the situation is that the Federal govt has placed onerous rules on online or overseas gambling. If it were a universal ban like say Saudi Arabia, that would be one thing, but we allow most of the same games in some of our states competely legally and the govt even collects taxes on them. Therefore it is argued that it is "protectionist" for the feds to allow gambling in say Las Vegas, but not allow the same games to be played online in their country.
but somebody on the BOARD OF DIRECTORS was breaching their fiduciary duty of keeping company secrets first! Everybody misses that fact. Dunn was doing her job sending in the dogs to get these guys. For all the "ethics" you claim they needed, it was the board that after she presented irrefutable evidence that a board member was leaking secret meetings to the press, and after another board member in charge of "ethics" tried to cover it up... still blamed HER. Dunn paid people to do what an slashdotter would do by default. She didn't break any laws herself, but didn't exactly tell the PIs to stop when they crossed into objectionable territory. And she didn't hide for THEIR actions.. she stood her ground as president of the company trying to protect it.
put it another way, if somebody stole your laptop, and you had that program that secretly taps your video and audio to find out who stole it, you my be breaking the same privacy laws in the state the theif TAKES the notebook to for illegal spy devices!!! Will you still protect your property in this manner and post the thief to Flickr anyway? what Dunn did was trivial in the scheme of things, it wasn't a CRIMINAL case.. the rules are different. You could argue the reporters gave up their privacy by communicating with a board member under SOX and public corporation reporting laws anyway. Not to mention the stack of 2000+ cases of the FBI doing the very same thing!!! I don't see any of them going to court.
It's only been that way since the late 70's early 80's. Before that a company supported education by making large donations with no strings attached and hiring workers from high performing, innovative schools for good wages... brining students and competition to the school for educations sake. Schools 30 years ago would never settle for the strings of today. Students are "indentured" to IP barons before they can even attend courses. Something is seriously wrong.
Under today's better "rules" you think are so great Microsoft should be owned by that school Bill and Paul stole computer time from. Cisco should be owned by the university where the founders were professors... it's designed to make sure those kinds of "big ideas" don't get discovered without being paid for by students up front.
in P&P games the GM can "punish" wayward players by stacking the game against them or pulling something out they aren't prepared for. I've often wondered if you could make an online game with some players being "god" or generals or something over the lesser characters. Perhaps your level 70 in WoW could actually grant tasks to newbie players or direct multiple raiding parties... 10,000 foot level stuff... could come in really handy in something like an Undead take over where your race is fighting for parts of the whole map and not just against monsters.
no, these reporters were caught because an HP board member was calling them with inside info about company board meetings not granted in the official SEC filings. The only mistake Dunn made was taking the investigation too far on her own. She didn't expect the board members to bust HER chops, she expected them to vote the director out of the company and report him to the SEC for securities violations. Her fault was that she should have went to the SEC when she had info on board members being off the record and let THEM pull the phone records of board members.
Much of the bad press we heard about Carly was directly because of this board member. He publicly impeded her from doing her job the way the board of HP told her to!! He didn't like her and fed the press bad things about her at every opportunity when the board didn't do what he wanted them to. Dunn caught him. This board member caused millions of dollars in damage and got away with it by putting all the attention on Dunn's one misstep and allowing a private PI firm to go a little too far.
as far as the reporters, they weren't taking anonymous tips, the board member's personal/business phone was found to be calling them directly... he wasn't even using "secure" communications. The reporters were complicit in a crime by printing information from and HP board member without express permission of HP. That is an SEC violation. Who's to say this guy wasn't feeding them bad news then playing the stocks of his company for profit? The reporters KNEW they were talking to a board member, and KNEW the discussions were not protected by any "whistle blower" rules.
you mean like a board member agreeing to do one thing in board session then secretly calling reporters from home behind the board's back and leaking details of their "disagreements" with there CEO? Because the vote didn't go his way in the board meeting. That kind of ethics problems?
