Google delays an all-clear for as long as it possibly can I am told by those in the know that Google takes about five hours to do a review. I have waited 16 now for today’s one. That’s on top of the six days our site has been blacklisted and libellous things written about us, just because Google cannot distinguish clean code from malicious code. (We know it can’t, since it makes malicious code anyway.)
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Google delays an all-clear for as long as it possibly can I am told by those in the know that Google takes about five hours to do a review. I have waited 16 now for today’s one. That’s on top of the six days our site has been blacklisted and libellous things written about us, just because Google cannot distinguish clean code from malicious code. (We know it can’t, since it makes malicious code anyway.)

One out of eight is a majority in Google-land Here’s how Lucire looks via Sucuri, referred by a friend of mine. Given that Google is the only one that thinks we’re dodgy, why on earth do so many sites rely on it, when seven others think we’re fine?
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One out of eight is a majority in Google-land Here’s how Lucire looks via Sucuri, referred by a friend of mine. Given that Google is the only one that thinks we’re dodgy, why on earth do so many sites rely on it, when seven others think we’re fine?

Bit hard to prove I’d love to show you the Badware Busters forum and how Dr Anirban Banerjee of Stopthehacker.com told me how Google messes up with its detection of malware. Unfortunately, as of today, that has gone, too.
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Bit hard to prove I’d love to show you the Badware Busters forum and how Dr Anirban Banerjee of Stopthehacker.com told me how Google messes up with its detection of malware. Unfortunately, as of today, that has gone, too.

When Google last tested this page, your server returned content that directed the browser to a site that serves malware. Unfortunately, Google could not isolate the malicious code within this page. We recommend you check your source code for any unauthorized changes and reference our guidelines for cleaning your site and requesting a review.
What Google tells you when it hasn’t found any malware, but doesn’t want  to admit that it’s cocked up and incompetent.

On Google’s continued false accusations I find this interesting. I go to Google Plus to talk about how Google had falsely identified Lucire as an “attack site”. It’s a public status. However, Google Plus rendered it invisible: you can’t see it if you sign in as someone else on the Lucire Google Plus page, and you can’t see it in your feed, either.

So: on Google Plus, you can’t talk about Google messing up.

Reading between the lines This is just Google’s way of saying, ‘We are blacklisting your site, but now we’re not going to tell you why.’
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Reading between the lines This is just Google’s way of saying, ‘We are blacklisting your site, but now we’re not going to tell you why.’

