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  1. Re:Voiding the warranty on Microsoft To Work With Windows Phone 7 Jailbreakers · · Score: 1

    In theory, updates that are deliberately fragile for anything other than pristine locked phones would count as sabotage.

  2. Re:Some hack, some don't on Microsoft To Work With Windows Phone 7 Jailbreakers · · Score: 1

    Usually it's the PHB's kissing ass with the networks that order lockdowns.

  3. Re:Anonymous has it right on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    If you have to remain anonymous to avoid retribution, you don't have freedom of speech.

    Doubly so if a weak kneed service assisting your anonymity can be pushed over by a subpoena.

  4. Re:Not an YRO on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    The only wrinkle I'd buy is that the students were minors.

  5. Re:Not an YRO on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    Or worse, sue said teacher to pieces for slander. Threatening people with lawsuits is a very effective tactic.

  6. Re:Not an YRO on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    My doctor/psychologist would probably lose his license and even risk jail time. HIPAA and all that.

    That would be a better analogy for a company manager blabbering trade secrets in public, in that the distinguishing attribute of the information that makes its release heinous is confidentiality instead of how bad a light it puts someone in.

  7. Re:Not an YRO on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    The teacher in that case would likely get fired for attracting a lawsuit for slander against the school district.

  8. Re:Not an YRO on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    How many of the coddling teachers coddle out of fear from litigious parents? Or under orders from administrators who have that fear on their own heads?

  9. Re:Not an YRO on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    As a matter of principle, you should be able to do as you please on your own time unless you've made an agreement to the contrary.

    In practice, if your boss has enough leverage, he can get away with pretty much anything.

  10. fad on Online-Only Currency BitCoin Reaches Dollar Parity · · Score: 1

    Since bitcoins can be destroyed through abandonment, I predict that bitcoins will become impossible to continue for a long term basis.

  11. Re:Not an YRO on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    If I were the principal I would probably throw her to the wolves just to placate lawsuit happy parents.

    I wonder if any of little johnny's parents threatened legal action prior to the decision to suspend.

  12. Re:Less Honesty Please... on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    Teachers failing students because of their opinions may not be fair, but sadly it's very good practice for how the real world is going to work, where having the wrong opinion can get you fired by a boss that has no incentive to care.

  13. Re:Less Honesty Please... on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 0

    Mod parent up: funny

  14. Re:Less Honesty Please... on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    To hell with it being a private blog, the students are minors.

  15. Re:Ruling doesn't affect Internet blocking on Feds Settle Case of Woman Fired Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 1

    Having no *official* reason is what my post and your second paragraph are referring to.

    Like I said, it works if the employer keeps his trap shut.

  16. Probably completely misleading hype on Vatican Bans IOS Confession App · · Score: 1

    From what I gather the app does nothing more than act as a "confession for dummies" in that it guides you through the process, among other things suggesting potentially confessable sins.

  17. Re:We Need: Verify hardware prior to system start! on Microsoft Kills AutoRun In Windows · · Score: 1

    Blue Pill.

  18. Re:Should have never been there. on Microsoft Kills AutoRun In Windows · · Score: 2

    If you're not a mechanic you have no business driving a car.

  19. Re:I don't see Linksys as core equipment. on Cisco Linksys Routers Still Don't Support IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Unless and until consumers get enough leverage to make it different, ISPs will be the ones calling all the shots on who gets IPv6 and when. It's their wires and their routers that have to cooperate.

  20. Re:wow on Cisco Linksys Routers Still Don't Support IPv6 · · Score: 2

    But why offer new firmware when they can rake in more money pushing new equipment?

  21. Re:Ruling doesn't affect Internet blocking on Feds Settle Case of Woman Fired Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 1

    Sure, the captain might be court martialed afterwards for sinking the ship but all hands are still lost.

  22. Re:Well in that case... on Feds Settle Case of Woman Fired Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 2

    Employment contracts are a lot like EULAs. Forced on the weaker party by a stronger party with all the bargaining chips.

  23. Re:The way it should have been done on Feds Settle Case of Woman Fired Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 1

    And the lovely part of it is that other workers who are breaking the rules even more flagrantly are given a blind eye if they're not pissing off the management.

    Selective enforcement is quite fun. Even more fortunate is that once your ex employee is thrown out of the office he loses access to the evidence he needs to prove any wrongdoing on your part.

  24. Re:Ruling doesn't affect Internet blocking on Feds Settle Case of Woman Fired Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 1

    Except that he could use at will employment as a loophole to backdoor the system. It works quite well in practice if the boss keeps his trap shut.

  25. Re:Ruling doesn't affect Internet blocking on Feds Settle Case of Woman Fired Over Facebook Posts · · Score: 1

    However, it's only because his coworkers joined in that it became collective bargaining.

    If he was left high and dry, out on a limb all by himself, then he'd have no leg to stand on. The fact that his coworkers shared in his opinion saved his ass and gave NLRB a loophole to rescue him.