An industry that does well should be one that creates or adds value without the need for artificial controls over supply. The bottled water industry does very well indeed without needing legislation restricting the supply of drinking water from other sources. It adds value by providing a quality controlled, conveniently packaged product. If the water in the bottle was poor quality, or you needed special controls to get the bottle open, people would probably prefer the tap in the public conveniences, after all, that water is free... To which droopycom replied:
Actually... bottle water is an example of successful MARKETING... and not much else.
Bottle water is 1000x more expensive than tap.
FDA regulations on bottle water are much less strict than EPA's on tap water.
Studies shows that tap water quality is actually better than many bottled water.
A lot of bottled water actually come from taps and not from srings
It might depends where you live or what brand you buy, but really, the advantage of bottled water are mostly overblown compared to the price...
Several points: 1) Taking the other assumptions at face value, can't marketing be seen in some way, as adding value?
2) The grandparent does not refute that bottled water is more expensive, he actually said something to the effect (the water is free)
3) I don't know where you live, but when I was in Canada, drinking water from the tap had to be processed in a filter (that doesn't happen in my home country, Uruguay)
4) If you buy bottled water that came from the tap, I hope it has been at least processed in some way (some equivalent to the filters?). In my country, I can attest that the top-selling mineral water brand actually does come from a spring (Agua Salus, recently bought by Danone of France and re-branded as Evian I think. They could be as famous as Perrier if they did some marketing).
A little OT but let's help the home boys:
The Salus home pagehttp://www.salus.com.uy/home.htm
An evaluation of Salus (I didn't know of it before looking it up online):
Thanks! I always liked Technology Review since my university had a subscription (which they didn't renew, sadly), and when I tried to access it online I found out I couldn't...
I had no idea it had switched to open access, good news that. (BTW, I'd like to subscribe but I'm probably even poorer than you... 3rd world student:) )
Those would be some sort of impressive shoulder-fired missiles, to hit Korean fishing vessels from Peru...
Unless those Koreans are really going out of the way to get their fish, that is.
You might be aiming for funny, but yes, Korean and Japanese fishing vessels really go out of the way to get their fish, they devastate the areas just outside the 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zones of most countries (see: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea).
Here's a really neat collection of links on the subject of overfishing I found while searching for this:
Another great read on the subject is the National Geographic special (that one I received during my subscription and was one of the best eye-opening issues I've read).
I haven't tested Vista that much, but standing right next to a notebook I'm installing Vista on:
- UAC is annoying and I'm not certain if it's an actual security improvement.
-I don't like the new UI especially not the Explorer and transparent windows, I find them distracting if anything, and Explorer resembles KDE.
- We have serious compatibility issues with several programs we use frequently, and the certificates and Outlook Web Access simply do not work without several hacks, Symantec Corporate doesn't install either.
-It does have some nice new features/touches (say, independant sound volume) but it's a mixed bag, and I agree with those that feel underwhelmed (we waited 5 years for this???).
That said, I don't have any complaints with its stability, the installation procedure is way better, and it feels responsive.
I can certainly understand companies willing to wait, I wouldn't label it "not ready for prime time", actually I'd say it's "not worth the hassle" of upgrading... that's why it will take over as soon there's a critical mass of PCs with it installed (that is, it will became the default OS because of inertia and not outstanding features of its own).
On thing I have noticed is that Vista has re-done the menu layout and prompts and it now closely resembles KDE, imo. Not a complaint or a compliment though I do imagine the layout change is going to confuse a lot of people. Interesting, that's the very same thing I said when we got the first Vista machine at work - that the menu layouts and prompts reminded me of KDE...
China, India, and Russia while certainly having the man power to be rivals to the US, but really are too shackled with government control, bureaucracy, and corruption to ever hope to match the US in the next few decades. They are just too big and massive to change direction. Nothing short of a political revolution can fix these nations. I find it interesting that you don't even mention Brazil, or Mexico. Well, they have the same problems as the above mentioned countries, so I don't count on them becoming superpowers either, but Brazil at least definitely wants to.
The current marketing hype is "save money on hardware and electricity by using Virtual machines".
1. hardware underutilized or will be underutilized in the next 24 months? Prob not
2. Absolutely. must. run that underutilized software on its very own dedicated operating sytem? Prob not
3. Don't want the performance gain of dedicated hardware/storage etc...think your db server, imap server etc etc? Maybe not
4. Want to be able to absolutely seamlessly and without any interruption move a running VM from one physical machine to another. A dream
Just not worth it for me - If #4 worked 100% perfect i'd be interested.
