Is having a match.com account evidence of infidelity? I mean, she didn't even check when it was last used. I've got accounts on several dating sites, but for the most part, I haven't touched them in years. If I actually had a girlfriend, I don't see how the sites would know to close my accounts, and I certainly don't think it would occur to me to do so.
The issue here isn't inherently privacy related, the problem only exists because people presume that your email address having an account indicates something other than you have looked at the site, sometime since the site was started, and even that is presuming it wasn't a typo or intentional subterfuge on someone elses part.
A fight is NOT a fight, a fight is a savage beating by an aggressor on a victim, that the punishment, suspension usually matters more to the victim than the aggressor just serves to reinforce the idea in the aggressors mind that their behavior is appropriate, accepted and expected. This makes those assigning the punishment complicit in further attacks and any steps the victim is forced to take to defend themselves in the future.
But if you have a gun and practice with it, maybe you will recognize it as a dangerouse tool rather than some magic talisman that turns people into invincible boogieman?
Pretty much by definition, if they break into your house they are threatening you and your family, and they have allready violated your property. Texas at least codifies this and, as of September 1st 2007, will extend that presumption to your workplace and motor vehicle. I'm unsure as to what other states have enacted similar legislation, but, many states, including Washington and Texas also have Stand Your Ground legislation, meaning there is no duty to retreat when you are legally in a place, and there was at least one case in Washington where home invasion (even though perpatraitor was unarmed), was sufficient grounds for deadly self defense.
If they aren't going to abolish DST all together, it better bloody well stay, I don't want to do a panic dance to deploy yet another set of (more complicated), Time Zone rules, and still get screwed by embeded devices and propriatery systems that just can't handle it.
Uhmm... what acceleration from the sun? Or does this hypothosis thats attacking Newton forget that Newton allready fell to GR? How would this not be dominated by the 1g acceleration of the ground pushing up on you?
This is incorrect and insufficient, you can not restrict it to 'your customers'
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
They can't use option, c) as they are a commercial distribution, they haven't done a) at this time. So they better bloody well have done b), which means the offer can be used by anyone and is transferrable (and for that matter, duplicatable). Additionally, a USB stick and a courrier is NOT a medium customarily used for software distribution.
Makes sense to me. Viewing adult sites at work leaves an electronic trail back to the company, so they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to stop it. Sex on a desk is only an issue if done in such a way that there is evidence of it having occurred (in view of cameras, in an unlocked or windowed office, in a cube farm...), if the sex act itself was some how unlawfull (non consensual or for money, though there are other options in some jurisdictions) or if the relationship results in a conflict of interest or the apearance thereof.
The first would, under the policies that IBM seems to be following in this case, result in first a warning (possibly a transfer at the same time to avoid sexual harrasment issues with employees who witnessed the act) and then termination, if the behavior continued. The second would likely result in prosecution by local authorities. The third generally results in transfer regardless of where any supporting acts occurred, in order to eliminate the conflict. It would also probably constitute a warning, so if they break up and one of them ends up in a similar relationship with a superior/subordinate it's the boot...
IANAL, this is all rational inferrence from my own companies manuals and sexual harrasment training (yes, thats what it was called, and yes, it should have had 'recognition and prevention' in the title to accurately represent it's content).
If so, it would kind of suck to be in a singularity spawned universe, Hawking Radiation tends to make black holes evaporate.
But, describing the start of the universe as a singularity in the same sense as a black hole is somewhat missleading, in a black hole, matter is effectively point like, warping space around it but leaving most of that space essentially empty. In the Big Bang 'singularity', matter is uniformly* distributed in a point like space.
* That it was almost perfectly uniform while containing some large scale fluctuations/structure is one of those puzzling things that this hypothosis attempts to address.
An organization is only as good as the worst employee they 'retain'. A good organization either gets rid of bad employees or sidelines them while they get the nescessary training to be good employees. It may hurt to have a few years where the HR turn over is 200%, but that can often be what it takes to clean up a bad HR department. A company unwilling to clean up it's messes, rots from the inside out.
