Comment Re:That's not the HTML you're looking for (Score 1) 791
The editor was out celebrating the New Year and submitted this on the way home using his smartphone.
The editor was out celebrating the New Year and submitted this on the way home using his smartphone.
Arrest every game designer that ever had a gun in it. That's every game designer from games like Sam and Max and all the way to Halo, Space Games etc.
Then arrest almost all of the movie and TV industry (producers, actors, cinema staff) for any show that has ever had a gun in it.
Then arrest any author (and the publishers, printers, book store staff) that has ever described or even just included a gun in a story.
I'm sure I've seen that somewhere before...
You would be right in thinking that... posting before first cup of coffee is never a good idea...
Igonre the others, Bing is more than the surname of a singer...
its actually a word with a real meaning...
vendor lock in? try version lock in...
We are still using XP and Office 2003 at my work on the standard desktop build as the cost of switching up and migrating legacy stuff (Office/vba and some very old in-house 16 bit/windows 3.1 era programs) is too high
Apple sues all physical book publishers as their devices appear to violate newly granted patent.
Isn't that like blaming the copyright holder for not controlling distribution?
It's more like a record company breaking into your home and replacing half your CDs with their own, then demanding 100x the value of the CD from everyone that complained to the police about the break in.
Just don't know when to fold.
The end is coming.
Slashdot just got dropped from one of my select array of home tabs.
Not quite... Slashdot is good at DDoSing sites with views that the readers DO like more than ones they don't like.
I remember reading the SSR books in my teens the late 80s. I was very surprised when I realised how OLD the first few were as some of the ideas/concepts in the books were just becoming mainstream/reality.
Harry Harrison will be missed.
No. because the father probably already did without the knowledge of the mother...
Part of that law is the right to wave it if you wish. So if you wave the right to privacy while using workplace computer systems (which you probably did when signing a contract or a click through before login) you gave the company permission to monitor your use. If you disagree you have the right to resign from your job and employment law doesn't really care as monitoring (with notification) is reasonable practice.
You authorized the access of your data and you can do that within the law. Data protection laws allow for monitoring and recording with permission and appropriate controls within the Data Protection framework.
If you chose to access personal information while being monitored, after being told you are being monitored then thats your problem. No one made you do it. Its like phoning the Police on 999, confessing a crime then trying to sue the police/block conviction because they legally recorded the "emergency" call.
There is no similar law that allows you to authorize someone to execute you (however you could give permission to be flogged if you wanted but employment law would ensure that any such flogging was 100% voluntary and health and safety law would probably have a say as well about how hard you could be flogged).
My point is Data protection laws are about ensuring that your data is correct, kept secure and not used for inappropriate purposes, monitoring emails and web use is considered appropriate to ensure compliance with company law (such as insider dealing, fraud etc). Other laws (such as relate to physical violence) have different goals.
Actually you get a warning message every time you log in and give your explicit consent by clicking ok and logging in that you will/may be monitored for use of all company equipment specifically including Internet use.
Legally this is no different to you giving a Facebook app/game rights to read your contact lists and posts for whatever use they feel they have a business need for. After you agree you should have little or no expectation of privacy.
As for data protection law, all companies have to do is register something along the lines of "monitor staff usage of systems to ensure legal and business integrity" as one of their data uses. As long as the data they collect can be demonstrated to be used with appropriate access control and only for that use (and not say pay rises or inappropriate snooping/gossip) etc and they comply with the rest of the law such as data access requests there are no legal issues.
If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.
