That's a pretty broad exclusion to be enforceable.
The non-compete is illegal where I live. No organization can prevent you from improving yourself (a better job), or earning a living by going elsewhere. The exception is (not tested in the courts), if you open your own business providing competitive products to a competitor of equal size. The better job includes going to a competitor. Thus, the only protection a company has is the "trade secrets portion", and that is hard to define.
There is absolutely no incentive for Heinz to put this into their bottles. This means people will spend less on average on ketchup per year since they can get every last bit out of the bottle. I know it may not seem like much, but multiply it by millions of bottles sold and it adds up to a hefty hit on their bottom line.
I have to contradict you. Yes there is an incentive. If you can get all the condiment out from the container, instead of losing 15%, then Heinz and others can make their portions smaller, without reducing selling price.
Often by the United States of America or other western powers. When nations see that having a nuke prevents other nations from toppling them, nukes become vital for stability.
Perhaps we should stop driving them towards nuclear weapons by invading them for oil and minerals.
I believe every country should have a few hundred nuclear weapons of at least the power to destroy a city of radius 50km. And let every nuclear country realize that if they throw the bomb, automatic mechanisms from at least 100 different sources would automatically launch a counter attack.
I compare that right to have the bomb to the USA gun law, where everyone can have an automatic rapid fire rifle. All that is important is to keep the bomb away from individuals wanting to commit suicide.
SInce speeding will be a thing of the past, so will the abilities of municipalities and state troopers to earn their daily salary. This will cause municipalities to ban Ford vehicles with that technical option.
It'd be nice if the next iteration of EFI had a more robust upgrade security design.
Something like this: Firmware upgrades are not possible from inside the OS. At all. Instead there's a switch on the mainboard that is only accessible when the computer has been physically opened. When that switch is on, EFI will refuse to boot any OS and all onboard SATA/SCSI controllers are physically disabled. EFI will scan every USB port* for a FAT32-formatted mass storage device containing a file with a certain filename, which is then displayed for your approval, checked and installed. While the switch is off, changing the firmware should be prevented in hardware, such as by detaching a certain line required to write to the flash chip. (Settings should be stored on an unprotected chip and can be changed while the computer is bootable.)
You're in a corporate setting and need to update 16.000 identical desktop computers all at once? Make sure the computers have an enterprise-ready mainboard that can pull the update from the network (e.g. using something similar to BOOTP). You'll still have to toggle that switch and confirm the prompt. That's as convenient as it should get; after all, if there is any chance that the firmware is modified while an OS is loaded, any successful attack on the OS leaves your firmware in a potentially compromised state.
* Yeah, I know, USB also has infectable firmware. Unfortunately, I don't know of a reasonable mass storage standard that doesn't. And making people physically swap PROM chips won't fly.
Some, if not most mother boards have a slot or space for tpm chip. That tpm is a smart smart card chip that can store data, can encrypt data and act like a vault. Thats a few pennies and does not require an external pair of wires to a physical switch.
TPM = Trusted Platform Module. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... )
California has more water than Israel. Israel actually does a great job or water preservation by watering individual plants with a drip irrigation system that runs water in a plastic hose along the run, and where there is a plant, They install a tee connection with a controlled drip to the plant area. They also mulch. Israel reduced wasted water consumption by more than 80%. Works for fruit and vegetables, exterior and greenhouses. You just can't continue to do wide area spraying, as we see on youtube and on TV.
I bought a Seiko, because it was thin, light-weight, and had an approximate 7 year battery life. After 7 years, I bought a new battery, installed for $10.00
So, I have to change the date 6 times a year, and adjust for leapyear twice a year. Big-deal. But my watch can be immersed in water, and still keep on functioning. Newer electronic watches from the consumer market now are perpetual. Date, self adjusts, and the solar panel in the watch keeps the internal battery charged. Why would I need more. Do I need to text to my watch during meal times?
You are thinking like a consumer, not a business owner. For consumers, sure they get worse results and can go elsewhere, but for business owners, the majority of their potential customers are going to use Google since it is the go-to for most people, thus it decreases your visibility and income. So it is a pretty big issue for people trying to reach an audience, which includes people who work for any company that has customers. Thus unless you're independently wealthy or work for a Google affiliated company, this probably affects you.