"Despite following the model of real world sports advertising..."
There is the problem. Sports advertising is targeted at spectators, not athletes. For the most part, games don't HAVE spectators. I don't see how advertising can work when the target is in an active, task oriented, state as oposed to a passive observer state.
IT is strictly responsible for low level infrastructure (OS, hardware, physical network, power). Development teams own services and are responsible for their fleets in both a development and operational sense, and is responsible for notifying their upstream and downstream dependancies of changes in advance. Actual deployment (which, if it requires documentation, is not being supported by a sufficiently advanced deployment management system) to production is gated by Development's QA teams, who are responsible for testing on non production systems.
We used to have dedicated deployment engineers, but that just added friction, and guarenteed that the person doing the push to prod didn't know the full contents of what they were pushing.
It wasn't clear from the article, but does this apply to a companies internal VOIP system that doesn't use ANY service provider? Ignoring call centers for the moment, what does this mean for VOIP connections that don't (and can't) touch POTS, don't cost anything, and are purely software?
My Computer Science program included a low credit required class that was a general overview of Databases and their theoretical underpinings (Relational Algebra, old hiarchical models and some other history). Ten years later I'm still using what I learned in that (and many other) courses to spot BSing DBAs. Sure, I may not know how some particular feature of Oracle is supposed to work, but I learned enough to be able to figure it out given a seemingly absurd statement and devise tests to cut through the mysticism.
So, what do they ban when someone develops a biologically neutral binary explosive, drinks one half of it and swallows a gel cap of the initiator, becoming a human time bomb.
I must concur. I mean, I fell out of a 100ft tall tree (from the 40ft level) when I was a kid. Fortunatly, it was an evergreen and the fall took a long time with lots of breaking, bouncing and sliding. 20ft tall tree? The stairs in your house are more deadly.
There are no in game goods, when you 'buy gold' for WoW, you are doing two things, first, you are violating the WoW ToS, second, you are paying for the service of having someone farm the gold and transfer it to you.
The same thing is true of when I do contract programming. I never sell the end product, I instead sell my services, paying taxes on the income. When I program for myself, there is no income and no tax.
For a more blatent example, there are people whose job it is to open doors and answer questions, taxes are paid on their income, but that doesn't mean there is anythin to tax if I take it upon myself to answer someones questions or hold a door open for them.
Walmart can and does give towns (or town officials) money. They do so with the understanding, that the now corrupted town officials will use Imminent Domain to seize land for Walmart to build their store.
Yes, actually, you do. USENET has had archives and protocol bridges since near the start. First USENET -> Fidonet bridge was in what, 1987? Deja, a (the?) web archive of usenet was one of the first websites I ever used, ahh good old Mosaic, may you rest in pieces. USENET, like the web, is bigger than NNTP, and deeper than the transiet packets relayed across it.
'Hoovering' isn't going to work, suction is just the difference between a high presure area and a low presure area. In order to 'hoover' in this environment you would need to have a zone inside the space craft with a presure lower than the presure outside the spacecraft. The presure outside the spacecraft is aproximately 0, so, good luck with creating an area of negative pressure (which would require a negative number of atoms, a negative absolute temperature or a negative volume...)
Which is weird, as I've found doing #3 and #4 projects first means I have more time to do #1 projects, and all of them end up being, effectively #2 projects due to reduced friction when dealing with the symptoms of a problem, allowing me to have more time to deal with the root cause of problems and avoiding the operational death spiral when keeping something running requires so much time there isn't time to fix it. I've only gotten into the deathspiral when forced to work on 'wizbang' #1 things first with the stipulation there would be time to fix things 'later'.
Failure to make operational systems better and write tools to make support of the system be less time consuming, and less painfull, is one of the leading causes of ending up with a legacy system that needs to be reengineered from the ground up while all the resources to do that reengineering are being consumed supporting the legacy system.
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Is having a match.com account evidence of infidelity? I mean, she didn't even check when it was last used. I've got accounts on several dating sites, but for the most part, I haven't touched them in years. If I actually had a girlfriend, I don't see how the sites would know to close my accounts, and I certainly don't think it would occur to me to do so.
