Most of IE 6 in marketshare statistics is all in China. No one in the US uses it besides big multi national corporations. IE 6 is no longer worth it to support. IE 7 is still big if you write corporate websites but I am hoping by this fall you can ignore that too.
IE 7 is very small and all the grandma's and the golden +50 age crowd need to be upgraded with Windows Update. They are the ones who run these old browsers and hate anything new.
WebGL is not a web standard and is a big security risk. Infact arstechnica last year ran a demo where it showed the contents in the ram in full webGL! It is not ready yet and I agree with Microsoft on this one. I think CSS 3D might be a better alternative.
IE 9 is where Firefox and Chrome were in 2010. It is not 4 years behind at all. IE 9 was made in 2009-2010 so that makes sense. Ms does not update its rendering engine every 6 weeks and I bet those who gripe about that whine about Firefox being auto updated all the time. Well which is it?
IE is on an annual release and IE 10 is about done and scored 364 on html5test.com. It is at the same level of where current Firefox and Chrome is and yes, it will go behind until next summer when IE 11 is released but that is not a bad thing.
Hate IE all you want but it is not going away. It is the only browser appropriate for work as evident but the few who have FF still using FF 3.6 because of the way it autoupdates and the fact nothing has GPO,.MSI, or active directory support.
As a webmaster as long as it works who cares and yes Grandma can have a similar browsing experience as yourself with another browser. Why is that bad?
No he went on bashing MS because of IE 6 so therefore they must be evil etc.
Nevermind the fact that CSS was new and alien in 2001. The box model finalized by the W3C came out after MS included what it thought would be the box model already in IE 5.5 and 6.
IE 6 has limited CSS but it differs because standards were not standards yet and kept chaning in 1999 - 2001 when IE 6 was in development. MS is not evil per say, just that IE 6 is from a different era in internet history and should not be used anymore.... after IE 6 was done then yes MS was evil and stupid and opened the door to Firefox. That was a bad mistake
IE 9 is the fastest browser for graphics and FF just recently added acceleration and you have to enable it inside Chrome. Some things like font rendering and SVG graphics acceleration are still behind in non-IE browsers.
IE is not longer a piece of shit.
But sadly the grandparent does need a copy of VirtualBox or VMWare around to test his browsers. Big deal even if you did use Windows fulltime. I am working on a corporate oriented network project. My code needs to work with IE 9 and FF and Chrome... as well as old corporate locked down IE 7,8, Safari, and FF 3.6. I have a VM to do this which is annoying but a fact. XP wont go away until 2014, and even then I am sure millions of locked down FF 3.6 with its +40 exploits unpatched and IE 8 will still be around for at least 2020 when Windows 7 is retired. You can't leave these users out.
Perhaps charging more for older IE user is not a bad idea. For a startup or sole proprietorship why should I spend time for free? Time is money and if I have to hire someone who knows 10 year old workarounds then the customer should pay for it. If he/she doesn't then tell the sysadmin to get off his ass and use an up to date browser.
But it is not all about mobile. Netbooks were the next thing, than the IPAD came out in 2010 and now MS wants everyone to only use tablets. This is silly.
Vista's Aero was terrible. Windows 7 Aero is fine and improved. Ms has a habbit of rushing to throw something out when it is not finish to see if it sticks then makes these poor users to pay again to have one that is properly implemented and baked. Aero is one example that it took until Windows 7 to get right with the colors and customization.
If you had a time machine where you could visit yourself 20 years ago. Your old self would want proof so you show him a Windows 8 notebook. Then your old self calls you a liar as it is just looks like a machine you can get today.
Where is the 3d effects and graphics that should be out by 2012? I do not see anything special.... in a more serious note in regards to yoru comment that people just hate change and whine no matter I have something to add.
This is different. I was one of those who hated the Fisher Price look of XP. However, I did upgrade fast over W2k and just changed to the classic look during the XP era. Vista truly was butt ugly. My solution was to use XP for a little bit and then use Vista Glazz and just end up putting up with the UI after Windows Update and service packs kept ruining Vista Glazz.
Windows 7 was no service pack and was great looking, ran great, and had many improvements with the taskbar, browser tabs in IE are on the taskbar, jumplists, and Aero's ram usage was halfed, not to mention its system restore worked flawless and NT's old paging algorithm was replaced with the one Linux and MacOSX use so it wont swap like mad even if you have ram available.
