1. The order to give your boss the keys when he is clearly intoxicated is invalid because it is against the law. Driving under the influence is a crime and by handing the keys over you would be guilty of aiding and abetting.
And criminal statutes regarding drunk driving prevail, no matter what company policy may say.
2. If your boss decides to fire you over it then you can collect a big fat settlement for wrongful termination.
This is a good example of how unfair life in general is.
Usually, who gets the biggest piece depends on who is most senior, or who is fastest at grabbing. Seniority comes in if two people try to fight over it.
It's "evil" because there is no such thing as a truly communist economy.
Greed is an inherent part of human nature, and anyone in a position of power will, if able, always exploit that power to his or her own advantage. Look at china, the heart of communist country. No matter what the virtues are in theory, the bureaucrats are so corrupt that it's effectively a mafia dividing up territory instead of a communist republic dividing things up fairly.
Communism only works if the government can be trusted. Humans cannot be trusted, and government is run by humans. Ergo, communism doesn't work.
If it was really a work device then what business does the company have sticking them with the bill?
Also, there was an exchange of consideration "you pay the overage and we won't snoop" so privacy in this case seems to be guaranteed simply by contract.
The indie artists probably don't even have the right to collect anymore since they apparently forbore nonpayment for a very long time without raising a fuss.
They let imeem slither on without paying and should have taken imeem to court for contract breach. They didn't, sucks to be them.
Anyone driving drunk who goes to jail is getting off easy. That is reckless endangerment of one of the highest sorts and should by all rights be a *felony* considering how easy it is to get someone killed.
The problem is that my political masters up in DC don't care.
And yes, I already tried to vote them out, but with corporate whoring political parties drawing up who gets on the ballot, I really don't have much choice.
Except in the case of DRM, anything done for interoperability must first circumvent copy protection because the copy protection is an integral part of being interoperable.
Even better for the companies is that you HAVE to implement the DRM. Failure to do so is a violation of the patent license you need to even use the format period.
You seem to forget that right now we are in a recession and jobs are somewhat hard to come by. You mouth off and you'll get fired.
And why shouldn't you be? The company can always interview and hire one of the many people waiting in line to take your place.
Not really different from china, and here's my point.
The sale of labor involves supply AND demand. BOTH sides will lose if you walk away, and both sides know that.
Anyone looking to change jobs, do a game theory analysis on the situation first. And make sure you really do have enough bargaining power to get what you want.
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If policy forbade him from telling the password to his boss, AND his boss was not allowed to override that policy, then he was obeying policy.
Sounds like he was caught in a catch 22 and subject to 2 conflicting orders.
You don't give him the keys.
1. The order to give your boss the keys when he is clearly intoxicated is invalid because it is against the law. Driving under the influence is a crime and by handing the keys over you would be guilty of aiding and abetting.
And criminal statutes regarding drunk driving prevail, no matter what company policy may say.
2. If your boss decides to fire you over it then you can collect a big fat settlement for wrongful termination.
When you're employed as IT for the city, the mayor is about as "authorized" as you can get, considering that he's the biggest boss of them all.
They didn't copy code directly, but got "respondeat superior"-ifized into being on the hook for it.
This is a good example of how unfair life in general is.
Usually, who gets the biggest piece depends on who is most senior, or who is fastest at grabbing. Seniority comes in if two people try to fight over it.
Just like life.
I'd think that answering a call from a client would constitute probable cause anyway.
Chinese is cheap because they cheat.
By brazenly counterfeiting, they skip out on the R&D expenditures.
It's "evil" because there is no such thing as a truly communist economy.
Greed is an inherent part of human nature, and anyone in a position of power will, if able, always exploit that power to his or her own advantage. Look at china, the heart of communist country. No matter what the virtues are in theory, the bureaucrats are so corrupt that it's effectively a mafia dividing up territory instead of a communist republic dividing things up fairly.
Communism only works if the government can be trusted. Humans cannot be trusted, and government is run by humans. Ergo, communism doesn't work.
Now that's what I call having too much time on your hands.
If it was really a work device then what business does the company have sticking them with the bill?
Also, there was an exchange of consideration "you pay the overage and we won't snoop" so privacy in this case seems to be guaranteed simply by contract.
In a world where it's cheat or be cheated, it's hard to choose.
Someone that stupid should be nailed as an accessory to their own robbery and the car should be sold off to cover investigative expenses.
No they shouldn't.
Not unless we want to change bankruptcy law.
The indie artists probably don't even have the right to collect anymore since they apparently forbore nonpayment for a very long time without raising a fuss.
They let imeem slither on without paying and should have taken imeem to court for contract breach. They didn't, sucks to be them.
Unless the EC is just hell-bent on obstructing US commerce then Oracle and Sun should just make an agreement to fork MySQL off into a foundation.
Whiskey plates my ass.
Anyone driving drunk who goes to jail is getting off easy. That is reckless endangerment of one of the highest sorts and should by all rights be a *felony* considering how easy it is to get someone killed.
Privileges are revocable at will, it's only thanks to due process that the powers that be try to be fair about it.
I might suggest impounding the cell-phones but I know better than to trust that to go down well.
I'm an american citizen and I do know this.
The problem is that my political masters up in DC don't care.
And yes, I already tried to vote them out, but with corporate whoring political parties drawing up who gets on the ballot, I really don't have much choice.
Except in the case of DRM, anything done for interoperability must first circumvent copy protection because the copy protection is an integral part of being interoperable.
Even better for the companies is that you HAVE to implement the DRM. Failure to do so is a violation of the patent license you need to even use the format period.
Protocol licensing really isn't all that bad unless you try to be sneaky about it, i.e., with a submarine patent.
If KFC really ran ads on how to make their secret recipe then they just lost trade secret status through voluntary disclosure.
Actually you can copyright recipes.
They are creative works just like novels and movies.
And most of them btw are longer than the notorious Happy Birthday which somehow seems to enjoy copyright even though it's 4 lines long.
You seem to forget that right now we are in a recession and jobs are somewhat hard to come by. You mouth off and you'll get fired.
And why shouldn't you be? The company can always interview and hire one of the many people waiting in line to take your place.
Not really different from china, and here's my point.
The sale of labor involves supply AND demand. BOTH sides will lose if you walk away, and both sides know that.
Anyone looking to change jobs, do a game theory analysis on the situation first. And make sure you really do have enough bargaining power to get what you want.
Actually, they DO get it.
Why do you think ACTA is getting pushed?
Actually, you can...if you're a politician.