I really don't care what Google does, I only window shop at the vendor list that Google prepares, but I never make a purchase. I tend to purchase from smaller businesses that are local. I support my local merchants.
That's a descriptive word I know gsm phone manufacturers work hard to distance themselves from, even more where it's more true.
I was nice of Microsoft to play along until the secure boot controversy was diffused and then stop backing openess. I'm not sure RMS would be completely surprised.
Seriously though, we have the choice, and the only thing that will maintain that freedom is that we express it with our dollars. Manufacturers are at OUR mercy, not the other way around.
If you can't get to the boot menu when you play with it in the store, don't buy it. Amazon will let you return nearly anything. This is a freedom we can defend.
I would have the US Government block sales of all computer systems in which secure boot could not be disabled. If I want to run XP as a control program for my cash register, I certainly need to bypass secure boot. Ditto if I want to run a Linux OS which does not support secure boot. Do I need to take a RedHat or Debian based distribution, perform a minimal install and replace the guts with the other OS? Let Ubuntu or Fedora bypass the UEFI security, and let me do what I want with my hardware. I had to purchase, not lease the hardware.
Except that basically all extant religions feed on ANYTHING that can be construed as persecution. By trying to censor, you only strengthen their resolve. Same shit with Neo-nazis and Mein Kampf. Nothing could do more damage to that movement than exposing that Das Fuhrer had the language skills of a middle school American sleeping through their first semester German class.
Your comments are just if you are dealing with rational individuals. But when an individual becomes ultra whatever, (from religion to being anorexic to drug addiction), rationalism is out the window. Censorship drives that drivel underground, and that way the reach to a number of susceptible individuals is greatly reduced. And of the ones converted, they are lost.
We now hear that many that went to Isil (Isis) are disillusioned about the terrorism. They can't leave for fear of death. Only sadists remain truly committed.
Use compound encryption. Compound encryption means using algorithm one, applied to a file encrypted with algorithm two. And at least one of the algorithms is salted and so that two encryptions of the same input file produce different output results. I wrote software that generates 16**3 different encryption keys, randomly selected. (srand(clock)); The cypher block chained vigenere encryption is the first algorithm and triple DES is the second. All that the recipient knows is that the key number, ranges from 1 to 16**3 different non repeatable keys and non repeatable subkeys. It functions somewhat like a 1 time pad.
I bought a 11.00 dollar keyboard with sculptured keytops, it is excellent. I still use my old IBM keyboard on my second computer
You can purchase a similar keyboard that has the buckle spring action. The buckle spring keyboard is somewhat noisy, but with it you can type faster and with fewer adjacent key press errors. Search for buckle spring on the WEBB
And at a huge cost. There's no way they did that without planning on using them for something, and that something wouldn't be a vague might happen kind of thing either, but a concrete we "need" this from the higher ups.
Would that use be an individual doing exercise in the back seat with his mistress?
The US has distorted English so badly, that some US authors have to hire off-shore editors to insure legibility of understanding. Organizational flow of the text is fine, but sentence construction is the pits.
Do you write on a disk or do you write onto a disk? I stand on the floor and using my computer I write onto it's disk. Do I go in the house, or do I go into the house?
There are 4 cars from which to choose, or 4 chars to choose from?
I was given a Nexas 4 Android. I am not a cellphone devotee, I use it for phone calls received. I hardly ever make outgoing calls and because my fingers are large, texting is folly. My text stuff, when I do it, is full of errors, even to where I select the word that the software anticipates I want to write. If I am sitting in the car while the wife shops, I play freecell. I have a 6 gig data plan and use about 50megs a month. (Yes, a waste).
With a physical keypad, there is a space between the keytops, and there is tactile feedback, and I can type with many fewer errors. I don't need voice response. Occasionally I will use the cell as a gps to guide me to an address. I own a wristwatch, so I do not need or use the cellphone to tell time.
I turn it off at meal times, or when I am in public (theatre, restaurent) places.