Now the XP loyalists hated change because we told them too when Vista came out. It became a learned behavior to idolize and think XP was not the best thing ever and that IE 6 was the true internet browser at work. I agree this is silly but a good 1/3 of the PC users fit in the XP mold because of what happened iwth Vista so why risk it? They do not hate Windows 7. Just do not want to deal with it and see little justification for the expensive and time involved.
There is a big difference this time.
Windows 8 is terrible in almost every way. XP offered great improvements over the DOS based Win 9.x, Windows 7/Vista was much more secure, and Win 7 supports modern hardware much better, but what does Windows 8 have?
What does Windows 8 take away? A LOT. You can't be as effective, MS gets rid of the eye candy and features like Aero peak that I use every single day. Metro apps are terribly under developed and underpowered. Just look at IE 10 and the Hotmail Metro apps? No cut and paste, no tabs, the hotmail one has 3 functions and it just hotmail.com in a fullscreen IE Window maximized! Why would I want to pay $1200 for a new computer so I can have the functionality of your Amiga??
It is a step back and yes it is not about us who fear change. It is about a paid upgrade to make our productivity and our machines inferior from what we have.
But I bet you wouldn't want the functionality and limitations of your 1990s or 1980s SCO Unix or BSD lite 1.0 CLI tools. It used to look all high tech and Matrix theme hacking, but in 2012 I think it looks obsolete like having a background of vacuum tubes or a pic of 1800s steam engines.
Well if MS wants to make money they need to make a better product.
Windows 8 does have some nice things that I love. It is just Metro is not well implemented. The kernel changes, Windows2go, and the ability to upload corporate profiles by logging in with your exchange email account when you are not on the AD corporate lan ROCK. It is slimmer it has nice boot times etc.
If Metro were not included this would be a great upgrade from XP. It is not my problem that MS wants more money. Hell, I want more money too. I doubt anyone is going to actually give me money. Not unless a provide a service you and everyone else is willing to pay me for. That is capitalism 101.
Vista was BUTT ugly. I hated the darks as I had trouble reading the screen on my el cheapo laptop when the sun came through the Windows. I hated the ugly background colors. The default background was really horrible like a C grade art student hacked it together a night before his project was due. I ran some hacks like VistaGlazz which gave a semi Windows 7 look but Windows Updates kept fucking it up.
Windows 7 is done right with more lighter colors with darker contrasts and backgrounds. Aero is not bad per say, but MS lacks vision with implementation. Windows 7 made it less dark and threatening. They typically release bad products then improve before they are successful. NT, Windows, Windows CE, IE, Office, and others are classic examples. No one used them when they first came out and MS made so much money from DOS they could afford to do this for awhile.
Now they can't as their staple monopoly of operating systems is being adversely affected if they make a mistake.
Metro is an interesting idea with a terrible implementation. Vista it was the same thing. Just get it out the door! Corporate America and 40% of users said, let me stay with XP for 10 years. No one was expecting that and the result was MS lost money as over half never left XP anyway. If MS just came out with Windows 7 in 2009 maybe more people like businesses would not be so gung ho Xp loyalists.
They go all green screen or B/W like the 1984 mac. It is so in style!
Actually the mac apps in 1984 had more functionality than the Metro apps in 2012. Seriously they are like full screen browser apps with 2 or 3 options if you hit the charm. The Hotmail app truly sucked. Why would you do that with a modern computer that is capable of so much more.
If we like the functionality and look of our old computers we would have kept using htem. There is a reason we have moved on and it doesn't make sense why you would try to dumb things done after all the decades of progress we made increasing user productivity.
Starting in Windows Vista and higher what you do is hit the Windows Key and just type whatever you want and it will pop up. I can't stand XP due to the lack of this as I am used to it. - Eg. Windows Key CM...(cmd.exe shows).. and I hit enter. 1.5 seconds later I have a command prompt open.
Windows 8 has this too but it is hidden and obstructs the whole screen which is annoying. If I want to check Windows Update I hit the Windows Key and start (Metro shows up) and start typing Update and another screen pops up where is says apps..0, below that settings... 2, hit arrow key down to settings and then select Windows Update.
Of course the non retarded way under Windows 7 is hit the Windows Key and type upd ... enter and it launches automatically and I can still see my apps in the backgound. Inserts palm on forehead Ghad
Once you finally leave XP instant sear will be a nice asset as it can find documents too and I do not need to use the mouse to navigate like I did under XP. What MS needs to do since there is no turning back on METRO now, is to document or show a search dialog on the right or left whenever someone hits the Windows Key so Grandma or secretary Nancy can see this and learn this feature fast as I have only seen 30% - 50% of Windows 7/Vista users using the instant search.
