Then there is an code of ethics violation reporting mechanism. Contact them, contact internal audit, or contact corporate legal.
Reporting to the code of ethics violation provides you the strongest protection, because there is a stated policy that you cannot be retaliated against (still no guarantee that you will not be, just that it will help you in the subsequent multi-million dollar lawsuit you can bring). Make sure you mention the violation of COPPA and ask THEM to contact corp legal.
Also understand that you will not be seen as a hero. You will be branded as a troublemaker, so better be ready to switch jobs.
(Yes, I have been in a very similar position)
PS: I see some advice about documenting your interaction with the manager for the time when the shit hits the fan. Trust me, will not help you a whit if it came to that.
Sorry, formatting lost in my previous post.
A lot of this data is collected now and goes to the state. Is the sky-is-falling reaction due to the fact that the data will go to InBloom, a private entity?
In one scene, a teacher with a tablet crouches next to a second-grader evaluating how many words per minute he can read: 55 words read; 43 correctly. -- This has been done since typewriters were introduced in classes
Later, she moves to a student named Tyler and selects an e-book 'for at-risk students' for his further reading. The video follows Tyler home, where his mom logs into a parent portal for an update on his status — attendance, 86%; performance, 72% — and taps a button to send the e-book to play on the family TV. -- Supplemental reading? The only difference is, it is going to a TV
And another scene shows a geometry teacher reassigning students' seating assignments based on their 'character strengths', moving a green-coded female student ('actively participates: 98%') next to a red-and-yellow coded boy ('shows enthusiasm: 67%'). -- And kids with vision problems are also moved to the front of the class. What the point?
A lot of this data is collected now and goes to the state. Is the sky-is-falling reaction due to the fact that the data will go to InBloom, a private entity?
In one scene, a teacher with a tablet crouches next to a second-grader evaluating how many words per minute he can read: 55 words read; 43 correctly.
-- This has been done since typewriters were introduced in classes
Later, she moves to a student named Tyler and selects an e-book 'for at-risk students' for his further reading. The video follows Tyler home, where his mom logs into a parent portal for an update on his status — attendance, 86%; performance, 72% — and taps a button to send the e-book to play on the family TV.
-- Supplemental reading? The only difference is, it is going to a TV
And another scene shows a geometry teacher reassigning students' seating assignments based on their 'character strengths', moving a green-coded female student ('actively participates: 98%') next to a red-and-yellow coded boy ('shows enthusiasm: 67%').
-- And kids with vision problems are also moved to the front of the class. What the point?
The reused images were in a 2004 article. So while the substance of the headline is accurate, it would make people think that the recent paper was guilty of that. Whether the hasty review of the current paper results in missing some mistake is a totally different question
but she drives it quite well and she DOES not need to know about how engines and transmissions work. Yes, it would be nice, but it is NOT necessary You are going to lose your audience if you give them the "basic components and architecture -> networking -> software -> proprietary vs open source".
Without knowing your product, I am betting most people will use it using a web browser.
Here is an outline:
What the ERM will do for the company (I presume they already know this, so no more than a few minutes on this.
To run the ERM, we will need:
new server? (why?)
new computers? (why?)
new network? (why?)
This is how you will use it:
A
B
C
Relevant bit of history: Until 1971, Bangladesh used to be called East Pakistan and the current Pakistan was called West Pakistan. Both parts together made up Pakistan, but the East and the West didn't share a common language or culture. In 1952, the West tried to impose Urdu as the sole official language, which resulted in people protesting, and dying, to protect Bangla (Bengali) on Feb 21, 1952. This was eventually recognized by the UN as the International Mother Language Day
But the attitude didn't change, and after losing an election overwhelmingly to a political party based mostly in East Pakistan, the loser from the West worked with the military to not hand over the power and instead let loose The Pakistani Army, which, with the help of local collaborators (Rajakars), killed 3 million people and raped 200,000 women in 1971. One of the stated reasons was to "Protect Islam."
Fast forward to 2012. Now there is a war-crimes trial going on for some of the top Rajakars, and like the Arab Spring, social media headed by young bloggers took a leading role in holding the war criminals accountable.
So the Rajakars, who predominantly belong to a party called Jamaat-E-Islami, are trying to inflame popular sentiment (which is overwhelmingly against them) through propaganda that all bloggers are Atheists. Their campaign is funded by huge influx of money from the middle east and a network of highly profitable businesses in Bangladesh. They own TV stations and newspapers that are using photoshopped images to show the alleged debauchery and insults to Islam of the so-called Atheists.