A cellphone is great for teens and pre-teens. Leave me to a phone with tactile feedback.
OCZ had a bad bad bad design, and went bankrupt due to the SSDs they produced. They are back, and FWIW, I wont touch an OCZ product for a long long time to come.
There are several non-Suiss wrist watches on the market that today will be around I wear a Seiko. It is less thick then the thickness of two American Quarter coins. The battery lasts seven years, and the precision is better than one second per month. For month that have fewer than 31days, I have to manually change the day number. If I wanted a watch that is "perpetual", (has a built-in photocell and produces enough power to recharge battery and this watch can keep going for weeks, if left in a drawer, that watch will be 1/3rd thicker than mine. And I can go swimming with my watch.
What will the band of the Apple contain? Will contain batteries to allow the watch to run 18 hours?
This sort of thing isn't unprecedented, the Bush White House had a policy of issuing important staffers two Blackberries, one that had a whitehouse.gov email and one that had a gop.org email, and using both systems indifferently for communication.
I sorta don't care in either place, at least from an ethics perspective, since all emails ever seem to do is trigger dopey years-long investigations and pseudo-controversies about the parsing of language and people going off half-cocked. Case in point: Benghazi.
On the other hand, I'd rather not people like this be president of the United States. I think Lindsey Graham has the right idea, if you're an official person, NEVER USE EMAIL. Write official documents carefully, or just call someone.
When you have to shlep two laptops where you go, and the government one weighs twice as much as your own, and the government did not allow you to create a private logon for yourself, what would you do? You leave the crappy one at home. And since Hillary communicated with government officials, they all have copies of her messages and their replies. Government messages to her open account would put the blame on the sender, not the recipient. I am sure her emails to government individuals were encrypted and sent via vpn.
Is the problem actually the education system? Are potential graduates given a work term at a company in their field.
Our community colleges require students to complete a work term and write up a project accomplishment report. This process eliminates the chafe from the seed. ,
>Which abandoned Google project do you wish were still around?
Don't be evil.
None, and if Google disappeared, I would be sad for about 2 screens of commercial postings that I wont have to look at with a search. I just love my rapid scrolling reflex.
I used to use Chromium (the open-source version) because for a while Firefox was really crashy, but I finally switched because Chrome is such a memory hog and Firefox seems to be working quite well these days.
This article seems to basically be saying "if you aren't continuously growing, you're dying". It's hogwash. That's like saying that the bash shell is "dying" because it isn't adding tons of new functionality, including a built-in text editor and a web browser. Notice that one of the complaints is slow development of Firefox OS. Who cares? I use Firefox because I want a solid web browser; I don't need a new OS. Web browsers are a fairly mature product these days, thanks to HTML5 and modern Javascript engines. Where else is there for them to go? And for Firefox's supposed absence on mobile devices, it seems to work great on my Android phone, so I have no idea what they're talking about there.
In summary, this article is bullshit.
Strange as it might be, I have both Chrome and Firefox, and not because of familiarity, I feel Firefox is a better browser. I know what it is tracking, and it performs well for me.
Chrome too performs well. I probably use Chrome about 2 hrs per day vs Firefox's 5 hrs per day. There is something about look and feel that prevents me from dropping Firefox for Chrome. There is a successor to Opera and I will be considering it in the coming days. Chrome 3/10 FF 7/10 is my rating
Want to defeat the bill. Organize a massive switch from your current carrier to one that everyone chooses. A carrier that loses a million customers wont remain so insistent on following through with non-neutrality.
Europe is considering or has modified net neutrality as follows: An ISP cannot give preference to his own traffic over traffic he carries by another ISP. He cannot reduce priority. He can sell higher performance only if capacity is available.
Someone somewhere is going to make attachments that hang on emails and text with all the keywords that trigger a "we got to look into..." Glue the following words together, such a B omb T errorist S hot K ill M urder T NT E xplos iv e and D y nam yte in random order in every email. That should Flood NSA with their search engine tuning and you can keep them busy for a long long long time.
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That's a pretty broad exclusion to be enforceable.
