Wish more companies consistently bought into their own message. Cisco employees should be able to work from home from any place in the world, right??
To be fair, Cisco is beginning to work like that.
The Cisco Systems executives remotely work from their yatch and the Cisco Systems workers remotely work from India.
Now, assuming Sony documents will survive, will be available for everyone, and will be commented, how exactly SONY will know which newspaper has caused an actual harm?
As you say, Sony won't know.
Besides, the newspapers do not need to download anything. They just need to let bloggers do the downloading and do the analysis for them.
Then once the information is out on blogs, and out on foreign newspapers, they can just republish what was said by those other guys.
The only thing they can do really is to stop advertising on the newspapers and on the television channels that choose to republish that information prominently, but this alone can't stop the wide release of the information.
Speed bumps. Waze has done some strange rerouting taking me into the Bay Area. Instead of keeping me on US101 through the admittedly heavy slog by San Jose airport, it wants me to get in a long line of metered traffic to get on 85, then get on the heavily congested 87 freeway and then get in another massive line of metered traffic to rejoin US 101 right at the end of the runway.
Did this happen three days ago during the peak of the storm? Because US 101 was closed for a time? And for the time it wasn't closed, people stalled and damaged their car by driving through water.
...I worry that Uber spells the demise of yet another low tech job. I mean, shouldn't there be something between fast food workers and cube dwellers? So I can see both sides of this.
You're framing both sides of the question incorrectly.
Do not confuse the worker, in this case drivers, with the owner of means of production, in this case the medallions-owners.
Where medallions are artificially scarce and can cost as much as one million dollars in New York, renting a medallion is an incredible weekly expense to have for the drivers and it ensures that taxi driver's lion share of their profits goes to the owners of the medallions, instead of themselves -- the lowly drivers.
Also if anything is destroying the taxi business, it's the medallion system, not Uber. During peak hours where medallions are scarce, one can not possibly hope to get picked up by a taxi during those times (unless perhaps, they're stepping out of a 4 star Hilton). And this artificial constraint only limits the number of driving jobs available. Once you lift this limit, you would only be creating new low tech jobs, instead of artificially limiting their number.
It also sends a really clear message: "This behavior will not be tolerated." If sexual harassment causes your name and work to be disgraced - that's a pretty strong deterrent to people in academia.
Destroying a man's career is already a pretty strong deterrent, not that it helped any in this case. Some people are going to do what they despite of deterrents. Many of those people are arrogant enough to think that they're never going to get caught, so that a particular deterrent doesn't apply to them.
So if you're considering the aggregate effect, you've also got to consider the aggregate improvement in the lives of students who now face less harassment and can learn in a less hostile environment.
Punitive action just for the sake of vengeance is not going to make an academic environment less hostile. If anything, it's going to turn that Professor into a martyr for some and it's going to make the academic environment more hostile in general to sexual harassment claims.
In this case, it was just a set of lectures, but imagine if the work had been a bunch of research papers collaboratively created. No one else likes to be punished for someone else's actions. And if the Professor was a good lecturer (I actually don't know if he really was, but assuming that he was), you're not just punishing him (which I have no problem with), but you're also punishing everyone else who may judge his lectures to be of value.
A raft of excuses ("battery's dead") and security problems come to mind; how would you implement such a system?
Not to worry, I have a phone charger with all the right attachments back in my cruiser. "Phone charging", quote on quote, is part of the many services we provide.
Believe it or not, I even have this handheld $20,000 gizmo that can back up the content of your phone in less than two minutes, whatever brand of phone you use. It also helps that SSD memory, by design, doesn't try to overwrite its memory spaces of deleted pictures with newly taken pictures, unless it's absolutely necessary. It's a way to make the SSD memory more reliable.
So if you're phone is not completely full, I may even find pictures that you deleted more than two years ago. Are you sure you don't want to tell me what illegal activity is on that phone, before I discover it myself. I'd go a lot easier on you if you told me now, instead of just wasting my time. After all, we both know I'm going to find out what you're hiding on that phone eventually, and then you'll be in hell of trouble.