guardiancomment: Chelsea Welch, the US waitress who was fired after she posted a picture of a tip receipt on Reddit, wrote for us: I was a waitress at Applebee’s restaurant in Saint Louis. I was fired Wednesday for posting a picture on Reddit.com of a note a customer left on a bill. I posted it on the web as a light-hearted joke. This didn’t even happen at my table. The note was left for another server, who allowed me to take a picture of it at the end of the night. Someone had scribbled on the receipt, “I give God 10%. Why do you get 18?” I assumed the customer’s signature was illegible, but I quickly started receiving messages containing Facebook profile links and websites, asking me to confirm the identity of the customer. I refused to confirm any of them, and all were incorrect. I worked with the Reddit moderators to remove any personal information. I wanted to protect the identity of both my fellow server and the customer. I had no intention of starting a witch-hunt or hurting anyone. Now I’ve been fired. The person who wrote the note came across an article about it, called the Applebee’s location, and demanded everyone be fired — me, the server who allowed me to take the picture, the manager on duty at the time, the manager not on duty at the time, everyone. It seems I was fired not because Applebee’s was represented poorly, not because I did anything illegal or against company policy, but because I embarrassed this person. In light of the situation, I would like to make a statement on behalf of wait staff everywhere: We make $3.50 an hour. Most of my paychecks are less than pocket change because I have to pay taxes on the tips I make. After sharing my tips with hosts, bussers, and bartenders, I make less than $9 an hour on average, before taxes. I am expected to skip bathroom breaks if we are busy. I go hungry all day if I have several busy tables to work. I am expected to work until 1:30am and then come in again at 10:30am to open the restaurant. I have worked 12-hour double shifts without a chance to even sit down. I am expected to portray a canned personality that has been found to be least offensive to the greatest amount of people. And I am expected to do all of this, every day, and receive change, or even nothing, in return. After all that, I can be fired for “embarrassing” someone, who directly insults his or her server on religious grounds. In this economy, $3.50 an hour doesn’t cut it. I can’t pay half my bills. Like many, I would love to see a reasonable, non-tip-dependent wage system for service workers like they have in other countries. But the system being flawed is not an excuse for not paying for services rendered. I need tips to pay my bills. All waiters do. We spend an hour or more of our time befriending you, making you laugh, getting to know you, and making your dining experience the best it can be. We work hard. We care. We deserve to be paid for that. I am trying to stand up for all of us who work for just a few dollars an hour at places like Applebee’s. Whether a chain steakhouse or a black-tie establishment, tipping is not optional. It is how we get paid. I posted a picture to make people laugh, but now I want to make a serious point: Things like this happen to servers all the time. People seem to think that the easiest way to save money on a night out is to skip the tip. I can’t understand why I was fired over this. I was well liked and respected at Applebee’s. My sales were high, my managers had no problems with me, and I was even hoping to move up to management soon. When I posted this, I didn’t represent Applebee’s in a bad light. In fact, I didn’t represent them at all. I did my best to protect the identity of all parties involved. I didn’t break any specific guidelines in the company handbook – I checked. But because this person got embarrassed that their selfishness was made public, Applebee’s has made it clear that they would rather lose a dedicated employee than an angry customer. That’s a policy I can’t understand. I am equally baffled about how a religious tithe is in any way related to paying for services at a restaurant. I can understand why someone could be upset with an automatic gratuity. However, it’s a plainly stated Applebee’s policy that a tip is added automatically for parties over eight like the one this customer was part of. I cannot control that kind of tip; it’s done by the computer that the orders are put into. I’ve been stiffed on tips before, but this is the first time I’ve seen the “Big Man” used as reasoning. Obviously the person who wrote this note wanted it seen by someone. It’s strange that now that the audience is wider than just the server, the person is ashamed. I have no agenda here. I seek no revenge against the note writer. I have no interest in exposing their identity, and, at this point, I’m not even sure I want my job back. I was just trying to make a joke, but I came home unemployed. I’ve been waiting tables to save up some money so I could finally go to college, so I could get an education that would qualify me for a job that doesn’t force me to sell my personality for pocket change. Shame on Applebee’s Time to let Applebee’s be embarrassed now for failing to aid one of its own, just because they were scared of one single embarrassed customer.
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Chelsea Welch, the US waitress who was fired after she posted a picture of a tip receipt on Reddit, wrote for us:

I was a waitress at Applebee’s restaurant in Saint Louis. I was fired Wednesday for posting a picture on Reddit.com of a note a customer left on a bill. I posted it on the web as a light-hearted joke.

This didn’t even happen at my table. The note was left for another server, who allowed me to take a picture of it at the end of the night.

Someone had scribbled on the receipt, “I give God 10%. Why do you get 18?”

I assumed the customer’s signature was illegible, but I quickly started receiving messages containing Facebook profile links and websites, asking me to confirm the identity of the customer. I refused to confirm any of them, and all were incorrect.

I worked with the Reddit moderators to remove any personal information. I wanted to protect the identity of both my fellow server and the customer. I had no intention of starting a witch-hunt or hurting anyone.

Now I’ve been fired.

The person who wrote the note came across an article about it, called the Applebee’s location, and demanded everyone be fired — me, the server who allowed me to take the picture, the manager on duty at the time, the manager not on duty at the time, everyone. It seems I was fired not because Applebee’s was represented poorly, not because I did anything illegal or against company policy, but because I embarrassed this person.

In light of the situation, I would like to make a statement on behalf of wait staff everywhere: We make $3.50 an hour. Most of my paychecks are less than pocket change because I have to pay taxes on the tips I make.

After sharing my tips with hosts, bussers, and bartenders, I make less than $9 an hour on average, before taxes. I am expected to skip bathroom breaks if we are busy. I go hungry all day if I have several busy tables to work. I am expected to work until 1:30am and then come in again at 10:30am to open the restaurant.

I have worked 12-hour double shifts without a chance to even sit down. I am expected to portray a canned personality that has been found to be least offensive to the greatest amount of people. And I am expected to do all of this, every day, and receive change, or even nothing, in return. After all that, I can be fired for “embarrassing” someone, who directly insults his or her server on religious grounds.

In this economy, $3.50 an hour doesn’t cut it. I can’t pay half my bills. Like many, I would love to see a reasonable, non-tip-dependent wage system for service workers like they have in other countries. But the system being flawed is not an excuse for not paying for services rendered.

I need tips to pay my bills. All waiters do. We spend an hour or more of our time befriending you, making you laugh, getting to know you, and making your dining experience the best it can be. We work hard. We care. We deserve to be paid for that.

