That seems overly broad. My phone number is in my employer's phone directory, stored on a company server. Does my employer own my phone number, then? HR has my résumé in both electronic form and hard copy. Think they'll mind if I borrow it for a bit if I decide to search for a new job? And suppose I find a new job... will I have wrongfully transferred company data to a competitor by showing them my salary history?
They own the data and the ability to use the data as they wish. They don't own the copyright on your resume and your phone number still belongs to you (the phone company in all actuallity.) So they can't stop you from passing out your resume or using your phone.
The point is that any data of any kind even if it was created by the employee for the employee's own use, was at one point on a company owned resource (the laptop), and hence owned by the company.
The destruction of that data was willfull.
That is what the lawsuit is about. While a judgement against the employee on non-compete grounds would help any further suits including vandalism, it is not necessary. All they have to prove is that there was data on the lappy and it was deleted.
The previous picture contains nudity. Now, if your boss doesn't mind such things. Go right on ahead and click.
Unfortunately, this kind of thing can get a person like me fired.
Really! Most teachers I know have plenty of time during the summer to golf and spend time at their summer house (Yes, I said summer house!) during the summer, and well into the school year.
The school district I worked in was one big babysitting service (my son came home, bored from watching movies in class instead of being taught litterally 2 or 3 days out of the week! and this is kindergarten!) and the teachers can't even babysit the kids correctly. The computers were constantly vandalized. I've had hard drives and video cards stolen right under the teacher's noses.
While it's true that there's a diciplinary issue in the schools, there's still alot of room for improvement in many classrooms. The good teachers have control over the classrooms and the kids learn in them.
The point is when a teacher decides to throw in the towel and doesn't care anymore, there is no way to discipline or fire them for not performing. Many teachers take advantage of the tenure/union system and will blow off their last 10 or 20 years till they hit retirement.
And you can't tell me teachers that don't care don't exist. When we blocked webgames, several teachers protested that they need them for after the kids finish their work. The truth was they needed them to keep the kids occupied while so they can more effectively ignore them. It might be the beginning of class and three quarters of the are playing games.
I would hazard to guess that for every good teacher at that school there were at least two or three horrible ones.
My boss was married to a teacher and admitted that a teachers job is the skate way to go. So much so that his son with an Engineering degree gave up engineering to become a teacher because it was the easy way to go. He may have made more money in engineering but it didn't matter to him.
Next, in college who had the easiest class schedule? I think the pecking order was Engineering/Sciences and then the Business people and finally at the bottom of the barrel were the Education and Phys Ed Majors.
And yes they have to be certified, and they do have to keep their certifications up, but in the district I was in, inservice days were provided where the school would bring in trainers to provide seminars (at the district's expense, I might add) to satisfy the certification requirements. And the teachers were paid for comming in that day!
Now in my departement there we were expected to pay for our own certifications and study on our own, read upaid, time and pay for our own study guides and resources.
The teachers may start out at $30K and below, but once they get their tenure it increases significantly and steadily from there. A teacher who has been in the union for 30 years or so could easily expect to be paid $55K plus.
And I don't know where you come from, and it may not be CIO salary, but that's still damn good money.
Finally, if the the pay were lower the ones becoming teachers would be the ones that want to be teachers. As it is, teaching offers a decent salary and plenty of time off.
As it stands the teaching profession is extremely attractive to slackers. I'm not completely opposed to paying teachers more. I think making school year round and including more business-traditional hollidays (an extra day on the weekends for most hollidays and maybe 3 days for christmas.), and then giving teachers vacation days, just like normal business would fix almost all of education's problems. Then they could pay teachers what they're worth.
Yes, I agree six hours a day, 280 days a year is way too much for $40,000- $60,000 a year.
