Dan

Member since: Jun 23rd, 2006

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Trap the Tiger is a cute, checkers-like Time Waster for all ages (Download Squad)

Dec 13th 2010 2:13PM Chat Noir:
http://www.gamedesign.jp/flash/chatnoir/chatnoir.html

Up to 20% of Android apps could be spyware (Download Squad)

Jun 24th 2010 6:57AM To borrow some of someone else's words, "The problem is simple apps ... will sometimes want ... access when they really shouldn't need it. There needs to be a way to deny certain rights to apps, instead of the approve app's request or don't install as it currently works."

Tabjacking: a new and ingenious phishing attack (Download Squad)

May 25th 2010 11:02PM Srware Iron 4.0.280 is immune.

McAfee shoots itself in the enterprise foot (Download Squad)

Apr 21st 2010 7:16PM Sophos Anti-Virus is worth a look. Works on all Linux, Windows and mac and updates more often than McAffee/Norton.

Synaptics Scrybe turns your touchpad into an app launcher (Download Squad)

Jan 4th 2010 11:19PM If it is a Synaptics touchpad you already can do many of these things. Go into the device settings and then Settings to enable tap zones, assign options to each corner of the pad.

Two ways to translate to the NATO phonetic alphabet (Download Squad)

Dec 18th 2008 3:29PM They've had an application for this for years: Basic Training.

Should you be paid for the time it takes to boot your computer? (Download Squad)

Dec 1st 2008 1:21AM The people in this case should be able to refer to Tyson Foods, Inc. v. De Asencio [http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/new-cert-petition-tyson-foods-v-de-asencio/ and http://wageandhour.yezbaklaw.com/De%20Asencio%20Decision.pdf], in which Tyson did not want to pay people for, "for time that they spent putting on, taking off, and washing certain sanitary and protective clothing before and after their shifts and at breaks."

Tyson does not allow this protective gear to be put on outside and they don't consider you to be "working" if you are inside and don't have it on, so you have to get there early, put the gear on, work and ten to take a break, you have to lose some time getting the gear off, go out take the short break and get back in to get the gear on. Same thing at the end of the day.

It's hard to believe people actually work there.

"...The Third Circuit held that the jury should not have been asked to decide whether or not the activity involved exertion. It held that work was instead any “form of activity controlled or required by the employer and pursued for the benefit of the employer,” regardless of whether it involved exertion. The court based this interpretation of the statute on the Court’s decision in Armour & Co. v. Wantock, 323 U.S. 126 (1944). Armour held that exertion was not a necessary element of work in every instance, because an employer may hire an employee simply to wait for something to happen, without asking the employee to undertake any exertion on the employer’s behalf.
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So, if you have a moment, and are locked out of the BIOS, have the company IT set your machine to boot up prior to your arrival and just turn off your monitor each night. If your employer gives you any crap, while you're "not working", give them the links to this case, but keep an eye on it, Tyson is appealing, again.