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lesedeuezghe writes:
Traveling the highways of America\'s least connected state.
The post The Land That the Internet Era Forgot appeared first on WIRED.
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EzInKy writes:
A Bullitt County District Court Judge has dismissed all charges against a man who shot down a drone he said was flying over his property.
The court hearing for William Merideth began Monday afternoon. He shot down a drone in Hillview earlier this year.
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Dangerous_Minds writes:
Freezenet seems to be the first website to publish a full rundown of the final draft of the Intellectual Property chapter in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The leak was published on Wikileaks earlier. The analysis seems to confirm what the EFF has said, saying that the chapter "confirms our worst fears about the agreement, and dashes the few hopes that we held out that its most onerous provisions wouldn't survive to the end of the negotiations." The analysis focuses mainly on copyright enforcement on the Internet and the impact the chapter would have on personal devices, VPN services, and ISPs. One noteworthy find by Freezenet is the inclusion of a "TPP Commission" which would decide when different countries are supposed to meet outside of the 10 year cycle discussing "market circumstances" of "the development of new pharmaceutical products". What other roles the TPP Commission takes on is unclear given that it is not mentioned anywhere else in the chapter.
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dcblogs writes:
A controversial severance clause by SunTrust Banks requiring laid-off employees to be available to help without pay for two years, has been removed, the bank said today. The severance agreements received by employees included a "continuing cooperation" clause requiring each worker "to make myself reasonably available to SunTrust regarding matters in which I have been involved in the course my employment with SunTrust and/or about which I have knowledge as a result of my employment with SunTrust." Bank IT employees believed this broadly worded clause was essentially an on-call provision, requiring them to provide technical help as needed without additional pay. The bank disputed that interpretation, and said the intent was to limit such help to legal matters. The bank, in a statement released late Friday morning, had a change of heart, and said it would be removed from the severances.
