There is liability and then there is liability. So the license says you aren't liable but NYC just had a major service go down because your program got corrupted. Sure you're not liable but your county is going to be all over the news as the source of the problem, if you refuse to drop what you are doing and work for free to fix the problem you'll come out as the villain all in the name of giving something away.
Heck they'd come after you when they decide they need a new feature to implement a "great idea" one of their people have. Except they don't know how to do it and don't really understand your system. Oh you won't do it for free? Will you do it as a consultant? If not then again you, your boss, county etc gets dragged through the mud: "Oh Buffalo would love to be able to install these new solar panelled flying composters but the software we got from Rat Hole county doesn't support it and we couldn't get any help from them to figure it out". Employers see extra work with no profit and a huge political anvil hanging over their head and say "no thanks".
Sure they can. That is the broken thing with civil suits. You don't have to be wrong. The other guy just has to think he has more money/better lawyers than you and so you'll settle before the court gets around to throwing it out (or as they occasionally do give them the win even without a real case). That is the problem I have with most software I make, I'd like to give it away, my employer in spirit would like to give it away but in practice it is a few hundred dollars a sale, maybe $20k a year without a lot of effort marketting it but my time is very expensive. How much time will I spend supporting those 60 customers? How much will it cost to fix if something goes wrong etc. Heck 20k is only about 40hrs of a cheap lawyers time you wouldn't even get to the initial filing of your request for a summary dismissal for that.
I have a similar issue working in publicly funded healthcare. Some things I've created (I own the IP but don't really care that much one way or another) my hospital has difficulties commercializing for several reasons but biggest being liablity. Even if our license says we aren't responsible if another hospital has their operations impacted we will be expected to help out since it is all the governments money. Does the hospital I work for want to get $500 and then be liable for God knows how much of my time spent debugging crap if things goes wrong? Millions of dollars in internal projects get wasted each year because of fear of liability so each hospital ends up doing the same thing on their own and not willing to share. Silly.
Roll back to 1992. How fast were data connnections for mobile devices at the time? How many people had cell phones? 7M according to: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/BogusiaGrzywac.shtml versus 327M now. The market wasn't that big, the data would suck, lets be realistic touch screens would not be very good back then as would the resolution (heck computers were probably running 1024X768 so what would a cell phone sized screen be?).
I love how whenever someone comes out with something that pushes the edge of what is economically feasible someone pipes up and says "but I had a screen in my lab 10 years ago that was this good" or whatever. Yeah you had a single screen, with a team of grad students to operate it at a cost of 10's of thousands likely.
Another one that happens is people say "yeah but we'd get a large amount of volume and the costs will go down fast". How fast? How many of the 7M people with phones already would be willing to drop their old phone and drop another 1k or so on a phone? In the mean time you bleed red ink in hopes that something good will happen... later... somehow. Heck MS revenue was only 2.7B for 1992, they now do ~70B. It would have cost them a large portion of their revenue (not even counting whatever their actual profit is on the revenue) to develop the phone and a large number of people. Instead they locked down a virtual monopoly of desktop OS space which at the time was a much, much larger market. Good choice IMHO.
The problem with the "stop doing what your under scrutiny" bit is that it is effectively the same thing as a shutdown. What lawyer in their right mind is going ot advise a client to continue to do what they are currently in court for? Not to mention voluntarily stopping might be twisted into admission of guilt: "well clearly they knew what they were doing was wrong because as soon as they knew that we were watching they stopped".
I totally agree with the continue operating until proven guilty bit but it is difficult in practice. One work around might be to give the defendant immunity from prosecution for continued offenses (not the original ones) for the duration of the trial. If you don't like what they are continuing to do then work on the due process and get a move on with the trial. If a defendant in good faith thinks what they are doing is okay and it hasn't been found to not be okay in court they should be able to continue to do it without penalty. This is copyright infringement not someone raping babies. There is plenty of time to figure it out and get a more clear judgement on what hosters are allowed to do without panicking and shutting down everyone that has data on the internet.
Solaris switched but the GUI for the app is written for CDE as is all the manuals etc. This app is about 80k per workstation and as with anything if they change it they have to go through regulatory hoops in every country they sell into.
