I remember reading the SSR books in my teens the late 80s. I was very surprised when I realised how OLD the first few were as some of the ideas/concepts in the books were just becoming mainstream/reality.
Part of that law is the right to wave it if you wish. So if you wave the right to privacy while using workplace computer systems (which you probably did when signing a contract or a click through before login) you gave the company permission to monitor your use. If you disagree you have the right to resign from your job and employment law doesn't really care as monitoring (with notification) is reasonable practice.
You authorized the access of your data and you can do that within the law. Data protection laws allow for monitoring and recording with permission and appropriate controls within the Data Protection framework.
If you chose to access personal information while being monitored, after being told you are being monitored then thats your problem. No one made you do it. Its like phoning the Police on 999, confessing a crime then trying to sue the police/block conviction because they legally recorded the "emergency" call.
There is no similar law that allows you to authorize someone to execute you (however you could give permission to be flogged if you wanted but employment law would ensure that any such flogging was 100% voluntary and health and safety law would probably have a say as well about how hard you could be flogged).
My point is Data protection laws are about ensuring that your data is correct, kept secure and not used for inappropriate purposes, monitoring emails and web use is considered appropriate to ensure compliance with company law (such as insider dealing, fraud etc). Other laws (such as relate to physical violence) have different goals.
Actually you get a warning message every time you log in and give your explicit consent by clicking ok and logging in that you will/may be monitored for use of all company equipment specifically including Internet use.
Legally this is no different to you giving a Facebook app/game rights to read your contact lists and posts for whatever use they feel they have a business need for. After you agree you should have little or no expectation of privacy.
As for data protection law, all companies have to do is register something along the lines of "monitor staff usage of systems to ensure legal and business integrity" as one of their data uses. As long as the data they collect can be demonstrated to be used with appropriate access control and only for that use (and not say pay rises or inappropriate snooping/gossip) etc and they comply with the rest of the law such as data access requests there are no legal issues.
We have similar rules however not only is it fair game with us, accessing (or attempting to access since most are blocked) personal email services, messaging services, logging into web forums, uploading files and a bunch of other risky stuff are grounds for immediate dismissal. We also monitor and store all emails, record random phone calls and other stuff which all staff are made aware of when they join the company.
This is 100% for data leakage, we don't really care if your sister is having an affair and telling you (and the world) about it on twitter but we do care if you are sharing our customer list with our competitor or helping a third party commit fraud.
People think web access is a right. It is not. It wasn't that long ago that we didn't even allow personal phone except in 'emergency' circumstances (that you had to justify to a senior manager)
For me its not dreams, rather its lying in bed late at night or on lazy Sunday mornings daydreaming for an hour or two. I'll just let my mind run 'in neutral' not thinking about anything in particular. Sometimes I'll end up thinking about what I did today or will be doing tomorrow. Sometimes its more abstract stuff like what does the square root of -1 actually mean. Sometimes its about the people around me, either friend or foe. Sometimes just about one pointless thing like a slashdot post I made, over and over again but considering it from every angle.
Every so often these random 'wanderings' result in me linking two previously unrelated facts together to get a better understanding or in me having an idea to solve some problem or issue.
Either way without letting my mind wander I wouldn't have anywhere near as many 'eureka' moments and would probably have missed out on promotions etc as a result.
Yes and who can forget (like I did) that Ceefax provided the first subtitles system that didn't require a lot of expensive equipment, initially for per-recored programmes and then later for live news and finally for advertisements.
I'm sad in some ways part of my childhood is going with it. I have many childhood memories of the kids pages, bad jokes, looking up when my favorite TV show was on and *having my name on TV!* on my birthday.
But the world has moved on, the Ceefax that is/was available today is a shadow of its former self.
I'm going now before I get too far down memory lane that I end up late for work...
No you miss my point... It's not about countries, its about who has your data
You could as an Australian company use a cloud host based in New Zealand but what if...
