Since the information is on his company's flagship product his family are no more at risk than they were before since any would-be kidnappers already have access to that information. Sounds like a fuss about nothing to me.
Unless all employers do it and then if you do have a genetic condition you're totally screwed. Discriminating against someone for how they were born has never stopped being wrong, whether that be gender, skin colour, sexuality (disputed I know) or genetic predisposition to something expensive.
That would be communism, a totalitarian form of socialism and yes it did fail. However you might want to take a look at all the countries that practiced democratic socialism and compare the standards of living for an ordinary worker in 1805, 1905 and 2005 and spot the enormous change between the latter two.
Yep it's so useless that in just over 100 years of socialism we've seen more progress in all fields of human endeavour than we did in the previous 10,000.
Thou shalt not kill doesn't come with a list of exceptions. Everyone has a right to live no matter how scummy. Besides which the death penalty has ended the lives of innocent people before.
They provide the livelihood, I provide the work. It's supposed to be a trade of money for labour not a set of shackles. Unless I'm screwing a colleague or snorting coke (or both;)) in the toilets I don't see how it's any of my boss' business.
I hate the current corporate attitude that management should have the right to interfere in human relations in the work place. Who the fuck do they think they are?
Yes because Red Hat, Novell and IBM all point CIOs to/. for their advertising. Do me a favour, you think any CIOs come here or if they do that they use opinions of people they consider to be an expensive inconvenience to make purchasing decisions?
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I remember the days when game developers had to wring every ounce of performance out of their machine, not code as if everyone had a fking alienware.
I didn't realise using the law to keep information in the public domain was communist, sounds more like democracy to me.
Since the information is on his company's flagship product his family are no more at risk than they were before since any would-be kidnappers already have access to that information. Sounds like a fuss about nothing to me.
Unless all employers do it and then if you do have a genetic condition you're totally screwed. Discriminating against someone for how they were born has never stopped being wrong, whether that be gender, skin colour, sexuality (disputed I know) or genetic predisposition to something expensive.
They have wives? My god I always knew MS employees could never be true geeks.
Prepare to be 0wnz0r3d
That would be communism, a totalitarian form of socialism and yes it did fail. However you might want to take a look at all the countries that practiced democratic socialism and compare the standards of living for an ordinary worker in 1805, 1905 and 2005 and spot the enormous change between the latter two.
Or is anyone else sick of marketing bastardising the language. Architecting for heaven's sake. Architect is a fking noun it is NOT a verb.
Are you saying non-free OSes don't require maintenance? What's your IP address?
It had all the features it took Microsoft ages to nearly get working many years before and at a far lower price. Shame Commodore were morons.
Yep it's so useless that in just over 100 years of socialism we've seen more progress in all fields of human endeavour than we did in the previous 10,000.
Thou shalt not kill doesn't come with a list of exceptions. Everyone has a right to live no matter how scummy. Besides which the death penalty has ended the lives of innocent people before.
huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh you said nad
They provide the livelihood, I provide the work. It's supposed to be a trade of money for labour not a set of shackles. Unless I'm screwing a colleague or snorting coke (or both ;)) in the toilets I don't see how it's any of my boss' business.
Personally I was hoping for the people decoding the human genome to find "Designed by Jehovah Industries" somewhere in there.
Religions move with the times? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I hate the current corporate attitude that management should have the right to interfere in human relations in the work place. Who the fuck do they think they are?
OS = Operating System
software that runs on the OS = software that runs on the Operating System
Yes because Red Hat, Novell and IBM all point CIOs to /. for their advertising. Do me a favour, you think any CIOs come here or if they do that they use opinions of people they consider to be an expensive inconvenience to make purchasing decisions?
Just because COBOL isn't on the l33t radar doesn't mean it isn't used extensively.
It would also lose Micrsoft a lot of money through not having a lock on the platform. If they let Apple get away with it then others will dare.
No firing you and hiring someone who will work unreasonable hours is your boss' job.
When there isn't an equivalent product to the ones people use on Windows how do you get them to switch?
What would happen to Mac Office do you think if Apple dared to try such a thing?
Even IBM COBOL has web extensions and an XML parser these days; I've used them to generate reports.