XP going away: God I hope so. I'm not in the US but since our vendors primary businesses are they'll probably just make it a requirement for feature versions which will force hospital IT to upgrade whether they want to or not (since software features are often needed to use multimillion dollar hardware features). That said the funny thing is our systems come with Win 7 licenses, our IT downgrades them (whatever MS calls the program we are in it so we have access to whichever version of whatever product we've purchased). The same company at a different hospital (McKesson they dominate the market and are humogous (~108B revenue) had in house software that targetted IE 6. They delayed the upgrade of IE because of this by several years. I can imagine the thoughts in their heads "No we don't have time to make our small app work on a modern browser, and since we are both your corporate IT AND the vendor of most of your non-MS software why do we need to upgrade? You'll buy the products we tell you too from us:-)"
Agreed for this kind of thing. I seem to recall you can do some magic (though probably not pretty) to mount a drive under a folder. Not sure if the folder can be a network share. If so you could just remove r/w permissions to the my documents folder (other than the hidden files/folders) and mount the network share with w/r access. Doesn't stop a goofball from throwing stuff in C: but at least hides from the average user that things in documents are actually somewhere else..
The problem is a lot of our client software is windows only (shocking) and about 20k per computer so not about to "just use something else" those apps because they are industry standard and need to be FDA approved (really Health Canada approved but since the US dominates the market they are effectively the same thing). Funny enough though another app we use is Solaris only. So our users have to deal with UNIX terminals (though most know nothing of the command line) using the really crappy CDE desktop and then work the rest of the day on Win XP:-)
True the number will change but the relative difference between commodity large drive and 3+ year old bottom of the barrel that corporate IT will ship to workstations will stay the same. Next batch might have a 1TB drive in it when 5TB is common for example. The funny thing is the logic is really dumb. I work at a hospital and no patient info is supposed to be on a desktop, and in practice no documents because we have freedom of information laws in affect which means everything has to be accessible to the corporate privacy officers. So... small drives to discourage storing things locally. But really how much space does name social and health insurance info take for the typical 200k or so unique patients we see a year? 160GB is plenty. As you mention you can't get 1GB drives anymore, 160GB was probably the smallest they could order.
Which leads to more stupidness (user side): people doing clinical trials with anonymized data in my program but multiple different departments involved. They don't have a common network share between them that they can all access so what do they do? Pick a half dozen workstations and store CT datasets onto each one until its harddrive is 99% full and then go find another one. Fantastic. No backups, computer slow because not enough swap space, not enough free space to defrag the drive, everything they do they have to go to 6 or so different times on each of the workstations and then sum the results etc. Absolutely brilliant and these are people with at a minimum a post grad degree a lot of them MDs or PhDs. No one stopped to think: "hey we might want our data in one place and backed up, why don't we ask IT for a network share for our project?"
Wow it was. I'm 32 and when I was young I think it was a US gallon (3.78L), now it is neither something like 3.71. Could be that paint tech has improved enough that 3.71 of new paint is better than a imperial gallon 5 years ago but if not this is the pain of changing units: estimates of how much you need is usually in buckets but if the buckets change size...
Yes and no. My work installs 160GB drives still in new systems: they simply don't want to encourage people to store things locally. Totally agree with you that drives don't have to be full. HD stuff is large, really large but how many people store it on their harddrive at home? Not a rip but a full 50GB+ bluray or worse raw video before compression? Very few people I suspect. But regardless the assumption that people are going to pirate without bothering to actually catch them doing it before fining them is crazy.
I find in Canada people often use imperial for small measures of length and weight (a pound of chicken, so and so is 6'2") but at longer distances and weights switch to metric. Leads to really strange things like this car weights 2400kg how many "me's" is that?
What really messes me up is my mother calling a bucket of paint a gallon. Even though they used to be an American gallon and now are slightly smaller: they never were a gallon in Canada because Canada didn't use the American units ever as far as I know. I guess it rolls of the tongue better than 3.71L of paint:-)
Like a couple season DVD sets? Doesn't take much. In a way both sides are ridiculous the assumption that storage will automatically be used for media so needs to be taxed (Canada does this with blank DVDs and such) and the reverse is USUALLY ridiculous too: buying a 2TB disk for home use that will not have any pirated content, yeah I take 1k pics a day, mmkay?
What has worked for me is a good address and a trash address. I've had two addresses on Hotmail (yes I know this is pre-gmail days) for a decade or so. One has gotten 10 emails that actually hit my inbox, and maybe 1k that hit the junk folder. The other gets about 20 spam in the inbox a day, and 10's of k in the junk folder. I only use the good email to email friends and on resumes. Any forum, social site, gaming site, porn etc gets the disposable email. I only use it as a place for the "confirm this email" message to go to so that I can setup logins.
