Yes, he did something stupid and was caught. Yes he should be punished. Is the punishment too harsh? Absolutely. He is up for more jail time than people who are convicted of actual, violent crimes.
Most of the places I have worked at the IT department will wipe and reinstall a machine before giving it to a new user. Where I currently work, we completely wipe the hard drive with dban, then restore a base image for the computer model. This would prevent this kind of thing from happening.
I want to point out that suing for slander or defamation is not a criminal case, but a civil case and does not need to be proven "beyond a shadow of a doubt." In a civil case, whoever has the best argument wins.
I would request that access be restored while you prepare documents for the company. You gave them ample notice (when I left my last job, I was disgruntled and gave one weeks notice... on Monday), so you obviously don't intend to do harm. If you had, you would have done it BEFORE giving notice (or at least I would have).
If they refuse, go the slashdot route. They seem to want to pay you to sit on your rump instead of doing anything anyways.
Many libraries are online now also, allowing you to find and reserve the book you want. Couple that with an online group that reads/recommends books and you are all set with no cost.
I read quite a lot, and would love to try out an eBook reader, but the cost is far too prohibitive. With the number of books I read in a year, I've read 45 so far this year, I find the library a much better resource for me. I can get just about any book I want for free from many different libraries in Ohio.
Until the prices come down to below $100, I'm not interested in purchasing one.
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He has a lot of good books. I would particularly recommend the Incarnations of Immortality series.
Yes, he did something stupid and was caught. Yes he should be punished. Is the punishment too harsh? Absolutely. He is up for more jail time than people who are convicted of actual, violent crimes.
Most of the places I have worked at the IT department will wipe and reinstall a machine before giving it to a new user. Where I currently work, we completely wipe the hard drive with dban, then restore a base image for the computer model. This would prevent this kind of thing from happening.
I want to point out that suing for slander or defamation is not a criminal case, but a civil case and does not need to be proven "beyond a shadow of a doubt." In a civil case, whoever has the best argument wins.
I would request that access be restored while you prepare documents for the company. You gave them ample notice (when I left my last job, I was disgruntled and gave one weeks notice... on Monday), so you obviously don't intend to do harm. If you had, you would have done it BEFORE giving notice (or at least I would have). If they refuse, go the slashdot route. They seem to want to pay you to sit on your rump instead of doing anything anyways.
Many libraries are online now also, allowing you to find and reserve the book you want. Couple that with an online group that reads/recommends books and you are all set with no cost.
I read quite a lot, and would love to try out an eBook reader, but the cost is far too prohibitive. With the number of books I read in a year, I've read 45 so far this year, I find the library a much better resource for me. I can get just about any book I want for free from many different libraries in Ohio. Until the prices come down to below $100, I'm not interested in purchasing one.
I second Keepass. I just copy the .kbd file between my pc's (Windows XP, and OpenSUSE) and my PortableApps usb key.
But no one has pointed at this paortion: "ultimately they would like to piggyback the good-botnet functionality onto BitTorrent"
In other words, no they can not use my computer to run their botnet. I don't even let my computer play with the other botnets.