Traffic-Power.com said in the suit that confidential information about the company has been published on the blog, and it accused Mr. Wall of publishing "false and defamatory information," but it didn't identify any of the material in question.
So which is it? Is it accurate confidential information, or is it false, meaning that it doesn't spill company secrets? Judicial estoppal says you can't argue both sides of a case.
And while we're at it, just what makes information "confidential". Can you own an idea simply by claiming it's your confiddential information or trade secret? What has happened to patients and copyrights?
'Lee's conduct threatens to disclose or Lee inevitably will disclose Microsoft's trade secrets to Google and/or others for his and/or Google's financial gain in the course of working to improve Google search products that compete with Microsoft, and in the course of establishing and building Google's presence in China to compete with Microsoft's efforts in China.'
He hasn't done it yet.
He may never do it.
But because he could possibly do it sometime in the unknowable future he's screwed now for life for working for any company other than the one he just left.
I think it's becoming time to put the shoe on the other foot. Employees need to have their employers sign a no-sue agreement in the event they change jobs ensuring that said employer has no control over an employees employment prospects once they leave the company. IANAL, however it would be nice to see a lawyer create and put up such a sample agreement.
When will this work? The next time the job market becomes tight in tech.
forgetting to empty recycle bin and wiping disk before returning company computer?
Does Google really want to hire someone this stupid?
Alternatively, this sounds like a red herring on Microsoft's part. If they want to know what mail Dr. Lee received, just get it out of their Exchange servers. They probably don't want to admit that they already do this.
toughen the polymer into a product they call RXF1 which is 'even stronger and lighter than aluminum'
It would be more useful to be building cars out of this.
Turn you over to shake out that last penny
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iTunes Might Lose Labels
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A sore point for some music executives is the fact that Apple generates much more money selling iPod players than it does as a digital music retailer, leading to complaints that Mr. Jobs is profiting more from tracks downloaded to fill the 21 million iPods sold so far than are the labels that produced the recordings.
At the price of 99 cents a song, the share of the major labels is about 70 cents
Apple needs to get their profits from the iPod, since most of the 99 cents is already going back to the record companies. What's so hard about this for the NYT to understand?
The other main battleground in Apple's coming confrontation with the industry has to do with "interoperability" of services and devices. Mr. Jobs has so far refused to make the iTunes software compatible with music players from other manufacturers, and he has prevented the iPod from accepting music sold from competing services that use a Microsoft-designed music format. As a result, songs purchased from Napster, for example, will not play on an iPod.
Ah, now we know the real reason why Sony is unhappy. Won't play on Sony players either.
However, if all that happens is that they turn the interface into a clone of PhotoShop's then the developers will be doing the Gimp (and us) a disservice.
That is so wrong an attitude. It's elitest, and unproductive.
Having a highly similar to virtually identical interface for two programs that perform the same function would be a Godsend for anyone who ever has to use both of them. Unless you can clearly demonstrate why GIMP's interface is significantly superior to PS, you have no argument that just because you like the current GIMP UI, that there wouldn't be an important advantage to more commonality between programs that perform the same functions. Even naming the tools and layer effects the same is greatly useful. And this is not to flame either GIMP, or PS.
Of course, with Look and Feel lawsuits not forgotten, such common sense is unlikely.
The usability feature I most miss in GIMP verses Photoshop -- if it's there, I haven't found it -- is the ability to modify a rectangular selection by dragging any side or corner after the selection is first established. I use it in PS all the time to fine tune my selection, and if it's in GIMP it wasn't obvious to a search.
I don't mind looking like a GIMP idiot if someone points out to me where I've so obviously missed this useful feature.
'The system monitors the number of external connections being made and if a higher network activity is detected, the computer is disconnected to prevent the infection of further machines on the network.
If Google is like Microsoft in the early days, can their stock continue to grow like Microsoft in the early days?
If so, I'll hold on to it until the government sues them for monopoly practices, NASDAQ hits 5,000 again, and the third time it is speculated that this Friday will be the one where the judge will release his Findings of Fact.
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The only rogue IP space is that in the hands of the **AA and their cronies. And for that, there's Peer Guardian.
So which is it? Is it accurate confidential information, or is it false, meaning that it doesn't spill company secrets? Judicial estoppal says you can't argue both sides of a case.
And while we're at it, just what makes information "confidential". Can you own an idea simply by claiming it's your confiddential information or trade secret? What has happened to patients and copyrights?
Freedom of Speech is not free. It's costs are measured by the expenses of defending it.
Revenge of the RIAA!
What about Citizen's Band?
Does it also mean that unpublished scientific papers are right 50% of the time?
Now if they can just make it taste like chocolate!
Having the Google Toolbar installed on his Microsoft Internet Explorer.
He hasn't done it yet.
He may never do it.
But because he could possibly do it sometime in the unknowable future he's screwed now for life for working for any company other than the one he just left.
It's called: Trying to prove a negative.
When will this work? The next time the job market becomes tight in tech.
Does Google really want to hire someone this stupid?
Alternatively, this sounds like a red herring on Microsoft's part. If they want to know what mail Dr. Lee received, just get it out of their Exchange servers. They probably don't want to admit that they already do this.
It would be more useful to be building cars out of this.
At the price of 99 cents a song, the share of the major labels is about 70 cents
Apple needs to get their profits from the iPod, since most of the 99 cents is already going back to the record companies. What's so hard about this for the NYT to understand?
The other main battleground in Apple's coming confrontation with the industry has to do with "interoperability" of services and devices. Mr. Jobs has so far refused to make the iTunes software compatible with music players from other manufacturers, and he has prevented the iPod from accepting music sold from competing services that use a Microsoft-designed music format. As a result, songs purchased from Napster, for example, will not play on an iPod.
Ah, now we know the real reason why Sony is unhappy. Won't play on Sony players either.
New iTunes songs: $1.49
Kazaa: Free
Sticking it to the screw-the-buyer record companies once again: PRICELESS!
That is so wrong an attitude. It's elitest, and unproductive.
Having a highly similar to virtually identical interface for two programs that perform the same function would be a Godsend for anyone who ever has to use both of them. Unless you can clearly demonstrate why GIMP's interface is significantly superior to PS, you have no argument that just because you like the current GIMP UI, that there wouldn't be an important advantage to more commonality between programs that perform the same functions. Even naming the tools and layer effects the same is greatly useful. And this is not to flame either GIMP, or PS.
Of course, with Look and Feel lawsuits not forgotten, such common sense is unlikely.
I don't mind looking like a GIMP idiot if someone points out to me where I've so obviously missed this useful feature.
Say goodbye to P2P and BT.
Not according to the Microsoft spell checker.
However, Google found 9,910 uses of it!
And are you regularly deleting your cookies that would tell it you've already heard this message? :^)
So how do I add voice to this /. post?
Uninstalls Outlook Express and OE
Sets FF and TB icons to resemble IE and OE for clueless users.
Deletes itself.
Hope that includes torture.
So where are these images? How can we judge if we don't STFI (See The Free Images)?
If so, I'll hold on to it until the government sues them for monopoly practices, NASDAQ hits 5,000 again, and the third time it is speculated that this Friday will be the one where the judge will release his Findings of Fact.
Then I'll short the heck out of them!
Will this improve their Performance/Watt rating?