I don't know how big your company is, but if you have the IT dept behind you on this, can you arrange a meeting of your IT director, you, and the legal manager? Your role will be to sit silently unless there is a specific point of fact that the director is in error on, at which point you quietly tell him the correction. Your goal should only be to say: I want to help you guys get the bad guys because: 1) I love it here and don't want to leave. & 2) These guys are hurting me as much as they are hurting the company by using my name fraudulently, much like they are typo squatting on the company's name.
Also, I posted earlier to get a lawyer, the best way to do this is to ask the local law school for a referral, they will get you in touch with a specialist in this area of law, likely an alumni, who very well make take the case on a pro-bono or at least a reduced cost if all your looking to do is defend yourself and your good name (as opposed to a countersuit, at which point if there is money to be made they will want a cut). -nB
CCing your boss on everything will not save your ass (it can help, but only if your boss has not made up his/her mind already). Your solution is technically possible, but is not a guarantee to work, as he doesn't have all the log in information for the domain registrar, and/or the registrar likely could give (<) a shit.
Anyway, I am in the lawyer camp. I was in a totally different aside from employment related issue (I was looking to sue my employer for hostile environment) I was able to meet with a competent lawyer for about 30 min, lay out my case, and get sound advice, totally free... Advice that cost the lawyer money to give me:
Don't sue. If you do you will win (and I'll take it on contingency), but you will also need to find a new line of work. If you love what you do then file a formal complaint with HR and let it die on the vine in the office, because once this goes to court your name will be known as a litigant in your industry and no one is required to give you a job.
My point to tomhudson being that not all lawyers are self serving greedy assholes (though the ones that are give everyone else the bad name).
Now in the OP situation he is trying to mount a defense of his good name, I would expect that a lawyer would charge you, but I would find one that would charge a reasonable amount, and would be capable of mounting a counter suit for slander/libel/unfair dismissal should things go sideways.
FWIW (one person does not a sample set make): I use facebook ~ 10 to 20 min/week. Usually only 1 visit a week. I use iGoogle about half an hour a day or more: */. RSS feed * Comics RSS feed * Stock widget * Quotes of the day * Bash.org latest quotes (WTF, no updates for a while) * Web Hosting status RSS * Analytics RSS * Google Docs periodically.
I thought the same thing about the DRM part. This is the only 'good' use I've seen yet. I particularly like that it is automatic return from loan, that I don't have to drive to the library to return the books. -nB
Often these drivers connect to registers in the hardware that are *not* public knowledge. In the case of WiFi and other "firmware" radios the driver often contains DSP code that would normally be in Si but is now in loadable firmware, thus the manufacturers want to keep that a secret. -nB
I don't know if I think you're being overly sensitive or not. Please understand I *do not* have the same experience as you and so am woefully uninformed about it. One of my gay friends has described me as the gayest obviously straight guy he knows (still don't know what that means...) so there is the frame of reference I'm coming from.
Anyway I have a question for you: At my work we have a few transgender folks, some more feminine than others (one sports quite a shadow by the end of the day). I mostly avoid any discussion about them, mostly because of fear of lawsuit/HR/what have you. It's not gossip, so much as curiosity. What/how/????/when do you make the changeover in gender identification? At one point my lunch group simply referred to the particular individual as a contraction of she-him (shim), not out of mean spirit, but for a genuine lack of understanding as to what to refer to this person as.
FFS that's not even a question is it. I guess I am curious, do you encounter more bigotry and shunning, or more simple curiosity in your daily life and how do you tell the difference between ill informed (like me) and malicious? I'm sure there is some blurring going on there. -nB
:heh: Sadly you can not choose family. fully 3/4 of my friends on FB are family, and while most are sane normal people, it's easier to add the freaks than it is to not add them and deal with the fallout at thanksgiving and Christmas.
Did I mention my cousin tried claiming her cats as dependents to the IRS one year (she was not joking and really thought that was OK, because they depend on her)? We don't let her do her (or anyone else's for that matter) taxes anymore.
Because I'm at work. turn off safe search in your prefs and see what happens.
On an aside: We have a paranoid-strict content filter at work... I turned off safe search and I think I just lit up IS's indicator panel like a Christmas tree:-)
That was fun. Tons of little "this item was blocked" pictures as images tried to come up...