I also have a gmail account that I've been careful with for the last 4 years and haven't gotten a single spam message in my inbox and I use that account daily.
I read a paper that suggested attacking the payment system. They found that a ridiculous amount (I think it was north of 80%) of spam got there payments processed by a dozen or so banks. The problem is of course those banks are in less than friendly countries in terms of having and enforcing laws against this kind of thing. So the solution they proposed was sanction countries/banks that process the payments since it is a lot easier than convincing 100M computer owners to get rid of the crap on their computer, filter all spam in every language etc.
As long as some messages make it through, which they will because no filter is going to be perfect there is always an incentive to spam. It takes an afternoon of your time setting up a piece of malware on a site. You can lease botnets, buy email addresses etc. It is a really cheap market to get into and as long as the response rate is greater than 0 there will be someone out there making little enough money to make it worth it for them. Sell one pack of counterfeit viagra for $40 when you're from a country were $200 is an annual wage doesn't take much to make a living at it. One paying customer a month is more than you'd earn working.
Totally agree. I worked for an anti-spam company a couple years ago. We were seeing 90-95% spam traffic to our customers systems (mostly smaller ISPs, email hosting providers, regional governments, universities etc). Say for example one of the hosting providers has 200+ servers running MS Exchange. If 90% of the traffic is spam and it actually reaches to the mail server you got essentally 90% of your servers are tied up serving the spammers and 10% real emails.
Appliances like Iron Port help in that they stop the spam from getting to your mail servers usually but you still have the traffic getting all the way inbound (or outbound in the case of a bot or something coming from your network). So you are screwed in terms of bandwidth (fortunately spam does tend to be relatively small messages compared to real emails which tend to have more attachments). What was cool with the tech at the company I worked for is that they throttled the traffic of unknown or suspected spammers. Slow a bots connection down, or drop it if they don't obey protocols (a lot of them will start sending the message after the HELO without waiting for a response for example) and you save a huge amount of connections/bandwidth you process to completion. We were getting 100k+ simultaneous messages on 4 core servers.
Regardless that something can be filtered doesn't mean it doesn't cost something to do the filtering, the affect on deliverablity of the sending domain or even ISP level emails.
malware is effectively a virus because both the same software is used to detect and warn you against it and in the end all that matters is results: "my computer go bad, it no work anymore", or it is a bot, or whatnot. What is a trusted source? All your friends use a particular app and say its great so you install it too. You trust your friends and it was fine for them right? Can you trust stuff off of sourceforge? How about Mozilla, codeplex etc? Who knows. Crappy people can do crappy things, some of them own businesses and make very professional looking sites making you think it must be a "real business" so they wouldn't right malware, sites can get hijacked etc.
Yes be cautious what you install but you can only to a point before your computer has vastly less value to you than it would if you "lived a little". I have live scanning and weekly deep scans on all systems including OS X I use. I never install a codec that is recommended with a download. Need a codec that I don't get already with vlc is enough for me to delete and look for another source. Yes I'm still taking risk downloading pirated stuff but I'd rather that than spend 1k plus a year paying for content. The data on my computer isn't worth that much to me and I really couldn't care a less if someone finds my tax return or something. I'm close to the point were my salary will be public anyways because I work in government so, mah nothing lost.
I was pretty sure on that one since brits particularly seem to be fond of the more vulgar version in my experience. I thought there might be a chance it was something more obscure though like "freezing the balls of a brass monkey".
Also amusing that trojans often come from attempts to get porn the exact time that people don't have a need for trojans they come begging for you to take them. The time you do need them it is 1am and the stores are closed:-)
Following Jack Welsh's 20% rule: the top 20% should be coached/promoted, the middle 60% encouraged to improve and the (12% in this case) that can't deal with working from home should be well told to stay home without pay:-) I wonder if we are going to get to the point were they'll be a market for office space that is shared by companies. All the employees that aren't manageable remotely have to "go to the office" were one outsourced "manager" is there to babysit them?
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There is liability and then there is liability. So the license says you aren't liable but NYC just had a major service go down because your program got corrupted. Sure you're not liable but your county is going to be all over the news as the source of the problem, if you refuse to drop what you are doing and work for free to fix the problem you'll come out as the villain all in the name of giving something away.
