Why is it that I know people who have applied for patents for original ideas and have been rejected, but these non-inovations from MS seem to easily get patented? Is it just a matter of throwing money and lawyers at the USPO?
In my experience, all the people I know who have submitted patents get nice form letters from the government saying how similar the invention is to something else and why they can not give a patent for this invention, even when the invention is really something new. It makes me wonder when I see some of the patents that do get approval. Is it just a matter of throwing gobs of cash at patent lawyers and you can get a patent on anything?
-Did any of you communists bother to read the article? Every single nurse interviewed by the Boston Globe spoke favorably of it. They liked the flexibility it offered them (presumably, they preferred it to being ordered to work extra shifts when the boss decided, rather than when they wanted them).
Right, the majority of the people they spoke to...But wait...
"But the bidding process is a phenomenon that the Massachusetts Nurses Association, for example, views with a jaundiced eye.
"This is a Band-Aid approach to the nursing shortage, a way to get nurses to work for the lowest dollars. So, our union nurses wouldn't accept it," asserted David Schildmeier, spokesman for the association, which he said represents nurses working for 65 percent of the state's acute-care hospitals."
The one labor representitive they spoke to hates the idea, big surprise.
-Moreover, most of them said they were "more often than not" able to get the maximum rate being offered by the hospital. One nurse regularly bid for about $5.00 less than the maximum ($37.00 as opposed to the maximum of $42.50), and has gotten the shifts she wanted every single time.
This shows the downward trend of wages inspired by this system.
-I would suggest the reason this works is because nurses are very well educated and certainly know the value of their labor. And because there is a high demand for their labor, they have plenty of opportunities to go elsewhere should their current hospital treat them unfairly.
I agree, the nurses at that hospital should walk out and not come back until the administration of the hospital offers better labor policy.
It is the responsibility of the owner of the transmitter to restrict the coverage area of the signal, thats the science of it, take it or leave it.
As for "stealing" internet access, was the library actually stupid enough to pay for a metered internet plan?!?
We need to take a more common sense approach to the issue of connecting to an unsecured network. I do this all the time and I do not see it as trespass. I feel that it is not like walking into someone's house after they left the door open, but rather like sitting on a bench that the homeowner has placed near the sidewalk. Even this analogy is not all that accurate, because when you use an open network you may not be on this person's property.
If you don't want people using your bandwidth, then turn down your transmission power, turn on wep, turn off your ssid broadcast, or any of the other measures that have been made available to you for just this reason.
If you don't know how to do these things then HIRE someone to do it. An honest computer professional will only charge you an hour of labor for this service, more if you have several wirelessly connected computers.
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Why is it that I know people who have applied for patents for original ideas and have been rejected, but these non-inovations from MS seem to easily get patented? Is it just a matter of throwing money and lawyers at the USPO?
Or better yet, work out something where you split the cost/month, and piggyback with some security.
In my experience, all the people I know who have submitted patents get nice form letters from the government saying how similar the invention is to something else and why they can not give a patent for this invention, even when the invention is really something new. It makes me wonder when I see some of the patents that do get approval. Is it just a matter of throwing gobs of cash at patent lawyers and you can get a patent on anything?
-Did any of you communists bother to read the article? Every single nurse interviewed by the Boston Globe spoke favorably of it. They liked the flexibility it offered them (presumably, they preferred it to being ordered to work extra shifts when the boss decided, rather than when they wanted them).
Right, the majority of the people they spoke to...But wait...
"But the bidding process is a phenomenon that the Massachusetts Nurses Association, for example, views with a jaundiced eye.
"This is a Band-Aid approach to the nursing shortage, a way to get nurses to work for the lowest dollars. So, our union nurses wouldn't accept it," asserted David Schildmeier, spokesman for the association, which he said represents nurses working for 65 percent of the state's acute-care hospitals."
The one labor representitive they spoke to hates the idea, big surprise.
-Moreover, most of them said they were "more often than not" able to get the maximum rate being offered by the hospital. One nurse regularly bid for about $5.00 less than the maximum ($37.00 as opposed to the maximum of $42.50), and has gotten the shifts she wanted every single time.
This shows the downward trend of wages inspired by this system.
-I would suggest the reason this works is because nurses are very well educated and certainly know the value of their labor. And because there is a high demand for their labor, they have plenty of opportunities to go elsewhere should their current hospital treat them unfairly.
I agree, the nurses at that hospital should walk out and not come back until the administration of the hospital offers better labor policy.
It is the responsibility of the owner of the transmitter to restrict the coverage area of the signal, thats the science of it, take it or leave it.
As for "stealing" internet access, was the library actually stupid enough to pay for a metered internet plan?!?
We need to take a more common sense approach to the issue of connecting to an unsecured network. I do this all the time and I do not see it as trespass. I feel that it is not like walking into someone's house after they left the door open, but rather like sitting on a bench that the homeowner has placed near the sidewalk. Even this analogy is not all that accurate, because when you use an open network you may not be on this person's property. If you don't want people using your bandwidth, then turn down your transmission power, turn on wep, turn off your ssid broadcast, or any of the other measures that have been made available to you for just this reason. If you don't know how to do these things then HIRE someone to do it. An honest computer professional will only charge you an hour of labor for this service, more if you have several wirelessly connected computers.