Now VMs are cool and all but I think most shops aren't big enough to have a real need for it.
Point #2 is a huge selling point, at least for us, and probably for everyone who runs custom-made software.
A surprising amount of "custom built" programs (plus several off-the-shelf ones) have been tested on one platform only, requires a particular configuration, and assume they are the only program on the server, so it's ok to hog bandwidth, use port 80 if they're a web application, etc.
And there are lots of programs that just don't work well together.
Plus, it's an additional layer of stability, if one VM goes down in flames, it doesn't hurt the other applications in their independant VMs.
Point 2 usually leads to Point 1 for several shops in my experience (every program gets its own - underutilized - server).
Point 3 is a problem, but you're hopefully not putting your DB server in a VM, I'm thinking stuff like programs for accounting, human resources, intranets, CRM, content management, QA, etc...
Microsoft makes Virtual PC, which is a competitor to VMWare's products. Not much of a competitor admitidly.
Microsoft is about to release Virtual PC 2007 which is vastly improved according to people I know who have tested it (one cool feature was running a VM on a Flash drive which made it blazingly fast, but I'm not sure if that was thanks to VPC or Vista). VMWare 5 was miles ahead of Virtual PC 2004 admitedly
Get into our offices and it is a different story. We have dual t1s coming in and only 60+ employees, but we are constantly saturated. Combine that with the fact that Cisco Pixes have horrible throttling support and you end up with times when I can't even access basic websites very quickly. The issue here is that T1s and DS3s are freakin expensive compared to a simple cable modem. We have been tempted to get Comcast bussines ( which makes me shiver a bit ) because I can get larger down pipes for general internet surfing. We only host a few services such as email here so it isn't like we need megs of up bandwith.
I agree with other posters that the problem lies with your setup, not with net neutrality.
IMO, you should route business traffic through the T1s, and, if you so desire, buy a business ADSL/cable modem for everyday surfing.
I'm in Uruguay and we have a 1.5 MB business ADSL for everyday browsing, the e-mail server and website are set up on their dedicated connection, and we don't experience any problem, for 50+ users (who, I suspect, do not need those T1s, and, as you mentioned, should not need megs of bandwidth for normal business surfing!).
Plus we have some monitoring software and policies in place to minimize Youtube and other leisure activities - even then we experience the occasional slowdown (and I have to cut someone off from the net:P ).
that means the parents had this kid at a very young age, probably 17 or 18. If that's the case, then this kid was practically doomed from the start.
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Eh? Having a kid at a young age is hardly a good idea, but it doesn't mean "the kid is doomed". My parents had me when they were 18, and I'm not "doomed" (well unless you think your average Slashdotter nerd is "doomed").
It wasn't nice, they divorced early and I was practically raised by my grandmother, but it doesn't automatically mean the guy was doomed.
Thanks for sharing your experience with Switzerland.
Sounds good, my only qualms are that I don't know how it would work out on a larger scale, and that it's probably expensive to set up that many votes, but it's probably worth it in the long run - the cost of the referendum is one issue that always comes up in my home country (Uruguay).
Well, it could be just like if they stole your cell phone or e-mail account or something... I guess you could have the option of reporting it as stolen (in a webpage, to the police station, whatever).
And they'd have to prove in court that it was actually you who distributed the files over the internet (of course the watermark would make it harder for you to prove you were innocent, but I hope, not impossible. I don't know how US law is either, but I think you should be able to get acquitted).
I agree with the GP, I think I'd rather have watermarking than DRM.
I guess the mention of torture,slavery and "negotiated impunity" in the article that YOU POSTED don't count huh?
Point taken, but I also followed it up with an article on the US which basically makes the same claims regarding the US.
The difference being that Brazil's is police torture, yes, it exists, but I wouldnt say it's state sponsored or tolerated. You cite these 2 sentences:
Occurrence of police torture accompanies murder or effecting intimidation and extortion. Torture has also been widely reported in detention centers and mental institutions. (snip) Slavery and labor situations like depression era company towns still exist in remote areas in Brazil. (snip) military government's negotiated impunity upon the return of Brazil to democracy
Ive been often to Brazil (I live close enough to the border, and visited most major cities too), and comparing Brazil to China is unfair, while it's far from perfect, Brazil is a democracy, and it has been striving to improve in the last few decades. The military impunity is not what you think, it's a political measure that helped restore democracy, it happened too in my country (Uruguay), and it basically means that the military leaders of the 60's will not be prosecuted and put to jail for human rights violations which occurred at the time, not that they have impunity now.