1. Cloud Host company gets taken over by another company that is a competitor with your company
2. Cloud Host decides to move 'your' server location to another country that has government/spying 'issues'
3. Even if 'your' cloud servers are local, the Cloud Host may have the backups / disaster recovery systems in data centres around the globe.
4. Cloud Host recruitment and other processes are lax and they employ Bad People who wouldn't think twice about giving access to your data to others for money
(and that's just a few possibilities off the top of my head)
At least if you keep your data and services in-house you only have to worry about what happens to/in your own company, something that you have a reasonable amount of control over. And Cloud is not the same as outsourcing your systems, as outsourcing tends to have a lot tighter legal/contractual agreements and safeguards in place.
Don't get me wrong.. in some situations a third party Cloud can be good for small companies who don't need to store large amounts of sensitive data, or non sensitive data such as product information, public wikis etc. but if you have details on 1000s (or even 1,000,000s) of customers that could be used for Bad Things or Trade Secrets that you want to keep secret then Cloud probably isn't for you...
It's not really Australia vs. America issue. Its sensitive data vs. cloud computing.
It's just the Australians seem to have gotten the idea where the Americans haven't. The American Government should be making the same warnings to the American companies about American hosted cloud services. Its a data security thing its not a country thing.
As soon as that data leaves your premises you no longer have control over who sees it, even more so if that data passes over international borders.
And of course there is the cost/speed issue... US/Oz connections aren't the cheapest or fastest connections in the world.
From the article "A cake is not a mousse. The resource is heterogeneous, different agents can attach different values to different regions of cake." Or in other words... "I like the thick icing at the edge but you can't stand it and you love the cherry in the middle that I couldn't care less about".
I wouldn't waste your time on towns it isn't much more than a standard resource gather and build sim with some sight tweaks, isometric 3d and poor Gameboy like graphics and animation. Even the tutorial is misleading as the instructions on how to do stuff aren't what you actually need to do...
No real innovation at all.
If you ask me parent is somehow connected to Towns and is bitter he can't produce good games while others can...
Insurance companies all have direct links to the DVLAs system so updates are normally instant now. I have obtained my MOT (garage) and purchased Insurance (by phone) and Tax (online) all within an hour on a car that was off the road for a major repair for several weeks (and SORN declared) when they were due.
You can always go to the old fashioned Post Office with both your current and your not yet valid insurance certificates, demonstrate to the cashier that the car is insured and get your tax disk over the counter. The still accept paper documentation over database checks and as you need the form that they posted you to buy a tax disk over the counter they verified that they have your correct address and know where to find you if you tried to trick them (and they will check). Or you can go direct to a DVLA office where they will check directly with the insurance companies if you still have problems.
Of course the other things you could do is to either buy an insurance policy that is less than 12 months long or buy a 6 month tax disk this time so there is no clash next year or have your new policy overlap the old by a couple of days.
The online renewal system has its limitations (and benefits) but is not the only way to get a tax disk (yet).
Like cake, that has always been a lie. Along with the embedded fingerprint that is supposedly able to trace a copy back to a specific machine.
However it is very hard to make a passable copy using these devices, even the very high quality ones, as the paper (often actually a fabric and not paper) and inks (colour and texture) used, level of fine detail and other features such as metal woven strips make it almost impossible to scan or print without using a wet ink printing press.
Slashdot Mirror
Just don't know when to fold.
The end is coming. /. has jumped the shark.
Slashdot just got dropped from one of my select array of home tabs.
Not quite... Slashdot is good at DDoSing sites with views that the readers DO like more than ones they don't like.
I remember reading the SSR books in my teens the late 80s. I was very surprised when I realised how OLD the first few were as some of the ideas/concepts in the books were just becoming mainstream/reality.
Harry Harrison will be missed.
No. because the father probably already did without the knowledge of the mother...
Part of that law is the right to wave it if you wish. So if you wave the right to privacy while using workplace computer systems (which you probably did when signing a contract or a click through before login) you gave the company permission to monitor your use. If you disagree you have the right to resign from your job and employment law doesn't really care as monitoring (with notification) is reasonable practice.