The non-compete is illegal where I live. No organization can prevent you from improving yourself (a better job), or earning a living by going elsewhere. The exception is (not tested in the courts), if you open your own business providing competitive products to a competitor of equal size. The better job includes going to a competitor. Thus, the only protection a company has is the "trade secrets portion", and that is hard to define.
There is absolutely no incentive for Heinz to put this into their bottles. This means people will spend less on average on ketchup per year since they can get every last bit out of the bottle. I know it may not seem like much, but multiply it by millions of bottles sold and it adds up to a hefty hit on their bottom line.
I have to contradict you. Yes there is an incentive. If you can get all the condiment out from the container, instead of losing 15%, then Heinz and others can make their portions smaller, without reducing selling price.
Often by the United States of America or other western powers. When nations see that having a nuke prevents other nations from toppling them, nukes become vital for stability.
Perhaps we should stop driving them towards nuclear weapons by invading them for oil and minerals.
I believe every country should have a few hundred nuclear weapons of at least the power to destroy a city of radius 50km. And let every nuclear country realize that if they throw the bomb, automatic mechanisms from at least 100 different sources would automatically launch a counter attack.
I compare that right to have the bomb to the USA gun law, where everyone can have an automatic rapid fire rifle. All that is important is to keep the bomb away from individuals wanting to commit suicide.
SInce speeding will be a thing of the past, so will the abilities of municipalities and state troopers to earn their daily salary. This will cause municipalities to ban Ford vehicles with that technical option.
Subject line says it all.
It'd be nice if the next iteration of EFI had a more robust upgrade security design.
Something like this: Firmware upgrades are not possible from inside the OS. At all. Instead there's a switch on the mainboard that is only accessible when the computer has been physically opened. When that switch is on, EFI will refuse to boot any OS and all onboard SATA/SCSI controllers are physically disabled. EFI will scan every USB port* for a FAT32-formatted mass storage device containing a file with a certain filename, which is then displayed for your approval, checked and installed. While the switch is off, changing the firmware should be prevented in hardware, such as by detaching a certain line required to write to the flash chip. (Settings should be stored on an unprotected chip and can be changed while the computer is bootable.)
You're in a corporate setting and need to update 16.000 identical desktop computers all at once? Make sure the computers have an enterprise-ready mainboard that can pull the update from the network (e.g. using something similar to BOOTP). You'll still have to toggle that switch and confirm the prompt. That's as convenient as it should get; after all, if there is any chance that the firmware is modified while an OS is loaded, any successful attack on the OS leaves your firmware in a potentially compromised state.
* Yeah, I know, USB also has infectable firmware. Unfortunately, I don't know of a reasonable mass storage standard that doesn't. And making people physically swap PROM chips won't fly.
Some, if not most mother boards have a slot or space for tpm chip. That tpm is a smart smart card chip that can store data, can encrypt data and act like a vault. Thats a few pennies and does not require an external pair of wires to a physical switch.
TPM = Trusted Platform Module. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... )
California has more water than Israel. Israel actually does a great job or water preservation by watering individual plants with a drip irrigation system that runs water in a plastic hose along the run, and where there is a plant, They install a tee connection with a controlled drip to the plant area. They also mulch. Israel reduced wasted water consumption by more than 80%. Works for fruit and vegetables, exterior and greenhouses.
You just can't continue to do wide area spraying, as we see on youtube and on TV.
I bought a Seiko, because it was thin, light-weight, and had an approximate 7 year battery life. After 7 years, I bought a new battery, installed for $10.00
So, I have to change the date 6 times a year, and adjust for leapyear twice a year. Big-deal. But my watch can be immersed in water, and still keep on functioning. Newer electronic watches from the consumer market now are perpetual. Date, self adjusts, and the solar panel in the watch keeps the internal battery charged. Why would I need more. Do I need to text to my watch during meal times?
You are thinking like a consumer, not a business owner. For consumers, sure they get worse results and can go elsewhere, but for business owners, the majority of their potential customers are going to use Google since it is the go-to for most people, thus it decreases your visibility and income. So it is a pretty big issue for people trying to reach an audience, which includes people who work for any company that has customers. Thus unless you're independently wealthy or work for a Google affiliated company, this probably affects you.