Police is a little out of control sometimes over there (my father witnessed a heavy beating on a homeless, for instance), but what I've personally seen in Canada, and videos of the US (never been to the US because I dont have a visa) like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvrqcxNIFs make it sound as it's not too different there (isolated cases of police brutality with high profile).
However, they acknowledge the problem, unlike China and (sometimes) the US, and have pledged to combat it:
The Economist's Big Mac index is flawed for another, similar reason: going to Mc Donald's is considered cheap and unfashionable in Paris, France, while it the most hype thing to do in Cairo, Egypt, or Guangzhou, China. So despite the fact that you are talking about the exact same BigMac & fries, you are not considering the same product, because its perceived value changes considerably from place to place. I think I remember reading an Economist article that aknowledged this.
That is correct, as an example, here in Uruguay, going to McDonalds is a treat for many people, usually reserved for events such as going to a shopping mall or the cinema or going out (yes, going to a US-style shopping mall is an event here, for day-to-day shopping there are street shops - "ferias" - and such). The design of several McDonalds is different, too: the Montevideo Shopping Center McDonalds has a huge child playroom area (that area is bigger than most McDonalds Ive seen in North America), nice coffee area, etc..
Police brutality, disputed shootings and ill-treatment in prisons and jails were reported. In May the U.N. Committee against Torture considered the initial report of the USA on implementation of the U.N. Convention against Torture. Eighty-five prisoners were executed in 14 states bringing to 683 the total number of people executed since 1976. Those executed included individuals who were children under 18 at the time of their crimes, and the mentally impaired.
In 2005 the organization expressed alarm at the erosion in civil liberties since the 9/11 attacks. According to Amnesty International:
The Guantánamo Bay detention camp has become a symbol of the United States administration's refusal to put human rights and the rule of law at the heart of its response to the atrocities of 11 September 2001. It has become synonymous with the United States executive's pursuit of unfettered power, and has become firmly associated with the systematic denial of human dignity and resort to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment that has marked the USA's detentions and interrogations in the "war on terror".[10]
Brazil doesnt look that bad in comparison (in human rights violations, crime, poverty and corruption are still very real problems there although its been improving steadily).
I second Knux, what human rights violators in Brazil? Theres a corrupt government, but its not the dictatorship of the 60s.
Id actually say the US is far worse in human rights violations these days (see: Iraq, Guantanamo, etc).
Heres a Wikipedia article for you, which states "Police violence is one of the most internationally recognized human rights abuses in Brazil", which it is, but its also a problem in the US:
It's certainly an interesting story, but as a non-smoker I can't understand why you specifically mention being able to smell someone smoking a few cars in front of you - I was under the impression that most people could - and I don't find cigar smoke pleasant, nor think my smell sense is especially sharp, more on the dull side probably. And yes, I can smell freshly cut grass too.
OTOH I have to be quite close to a person to smell the perfume usually.
Windows XP runs very well on older systems ( I have a 600 Mhz Celeron with XP, and we have several 400 Mhz Pentium IIs).
The key is having enough memory, with 256 Mb it's slow but useable, but with 512 Mb+ the difference for light office apps and normal web surfing between a 400 Mhz PII and a newer computer is not noticeable.
On the other hand, in the real world, when I tell people I work at MS, they think it's pretty damn cool. Good lord, this write-up was stupid. Totally agree, this was uncalled-for bashing in an otherwise nice article, it's refreshing to see Microsoft from a different viewpoint.
BTW I have a few very smart ex-coworkers that now work for Microsoft and they get nothing but admiration from me (and envy at their salaries).
And having it passed in Michigan makes it somehow better?
Dueling (you know, with swords, or guns, twelve paces, shoot, etc) was legal in my country until 1992*, does that mean the US should have passed a dueling law?
While it's clear that this is a very specific circumstance, I don't think this law should be passed, and I agree with other posters that while sad, blind people should understand that there are things they cannot do. There's only a slight benefit to this bill (some blind hunter who will be able to mix in with his friends), and serious, though unlikely, drawbacks (the blind guy hurting or killing someone by accident).