Heck they'd come after you when they decide they need a new feature to implement a "great idea" one of their people have. Except they don't know how to do it and don't really understand your system. Oh you won't do it for free? Will you do it as a consultant? If not then again you, your boss, county etc gets dragged through the mud: "Oh Buffalo would love to be able to install these new solar panelled flying composters but the software we got from Rat Hole county doesn't support it and we couldn't get any help from them to figure it out". Employers see extra work with no profit and a huge political anvil hanging over their head and say "no thanks".
Sure they can. That is the broken thing with civil suits. You don't have to be wrong. The other guy just has to think he has more money/better lawyers than you and so you'll settle before the court gets around to throwing it out (or as they occasionally do give them the win even without a real case). That is the problem I have with most software I make, I'd like to give it away, my employer in spirit would like to give it away but in practice it is a few hundred dollars a sale, maybe $20k a year without a lot of effort marketting it but my time is very expensive. How much time will I spend supporting those 60 customers? How much will it cost to fix if something goes wrong etc. Heck 20k is only about 40hrs of a cheap lawyers time you wouldn't even get to the initial filing of your request for a summary dismissal for that.
I have a similar issue working in publicly funded healthcare. Some things I've created (I own the IP but don't really care that much one way or another) my hospital has difficulties commercializing for several reasons but biggest being liablity. Even if our license says we aren't responsible if another hospital has their operations impacted we will be expected to help out since it is all the governments money. Does the hospital I work for want to get $500 and then be liable for God knows how much of my time spent debugging crap if things goes wrong? Millions of dollars in internal projects get wasted each year because of fear of liability so each hospital ends up doing the same thing on their own and not willing to share. Silly.
Roll back to 1992. How fast were data connnections for mobile devices at the time? How many people had cell phones? 7M according to: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/BogusiaGrzywac.shtml versus 327M now. The market wasn't that big, the data would suck, lets be realistic touch screens would not be very good back then as would the resolution (heck computers were probably running 1024X768 so what would a cell phone sized screen be?).
I love how whenever someone comes out with something that pushes the edge of what is economically feasible someone pipes up and says "but I had a screen in my lab 10 years ago that was this good" or whatever. Yeah you had a single screen, with a team of grad students to operate it at a cost of 10's of thousands likely.
Another one that happens is people say "yeah but we'd get a large amount of volume and the costs will go down fast". How fast? How many of the 7M people with phones already would be willing to drop their old phone and drop another 1k or so on a phone? In the mean time you bleed red ink in hopes that something good will happen ... later ... somehow. Heck MS revenue was only 2.7B for 1992, they now do ~70B. It would have cost them a large portion of their revenue (not even counting whatever their actual profit is on the revenue) to develop the phone and a large number of people. Instead they locked down a virtual monopoly of desktop OS space which at the time was a much, much larger market. Good choice IMHO.
I think the only Trojans that don't require user intervention are those made for teenagers.
Despite what marketing classes might tell you that line won't work with your girlfriend.
The problem with the "stop doing what your under scrutiny" bit is that it is effectively the same thing as a shutdown. What lawyer in their right mind is going ot advise a client to continue to do what they are currently in court for? Not to mention voluntarily stopping might be twisted into admission of guilt: "well clearly they knew what they were doing was wrong because as soon as they knew that we were watching they stopped".
I totally agree with the continue operating until proven guilty bit but it is difficult in practice. One work around might be to give the defendant immunity from prosecution for continued offenses (not the original ones) for the duration of the trial. If you don't like what they are continuing to do then work on the due process and get a move on with the trial. If a defendant in good faith thinks what they are doing is okay and it hasn't been found to not be okay in court they should be able to continue to do it without penalty. This is copyright infringement not someone raping babies. There is plenty of time to figure it out and get a more clear judgement on what hosters are allowed to do without panicking and shutting down everyone that has data on the internet.
Solaris switched but the GUI for the app is written for CDE as is all the manuals etc. This app is about 80k per workstation and as with anything if they change it they have to go through regulatory hoops in every country they sell into.
