Interesting Links for 05-05-2012
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andrewducker- Windows 8 will not play DVDs
- The fastest way to board a plane (completely impractical for anyone with children though)
- A cat that has clearly seen Raiders Of The Lost Ark too many times
- Ten alternatives to Samsung's Galaxy S III
- Why do we photoshop people?
- US Court rules you can be fired for a Facebook "Like".
- Woman appears on TV with hair armpits. World fails to end.
- Hilarious article written by a woman who stopped shaving. I giggled a lot.
- Harry Potter Cocktails. Can you say movie drinking game?
- An excellent, clear, simple, explanation of what the Higgs Boson is and how they're trying to find it.
- Apparently I am forbidden from doing this to our children.
- I just discovered that the street set of The 'Burbs was used for Desperate Housewives!
- Scientists to breed Liberal Democrats in captivity
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Date: 2012-05-05 11:48 am (UTC)It's already better then the player that comes with Windows 7 and is free.
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Date: 2012-05-05 04:43 pm (UTC)Does VLC come with codecs needed, or will it need a codec pack?
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Date: 2012-05-05 06:56 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-05 11:50 am (UTC)One of the other gifs was somewhat distracting.
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Date: 2012-05-05 09:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-05 12:12 pm (UTC)*headache* I thought I had started to follow US employment law, but apparently not.
As I understand it, you can usually be fired for any form of free speech, with exceptions if you have a decent employment contract, if you're (under some circumstances) discussing working conditions, if it's a matter of discriminating based on a protected class (race, gender, etc). Possibly under some circumstances political views? And some other things?
I think what this case seems to say is that the government is allowed to fire you (or, for that matter, in principle, pass laws criminalising you for) facebook likes.
However, it seems like this is a local court, and we really hope that the precedent won't get supported by higher courts...
I was very lucky to find a link to a transcript http://www.scribd.com/doc/91406670/Bland-v-Roberts-4-11cv45-E-D-Va-Apr-24-2012 from another news article http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/facebook-likes-arent-speech-protected-by-the-first-amendment-rules-judge.ars but haven't waded through it.
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Date: 2012-05-05 09:59 pm (UTC)The reason this idea works better is because it doesn't have people pushing past each other or competing over the same overhead space. I'm fairly certain I read about a similar idea in Cracked a while back that didn't involve any sensors or carpet.
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Date: 2012-05-06 01:24 am (UTC)