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Comment on The Internet is a Public Good, Why Google and Verizon Pact is not Good by Ernie

Ernie — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 04:00:15 +0000

Saw this today: (Writen by
By Wendy Davis, Wednesday, September 29, 2010 MEDIAPOST)

Gigi Sohn, president and co-founder of Free Press, chimed in that the FCC “must act now to protect consumers by reinstating its authority over broadband.” At present, however, it seems unlikely that anyone is going to act — Congress, the FCC or Internet service providers. The FCC won’t consider reclassification until some time after the midterm elections at the earliest. Without such reclassification, the FCC has no authority to tell ISPs not to degrade or prioritize traffic.

Realistically, however, it doesn’t seem all that likely that ISPs will rock the boat by engaging in the type of traffic-shaping that would give neutrality advocates more ammunition to argue for new laws. Or, at least it’s not likely that ISPs will do so in the near future, when there’s still a reasonable chance that the FCC or Congress will impose new rules.

Comment on YouTube Automated Captioning will Change Game for Video SEO by Lessons from Will Ferrell’s NYPD Recruitment Video « Ernest Blogging and Vlogging

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:59:57 +0000

[...] of video. The kind no one watches. I’ve had clients that have come to me to distribute and VSEO (Video Search Engine Optimization) their corporate speak video, I recommended redoing the video. [...]

Comment on Looming Worker Shortage, that’s right SHORTAGE. by Two Months of Positive Job Growth, 162,000 Added Jobs in March « Ernest Blogging and Vlogging

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:11:55 +0000

[...] At the rate of 162k jobs per month, getting the 15 million Americans out of work back to work will take roughly 92 months or 7.5 years. On the other hand, factoring retirement and positive economic growth could shorten that. According to recent report from MetLife Foundation and Civic Ventures, we could have a 5-6 million worker shortage (see my previous post). [...]

Comment on AT&T iPhone Recruiting App Demo @ NYC Recruiting Meetup by Rachel Book

Rachel Book — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:19:36 +0000

The app is called AT&T Jobs.

see this link for details and download at iTunes.

http://www.wireless.att.com/cell-phone-service/specials/iPhoneApps.jsp

Comment on AT&T iPhone Recruiting App Demo @ NYC Recruiting Meetup by Mark Tenzer

Mark Tenzer — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:22:22 +0000

Could you tell us the exact name of the app in order to look it up on the iphone app store and download it.

Thanks,
Mark

Comment on BNSF Railway, a great place to work. by sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:53:07 +0000

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Comment on Why do two HESS gas stations, 0.8miles apart, have different prices? by Karen Closkey

Karen Closkey — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:25:31 +0000

LOOK AT THIS NEWS ARTICLE: http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_11330433 It appears some Hess stations are independently owned and some are company owned. Just like Ten Thousand Villages- they have 100 stores and some are company owned and some are privately owned. Corporately owned gas stations buy more gas so they get it at a cheaper price which they can pass on to you. Also, it matters when t hey buy it. Especially now when the price of gas is dropping like a dead fly. If they bought it at a higher price, they have to pass that on to you.

Comment on Why do two HESS gas stations, 0.8miles apart, have different prices? by Bob Wilson

Bob Wilson — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:52:02 +0000

This same question was asked on a Charlotte, NC talk show quite sometime ago to a oil company representative who responded with several flowery answers such as rental agreements, property values and other items. The caller then asked “Why in hell are the prices of cold drinks like coke the same at both locations” ? The representatives response was silence.

Comment on Email Error Notifies Staff of upcoming Layoffs at Carat by R. Franke

R. Franke — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:55:20 +0000

Who hasn’t been on either side of a layoff in their career? No matter whether one is on the management side or on the employee side, it’s always a stressful experience. And who among us has not come close – or worse – to sending an email by mistake? Given our very human weaknesses, the only lesson one can and should learn here is that we must find a better technical solution to shield us from this type of major embarrassment as well as potentially serious damage. We need to find a way to avoid accidentally giving the wrong people a plan in progress or anything else that they don’t have a right to see. What we want is to maintain control over the info we send out – way beyond Microsoft Outlook’s “recall” which, practically speaking, may only eliminate the confusion people have when they accidentally receive some email really not meant for them.

Fortressware, my company, developed an anti-data leaking technology specifically to block both accidental and malicious acts of passing files of any type, including PowerPoint and Word, to the wrong people. Furthermore, even if the “wrong” individual should receive the email, the files remain invisible and inaccessible to all but authorized recipients. This solution does not require users, such as those in an HR department, to understand encryption or any other security technology. And it doesn’t require any more effort than would be involved in sending files out without any protection.

Comment on Why do two HESS gas stations, 0.8miles apart, have different prices? by ohreallly

ohreallly — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:22:29 +0000

Are HESS stations independently owned or company owned (I think the latter). Why are some oil companies like ExxonMobil making $10 Billion in profits per quarter?

I’m OK with windfall profits, that is capitalism. Perhaps the tax structure should be like individuals, the more you make the more you pay (this is a “good problem” to have, right?)