XP going away: God I hope so. I'm not in the US but since our vendors primary businesses are they'll probably just make it a requirement for feature versions which will force hospital IT to upgrade whether they want to or not (since software features are often needed to use multimillion dollar hardware features). That said the funny thing is our systems come with Win 7 licenses, our IT downgrades them (whatever MS calls the program we are in it so we have access to whichever version of whatever product we've purchased). The same company at a different hospital (McKesson they dominate the market and are humogous (~108B revenue) had in house software that targetted IE 6. They delayed the upgrade of IE because of this by several years. I can imagine the thoughts in their heads "No we don't have time to make our small app work on a modern browser, and since we are both your corporate IT AND the vendor of most of your non-MS software why do we need to upgrade? You'll buy the products we tell you too from us :-)"
Agreed for this kind of thing. I seem to recall you can do some magic (though probably not pretty) to mount a drive under a folder. Not sure if the folder can be a network share. If so you could just remove r/w permissions to the my documents folder (other than the hidden files/folders) and mount the network share with w/r access. Doesn't stop a goofball from throwing stuff in C: but at least hides from the average user that things in documents are actually somewhere else..
The problem is a lot of our client software is windows only (shocking) and about 20k per computer so not about to "just use something else" those apps because they are industry standard and need to be FDA approved (really Health Canada approved but since the US dominates the market they are effectively the same thing). Funny enough though another app we use is Solaris only. So our users have to deal with UNIX terminals (though most know nothing of the command line) using the really crappy CDE desktop and then work the rest of the day on Win XP :-)
True the number will change but the relative difference between commodity large drive and 3+ year old bottom of the barrel that corporate IT will ship to workstations will stay the same. Next batch might have a 1TB drive in it when 5TB is common for example. The funny thing is the logic is really dumb. I work at a hospital and no patient info is supposed to be on a desktop, and in practice no documents because we have freedom of information laws in affect which means everything has to be accessible to the corporate privacy officers. So ... small drives to discourage storing things locally. But really how much space does name social and health insurance info take for the typical 200k or so unique patients we see a year? 160GB is plenty. As you mention you can't get 1GB drives anymore, 160GB was probably the smallest they could order.
Which leads to more stupidness (user side): people doing clinical trials with anonymized data in my program but multiple different departments involved. They don't have a common network share between them that they can all access so what do they do? Pick a half dozen workstations and store CT datasets onto each one until its harddrive is 99% full and then go find another one. Fantastic. No backups, computer slow because not enough swap space, not enough free space to defrag the drive, everything they do they have to go to 6 or so different times on each of the workstations and then sum the results etc. Absolutely brilliant and these are people with at a minimum a post grad degree a lot of them MDs or PhDs. No one stopped to think: "hey we might want our data in one place and backed up, why don't we ask IT for a network share for our project?"
Wow it was. I'm 32 and when I was young I think it was a US gallon (3.78L), now it is neither something like 3.71. Could be that paint tech has improved enough that 3.71 of new paint is better than a imperial gallon 5 years ago but if not this is the pain of changing units: estimates of how much you need is usually in buckets but if the buckets change size ...
Yes and no. My work installs 160GB drives still in new systems: they simply don't want to encourage people to store things locally. Totally agree with you that drives don't have to be full. HD stuff is large, really large but how many people store it on their harddrive at home? Not a rip but a full 50GB+ bluray or worse raw video before compression? Very few people I suspect. But regardless the assumption that people are going to pirate without bothering to actually catch them doing it before fining them is crazy.
They do and they refuse to allow the export of said encryption schemes due to national security concerns.
I find in Canada people often use imperial for small measures of length and weight (a pound of chicken, so and so is 6'2") but at longer distances and weights switch to metric. Leads to really strange things like this car weights 2400kg how many "me's" is that?
What really messes me up is my mother calling a bucket of paint a gallon. Even though they used to be an American gallon and now are slightly smaller: they never were a gallon in Canada because Canada didn't use the American units ever as far as I know. I guess it rolls of the tongue better than 3.71L of paint :-)
Like a couple season DVD sets? Doesn't take much. In a way both sides are ridiculous the assumption that storage will automatically be used for media so needs to be taxed (Canada does this with blank DVDs and such) and the reverse is USUALLY ridiculous too: buying a 2TB disk for home use that will not have any pirated content, yeah I take 1k pics a day, mmkay?
the draconian surveillance of hacktivists?
