this was common and part of a course project for everyone there.
This might be useful information considering the website says that this is "patent pending". This could well be prior art. I haven't looked at the patent application yet though.
actually, t-mobile went out of business, because it couldn't sell iPhones. and that's all you good american consumers care about.
No, T-mobile went out of business because for most people their coverage sucked like a hoover. If you didn't live and work in a fairly large metropolitan area you were out of luck.
Taxpayer funded research should not be behind pay walls or restricted in any other manner. Exception for information with military applications...mostly.
Similarly universities should not be able to patent or commercialize anything where the research done to develop it was funded with taxpayer dollars. It should automatically be in the public domain available to everyone.
Specifically, the issue is that normally stock options once vested (ie: you can exercise them) do not expire after an employee leaves a company. In this case they did and the language of the contract did not at all make that clear.
Perhaps you should read the article again as well. The options did not expire. Lee was eligible to purchase them if he wanted to. The issue was that the contract also included a clause that would let the company buy back the stock purchased using those options at the exercise price if they so desired. The company indicated in a letter to Lee that they would do so. The net effect would be $0 gained for Lee and possible tax implications where he might even lose money if he were to move forward.
The only mention that the company had the right to buy if he left in less than five years came in a single sentence toward the end of the document that referred him to yet another document, which he never bothered to read.
For someone who works the startup circuit jumping from job to job every year, you would think that reading your employment contract would be a no brainer.
"I would have never gone to work there had I known," [Lee] says.
In other words, he never had any intention of staying with the company. He was only there for the minimum amount of time necessary for some options to vest, then he planned to cash in any windfall and move on to the next startup.
Sorry, but I have no sympathy for him.
I also find it frustrating that I take the time to enter my account number and am asked for it again by a real person. I always ask at this point why I was asked to enter it in the first place, or if they don't already have that information forwarded to them on their screen. I think they sometimes just ask us to be annoying. Maybe not. Maybe the company has a communication system that only does part of its job.
Entering this data is so that your call can be placed properly in the queue. Some customers have priority status and when they enter their number, they go to the front of the queue or even to a "high value customer CSR". The information is typically not passed to the CSR's system when the call is finally dispatched.
Since you don't know the plaintext, it's impossible, even by bruteforce
Not really. For example we might assume that the original file is a.txt file and that the document is in English. Based on this we could perform a sample decrypt followed by a quick (relatively speaking) analysis looking for characters in the ASCII printable range. If the key is wrong the result should appear random. At the same time we can check for non-varying bytes that occur at certain positions in word documents, or for image file format headers. Most file formats don't try to disguise themselves and are easily detected.
For example, rather than creating an server login account for someone who just needed to view some log files, I wrote/updated a CGI script so they could view the logs from their browsers.
The last time someone did this at our company, users were able to browse every file in the file system using the tool. Programmers shouldn't try to act like admins and admins shouldn't try to act like programmers.
I guess one major problem with that would be to find somebody actually willing to GIVE you that amount of $ for your bitcoins. That's the problem with bitcoins, like a "real" currency it has the value which people would exchange it for, but it is a bad currency because most people WON'T give you anything for it. So all people can do right now is sit on their pile of bitcoins, shouting "this would be worth $200k - if somebody would actually give me that amount of $ for it".
Or do something like claim it was stolen and then file an insurance claim...
Is this a link to (presumably) the submitter's blog, rather than the actual presentation available here.
Given that the submitter meckdevil's associated email address is john.mecklin@sbcglobal.net and the link to TFA is on johnmecklin.wordpress.com, I would say yes. The linked page contains no content and readers should just use the link in the parent post. The submitter is nothing more than a link whore and if the editors were doing their jobs this wouldn't happen.
This is actually what OneNote -- the oft overlooked/maligned offering from MS -- is designed to do, and it does it pretty well believe it or not. Technically it's aimed at collaboration, but there's no reason it can't work equally well for self-organization.
Looks like that would be a good fit, except for the requirements that it be open source and cross platform that is.
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Paypal is not a bank everywhere.
In my opinion Paypal is not a bank anywhere. At best they have managed to play one in the EU.
Im in the IT field and got picked up by a company with a crappy degree and no experience.
(In a Groucho Marx voice) Why the company had a crappy degree I'll never know.
SugarSync has a similar service and their Terms of Usage are much more like what you would expect.
this was common and part of a course project for everyone there.
This might be useful information considering the website says that this is "patent pending". This could well be prior art. I haven't looked at the patent application yet though.
actually, t-mobile went out of business, because it couldn't sell iPhones. and that's all you good american consumers care about.
No, T-mobile went out of business because for most people their coverage sucked like a hoover. If you didn't live and work in a fairly large metropolitan area you were out of luck.
Who would you rather pay off, 43 different state regulatory authorities, or those convenient people on Capitol Hill?'"
FTFY
As the saying goes, the two things you don't want to see being made are law and video games
An interesting and apt variation, but the old saying is
"Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made."
