If you are talking about one of those non at-will States, or some foreign country, then the job for life no matter what comes into play. However, the issue is dissing your employer, which is the least "protected" version of speech out there. Then again, I am not sure who you are arguing against, since I don't think the Pepsi employee has, or should have, any chance of overturning a firing for that. Neither should the fed in question either.
I'm not really arguing for either side of this situation. I'm just curious how far it's going to go. We (humans, Americans in particular) seem to like playing with this thing we call the 'slippery slope.' Seem to like sliding down it in recent years too.
So, ok, it's ok to give an employee the boot if he disses the company. What about an affiliate of the company? A subsidiary? A vendor? A supplier? Where does the employers *legitimate* right to make firing choices over an employee's offtime activities (mainly forming opinions and posting them on the internet in one way or another) end?
How about this? A simple theoretical. I go over to Bob and say, "GAWD I hate our Hong Kong office, they're a bunch of total morons." I'm in our San Francisco office. Am I fired?
We've already established you can be fired for any reason in many circumstances. That's fine, I'm just playing with when it becomes borderline-criminal/discriminatory, vs. valid legitimate grievance.
Author Dan Tynan has been writing about Internet privacy for the last 3,247 years.
Apparently he's a dumb vampire. Still a little unsure about the claim of writing about Internet privacy for longer than the Internet has existed, but..eh, details.
It does not have to be against the law to criticize your employer for your employer to fire you over it. Your employer can fire you for just about any reason they like. Government as employer? Might take longer, but amass enough paper against you and eventually you go away. However, if your employer is the government you could easily be subject to jail and fines if you say the wrong things in the course of your criticism (not saying that applies in this case).
In this particular case of Joseph, yes, his position required a respectable public image. But I'm talking more about grunts, people not in the public eye. Taking the Pepsi example, I mean, do you really think that'd stand up in a court if the fired employee made a huge stink over it? There are laws against discrimination in hiring/firing practices. Those are all based on tangible qualities, such as age, race, gender, sexual orientation.. but then we get to.. religion. That's protected too. And that's an opinion, a preference. So seems to be you'd have a pretty nice wrestle in a court if you fought wrongful termination for personal opinions expressed in your offtime, against your employer (or anything else for that matter.)
Enh, just more reason to cover your tracks as BEST you can when you post on the internet and worry someone might object to it.
Are you sure about that? What grounds would you fire such a person under? Is it against the law to criticize your employer? You just can't fire people for no reason (well, you're not supposed to.) I mean if an employee is doing their job, performing well, and secretly bashing you on twitter, is that really a legal ground for termination?
I believe the very first post on this hit the nail on the head: NSA is supposed to be covertly gathering intelligence. Yes?
And they're not doing it very covertly at all, in fact, it seems quite overt now. There must be a reason for this. I think the reason is, they cannot break the crypto. Well, better said, would be it's prohibitively costly to break the crypto, and you have to keep doing it again and again for every new key. Sooo, it's much easier to demand the keys. Leaves everyone with 3 options: Shut down, Don't comply and go to jail, or comply.
Haven't heard of too many jailings yet over refusal to comply, so I'm assuming everyone is shutting down or complying.
Fear is an incredibly powerful weapon and the NSA with their overtness at the moment is wielding it VERY effectively, scaring a lot of people to shut down, or get out of the US entirely. And personally.. I think that is their exact goal. Scare us, get us to abandon crypto or at least tap it all, shut down what wont be tapped.
I wonder if the NSA has calculated the economic damaged they're inflicting on our own country with this insanity.
It's common sense that videos glorifying machete violence against humans should be banned. If that doesn't occur to Zuckerberg and Page immediately, they are thinking way too hard.
You haven't been here long, have you? Common sense is in short supply here.
Maybe the US Government's objective here is not collect data from these types of services like LavaBit, SilentCircle or whoever else has shuttered in fears (or actual) of being tapped by the NSA.
It's starting to feel like to me the objective isn't the data, the objective is the services. This is denial of service. Denial of crypto services by the US Govt.