What has worked for me is a good address and a trash address. I've had two addresses on Hotmail (yes I know this is pre-gmail days) for a decade or so. One has gotten 10 emails that actually hit my inbox, and maybe 1k that hit the junk folder. The other gets about 20 spam in the inbox a day, and 10's of k in the junk folder. I only use the good email to email friends and on resumes. Any forum, social site, gaming site, porn etc gets the disposable email. I only use it as a place for the "confirm this email" message to go to so that I can setup logins.
I also have a gmail account that I've been careful with for the last 4 years and haven't gotten a single spam message in my inbox and I use that account daily.
I read a paper that suggested attacking the payment system. They found that a ridiculous amount (I think it was north of 80%) of spam got there payments processed by a dozen or so banks. The problem is of course those banks are in less than friendly countries in terms of having and enforcing laws against this kind of thing. So the solution they proposed was sanction countries/banks that process the payments since it is a lot easier than convincing 100M computer owners to get rid of the crap on their computer, filter all spam in every language etc.
As long as some messages make it through, which they will because no filter is going to be perfect there is always an incentive to spam. It takes an afternoon of your time setting up a piece of malware on a site. You can lease botnets, buy email addresses etc. It is a really cheap market to get into and as long as the response rate is greater than 0 there will be someone out there making little enough money to make it worth it for them. Sell one pack of counterfeit viagra for $40 when you're from a country were $200 is an annual wage doesn't take much to make a living at it. One paying customer a month is more than you'd earn working.
Totally agree. I worked for an anti-spam company a couple years ago. We were seeing 90-95% spam traffic to our customers systems (mostly smaller ISPs, email hosting providers, regional governments, universities etc). Say for example one of the hosting providers has 200+ servers running MS Exchange. If 90% of the traffic is spam and it actually reaches to the mail server you got essentally 90% of your servers are tied up serving the spammers and 10% real emails.
Appliances like Iron Port help in that they stop the spam from getting to your mail servers usually but you still have the traffic getting all the way inbound (or outbound in the case of a bot or something coming from your network). So you are screwed in terms of bandwidth (fortunately spam does tend to be relatively small messages compared to real emails which tend to have more attachments). What was cool with the tech at the company I worked for is that they throttled the traffic of unknown or suspected spammers. Slow a bots connection down, or drop it if they don't obey protocols (a lot of them will start sending the message after the HELO without waiting for a response for example) and you save a huge amount of connections/bandwidth you process to completion. We were getting 100k+ simultaneous messages on 4 core servers.
Regardless that something can be filtered doesn't mean it doesn't cost something to do the filtering, the affect on deliverablity of the sending domain or even ISP level emails.
malware is effectively a virus because both the same software is used to detect and warn you against it and in the end all that matters is results: "my computer go bad, it no work anymore", or it is a bot, or whatnot. What is a trusted source? All your friends use a particular app and say its great so you install it too. You trust your friends and it was fine for them right? Can you trust stuff off of sourceforge? How about Mozilla, codeplex etc? Who knows. Crappy people can do crappy things, some of them own businesses and make very professional looking sites making you think it must be a "real business" so they wouldn't right malware, sites can get hijacked etc.
Yes be cautious what you install but you can only to a point before your computer has vastly less value to you than it would if you "lived a little". I have live scanning and weekly deep scans on all systems including OS X I use. I never install a codec that is recommended with a download. Need a codec that I don't get already with vlc is enough for me to delete and look for another source. Yes I'm still taking risk downloading pirated stuff but I'd rather that than spend 1k plus a year paying for content. The data on my computer isn't worth that much to me and I really couldn't care a less if someone finds my tax return or something. I'm close to the point were my salary will be public anyways because I work in government so, mah nothing lost.
I was pretty sure on that one since brits particularly seem to be fond of the more vulgar version in my experience. I thought there might be a chance it was something more obscure though like "freezing the balls of a brass monkey".
Also amusing that trojans often come from attempts to get porn the exact time that people don't have a need for trojans they come begging for you to take them. The time you do need them it is 1am and the stores are closed :-)
Simple buy the latest iDevice :-)
Following Jack Welsh's 20% rule: the top 20% should be coached/promoted, the middle 60% encouraged to improve and the (12% in this case) that can't deal with working from home should be well told to stay home without pay :-) I wonder if we are going to get to the point were they'll be a market for office space that is shared by companies. All the employees that aren't manageable remotely have to "go to the office" were one outsourced "manager" is there to babysit them?
buddy you don't own the rights to that image. I'm suing for copyright infringement. :-)