Most high school and middle school teachers get planning time during the day! At the school where I worked they received 2 hours of planning time a day, and only worked 7 hour days (planning time included.) Most of the time in the classrooms the teachers weren't actively teaching. Either the kids were silently reading/doing homework or they were watching a video (this happens more often than the public thinks.) That should give them more time to grade tests and papers, and if they went home and spent another hour or two on paper grading and planning (most of the time the teachers used the same lesson plans year to year) that's only 8 or 9 hours of actual work.
And then they have the summer off and at least a week or two for every major holiday.
As far as compensation goes they get awesome medical/dental/vision coverage and an excellent retirement plan.
Add to that, the protection of a strong union. They are damn near impossible to fire for just about any cause. Think back to how many shitty teachers you had in high school. How many businesses would keep around ineffectual workers? It's because once they get tenure (Why the F*** do public school teachers need tenure anyway. It's not like they're doing controversial research. Which is the real reason for tenure.)
And for all of this they top out around $62K? I think they're getting a bargain, and we're paying teachers too much.
Linux zealots, like me, prefer source code for several reasons.
1.) If something is wrong with the driver it can be tweeked or fixed, even well after the manufacturer has officially closed support for it.
2.) I can compile the driver on any system I'm on and it will work. Whether it be ppc, sun, X86. Too many times, I've been working on a ppc variant of Linux and was unable to install or use some functionality, because the driver or program was compiled only and supported only on X86 hardware.
3.) When a program is compiled, it can be tweeked to run faster than a generic build from the manufacturer.
4.) It's about having power over your own computer, and not giving up control and trust over it to someone else.
I never said the decision to go to war in Iraq had anything to do with protection, nor did I say we should be in Iraq in any way! What I did say is that our military is a deterrent force.
Actually you said the reason for the military is:
"How ironic that the real reason for the US military force is to ensure people like you have a voice and the ability to express your opinions."
or in other words they protect our freedoms, and this:
"No, they aren't "almost all" in Iraq. Their existence keeps other armies/countries from attacking us."
So another of your reasons is deterance.
The problem is having the military invade Iraq neither protects our freedoms or is/was a deterent. (Hints: They didn't have WMDs, and the WTC terrorists were mostly from Saudi Arabia.)
Yet you claim that these are the reasons for the military's existance.
Either you can claim that Iraq has nothing to do with protection and neither does the military, or you can claim that the reason for the military has everything to do with protection and (by some unfathomable logic) so does the invasion of Iraq.
And Dvorak never said that Avalance is FUD. He said there seems to be a lot of negative spreading press about Bittorent at the same time that Microsoft's new project Avalance has be *leaked* to the press.
Frankly, I tend to agree with it. It does look like a textbook Microsoft FUDjob.
On a somewhat related note. Has anyone else noticed an increase in Pro-Microsoft sentiment on Slashdot? Has M$ infiltrated our ranks to spread FUD and astroturf Slashdot?
Man even Google doesn't have close-in satelite imagery of the place.
It's like the porn channel on cable and nobody has a subscription.
You cross a line an you go from crystal clear images to scrambled at the edges and then it changes to
"We're sorry, but we don't
have information at this zoom
level for this region.
Try zooming out for a broader look."
Where does Google get their images from and how powerful are these people that they get their area wiped off of the map?
My letter sent to Daniel Lyons a Senior Editor (see how high this goes up) at Forbes and the author of all these Linux nastygrams:
You seem to have a rather large bias against Linux.
Why is that?
Why is it that Linux should get under your skin so much?
Is it that companies that switch to Linux gain competitive advantage and hence make more money?
No, it can't be. Forbes, is a magazine devoted to greed.
I think it's a devotion to suck up to your advertisers e.g. Microsoft. I suppose I can't judge you
too harshly since the advertisers are the magazine's bread and butter. What is journalistic integrity in
comparison to money?
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What kind of FUD is this?
Astroturf isn't going to be unanswered on my Slashdot!
Make no mistake. This is a stunt, and I'm not going to stand for it!
M$ doesn't really care about security, and if they didn't have Linux and Firefox breathing down their neck their security record would keep getting worse.