I just can't really see why they would put the pressure on so blatantly. It's like they're sending a clear message to all of us, no more crypto services, we're going to find you and tap you so you're are ineffective, or shut down.
I believe the truth about Gibson lies somewhere between that, and his naysayers.
I don't think he's an idiot myself. I believe he has a very large ego and he doesn't like to listen to other people's ideas or criticism. He's a lone wolf and well, the internet and computers in general are just too complex for just one person to tackle, but he thinks he can, which is his ultimate failing.
It's too bad he's gotten himself such a bad rep and seems incapable of working with the community surrounding the topics he's interested in. He's not a dumb guy, just a bit too full of himself.
As a fan of MMO's since about 2000, I can safely say that EVERY MMO I've ever played, from then, to now, has had some form of botting or automating mindless grinding activities.
Every MMO has them. There's no stopping them, it kind of reminds of the same sort of silly arms race spammers have against spam filtering software.
Anyway, I think what MMO companies should do, it just make their own botting software and sell it to people like the rest of their products. Level the playing field. Every MMO has bots, so open the flood gates, let anyone have bots, make some money as well.
If you don't want someone else to see it, stop putting it on the internet.
Internet was NEVER EVER a means of private communication.. we've tried to make it that way for what, 20 years now? It's not going to happen. Keep your personal tidbits off the net if you don't want others finding them.
Try using the tried and true encryption method. A piece of paper inside an envelope, with a stamp and an address. It's slower, but it's a lot more private than you'll EVER GET on the internet, now or in the future.
Oh I don't think there's any lack of outrage at the Republicans for this stunt they're pulling. I think it's more.. THERE NOTHING WE CAN DO. Not even the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES can do anything about these jokers. They're holding us hostage, and have just enough 'power' to continue to do so, regardless of how outraged we become.
Short of assembling a rebel force and storming the capitol... there's no amount of outrage short of that that will budge these people.
I think the only question on my mind is what exactly is deemed insecure for? Generating public/private key pairs? Doing encryption for SSL/TLS?
I've been around computers for a good number of years and I know no computer can be truly random, but isn't there a point where we say, "It's random enough."? Is this OP saying.. Linux's RNG isn't "Random Enough." and my question is.. what isn't it random enough for?
Are you using the same MicroUSB as the rest of the world? Last I checked, my MicroUSB connectors fit quite snug in their sockets and unless you're like yanking at the thing it's not going to come out.
As far as being fragile, I've not seen that either, nothing exceptionally bad at least. I had a friend who wore out her phone's connector after like 3 years of use. That seems reasonably durable to get plugged in EVERY DAY, for three years, set on a table and left (and often knocked off that table, while plugged in by cats.)
So, sorry, I don't think you're using MicroUSB, because what you're describing is wildly different than my real world experiences with MicroUSB.
Hey I'm sure lots of ideas YOU HAVE that I think stink are getting money, too. We don't always get what we want. But we all chip in a little so everyone's ideas get a fair shake. Sorry you don't like it. You could always leave.
I think I've come to the conclusion this is all because ACA isn't being called Bushcare, or Romneycare. Repubs want the credit, or they want to gun it down so they can start over and take the credit.
I really don't understand. What's so wrong with insuring ALL Americans? Is it really such an outrageous idea that the repubs feel compelled to SHUT DOWN the government to prevent it? Do. Not. Understand.
We build roads for ALL Americans, we police ALL American cities and have hospitals and fire fighters in pretty much all of America. What's wrong with everyone having health insurance too?
How can Obama possibly negotiate? Repubs are demanding he kick his grandest achievement to the curb or they won't negotiate. Sorry. Obama is the not the villain here.
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If you are talking about one of those non at-will States, or some foreign country, then the job for life no matter what comes into play. However, the issue is dissing your employer, which is the least "protected" version of speech out there. Then again, I am not sure who you are arguing against, since I don't think the Pepsi employee has, or should have, any chance of overturning a firing for that. Neither should the fed in question either.
I'm not really arguing for either side of this situation. I'm just curious how far it's going to go. We (humans, Americans in particular) seem to like playing with this thing we call the 'slippery slope.' Seem to like sliding down it in recent years too.