The head of my 50-person division (and co-owner of the company) thought it would be a good idea to get automated e-mails with the ultimate confirmation of purchases exceeding U$ 20 (I think) and a review of each employee's activity.
If you thought you had spam problems, that's nothing compared to the level of company-related mail he gets. The worst thing is, he HAS to answer at least the purchase orders, or nothing gets done.
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An industry that does well should be one that creates or adds value without the need for artificial controls over supply. The bottled water industry does very well indeed without needing legislation restricting the supply of drinking water from other sources. It adds value by providing a quality controlled, conveniently packaged product. If the water in the bottle was poor quality, or you needed special controls to get the bottle open, people would probably prefer the tap in the public conveniences, after all, that water is free...
To which droopycom replied:
Actually... bottle water is an example of successful MARKETING... and not much else.
Bottle water is 1000x more expensive than tap.
FDA regulations on bottle water are much less strict than EPA's on tap water.
Studies shows that tap water quality is actually better than many bottled water.
A lot of bottled water actually come from taps and not from srings
It might depends where you live or what brand you buy, but really, the advantage of bottled water are mostly overblown compared to the price...
Several points: 1) Taking the other assumptions at face value, can't marketing be seen in some way, as adding value?
2) The grandparent does not refute that bottled water is more expensive, he actually said something to the effect (the water is free)
3) I don't know where you live, but when I was in Canada, drinking water from the tap had to be processed in a filter (that doesn't happen in my home country, Uruguay)
4) If you buy bottled water that came from the tap, I hope it has been at least processed in some way (some equivalent to the filters?). In my country, I can attest that the top-selling mineral water brand actually does come from a spring (Agua Salus, recently bought by Danone of France and re-branded as Evian I think. They could be as famous as Perrier if they did some marketing).
A little OT but let's help the home boys:
The Salus home pagehttp://www.salus.com.uy/home.htm
An evaluation of Salus (I didn't know of it before looking it up online):
http://www.pmgeiser.ch/mineral/index.php?func=dis
As the AC already replied, there are lots of printers that have separate cartridges.
HP Business Inkjets for one, some Epson lines too.
Thanks! I always liked Technology Review since my university had a subscription (which they didn't renew, sadly), and when I tried to access it online I found out I couldn't...
:) )
I had no idea it had switched to open access, good news that. (BTW, I'd like to subscribe but I'm probably even poorer than you... 3rd world student
Unless those Koreans are really going out of the way to get their fish, that is.
You might be aiming for funny, but yes, Korean and Japanese fishing vessels really go out of the way to get their fish, they devastate the areas just outside the 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zones of most countries (see: United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea).
Here's a really neat collection of links on the subject of overfishing I found while searching for this:
http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu/~sumner/Teaching/G
It recommends a book by Carl Safina: Song for the Blue Ocean, and you can even read the first chapter here:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/safina-ocean
Another great read on the subject is the National Geographic special (that one I received during my subscription and was one of the best eye-opening issues I've read).
I haven't tested Vista that much, but standing right next to a notebook I'm installing Vista on:
- UAC is annoying and I'm not certain if it's an actual security improvement.
-I don't like the new UI especially not the Explorer and transparent windows, I find them distracting if anything, and Explorer resembles KDE.
- We have serious compatibility issues with several programs we use frequently, and the certificates and Outlook Web Access simply do not work without several hacks, Symantec Corporate doesn't install either.
-It does have some nice new features/touches (say, independant sound volume) but it's a mixed bag, and I agree with those that feel underwhelmed (we waited 5 years for this???).
That said, I don't have any complaints with its stability, the installation procedure is way better, and it feels responsive.
I can certainly understand companies willing to wait, I wouldn't label it "not ready for prime time", actually I'd say it's "not worth the hassle" of upgrading... that's why it will take over as soon there's a critical mass of PCs with it installed (that is, it will became the default OS because of inertia and not outstanding features of its own).
Hehe... here (Uruguay) one of our traditional sandwiches is called a "Canadian" (Chivito Canadiense) but of course it's not Canadian in origin.
:) )
A popular explanation is that it was originally cooked for a very hungry Canadian, thus the name.
