Airlines could do a lot to reduce carbon emissions, and also encourage better public health, by requiring passengers at checkin to stand on a large weighing platform along with their bags, and pay for the total weight. I strenuously object to subsidising the fares of obese people.
Hmm, lemme see... wise and profound old culture, who invented our modern numbering system over 2000 years ago, writes a copyright law in the 21st century addressing contemporary technology issues, and gets it substantially right.
Why am I not surprised?
(neo-con climate change denial rant snipped)
Where are our mod points when we need them?!
Tor, I2P, and thousands of anonymising proxies all over the web. The guy totally has no excuse.
If you're going to say stuff that could bring down unwanted consequences, then do it in a way that's extremely difficult to trace back to you personally.
One wonders how, without gravity, an astronaut would be able to chop and spread out a line on the mirror. Guess (s)he would just have to stick the rolled $100 bill into a tiny opening in the bag and snort, but that would be wasteful with unchopped coke.
Just wait 'til they find the sunken ships... they'll build a navy!
Supported, of course, by schools of sharks with fricken laser beams attached to their heads.
+1 for Hell Pizza. They are the only big-brand pizza company in New Zealand that delivers actual food.
Or for the online community:
A - anal
B - bestial
AB - you guessed it!
O - oral
The difference is that the ability to spy through cameras removes the accountability of physical presence.
You don't get to choose which camera you see each session. In fact, the location is 'secret' (though you may be able to figure it out). Single person surveillance won't work.
You're assuming the surveillance camera network and the 'snooper' game server components won't get pwn3d.
Giving the public access to the big brother camera network will open up unprecedented opportunities for cyber-bullying, especially for people living in dwellings whose front doors are within the frame of a camera.
You only need a few miscreants spying on some poor bugger, then sending harassing and threatening SMS messages as s/he moves about the city in the normal course of his/her day.
If it's not affecting their productivity I wouldn't have a worry. But if they're under-performing and showing clear signs of dysfunctional behaviour such as porn addiction, that's where I'd step in and discuss it with them as a problem.
What is it about porn that provokes such an outrage?
If I was a manager in that organisation, I'd be putting the porn-surfing under the larger categories of "non-work activity" and "non-work-related use of NSF resources" and disciplinging employees on that basis.
If employees did ridiculous amounts of porn-surfing, I'd be addressing matters of how they feel about their job, and whether they had a psychological issue that drove their porn addiction; at their next review I'd prescribe a course of counselling as an assessable item of job performance.
If someone is so heavily pulled to porn, something is badly off-track in his/her life. S/he might otherwise be an excellent worker, but needing to be brought into line and pushed in a direction of emotional/psychological healing.
What I'd like to ask is - why is it a scandal if employees wasted company resources accessing porn, but not if they waste similar resources accessing (say) medieval re-enactment sites and forums?
Closing the basement shades will do wonders on the privacy front.
Translated into
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.