Dude I have one user who had Firefox installed on her conputer by her late husband after she kept getting infected. I came over and she switched back to IE 7 (not even 8).
I turned on auto update and hopefully she is on IE 8 by default.
These users thnk Firefox doesnt support bookmarks because they cant see them with the new UI. These same users hated IE 9 and refused to upgrade thinking its inferior because they cant see menus. Even slashdotters fit this as we call them XP loyalists and FF 3.6 loyalists. They say this with a smile that they use obsolete products gloating how smart they whike ignoring the 49+ security holes and no updates with flash un sandoxed.
They certainly do if you they file a charge or give a motion in civil court. Something like that in your record would scare the shit out of any employer.
Most of what you describe is illegal and would get your imaginary company sued. Bad troll.
Illegal!? Try illegal not too in a liability sense. When you terminate you have to cover your ass in every way imaginable and be a psycopath. You have to prove why you fired someone and then cover the damage they can do and use the tools as justification.
I think it is horrible, but what if employee x sued back? The fact that the employer did not have such procedures in place to prevent this sexually hostile work environment shows they were negligent. What did they have to hide etc.
Thank the lawyers if anything that have to go through this insanity to prove you do actually monitor what is going on and that employee x was fired because of X, Y, and Z or for no reason at all because it is a right to work state. If you say or do anything that is not verbatim then you might accidently showed you fired because you were biased, racist, or sexist.
So? Did you really think that working "best" is really what matters? In the bean-counter universe, quantity rates over quality - frighten someone into working 10-hour days plus weekends and it's more "productive" than whether or not the time is employed in a worthwhile manner. To a bean counter, anything that doesn't look like a bean doesn't exist.
And the #1 way to scare employees is to point out that, pro or no pro, there are plenty of people in a Third-World country who will be happy to do the work for a fraction of what you can afford to do it for. Having a horde of unemployed people closer to home looking for jobs doesn't help either.
What counts isn't "your price", it's "your worth". And you don't define worth, the employer does. The trend for the last 20-30 years has been to devaluate the worth of line-level employees while simultaeously inflating the worth of the top-tier executives.
More to the point I have seen employers look at the volume of resumes coming in when the recession started and immediately started to cut benefits and everyone's pay even though they were making profits. Why? If 100 people apply to each job who are willing to work for less than why am I paying Bob x? The owners bought new cars and the employees had to fight to keep their houses after paycuts totaling 15 - 20% plus they still have not received a raise all these years later. OUCH.
This is every place I worked with the exception of working in an amusement park for minimum wage years ago.
I wish I were a consultant so I could be treated as good as you, but HR and the legal department dictate these policies, to protect their asses and make it look like their jobs are important so they never get canned etc.
Lawsuit and legal liability dictate this and if you were ever sued for wrongful termination or for having a hostile work environment that favors sexual harasement, the basic fact that you refused to take these measures shows your guilty. Why would he try to hide it... ?
Another reason too why outsourcing is so still hot. Other countries do not have these liabilities and risks to do business.
That is highly unethical and is considered theft. YOu did the right thing. Even if you never use the source code you do not want to be caught doing just this and explaining yourself to the policy and having it recorded on a credit report.
Try telling that to the MBA's. They are obsessed over metrics and the things you talk about are hidden costs that do not show up in a nice spreadsheet. Simply wait there is Bob's resume go terminate him still screw Bob over even if he is an IT pro. His reputation is ruined and a new employer will wonder why is not currently employed? Hmm
These same companies also have policies that they can't hire unemployed people too.
Hospitals or financial institutions can be a little different. You can hold the hospital hostage with HIPA as if they did call the FBI they would have to pay millions in fines after I release the data.
With a financial institutions the Russian Mobfia will pay quite handsomly and do the dirty criminal work for you for bank account numbers, passwords, and credit card number.s
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Most of IE 6 in marketshare statistics is all in China. No one in the US uses it besides big multi national corporations. IE 6 is no longer worth it to support. IE 7 is still big if you write corporate websites but I am hoping by this fall you can ignore that too.
IE 7 is very small and all the grandma's and the golden +50 age crowd need to be upgraded with Windows Update. They are the ones who run these old browsers and hate anything new.
WebGL is not a web standard and is a big security risk. Infact arstechnica last year ran a demo where it showed the contents in the ram in full webGL! It is not ready yet and I agree with Microsoft on this one. I think CSS 3D might be a better alternative.
