I bet the content-management dweebs who let this happen are breathing a collective sigh of relief, "Yay, we can get some free publicity from a frivolous suit and *still* keep our jobs! It's a win-win!"
It's not too hard to keep sensitive pages under wraps, but apparently Intentia's CM people were just too lazy to do their job well. They should really be the target of this suit, instead of Reuters, but there's no money in suing your own workers
I'm wondering if the author has taken a look at the balance sheets of the "remaining Baby Bells". I think at this point, we are down to two: SBC and Verizon. Yes, PacBell, Ameritech, SNET, BellSouth, GTE still might exist as names (or "brands" in market-speak), but if memory serves, they are subsidiaries of these two major telecoms. The rest have been absorbed, outright. The shakeout that he says is improbable has already happened. Barring another populist-driven breakup (and how likely is that, with the present "administration"?) we are back to the two spoilt, ugly daughters of AT&T. Where oh, where is my fair telecom Cinderella?
I bet it's the part where the singular geek faces down the entire NASA engineering board and says (over his slide rule), "Your calculations are wrong." I mean, wouldn't that undermine the your trust in our government institutions?
I don't think Alcatel has thought this one through, enough. If they want to own all of the ideas in their employees' heads, shouldn't they also be responsible for the idiots that come up with viruses and mail bombs? Are they allowed to "pick and choose" what they want to own? I didn't think it worked that way, but, of course IANAL.
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Didn't you know that the geeks will inherit the earth?
yeah, but the pieces are unusually small; commonly only 3'x6'x6'...
I disagree. True, the narrowing of the public consciousness has been a subject for quite some time (e.g., see Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death), but the mass of so-called "information" that we have to wade through daily just to get to some content that we are interested in is amazing. It can't be anything but distracting to someone who isn't amazingly well focused.
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I'm betting George Lucas will have his lawyers contact them about infringing on his copyrights for Storm Trooper armor...
...when did Micro$oft buy SCO?
I bet the content-management dweebs who let this happen are breathing a collective sigh of relief, "Yay, we can get some free publicity from a frivolous suit and *still* keep our jobs! It's a win-win!"
It's not too hard to keep sensitive pages under wraps, but apparently Intentia's CM people were just too lazy to do their job well. They should really be the target of this suit, instead of Reuters, but there's no money in suing your own workers
I'm wondering if the author has taken a look at the balance sheets of the "remaining Baby Bells". I think at this point, we are down to two: SBC and Verizon. Yes, PacBell, Ameritech, SNET, BellSouth, GTE still might exist as names (or "brands" in market-speak), but if memory serves, they are subsidiaries of these two major telecoms. The rest have been absorbed, outright. The shakeout that he says is improbable has already happened. Barring another populist-driven breakup (and how likely is that, with the present "administration"?) we are back to the two spoilt, ugly daughters of AT&T. Where oh, where is my fair telecom Cinderella?
I bet it's the part where the singular geek faces down the entire NASA engineering board and says (over his slide rule), "Your calculations are wrong." I mean, wouldn't that undermine the your trust in our government institutions?
I don't think Alcatel has thought this one through, enough. If they want to own all of the ideas in their employees' heads, shouldn't they also be responsible for the idiots that come up with viruses and mail bombs? Are they allowed to "pick and choose" what they want to own? I didn't think it worked that way, but, of course IANAL.
Didn't you know that the geeks will inherit the earth?
yeah, but the pieces are unusually small; commonly only 3'x6'x6'...
I disagree. True, the narrowing of the public consciousness has been a subject for quite some time (e.g., see Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death), but the mass of so-called "information" that we have to wade through daily just to get to some content that we are interested in is amazing. It can't be anything but distracting to someone who isn't amazingly well focused.
"When the only tool you have is an axe, EVERY job looks like fun!"