Based on the number of friends I have, and the number of announcements of "hey join me at farm wars" Vs. "hai Im in ur survey you can haz cheezburger" Vs. "L@@K at me, L@@K what I did 11!111!!!" I'd say that the survey is fairly accurate. Taking that further to the couple people I *know* to have low self esteem and the one true narcissist I know, and how much time they spend on FB, yeah I think the survey is spot on. -nB
Depends what server on the cluster you connect to. As an example, my house on maps.google.com was recently updated. Then I went somewhere else. When I came back to my house the old image was back for the close-up view, but at the wide view the new image was still being served.
I would posit that the same thing happens depending on what server/shipping container you connect to when doing a search.
I work in CA. When I was leaving my last employer they tried to remind me of my non-compete. I reminded them that in CA there is no such thing. I ended up staying on payroll doing fuck-all for 6 months while my knowledge went "stale", then was released. I think that is not an unfair way of handling it. -nB
Here here! I'd like to add to that, Freeway on-ramps are for speeding up to match traffic not to drive to the end of and stop, and not to pass traffic when the freeway is congested.
Specifically don't want to start a flame war... Why despise religion? I am religious, but I also acknowledge that we all have free will to decide what, if any, religion we follow.
I find it interesting that the human psyche seems hardwired to believe in a higher power. Go back through history and you will find some form of theism in almost every culture. Whether it is belief in ancient ancestors, all powerful God/Allah/Yahweh, the Greek/Roman/Norse/Egyptian gods, Gaea etc. That we appear to be hardwired for it makes me wonder. -nB
I was at the hospital ER a while back and it was the middle of the night. The waiting room had a mother with her two kids (one a baby, the other ~ 2) and me with my daughter. Our SOs were the ones there for treatment. Her baby was hungry and she asked me if it was OK if she fed her child. I told her I didn't see how it was my choice, but since she asked I was fine with it.
One of the nurses (WTF? shouldn't they be the most understanding?) came out from behind their counter and told her not to feed her child there and suggested the rest room. I kindly replied to the nurse that this woman and I were the only two in the waiting room, that I didn't mind at all, and how would she like her next meal to be served while she was on the can? I think she considered kicking me out then thought better of it and let the poor embarrassed woman be.
I mean, had they offered an exam room that might have been fine, I'd see it as the nurse offering up some privacy, rather than shunning this person. Later the mom thanked me, and I told her about all the fun my wife and I had along those same lines. It really bugs me. Thing is, this woman even had some nifty shawl thing that covers everything up (wish we had that when my kids were that young). -nB
no it won't. That said, you can always reflect shorter wavelengths with a bigger dish, hence he can do lots more with a 3m dish than with an 18" DSS/DirectTV dish.
no, just would fail to meet the "sun dried" portion. ~=s/sun dried/immolated/ig
while you should be able to pick up "backbone" news feeds and such (equipment will cost ~$1000 I think), I would look into a down converter and other RF gear and make a radio telescope. With today's PC power you won't need expensive computational gear for visualizations of the RF data or FFTs, so I think ~10 grand should get enough gear for a fairly nice astronomy setup. As a bonus you'll still be able to tune in those TV feeds as well.
We acquired a house built in the 50's. Wonderful sub floor construction, very sturdy. So far we've added tile to one bathroom and painted all the walls. Why re-paint? Because some of the paint tested positive for lead. We have two choices: Tear out all the sheetrock and pay for hazmat disposal... Paint over the lead and disclose to future buyers.
Do you have any idea how much a house's worth of sheetrock as hazmat costs to dispose of? It's cheaper to pay the energy bill for poor insulation.
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I don't know how big your company is, but if you have the IT dept behind you on this, can you arrange a meeting of your IT director, you, and the legal manager? Your role will be to sit silently unless there is a specific point of fact that the director is in error on, at which point you quietly tell him the correction.
Your goal should only be to say: I want to help you guys get the bad guys because: 1) I love it here and don't want to leave. & 2) These guys are hurting me as much as they are hurting the company by using my name fraudulently, much like they are typo squatting on the company's name.
