany, offering cafes uplink and equipment.
And you could also invest in some decent wardriving euipment and go downton or drive up a hill. Many little APs and many clueless users...
do some serious dynamite fishing?
We used to have an agreement on password security I liked a lot in the physics departmant: Choose any password you like and change it as often or rarely as you like. Just be aware there is a little cracking program running in the background which will disable your account if it succeeds. And btw. all those lucky fellows also had to bring a cake to the christmas party.
Not that I had to do this before on several occasions, but you can saw the cylinder of quite cleanly (less than 1mm steel). If you are careful this won't even scratch the surface - At least with older Kensingtons, did't have to cut a newer model yet.