So, ok, it's ok to give an employee the boot if he disses the company. What about an affiliate of the company? A subsidiary? A vendor? A supplier? Where does the employers *legitimate* right to make firing choices over an employee's offtime activities (mainly forming opinions and posting them on the internet in one way or another) end?
How about this? A simple theoretical. I go over to Bob and say, "GAWD I hate our Hong Kong office, they're a bunch of total morons." I'm in our San Francisco office. Am I fired?
We've already established you can be fired for any reason in many circumstances. That's fine, I'm just playing with when it becomes borderline-criminal/discriminatory, vs. valid legitimate grievance.
Author Dan Tynan has been writing about Internet privacy for the last 3,247 years.
Apparently he's a dumb vampire. Still a little unsure about the claim of writing about Internet privacy for longer than the Internet has existed, but..eh, details.
It does not have to be against the law to criticize your employer for your employer to fire you over it. Your employer can fire you for just about any reason they like. Government as employer? Might take longer, but amass enough paper against you and eventually you go away. However, if your employer is the government you could easily be subject to jail and fines if you say the wrong things in the course of your criticism (not saying that applies in this case).
In this particular case of Joseph, yes, his position required a respectable public image. But I'm talking more about grunts, people not in the public eye. Taking the Pepsi example, I mean, do you really think that'd stand up in a court if the fired employee made a huge stink over it? There are laws against discrimination in hiring/firing practices. Those are all based on tangible qualities, such as age, race, gender, sexual orientation.. but then we get to.. religion. That's protected too. And that's an opinion, a preference. So seems to be you'd have a pretty nice wrestle in a court if you fought wrongful termination for personal opinions expressed in your offtime, against your employer (or anything else for that matter.)
Enh, just more reason to cover your tracks as BEST you can when you post on the internet and worry someone might object to it.
Are you sure about that? What grounds would you fire such a person under? Is it against the law to criticize your employer? You just can't fire people for no reason (well, you're not supposed to.) I mean if an employee is doing their job, performing well, and secretly bashing you on twitter, is that really a legal ground for termination?
I'm still leaning toward can't.
I believe the very first post on this hit the nail on the head: NSA is supposed to be covertly gathering intelligence. Yes?
And they're not doing it very covertly at all, in fact, it seems quite overt now. There must be a reason for this. I think the reason is, they cannot break the crypto. Well, better said, would be it's prohibitively costly to break the crypto, and you have to keep doing it again and again for every new key. Sooo, it's much easier to demand the keys. Leaves everyone with 3 options: Shut down, Don't comply and go to jail, or comply.
Haven't heard of too many jailings yet over refusal to comply, so I'm assuming everyone is shutting down or complying.
Fear is an incredibly powerful weapon and the NSA with their overtness at the moment is wielding it VERY effectively, scaring a lot of people to shut down, or get out of the US entirely. And personally.. I think that is their exact goal. Scare us, get us to abandon crypto or at least tap it all, shut down what wont be tapped.
I wonder if the NSA has calculated the economic damaged they're inflicting on our own country with this insanity.
It's common sense that videos glorifying machete violence against humans should be banned. If that doesn't occur to Zuckerberg and Page immediately, they are thinking way too hard.
You haven't been here long, have you? Common sense is in short supply here.
As a side to this.. at least it tells us something...
they can't break the crypto.
Maybe the US Government's objective here is not collect data from these types of services like LavaBit, SilentCircle or whoever else has shuttered in fears (or actual) of being tapped by the NSA.
It's starting to feel like to me the objective isn't the data, the objective is the services. This is denial of service. Denial of crypto services by the US Govt.
I just can't really see why they would put the pressure on so blatantly. It's like they're sending a clear message to all of us, no more crypto services, we're going to find you and tap you so you're are ineffective, or shut down.
I believe the truth about Gibson lies somewhere between that, and his naysayers.
I don't think he's an idiot myself. I believe he has a very large ego and he doesn't like to listen to other people's ideas or criticism. He's a lone wolf and well, the internet and computers in general are just too complex for just one person to tackle, but he thinks he can, which is his ultimate failing.