Also, I posted earlier to get a lawyer, the best way to do this is to ask the local law school for a referral, they will get you in touch with a specialist in this area of law, likely an alumni, who very well make take the case on a pro-bono or at least a reduced cost if all your looking to do is defend yourself and your good name (as opposed to a countersuit, at which point if there is money to be made they will want a cut).
-nB
BEST WAY TO FIND A LAWYER:
Call your local (or closest) law school. They will be able to refer you to an (alumni likely) expert/specialist in the area of law you need help.
The two times I needed a lawyer I asked a lawyer for a referral to a specialist in the area.
As a bonus, when going through the law school, depending on your case, you might find pro-bono help.
-nB
CCing your boss on everything will not save your ass (it can help, but only if your boss has not made up his/her mind already).
Your solution is technically possible, but is not a guarantee to work, as he doesn't have all the log in information for the domain registrar, and/or the registrar likely could give (<) a shit.
Anyway, I am in the lawyer camp. I was in a totally different aside from employment related issue (I was looking to sue my employer for hostile environment) I was able to meet with a competent lawyer for about 30 min, lay out my case, and get sound advice, totally free... Advice that cost the lawyer money to give me:
Don't sue. If you do you will win (and I'll take it on contingency), but you will also need to find a new line of work. If you love what you do then file a formal complaint with HR and let it die on the vine in the office, because once this goes to court your name will be known as a litigant in your industry and no one is required to give you a job.
My point to tomhudson being that not all lawyers are self serving greedy assholes (though the ones that are give everyone else the bad name).
Now in the OP situation he is trying to mount a defense of his good name, I would expect that a lawyer would charge you, but I would find one that would charge a reasonable amount, and would be capable of mounting a counter suit for slander/libel/unfair dismissal should things go sideways.
Yahoo groups runs freecycle, Yahoo owns Flikr.
That's likely where lots of the user time comes from.
I just looked.
Please tell me that is a troll hoax, are people *that* dumb? Seriously?
FWIW (one person does not a sample set make): /. RSS feed
I use facebook ~ 10 to 20 min/week. Usually only 1 visit a week.
I use iGoogle about half an hour a day or more:
*
* Comics RSS feed
* Stock widget
* Quotes of the day
* Bash.org latest quotes (WTF, no updates for a while)
* Web Hosting status RSS
* Analytics RSS
* Google Docs periodically.
I thought the same thing about the DRM part.
This is the only 'good' use I've seen yet. I particularly like that it is automatic return from loan, that I don't have to drive to the library to return the books.
-nB
Yeah, we need to teach robots how to make 2==1 and divide by zero before they can replace congress critters.
Often these drivers connect to registers in the hardware that are *not* public knowledge. In the case of WiFi and other "firmware" radios the driver often contains DSP code that would normally be in Si but is now in loadable firmware, thus the manufacturers want to keep that a secret.
-nB
I don't know if I think you're being overly sensitive or not.
Please understand I *do not* have the same experience as you and so am woefully uninformed about it. One of my gay friends has described me as the gayest obviously straight guy he knows (still don't know what that means...) so there is the frame of reference I'm coming from.
Anyway I have a question for you:
At my work we have a few transgender folks, some more feminine than others (one sports quite a shadow by the end of the day). I mostly avoid any discussion about them, mostly because of fear of lawsuit/HR/what have you. It's not gossip, so much as curiosity. What/how/????/when do you make the changeover in gender identification?
At one point my lunch group simply referred to the particular individual as a contraction of she-him (shim), not out of mean spirit, but for a genuine lack of understanding as to what to refer to this person as.
FFS that's not even a question is it. I guess I am curious, do you encounter more bigotry and shunning, or more simple curiosity in your daily life and how do you tell the difference between ill informed (like me) and malicious? I'm sure there is some blurring going on there.
-nB
We're discussing a study about facebook on /. WTF does logic have to do with it? ;)
:heh:
Sadly you can not choose family.
fully 3/4 of my friends on FB are family, and while most are sane normal people, it's easier to add the freaks than it is to not add them and deal with the fallout at thanksgiving and Christmas.
Did I mention my cousin tried claiming her cats as dependents to the IRS one year (she was not joking and really thought that was OK, because they depend on her)? We don't let her do her (or anyone else's for that matter) taxes anymore.
