No, its not. They interviewed a correspondent with FBI sources this morning (link). He stated that, other then resolving the purpose behind some suspicious e-mails, the FBI had no issue with the affair from a security standpoint. It was Petraeus that made a personal decision to resign. Because, as they surmised, he hadn't lived up to the same code of conduct that he expected of his employees.
Now there's the blackmail issue: If the boss gets his panties in a bunch over your personal life, it creates an opportunity for coercion by blackmail through the threat to your job. For all anyone else knows, this could be nothing more than a minor bump in your personal life (look at Clinton, for example). So this makes a good argument to keep people out of supervision roles who have codes of moral conduct that go beyond the basic requirements of the job. Petraeus' embarrassment over his own behavior and the subsequent risk this could put subordinates at carer-wise is the threat. Not the behavior itself. I say the Pentagon and all defense contractors need to clean the bible-thumpers out of management ASAP.
That fraction of 1% probably includes a lot of independent service shops (who know how to use Google). And now they will have to tell customers that their Toshiba is not repairable. The customer may never know why, but it will leave a bad taste in their mouth.
But was his wife vetted for a clearance? What if Petraeus shared secrets with her, which she in turn whispered to the pool boy?
You can go down this road quite a ways. Better to hire someone who can string a mistress along without telling her anything of value. Completing a Leykis 101 course should be mandatory for all US intelligence agents.
Don't count on it. There's a reason Microsoft chose NASDAQ and stayed off NYSE many years ago. Differing requirements for shareholder rights as a condition of listing was one of them. Insider control is very strong at MSFT.
Many countries however have have civilized laws where the company does not automatically own your work unless it was created in the normal performance of your job or on behalf of the company.
That would be stuff you did on company time and company equipment.
The system where the default assumption that everything you create belongs to the employer amounts to intellectual slavery and ought to be abolished wherever it exists.
Good luck with that. The battle being fought now is over whether the company owns what you do on your own time or not. Some enlightened jurisdictions side with employees on this one. Although non-compete company policies can still be applied. If you go home and built a better widget while your company job is building widgets, they (the company) might be able to prohibit you from marketing your invention, depending on company policies in place at the time.
I used to work for Boeing. They had (and still have?) a policy requiring the disclosure of all inventions and publications and reserving the right of first refusal. You can fight it if you want. If you can afford to spend the next decade or so in court. Washington State won't back an employee up, as Boeing is already moving engineering work out. And all they (Boeing) needs is another excuse to send work to China, Russia, or India.
No need. Most companies have a policy that what you create on company time, with company resources, belongs to the company. Its been that way since long before Al Gore invented teh Internets.
Many companies do have exceptions allowing some personal use of their network (phone system, pads of paper, etc). But the default assumption is that it belongs to the company.
It would be trivially easy to add USB/Bluetooth removable storage to the little rodent sufficient to hold all the configuration settings, drivers and whatnot that you'd even need.
Imagine if your thumb / palm / eye was worth ten million dollars to someone. In this sort of situation, it's better to implement 'somewhere you are', (Especially if that somewhere is somewhere people can look at you and confirm you are you visually.
Not always just you. Some years ago, the local media interviewed a member of Bill Gates' security team. It seems that Bill travels with minimal security. Meanwhile, his family is heavily protected. When asked why, the guard said, "Bill has to be free to visit the bank to make a withdrawal. We need to make sure his family is safe when he does so."
An anecdote: My athletic club used to participate in a state program to employ the mentally challenged. The guy who cleaned our locker room was slow. But he was a nice guy and proud to have a job that he could do, and do well. This level of pride motivated him to always do his best and, as a result, we had a fantastically clean locker room. After a while, the program was discontinued and he was replaced by (I suspect) a college student who needed some part time income. The locker room became a slimy mess and the attendant always had a bad attitude about the complaints.
So, I suppose if you have a job that involves repeated hour after hour of monotonous drudgery, knocking a few points off the old IQ might help. Pot smoking (a popular recreational drug) has been shown to impede the creation of short term memory. That might explain stoners' tolerance for doing repetitive work without complaint. It isn't so bad with long term memory, so learned skills are probably still available. Just don't count on converting much current experience (short term memory) into new learning.
Personally, if someone gives me a monotonous job, I figure its a candidate for automation. I figure out a way for the computer to do it (automated code generation from requirements documents, for example) and free up time for something challenging.
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Its only leverage for blackmail use if someone higher up the ladder of authority (Petraeus' boss or his wife) can make a damaging issue out of it.
Clinton handled his situation better than Petraeus did.
It''s about national security
No, its not. They interviewed a correspondent with FBI sources this morning (link). He stated that, other then resolving the purpose behind some suspicious e-mails, the FBI had no issue with the affair from a security standpoint. It was Petraeus that made a personal decision to resign. Because, as they surmised, he hadn't lived up to the same code of conduct that he expected of his employees.
