Brevity is important if you are trying to communicate decisions that have already been made and cannot be questioned, or if you are doing a sales presentation for a product that cannot be altered as part of the contract.
If you're trying to work with a group (for example, Test, Development, and Build/Release) to make a decision that everyone can support, trying to be too quick about it will destroy any progress possible. Same if you have a highly customizable product you are trying to sell while gaining information from your customer.
What this actually does is accept the fact that a corporate merger can specify what is blocked and what isn't. This is actually a dangerous trend for network neutrality, because we are seeing the Justice Department agree with the idea that what is blocked and what isn't is a matter of contractual language between corporations, instead of the inherent right to a free internet.
Just FYI, firing someone just because they are discussing their pay is a violation of the National Labor Relations Act (amended) and can cause some pretty hefty legal problems for your company. Employees have the legal right to talk to whoever they want to about exactly how much money they are making working for you. IANAL but know a few...
Having a Secret clearance and having access to the files is not the same thing. Even though they were classified at the Secret level, only people with a legitimate "need to know" were given access to the files. You need both to access secret information - the security level and a legitimate working interest in the material. There are three million people in the US with a Secret clearance, but three million people did not have access to these files.
Yeah, you may think you have control. Until the Finance department buys their own servers, and buys their own connection to the.Net in order to purposely bypass your control, and has sign-off from the CFO to do it. It's not always as simple a problem as you think it is.
Eh, if you've worked in a multi-billion dollar F100 company this isn't surprising at all. Any random department can buy a couple of servers and set up their own "data center", and when you have 100,000 employees, it's hard to keep track of. Now imagine you are a multi-trillion dollar company, which is basically what the federal government is, with three million employees. Things get complicated.
This is going to get more interesting as security (home alarm) companies and medical (help, I've fallen and I can't get up) companies are moving all their services to the user's web connection. Once there are a couple of deaths and a fire that don't get reported, these services are going to come under a lot more pressure to not disconnect people without multiple notices through snail mail, etc. type of process.
Write people an extremely hefty fine if they are involved in an accident while texting. Make it easier to convict them on involuntary manslaughter charges if they were texting at the time they hit a pedestrian. If people can safely text, great. If not, punish them when they cause problems.
This is the same as any other distraction while driving - you can think about other things than the road while driving legally (work problems, family problems, etc). If you can still safely drive, great. If not, you pay the piper when you hurt someone else.
Laser beams are focused energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation, not energy in the form of thermal entropy of molecules in matter. There is a difference. Laser beams can transmit their heat to matter (they normally do), but laser beams are not "Hot".
Thank you for this post. Although we can argue the validity of creation theory, I think it is important to give kudos and respect to serious historians, who have spent a lot of time and effort researching historical time lines. I think we can object to a certain theory without belittling the effort of people involved in the research of any certain subject.
Exactly. A much better comparison would be against electricity prices over time, which are much less prone to economies of scale and a better direct comparison, and which have changed rather slowly, pretty much with normal inflation (and sometimes negatively). No companies are manufacturing broadband, boxing it up, and shipping it to consumers. It's a different concept.
By setting up a law that everyone is expected to disobey, what they have done is supplied an easy reason to detain and question anyone "of interest". It's a calculated move.
Although I can appreciate the comparison, and it is useful for helping to understand why a police state / dictatorship is a dangerous path we don't want to start down, we also need to be very careful.
The USA is NOT remotely like North Korea, and by comparing them too closely, we minimize and marginalize the problem that North Korea is, both for its citizens and for the world. Let's show the citizens of North Korea some respect and admit that life in the USA is NOT like life in North Korea, or Iran, or large parts of Africa. It seems like people that make statements like this have not traveled much, or talked to people that have lived under true dictatorships.
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Brevity is important if you are trying to communicate decisions that have already been made and cannot be questioned, or if you are doing a sales presentation for a product that cannot be altered as part of the contract. If you're trying to work with a group (for example, Test, Development, and Build/Release) to make a decision that everyone can support, trying to be too quick about it will destroy any progress possible. Same if you have a highly customizable product you are trying to sell while gaining information from your customer.
