In 1998 that attitude may have been fine, but today it's not. If you discover porn on a work PC and leave it, then you've just made yourself a part of any sexual harassment complaint that person may find themselves a part of, because upper management WILL burn your ass to save their own. And if that person has a folder of child porn? Hope you've got a secondary career to fall back on.
You're ridiculous. A doctor may or may not see you naked (If your dentist wants to see you naked, be suspicious) because that is part of their job. Unless you work at Kink.com, a hard drive full of porn has nothing to do with your companies business and company property shouldn't be used to store your wank material. In some countries you are opening the company up to lawsuits or even criminal complaints.
Good IT would at minimum delete the material and warn the person against using their work PC for storing their porn.
That's a pretty stupid comment. Their customer saw the flash drive full of porn, there's no going back from that and saying "Oh, this is just Bill's personal thumb drive, we the company don't support this". Why did Bill have his wank drive at work in the first place? Is he in the server room marking the servers as his like some animal?
Don't bring porn to work. Don't share it at work. It's not that difficult a task.
The US hasn't declared war since 1942, hasn't really meant much. As a formal ally of South Korea with military bases there and active military troops on the border, if they're attacked the US retaliates, so really what's the difference other than a pedant's circle jerk.
The US and North Korea only have an armistice, not a peace treaty. Legally they're still at war with each other. Added to NK's disregard of pretty much everyone, their having ICBMs does make the US nervous for good reasons. The US respects the armistice, but NK will likely start the war up again if they ever think they can get away with it.
No country is happy with any other country having the ability to attack it. Just very few countries are in the position that the US is in of having a military powerful enough that their displeasure makes people take notice.
The US doesn't just use it's military as casually as most think, typically it waits for a large group of allies to urge it to take action. It's wars in the Middle East benefit Europe a lot more than they do the US.
99% of the time, IT is being held hostage by other departments who know nothing about what IT does, but they just heard about this thing called the "cloud" or was it "apps"... and they want IT to prioritize it ASAP. Oh and do it on 30% less budget than they had last year.
Having read the article... you did read the article?.. you'd know the government was trying to get away from Highway Gothic.. so logic would say avoid a font "inspired by" Highway Gothic.
...procure rights to that font and then license them to every other agency/company at no cost? As a republican... this is the kind of thing I expect my government TO do.
What are you, some kind of filthy pinko socialist? These districts can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and pay hard working job creators their due wage or do without! NO GUBMINT HANDOUTS!!
Because spending large piles of money is exactly what Republican's don't want to do; plus, being pro-business, it was in their interests to let some third-party company profit from this mandate.
I think you mean spending large piles of money is exactly what Republicans DO WANT, for their true constituency: Business Interests.
There has to be a balance, however, or you risk rendering your service unusable. Nobody would buy anything online if the checkout process took 30 minutes, required a signed copy of your birth certificate from the doctor who performed the delivery, retinal scans from your grandparents and a full DNA workup.
Unfortunately, you also have to work within the limits of security unconscious morons who use 'P@55w0rd' and think they're being leet computer techies.
In far too many municipalities that "government fiat" is the only reason there's a developed power grid in the first place. Energy infrastructure is not a quick return on investment type of business, it can take decades before a profit is returned. If it weren't for "government fiat" pushing the infrastructure, energy companies would still be serving only the very richest areas. Much like how the high speed internet industry functions, covering only the parts of a city or county that guarantees fat profits, ignoring the rest.
Oil, coal, natural gas, hydroelectric and nuclear ALL benefit from government subsidies and regulations. It's the only reason our power grid covers the majority of our nation, as it would never have been "economically" feasible otherwise. If you don't believe that, just look at high speed internet and how many areas are under served not because they can't be profitable, but because they're not profitable enough, if you have to build the infrastructure too.
This is where the government beats industry, determining social benefits that override economic ones, and championing them.
I know of Americans that have left this country for the so called poor countries - for good. Question is: Why?
Because they can act like rich assholes with their modest American retirement funds and lord over poor citizens of another country like the Colonial overlords they wish they'd been born as?
Of course, there will be the inevitable rejection of such SJW concerns like clean air and low noise.. looking forward to leaf blower nutz and seeing guys with giant smoke stacks on their backs so they can "burn coal" at all the eco-blowers. MURRICA!!
I live in a house built by my own hands on land I claimed after killing the Indians living here. I'm typing this on a telegraph because I'm not the kind of greedy bastard that has to have a newfangled computer. I'm only using the telegraph until I figure out how to make the internet work with an abacus. I keep my food in the root cellar instead of wasting money on one of those refrigerators and keep the house lit by candles made with fat rendered from the animals I raise. TV is shadow puppets on the wall and I ride a horse buggy into town.