Though often attributed to Otto von Bismark, this is actually a quote from John Godfrey Saxe.
Taxpayer funded research should not be behind pay walls or restricted in any other manner. Exception for information with military applications...mostly.
Similarly universities should not be able to patent or commercialize anything where the research done to develop it was funded with taxpayer dollars. It should automatically be in the public domain available to everyone.
Specifically, the issue is that normally stock options once vested (ie: you can exercise them) do not expire after an employee leaves a company. In this case they did and the language of the contract did not at all make that clear.
Perhaps you should read the article again as well. The options did not expire. Lee was eligible to purchase them if he wanted to. The issue was that the contract also included a clause that would let the company buy back the stock purchased using those options at the exercise price if they so desired. The company indicated in a letter to Lee that they would do so. The net effect would be $0 gained for Lee and possible tax implications where he might even lose money if he were to move forward.
The only mention that the company had the right to buy if he left in less than five years came in a single sentence toward the end of the document that referred him to yet another document, which he never bothered to read.
For someone who works the startup circuit jumping from job to job every year, you would think that reading your employment contract would be a no brainer.
"I would have never gone to work there had I known," [Lee] says.
In other words, he never had any intention of staying with the company. He was only there for the minimum amount of time necessary for some options to vest, then he planned to cash in any windfall and move on to the next startup.
Sorry, but I have no sympathy for him.
I stood in front of the sign that read "employees must wash hands" for twenty minutes. No one showed up so I finally just washed them myself.
I also find it frustrating that I take the time to enter my account number and am asked for it again by a real person. I always ask at this point why I was asked to enter it in the first place, or if they don't already have that information forwarded to them on their screen. I think they sometimes just ask us to be annoying. Maybe not. Maybe the company has a communication system that only does part of its job.
Entering this data is so that your call can be placed properly in the queue. Some customers have priority status and when they enter their number, they go to the front of the queue or even to a "high value customer CSR". The information is typically not passed to the CSR's system when the call is finally dispatched.
A series of "standards" designed to keep groups of people employed while producing more "standards" that contributes nothing to human civilization.
See also ITIL.
So how can I contact you to get hosting with your company?
Since you don't know the plaintext, it's impossible, even by bruteforce
Not really. For example we might assume that the original file is a .txt file and that the document is in English. Based on this we could perform a sample decrypt followed by a quick (relatively speaking) analysis looking for characters in the ASCII printable range. If the key is wrong the result should appear random. At the same time we can check for non-varying bytes that occur at certain positions in word documents, or for image file format headers. Most file formats don't try to disguise themselves and are easily detected.
It sounds like you need some better friends.
Like the old saying goes:
Friends help you move;
Good friends help you move bodies.
Documental: (n) - A form of elemental that has all of the necessary paperwork.
So uhm, Slashdot, when is LulzSec getting it's own icon? Seems to be the top favorite for news these days.
Maybe the editors figure that if LulzSec wants one, they'll just add it themselves..
For example, rather than creating an server login account for someone who just needed to view some log files, I wrote/updated a CGI script so they could view the logs from their browsers.
The last time someone did this at our company, users were able to browse every file in the file system using the tool. Programmers shouldn't try to act like admins and admins shouldn't try to act like programmers.
I guess one major problem with that would be to find somebody actually willing to GIVE you that amount of $ for your bitcoins. That's the problem with bitcoins, like a "real" currency it has the value which people would exchange it for, but it is a bad currency because most people WON'T give you anything for it. So all people can do right now is sit on their pile of bitcoins, shouting "this would be worth $200k - if somebody would actually give me that amount of $ for it".
Or do something like claim it was stolen and then file an insurance claim...
Obviously, someone who "consumes" web content in the context given, isn't using it up. Therefore "consuming" is not the correct word.
Should we use "source" and "sink" instead?
Is this a link to (presumably) the submitter's blog, rather than the actual presentation available here: http://curiositycounts.com/post/6455747293/jonathan-stray-of-the-associated-press-on
You can skip this site also. The presentation and the related discussion is in the original post.
Is this a link to (presumably) the submitter's blog, rather than the actual presentation available here: http://curiositycounts.com/post/6455747293/jonathan-stray-of-the-associated-press-on
You can skip this site also. The presentation can be found here on vimeo.
Is this a link to (presumably) the submitter's blog, rather than the actual presentation available here.
Given that the submitter meckdevil's associated email address is john.mecklin@sbcglobal.net and the link to TFA is on johnmecklin.wordpress.com, I would say yes. The linked page contains no content and readers should just use the link in the parent post. The submitter is nothing more than a link whore and if the editors were doing their jobs this wouldn't happen.
This is actually what OneNote -- the oft overlooked/maligned offering from MS -- is designed to do, and it does it pretty well believe it or not. Technically it's aimed at collaboration, but there's no reason it can't work equally well for self-organization.
Looks like that would be a good fit, except for the requirements that it be open source and cross platform that is.