Dunn was investigating why there was so much bad press about Fiorina.. come to find out, matters the board discussed with their chairman and agreed to keep "company secret" were showing up in the IT tabloids within days. Some board member was not going with the team and purposefully leaking bad things about Carly because they didn't like her. That considerably shortened her stay as chair and her ability to do her job because her private performance discussions were made public before she had time to adjust... that's an unconscionable breach of business ethics by the board members involved and they should not be running ANY company at this point. Dunn was doing her job to track a security leak and wound up finding it on the Board of Directors!!! She went a little overboard, but it's funny to blame them for something a teenager could do!!
in this case HP was doing exactly what slashdotters advocate and finding the leakers themselves, not filing frivolous lawsuits against reporters. On the other hand, this may be exactly what HP needs to get these journalists dead to rights for leaking company secrets. Once they prove in court the phone records belong to reporters, then HP will be able to designate phone numbers originating from inside HP but not thru the PR office. That would prove to the court that reporters were knowingly receiving information from inside HP off the record. that is a SEC violation and illegal with big fines if you get caught. The only thing saving most reporters is that their records are "private" from the companies they leak info about. If HP was really nasty, they would get the records admitted to evidence so other companies could use the records to see if their managers were illegally leaking to reporters!!! Or the reporters could drop the lawsuit!!
no, not really, any developer should have the hell locked down.. it's some false Microsoft thing that developers should install their own stuff because remote management has been terrible for so long. In your case, who else knows that software? Who will continue your work in your absence? What resources are being captured by management and should they be getting a better deal or using different tools than the standard because developers are more efficient that way. By not locking down, they are loosing massive amounts of information and not maintaining good engineering discipline of their process... that is neither ISO approved nor Lean manufacturing. If you need a tool, it should be approved and documented. It's not about what's good for YOU, it's about building a company process and sticking to it.
a properly locked down PC will allow power but ignore the data to the USB ports... so it's Secure and Handy!!!
more IT managers need to realize what users want and what the company NEEDS... Users may want data all over PCs, but companies NEED that data in a central place because users NEED that data for their jobs and NEED it backed up. The idea is to keep BOTH sides happy and in most cases it's quite easy if you think about it 5 minutes and are willing to restructure your systems to segment data correctly. There is some pain involved and some long hours for IT staff and Users to get things cleaned up, but in the end it's good for everybody.
That would be more important to the university because they are basically selling the students as research assistants to large companies now. The high-level projects in many 400 level classes are really research for COMPANIES, not to be "owned" by the students that run them but by the university under contract. The problem should read Universities have trouble granting students rights to own study works instead of companies.
Pilots need to have Ballz of steel to understand it's not their fault some guy is in the back killing people, but they absolutely can't let the hijacker have the plane. Period. There is a necessity to FIGHT no matter what, that's what's been lost by all the police surveillance and gun control over the years in the USA. Certain situations invoke violence... it's a law of nature that you defend you and yours if threatened. The founding fathers knew that very well as they had Native American "terrorists" constantly attacking settlements and the British wanted them to wait around for "proper" troops to defend them from being scalped in the middle of the night.
The whole problem with plane hijacking in general is that people think they need to wait for the police to "handle" the situation. By natural laws the citizens in the craft and pilot should have the hijackers in pieces long before police are involved... the police can identify the pieces of body later. We're too "civilized" for our own good. The fact that hijackings don't go that way means society has lost something important.
American govt seems to have a problem with police presence versus meddling. We don't have "beat" cops anymore because just walking around isn't productive enough. When ordinary cops do walk around they have to be looking for "suspicious" activity from all those around them.. the whole law enforcement is filled with duplicity and false motives.
It would seem the Israelis have more armed guards just watching things but not trying to meddle, that's enough to keep most people feeling safe from "terrorist" and knowing that the "guys with guns" don't have any need to mess with them. In the US it's the opposite, the guys openly carrying are patsies, ans some low level metal detector operator is also trying to profile you as a "bad guy" because you're in a hurry. Totally upside down.
CableCard on Windows can actually lock out our PC from using cablecards as well as the actual CableCard. Weren't there reports a few months ago about that?