YOU sound like the greediest asshole ever with all your modern conveniences! How dare you buy things??
Could someone explain the summary in plain English?
It sounds like something bad happened to someone important but other than that I have absolutely no idea what it is saying.
Well, your initial supposition is wrong first off. Some guy who thinks he's important blames Google for the actions of people that are not under their control. It's like blaming crowbar manufacturers for people using crowbars to break into houses.
His business model is unable to adjust to the fact that his product is easily pirated, and he's blaming the most visible company connected to the Internet for other people pirating his works, without taking into account Google has no control over anyone but themselves, they are not the only search engine in the world, they only index the WWW portion of the Internet which has many other protocols that files can be shared over. He's tilting at windmills.
Investments are intended to have a positive return. Allowing someone to borrow money so they can party for a few years isn't an investment in the future.
So we should shut down all frats, throw business students out onto the streets and have a party? Awesome!
As the people who always bitch at people who want better pay would say, if you don't like it get another job! There's plenty of (too many really) non-Union places.
Jobs sued several companies in the early days of computing for the "look and feel" of such gems as rounded windows, trash bins, etc.
Also, the OP wasn't about successful or unsuccessful CEO sociopaths, just CEO sociopaths in general, of which Jobs is a far far better example, not only in his corporate strategies but his personal relationships and how he managed his workers, than Carly.
Jobs is a much better example of the "we invented it sue everyone else into oblivion lock in our customers" sociopathic CEO though. I would say he's the Alpha Sociopath. Cult leaders took lessons from him.
Either that or she was just doing a solid by her old Google buddies
That's what CEO's do. When Yahoo eventually drops her, her buddies will ensure she gets another position at the top of another company without any shareholder input into it, or a nice fat golden parachute on her way out. It's how Léo Apotheker got hold of HP, and how he walked away with $25 Million when they had to boot him.
It's time we destroy the cult of the CEO, they're nothing but corporate leaches feeding the masses (shareholders) free bread (short term gains) while the company crumbles around them.
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In 1998 that attitude may have been fine, but today it's not. If you discover porn on a work PC and leave it, then you've just made yourself a part of any sexual harassment complaint that person may find themselves a part of, because upper management WILL burn your ass to save their own. And if that person has a folder of child porn? Hope you've got a secondary career to fall back on.
You're ridiculous. A doctor may or may not see you naked (If your dentist wants to see you naked, be suspicious) because that is part of their job. Unless you work at Kink.com, a hard drive full of porn has nothing to do with your companies business and company property shouldn't be used to store your wank material. In some countries you are opening the company up to lawsuits or even criminal complaints.
Good IT would at minimum delete the material and warn the person against using their work PC for storing their porn.
That's a pretty stupid comment. Their customer saw the flash drive full of porn, there's no going back from that and saying "Oh, this is just Bill's personal thumb drive, we the company don't support this". Why did Bill have his wank drive at work in the first place? Is he in the server room marking the servers as his like some animal?
Don't bring porn to work. Don't share it at work. It's not that difficult a task.
The US hasn't declared war since 1942, hasn't really meant much. As a formal ally of South Korea with military bases there and active military troops on the border, if they're attacked the US retaliates, so really what's the difference other than a pedant's circle jerk.
The US and North Korea only have an armistice, not a peace treaty. Legally they're still at war with each other. Added to NK's disregard of pretty much everyone, their having ICBMs does make the US nervous for good reasons. The US respects the armistice, but NK will likely start the war up again if they ever think they can get away with it.
No country is happy with any other country having the ability to attack it. Just very few countries are in the position that the US is in of having a military powerful enough that their displeasure makes people take notice.
The US doesn't just use it's military as casually as most think, typically it waits for a large group of allies to urge it to take action. It's wars in the Middle East benefit Europe a lot more than they do the US.
99% of the time, IT is being held hostage by other departments who know nothing about what IT does, but they just heard about this thing called the "cloud" or was it "apps"... and they want IT to prioritize it ASAP. Oh and do it on 30% less budget than they had last year.
How did this submission get through review? There's no link to the source article.
Slashdot's accepting citations from anonymous sources with no supporting evidence now?
Having read the article... you did read the article?.. you'd know the government was trying to get away from Highway Gothic.. so logic would say avoid a font "inspired by" Highway Gothic.
...procure rights to that font and then license them to every other agency/company at no cost? As a republican ... this is the kind of thing I expect my government TO do.
What are you, some kind of filthy pinko socialist? These districts can pull themselves up by their bootstraps and pay hard working job creators their due wage or do without! NO GUBMINT HANDOUTS!!
