What's crazy is that you're letting your personal problem with him influence your workplace relationship as his boss. What's good for the goose is good for the gander with regards to leaving personal issues at home where they belong, and if he took his personal problems on the clock I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate it any more than he would your sacking him for something that happened off the clock, the stupidity of pissing off your own boss notwithstanding.
The only reason you can get away with it and he can't is because you're his boss and you have leverage he lacks, namely, the ability to use your position and influence to ruin his job and career if he pisses you off.
In your place, however, I would have a private chit chat with the employee, warn him that his behavior outside work has caused me to question his competence ON the job, and furthermore that while personal stuff stays personal, there may well be consequences off the clock, and finally, before putting him back to work, remind him that he's on duty. I may be tempted to use his off clock conduct as an excuse to sabotage/punish him at work, but I choose not to because I consider that tactic akin to hitting someone below the belt, especially since he's already losing personal points with me outside the office.
However, I might be a fair enough boss not to let personal stuff get in the way of work, but I sure as hell wouldn't hesitate to avail myself of remedies once I shuck the uniform/role. A nice lawsuit or C&D for slander/invasion of privacy would go a long way towards keeping him in line off the clock.
On the clock, I'm his boss, and the usual managerial process will take care of things as one may expect with regards to employee performance and behavior.
Just like in China, bureaucracies often make a shitload of rules just to give the higher ups a toolbox of excuses to remove people they don't like.
When everybody's breaking the rules you get to be picky about who you punish.
Doubly so if your boss can get away with using at will employment as a backdoor loophole for whatever prejudices he wouldn't dare put down in writing or mention in earshot of potential witnesses.
Considering that big business owns the government there is no way a politician is going to get into office without agreeing to sell their soul first.
Which means that the only way a good guy will get in is by lying to his sponsors, which right away precludes good guys. Sorta like how the mafia requires newbies to commit some heinous crime to weed out potential informants. An honest politician won't pass muster with the corporate gatekeepers.
Thing is, if I get arrested and imprisoned over some bullshit patriot act charge, I won't be able to vote against the bastards who voted for it.
Nice side effect of felons losing voting rights isn't it? The very people who most hate the law are going to be the first to lose their rights to vote against it.
For one, that doesn't give Sony the right to yank a feature that was duly advertised as a value added feature. As the various class action lawsuits claim, purchasers have been denied "the benefit of their bargain".
Secondly, it's not Geohot's *fault* that the pirates who were looking for an excuse/loophole to pirate decided to use his work. Geohot enabling them doesn't make him an accessory because he did his work independently, and the pirates exploited his work of their own free will. It's not Geohot's responsibility to protect Sony's hardware. That's the job of Sony's R&D department, and certainly not the job of Sony's legal department unless they're going after the actual pirates instead of a convenient scapegoat.
Geohot rightly did as he pleased with his own hardware that he bought and paid for.
Have IANA rent v4 IP address space at a dollar a year per IP.
Cheap as hell if you're not wasting it.
Presently, people sitting on piles of v4's they aren't using have ZERO incentive to cough them up without a fight, particularly if there's profit to be had subletting them to desperate folks willing to pay an arm and a leg for connectivity because all the v4s are already taken by the same sorts of greedy bastards that are loaning them downstream numbers in the first place.
If they made a stink about it back then they might not have gotten any traction. You don't throw stones when you're in glass houses unless you want to have a rain of glass shards cutting you to smithereens before you have a chance to lay a decent stack of bricks.
Something about not cutting off your nose to spite your face.
They reserve the right to ban anyone at any time for any or indeed NO reason AT ALL, just like with any other forum or site where barring a contractually enforceable obligation to the contrary, it's private property and the owner can do whatever they fucking want to.
And what right does Sony have to be giving me orders on how to use my own product?
If I want to tinker with it and void the warranty, so be it. They can ban me from PSN too.
And if I was a hacker it's not my job to help Sony protect it's bottom line, unless they hire me as a consultant or something that grants them the right to demand my loyalty instead of simply ask for it.
Unless I'm actively assisting hackers and pirates, or tacit collusion with same is a motivation, the hackers and pirates are using my work on their OWN initiative, and it's hardly reasonable to DEMAND that I inconvenience myself and refrain from what I have a legal right to do based on it making it easier for others to break the law.
It'll be interesting to see how companies sitting on piles of v4's react when their hoarded addresses start looking very attractive on the black market.
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Legally yes.
Morally, it's still a dick move and it may cost you later if karma decides to bite you in the ass.
What's crazy is that you're letting your personal problem with him influence your workplace relationship as his boss. What's good for the goose is good for the gander with regards to leaving personal issues at home where they belong, and if he took his personal problems on the clock I'm sure you wouldn't appreciate it any more than he would your sacking him for something that happened off the clock, the stupidity of pissing off your own boss notwithstanding.
The only reason you can get away with it and he can't is because you're his boss and you have leverage he lacks, namely, the ability to use your position and influence to ruin his job and career if he pisses you off.