Mark my words M$ products will continue to writhe in the secuurity dumps, because they are a closed source company at the end of their upgrade rope. They can't even get ppl to switch to XP! How the heck are they going to get ppl to switch to Longhorn?
I'll tell you how. By heaping on pointless features and adding cruft, and blathering on about how important the new widget is. That's the only way to sell the next generation OS and office suite.
But while M$ continues to rebuild much of their code from scratch (and introduce plenty of new bugs and security flaws in the process), Linux and BSD will continue to build upon stable code bases and will only become more stable.
From here on in the Cathedral model of OS development is going to fail them.
Onward LINUX soldiers!
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I've noticed, that over the past year or more that various OSS celebs have one by one have been dragged through the mud.
Now, I've never met RMS and maybe he's said some stupid things so I can't really say one way or another.
But within OSS circles now ESR is largely considered an ass, and I really don't get it. I've met him, he's very nice and well spoken. Yes, he's loud about what he believes in, and I don't always agree with what he has to say, but we're all in this together and we need to circle the freaking wagons.
Also, recently I've seen Linus Torvalds get smeared. Does anyone else detect a pattern?
Now put on your tin foil hats ppl, because this one is doozy!
Maybe, this a M$ smear/fud/pr astroturf campaign!
It makes complete sense. They can't attack OSS on price, quality and features. So they attempt an Ad Homineim attack on the most visible OS proponents.
This is not good. I don't care what you think about the rest of the OSS communities' political views, but we are all reading from the same page regarding OSS. Let's stop this stupid PETTY infighting and get back to promoting what we believe in.
Wouldn't we then be rewarding the wrong behavior, e.g. More bugs = more $$
Seems like a perpetual bug creating system to me.
I might understand bounties for particularily tough programming challenges, but not for everyday bugs.
Besides, once a price is set for open source coding, who's going to do it for free anymore?
Paying money for everyday OS coding is switching the carrot, which has dire consequences.
Open source works because the people who code do so, because the want to. Put a price tag on that and it does weird things to peoples brains. Basically, it changes the game.
There was a psyc study about this kind of thing I think it was paying for grades or something, and the students lost interest once they figured out that it wasn't worth their while monetarily-wise and they stopped caring.
When I volunteer for something, often times I find myself working harder and with more dedication than at work. I think the same thing happens with OS.
Hey but it sounds like an awesome idea to kill off open source and it's ideals once and for all!
HEY! I have ADD and while at an early age I despised the geneology/etc, upon re-reading the books recently, I thoroughly enjoyed the books in their entirety.
Chalk one up for Tolkien, ADD medicine, and maturity each!
Where the flip do you live and shop?
I just paid $1.49 a pound for boneless, skinless chicken breast, and while that's somewhat uncommon. It does happen to go on sale like that every 3-6 months or so.
Actually, it's funny that you mention that. The original name of the family that started Smuckers was Smokers, but for some reason they didn't think "Smoker's Jelly" would sell very well.
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Indeed, Coca-Cola was so named for containing cocoa - a cocaine product.
I think you meant coca.
Cocoa is processed cocao beans, and the major component of chocolate.
The leaves of the coca plant is the major constituent of the concentrated drug cocaine.
Prohibition wasn't necessarily only about getting rid of alchohol.
There were also major women's sufferage and anti-Catholic components of the Prohibition movement.
Hilf on why he jumped ship from IBM to work at M$,
"Microsoft offers me the opportunity to work with extremely smart people,..."
Ouch! Was that on purpose?
From the second article:
The windmill was invented in 634 for a Persian caliph and was used to grind corn and draw up water for irrigation.
Wow! That's a neat trick. They were grinding corn almost 1000 years before westerners had first visited the new world and brought corn back with them.
That explains middle eastern tortillas!
That seems overly broad. My phone number is in my employer's phone directory, stored on a company server. Does my employer own my phone number, then? HR has my résumé in both electronic form and hard copy. Think they'll mind if I borrow it for a bit if I decide to search for a new job? And suppose I find a new job... will I have wrongfully transferred company data to a competitor by showing them my salary history?