So this is not just a left vs. right issue as people elsewhere might interpret it. This is an active campaign for the Talibanization of Bangladesh along with a campaign to protect people who allegedly committed crimes against humanity.
The process is not to ban just rightist parties (there are plenty)--the process aims to ban Jamaat-E-Islami, which has never clearly stated that their role in 1971 (of helping with genocide and rape) was wrong, and which is headed by people who actively participated in the genocide and rape.
For freedom-loving people everywhere, this must not be allowed to stand. "Atheists bloggers" is just a red herring--don't let this cheap trick by alleged criminals muddy the water.
The patent in question is for "Side-channel communications in simultaneous voice and data transmission "
Does this apply to you? How? I run a business, and I use WiFi. I couldn't figure out how the legal threat applies to me. Can you think of how exactly this applies to you? If not, you could simply ignore the letter.
And while I am not an attorney, if you are going to get sued then sole-proprietorship is kinda risky if you have significant personal assets. Think about converting to a LLC. They can still take the company, but they can't take your house
The pink conch has a penis half its body length and mates for hours. When it is having sex eels and lobsters may eat it's dick but no problem--it will grow a new one in a few months
When teacher pay was linked to student achievement in standardized tests, some Chicago teachers decided to 'help' students during tests, and were subsequently caught through statistical analysis
TSA: Sir, please empty your pockets, even scraps of paper, then step into this booth and place your feet on the yellow footprints.
Me: I'd like to request a patdown, please
TSA: Certainly sir, please wait here.
Approx 3 min wait, then someone walked over, and spent another minute explaining how he will touch my butt and pelvic area with only the back of his hand, then he proceeded to do that
The actual pat-down took another 3 minutes and was quite thorough
It felt a bit intrusive, but not having experienced one before I don't know if I got the new, enchanced version or not.
Like parent above, this was my silent protest: let them waste time on this. I will continue to opt for the pat-down.
It clearly states this is an international effort, and the objection is not the the unit 'kilogram' but rather to using a decaying (however slowly) object as the reference mass.
I must say I am pleasantly surprised that State Farm paid Innes, instead of finding him at fault. (whether he is also a State Farm policy holder or not is immaterial--the at-fault person's premium's are going to go up)
TFA asks: "Finally, are you one of those Nobel prizewinners who is going to go crazy now that you've won? "
The interviewer probably didn't know that Dr. Geim won the Ig Nobel for levitating a frog.
Between that and the fact that he cited saving taxpayer's money as a reason behind not filing a patent and his Friday experiments (which led to the scotch-tape on graphite) discovery, I think I have a new hero.
Last I checked, "Muslim" was recognised as neither an ethnicity, nor a nationality. But don't get that in the way of trying to make life simple for yourself or others.
Salman Khan, IIRC, was born in New Awlins, and his parents are from some province in India. Someone else can add to that if they're so inclined.
Either way, he's an amazing guy. The word would be a better place if there more "Muslims" like him around.;-)
His mother is from the Indian state of West Bengal, his father is from Bangladesh, which is a country
How is the asset (people/equipment) location determined and sent back to the HQ? Once you have that piece of information in your database, isn't it as simple as plotting on google maps?
The story in TSNM: one programmer was asked to build something quick and dirty in 6 weeks, the other one was asked to build something much more detailed. the quick and dirty version was used until the detailed version came out 5 months after the first one. There was friendly competition, but this does not match at all the "one will fail, one will be so-so and one will be great."
I wonder what the definition of "newspaper" will be for the purpose of this law--will it be dead-tree only? Otherwise someone should generate all possible combination of words resulting in (perhaps nonsense) sentences of lets say 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 words, and then of course protect them with this law.
Once the list is generated, the now idle servers can be stuffed up the ass of the greedy bastards who want this law.
Slashdot Mirror
Fortune 500? Publicly traded company?
Then there is an code of ethics violation reporting mechanism. Contact them, contact internal audit, or contact corporate legal.
Reporting to the code of ethics violation provides you the strongest protection, because there is a stated policy that you cannot be retaliated against (still no guarantee that you will not be, just that it will help you in the subsequent multi-million dollar lawsuit you can bring). Make sure you mention the violation of COPPA and ask THEM to contact corp legal.
Also understand that you will not be seen as a hero. You will be branded as a troublemaker, so better be ready to switch jobs.