Use skype on an iPod 4. I know some people who do that and it works great. The form factor is just like an iPhone.
What this actually does is accept the fact that a corporate merger can specify what is blocked and what isn't. This is actually a dangerous trend for network neutrality, because we are seeing the Justice Department agree with the idea that what is blocked and what isn't is a matter of contractual language between corporations, instead of the inherent right to a free internet.
Mod parent up. Same percentages probably, different medium. Probably the same rate of success in the real world after college.
Is this just another part of the battle with Adobe, who owns Omniture and competes with Google Analytics?
Just FYI, firing someone just because they are discussing their pay is a violation of the National Labor Relations Act (amended) and can cause some pretty hefty legal problems for your company. Employees have the legal right to talk to whoever they want to about exactly how much money they are making working for you. IANAL but know a few...
One percent. Only about one one-hundredth of the people in the US are incarcerated currently.
This is just a cheap version of a police helicopter, which have been used for decades.
The "Memory Medallion" for gravestones is not a microchip, it's a 2D barcode.
Most architects have a degree in civil engineering, and many programmers have a degree in computer science, so maybe they are right...
Having a Secret clearance and having access to the files is not the same thing. Even though they were classified at the Secret level, only people with a legitimate "need to know" were given access to the files. You need both to access secret information - the security level and a legitimate working interest in the material. There are three million people in the US with a Secret clearance, but three million people did not have access to these files.
Yeah, you may think you have control. Until the Finance department buys their own servers, and buys their own connection to the .Net in order to purposely bypass your control, and has sign-off from the CFO to do it. It's not always as simple a problem as you think it is.
Eh, if you've worked in a multi-billion dollar F100 company this isn't surprising at all. Any random department can buy a couple of servers and set up their own "data center", and when you have 100,000 employees, it's hard to keep track of. Now imagine you are a multi-trillion dollar company, which is basically what the federal government is, with three million employees. Things get complicated.
This is going to get more interesting as security (home alarm) companies and medical (help, I've fallen and I can't get up) companies are moving all their services to the user's web connection. Once there are a couple of deaths and a fire that don't get reported, these services are going to come under a lot more pressure to not disconnect people without multiple notices through snail mail, etc. type of process.
Thank you, this is a better way of stating the point I was trying to make.
Write people an extremely hefty fine if they are involved in an accident while texting. Make it easier to convict them on involuntary manslaughter charges if they were texting at the time they hit a pedestrian. If people can safely text, great. If not, punish them when they cause problems. This is the same as any other distraction while driving - you can think about other things than the road while driving legally (work problems, family problems, etc). If you can still safely drive, great. If not, you pay the piper when you hurt someone else.
Laser beams are focused energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation, not energy in the form of thermal entropy of molecules in matter. There is a difference. Laser beams can transmit their heat to matter (they normally do), but laser beams are not "Hot".
Thank you for this post. Although we can argue the validity of creation theory, I think it is important to give kudos and respect to serious historians, who have spent a lot of time and effort researching historical time lines. I think we can object to a certain theory without belittling the effort of people involved in the research of any certain subject.
Exactly. A much better comparison would be against electricity prices over time, which are much less prone to economies of scale and a better direct comparison, and which have changed rather slowly, pretty much with normal inflation (and sometimes negatively). No companies are manufacturing broadband, boxing it up, and shipping it to consumers. It's a different concept.
I must defer to your experience.
By setting up a law that everyone is expected to disobey, what they have done is supplied an easy reason to detain and question anyone "of interest". It's a calculated move.
this is a false comparison.
Yes, we will need to move to Phasers and then Photon and Quantum torpedoes at some point.
This isn't about Apple. It's about Star Trek, which puts it on a completely different level.
Although I can appreciate the comparison, and it is useful for helping to understand why a police state / dictatorship is a dangerous path we don't want to start down, we also need to be very careful. The USA is NOT remotely like North Korea, and by comparing them too closely, we minimize and marginalize the problem that North Korea is, both for its citizens and for the world. Let's show the citizens of North Korea some respect and admit that life in the USA is NOT like life in North Korea, or Iran, or large parts of Africa. It seems like people that make statements like this have not traveled much, or talked to people that have lived under true dictatorships.