They own the data and the ability to use the data as they wish. They don't own the copyright on your resume and your phone number still belongs to you (the phone company in all actuallity.) So they can't stop you from passing out your resume or using your phone.
The point is that any data of any kind even if it was created by the employee for the employee's own use, was at one point on a company owned resource (the laptop), and hence owned by the company.
The destruction of that data was willfull.
That is what the lawsuit is about. While a judgement against the employee on non-compete grounds would help any further suits including vandalism, it is not necessary. All they have to prove is that there was data on the lappy and it was deleted.
The previous picture contains nudity. Now, if your boss doesn't mind such things. Go right on ahead and click. Unfortunately, this kind of thing can get a person like me fired.
Actually, we may be decreasing actual longevity in replacement of longer/later fertility.
Being fertile longer submits the body many hazards inluding increased risk of cancer and heart problems. Not to mention the accellerated aging.
Really! Most teachers I know have plenty of time during the summer to golf and spend time at their summer house (Yes, I said summer house!) during the summer, and well into the school year. The school district I worked in was one big babysitting service (my son came home, bored from watching movies in class instead of being taught litterally 2 or 3 days out of the week! and this is kindergarten!) and the teachers can't even babysit the kids correctly. The computers were constantly vandalized. I've had hard drives and video cards stolen right under the teacher's noses. While it's true that there's a diciplinary issue in the schools, there's still alot of room for improvement in many classrooms. The good teachers have control over the classrooms and the kids learn in them. The point is when a teacher decides to throw in the towel and doesn't care anymore, there is no way to discipline or fire them for not performing. Many teachers take advantage of the tenure/union system and will blow off their last 10 or 20 years till they hit retirement. And you can't tell me teachers that don't care don't exist. When we blocked webgames, several teachers protested that they need them for after the kids finish their work. The truth was they needed them to keep the kids occupied while so they can more effectively ignore them. It might be the beginning of class and three quarters of the are playing games. I would hazard to guess that for every good teacher at that school there were at least two or three horrible ones. My boss was married to a teacher and admitted that a teachers job is the skate way to go. So much so that his son with an Engineering degree gave up engineering to become a teacher because it was the easy way to go. He may have made more money in engineering but it didn't matter to him. Next, in college who had the easiest class schedule? I think the pecking order was Engineering /Sciences and then the Business people and finally at the bottom of the barrel were the Education and Phys Ed Majors.
And yes they have to be certified, and they do have to keep their certifications up, but in the district I was in, inservice days were provided where the school would bring in trainers to provide seminars (at the district's expense, I might add) to satisfy the certification requirements. And the teachers were paid for comming in that day!
Now in my departement there we were expected to pay for our own certifications and study on our own, read upaid, time and pay for our own study guides and resources.
The teachers may start out at $30K and below, but once they get their tenure it increases significantly and steadily from there. A teacher who has been in the union for 30 years or so could easily expect to be paid $55K plus.
And I don't know where you come from, and it may not be CIO salary, but that's still damn good money.
Finally, if the the pay were lower the ones becoming teachers would be the ones that want to be teachers. As it is, teaching offers a decent salary and plenty of time off.
As it stands the teaching profession is extremely attractive to slackers. I'm not completely opposed to paying teachers more. I think making school year round and including more business-traditional hollidays (an extra day on the weekends for most hollidays and maybe 3 days for christmas.), and then giving teachers vacation days, just like normal business would fix almost all of education's problems. Then they could pay teachers what they're worth.
Yes, I agree six hours a day, 280 days a year is way too much for $40,000- $60,000 a year.