In your place, however, I would have a private chit chat with the employee, warn him that his behavior outside work has caused me to question his competence ON the job, and furthermore that while personal stuff stays personal, there may well be consequences off the clock, and finally, before putting him back to work, remind him that he's on duty. I may be tempted to use his off clock conduct as an excuse to sabotage/punish him at work, but I choose not to because I consider that tactic akin to hitting someone below the belt, especially since he's already losing personal points with me outside the office.
However, I might be a fair enough boss not to let personal stuff get in the way of work, but I sure as hell wouldn't hesitate to avail myself of remedies once I shuck the uniform/role. A nice lawsuit or C&D for slander/invasion of privacy would go a long way towards keeping him in line off the clock.
On the clock, I'm his boss, and the usual managerial process will take care of things as one may expect with regards to employee performance and behavior.
Just like in China, bureaucracies often make a shitload of rules just to give the higher ups a toolbox of excuses to remove people they don't like.
When everybody's breaking the rules you get to be picky about who you punish.
Doubly so if your boss can get away with using at will employment as a backdoor loophole for whatever prejudices he wouldn't dare put down in writing or mention in earshot of potential witnesses.
The captain has every right to sink his own damn ship if he darn well pleases.
Sucks for us peons that have to go down with it though.
Considering that big business owns the government there is no way a politician is going to get into office without agreeing to sell their soul first.
Which means that the only way a good guy will get in is by lying to his sponsors, which right away precludes good guys. Sorta like how the mafia requires newbies to commit some heinous crime to weed out potential informants. An honest politician won't pass muster with the corporate gatekeepers.
You're assuming that a politician that enjoys ass raping the public will be willing to slap such a provision on the bill in the first place.
Thing is, if I get arrested and imprisoned over some bullshit patriot act charge, I won't be able to vote against the bastards who voted for it.
Nice side effect of felons losing voting rights isn't it? The very people who most hate the law are going to be the first to lose their rights to vote against it.
Why shouldn't they?
They're bought and paid for...
Just like the f**king consoles they're suing people for hacking!
Sony, you know that sharp pain in your rear right now?
That is what us commoners call karma, and it is currently biting you in the ass.
That's only if nothing but previous patents qualify as prior art.
For one, that doesn't give Sony the right to yank a feature that was duly advertised as a value added feature. As the various class action lawsuits claim, purchasers have been denied "the benefit of their bargain".
Secondly, it's not Geohot's *fault* that the pirates who were looking for an excuse/loophole to pirate decided to use his work. Geohot enabling them doesn't make him an accessory because he did his work independently, and the pirates exploited his work of their own free will. It's not Geohot's responsibility to protect Sony's hardware. That's the job of Sony's R&D department, and certainly not the job of Sony's legal department unless they're going after the actual pirates instead of a convenient scapegoat.
Geohot rightly did as he pleased with his own hardware that he bought and paid for.
Speak for yourself, this story totally blows.
Such a contract would be void as it would require the prospective employee to aid and abet a crime.
Only if the top guys are hogging them for the sole purpose of charging monopoly profits to downstreamers.
My intent is for carrying costs to muck out hoarders of whatever they aren't actively using.
Have IANA rent v4 IP address space at a dollar a year per IP.
Cheap as hell if you're not wasting it.
Presently, people sitting on piles of v4's they aren't using have ZERO incentive to cough them up without a fight, particularly if there's profit to be had subletting them to desperate folks willing to pay an arm and a leg for connectivity because all the v4s are already taken by the same sorts of greedy bastards that are loaning them downstream numbers in the first place.
Ever heard of a SLAPP?
x264 is a patent trap whose teeth are so ginormous people are afraid to go near it.
How much does MS stand to gain from continued support of h264 by a competing browser?
I'd wonder if MS was involved in licensing the codec somehow. Are they a member of MPEG-LA?
If they made a stink about it back then they might not have gotten any traction. You don't throw stones when you're in glass houses unless you want to have a rain of glass shards cutting you to smithereens before you have a chance to lay a decent stack of bricks.
Something about not cutting off your nose to spite your face.
And if you don't have the money you're screwed.
They don't need a reason to ban you.
They reserve the right to ban anyone at any time for any or indeed NO reason AT ALL, just like with any other forum or site where barring a contractually enforceable obligation to the contrary, it's private property and the owner can do whatever they fucking want to.
"Because I am currently under oath and perjury is a felony"
Social bullshitting is a place where falsehoods and stretches of the truth are completely normal and expected.
In the courtroom however it's a completely different ballgame.
And what right does Sony have to be giving me orders on how to use my own product?
If I want to tinker with it and void the warranty, so be it. They can ban me from PSN too.
And if I was a hacker it's not my job to help Sony protect it's bottom line, unless they hire me as a consultant or something that grants them the right to demand my loyalty instead of simply ask for it.
Unless I'm actively assisting hackers and pirates, or tacit collusion with same is a motivation, the hackers and pirates are using my work on their OWN initiative, and it's hardly reasonable to DEMAND that I inconvenience myself and refrain from what I have a legal right to do based on it making it easier for others to break the law.
I have no duty to police pirates or hackers.
It'll be interesting to see how companies sitting on piles of v4's react when their hoarded addresses start looking very attractive on the black market.
I already have all the evidence I need.
The question is...what the hell am I actually going to do about it?