That would mean the PC would have to be RETURNED to the vendor after so many failed attempts.... and they're LEGALLY BOUND by silly cable rules not to tell you how to reset the PC side to try again. It's quite nasty and poorly implemented even for Microsoft standards.
it will give more libertarian states EXACTLY what they want... after all the only thing the feds have going for them is highway and welfare money, both of which several states would like an excuse to be rid of so the feds can't meddle in their affairs. The "threats" seem like a win-win for those states!!!
the easier situation is this, we passed laws making it illegal for OUR forces to use torture. In fact those laws apply to ANY US citizen.. hell, in some places the BSDM people that willingly participate in harsh sex are accused of breaking those laws!!! The whole torture thing is not about what OTHER people do... it's about what OUR people do!!!
Coming from border states like Michigan or Texas, they are on board only because they want to have the new ID scheme used in place of passports for people that travel weekly between countries. I live only about an hour from Canada and in 2008 it will be really stupid to have a passport for an afternoon in Windsor or Saute Saint Marie. Same probably goes for Arizona and Texas that have high volumes of tourist traffic to Mexico.
because "human readable" is what keeps data locked up. If your files are in XML format, in 5 years any bloke can pick them apart with a simple text manipulator and put the DATA in whatever format they wish. The key is access to the DATA. with openoffice if worse happens you can open the entire file in a TEXT editor and dig in that way... point is you have options that aren't reverse engineering binary formats.
I think this is already beat to death, even 15 years ago in college we had to buy packets of copied magazine articles for class. They've been beating up schools for teachers passing out news clips to students for years. This is the same thing only at a company.
but that would be the point of the article. Microsoft offers YOU a cheap platform to develop on so they can charge your bosses and clients big bucks behind the scenes to run the software you write. So is it really a good deal? Or is Microsoft just hiding the price?
and all the documents are serial numbered so if Dad borrows the computer to type up a letter for work, it's "piracy" of using the copy illegally and the company is liable!
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In Soviet Russia the government destroys companies!!
that's not funny anymore:P
Imagine if Bill Clinton used these powers to find hot young interns to blow him..... All hell would brake loose.
the situation is that the Federal govt has placed onerous rules on online or overseas gambling. If it were a universal ban like say Saudi Arabia, that would be one thing, but we allow most of the same games in some of our states competely legally and the govt even collects taxes on them. Therefore it is argued that it is "protectionist" for the feds to allow gambling in say Las Vegas, but not allow the same games to be played online in their country.
but somebody on the BOARD OF DIRECTORS was breaching their fiduciary duty of keeping company secrets first! Everybody misses that fact. Dunn was doing her job sending in the dogs to get these guys. For all the "ethics" you claim they needed, it was the board that after she presented irrefutable evidence that a board member was leaking secret meetings to the press, and after another board member in charge of "ethics" tried to cover it up... still blamed HER. Dunn paid people to do what an slashdotter would do by default. She didn't break any laws herself, but didn't exactly tell the PIs to stop when they crossed into objectionable territory. And she didn't hide for THEIR actions.. she stood her ground as president of the company trying to protect it.
put it another way, if somebody stole your laptop, and you had that program that secretly taps your video and audio to find out who stole it, you my be breaking the same privacy laws in the state the theif TAKES the notebook to for illegal spy devices!!! Will you still protect your property in this manner and post the thief to Flickr anyway? what Dunn did was trivial in the scheme of things, it wasn't a CRIMINAL case.. the rules are different. You could argue the reporters gave up their privacy by communicating with a board member under SOX and public corporation reporting laws anyway. Not to mention the stack of 2000+ cases of the FBI doing the very same thing!!! I don't see any of them going to court.
It's only been that way since the late 70's early 80's. Before that a company supported education by making large donations with no strings attached and hiring workers from high performing, innovative schools for good wages... brining students and competition to the school for educations sake. Schools 30 years ago would never settle for the strings of today. Students are "indentured" to IP barons before they can even attend courses. Something is seriously wrong.