I really don't care what Google does, I only window shop at the vendor list that Google prepares, but I never make a purchase. I tend to purchase from smaller businesses that are local. I support my local merchants.
That's a descriptive word I know gsm phone manufacturers work hard to distance themselves from, even more where it's more true.
I was nice of Microsoft to play along until the secure boot controversy was diffused and then stop backing openess. I'm not sure RMS would be completely surprised.
Seriously though, we have the choice, and the only thing that will maintain that freedom is that we express it with our dollars. Manufacturers are at OUR mercy, not the other way around.
If you can't get to the boot menu when you play with it in the store, don't buy it. Amazon will let you return nearly anything. This is a freedom we can defend.
I would have the US Government block sales of all computer systems in which secure boot could not be disabled. If I want to run XP as a control program for my cash register, I certainly need to bypass secure boot. Ditto if I want to run a Linux OS which does not support secure boot.
Do I need to take a RedHat or Debian based distribution, perform a minimal install and replace the guts with the other OS? Let Ubuntu or Fedora bypass the UEFI security, and let me do what I want with my hardware. I had to purchase, not lease the hardware.
Except that basically all extant religions feed on ANYTHING that can be construed as persecution. By trying to censor, you only strengthen their resolve. Same shit with Neo-nazis and Mein Kampf. Nothing could do more damage to that movement than exposing that Das Fuhrer had the language skills of a middle school American sleeping through their first semester German class.
Your comments are just if you are dealing with rational individuals. But when an individual becomes ultra whatever, (from religion to being anorexic to drug addiction), rationalism is out the window. Censorship drives that drivel underground, and that way the reach to a number of susceptible individuals is greatly reduced. And of the ones converted, they are lost.
We now hear that many that went to Isil (Isis) are disillusioned about the terrorism. They can't leave for fear of death. Only sadists remain truly committed.
Use compound encryption. Compound encryption means using algorithm one, applied to a file encrypted with algorithm two. And at least one of the algorithms is salted and so that two encryptions of the same input file produce different output results. I wrote software that generates 16**3 different encryption keys, randomly selected. (srand(clock)); The cypher block chained vigenere encryption is the first algorithm and triple DES is the second. All that the recipient knows is that the key number, ranges from 1 to 16**3 different non repeatable keys and non repeatable subkeys. It functions somewhat like a 1 time pad.
I bought a 11.00 dollar keyboard with sculptured keytops, it is excellent. I still use my old IBM keyboard on my second computer
You can purchase a similar keyboard that has the buckle spring action.
The buckle spring keyboard is somewhat noisy, but with it you can type faster and with fewer adjacent key press errors. Search for buckle spring on the WEBB
And at a huge cost. There's no way they did that without planning on using them for something, and that something wouldn't be a vague might happen kind of thing either, but a concrete we "need" this from the higher ups.
Would that use be an individual doing exercise in the back seat with his mistress?
With the yahoo encryption module, you will require a yahoo decryption module. Ergo, reading encrypted yahoo mail from gmail will or should not work.
I am certain that this non-universality concept will be equivalent to floating a lead ballon.
The US has distorted English so badly, that some US authors have to hire off-shore editors to insure legibility of understanding. Organizational flow of the text is fine, but sentence construction is the pits.
Do you write on a disk or do you write onto a disk? I stand on the floor and using my computer I write onto it's disk. Do I go in the house, or do I go into the house?
There are 4 cars from which to choose, or 4 chars to choose from?
I was given a Nexas 4 Android. I am not a cellphone devotee, I use it for phone calls received. I hardly ever make outgoing calls and because my fingers are large, texting is folly. My text stuff, when I do it, is full of errors, even to where I select the word that the software anticipates I want to write. If I am sitting in the car while the wife shops, I play freecell. I have a 6 gig data plan and use about 50megs a month. (Yes, a waste).
With a physical keypad, there is a space between the keytops, and there is tactile feedback, and I can type with many fewer errors. I don't need voice response. Occasionally I will use the cell as a gps to guide me to an address. I own a wristwatch, so I do not need or use the cellphone to tell time.
