This is why IP related injunctions are such bullshit in the modern economy. Patents long ago stopped protecting the small inventor and are now just used to enforce a new version of the medieval guild system. It is not possible to invent any worthwhile product or service anymore without stepping on multiple patents, many of which are legally dubious.
I agree with the Anon poster. Fix your name(s). International travel with 55-some characters in your names is just going to cause you no end of aggravation.
Thank God technology progresses faster than patent trolls otherwise nothing technological could ever be invented again. Any new device or service in the United States infringes on multiple patents, no matter how innovative it may be.
$100 says you're full of shit. Why would a TSA agent be in a social security office, and since when do they have the authority to beat people? Post a link to the news story you're talking about or it didn't happen.
It seems like a common-sense workable policy like yours is threatening to some of the IT dinosaurs on this board, who fear the loss of control. What they really fear is change - they were the same people in the early 80s fighting to keep PCs out of the office. In fact, I remember many of the exact same arguments being used (loss of central control, who will be responsible, etc).
Your argument about subpoenaing emails completely flops. If it involves emails sent to/from a company email account, they will be retrieved from the company mail server. It does not matter what kind of device is used to connect to that server or who owns it.
If the subpoena involves a personal device and a personal account, the process would be the same as it is if a company does not allow personal devices on their network. You are aware that iPhones work completely independent of a company network, right?
In short, I don't see how anything in your post pertains to the subject at hand.
Have you ever been called for jury duty? Those of us who have will no doubt have stories about the stupid idiots they saw in the jury room. I would not want these people (my "peers") making laws. In fact, I am relieved that only a small percentage of them bother to vote.
The enlightened statesman doesn't seem very enlightened, until you compare him to the truly average person.
On the contrary, the left refuses to criticize their Messiah. Notice the anti-war protests, a daily occurrence during the George W regime, stopped the day Obama took office.
The United States is not Norway. Norway does not have violent illegal immigrant gangbangers. If they did, they would have to create a real prison system.
Look what happened when there was that shooter at the kids' camp. The police did not even know how to respond.
Actually, you SHOULD ignore those kind of emails. Let the lowest-bidder incompetent outsourcing firm cause a production outage and make sure that all fingers point at them. This will get management's attention and ensure that proper change controls are put in place. Otherwise they're content to just let you work at all hours fixing the mistakes of the cheap labor.
The ACLU's unstated but strongly-fought-for mission is to undermine civilized society at every turn. They fight against an orderly society in every way possible, especially anything law-enforcement related.
If it were up to the ACLU, terrorists could attack us anytime because there would be no security measures of any kind lest someone become offended. The ACLU types would then blame the government for not protecting us from the attack, as they did with Bush after 9/11.
If anyone could be absolved of all legal liability just by getting the other party to sign a waiver, then why does nearly every business in existence have a general liability insurance policy?
Why do doctors pay a ton of money for malpractice insurance when they could instead make their patients sign a waiver?
Drafting a liability release form is one thing - having it hold up in court is quite another.
Lots of IT morons think this. I've met plenty. The devices in question are secured by major vendor software with numerous well-documented hacks. But this makes the morons feel safe enough to put client data on them.
Don't secure the device - secure the data. Truly sensitive data should not exist on a portable device. It should be kept on a server and made available by display only to the remote device. As soon as the network connection is broken, no more access to the data unless the network itself is hacked.
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This is why IP related injunctions are such bullshit in the modern economy. Patents long ago stopped protecting the small inventor and are now just used to enforce a new version of the medieval guild system. It is not possible to invent any worthwhile product or service anymore without stepping on multiple patents, many of which are legally dubious.
You are a stroke.
You really think there should be a law against poaching employees? What are you, a communist?
Unions fought for the common man - 100 years ago. All they do today is take workers money and make the union leadership rich.
I agree with the Anon poster. Fix your name(s). International travel with 55-some characters in your names is just going to cause you no end of aggravation.
Urban legend.
Are we in fact trying to homogenize our young into a consistent state of profound stupidity? Is that now the goal of public education?
Yes. Why else would Obama's boy Arne Duncan have been appointed to federal office?
So set up a fake account. Goddamn, are you that unresourceful?
Thank God technology progresses faster than patent trolls otherwise nothing technological could ever be invented again. Any new device or service in the United States infringes on multiple patents, no matter how innovative it may be.
There's no evidence of this.
$100 says you're full of shit. Why would a TSA agent be in a social security office, and since when do they have the authority to beat people? Post a link to the news story you're talking about or it didn't happen.
Back it up externally, just to be sure. Possession is 9/10ths of the law.
It seems like a common-sense workable policy like yours is threatening to some of the IT dinosaurs on this board, who fear the loss of control. What they really fear is change - they were the same people in the early 80s fighting to keep PCs out of the office. In fact, I remember many of the exact same arguments being used (loss of central control, who will be responsible, etc).
Your argument about subpoenaing emails completely flops. If it involves emails sent to/from a company email account, they will be retrieved from the company mail server. It does not matter what kind of device is used to connect to that server or who owns it.
If the subpoena involves a personal device and a personal account, the process would be the same as it is if a company does not allow personal devices on their network. You are aware that iPhones work completely independent of a company network, right?
In short, I don't see how anything in your post pertains to the subject at hand.
Have you ever been called for jury duty? Those of us who have will no doubt have stories about the stupid idiots they saw in the jury room. I would not want these people (my "peers") making laws. In fact, I am relieved that only a small percentage of them bother to vote.
The enlightened statesman doesn't seem very enlightened, until you compare him to the truly average person.
Exaggerate much?
On the contrary, the left refuses to criticize their Messiah. Notice the anti-war protests, a daily occurrence during the George W regime, stopped the day Obama took office.
LOL. The Best Buy Geek (hah) Squad is kind of like the lottery. It's sole purpose is to separate the stupid from their money.
A company only needs a CEO and a director of marketing. Everyone else is profit-stealing overhead.
The United States is not Norway. Norway does not have violent illegal immigrant gangbangers. If they did, they would have to create a real prison system.
Look what happened when there was that shooter at the kids' camp. The police did not even know how to respond.
That is certainly what radio stations are trying. Every station is becoming either news/talk radio or soccer-mom FM.
Actually, you SHOULD ignore those kind of emails. Let the lowest-bidder incompetent outsourcing firm cause a production outage and make sure that all fingers point at them. This will get management's attention and ensure that proper change controls are put in place. Otherwise they're content to just let you work at all hours fixing the mistakes of the cheap labor.
The ACLU's unstated but strongly-fought-for mission is to undermine civilized society at every turn. They fight against an orderly society in every way possible, especially anything law-enforcement related.
If it were up to the ACLU, terrorists could attack us anytime because there would be no security measures of any kind lest someone become offended. The ACLU types would then blame the government for not protecting us from the attack, as they did with Bush after 9/11.
If anyone could be absolved of all legal liability just by getting the other party to sign a waiver, then why does nearly every business in existence have a general liability insurance policy?
Why do doctors pay a ton of money for malpractice insurance when they could instead make their patients sign a waiver?
Drafting a liability release form is one thing - having it hold up in court is quite another.
Lots of IT morons think this. I've met plenty. The devices in question are secured by major vendor software with numerous well-documented hacks. But this makes the morons feel safe enough to put client data on them.
Don't secure the device - secure the data. Truly sensitive data should not exist on a portable device. It should be kept on a server and made available by display only to the remote device. As soon as the network connection is broken, no more access to the data unless the network itself is hacked.