The issue here isn't inherently privacy related, the problem only exists because people presume that your email address having an account indicates something other than you have looked at the site, sometime since the site was started, and even that is presuming it wasn't a typo or intentional subterfuge on someone elses part.
A fight is NOT a fight, a fight is a savage beating by an aggressor on a victim, that the punishment, suspension usually matters more to the victim than the aggressor just serves to reinforce the idea in the aggressors mind that their behavior is appropriate, accepted and expected. This makes those assigning the punishment complicit in further attacks and any steps the victim is forced to take to defend themselves in the future.
But if you have a gun and practice with it, maybe you will recognize it as a dangerouse tool rather than some magic talisman that turns people into invincible boogieman?
Pretty much by definition, if they break into your house they are threatening you and your family, and they have allready violated your property. Texas at least codifies this and, as of September 1st 2007, will extend that presumption to your workplace and motor vehicle. I'm unsure as to what other states have enacted similar legislation, but, many states, including Washington and Texas also have Stand Your Ground legislation, meaning there is no duty to retreat when you are legally in a place, and there was at least one case in Washington where home invasion (even though perpatraitor was unarmed), was sufficient grounds for deadly self defense.
If they aren't going to abolish DST all together, it better bloody well stay, I don't want to do a panic dance to deploy yet another set of (more complicated), Time Zone rules, and still get screwed by embeded devices and propriatery systems that just can't handle it.
Uhmm... what acceleration from the sun? Or does this hypothosis thats attacking Newton forget that Newton allready fell to GR? How would this not be dominated by the 1g acceleration of the ground pushing up on you?
They can't use option, c) as they are a commercial distribution, they haven't done a) at this time. So they better bloody well have done b), which means the offer can be used by anyone and is transferrable (and for that matter, duplicatable). Additionally, a USB stick and a courrier is NOT a medium customarily used for software distribution.
Makes sense to me. Viewing adult sites at work leaves an electronic trail back to the company, so they have a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to stop it. Sex on a desk is only an issue if done in such a way that there is evidence of it having occurred (in view of cameras, in an unlocked or windowed office, in a cube farm...), if the sex act itself was some how unlawfull (non consensual or for money, though there are other options in some jurisdictions) or if the relationship results in a conflict of interest or the apearance thereof.
The first would, under the policies that IBM seems to be following in this case, result in first a warning (possibly a transfer at the same time to avoid sexual harrasment issues with employees who witnessed the act) and then termination, if the behavior continued. The second would likely result in prosecution by local authorities. The third generally results in transfer regardless of where any supporting acts occurred, in order to eliminate the conflict. It would also probably constitute a warning, so if they break up and one of them ends up in a similar relationship with a superior/subordinate it's the boot...
IANAL, this is all rational inferrence from my own companies manuals and sexual harrasment training (yes, thats what it was called, and yes, it should have had 'recognition and prevention' in the title to accurately represent it's content).
No, but I've seen a lot of users go to www.cnn.com by means of entering www.cnn.com in google's search box.
If so, it would kind of suck to be in a singularity spawned universe, Hawking Radiation tends to make black holes evaporate.
But, describing the start of the universe as a singularity in the same sense as a black hole is somewhat missleading, in a black hole, matter is effectively point like, warping space around it but leaving most of that space essentially empty. In the Big Bang 'singularity', matter is uniformly* distributed in a point like space.
* That it was almost perfectly uniform while containing some large scale fluctuations/structure is one of those puzzling things that this hypothosis attempts to address.
Cars are weapons and should be treated as such. Running over a pedestrian in a crosswalk is murder, and should be resulting in hanging.
An organization is only as good as the worst employee they 'retain'. A good organization either gets rid of bad employees or sidelines them while they get the nescessary training to be good employees. It may hurt to have a few years where the HR turn over is 200%, but that can often be what it takes to clean up a bad HR department. A company unwilling to clean up it's messes, rots from the inside out.