Because spending large piles of money is exactly what Republican's don't want to do; plus, being pro-business, it was in their interests to let some third-party company profit from this mandate.
I think you mean spending large piles of money is exactly what Republicans DO WANT, for their true constituency: Business Interests.
There has to be a balance, however, or you risk rendering your service unusable. Nobody would buy anything online if the checkout process took 30 minutes, required a signed copy of your birth certificate from the doctor who performed the delivery, retinal scans from your grandparents and a full DNA workup.
Unfortunately, you also have to work within the limits of security unconscious morons who use 'P@55w0rd' and think they're being leet computer techies.
I'd rather that they spend tax money on US Congressional Districts than hand it to a corporation that passes it to the Chinese.
At least government pork is local, benefits Americans and keeps American jobs alive.
In far too many municipalities that "government fiat" is the only reason there's a developed power grid in the first place. Energy infrastructure is not a quick return on investment type of business, it can take decades before a profit is returned. If it weren't for "government fiat" pushing the infrastructure, energy companies would still be serving only the very richest areas. Much like how the high speed internet industry functions, covering only the parts of a city or county that guarantees fat profits, ignoring the rest.
Oil, coal, natural gas, hydroelectric and nuclear ALL benefit from government subsidies and regulations. It's the only reason our power grid covers the majority of our nation, as it would never have been "economically" feasible otherwise. If you don't believe that, just look at high speed internet and how many areas are under served not because they can't be profitable, but because they're not profitable enough, if you have to build the infrastructure too.
This is where the government beats industry, determining social benefits that override economic ones, and championing them.
I know of Americans that have left this country for the so called poor countries - for good. Question is: Why?
Because they can act like rich assholes with their modest American retirement funds and lord over poor citizens of another country like the Colonial overlords they wish they'd been born as?
Of course, there will be the inevitable rejection of such SJW concerns like clean air and low noise.. looking forward to leaf blower nutz and seeing guys with giant smoke stacks on their backs so they can "burn coal" at all the eco-blowers. MURRICA!!
I live in a house built by my own hands on land I claimed after killing the Indians living here. I'm typing this on a telegraph because I'm not the kind of greedy bastard that has to have a newfangled computer. I'm only using the telegraph until I figure out how to make the internet work with an abacus. I keep my food in the root cellar instead of wasting money on one of those refrigerators and keep the house lit by candles made with fat rendered from the animals I raise. TV is shadow puppets on the wall and I ride a horse buggy into town.
YOU sound like the greediest asshole ever with all your modern conveniences! How dare you buy things??
Could someone explain the summary in plain English?
It sounds like something bad happened to someone important but other than that I have absolutely no idea what it is saying.
Well, your initial supposition is wrong first off. Some guy who thinks he's important blames Google for the actions of people that are not under their control. It's like blaming crowbar manufacturers for people using crowbars to break into houses.
His business model is unable to adjust to the fact that his product is easily pirated, and he's blaming the most visible company connected to the Internet for other people pirating his works, without taking into account Google has no control over anyone but themselves, they are not the only search engine in the world, they only index the WWW portion of the Internet which has many other protocols that files can be shared over. He's tilting at windmills.
Investments are intended to have a positive return. Allowing someone to borrow money so they can party for a few years isn't an investment in the future.
So we should shut down all frats, throw business students out onto the streets and have a party? Awesome!
As the people who always bitch at people who want better pay would say, if you don't like it get another job! There's plenty of (too many really) non-Union places.
Jobs sued several companies in the early days of computing for the "look and feel" of such gems as rounded windows, trash bins, etc.
Also, the OP wasn't about successful or unsuccessful CEO sociopaths, just CEO sociopaths in general, of which Jobs is a far far better example, not only in his corporate strategies but his personal relationships and how he managed his workers, than Carly.
Jobs is a much better example of the "we invented it sue everyone else into oblivion lock in our customers" sociopathic CEO though. I would say he's the Alpha Sociopath. Cult leaders took lessons from him.
Either that or she was just doing a solid by her old Google buddies
That's what CEO's do. When Yahoo eventually drops her, her buddies will ensure she gets another position at the top of another company without any shareholder input into it, or a nice fat golden parachute on her way out. It's how Léo Apotheker got hold of HP, and how he walked away with $25 Million when they had to boot him.
It's time we destroy the cult of the CEO, they're nothing but corporate leaches feeding the masses (shareholders) free bread (short term gains) while the company crumbles around them.
Replace batteries? Don't be stupid, they'll just glue the batteries inside like Apple has so successfully done so you're forced to upgrade.
Philips was also one of the creators of the Phoebus Cartel, so this isn't exactly untrod ground for them.