Because I'm at work.
turn off safe search in your prefs and see what happens.
On an aside: :-)
We have a paranoid-strict content filter at work...
I turned off safe search and I think I just lit up IS's indicator panel like a Christmas tree
That was fun. Tons of little "this item was blocked" pictures as images tried to come up...
Based on the number of friends I have, and the number of announcements of "hey join me at farm wars" Vs. "hai Im in ur survey you can haz cheezburger" Vs. "L@@K at me, L@@K what I did 11!111!!!" I'd say that the survey is fairly accurate. Taking that further to the couple people I *know* to have low self esteem and the one true narcissist I know, and how much time they spend on FB, yeah I think the survey is spot on.
-nB
Depends what server on the cluster you connect to.
As an example, my house on maps.google.com was recently updated. Then I went somewhere else. When I came back to my house the old image was back for the close-up view, but at the wide view the new image was still being served.
I would posit that the same thing happens depending on what server/shipping container you connect to when doing a search.
I work in CA.
When I was leaving my last employer they tried to remind me of my non-compete. I reminded them that in CA there is no such thing. I ended up staying on payroll doing fuck-all for 6 months while my knowledge went "stale", then was released. I think that is not an unfair way of handling it.
-nB
thus cost will increase until supply catches up or users learn about firewalls.
Here here!
I'd like to add to that, Freeway on-ramps are for speeding up to match traffic not to drive to the end of and stop, and not to pass traffic when the freeway is congested.
Thank you.
Hadn't thought about that.
Now I will.
Specifically don't want to start a flame war...
Why despise religion? I am religious, but I also acknowledge that we all have free will to decide what, if any, religion we follow.
I find it interesting that the human psyche seems hardwired to believe in a higher power. Go back through history and you will find some form of theism in almost every culture. Whether it is belief in ancient ancestors, all powerful God/Allah/Yahweh, the Greek/Roman/Norse/Egyptian gods, Gaea etc. That we appear to be hardwired for it makes me wonder.
-nB
I was at the hospital ER a while back and it was the middle of the night. The waiting room had a mother with her two kids (one a baby, the other ~ 2) and me with my daughter. Our SOs were the ones there for treatment.
Her baby was hungry and she asked me if it was OK if she fed her child.
I told her I didn't see how it was my choice, but since she asked I was fine with it.
One of the nurses (WTF? shouldn't they be the most understanding?) came out from behind their counter and told her not to feed her child there and suggested the rest room. I kindly replied to the nurse that this woman and I were the only two in the waiting room, that I didn't mind at all, and how would she like her next meal to be served while she was on the can? I think she considered kicking me out then thought better of it and let the poor embarrassed woman be.
I mean, had they offered an exam room that might have been fine, I'd see it as the nurse offering up some privacy, rather than shunning this person. Later the mom thanked me, and I told her about all the fun my wife and I had along those same lines. It really bugs me. Thing is, this woman even had some nifty shawl thing that covers everything up (wish we had that when my kids were that young).
-nB
yes, and they both want to blame BP separately.
no it won't. That said, you can always reflect shorter wavelengths with a bigger dish, hence he can do lots more with a 3m dish than with an 18" DSS/DirectTV dish.
no, just would fail to meet the "sun dried" portion.
~=s/sun dried/immolated/ig
while you should be able to pick up "backbone" news feeds and such (equipment will cost ~$1000 I think), I would look into a down converter and other RF gear and make a radio telescope. With today's PC power you won't need expensive computational gear for visualizations of the RF data or FFTs, so I think ~10 grand should get enough gear for a fairly nice astronomy setup. As a bonus you'll still be able to tune in those TV feeds as well.
-nB
We acquired a house built in the 50's.
Wonderful sub floor construction, very sturdy.
So far we've added tile to one bathroom and painted all the walls.
Why re-paint? Because some of the paint tested positive for lead. We have two choices:
Tear out all the sheetrock and pay for hazmat disposal...
Paint over the lead and disclose to future buyers.
Do you have any idea how much a house's worth of sheetrock as hazmat costs to dispose of? It's cheaper to pay the energy bill for poor insulation.