Want to vex a company sending out an expensive come-on device (like a bar scanner)? Do what I did and throw your CueCat in the trash. Digital Convergence is going to great lengths to gather demographics on people and track their Web activity and expends no effort whatsoever to protect this information from criminals. This tells me that this is a very good candidate for the trashcan: device and company both.
Please do tell DC you are throwing their device in the trash. Not only does this clog their email with disagreeable messages, but the more they hear about this, the more lawyers they'll hire. Perhaps they will try to start a campaign to require people to use their wonderful system and have the Feds fine you for throwing away your 'CurCat'. Not possible? Not yet; but our friends in Washington are working on it.
And just when was it the legislative process and the states' rights to regulate business disappeared to be replaced by various storm troopers in suits?
OSHA has already done major damage to small business in America. Now it wants to guarantee that everyone lives their entire working life in a cubicle. Well I'm sure there will be plenty of international companies doing business over the wire and, even though that means Americans working online internationally will be exposed to the full brunt of NSA surveillance on top of the usual comforts of FBI, INS, Customs and the other ears on the line, it is preferable to work for a company based in a sane nation rather than deal with the Liberal Socialist Workers States of America that seem to lie inevitably in our future.
I don't think it's just Slashdot. I think there's some kind of engineering gene that makes people incapable of spelling 'losing' without adding that second 'o'. The more technical a site is, the less likely you are to find a correct spelling of losing. I've been wondering when some recovering humanities major like myself would notice this tendency in Internet documents.
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Want to vex a company sending out an expensive come-on device (like a bar scanner)? Do what I did and throw your CueCat in the trash. Digital Convergence is going to great lengths to gather demographics on people and track their Web activity and expends no effort whatsoever to protect this information from criminals. This tells me that this is a very good candidate for the trashcan: device and company both.
Please do tell DC you are throwing their device in the trash. Not only does this clog their email with disagreeable messages, but the more they hear about this, the more lawyers they'll hire. Perhaps they will try to start a campaign to require people to use their wonderful system and have the Feds fine you for throwing away your 'CurCat'. Not possible? Not yet; but our friends in Washington are working on it.
And just when was it the legislative process and the states' rights to regulate business disappeared to be replaced by various storm troopers in suits?
OSHA has already done major damage to small business in America. Now it wants to guarantee that everyone lives their entire working life in a cubicle. Well I'm sure there will be plenty of international companies doing business over the wire and, even though that means Americans working online internationally will be exposed to the full brunt of NSA surveillance on top of the usual comforts of FBI, INS, Customs and the other ears on the line, it is preferable to work for a company based in a sane nation rather than deal with the Liberal Socialist Workers States of America that seem to lie inevitably in our future.
I don't think it's just Slashdot. I think there's some kind of engineering gene that makes people incapable of spelling 'losing' without adding that second 'o'. The more technical a site is, the less likely you are to find a correct spelling of losing. I've been wondering when some recovering humanities major like myself would notice this tendency in Internet documents.