I am trying to stand up for all of us who work for just a few dollars an hour at places like Applebee’s. Whether a chain steakhouse or a black-tie establishment, tipping is not optional. It is how we get paid.

I posted a picture to make people laugh, but now I want to make a serious point: Things like this happen to servers all the time. People seem to think that the easiest way to save money on a night out is to skip the tip.

I can’t understand why I was fired over this. I was well liked and respected at Applebee’s. My sales were high, my managers had no problems with me, and I was even hoping to move up to management soon. When I posted this, I didn’t represent Applebee’s in a bad light. In fact, I didn’t represent them at all.

I did my best to protect the identity of all parties involved. I didn’t break any specific guidelines in the company handbook – I checked. But because this person got embarrassed that their selfishness was made public, Applebee’s has made it clear that they would rather lose a dedicated employee than an angry customer. That’s a policy I can’t understand.

I am equally baffled about how a religious tithe is in any way related to paying for services at a restaurant. I can understand why someone could be upset with an automatic gratuity. However, it’s a plainly stated Applebee’s policy that a tip is added automatically for parties over eight like the one this customer was part of. I cannot control that kind of tip; it’s done by the computer that the orders are put into. I’ve been stiffed on tips before, but this is the first time I’ve seen the “Big Man” used as reasoning.

Obviously the person who wrote this note wanted it seen by someone. It’s strange that now that the audience is wider than just the server, the person is ashamed.

I have no agenda here. I seek no revenge against the note writer. I have no interest in exposing their identity, and, at this point, I’m not even sure I want my job back. I was just trying to make a joke, but I came home unemployed.

I’ve been waiting tables to save up some money so I could finally go to college, so I could get an education that would qualify me for a job that doesn’t force me to sell my personality for pocket change.

Shame on Applebee’s Time to let Applebee’s be embarrassed now for failing to aid one of its own, just because they were scared of one single embarrassed customer.

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Source: Guardian

Aaron’s death is not simply a personal tragedy. It is the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach. Decisions made by officials in the Massachusetts US Attorney’s office and at MIT contributed to his death. The US Attorney’s office pursued an exceptionally harsh array of charges, carrying potentially over 30 years in prison, to punish an alleged crime that had no victims. Meanwhile, unlike JSTOR, MIT refused to stand up for Aaron and its own community’s most cherished principles.
The family of Aaron Swartz, in a statement released after his death. The indictment they refer to is this.
oxfordcommaforever: did-you-kno: Source IS THIS TRUE? You people really do have it all- Koalas, Red rocks, ridiculous currency laws… The half-note Not necessarily. As with New Zealand, this is open to interpretation. Some believe that only the part with ‘This note is legal tender for’ is worth anything, i.e. the full value, with the other part worthless, since it is a bill of exchange. Others believe the above.   I had seen some of these did-you-kno images in my Tumblr feed before. The only one I actually knew anything about turned out to be cobblers—so I’ll treat future ones accordingly from now on.
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did-you-kno:

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IS THIS TRUE?

You people really do have it all- Koalas, Red rocks, ridiculous currency laws…

The half-note Not necessarily. As with New Zealand, this is open to interpretation. Some believe that only the part with ‘This note is legal tender for’ is worth anything, i.e. the full value, with the other part worthless, since it is a bill of exchange. Others believe the above.
   I had seen some of these did-you-kno images in my Tumblr feed before. The only one I actually knew anything about turned out to be cobblers—so I’ll treat future ones accordingly from now on.

Source: did-you-kno

auzubillah: Indian demonstrators walk with placards during a protest calling for better safety for women following the rape of a student last week, in front the India Gate monument in New Delhi on December 23, 2012. In the biggest protest so far, several thousand college students rallied at the India Gate monument in the heart of the capital where they were baton-charged, water cannoned and tear gassed by the police. AFP PHOTO/ TENGKU BAHARPress TV Solidarity I pray the victim’s death was not in vain. The ongoing protests suggest that it was not—and that change in the culture, let’s hope, is coming to Delhi and northern India.
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Indian demonstrators walk with placards during a protest calling for better safety for women following the rape of a student last week, in front the India Gate monument in New Delhi on December 23, 2012. In the biggest protest so far, several thousand college students rallied at the India Gate monument in the heart of the capital where they were baton-charged, water cannoned and tear gassed by the police. AFP PHOTO/ TENGKU BAHAR
Press TV

Solidarity I pray the victim’s death was not in vain. The ongoing protests suggest that it was not—and that change in the culture, let’s hope, is coming to Delhi and northern India.

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Source: auzubillah