You authorized the access of your data and you can do that within the law. Data protection laws allow for monitoring and recording with permission and appropriate controls within the Data Protection framework.
If you chose to access personal information while being monitored, after being told you are being monitored then thats your problem. No one made you do it. Its like phoning the Police on 999, confessing a crime then trying to sue the police/block conviction because they legally recorded the "emergency" call.
There is no similar law that allows you to authorize someone to execute you (however you could give permission to be flogged if you wanted but employment law would ensure that any such flogging was 100% voluntary and health and safety law would probably have a say as well about how hard you could be flogged).
My point is Data protection laws are about ensuring that your data is correct, kept secure and not used for inappropriate purposes, monitoring emails and web use is considered appropriate to ensure compliance with company law (such as insider dealing, fraud etc). Other laws (such as relate to physical violence) have different goals.
Actually you get a warning message every time you log in and give your explicit consent by clicking ok and logging in that you will/may be monitored for use of all company equipment specifically including Internet use.
Legally this is no different to you giving a Facebook app/game rights to read your contact lists and posts for whatever use they feel they have a business need for. After you agree you should have little or no expectation of privacy.
As for data protection law, all companies have to do is register something along the lines of "monitor staff usage of systems to ensure legal and business integrity" as one of their data uses. As long as the data they collect can be demonstrated to be used with appropriate access control and only for that use (and not say pay rises or inappropriate snooping/gossip) etc and they comply with the rest of the law such as data access requests there are no legal issues.
We have similar rules however not only is it fair game with us, accessing (or attempting to access since most are blocked) personal email services, messaging services, logging into web forums, uploading files and a bunch of other risky stuff are grounds for immediate dismissal. We also monitor and store all emails, record random phone calls and other stuff which all staff are made aware of when they join the company.
This is 100% for data leakage, we don't really care if your sister is having an affair and telling you (and the world) about it on twitter but we do care if you are sharing our customer list with our competitor or helping a third party commit fraud.
People think web access is a right. It is not. It wasn't that long ago that we didn't even allow personal phone except in 'emergency' circumstances (that you had to justify to a senior manager)
all those square flat edges and solid blocks of color. reminds me of windows 3.1 with the high vis color scheme.
Waste of time? Maybe.
Absolutely unbelievably funny how stupid some people can be? Yes
Worth reading just for the giggles? Definitely.
Are you talking about the boilerplate DMCA letter she probably downloaded from some site on the Internet and 'adjusted' to make it more emotional?
For all I know it could be a version copied from the photographer's original complaint.
For me its not dreams, rather its lying in bed late at night or on lazy Sunday mornings daydreaming for an hour or two. I'll just let my mind run 'in neutral' not thinking about anything in particular. Sometimes I'll end up thinking about what I did today or will be doing tomorrow. Sometimes its more abstract stuff like what does the square root of -1 actually mean. Sometimes its about the people around me, either friend or foe. Sometimes just about one pointless thing like a slashdot post I made, over and over again but considering it from every angle.
Every so often these random 'wanderings' result in me linking two previously unrelated facts together to get a better understanding or in me having an idea to solve some problem or issue.
Either way without letting my mind wander I wouldn't have anywhere near as many 'eureka' moments and would probably have missed out on promotions etc as a result.
At least he got a trial.
Argh! And of course I meant...
NO!
This is the second usb configuration baryon they found so its USB 2.0!
They still haven't found the third one...
I fell into a trap :(
NO!
This is the second usb quark they found so its USB 2.0!
They still haven't found the third one...
Yes and who can forget (like I did) that Ceefax provided the first subtitles system that didn't require a lot of expensive equipment, initially for per-recored programmes and then later for live news and finally for advertisements.
The "Dear Ceefax" article on the BBC news site gives a more human perspective... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17745100
I'm sad in some ways part of my childhood is going with it. I have many childhood memories of the kids pages, bad jokes, looking up when my favorite TV show was on and *having my name on TV!* on my birthday.
