To clarify, Browser state being "on and at their website", but otherwise irrespective (minimized, not in focus, not interacted with for many minutes, etc.)

Fairly sure this can be done other ways... Allakhazam (which has game info for many popular MMO's) auto-loads advertisements every few minutes, regardless of the users browser state.

My wife frequently walks away for 20+ minutes, only to have her computer randomly start playing an advertisement.. I suppose it isn't a "pop up", but clearly "auto refreshing for advertisement fraud" is possible and in use... And Allakhazam's method works on Firefox and Chrome from our experiences

Really disappointment seeing Android going places, but my phone still stuck with essentially the factory OS version installed..

Going to wait for the next great Nexus phone.... My (relatively) ancient nexus tablet and phone both got marshmellow... Samsung Note 4? Nope. No OS updates beyond security patches.

What if the company cut your salary before firing you?

"Hey Bill, you've had your salary reduced to minimum wage, but don't worry, we're firing you!"

Non-compete for 1 year price: ~$8,000

Or even better:

"Hey bill, we'll give you severance pay of $X, but you have to sign these papers..."

Included in that pile is an agreement to take a lower base salary for your last pay check, which is then used for non-compete salary calculations.

The issue is... Classification is commonly retro-active.

Let me pre-face by saying, I don't like Hilary. However, I do understand some of the craziness that IT folks deal with in classified documents.

I worked for a government contractor, and in several cases the government's "contract admin" for a project would change. The new Contract Admin might decide that, UNLIKE the last 5 years... you can no longer have a document with both "Contract number: C1234-56H-789" AND "Project Nighthawk" AND "NSA" on the same document, unless that document is now marked as non-public classified material. (And this is entirely subjective, up to the contract admin... a different admin might deem simply having 2 of the 3 is enough.. or perhaps you need another piece of information... like an address.. to make it classified information)

This means that 5 years of e-mails, databases, website entries, lead-generation software, EVERYTHING... may need to be updated to ensure these entities no longer exist in relation to each-other.

So, when they say her e-mail has classified information... I say: No doubt!
Now, if they say she sent information that was MARKED as classified at the time she sent it... Yes, that's bad! She should be penalized for that.

I have comcast, advertised as the top Wi-Fi speeds of any ISP.

After 8 calls to customer support, I get almost 1Mb/s on My 50Mb/s connection!

They refuse to upgrade my router to a dual band, ended up buying my own. Just wanted to point at them and laugh with you all :-)

It's good for nonfinancial/pii websites that can't afford SSL certs, but may have contact forms, website logins, etc. Where users may type in their (hopefully different from their banks) user name and passwords... Or email address, or plaintext commentary in a forum that they may not necessarily care if it's encrypted or not.

Is not intended for sites you really need or want security. I really see this as a benefit to helping protect people who use the same password for everything -- helping, in this case, just delaying the inevitable.

I wouldn't mind this kind of thing for my own website, where only a handful of people will ever have accounts, and the only thing I need to protect is their login info. I set their passwords currently, but if I left them choose, I wouldn't mind extra security on their form data when they log in

The personal gain is the recording of them breaking the law being deleted, ensuring they keep their job. In many cases the recordings being deleted show violent acts against their policies.

The alternative is to allow the recording, with a very minor possibility of losing their job...

So they gain something for their acts, this is the equivalent of keeping the amin password to yourself... It's ethically wrong, probably illegal, and a poor war to ensure job security, unless you are a police officer... In which case you can probably get away with murder.......

Yes, but at the same time, paying for an internet line to be run to your house can actually cost more than your house in rural areas... Note: The price of the work, and for the final service, is often determined by the monopoly carrier for your area.

My grandfather was quoted $4000 to run a coax cable 500 feet to the street (which was up and running) to his home. His only other option was 36k dial up (too far north, and too many trees, for satellite). He's retired now (has been for decades), and while he lives comfortably in his home on his retirement, he can't afford an extra "luxury" expense like this.

Recently, my co-worker was quoted $60,000 to get internet brought to his rural community... per home... and required 2 dozen people within a 3-mile radius to sign a 3-year contract and agree to also pay that 'set up fee'. Their other option? Satellite (which has a 25GB download limit). The area is sanctioned monopoly.

Now, if you are ALSO living in a rural area where the average ~5 yr experience IT/programming/database job is $45-55,000, spending $60,000 for internet is a bit ridiculous... and not offset by your 'city wages in a rural area'

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It does...

The problem is the range of the transponder broadcast is roughly 100 miles (1ghz frequency). When a plane goes off the coast, they quickly go out of range off any listening posts...

The US and Europe are both working on a new system for taking over water... Using satellite support probably... But for now, after 100 miles out to sea, radar is the primary method of tracking

Basically this. And Oligarchy's..

I'm house hunting, and it's very hard to find a place that has 2 ISP options. So it's either:

1) Fiber-optic, 50Mbps/sec service for $90/month, offered by 2-3 different providers
or
2) Thicknet Coax shared cable connection with a theoretical allotment of 30-50Mbps but probably a realistic Friday night@7pm limitation of1Mbps connection. No other providers operate in the area. Costs twice as much as fiber.

easier than manipulating the price of Oil.. Free of any sort of real protections.. seems like an amazing market for those with money, equipment, and desire to manipulate for greed

If the manufacturer is not a US company, the FCC can't do much to stop them directly.

Yes, they could go after other places that use the bulbs, but it could also be a factor of:
1. Bad batch
2. Interaction with local device/electricity
3. age-related

Either way, the manf. will know there is a problem, and will likely address it since they may get bad publicity in the circles that matter to them (business building owners) much like a bad HDD story would circle around slashdot, I'm sure the people owning buildings communicate as well... Or own a few dozen other buildings....

Ultimately, I think the "Fine Owner" solution is great.. There is an immediate requirement to fix an issue, and costs/blame is done after. Much better then assign blame then work on a solution!

along the same lines..

We need to stop this education-for-profit business model that is encouraging schools to over-populate classrooms by providing very small scholarships and encouraging loans. Pointless required classes are another great thing to trash (I'm not talking Gen Ed, I'm talking 2-3 classes that could be merged into 1).

When I went to school for IT, I had 3 classes that discussed (in roughly the same detail) the *theory* and *standards* of how various communication mediums worked. Pointless. Make 1 of them a hands-on class at least!