The argument that Telus had to block access to the site because it contained pictures of their employees for the purpose of harassing them is completely specious. If that were the case, then the Telus had the ability to do what anyone else could do in such a case: go through legal channels to get the offending pictures removed. Just because they happened to have the ability to unilaterally block access to the pictures doesn't give them the right to do it
I'm not a lawyer, employement or otherwise, but I'm pretty sure your boss can tell you whom you can and can't hang out with, on your own time, already. We have employment at will - that means that as long as the reason they're firing you isn't a specifically forbidden form of discrimination, they can fire you for anything they like. Smoking at home, for instance, has been upheld as a valid reason for firing, if the company has a policy against it.
The Constitution guarantees freedom of association, but that just means the government can't prevent you from associating with whom you please. It doesn't mean that a company has to employ you if they don't like the people you associate with for some reason.
Conceivably union rules might prevent someone from being fired for a reason like that, if the employee were in a union. But otherwise, as long as you're free to quit for any reason you want, they're free to fire you for any reason they want.
> Why not use Faraday's Principle of Induction like these LED torches [thinkgeek.com]
Sort of handy, but I can't help but chuckle at:
"Forever Flashlight" (one-year warranty).
Seems like you're projecting something of your own on the pic that's not really there. It's just cute. Like, dogs playing poker cute. You see it and smile. I seriously doubt it's intended to appeal to anyone's prurient interests.
It would seem like this would be more a case of defamation or libel. The trick would be to show actual damage. Damage to your reputation counts, but here it only effects your reputation with your ISP, not your reputation with the general public. Although if your ISP has a formal or informal policy of disabling accounts of people who've had a certain number of complaints against them for whatever reason, you could have suffered meaningful damage to your reputation.
At best you might force them to send a letter to your ISP admitting their mistake. Unless you could could possibly get punitive damages based on reckless disregard or something, which might be worth shooting for.
Sure, this is very easy, especially if you're willing to call from your computer using a headset. I use the free X-lite client from www.xten.com, and www.sipphone.com. You can buy time in $10 increments, and call any sip phone in the world for free, or any POTS phone (normal telephone) for between three cents a minute in the US/Canada, to a max of I think six cents a minute for China.
Or you can buy a box that attaches to your router or cable modem and does the same thing, but has an actual telephone attached to it rather than using an application on your PC.
Yes, that's exactly what they're going to do; that's what SIP is for. Every time you establish your presence on a new network, whether it's wifi, GSM, work, home, or whatever, your phone will contact your registrar and add this location to the list of places you might possibly be reached. Ideally you'll have a single number that will try to find you at all of your currently registered locations, possibly modified by preferences or priorities you set up. If the network thinks you're reachable on your cell, it will ring it. If you're out of range or in a bad coverage area (inside your office say), but registered on a wifi network, it will ring you via the wifi instead.
There's not that much to a SIP user agent; a 400 MHz processor wouldn't even notice the effort of sending the handful of messages that it takes to keep your location updated.
Note that Cisco is still using their misleading "times 2" throughput specs. Because they're full duplex they count interface twice, which makes the throughput through the box double what it truly is. I.E. if there's a unidirectional data flow with one MB/sec comes in one interface and gets routed out the other, they count that as 2 MB/sec of throughput.
It's really only handling 46Tbps of throughput, and suppports 1152 40Gbps interfaces. Although that's still a lot...
The principle seems straight forward enough. You don't have enough 3D info in a single frame, but you have lots of frames. So as objects move, or the camera pans, you can tell by their apparent positional shift how far from the observer they are. Assuming the software can recognize and track some basic objects, it can make reasonable inferences about their depth into the scene.
How it then displays the depth is another issue.
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So you don't think the fact that "taco" is a slang term for female genitalia had anything to do with it at all? That would have been my guess.
The argument that Telus had to block access to the site because it contained pictures of their employees for the purpose of harassing them is completely specious. If that were the case, then the Telus had the ability to do what anyone else could do in such a case: go through legal channels to get the offending pictures removed. Just because they happened to have the ability to unilaterally block access to the pictures doesn't give them the right to do it
I'm not a lawyer, employement or otherwise, but I'm pretty sure your boss can tell you whom you can and can't hang out with, on your own time, already. We have employment at will - that means that as long as the reason they're firing you isn't a specifically forbidden form of discrimination, they can fire you for anything they like. Smoking at home, for instance, has been upheld as a valid reason for firing, if the company has a policy against it.
The Constitution guarantees freedom of association, but that just means the government can't prevent you from associating with whom you please. It doesn't mean that a company has to employ you if they don't like the people you associate with for some reason.
Conceivably union rules might prevent someone from being fired for a reason like that, if the employee were in a union. But otherwise, as long as you're free to quit for any reason you want, they're free to fire you for any reason they want.
I'd assume it means the employer will sponsor you for an H1-B if you take the job.
> Why not use Faraday's Principle of Induction like these LED torches [thinkgeek.com] Sort of handy, but I can't help but chuckle at: "Forever Flashlight" (one-year warranty).
Seems like you're projecting something of your own on the pic that's not really there. It's just cute. Like, dogs playing poker cute. You see it and smile. I seriously doubt it's intended to appeal to anyone's prurient interests.
It would seem like this would be more a case of defamation or libel. The trick would be to show actual damage. Damage to your reputation counts, but here it only effects your reputation with your ISP, not your reputation with the general public. Although if your ISP has a formal or informal policy of disabling accounts of people who've had a certain number of complaints against them for whatever reason, you could have suffered meaningful damage to your reputation. At best you might force them to send a letter to your ISP admitting their mistake. Unless you could could possibly get punitive damages based on reckless disregard or something, which might be worth shooting for.
Sure, this is very easy, especially if you're willing to call from your computer using a headset. I use the free X-lite client from www.xten.com, and www.sipphone.com. You can buy time in $10 increments, and call any sip phone in the world for free, or any POTS phone (normal telephone) for between three cents a minute in the US/Canada, to a max of I think six cents a minute for China.
Or you can buy a box that attaches to your router or cable modem and does the same thing, but has an actual telephone attached to it rather than using an application on your PC.
Yes, that's exactly what they're going to do; that's what SIP is for. Every time you establish your presence on a new network, whether it's wifi, GSM, work, home, or whatever, your phone will contact your registrar and add this location to the list of places you might possibly be reached. Ideally you'll have a single number that will try to find you at all of your currently registered locations, possibly modified by preferences or priorities you set up. If the network thinks you're reachable on your cell, it will ring it. If you're out of range or in a bad coverage area (inside your office say), but registered on a wifi network, it will ring you via the wifi instead. There's not that much to a SIP user agent; a 400 MHz processor wouldn't even notice the effort of sending the handful of messages that it takes to keep your location updated.
Note that Cisco is still using their misleading "times 2" throughput specs. Because they're full duplex they count interface twice, which makes the throughput through the box double what it truly is. I.E. if there's a unidirectional data flow with one MB/sec comes in one interface and gets routed out the other, they count that as 2 MB/sec of throughput. It's really only handling 46Tbps of throughput, and suppports 1152 40Gbps interfaces. Although that's still a lot...
The principle seems straight forward enough. You don't have enough 3D info in a single frame, but you have lots of frames. So as objects move, or the camera pans, you can tell by their apparent positional shift how far from the observer they are. Assuming the software can recognize and track some basic objects, it can make reasonable inferences about their depth into the scene. How it then displays the depth is another issue.