I turn it off at meal times, or when I am in public (theatre, restaurent) places.
A cellphone is great for teens and pre-teens. Leave me to a phone with tactile feedback.
OCZ had a bad bad bad design, and went bankrupt due to the SSDs they produced. They are back, and FWIW, I wont touch an OCZ product for a long long time to come.
There are several non-Suiss wrist watches on the market that today will be around
I wear a Seiko. It is less thick then the thickness of two American Quarter coins. The battery lasts seven years, and the precision is better than one second per month.
For month that have fewer than 31days, I have to manually change the day number.
If I wanted a watch that is "perpetual", (has a built-in photocell and produces enough power to recharge battery and this watch can keep going for weeks, if left in a drawer, that watch will be 1/3rd thicker than mine. And I can go swimming with my watch.
What will the band of the Apple contain? Will contain batteries to allow the watch to run 18 hours?
Enough said!
This sort of thing isn't unprecedented, the Bush White House had a policy of issuing important staffers two Blackberries, one that had a whitehouse.gov email and one that had a gop.org email, and using both systems indifferently for communication.
I sorta don't care in either place, at least from an ethics perspective, since all emails ever seem to do is trigger dopey years-long investigations and pseudo-controversies about the parsing of language and people going off half-cocked. Case in point: Benghazi.
On the other hand, I'd rather not people like this be president of the United States. I think Lindsey Graham has the right idea, if you're an official person, NEVER USE EMAIL. Write official documents carefully, or just call someone.
When you have to shlep two laptops where you go, and the government one weighs twice as much as your own, and the government did not allow you to create a private logon for yourself, what would you do? You leave the crappy one at home.
And since Hillary communicated with government officials, they all have copies of her messages and their replies. Government messages to her open account would put the blame on the sender, not the recipient. I am sure her emails to government individuals were encrypted and sent via vpn.
Is the problem actually the education system? Are potential graduates given a work term at a company in their field.
Our community colleges require students to complete a work term and write up a project accomplishment report. This process eliminates the chafe from the seed.
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>Which abandoned Google project do you wish were still around?
Don't be evil.
None, and if Google disappeared, I would be sad for about 2 screens of commercial postings that I wont have to look at with a search. I just love my rapid scrolling reflex.
The standard answer is Chrome.
I used to use Chromium (the open-source version) because for a while Firefox was really crashy, but I finally switched because Chrome is such a memory hog and Firefox seems to be working quite well these days.
This article seems to basically be saying "if you aren't continuously growing, you're dying". It's hogwash. That's like saying that the bash shell is "dying" because it isn't adding tons of new functionality, including a built-in text editor and a web browser. Notice that one of the complaints is slow development of Firefox OS. Who cares? I use Firefox because I want a solid web browser; I don't need a new OS. Web browsers are a fairly mature product these days, thanks to HTML5 and modern Javascript engines. Where else is there for them to go? And for Firefox's supposed absence on mobile devices, it seems to work great on my Android phone, so I have no idea what they're talking about there.
In summary, this article is bullshit.
Strange as it might be, I have both Chrome and Firefox, and not because of familiarity, I feel Firefox is a better browser. I know what it is tracking, and it performs well for me.
Chrome too performs well. I probably use Chrome about 2 hrs per day vs Firefox's 5 hrs per day. There is something about look and feel that prevents me from dropping Firefox for Chrome. There is a successor to Opera and I will be considering it in the coming days.
Chrome 3/10 FF 7/10 is my rating
Want to defeat the bill. Organize a massive switch from your current carrier to one that everyone chooses. A carrier that loses a million customers wont remain so insistent on following through with non-neutrality.
Europe is considering or has modified net neutrality as follows:
An ISP cannot give preference to his own traffic over traffic he carries by another ISP. He cannot reduce priority. He can sell higher performance only if capacity is available.
Someone somewhere is going to make attachments that hang on emails and text with all the keywords that trigger a "we got to look into ..."
Glue the following words together, such a B omb T errorist S hot K ill M urder T NT E xplos iv e and D y nam yte in random order in every email.
That should Flood NSA with their search engine tuning and you can keep them busy for a long long long time.