tmannes - Slashdot User

Comment opting out (Score 1) 141

by tmannes on Friday March 11, 2011 @04:58PM (#35456938) Attached to: What Data Mining Firms Know About You

I don't bother opting out of web sites, because quite frankly I can't even count how many web sites that might be, and I can count pretty high. Nor do I want to spend the rest of my life filling out those forms. Nor is there any semblance of a guarantee that any of these web sites honor these opt out requests. Can you take them to court if they violate it? How would you even know if they violated it? What's needed is some intelligent laws, and some accountability. If I could go to a government web site and register, much like I do today for the do not call list, then I'd be there.

Comment Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 617

by tmannes on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @12:41PM (#34039054) Attached to: US Supreme Court Expected Political Ad Transparency

Given the direction of things (supreme court justices being very conservative, big money coming from businesses to leverage elections, the use of fear and hate, etc), I won't be the least bit surprised when the day comes when businesses have precisely the same rights as people, including the right to bear arms and to vote. You can be sure there are plenty of folks in big business already working on that.

Mozilla Rolls Out Firefox 3.6 RC, Nears Final 145

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @11:34AM from the onwards-and-upwards dept.

CWmike writes "Mozilla has shipped a release candidate build of Firefox 3.6 that, barring problems, will become the final, finished version of the upgrade. Firefox 3.6 RC1, which followed a run of betas that started in early November, features nearly 100 bug fixes from the fifth beta that Mozilla issued Dec. 17. The fixes resolved numerous crash bugs, including one that brought down the browser when it was steered to Yahoo's front page. Another fix removed a small amount of code owned by Microsoft from Firefox. The code was pointed out by a Mozilla contributor, and after digging, another developer found the original Microsoft license agreement. 'Amusingly enough, it's actually really permissive. Really the only part that's problematic is the agreement to "include the copyright notice ... on your product label and as a part of the sign-on message for your software product,"' wrote Kyle Huey on Mozilla's Bugzilla. Even so, others working on the bug said the code needed to be replaced with Mozilla's own."

Verizon Sued After Tech Punches Customer In Face 493

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @12:28PM from the can-you-hit-me-now dept.

suraj.sun writes "A Verizon customer filed a lawsuit after the tech the company sent out got a little punchy. Instead of fixing the customer's problem, the tech allegedly hit him in the face. The New York Post says the tech attacked the customer after he asked to see some ID before allowing access to the apartment. From the article, '"You want to know my name? Here's my name," Benjamin snarled, slapping his ID card into Isakson's face, according to Isakson's account of the December 2008 confrontation. "The guy essentially snapped. He cold-cocked me, hit me two or three solid shots to the head while my hands were down," said Isakson, a limo driver. He said the pounding bloodied his face and broke his glasses. But things got uglier, Isakson said, when Benjamin squeezed him around the neck and pressed him up against the wall. "He's prepared to kill me," Isakson said. "That's all I could think of." The customer broke free and ran away. The Verizon tech then chased the customer until he was subdued by a neighbor who was an off-duty cop.'"

Comment refuse the job offer (Score 2, Interesting) 443

by tmannes on Thursday January 25, 2007 @01:56PM (#17754922) Attached to: Dealing w/ Relocation Package Bait and Switch?

This hurts you personally, but if I were in your shoes, and I was able, I would refuse the job offer. I know it isn't an answer anyone wants to hear, but if everyone did this, it would be extremely effective at stopping this kind of manipulation! The problem of course, is that few of us are able to do this, as most of us live hand to mouth, with little savings. And lets face it, the IT industry isn't as fertile as it was even recently.

Perhaps the next best thing to do would be to publicize the companies with these kinds of practices. That is also very risky, since the company can then turn around and fire you without a reason, and I expect most would do that. So perhaps you don't publicize this practice until you have procured another job.

Perhaps you can talk to a lawyer, but I expect there is little that can be done legally, unless you have a contract which spelled out what you were actually promised...

At the very least you should consider looking for another job. Any company with these kinds of practices won't stop at the relocation packages they promise. I would expect more of this kind of behaviour, and by staying you are rewarding this kind of practice.

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