I had a contracting company give me a noncompete contract that was overly broad that also stated "the company's customers." It also had typos. I had my lawyer go over it and we reworded it so that I would not do any business with any of their customers where I was working through them.

If you are given an nondisclosure or noncompete where you are given a take it or leave it, then leave it. Reasonable people are open to negotiating the terms of these documents. If they are not open to negotiating the terms, then I take that as an indication of problems to come.

You do know that you can negotiate these things.

When an NDA is brought to the table, it will almost always favor the party that is bringing the NDA. It is up to you to propose changes to cover yourself or to refuse to sign if it the terms are not to your liking. That is the way of most contracts.

I always read the document completely. I always include verbiage that protects my interests.

I had to resign from my previous job when I was laid off. It was the only way to get my severance package.

I am sorry. I did not RTFA. I have been thinking along the lines of the author for a while.

How about we change copyright to being perpetual, but require that all previous public domain goes back to copyright as well. All of the descendents of the authors those public domain stories that Disney used for its movies can sue Disney for royalties.

If you refuse to give back to the public domain, then the public domain should never be accessible to you.

Bibo, not Bilbo

I drink, therefore I am!

And the invokation of the holy sacrament is "Bibo ergo sum"

Resources! It is costly to have officers follow a person. It is relatively inexpensive to place one of these devices on a car and gather the data.

If the police have a strong reason to suspect someone, then they can allocate police resources for traditional surveillance. The use of these GPS trackers are inexpensive enough the lower the threshold to make it trivial to add a person to the surveillance web.

That's my pet. You insensitive clod.

I am sure that the SEC is already doing this, but check to see who shorted Sony stock.

Try navigating through the threads by the s and d keys. It does not work.

You forgot the 286 and 386 designations for Windows 2.1.

So, you are calling the University of Minnesota a diploma mill? You should avoid such sweeping statements. I am in the MSSE program myself. Here is the text from "Why an MSSE degree?":

I design enterprise scale systems. That involves taking in to consideration many stakeholders concerns and being able to address then and to communicate the architecture to them based on their viewpoint of the system.

Unfortunately most of these appliances are being made in China. I was able to talk with several people who came over to Shenzhen to oversee quality from their suppliers. I was there on a software project, but stayed at the Crowne Plaza where it seems like most of them stay. The stories they told me does not inspire comfort with appliances from China. The vendors would not even have a decent bill-of-materials as the template. When one of these QA people was there before, he instructed the vendor on a proper quality build. They did that for the time that he was there. When he came back, they were back to the old build process.

I enjoyed my stay in China, but will regard appliances made there as suspect. If I buy one, then I will inspect it thoroughly before accepting it.

If you do go to Shenzhen, the I would recommend the Crowne Plaza. A very nice hotel that is less expensive, but is still very nice is the 999 Royal Suites and Towers.