It's too bad he's gotten himself such a bad rep and seems incapable of working with the community surrounding the topics he's interested in. He's not a dumb guy, just a bit too full of himself.
Why the heck is this summary about 1/3rd's about bitcoin, and 2/3rd yet another reposting of the government shutdown conclusion?
mount -t cifs //mywindowspc/c$ /mnt /mnt -name "mew" -print
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Enjoy!
As a fan of MMO's since about 2000, I can safely say that EVERY MMO I've ever played, from then, to now, has had some form of botting or automating mindless grinding activities.
Every MMO has them. There's no stopping them, it kind of reminds of the same sort of silly arms race spammers have against spam filtering software.
Anyway, I think what MMO companies should do, it just make their own botting software and sell it to people like the rest of their products. Level the playing field. Every MMO has bots, so open the flood gates, let anyone have bots, make some money as well.
In our culture of laziness you think the NSA is gunna bother steaming and opening letters in this day and age? Puhleeze. I'm laughing.
But yes, the use of the word encryption was improper, so I'll give you that. But I think my point was made even if I used the wrong word.
If you don't want someone else to see it, stop putting it on the internet.
Internet was NEVER EVER a means of private communication.. we've tried to make it that way for what, 20 years now? It's not going to happen. Keep your personal tidbits off the net if you don't want others finding them.
Try using the tried and true encryption method. A piece of paper inside an envelope, with a stamp and an address. It's slower, but it's a lot more private than you'll EVER GET on the internet, now or in the future.
Oh I don't think there's any lack of outrage at the Republicans for this stunt they're pulling. I think it's more.. THERE NOTHING WE CAN DO. Not even the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES can do anything about these jokers. They're holding us hostage, and have just enough 'power' to continue to do so, regardless of how outraged we become.
Short of assembling a rebel force and storming the capitol... there's no amount of outrage short of that that will budge these people.
I think the only question on my mind is what exactly is deemed insecure for? Generating public/private key pairs? Doing encryption for SSL/TLS?
I've been around computers for a good number of years and I know no computer can be truly random, but isn't there a point where we say, "It's random enough."? Is this OP saying.. Linux's RNG isn't "Random Enough." and my question is.. what isn't it random enough for?
Are you using the same MicroUSB as the rest of the world? Last I checked, my MicroUSB connectors fit quite snug in their sockets and unless you're like yanking at the thing it's not going to come out.
As far as being fragile, I've not seen that either, nothing exceptionally bad at least. I had a friend who wore out her phone's connector after like 3 years of use. That seems reasonably durable to get plugged in EVERY DAY, for three years, set on a table and left (and often knocked off that table, while plugged in by cats.)
So, sorry, I don't think you're using MicroUSB, because what you're describing is wildly different than my real world experiences with MicroUSB.
Hey I'm sure lots of ideas YOU HAVE that I think stink are getting money, too. We don't always get what we want. But we all chip in a little so everyone's ideas get a fair shake. Sorry you don't like it. You could always leave.
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Not yet.
Seriously, I'm waiting a patent troll to step up to the plate and sue cuz the new currency uses something the troll patented.
I think I've come to the conclusion this is all because ACA isn't being called Bushcare, or Romneycare. Repubs want the credit, or they want to gun it down so they can start over and take the credit.
I really don't understand. What's so wrong with insuring ALL Americans? Is it really such an outrageous idea that the repubs feel compelled to SHUT DOWN the government to prevent it? Do. Not. Understand.
We build roads for ALL Americans, we police ALL American cities and have hospitals and fire fighters in pretty much all of America. What's wrong with everyone having health insurance too?
OP is a troll.
How can Obama possibly negotiate? Repubs are demanding he kick his grandest achievement to the curb or they won't negotiate. Sorry. Obama is the not the villain here.
I've been saying this all along. The metadata vastly more valuable than the content.
Subject says it all. Vote with your wallet and don't buy this stuff.
You couldn't PAY ME to use anything Apple makes.