(Yes, I have been in a very similar position)
PS: I see some advice about documenting your interaction with the manager for the time when the shit hits the fan. Trust me, will not help you a whit if it came to that.
Sorry, formatting lost in my previous post. A lot of this data is collected now and goes to the state. Is the sky-is-falling reaction due to the fact that the data will go to InBloom, a private entity?
In one scene, a teacher with a tablet crouches next to a second-grader evaluating how many words per minute he can read: 55 words read; 43 correctly.
-- This has been done since typewriters were introduced in classes
Later, she moves to a student named Tyler and selects an e-book 'for at-risk students' for his further reading. The video follows Tyler home, where his mom logs into a parent portal for an update on his status — attendance, 86%; performance, 72% — and taps a button to send the e-book to play on the family TV.
-- Supplemental reading? The only difference is, it is going to a TV
And another scene shows a geometry teacher reassigning students' seating assignments based on their 'character strengths', moving a green-coded female student ('actively participates: 98%') next to a red-and-yellow coded boy ('shows enthusiasm: 67%').
-- And kids with vision problems are also moved to the front of the class. What the point?
A lot of this data is collected now and goes to the state. Is the sky-is-falling reaction due to the fact that the data will go to InBloom, a private entity? In one scene, a teacher with a tablet crouches next to a second-grader evaluating how many words per minute he can read: 55 words read; 43 correctly. -- This has been done since typewriters were introduced in classes Later, she moves to a student named Tyler and selects an e-book 'for at-risk students' for his further reading. The video follows Tyler home, where his mom logs into a parent portal for an update on his status — attendance, 86%; performance, 72% — and taps a button to send the e-book to play on the family TV. -- Supplemental reading? The only difference is, it is going to a TV And another scene shows a geometry teacher reassigning students' seating assignments based on their 'character strengths', moving a green-coded female student ('actively participates: 98%') next to a red-and-yellow coded boy ('shows enthusiasm: 67%'). -- And kids with vision problems are also moved to the front of the class. What the point?
In other news, amateur rocket organization Copenhagen Suborbitals recently reported theft of unspecified electronic components from its offices
The reused images were in a 2004 article. So while the substance of the headline is accurate, it would make people think that the recent paper was guilty of that. Whether the hasty review of the current paper results in missing some mistake is a totally different question
but she drives it quite well and she DOES not need to know about how engines and transmissions work. Yes, it would be nice, but it is NOT necessary
You are going to lose your audience if you give them the "basic components and architecture -> networking -> software -> proprietary vs open source".
Without knowing your product, I am betting most people will use it using a web browser.
Here is an outline:
What the ERM will do for the company (I presume they already know this, so no more than a few minutes on this.
To run the ERM, we will need:
new server? (why?)
new computers? (why?)
new network? (why?)
This is how you will use it:
A
B
C
Relevant bit of history: Until 1971, Bangladesh used to be called East Pakistan and the current Pakistan was called West Pakistan. Both parts together made up Pakistan, but the East and the West didn't share a common language or culture. In 1952, the West tried to impose Urdu as the sole official language, which resulted in people protesting, and dying, to protect Bangla (Bengali) on Feb 21, 1952. This was eventually recognized by the UN as the International Mother Language Day
But the attitude didn't change, and after losing an election overwhelmingly to a political party based mostly in East Pakistan, the loser from the West worked with the military to not hand over the power and instead let loose The Pakistani Army, which, with the help of local collaborators (Rajakars), killed 3 million people and raped 200,000 women in 1971. One of the stated reasons was to "Protect Islam."
Fast forward to 2012. Now there is a war-crimes trial going on for some of the top Rajakars, and like the Arab Spring, social media headed by young bloggers took a leading role in holding the war criminals accountable.
So the Rajakars, who predominantly belong to a party called Jamaat-E-Islami, are trying to inflame popular sentiment (which is overwhelmingly against them) through propaganda that all bloggers are Atheists. Their campaign is funded by huge influx of money from the middle east and a network of highly profitable businesses in Bangladesh. They own TV stations and newspapers that are using photoshopped images to show the alleged debauchery and insults to Islam of the so-called Atheists.
So this is not just a left vs. right issue as people elsewhere might interpret it. This is an active campaign for the Talibanization of Bangladesh along with a campaign to protect people who allegedly committed crimes against humanity.
