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All of these suggestions make sense … good common sense. Wonder if Thomas Paine would agree.
Oh and I treat my email like I would a post card. Just saying.
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This takes me back to the ‘dark side’ of my youth.
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Amazon’s system of employee monitoring is the most oppressive I have ever come across and combines state-of-the-art surveillance technology with the system of “functional foreman,” introduced by Taylor in the workshops of the Pennsylvania machine-tool industry in the 1890s.
I hope Germany sets a precedent that will finally wake up those in the US and UK who can improve working conditions and wages at Amazon facilities.
US law firm was ‘caught in NSA surveillance net’ in Indonesia – report
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/15/us-law-firm-nsa-surveillance-indonesia-australia
It was only a matter of time before the attorney-client privilege was trampled by the NSA, but this also violates conflict of interest since the government was also an adverse party.
http://www.businessinsider.com/rural-alaska-data-caps-2014-2
Data caps completely change the way that people use the Internet. You could send countless emails on 25 GB of data, but any sort of streaming or video gobbles it up.
I may not live in rural Alaska but I can see the writing on the wall with Time Warner and Comcast.
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Thanks to one of my astronomy Facebook friends, I watched a video on Faster Than Light Travel (don’t get your hopes up) by Veritasium (an element of truth), which led me to this excellent post on the Problem with Facebook:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ZqXlHl65g?rel=0]
Management?
Meantime, the top one tenth of one percent, such as hedge fund managers, and the DeVos and Koch families, are doing just fine, and all too many of them are trying to find ways to lower their taxes and keep down labor costs, regardless of the devastating impact on most working Americans.
—L. E. Modesitt, Jr.: February 7th, 2014
http://www.lemodesittjr.com/2014/02/07/management/
As if I needed another reason to detest the Koch brothers. I and my husband actively boycott any products produced by a company owned by the Koch brothers. It can make shopping an interesting and sometimes more expensive experience.
Unfortunately ISPs gloss over the real debate, which is whether transit providers, content companies and CDNs should have to pay to peer — that is, pay for the right to deliver all of the traffic that an ISP’s users are demanding — given that the end user has paid the ISP to deliver the content the user has asked for?
It’s a long article but full of insights into the battle for broadband going on v out of sight and mind of most consumers.
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http://m.cnet.com/news/wozniak-criticizes-cloud-dependence-in-light-of-nsa/57618399
The Great Woz has spoken,
Snow headed to Kansas City Tuesday – KansasCity.com
http://www.kansascity.com/2014/02/02/4793267/snow-headed-to-kansas-city-tuesday.html
I guess it was too much to hope for a winter without a dreadful and stressful commute. Keeping my fingers crossed for closures at work.
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