I applied for their Beta program for the Playbook SDK and received the reply below a couple weeks later;
Our company uses several custom-developed applications on several hundred blackberries. We have five professional software developers and a couple dozen amateur hacker-geeks. The Playbook's technical capabilities blows away any other tablet but is currently useless as a business tool. A company with a BES server could implement Playbooks tomorrow with very little concern about security IF there were applications.
The guys are testing Citrix on it now and it appears to be ok but until there are other remote apps (Teamviewer, RDP) None of the techies will use it for anything other than a toy gadget.
RIM won't allow us to have a native SDK for the Playbook because they want to focus on games??!!
I used to like Novell too.

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Thank you for your application to participate in the closed beta for the Native SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS. We have received a large number of requests to join the beta, including yours, and apologize for the delay in responding
As we discussed in our blog post (http://devblog.blackberry.com/2011/08/native-sdk-for-blackberry-tablet-os-closed-beta/) the focus for the beta was game developers who would be leveraging OpenGL ES to create or port games to the platform. As your application currently stands, you did not meet the initial beta criteria, and we are unable to provide you with access today. We have added your name to the list for access to the beta when it’s opened up to a broader audience. We appreciate your patience and look forward to seeing your native application running on PlayBook in the near future. Please check the Inside BlackBerry Developer’s Blog for updates or follow us at @BlackBerryDev.
Thanks,
BlackBerry Developer Relations Team

Our company (In Canada) uses Websense for web filtering
Content blocked by your organization
Reason:
This Websense category is filtered: Advocacy Groups.
URL:
http://www.defendwisconsin.org/

A lot of folks use third party web filtering services like websense. Websense also places www.rightwingnews.com in the same category.

If one of our users "Needed" to access that site they would open a call with support who would unblock it.

Cisco, Trend, Symantec and others would operate similarly.

Ten or so years ago, our trucking division experimented with such a program. It ran on a PC and had a controller with a single knob which could be rotated left or right.

You used the knob to keep the cursor in the center spot on the screen. The cursor would become more difficult to control during the test (about 30 seconds)

Drivers would sign in for the first time and establish a baseline for themselves by taking the test multiple times until the program indicated that a baseline was established. (About a dozen attempts, I think)

Once a baseline was established, a driver had to pass the test before starting his shift. If he failed, he had to see a supervisor.

I tested it on myself. After two (unmeasured) shots of vodka, I would have had to see a supervisor were I a driver.

An additional advantage was that you would also fail the test if you had the flu, were sleep-deprived or emotionally unfit to drive.

The program never went into full production at our place. Currently drivers are tested when hired and after any accident or delivery process incident.

I forget what it was called (I tried googling). I thought it was "fair". If you couldn't pass the test, you probably shouldn't drive a truck that day.

If you smoked a joint a week ago, it wouldn't affect the test but if you were up all night watching movies, you'd likely fail.

The problem with condensation is that it gets water into your device even when the device isn't turned on. Actually, condensation is more likely if the device isn't turned on.

No, you can't.

You can see near-IR, the kind produced by TV remotes, very faintly -- although, if your source is bright enough to be easily perceptible, it can damage your eyes, just like staring into the sun.

Thermal IR is almost an order of magnitude longer in wavelength. It can't affect your retina's sensory cells, except by cooking them. Even if it could, your lens can't focus it. At all. And even if it could, you'd be focusing the IR into a medium that's already radiating at the same frequencies. It would be like trying to project an image onto the surface of a light bulb that's already turned on.

It is possible to make (or evolve) thermal IR imagers that operate at ambient temperatures, but they're nothing like the human eye. Ask your local pit viper.

But the only "heat output" that your eyes can see is incandescence -- from light bulb filaments, or red-hot heating elements, or glowing coals. If you can maneuver through your environment by seeing its heat output, you'll want to exit that environment as quickly as possible, being very careful not to touch anything while you do so.

Just to clarify ... the above does ~not~ mean that you have to physically assault someone before it becomes a crime, in Australia at least.

"that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence" does not require the violence to occur, just that the person honestly believes that violence is immediately about to be imposed on them. I.e. that they are fearful for their life or wellbeing.

So there are three situations here:

1. Mere threat without any real hint of physical action. This would be assault in the US, but not in AU/NZ, as correctly stated by the parent post.

2. Reasonable belief that you are about to have violence inflicted upon you in the immediate future (i.e. the next few seconds). This would be assault in AU/NZ (and the US one would assume).

3. Actual physical violence: this is in fact 'battery' in AU/NZ, although colloquially people call it an assault. But actually assault was the fear of the violence that occurred immediately before this ... the physical act is a battery.

If you didn't understand that ACORN was a scam when you first heard about it, you don't understand people. Same with BlueHippo.

There are times in everyone's life when you look at someone poor unfortunate soul and decide you should do something to help them or lift them up somehow. But to make a business out of doing this? No, sorry, it doesn't work that way. Neither financially or psychologically. What this means is that when you encounter any organization, group or company that seems like they are doing only good, altruistic work 100% of the time there is something wrong. Say, like when you hear about a company that takes people with no credit history or bad credit history and helps them get a computer by financing them. You can bet there is a substantial amount of fleecing going on.

Now, could Dell give 1 computer to poor people for every 1,000 they sell? Sure. Or the equivalent in some form more useful to poor people than a computer. And maybe they do with far less publicity.

So do you think an organization that is dedicated to getting housing for poor people, people with limited means, bad credit history and unstable work history might have some sort of alterior motive? Absolutely. And everything I have read about ACORN since the 1970s indicates that they have been playing games since their very inception. Games that have to do with power, control and influence that have nothing to do with their supposed mission.

Court records, including the names of the parties involved, are sealed all the time in the US, for a variety of reasons. Germany simply has a different set of reasons than the US does.

Of course, this isn't about Court Records, is it? The Wiki articles in question aren't "court records".

The Germans can do what they like about news articles in Germany. Alas, they don't have the power to extend their whims to news article in other countries....

Most states require that I, as a manager, offer an employee a treatment option if I suspect that a performance issue is due to a problem with alcohol. However, if they have I think it is a problem with 'illegal' drugs I can fire them right away.

Socially we view alcohol addition as a moral weakness, but treat it as a medical problem. How about we join the modern world and do the same with all substance abuse problems?

I helped a customer get off AOL's blacklist a couple months ago.

It was a straightforward process with an immediate automated reply.

In order to complete the process you must be able to receive an email at abuse@, postmaster@, or the technical or administrative contact for your domain.

The final email was from a human. It was completed the day following.