"Despite following the model of real world sports advertising..."
There is the problem. Sports advertising is targeted at spectators, not athletes. For the most part, games don't HAVE spectators. I don't see how advertising can work when the target is in an active, task oriented, state as oposed to a passive observer state.
IT is strictly responsible for low level infrastructure (OS, hardware, physical network, power). Development teams own services and are responsible for their fleets in both a development and operational sense, and is responsible for notifying their upstream and downstream dependancies of changes in advance. Actual deployment (which, if it requires documentation, is not being supported by a sufficiently advanced deployment management system) to production is gated by Development's QA teams, who are responsible for testing on non production systems.
We used to have dedicated deployment engineers, but that just added friction, and guarenteed that the person doing the push to prod didn't know the full contents of what they were pushing.
It wasn't clear from the article, but does this apply to a companies internal VOIP system that doesn't use ANY service provider? Ignoring call centers for the moment, what does this mean for VOIP connections that don't (and can't) touch POTS, don't cost anything, and are purely software?
My Computer Science program included a low credit required class that was a general overview of Databases and their theoretical underpinings (Relational Algebra, old hiarchical models and some other history). Ten years later I'm still using what I learned in that (and many other) courses to spot BSing DBAs. Sure, I may not know how some particular feature of Oracle is supposed to work, but I learned enough to be able to figure it out given a seemingly absurd statement and devise tests to cut through the mysticism.
They seem to be working on that problem:
Gift Organizer
But, I don't know if it ties back into recomendations yet.
So, what do they ban when someone develops a biologically neutral binary explosive, drinks one half of it and swallows a gel cap of the initiator, becoming a human time bomb.
Self sufficient and unencumbered (libertarian)?
I must concur. I mean, I fell out of a 100ft tall tree (from the 40ft level) when I was a kid. Fortunatly, it was an evergreen and the fall took a long time with lots of breaking, bouncing and sliding. 20ft tall tree? The stairs in your house are more deadly.
There are no in game goods, when you 'buy gold' for WoW, you are doing two things, first, you are violating the WoW ToS, second, you are paying for the service of having someone farm the gold and transfer it to you.
The same thing is true of when I do contract programming. I never sell the end product, I instead sell my services, paying taxes on the income. When I program for myself, there is no income and no tax.
For a more blatent example, there are people whose job it is to open doors and answer questions, taxes are paid on their income, but that doesn't mean there is anythin to tax if I take it upon myself to answer someones questions or hold a door open for them.
Walmart can and does give towns (or town officials) money. They do so with the understanding, that the now corrupted town officials will use Imminent Domain to seize land for Walmart to build their store.
Yes, actually, you do. USENET has had archives and protocol bridges since near the start. First USENET -> Fidonet bridge was in what, 1987? Deja, a (the?) web archive of usenet was one of the first websites I ever used, ahh good old Mosaic, may you rest in pieces. USENET, like the web, is bigger than NNTP, and deeper than the transiet packets relayed across it.
'Hoovering' isn't going to work, suction is just the difference between a high presure area and a low presure area. In order to 'hoover' in this environment you would need to have a zone inside the space craft with a presure lower than the presure outside the spacecraft. The presure outside the spacecraft is aproximately 0, so, good luck with creating an area of negative pressure (which would require a negative number of atoms, a negative absolute temperature or a negative volume...)
Which is weird, as I've found doing #3 and #4 projects first means I have more time to do #1 projects, and all of them end up being, effectively #2 projects due to reduced friction when dealing with the symptoms of a problem, allowing me to have more time to deal with the root cause of problems and avoiding the operational death spiral when keeping something running requires so much time there isn't time to fix it. I've only gotten into the deathspiral when forced to work on 'wizbang' #1 things first with the stipulation there would be time to fix things 'later'.
Failure to make operational systems better and write tools to make support of the system be less time consuming, and less painfull, is one of the leading causes of ending up with a legacy system that needs to be reengineered from the ground up while all the resources to do that reengineering are being consumed supporting the legacy system.