(Wow, totally offtopic
1. hardware underutilized or will be underutilized in the next 24 months? Prob not
2. Absolutely. must. run that underutilized software on its very own dedicated operating sytem? Prob not
3. Don't want the performance gain of dedicated hardware/storage etc...think your db server, imap server etc etc? Maybe not
4. Want to be able to absolutely seamlessly and without any interruption move a running VM from one physical machine to another. A dream
Just not worth it for me - If #4 worked 100% perfect i'd be interested.
Now VMs are cool and all but I think most shops aren't big enough to have a real need for it.
Point #2 is a huge selling point, at least for us, and probably for everyone who runs custom-made software.
A surprising amount of "custom built" programs (plus several off-the-shelf ones) have been tested on one platform only, requires a particular configuration, and assume they are the only program on the server, so it's ok to hog bandwidth, use port 80 if they're a web application, etc.
And there are lots of programs that just don't work well together.
Plus, it's an additional layer of stability, if one VM goes down in flames, it doesn't hurt the other applications in their independant VMs.
Point 2 usually leads to Point 1 for several shops in my experience (every program gets its own - underutilized - server).
Point 3 is a problem, but you're hopefully not putting your DB server in a VM, I'm thinking stuff like programs for accounting, human resources, intranets, CRM, content management, QA, etc...
Microsoft makes Virtual PC, which is a competitor to VMWare's products. Not much of a competitor admitidly.
Microsoft is about to release Virtual PC 2007 which is vastly improved according to people I know who have tested it (one cool feature was running a VM on a Flash drive which made it blazingly fast, but I'm not sure if that was thanks to VPC or Vista). VMWare 5 was miles ahead of Virtual PC 2004 admitedlyhttp://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfami
I agree with other posters that the problem lies with your setup, not with net neutrality.
IMO, you should route business traffic through the T1s, and, if you so desire, buy a business ADSL/cable modem for everyday surfing.
I'm in Uruguay and we have a 1.5 MB business ADSL for everyday browsing, the e-mail server and website are set up on their dedicated connection, and we don't experience any problem, for 50+ users (who, I suspect, do not need those T1s, and, as you mentioned, should not need megs of bandwidth for normal business surfing!).
Plus we have some monitoring software and policies in place to minimize Youtube and other leisure activities - even then we experience the occasional slowdown (and I have to cut someone off from the net
Maybe you should talk it with your sysadmin...
f Eh? Having a kid at a young age is hardly a good idea, but it doesn't mean "the kid is doomed". My parents had me when they were 18, and I'm not "doomed" (well unless you think your average Slashdotter nerd is "doomed").
It wasn't nice, they divorced early and I was practically raised by my grandmother, but it doesn't automatically mean the guy was doomed.
Thanks for sharing your experience with Switzerland.
Sounds good, my only qualms are that I don't know how it would work out on a larger scale, and that it's probably expensive to set up that many votes, but it's probably worth it in the long run - the cost of the referendum is one issue that always comes up in my home country (Uruguay).
LOL. I was in Toronto this winter, and I was amazed that the winter was actually WARMER than in my home country (Uruguay), and much nicer.
Of course, the day after I left, temperatures dropped a lot so I guess I didn't see a "real" winter (but WTF, +13 C in December & January?).
I agree with the Aussie, I hate extreme heat and it's much less bearable than cold (+38C over here a few days ago).
Well, it could be just like if they stole your cell phone or e-mail account or something... I guess you could have the option of reporting it as stolen (in a webpage, to the police station, whatever).
And they'd have to prove in court that it was actually you who distributed the files over the internet (of course the watermark would make it harder for you to prove you were innocent, but I hope, not impossible. I don't know how US law is either, but I think you should be able to get acquitted).
I agree with the GP, I think I'd rather have watermarking than DRM.
Point taken, but I also followed it up with an article on the US which basically makes the same claims regarding the US.
The difference being that Brazil's is police torture, yes, it exists, but I wouldnt say it's state sponsored or tolerated. You cite these 2 sentences:
Occurrence of police torture accompanies murder or effecting intimidation and extortion. Torture has also been widely reported in detention centers and mental institutions. (snip) Slavery and labor situations like depression era company towns still exist in remote areas in Brazil. (snip) military government's negotiated impunity upon the return of Brazil to democracy
Ive been often to Brazil (I live close enough to the border, and visited most major cities too), and comparing Brazil to China is unfair, while it's far from perfect, Brazil is a democracy, and it has been striving to improve in the last few decades. The military impunity is not what you think, it's a political measure that helped restore democracy, it happened too in my country (Uruguay), and it basically means that the military leaders of the 60's will not be prosecuted and put to jail for human rights violations which occurred at the time, not that they have impunity now.