Most high school and middle school teachers get planning time during the day! At the school where I worked they received 2 hours of planning time a day, and only worked 7 hour days (planning time included.) Most of the time in the classrooms the teachers weren't actively teaching. Either the kids were silently reading/doing homework or they were watching a video (this happens more often than the public thinks.) That should give them more time to grade tests and papers, and if they went home and spent another hour or two on paper grading and planning (most of the time the teachers used the same lesson plans year to year) that's only 8 or 9 hours of actual work.
And then they have the summer off and at least a week or two for every major holiday.
As far as compensation goes they get awesome medical/dental/vision coverage and an excellent retirement plan.
Add to that, the protection of a strong union. They are damn near impossible to fire for just about any cause. Think back to how many shitty teachers you had in high school. How many businesses would keep around ineffectual workers? It's because once they get tenure (Why the F*** do public school teachers need tenure anyway. It's not like they're doing controversial research. Which is the real reason for tenure.)
And for all of this they top out around $62K? I think they're getting a bargain, and we're paying teachers too much.
Linux zealots, like me, prefer source code for several reasons.
1.) If something is wrong with the driver it can be tweeked or fixed, even well after the manufacturer has officially closed support for it.
2.) I can compile the driver on any system I'm on and it will work. Whether it be ppc, sun, X86. Too many times, I've been working on a ppc variant of Linux and was unable to install or use some functionality, because the driver or program was compiled only and supported only on X86 hardware.
3.) When a program is compiled, it can be tweeked to run faster than a generic build from the manufacturer.
4.) It's about having power over your own computer, and not giving up control and trust over it to someone else.
Oops
So he did.
Wow, I thought the same thing when I read the reviewer's name. That's gotta be a made up name.
So we're probably the only two people in the world to have read Tao Zero.
He's great author and knows his stuff.
I never said the decision to go to war in Iraq had anything to do with protection, nor did I say we should be in Iraq in any way! What I did say is that our military is a deterrent force.
Actually you said the reason for the military is:
"How ironic that the real reason for the US military force is to ensure people like you have a voice and the ability to express your opinions."
or in other words they protect our freedoms, and this:
"No, they aren't "almost all" in Iraq. Their existence keeps other armies/countries from attacking us."
So another of your reasons is deterance.
The problem is having the military invade Iraq neither protects our freedoms or is/was a deterent. (Hints: They didn't have WMDs, and the WTC terrorists were mostly from Saudi Arabia.)
Yet you claim that these are the reasons for the military's existance.
Either you can claim that Iraq has nothing to do with protection and neither does the military, or you can claim that the reason for the military has everything to do with protection and (by some unfathomable logic) so does the invasion of Iraq.
You can't logically claim both.
And Dvorak never said that Avalance is FUD. He said there seems to be a lot of negative spreading press about Bittorent at the same time that Microsoft's new project Avalance has be *leaked* to the press.
Frankly, I tend to agree with it. It does look like a textbook Microsoft FUDjob.
On a somewhat related note. Has anyone else noticed an increase in Pro-Microsoft sentiment on Slashdot? Has M$ infiltrated our ranks to spread FUD and astroturf Slashdot?
Man even Google doesn't have close-in satelite imagery of the place.
It's like the porn channel on cable and nobody has a subscription. You cross a line an you go from crystal clear images to scrambled at the edges and then it changes to
"We're sorry, but we don't
have information at this zoom
level for this region.
Try zooming out for a broader look."
Where does Google get their images from and how powerful are these people that they get their area wiped off of the map?
My letter sent to Daniel Lyons a Senior Editor (see how high this goes up) at Forbes and the author of all these Linux nastygrams:
You seem to have a rather large bias against Linux.
Why is that?
Why is it that Linux should get under your skin so much?
Is it that companies that switch to Linux gain competitive advantage and hence make more money? No, it can't be. Forbes, is a magazine devoted to greed.
I think it's a devotion to suck up to your advertisers e.g. Microsoft. I suppose I can't judge you too harshly since the advertisers are the magazine's bread and butter. What is journalistic integrity in comparison to money?
Simply put I think Forbes has a teensy little bias.