IE 9 is where Firefox and Chrome were in 2010. It is not 4 years behind at all. IE 9 was made in 2009-2010 so that makes sense. Ms does not update its rendering engine every 6 weeks and I bet those who gripe about that whine about Firefox being auto updated all the time. Well which is it?
IE is on an annual release and IE 10 is about done and scored 364 on html5test.com. It is at the same level of where current Firefox and Chrome is and yes, it will go behind until next summer when IE 11 is released but that is not a bad thing.
Hate IE all you want but it is not going away. It is the only browser appropriate for work as evident but the few who have FF still using FF 3.6 because of the way it autoupdates and the fact nothing has GPO, .MSI, or active directory support.
As a webmaster as long as it works who cares and yes Grandma can have a similar browsing experience as yourself with another browser. Why is that bad?
No he went on bashing MS because of IE 6 so therefore they must be evil etc.
Nevermind the fact that CSS was new and alien in 2001. The box model finalized by the W3C came out after MS included what it thought would be the box model already in IE 5.5 and 6.
IE 6 has limited CSS but it differs because standards were not standards yet and kept chaning in 1999 - 2001 when IE 6 was in development. MS is not evil per say, just that IE 6 is from a different era in internet history and should not be used anymore. ... after IE 6 was done then yes MS was evil and stupid and opened the door to Firefox. That was a bad mistake
Actually no.
IE 9 is the fastest browser for graphics and FF just recently added acceleration and you have to enable it inside Chrome. Some things like font rendering and SVG graphics acceleration are still behind in non-IE browsers.
IE is not longer a piece of shit.
But sadly the grandparent does need a copy of VirtualBox or VMWare around to test his browsers. Big deal even if you did use Windows fulltime. I am working on a corporate oriented network project. My code needs to work with IE 9 and FF and Chrome ... as well as old corporate locked down IE 7,8, Safari, and FF 3.6. I have a VM to do this which is annoying but a fact. XP wont go away until 2014, and even then I am sure millions of locked down FF 3.6 with its +40 exploits unpatched and IE 8 will still be around for at least 2020 when Windows 7 is retired. You can't leave these users out.
Perhaps charging more for older IE user is not a bad idea. For a startup or sole proprietorship why should I spend time for free? Time is money and if I have to hire someone who knows 10 year old workarounds then the customer should pay for it. If he/she doesn't then tell the sysadmin to get off his ass and use an up to date browser.
But it is not all about mobile. Netbooks were the next thing, than the IPAD came out in 2010 and now MS wants everyone to only use tablets. This is silly.
Vista's Aero was terrible. Windows 7 Aero is fine and improved. Ms has a habbit of rushing to throw something out when it is not finish to see if it sticks then makes these poor users to pay again to have one that is properly implemented and baked. Aero is one example that it took until Windows 7 to get right with the colors and customization.
You know what would be funny.
If you had a time machine where you could visit yourself 20 years ago. Your old self would want proof so you show him a Windows 8 notebook. Then your old self calls you a liar as it is just looks like a machine you can get today.
Where is the 3d effects and graphics that should be out by 2012? I do not see anything special. ... in a more serious note in regards to yoru comment that people just hate change and whine no matter I have something to add.
This is different. I was one of those who hated the Fisher Price look of XP. However, I did upgrade fast over W2k and just changed to the classic look during the XP era. Vista truly was butt ugly. My solution was to use XP for a little bit and then use Vista Glazz and just end up putting up with the UI after Windows Update and service packs kept ruining Vista Glazz.
Windows 7 was no service pack and was great looking, ran great, and had many improvements with the taskbar, browser tabs in IE are on the taskbar, jumplists, and Aero's ram usage was halfed, not to mention its system restore worked flawless and NT's old paging algorithm was replaced with the one Linux and MacOSX use so it wont swap like mad even if you have ram available.
Now the XP loyalists hated change because we told them too when Vista came out. It became a learned behavior to idolize and think XP was not the best thing ever and that IE 6 was the true internet browser at work. I agree this is silly but a good 1/3 of the PC users fit in the XP mold because of what happened iwth Vista so why risk it? They do not hate Windows 7. Just do not want to deal with it and see little justification for the expensive and time involved.
There is a big difference this time.
Windows 8 is terrible in almost every way. XP offered great improvements over the DOS based Win 9.x, Windows 7/Vista was much more secure, and Win 7 supports modern hardware much better, but what does Windows 8 have?
