Comment Re:Note.. (Score 2) 151
I hate to break it to you, but almost all modern cars have some form of communication equipment, and will upload driving data to the manufacturer in real time.
I hate to break it to you, but almost all modern cars have some form of communication equipment, and will upload driving data to the manufacturer in real time.
says the moron who has never been at a company where an employee sued for tens of thousands of dollars because one employee decided to look at porn and another employee was "offended".
That's trivial to deal with - you explicitly write it in the company hand book that looking at porn is banned. When the other person is offended, you quickly nip it in the bud by disciplining the person looking at porn.
As I said - if you don't trust the employees, don't employ them.
For reference, there are some enormous companies out there that don't filter the internet (I work for one). They survive just fine simply by saying "don't be idiots and look at porn at work".
Correct - the way the UK repeals a law is to make a new law saying "sections x to y of the blah blah act of 2015 shall be held delete".
Why on earth would not blocking internet access lead to sexual harassment charges?
Yep, I don't understand how companies don't get this. If you observe that your employees are spending all day dicking around, and they don't get their assigned work done, you fire them. If you don't observe that, then you have no reason to block their access to anything.
It's entirely reasonable to expect employees to take short brain breaks during the working day. It's entirely reasonable for those brain breaks to be spent on random web pages.
All this comes down to is simply trusting your employees. If you can trust them to get on and do their job, and only take reasonable breaks, then you don't need a filter. If you can't trust them, then 1) your culture is fucked up, fix that, and 2) why the hell are you employing someone so untrustworthy that they don't do their job.
Stop blocking access at all.
Just fucking trust your employees. An environment in which people are overtly not trusted to do their jobs just breeds resentment and in fact employees that can't be trusted. People who feel like they're being treated unreasonably tend to act unreasonably in return.
On this issue, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the tech companies stood side by side and said "fine, the UK gets no chat apps if the UK won't allow end to end encryption".
No, that's the point. The reason why iMessage, Facebook Messenger and SnapChat would be banned is exactly because these are messaging platforms where the vendor does not have the key.
The government wants to ban such messaging platforms.
Right, but what will actually happen (hopefully) is that the law will come into force, and WhatsApp, SnapChat, Apple, Google and Facebook will all say "okay, well, all your chat apps are now unavailable, sorry".
As you rightly point out, that'll make the law immensely unpopular, and hopefully it'll get repealed.
Yes, U238. That lovely "stable" substance that if you fire neutrons into it results in Pu239.
U238 will happily absorb neutrons (which are produced by the fusion) and become U239. U239 will happily absorb beta radiation (also production by the fusion) and become Np239. Np239 will also happily absorb beta radiation and become Pu239. Pu239 is nasty stuff that you don't want to get anywhere near you.
This is in fact exactly the reaction used in the production of Pu239 for nuclear weapons.
But the plutonium produced by firing neutrons into it is.
Go and read the article - the fusion is only a source of neutrons that then impact U-238 and cause fission to generate heat.
If you're getting punished for using your contractually guaranteed benefits, then you need to find a better employer and/or a lawyer.
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson
