> You can take your 100gb video and instantly say 'snapshot this' then make any number of changes to it and if you don't like it just revert back again.
Funny. That sounds almost exactly like Time Machine.
I am not a lawyer, but I am the son of an internal bank auditor who's been asked to do some illegal things during her career. Here's how dear ole' Mom handled it, and I think this is how you should handle it:
Inform your supervisor in writing that what he's asking you to do is illegal under thus and such provision of thus and such law and as such you can't fulfill the request. Be specific and be complete. Ask them if doing this is a condition for your continued employment. Ask them for a response in writing. Send two copies of it through the regular old mail, one to him, one to yourself. Keep the one to yourself, unopened, in a safe place.
At this point they have two choices: They can fire you, in which case you can sue the pants off them for wrongful termination or they can back down.
PS - Under no circumstances would I just go ahead and do it because, by your own admission, you know this is illegal. That makes you an accessory to the crime, regardless of whether or not they're threatening to fire you.
int main() {
uac_alert("You are attempting to initialize variables. Cancel or allow?");
int i;
uac_alert("You are attempting to enter a loop. Cancel or allow?");
for (i = 0; i 100; i++) {
uac_alert("You are attempting to iterate a loop. Cancel or allow?");
i++;
}
uac_alert("You are attempting to exit program. Cancel or allow?");
return 0; }
> Regardless, Comes vs Microsoft was actually in the trial phase. There were jurors and everything!
In that case they should be public record unless sealed. Feel free to call the court in question and ask them for information on how to get those records.
ATTN: The President/Ceo From: Martian Barrister Bob N'g'w'll'ac Utopia Planitia Law Firm Legal Practitioners Mars.
Confidential Proposal/Investment Assistance.
Greetings and love to you in the name of the most high Xenu from my beloved planet Mars. I am sorry and I solicit your permission into your privacy. I am Martian Barrister Bob N'g'w'll'ac, lawyer to the late Prince Grunthor eldest son of the late former Emperor of Mars late Warlord Xandor.
My former client late Prince Grunthor died in a plane crash in the year 2094. Upon the death of my former client and unknown to the family that is currently under house arrest and undergoing prosecution in the hands of the present administration as a result of human right violation and looting of the planet's treasury by the late head of state Warlord Xandor.
Before the death of my client he had deposited 90,000,000.00 Martian Mega-bucks with a secret security firm in two trunk boxes in my name, and I am the only authority to this fund which he was to transfer off world few days after he died in a plane crash.
This fund was deposited with the security firm in my name because my client stole this fund from the planet's treasury and he did not want anyone to know that he is associated with the fund in question not until the fund is successfully moved off world.
The security firm does not know the actual content of the trunk boxes, my client and I told them that the boxes contains old Martian artifacts to be delivered to a client off world via Interplanetary Courier Services. For now it is only you and I that is having knowledge of this fund, and the only assistance I require from you is to help me receive this fund in either Amsterdam, London or Spain depending on our country of agreement and possibly invest it abroad in your area of advice.
This fund shall be disbursed accordingly as follows: 25% for the recipient (you) from the total sum(90MMMB). 2% for the courier officer in the country where you shall receive the trunk boxes. 5% set aside from the entire sum for expenses incurred by both parties in due course of executing this transaction (home and abroad). 68% for me.
If you are not satisfied with the percentage sharing of the fund feel free to let me know. In compliance with this you are to immediately forward to me by mail the following: Your full names and address Confidential space phone and space fax numbers.
With this information I will immediately commence all necessary documentation for a successful shipment of the first trunk box to your country of choice as all the modalities have already been worked out by me. I will also give you full details of this whole transaction which I have already perfected in due course.
Please note that you are to treat this with utmost confidentiality willing or not willing to assist me in this transaction as nobody knows about this fund and I am still an active lawyer in this country.
THE CHOICE IS YOURS, IF I WERE YOU I WOULD, BECAUSE IT WILL COST YOU LITTLE OR NOTHING TO ACHIEVE THIS AND THE BENEFIT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER.
Remain blessed in the name of XENU. Yours faithfully Martian Barrister Bob N'g'w'll'ac
IANAL, and I'm not familiar with the details of the case, but...
When a case was settled out of court and a common feature of such settlements is that the complainant agree to shut their yaps in return for a large financial settlement from the respondant. And if this was an out of court settlement, none of the material in question was ever submitted into evidence and thus never became part of the public record.
If the facts of the case are even remotely like the OP suggest, the company's lawyers would be tossed out of court and possibly be given a good dressing down by the Judge for even bringing the suit in the first place. There *has* to be something else going on here.
And just because you didn't sign anything doesn't mean that you're off the hook automatically. If there was a "meeting of the minds" at some point regarding his terms of employment, then he's in a contract, paper or no. Sure, it'll be harder to prove the terms of the contract in court, but it's hardly impossible. Suits based on verbal contracts are brought and won all the time.
how long it takes for the same crew who pissed and moaned about the NSA spending their tax-dollars to help Microsoft make Vista more secure to praise this as a great usage of our time an money.
This doesn't sound like a major code review. This sounds more like the NSA tested Vista (something they were going to have to do anyway) and just let microsoft see some of the test results and give them specific guidance as to what they could do to make things more secure. All of which is something they'd probably be willing to do for Apple or any other companies that make products that are either in use or will be in use within DoD.
They did the same thing for DES back in the day, remember?
>What home user really cares if their PC takes 150W or 180W ? Nobody...
Maybe not, but many home users users do care about a sleek and quiet computer like the iMac versus a fat and loud box. More power means more heat. More heat means bigger, noisier fans.
> Offtopic, but - who's up for a "no kids" airline? I'd definitely pay an extra $10 per flight to ensure there aren't any crying babies onboard.
That's funny because I was just thinking that I'd be willing ot pay an extra $10 per flight to ensure that there aren't any Arabs on board.
Say person A owes person B $X. Now person A dies. Does that mean person B is screwed out of the money they were owed?
Now reverse it, say the debt is owed by B to A. Do A's heirs deserve to be screwed out of the money they're owed?
Now lets say that person A's debt is a civil liability. Say... person A was driving drunk when he hit person B, leaving B paralyzed for life and unable to work. Is B SOL because A is dead?
There are plenty of things to debate about when it comes to the RIAA, but I don't think this is one of them. Sure, there's such a thing as common human decency and whether or not I'd personally proceed with such a case depends on how much I was owed, but the legal principle involved is a fundamentally sound one I think.
Slashdot Mirror
No flash. Less features than a XOOM. Lame.
Bin Laden is hiding at the same sound studio where they filmed the Apollo Moon Landings!
Cue the Alex Jones crowd in 5... 4... 3...
Rewarding unethical behavior?
What could *possibly* go wrong?
" In a display of forgiveness and bridge building..."
What are you willing to bet that it would read quite like that if it were Microsoft displaying the forgiveness?
> You can take your 100gb video and instantly say 'snapshot this' then make any number of changes to it and if you don't like it just revert back again.
Funny. That sounds almost exactly like Time Machine.
> GUIs for vi and mysql for example.
That's your examples of tools for "widespread use"?
I am not a lawyer, but I am the son of an internal bank auditor who's been asked to do some illegal things during her career. Here's how dear ole' Mom handled it, and I think this is how you should handle it:
Inform your supervisor in writing that what he's asking you to do is illegal under thus and such provision of thus and such law and as such you can't fulfill the request. Be specific and be complete. Ask them if doing this is a condition for your continued employment. Ask them for a response in writing. Send two copies of it through the regular old mail, one to him, one to yourself. Keep the one to yourself, unopened, in a safe place.
At this point they have two choices: They can fire you, in which case you can sue the pants off them for wrongful termination or they can back down.
PS - Under no circumstances would I just go ahead and do it because, by your own admission, you know this is illegal. That makes you an accessory to the crime, regardless of whether or not they're threatening to fire you.
How's that cure for cancer coming guys?
Balloons?
Hey, Bob, toss me that putty knife.
Oh crap...
You've got that all wrong...
I just need to insert "i--;" at the end of the code block.
DUH!
#include
int main() {
uac_alert("You are attempting to initialize variables. Cancel or allow?");
int i;
uac_alert("You are attempting to enter a loop. Cancel or allow?");
for (i = 0; i 100; i++) {
uac_alert("You are attempting to iterate a loop. Cancel or allow?");
i++;
}
uac_alert("You are attempting to exit program. Cancel or allow?");
return 0;
}
> Regardless, Comes vs Microsoft was actually in the trial phase. There were jurors and everything!
In that case they should be public record unless sealed. Feel free to call the court in question and ask them for information on how to get those records.
ATTN: The President/Ceo
From: Martian Barrister Bob N'g'w'll'ac
Utopia Planitia Law Firm
Legal Practitioners
Mars.
Confidential Proposal/Investment Assistance.
Greetings and love to you in the name of the most high Xenu from my beloved planet Mars. I am sorry and I solicit your permission into your privacy. I am Martian Barrister Bob N'g'w'll'ac, lawyer to the late Prince Grunthor eldest son of the late former Emperor of Mars late Warlord Xandor.
My former client late Prince Grunthor died in a plane crash in the year 2094. Upon the death of my former client and unknown to the family that is currently under house arrest and undergoing prosecution in the hands of the present administration as a result of human right violation and looting of the planet's treasury by the late head of state Warlord Xandor.
Before the death of my client he had deposited 90,000,000.00 Martian Mega-bucks with a secret security firm in two trunk boxes in my name, and I am the only authority to this fund which he was to transfer off world few days after he died in a plane crash.
This fund was deposited with the security firm in my name because my client stole this fund from the planet's treasury and he did not want anyone to know that he is associated with the fund in question not until the fund is successfully moved off world.
The security firm does not know the actual content of the trunk boxes, my client and I told them that the boxes contains old Martian artifacts to be delivered to a client off world via Interplanetary Courier Services. For now it is only you and I that is having knowledge of this fund, and the only assistance I require from you is to help me receive this fund in either Amsterdam, London or Spain depending on our country of agreement and possibly invest it abroad in your area of advice.
This fund shall be disbursed accordingly as follows: 25% for the recipient (you) from the total sum(90MMMB). 2% for the courier officer in the country where you shall receive the trunk boxes. 5% set aside from the entire sum for expenses incurred by both parties in due course of executing this transaction (home and abroad). 68% for me.
If you are not satisfied with the percentage sharing of the fund feel free to let me know. In compliance with this you are to immediately forward to me by mail the following: Your full names and address Confidential space phone and space fax numbers.
With this information I will immediately commence all necessary documentation for a successful shipment of the first trunk box to your country of choice as all the modalities have already been worked out by me. I will also give you full details of this whole transaction which I have already perfected in due course.
Please note that you are to treat this with utmost confidentiality willing or not willing to assist me in this transaction as nobody knows about this fund and I am still an active lawyer in this country.
THE CHOICE IS YOURS, IF I WERE YOU I WOULD, BECAUSE IT WILL COST YOU LITTLE OR NOTHING TO ACHIEVE THIS AND THE BENEFIT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER.
Remain blessed in the name of XENU.
Yours faithfully Martian Barrister Bob N'g'w'll'ac
IANAL, and I'm not familiar with the details of the case, but...
When a case was settled out of court and a common feature of such settlements is that the complainant agree to shut their yaps in return for a large financial settlement from the respondant. And if this was an out of court settlement, none of the material in question was ever submitted into evidence and thus never became part of the public record.
>One of the funniest, most well adjusted people I know was molested at six; it doesn't scar you for life
Hooookay. Thanks, Dr. Mephisto!
Given the screaming migraines that flourescent lights cause me, quite a bit.
I concur.
If the facts of the case are even remotely like the OP suggest, the company's lawyers would be tossed out of court and possibly be given a good dressing down by the Judge for even bringing the suit in the first place. There *has* to be something else going on here.
And just because you didn't sign anything doesn't mean that you're off the hook automatically. If there was a "meeting of the minds" at some point regarding his terms of employment, then he's in a contract, paper or no. Sure, it'll be harder to prove the terms of the contract in court, but it's hardly impossible. Suits based on verbal contracts are brought and won all the time.
IANAL. YMMV.
As in "developing it almost entirely on his own time" or "he almost did everything right" or "he almost had a case here."
Horse-shoes and hand-grenades.
Given the DoD, orientation, I was thinking more like this...
The security is this product is rated:
[ ] SNAFU
[ ] FUMTU
[ ] TARFU
[ ] FUBAR
[X] TUIFU
Recommendations: BOHICA
how long it takes for the same crew who pissed and moaned about the NSA spending their tax-dollars to help Microsoft make Vista more secure to praise this as a great usage of our time an money.
This doesn't sound like a major code review. This sounds more like the NSA tested Vista (something they were going to have to do anyway) and just let microsoft see some of the test results and give them specific guidance as to what they could do to make things more secure. All of which is something they'd probably be willing to do for Apple or any other companies that make products that are either in use or will be in use within DoD.
They did the same thing for DES back in the day, remember?
>What home user really cares if their PC takes 150W or 180W ? Nobody... Maybe not, but many home users users do care about a sleek and quiet computer like the iMac versus a fat and loud box. More power means more heat. More heat means bigger, noisier fans.
> Offtopic, but - who's up for a "no kids" airline? I'd definitely pay an extra $10 per flight to ensure there aren't any crying babies onboard. That's funny because I was just thinking that I'd be willing ot pay an extra $10 per flight to ensure that there aren't any Arabs on board.
Say person A owes person B $X. Now person A dies. Does that mean person B is screwed out of the money they were owed?
Now reverse it, say the debt is owed by B to A. Do A's heirs deserve to be screwed out of the money they're owed?
Now lets say that person A's debt is a civil liability. Say... person A was driving drunk when he hit person B, leaving B paralyzed for life and unable to work. Is B SOL because A is dead?
There are plenty of things to debate about when it comes to the RIAA, but I don't think this is one of them. Sure, there's such a thing as common human decency and whether or not I'd personally proceed with such a case depends on how much I was owed, but the legal principle involved is a fundamentally sound one I think.
IANAL.