I'd say that with the hassle involved in actually transferring a domain when the registrar uses all sorts of dirty tricks to make transfers a pain in the ass if not outright impossible, it's not actually a free market.
1) Glaze over when you talk to them about IT and 2) Refuse to trust you.
IT is often a needed service in a business, and us geeks are to computers and networks what doctors are to anatomy and medicine. The job needs done, and if you're not smart enough to do it yourself, at least have the manners to trust us to do it for you.
Nice side effect of touting computers as the industry to work in, only to have the market so flooded with techies that they lose the bargaining power they need to get even a fair deal.
Often the best way to make money is to milk the company for all it's worth and then bail out with a suitcase full of stock options before the plane crashes.
4c) they stiff you and you get thrown under the bus with nothing to show for it because your boss is a greedy bastard who isn't afraid to use his rank to push you around.
This may be a likely scenario with the economy and unemployment shifting the balance of power in favor of employers.
The biggest problem with spam is that spammers are cheating on expenses and getting away with it.
I guarantee you spam would drop in a hurry if there was some way to make a spammer eat his own IT bills. At present the ones who REALLY pay for spam are gullible boobs who let their computers get hijacked.
It's a problem that refuses to be solved since cutting off the flow of cash to spammers requires pissing off special interests that have the government in their pockets.
At least with postal spam they have to print and mail it at their own expense.
Electronic spam is even worse since often the sending is slaved to botnets full of hijacked computers and the costs are diverted to unwilling participants.
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I'd say that with the hassle involved in actually transferring a domain when the registrar uses all sorts of dirty tricks to make transfers a pain in the ass if not outright impossible, it's not actually a free market.
Actually politicians are VERY responsive to their constituents.
It's just that Joe Voter and Jane Q. Public are not actually their constituents.
They didn't change their position.
People in theory shouldn't be able to both:
1) Glaze over when you talk to them about IT
and
2) Refuse to trust you.
IT is often a needed service in a business, and us geeks are to computers and networks what doctors are to anatomy and medicine. The job needs done, and if you're not smart enough to do it yourself, at least have the manners to trust us to do it for you.
If you don't trust us, why hire us?
Never slug it out with your boss if you value your job.
No, your boss being a control freak doesn't count as a valid excuse.
Nice side effect of touting computers as the industry to work in, only to have the market so flooded with techies that they lose the bargaining power they need to get even a fair deal.
Makes you wonder why employees don't give a shit about their companies.
And since the power is held by bosses almost by definition, they can get away with stuff their underlings can't.
It's not a level playing field.
There's a reason they have parachutes.
Often the best way to make money is to milk the company for all it's worth and then bail out with a suitcase full of stock options before the plane crashes.
DNSSEC is unpopular with governments because it breaks censorship.
4c) they stiff you and you get thrown under the bus with nothing to show for it because your boss is a greedy bastard who isn't afraid to use his rank to push you around.
This may be a likely scenario with the economy and unemployment shifting the balance of power in favor of employers.
Should you have a way to keep your boss from grabbing your work and then throwing you under the bus without so much as an honorable mention?
Or is the risk just part of being under your boss in the food chain?
It's not really crap in an economy where bosses routinely milk their employees for all they are worth and do their best to keep the payroll down.
Not just that but how do you get your old boss to give you credit for it?
How does a schrewd employee who wants to contribute without getting shafted distinguish you from someone who is out to exploit his underlings?
Said HQ may try to leverage him with legal threats, bogus or otherwise, to make him cough up the code anyway.
What's to stop his boss from getting legal to seize him by the balls and take it by force anyway?
That's different.
Schools are usually run by governments using tax dollars to make an investment in the future of its citizens.
Another person who understands the concept known as authority.
Have any responses been "we already own it so fork it over unless you want a pink slip followed by a summons from our legal department"
It's not about what you deserve. It never is.
It's about what you can get, bearing in mind the balance of power this economy tilts in favor of the employer.
Which may well mean that the boss can get away with charging a soul for a job.
The kettle doesn't get a free pass on being black just because the pot is too black to call them on it.
Takes one to know one.
Also, I doubt the pot calling the kettle black gives EITHER of them a free pass on actually being black.
No, but the credit card companies people use to pay for V14GR4 do...
The biggest problem with spam is that spammers are cheating on expenses and getting away with it.
I guarantee you spam would drop in a hurry if there was some way to make a spammer eat his own IT bills. At present the ones who REALLY pay for spam are gullible boobs who let their computers get hijacked.
It's a problem that refuses to be solved since cutting off the flow of cash to spammers requires pissing off special interests that have the government in their pockets.
At least with postal spam they have to print and mail it at their own expense.
Electronic spam is even worse since often the sending is slaved to botnets full of hijacked computers and the costs are diverted to unwilling participants.