But the world has moved on, the Ceefax that is/was available today is a shadow of its former self.
I'm going now before I get too far down memory lane that I end up late for work...
No you miss my point... It's not about countries, its about who has your data
You could as an Australian company use a cloud host based in New Zealand but what if...
1. Cloud Host company gets taken over by another company that is a competitor with your company
2. Cloud Host decides to move 'your' server location to another country that has government/spying 'issues'
3. Even if 'your' cloud servers are local, the Cloud Host may have the backups / disaster recovery systems in data centres around the globe.
4. Cloud Host recruitment and other processes are lax and they employ Bad People who wouldn't think twice about giving access to your data to others for money
(and that's just a few possibilities off the top of my head)
At least if you keep your data and services in-house you only have to worry about what happens to/in your own company, something that you have a reasonable amount of control over. And Cloud is not the same as outsourcing your systems, as outsourcing tends to have a lot tighter legal/contractual agreements and safeguards in place.
Don't get me wrong.. in some situations a third party Cloud can be good for small companies who don't need to store large amounts of sensitive data, or non sensitive data such as product information, public wikis etc. but if you have details on 1000s (or even 1,000,000s) of customers that could be used for Bad Things or Trade Secrets that you want to keep secret then Cloud probably isn't for you...
It's not really Australia vs. America issue. Its sensitive data vs. cloud computing.
It's just the Australians seem to have gotten the idea where the Americans haven't. The American Government should be making the same warnings to the American companies about American hosted cloud services. Its a data security thing its not a country thing.
As soon as that data leaves your premises you no longer have control over who sees it, even more so if that data passes over international borders.
And of course there is the cost/speed issue... US/Oz connections aren't the cheapest or fastest connections in the world.
Did you RTFA?
From the article "A cake is not a mousse. The resource is heterogeneous, different agents can attach different values to different regions of cake."
Or in other words... "I like the thick icing at the edge but you can't stand it and you love the cherry in the middle that I couldn't care less about".
Wait this is /. what was I thinking?
I wouldn't waste your time on towns it isn't much more than a standard resource gather and build sim with some sight tweaks, isometric 3d and poor Gameboy like graphics and animation. Even the tutorial is misleading as the instructions on how to do stuff aren't what you actually need to do...
No real innovation at all.
If you ask me parent is somehow connected to Towns and is bitter he can't produce good games while others can...
Insurance companies all have direct links to the DVLAs system so updates are normally instant now. I have obtained my MOT (garage) and purchased Insurance (by phone) and Tax (online) all within an hour on a car that was off the road for a major repair for several weeks (and SORN declared) when they were due.
You can always go to the old fashioned Post Office with both your current and your not yet valid insurance certificates, demonstrate to the cashier that the car is insured and get your tax disk over the counter. The still accept paper documentation over database checks and as you need the form that they posted you to buy a tax disk over the counter they verified that they have your correct address and know where to find you if you tried to trick them (and they will check). Or you can go direct to a DVLA office where they will check directly with the insurance companies if you still have problems.
Of course the other things you could do is to either buy an insurance policy that is less than 12 months long or buy a 6 month tax disk this time so there is no clash next year or have your new policy overlap the old by a couple of days.
The online renewal system has its limitations (and benefits) but is not the only way to get a tax disk (yet).
Like cake, that has always been a lie. Along with the embedded fingerprint that is supposedly able to trace a copy back to a specific machine.
However it is very hard to make a passable copy using these devices, even the very high quality ones, as the paper (often actually a fabric and not paper) and inks (colour and texture) used, level of fine detail and other features such as metal woven strips make it almost impossible to scan or print without using a wet ink printing press.
But if we keep our stuff in a cloud...well, who asks about the integrity of clouds?
Clouds are 100% watertight and never leak... Rumours of rain are just FUD.
Oh wait... I think I got that wrong somewhere.
Higher taxes don't reduce fuel use significantly.
Higher taxes just put more of your money in the government's pocket.