It's interesting that Russia and Germany are on the Special 301 list (start at http://www.iipa.com/special301.html and browse to the table on page 4).

Canada and Russia are on the priority list.
Greece, Israel, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain & Turkey are on the actual watch list and Switzerland gets a special mention.

How long until America is deemed as irrelavant to the western capitalist world as the Roman Empire was to it's neighbours?

If ISOhunt is guity of inducing a crime (for a which a specific law does not apply to inducement) then the gun countries is guilty of inducing homicide, tobacco companies guilty of inducing assault by inflicting cancer on their customers and don't get me started on the car companies and the number of people that are injured and killed when a vehicle is misused.

To hold ISOhunt responsible for their users actions then there is a precedent to hold ALL manufacturers responsible for their users actions.

This is a terrible precedent and appears to place a greater protection on property than people.

It's the truth, not sarcasm. I've been kicked out of 3 University's............ 12 years ago.

I owned up to it (and have only interviewed twice, both successfully) and contrasted what I did as a stupid 21 year old with my adult behaviour since the early 90's.

It's not that you're trying to hide the truth, it's more that employers need to understand that you're now a different person, you've matured and you're now a part of a solution (as in able to fulfil the role for which they're recuiting) and not part of the problem (as you would have been 15 years ago).

Regards KSS

This is a great question, you’re at the same point in your career as me.

You need to report on the metrics that measure your departments performance, these are monetary values and I know they may be difficult to measure and it’s not accept to suggest the business wouldn’t run with the IT group. Although this statement is true, it doesn’t address the department’s performance.

Try breaking up what you do for the company into Service Desk, Service Support and Change Management. The number of helpdesk enquiries has value to the business, they’d pay maybe $10-$50 per call if an outside desk was used and even more if administrator would be involved and you’re saving the company money.

Maintenance work in a Service Support role and managing system changes could be related to the cost for a contractor and the reduced cost of running the system versus additional revenue generated by the users to determine how much you’re saving the company money.

That’s the small stuff, now work out (with the other departmental/divisional managers) how much of *their* department relies on IT and relate that proportional of their revenue to the value you support for the company. Especially important to look at sales staff if they use a CRM tool that you support.

If all else fails remember it’s how much your department supports the production side to do or enhance their job that counts then second is the cost you incur on the company.

It will *not* be Illegal to use a cellphone in a motor vehicle, "it will be illegal to use a mobile phone as a satellite navigation aid while driving".

Your passenger will operate the GPS and navigates which is a far less dangerous practice than trying to navigate, operate a GPS, drive a vehicle *and* avoid bumping into people and other cars.

Am in NZ so AS-3112
Standards (with pretty pics) are at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_power_systems

It doesn't matter if you're talking about aircraft control systems or the desktop (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1264259&cid=28283575&art_pos=5) you don't suddenly become right just because you post the same comment.

It is reprehensible to deliberately place other people at risk of infection with influenza. Your argument of economics places a greater importance on a few days pay than the safety of everyone who would be infected with a virulent form of influenza and lacks any indication you understand self-control or the responsibility of the individual for their actions.

The balance between quarantine and generally infecting everyone is that (at least in New Zealand) your test results are available within 24 hours. A single day off work is no great hardship compared with a week in isolation in hospital (which given that we have a proper health system the cost is borne by the tax paying population that would have been infected by inconsiderate behaviour).

Video Calling would be good (as I've used it on my old Nokia for a few years) but CUT COPY PASTE and MMS would be MORE USEFUL.

I apologise for shouting, in mitigation I can only offer that being ignored is sooo Apple/frustrating.