Minute trivia. Worthy of a bill. (Damn overdue.)
California’s bill, if ultimately adopted, would follow a Maryland law approved last month preventing employers from demanding passwords as a condition of employment. At least three other states are mulling similar bills.
Changing place you work from can do wonders to your productivity and morale, as long as you have access to everything that you need.
Having a big screen is a good excuse to stick a Twitter client here, mail client there, have list of files pane constantly open, and in general keep every window at some random size, definitely not full-screen.
Having screen resolution (and physical dimensions) over 4x smaller than usual, forced me to change the way I work - every window is always maximized (preferably full-screen), every element of app’s interface that is not extremely useful is hidden.
Takeaway: Replace your screen with a smaller one.
I echo the laptop sentiment, though I can’t agree with full-screen tasking; I often deal with windows, even on a 13” screen (because I need visual order, not alt+tab).
In effect, the company is willing to go to bat for users that feel they have been wronged by an employer, which could go as far as filing lawsuits against the companies involved.
So remember: these people who claim to want access to your personal info has no rights whatsoever. It’s funny, isn’t it, the irony here…
(Source: pro.gigaom.com)
At half-time in last night’s Arsenal game, I was talking to a pal about the Budget and – in the context of explaining where I thought George Osborne had gone wrong – I described how the Budget process works. He suggested I write a blog about it, so here goes.
(Source: thebrowser.com)
When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password.
Regardless of both the fact that it is both against the Facebook Terms of Service to share one’s account, and a gross intrusion against privacy, LOL.
It is a sad state of affairs indeed, when one employs digital spying methods for prospective employees simply to understand who they are hiring.
(Source: reddit.com)
I suppose this quote accurately summarizes the entire “problem” described in great detail in this must-read article:
To some regulators, the second stress test seemed like little more than a formality with officials inclined from the outset to allow most banks to return money to investors.
Yep, nothing like regulation that’s merely a blip, instead of acting as a firm hand against the immaturity of too-big-to-fail banks.