The process is not to ban just rightist parties (there are plenty)--the process aims to ban Jamaat-E-Islami, which has never clearly stated that their role in 1971 (of helping with genocide and rape) was wrong, and which is headed by people who actively participated in the genocide and rape.
For freedom-loving people everywhere, this must not be allowed to stand. "Atheists bloggers" is just a red herring--don't let this cheap trick by alleged criminals muddy the water.
The patent in question is for "Side-channel communications in simultaneous voice and data transmission "
Does this apply to you? How? I run a business, and I use WiFi. I couldn't figure out how the legal threat applies to me. Can you think of how exactly this applies to you? If not, you could simply ignore the letter.
And while I am not an attorney, if you are going to get sued then sole-proprietorship is kinda risky if you have significant personal assets. Think about converting to a LLC. They can still take the company, but they can't take your house
You can easily get the domain name that matches her name.
1. Have her trademark it
2. File a UDRP
For the rest, SEO.
BTW, you are not the crazy ex trying to figure out how she can take away your cyber-stalking, right?
Sounds too much like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart%27s_Comet
The pink conch has a penis half its body length and mates for hours. When it is having sex eels and lobsters may eat it's dick but no problem--it will grow a new one in a few months
I think they made a mistake with the name, it should be Meganecta Schlongi.
When teacher pay was linked to student achievement in standardized tests, some Chicago teachers decided to 'help' students during tests, and were subsequently caught through statistical analysis
TSA: Sir, please empty your pockets, even scraps of paper, then step into this booth and place your feet on the yellow footprints. Me: I'd like to request a patdown, please TSA: Certainly sir, please wait here. Approx 3 min wait, then someone walked over, and spent another minute explaining how he will touch my butt and pelvic area with only the back of his hand, then he proceeded to do that The actual pat-down took another 3 minutes and was quite thorough It felt a bit intrusive, but not having experienced one before I don't know if I got the new, enchanced version or not. Like parent above, this was my silent protest: let them waste time on this. I will continue to opt for the pat-down.
It clearly states this is an international effort, and the objection is not the the unit 'kilogram' but rather to using a decaying (however slowly) object as the reference mass.
That dude is a moron. Unless there was another traveler, and they took a cellphone network (tower and all) who was she talking to, and over what?
I must say I am pleasantly surprised that State Farm paid Innes, instead of finding him at fault. (whether he is also a State Farm policy holder or not is immaterial--the at-fault person's premium's are going to go up)
TFA asks: "Finally, are you one of those Nobel prizewinners who is going to go crazy now that you've won? "
The interviewer probably didn't know that Dr. Geim won the Ig Nobel for levitating a frog.
Between that and the fact that he cited saving taxpayer's money as a reason behind not filing a patent and his Friday experiments (which led to the scotch-tape on graphite) discovery, I think I have a new hero.
Or you know those dang aliens will stake a claim first and ambush us at the dry gulch.
For some very good science fiction about this, read the Manifold series by Stephen Baxter
I second that suggestion.. it takes extraordinary willpower to do something like that but if she can that will be the best gift for the kids.
You sir are a true romantic and I salute you, and I wish and hope that you and your kids will find the strength to deal with his.
Lastly, please tell your wife that she must be an extraordinary person for you to want to preserve her memory.
Kahn = Jewish
Khan = Muslim
Last I checked, "Muslim" was recognised as neither an ethnicity, nor a nationality. But don't get that in the way of trying to make life simple for yourself or others.
Salman Khan, IIRC, was born in New Awlins, and his parents are from some province in India. Someone else can add to that if they're so inclined.
Either way, he's an amazing guy. The word would be a better place if there more "Muslims" like him around. ;-)
His mother is from the Indian state of West Bengal, his father is from Bangladesh, which is a country
How is the asset (people/equipment) location determined and sent back to the HQ? Once you have that piece of information in your database, isn't it as simple as plotting on google maps?
The story in TSNM: one programmer was asked to build something quick and dirty in 6 weeks, the other one was asked to build something much more detailed. the quick and dirty version was used until the detailed version came out 5 months after the first one. There was friendly competition, but this does not match at all the "one will fail, one will be so-so and one will be great."
I wonder what the definition of "newspaper" will be for the purpose of this law--will it be dead-tree only? Otherwise someone should generate all possible combination of words resulting in (perhaps nonsense) sentences of lets say 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 words, and then of course protect them with this law.
Once the list is generated, the now idle servers can be stuffed up the ass of the greedy bastards who want this law.
... I wanted to cry