Among other things it's basically giving them permission to search through my phone if they feel like it. Nope, I'll stick to a physical card.
Even with a physical drivers license, they always try to grab your entire wallet before you can pull out the driver license from it.
In California, it's not like they even need my drivers license (motorcycle police officers excluded). Most of the times, the cops in cop cars can already pull any Californian's drivers license from their onboard laptop.
The only thing I'm not sure about is their cell phone coverage. I assume they may not be able to download your data if they're outside of a 4G/3G cell phone coverage area.
The court kept the evidence found in the phone — a photo of a gun and a draft text message referring to jewelry that said "We did it."
The guy should have just used SnapChat.
That's what robbers, who seek external validation from their friends, do nowadays after they rob jewelry stores or liquor stores.
I just can't believe SnapChat wasn't around in 2009.
So what information can't you get that you need?
You stole my question.
What information can't you get that you need Mr. Government?
In San Francisco, a police officer can already pull the list of prescribed medications of any girl in California he's interested in dating (without any audit trail or oversight). Does every cop really "need" that kind of access at his fingertips for the war on drugs?
It would be nice if the information also freely flowed the other way. Can you let us know what prescribed medication police officers take? Which of them take meds for being crazy, or take meds for STDs, the public has the right to know about that. In fact, an STD test should also be required of a police officer anytime that police officer has an open cut, or provokes an open cut in someone else.
And what about the medication lists of district attorneys and sitting judges? It would be nice to know about their meds as well. The same goes for the medication of their wives or girlfriends. After all, if a cop/DA can get the medication information, and by inference the medical information, of myself and/or my significant other on a whim. I should also have the right to do the same to him.
America, land of the free...
Actually, not all the States in the United States have the same laws regarding criminal background checks. If I were him, I'd possibly consider moving.
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The FBI contacted him pretending to be from the Egyptian government and undoubtedly offering a boatload of money. It is not known whether he accepted out of a sense of patriotism he felt for Egypt or for the boatload of money.
Or may be, it was neither and he was just told that Egypt wanted to build a massive Sphinx-like aircraft carrier that would mimic the Thundercats aircraft launching facilities. After all, who wouldn't want to support a cool project like that.
Shutting down the company gym was a big mistake.
It would have been the perfect trap for those North Koreans, trying to sneak in with their brand new membership cards.
What ever happens!! Do not start your proposal with "Let's stop using passwords."
Besides, in every system I've seen with 2-factor authentication, passwords could still be used, but 2-factor authentication would only get triggered if the employee was accessing the network from an unknown computer, or an unknown ip address, or if the employee had forgotten his original password.
What people like to believe in is the spirit of entrepreneurship that Apple and others emulated. The garage isn't so important, the idea of a garage is powerful stuff.
We already have an overabundance of feel-good myths in religion, US history, and television. We don't need to create anymore. Myths distort reality. Myths create people with unrealistic expectations and short attention spans.
The garage didn't make Apple. The surrounding social, technological, and educational environments, are really what made Apple. And also, let's take for example the iPod. The first iPod wasn't made in less than a year, the first iPod was the result of decades of research and trial and error, which continued well after its first version was released, and continues to this day.
If the shooting in Ferguson was captured on video there would have been no protests. If the video showed a harmless man being gunned down in cold blood then the cop would be on trial for murder and the public would see justice being served - there would certainly be complaints but nothing like what we saw.
Unfortunately, that's not what happened in this case with the Bart police.
The police officer only got nine months of prison, and even then, that's only because of the protests and the riots that followed. Initially, they didn't have any intention of pressing charges.
No wonder, the Bart police is just looking for ways to quickly shut down the cell phone service. Had they had this ability to shut down the cell phone networks during the initial incident, they would have at least had the time to confiscate everyone's cell phone before the video could have been uploaded anywhere.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