Under today's better "rules" you think are so great Microsoft should be owned by that school Bill and Paul stole computer time from. Cisco should be owned by the university where the founders were professors... it's designed to make sure those kinds of "big ideas" don't get discovered without being paid for by students up front.
in P&P games the GM can "punish" wayward players by stacking the game against them or pulling something out they aren't prepared for. I've often wondered if you could make an online game with some players being "god" or generals or something over the lesser characters. Perhaps your level 70 in WoW could actually grant tasks to newbie players or direct multiple raiding parties... 10,000 foot level stuff... could come in really handy in something like an Undead take over where your race is fighting for parts of the whole map and not just against monsters.
no, these reporters were caught because an HP board member was calling them with inside info about company board meetings not granted in the official SEC filings. The only mistake Dunn made was taking the investigation too far on her own. She didn't expect the board members to bust HER chops, she expected them to vote the director out of the company and report him to the SEC for securities violations. Her fault was that she should have went to the SEC when she had info on board members being off the record and let THEM pull the phone records of board members.
Much of the bad press we heard about Carly was directly because of this board member. He publicly impeded her from doing her job the way the board of HP told her to!! He didn't like her and fed the press bad things about her at every opportunity when the board didn't do what he wanted them to. Dunn caught him. This board member caused millions of dollars in damage and got away with it by putting all the attention on Dunn's one misstep and allowing a private PI firm to go a little too far.
as far as the reporters, they weren't taking anonymous tips, the board member's personal/business phone was found to be calling them directly... he wasn't even using "secure" communications. The reporters were complicit in a crime by printing information from and HP board member without express permission of HP. That is an SEC violation. Who's to say this guy wasn't feeding them bad news then playing the stocks of his company for profit? The reporters KNEW they were talking to a board member, and KNEW the discussions were not protected by any "whistle blower" rules.
you mean like a board member agreeing to do one thing in board session then secretly calling reporters from home behind the board's back and leaking details of their "disagreements" with there CEO? Because the vote didn't go his way in the board meeting. That kind of ethics problems?
Dunn was investigating why there was so much bad press about Fiorina.. come to find out, matters the board discussed with their chairman and agreed to keep "company secret" were showing up in the IT tabloids within days. Some board member was not going with the team and purposefully leaking bad things about Carly because they didn't like her. That considerably shortened her stay as chair and her ability to do her job because her private performance discussions were made public before she had time to adjust... that's an unconscionable breach of business ethics by the board members involved and they should not be running ANY company at this point. Dunn was doing her job to track a security leak and wound up finding it on the Board of Directors!!! She went a little overboard, but it's funny to blame them for something a teenager could do!!
in this case HP was doing exactly what slashdotters advocate and finding the leakers themselves, not filing frivolous lawsuits against reporters. On the other hand, this may be exactly what HP needs to get these journalists dead to rights for leaking company secrets. Once they prove in court the phone records belong to reporters, then HP will be able to designate phone numbers originating from inside HP but not thru the PR office. That would prove to the court that reporters were knowingly receiving information from inside HP off the record. that is a SEC violation and illegal with big fines if you get caught. The only thing saving most reporters is that their records are "private" from the companies they leak info about. If HP was really nasty, they would get the records admitted to evidence so other companies could use the records to see if their managers were illegally leaking to reporters!!! Or the reporters could drop the lawsuit!!
no, not really, any developer should have the hell locked down.. it's some false Microsoft thing that developers should install their own stuff because remote management has been terrible for so long. In your case, who else knows that software? Who will continue your work in your absence? What resources are being captured by management and should they be getting a better deal or using different tools than the standard because developers are more efficient that way. By not locking down, they are loosing massive amounts of information and not maintaining good engineering discipline of their process... that is neither ISO approved nor Lean manufacturing. If you need a tool, it should be approved and documented. It's not about what's good for YOU, it's about building a company process and sticking to it.
a properly locked down PC will allow power but ignore the data to the USB ports... so it's Secure and Handy!!!
more IT managers need to realize what users want and what the company NEEDS... Users may want data all over PCs, but companies NEED that data in a central place because users NEED that data for their jobs and NEED it backed up. The idea is to keep BOTH sides happy and in most cases it's quite easy if you think about it 5 minutes and are willing to restructure your systems to segment data correctly. There is some pain involved and some long hours for IT staff and Users to get things cleaned up, but in the end it's good for everybody.