What does Windows 8 take away? A LOT. You can't be as effective, MS gets rid of the eye candy and features like Aero peak that I use every single day. Metro apps are terribly under developed and underpowered. Just look at IE 10 and the Hotmail Metro apps? No cut and paste, no tabs, the hotmail one has 3 functions and it just hotmail.com in a fullscreen IE Window maximized! Why would I want to pay $1200 for a new computer so I can have the functionality of your Amiga??
It is a step back and yes it is not about us who fear change. It is about a paid upgrade to make our productivity and our machines inferior from what we have.
But I bet you wouldn't want the functionality and limitations of your 1990s or 1980s SCO Unix or BSD lite 1.0 CLI tools. It used to look all high tech and Matrix theme hacking, but in 2012 I think it looks obsolete like having a background of vacuum tubes or a pic of 1800s steam engines.
Well if MS wants to make money they need to make a better product.
Windows 8 does have some nice things that I love. It is just Metro is not well implemented. The kernel changes, Windows2go, and the ability to upload corporate profiles by logging in with your exchange email account when you are not on the AD corporate lan ROCK. It is slimmer it has nice boot times etc.
If Metro were not included this would be a great upgrade from XP. It is not my problem that MS wants more money. Hell, I want more money too. I doubt anyone is going to actually give me money. Not unless a provide a service you and everyone else is willing to pay me for. That is capitalism 101.
Vista was BUTT ugly. I hated the darks as I had trouble reading the screen on my el cheapo laptop when the sun came through the Windows. I hated the ugly background colors. The default background was really horrible like a C grade art student hacked it together a night before his project was due. I ran some hacks like VistaGlazz which gave a semi Windows 7 look but Windows Updates kept fucking it up.
Windows 7 is done right with more lighter colors with darker contrasts and backgrounds. Aero is not bad per say, but MS lacks vision with implementation. Windows 7 made it less dark and threatening. They typically release bad products then improve before they are successful. NT, Windows, Windows CE, IE, Office, and others are classic examples. No one used them when they first came out and MS made so much money from DOS they could afford to do this for awhile.
Now they can't as their staple monopoly of operating systems is being adversely affected if they make a mistake.
Metro is an interesting idea with a terrible implementation. Vista it was the same thing. Just get it out the door! Corporate America and 40% of users said, let me stay with XP for 10 years. No one was expecting that and the result was MS lost money as over half never left XP anyway. If MS just came out with Windows 7 in 2009 maybe more people like businesses would not be so gung ho Xp loyalists.
Next.
They go all green screen or B/W like the 1984 mac. It is so in style!
Actually the mac apps in 1984 had more functionality than the Metro apps in 2012. Seriously they are like full screen browser apps with 2 or 3 options if you hit the charm. The Hotmail app truly sucked. Why would you do that with a modern computer that is capable of so much more.
If we like the functionality and look of our old computers we would have kept using htem. There is a reason we have moved on and it doesn't make sense why you would try to dumb things done after all the decades of progress we made increasing user productivity.
Ultimate Slashdot revenge for the MyCleanPC spammer.
In actuality this will fuck up the SEO from this scam artist who wrote MYCleanPC.com and counters his slimy spamming advertising MyCleanPC.
If everyone here on slashdot points to other disgusting sites for MyCleanPC, then people searching for malware virus removal with MyCleanPC will have an awful surprise! :-)
If goatse was still around I would have used that sigh. That is just genius.
I do not know anyone who bitched. The Start Menu was a nice improvement over having 200 programs in program manager under Windows 3.1.
That is why I didn't buy a mac.
Starting in Windows Vista and higher what you do is hit the Windows Key and just type whatever you want and it will pop up. I can't stand XP due to the lack of this as I am used to it. - Eg. Windows Key CM ...(cmd.exe shows) .. and I hit enter. 1.5 seconds later I have a command prompt open.
Windows 8 has this too but it is hidden and obstructs the whole screen which is annoying. If I want to check Windows Update I hit the Windows Key and start (Metro shows up) and start typing Update and another screen pops up where is says apps ..0, below that settings ... 2, hit arrow key down to settings and then select Windows Update.
Of course the non retarded way under Windows 7 is hit the Windows Key and type upd . .. enter and it launches automatically and I can still see my apps in the backgound. Inserts palm on forehead Ghad
Once you finally leave XP instant sear will be a nice asset as it can find documents too and I do not need to use the mouse to navigate like I did under XP. What MS needs to do since there is no turning back on METRO now, is to document or show a search dialog on the right or left whenever someone hits the Windows Key so Grandma or secretary Nancy can see this and learn this feature fast as I have only seen 30% - 50% of Windows 7/Vista users using the instant search.