Now there's the blackmail issue: If the boss gets his panties in a bunch over your personal life, it creates an opportunity for coercion by blackmail through the threat to your job. For all anyone else knows, this could be nothing more than a minor bump in your personal life (look at Clinton, for example). So this makes a good argument to keep people out of supervision roles who have codes of moral conduct that go beyond the basic requirements of the job. Petraeus' embarrassment over his own behavior and the subsequent risk this could put subordinates at carer-wise is the threat. Not the behavior itself. I say the Pentagon and all defense contractors need to clean the bible-thumpers out of management ASAP.
They all do.
That fraction of 1% probably includes a lot of independent service shops (who know how to use Google). And now they will have to tell customers that their Toshiba is not repairable. The customer may never know why, but it will leave a bad taste in their mouth.
But was his wife vetted for a clearance? What if Petraeus shared secrets with her, which she in turn whispered to the pool boy?
You can go down this road quite a ways. Better to hire someone who can string a mistress along without telling her anything of value. Completing a Leykis 101 course should be mandatory for all US intelligence agents.
Don't count on it. There's a reason Microsoft chose NASDAQ and stayed off NYSE many years ago. Differing requirements for shareholder rights as a condition of listing was one of them. Insider control is very strong at MSFT.
Many countries however have have civilized laws where the company does not automatically own your work unless it was created in the normal performance of your job or on behalf of the company.
That would be stuff you did on company time and company equipment.
The system where the default assumption that everything you create belongs to the employer amounts to intellectual slavery and ought to be abolished wherever it exists.
Good luck with that. The battle being fought now is over whether the company owns what you do on your own time or not. Some enlightened jurisdictions side with employees on this one. Although non-compete company policies can still be applied. If you go home and built a better widget while your company job is building widgets, they (the company) might be able to prohibit you from marketing your invention, depending on company policies in place at the time.
I used to work for Boeing. They had (and still have?) a policy requiring the disclosure of all inventions and publications and reserving the right of first refusal. You can fight it if you want. If you can afford to spend the next decade or so in court. Washington State won't back an employee up, as Boeing is already moving engineering work out. And all they (Boeing) needs is another excuse to send work to China, Russia, or India.
No need. Most companies have a policy that what you create on company time, with company resources, belongs to the company. Its been that way since long before Al Gore invented teh Internets.
Many companies do have exceptions allowing some personal use of their network (phone system, pads of paper, etc). But the default assumption is that it belongs to the company.
The police and other agencies have been doing this for decades. Google Joe McCarthy.
Why would you need to propagate mouse settings to a computer before you connect the mouse to it?
Save it inside the mouse?
It would be trivially easy to add USB/Bluetooth removable storage to the little rodent sufficient to hold all the configuration settings, drivers and whatnot that you'd even need.
Imagine if your thumb / palm / eye was worth ten million dollars to someone. In this sort of situation, it's better to implement 'somewhere you are', (Especially if that somewhere is somewhere people can look at you and confirm you are you visually.
Not always just you. Some years ago, the local media interviewed a member of Bill Gates' security team. It seems that Bill travels with minimal security. Meanwhile, his family is heavily protected. When asked why, the guard said, "Bill has to be free to visit the bank to make a withdrawal. We need to make sure his family is safe when he does so."
Sent from someone else's phone.
Credits: "We apologize for the fault in the apology. Those responsible have been sacked."
Later: " We apologize again for the fault in the apology. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked."
Like this?
Motorcycle riders usually dump their bikes in a curve, which results in the sliding across the centerline and getting hit head-on.
With bicycles, its the Idaho Stop.
An anecdote: My athletic club used to participate in a state program to employ the mentally challenged. The guy who cleaned our locker room was slow. But he was a nice guy and proud to have a job that he could do, and do well. This level of pride motivated him to always do his best and, as a result, we had a fantastically clean locker room. After a while, the program was discontinued and he was replaced by (I suspect) a college student who needed some part time income. The locker room became a slimy mess and the attendant always had a bad attitude about the complaints.
So, I suppose if you have a job that involves repeated hour after hour of monotonous drudgery, knocking a few points off the old IQ might help. Pot smoking (a popular recreational drug) has been shown to impede the creation of short term memory. That might explain stoners' tolerance for doing repetitive work without complaint. It isn't so bad with long term memory, so learned skills are probably still available. Just don't count on converting much current experience (short term memory) into new learning.
Personally, if someone gives me a monotonous job, I figure its a candidate for automation. I figure out a way for the computer to do it (automated code generation from requirements documents, for example) and free up time for something challenging.
FTFY.
But there are some openings for Slashdot editors.