That would be more important to the university because they are basically selling the students as research assistants to large companies now. The high-level projects in many 400 level classes are really research for COMPANIES, not to be "owned" by the students that run them but by the university under contract. The problem should read Universities have trouble granting students rights to own study works instead of companies.
Pilots need to have Ballz of steel to understand it's not their fault some guy is in the back killing people, but they absolutely can't let the hijacker have the plane. Period. There is a necessity to FIGHT no matter what, that's what's been lost by all the police surveillance and gun control over the years in the USA. Certain situations invoke violence... it's a law of nature that you defend you and yours if threatened. The founding fathers knew that very well as they had Native American "terrorists" constantly attacking settlements and the British wanted them to wait around for "proper" troops to defend them from being scalped in the middle of the night.
The whole problem with plane hijacking in general is that people think they need to wait for the police to "handle" the situation. By natural laws the citizens in the craft and pilot should have the hijackers in pieces long before police are involved... the police can identify the pieces of body later. We're too "civilized" for our own good. The fact that hijackings don't go that way means society has lost something important.
American govt seems to have a problem with police presence versus meddling. We don't have "beat" cops anymore because just walking around isn't productive enough. When ordinary cops do walk around they have to be looking for "suspicious" activity from all those around them.. the whole law enforcement is filled with duplicity and false motives.
It would seem the Israelis have more armed guards just watching things but not trying to meddle, that's enough to keep most people feeling safe from "terrorist" and knowing that the "guys with guns" don't have any need to mess with them. In the US it's the opposite, the guys openly carrying are patsies, ans some low level metal detector operator is also trying to profile you as a "bad guy" because you're in a hurry. Totally upside down.
CableCard on Windows can actually lock out our PC from using cablecards as well as the actual CableCard. Weren't there reports a few months ago about that?
That would mean the PC would have to be RETURNED to the vendor after so many failed attempts.... and they're LEGALLY BOUND by silly cable rules not to tell you how to reset the PC side to try again. It's quite nasty and poorly implemented even for Microsoft standards.
it will give more libertarian states EXACTLY what they want... after all the only thing the feds have going for them is highway and welfare money, both of which several states would like an excuse to be rid of so the feds can't meddle in their affairs. The "threats" seem like a win-win for those states!!!
the easier situation is this, we passed laws making it illegal for OUR forces to use torture. In fact those laws apply to ANY US citizen.. hell, in some places the BSDM people that willingly participate in harsh sex are accused of breaking those laws!!! The whole torture thing is not about what OTHER people do... it's about what OUR people do!!!
Coming from border states like Michigan or Texas, they are on board only because they want to have the new ID scheme used in place of passports for people that travel weekly between countries. I live only about an hour from Canada and in 2008 it will be really stupid to have a passport for an afternoon in Windsor or Saute Saint Marie. Same probably goes for Arizona and Texas that have high volumes of tourist traffic to Mexico.
because "human readable" is what keeps data locked up. If your files are in XML format, in 5 years any bloke can pick them apart with a simple text manipulator and put the DATA in whatever format they wish. The key is access to the DATA. with openoffice if worse happens you can open the entire file in a TEXT editor and dig in that way... point is you have options that aren't reverse engineering binary formats.
but apple has a LICENSE to do this with inside info. I'd guess Adobe probably does as well from years of making Acrobat from Word since 6.0 or so.
correction: playstation was NINTENDO's folly, Sony built up samples that became PS to be the manufacture at N64 time and nintendo backed out.
I think this is already beat to death, even 15 years ago in college we had to buy packets of copied magazine articles for class. They've been beating up schools for teachers passing out news clips to students for years. This is the same thing only at a company.
but that would be the point of the article. Microsoft offers YOU a cheap platform to develop on so they can charge your bosses and clients big bucks behind the scenes to run the software you write. So is it really a good deal? Or is Microsoft just hiding the price?
and all the documents are serial numbered so if Dad borrows the computer to type up a letter for work, it's "piracy" of using the copy illegally and the company is liable!