From the other Linux related stories box on the page:
Wind River Gets Smart
Peace, Love and Paychecks
Linux Scare Tactics
Kill Bill
Linux Loyalists Leery
Linux's Hit Men
IBM Refuses To Indemnify Linux Users
Red Hat's Mad Matt Vs. Humongous SCO Lawsuit
IBM Takes Linux To A New Level
Why You Won't Be Getting A Linux PC
The Limitations Of Linux
PeopleSoft Jumps On The Linux Train
The Cult Of Linux
Honestly, Forbes obviously is FUD central when it comes to Linux.
Troll?
I thought it was rather funny.
What kind of FUD is this?
Astroturf isn't going to be unanswered on my Slashdot!
Make no mistake. This is a stunt, and I'm not going to stand for it!
M$ doesn't really care about security, and if they didn't have Linux and Firefox breathing down their neck their security record would keep getting worse.
Mark my words M$ products will continue to writhe in the secuurity dumps, because they are a closed source company at the end of their upgrade rope. They can't even get ppl to switch to XP! How the heck are they going to get ppl to switch to Longhorn?
I'll tell you how. By heaping on pointless features and adding cruft, and blathering on about how important the new widget is. That's the only way to sell the next generation OS and office suite.
But while M$ continues to rebuild much of their code from scratch (and introduce plenty of new bugs and security flaws in the process), Linux and BSD will continue to build upon stable code bases and will only become more stable.
From here on in the Cathedral model of OS development is going to fail them.
Onward LINUX soldiers!
I've noticed, that over the past year or more that various OSS celebs have one by one have been dragged through the mud.
Now, I've never met RMS and maybe he's said some stupid things so I can't really say one way or another.
But within OSS circles now ESR is largely considered an ass, and I really don't get it. I've met him, he's very nice and well spoken. Yes, he's loud about what he believes in, and I don't always agree with what he has to say, but we're all in this together and we need to circle the freaking wagons.
Also, recently I've seen Linus Torvalds get smeared. Does anyone else detect a pattern?
Now put on your tin foil hats ppl, because this one is doozy!
Maybe, this a M$ smear/fud/pr astroturf campaign!
It makes complete sense. They can't attack OSS on price, quality and features. So they attempt an Ad Homineim attack on the most visible OS proponents.
This is not good. I don't care what you think about the rest of the OSS communities' political views, but we are all reading from the same page regarding OSS. Let's stop this stupid PETTY infighting and get back to promoting what we believe in.
Wouldn't we then be rewarding the wrong behavior, e.g. More bugs = more $$
Seems like a perpetual bug creating system to me.
I might understand bounties for particularily tough programming challenges, but not for everyday bugs.
Besides, once a price is set for open source coding, who's going to do it for free anymore?
Paying money for everyday OS coding is switching the carrot, which has dire consequences.
Open source works because the people who code do so, because the want to. Put a price tag on that and it does weird things to peoples brains. Basically, it changes the game.
There was a psyc study about this kind of thing I think it was paying for grades or something, and the students lost interest once they figured out that it wasn't worth their while monetarily-wise and they stopped caring.
When I volunteer for something, often times I find myself working harder and with more dedication than at work. I think the same thing happens with OS.
Hey but it sounds like an awesome idea to kill off open source and it's ideals once and for all!
Bad idea, all around.
HEY! I have ADD and while at an early age I despised the geneology/etc, upon re-reading the books recently, I thoroughly enjoyed the books in their entirety.
Chalk one up for Tolkien, ADD medicine, and maturity each!
Where the flip do you live and shop? I just paid $1.49 a pound for boneless, skinless chicken breast, and while that's somewhat uncommon. It does happen to go on sale like that every 3-6 months or so.
It must be cheap to live in SE MI.
Actually, it's funny that you mention that. The original name of the family that started Smuckers was Smokers, but for some reason they didn't think "Smoker's Jelly" would sell very well.
I wonder why. *HACK* *COUGH* *SPIT* Yummmm!!!