Dude I have one user who had Firefox installed on her conputer by her late husband after she kept getting infected. I came over and she switched back to IE 7 (not even 8).
I turned on auto update and hopefully she is on IE 8 by default.
These users thnk Firefox doesnt support bookmarks because they cant see them with the new UI. These same users hated IE 9 and refused to upgrade thinking its inferior because they cant see menus. Even slashdotters fit this as we call them XP loyalists and FF 3.6 loyalists. They say this with a smile that they use obsolete products gloating how smart they whike ignoring the 49+ security holes and no updates with flash un sandoxed.
The DOJ uses IE 6 and SP2 which stopped receiving security updates only 2 years ago!
How could this possibly happen?
They certainly do if you they file a charge or give a motion in civil court. Something like that in your record would scare the shit out of any employer.
Most of what you describe is illegal and would get your imaginary company sued. Bad troll.
Illegal!? Try illegal not too in a liability sense. When you terminate you have to cover your ass in every way imaginable and be a psycopath. You have to prove why you fired someone and then cover the damage they can do and use the tools as justification.
I think it is horrible, but what if employee x sued back? The fact that the employer did not have such procedures in place to prevent this sexually hostile work environment shows they were negligent. What did they have to hide etc.
Thank the lawyers if anything that have to go through this insanity to prove you do actually monitor what is going on and that employee x was fired because of X, Y, and Z or for no reason at all because it is a right to work state. If you say or do anything that is not verbatim then you might accidently showed you fired because you were biased, racist, or sexist.
scared employee cannot work at his best.
So? Did you really think that working "best" is really what matters? In the bean-counter universe, quantity rates over quality - frighten someone into working 10-hour days plus weekends and it's more "productive" than whether or not the time is employed in a worthwhile manner. To a bean counter, anything that doesn't look like a bean doesn't exist.
And the #1 way to scare employees is to point out that, pro or no pro, there are plenty of people in a Third-World country who will be happy to do the work for a fraction of what you can afford to do it for. Having a horde of unemployed people closer to home looking for jobs doesn't help either.
What counts isn't "your price", it's "your worth". And you don't define worth, the employer does. The trend for the last 20-30 years has been to devaluate the worth of line-level employees while simultaeously inflating the worth of the top-tier executives.
More to the point I have seen employers look at the volume of resumes coming in when the recession started and immediately started to cut benefits and everyone's pay even though they were making profits. Why? If 100 people apply to each job who are willing to work for less than why am I paying Bob x? The owners bought new cars and the employees had to fight to keep their houses after paycuts totaling 15 - 20% plus they still have not received a raise all these years later. OUCH.
This is every place I worked with the exception of working in an amusement park for minimum wage years ago.
I wish I were a consultant so I could be treated as good as you, but HR and the legal department dictate these policies, to protect their asses and make it look like their jobs are important so they never get canned etc.
Lawsuit and legal liability dictate this and if you were ever sued for wrongful termination or for having a hostile work environment that favors sexual harasement, the basic fact that you refused to take these measures shows your guilty. Why would he try to hide it ... ?
Another reason too why outsourcing is so still hot. Other countries do not have these liabilities and risks to do business.
That is highly unethical and is considered theft. YOu did the right thing. Even if you never use the source code you do not want to be caught doing just this and explaining yourself to the policy and having it recorded on a credit report.
Solution: Fire them when they looking for work elsewhere immediately.
Mentioned it in my other post but that is the solution HR does. What there is Jane's resume on Monster? Have security escourt her out.
That is an even worse solution if you ask me.Not even a 2 week notice. Your done that very second
I do IT support and there are more of us than jobs. Maybe I should have studied computer science instead.
Try telling that to the MBA's. They are obsessed over metrics and the things you talk about are hidden costs that do not show up in a nice spreadsheet. Simply wait there is Bob's resume go terminate him still screw Bob over even if he is an IT pro. His reputation is ruined and a new employer will wonder why is not currently employed? Hmm
These same companies also have policies that they can't hire unemployed people too.
Hospitals or financial institutions can be a little different. You can hold the hospital hostage with HIPA as if they did call the FBI they would have to pay millions in fines after I release the data.
With a financial institutions the Russian Mobfia will pay quite handsomly and do the dirty criminal work for you for bank account numbers, passwords, and credit card number.s