Police is a little out of control sometimes over there (my father witnessed a heavy beating on a homeless, for instance), but what I've personally seen in Canada, and videos of the US (never been to the US because I dont have a visa) like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvrqcxNIFs make it sound as it's not too different there (isolated cases of police brutality with high profile).
However, they acknowledge the problem, unlike China and (sometimes) the US, and have pledged to combat it:
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/bbc/ult272u599
That is correct, as an example, here in Uruguay, going to McDonalds is a treat for many people, usually reserved for events such as going to a shopping mall or the cinema or going out (yes, going to a US-style shopping mall is an event here, for day-to-day shopping there are street shops - "ferias" - and such). The design of several McDonalds is different, too: the Montevideo Shopping Center McDonalds has a huge child playroom area (that area is bigger than most McDonalds Ive seen in North America), nice coffee area, etc..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_and_the
Amnesty International states for the year 2000:
Police brutality, disputed shootings and ill-treatment in prisons and jails were reported. In May the U.N. Committee against Torture considered the initial report of the USA on implementation of the U.N. Convention against Torture. Eighty-five prisoners were executed in 14 states bringing to 683 the total number of people executed since 1976. Those executed included individuals who were children under 18 at the time of their crimes, and the mentally impaired.
In 2005 the organization expressed alarm at the erosion in civil liberties since the 9/11 attacks. According to Amnesty International:
The Guantánamo Bay detention camp has become a symbol of the United States administration's refusal to put human rights and the rule of law at the heart of its response to the atrocities of 11 September 2001. It has become synonymous with the United States executive's pursuit of unfettered power, and has become firmly associated with the systematic denial of human dignity and resort to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment that has marked the USA's detentions and interrogations in the "war on terror".[10]
Brazil doesnt look that bad in comparison (in human rights violations, crime, poverty and corruption are still very real problems there although its been improving steadily).
I second Knux, what human rights violators in Brazil? Theres a corrupt government, but its not the dictatorship of the 60s.
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Id actually say the US is far worse in human rights violations these days (see: Iraq, Guantanamo, etc).
Heres a Wikipedia article for you, which states "Police violence is one of the most internationally recognized human rights abuses in Brazil", which it is, but its also a problem in the US:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Braz
It's certainly an interesting story, but as a non-smoker I can't understand why you specifically mention being able to smell someone smoking a few cars in front of you - I was under the impression that most people could - and I don't find cigar smoke pleasant, nor think my smell sense is especially sharp, more on the dull side probably. And yes, I can smell freshly cut grass too.
OTOH I have to be quite close to a person to smell the perfume usually.
Windows XP runs very well on older systems ( I have a 600 Mhz Celeron with XP, and we have several 400 Mhz Pentium IIs).
The key is having enough memory, with 256 Mb it's slow but useable, but with 512 Mb+ the difference for light office apps and normal web surfing between a 400 Mhz PII and a newer computer is not noticeable.
BTW I have a few very smart ex-coworkers that now work for Microsoft and they get nothing but admiration from me (and envy at their salaries).
And having it passed in Michigan makes it somehow better?
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Dueling (you know, with swords, or guns, twelve paces, shoot, etc) was legal in my country until 1992*, does that mean the US should have passed a dueling law?
While it's clear that this is a very specific circumstance, I don't think this law should be passed, and I agree with other posters that while sad, blind people should understand that there are things they cannot do. There's only a slight benefit to this bill (some blind hunter who will be able to mix in with his friends), and serious, though unlikely, drawbacks (the blind guy hurting or killing someone by accident).
*http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/1
Exactly. You can grant yourself permissions to read accounts, but it will be logged.
:)
The question, of course, is, who is going to audit that
In small businesses, the easier solution is trust, or else, expensive audits & all that.
BTW, you didn't even mention packet sniffers and all the other ways someone could conceivably read your email.
The head of my 50-person division (and co-owner of the company) thought it would be a good idea to get automated e-mails with the ultimate confirmation of purchases exceeding U$ 20 (I think) and a review of each employee's activity.
If you thought you had spam problems, that's nothing compared to the level of company-related mail he gets. The worst thing is, he HAS to answer at least the purchase orders, or nothing gets done.