>I've never heard of someone under-reporting their hours because they wanted to, only because their employer doesn't want to pay for those hours.
My point is, I will personally report the violation to federal agents who investigate crimes related to Federal Withholding of income tax and Social Security, next and every time I witness the crime being committed.
If it's *my* music (I composed, arranged, performed and recorded it, and reserve all rights to it), I consider the placement of "DRM" or any other restrictions on distribution to be an infringement of my copyright.
I am anxiously awaiting a RIAA suit that names as its property, someone's property who is not represented by the RIAA. (To make that clear, I would like for this to be the error that ends the establishment of the RIAA, sending its members into bankruptcy and dissolution due to the fines that follow:-)
Was the study done on the researcher's computer? One that the subject knows he will never see again? I would actually have caught it, but I'm by any standards, a technically sophisticated user. But even if I realized the dialog was being "faked" with JS or whatever, I still wouldn't give a crap what happened to the grad student's computer. I'd assume one of two things: If I thought the dialog was real, then my guess would be you have some linkage looking by address into a DLL whose version has changed, or, whoever made your website is either an idiot and/or has some kind of hokey web builder tool like maybe a cracked dreamweaver or something...
Maybe, if I caught on to the game enough to realize the purpose of the experiment was to see if the user caught these error boxes, then *maybe* I'd care. Mostly I'd just laugh. The user who is savvy enough to even care about these error dialogs, probably sees right through them, and the rest, as the study unsurprisingly found, just want them to go away. I'd be thinking "you know, if I had a web based test to administer to the public, I am certain it would be from an unprivileged user account on a linux box" as I clicked whatever image I thought might make the popup go away. I might have even tried to see if I could get firefox to block it:)
"Oh yes, I'm sure that there's no such thing as a person who manages to be as productive as you are in 40+X hours a week by working only 40 hours a week, but has a sucky boss who measures productivity in hours worked."
The real problem comes in with an hourly job where hours worked are not the hours reported.
Here's the deal. The first time it happens, I will report you to the Social Security Administration, who will not only ask for the money you stole from them, but will want to investigate to see how much more money you stole.
Don't you dare ask me to report on a time card "40 hours" if I worked "41", let alone "80." I will make a Federal Case out of it, quite literally, because it is a Federal Crime, one that cheats the Federal Witholding system and Social Security.
>If your job requires you to work 80 hours a week, your "work ethic" demands that you just go ahead and >work 80 hours a week? What about 120? What about 160? What if they require you to sleep on a cot in >front of your desk so that they can call you up whenever they might need you, that's OK, too?
Dude, we are just testing you to see if you have any integrity.
If you actually comply with these crap requests we are going to fire you.
>How many people have become unemployed and then taken a job at 2/3 of the salary?
I tried very hard to find 2/3 of my salary. I settled for about 1/3.
I've managed to hold out for a couple of years using savings to supplement my income. I like my job and my job likes me but it's not sustainable.
>How many people put up with crap they'd normally resign over, because of the state of the jobs >market.
This I will not do. But then, my threshold for "crap they'd resign over" pretty much has to rise to the level of a specific crime, or not getting paid, or breach of contract or whatever. I suspect some people lack integrity.
The one time I ever paid for anything on Ebay with a check, was late in 2007 for an item I really wanted for a holiday gift. This is after a few hundred Ebay transactions, never had a problem before. This seller basically just cashed my check and that was that. Vanished. Ebay support and abuse departments would never even discuss it with me. And that was that, as far as me and Ebay are concerned.
>How often do you get spam where the "From" address is someone you know?
I get a disturbing amount of spam "From" ***ME***.
But my favorite spam is an offer to refinance a post office box that has been rented under an assumed name. I have not yet identified the vector for the disclosure that was necessary to make that interesting to spammers, but I suspect amazon.com.
Where? Seriously, I've seen plenty of workplaces where they make a big deal about not requiring jackets and ties, but I've never seen one that actually requires it.
"Just curious, did you crunch the numbers in your personal budget to make sure you could afford the 66% pay decrease? "
Oh yes, of course. I've been doing it for years. And this "going broke" thing isn't new. I've actually been looking for, say, contract work that I can do as a side job, for, oh, the same number of years, with limited success.
I should probably disclose that, at the time, the choices were basically between "66% decrease" and "100% decrease."
>So, why is it that you are at the "threshold" of bankruptcy?
I might be exaggerating, but I left a really high-paying (by mid-career software engineer standards) job in order to go into environmental science research. I ended with about a third of my previous salary, in a gig where a "raise" would involve me personally getting grant money into the organization (not likely in the current climate.)
I spend, on average, about $300 more each month than I actually make, just on necessities and fixed costs. This has been fairly easy to do over the last few years, since I had the money. I can sustain this for about another quarter, and after that I will not be able to do it any more without finding some other source of income.
As for my outrageously expensive house, I have a $1500/month mortgage on a 3/2 brick. It didn't seem like such a big deal at the time.
Many did, and then saw the economy collapse around them, changing the nature of "what they can afford".
Some of these were unable to liquidate their real estate, because to do so would require them to literally pay a mortgage on the amount of money that the property declined by.
In my case, it has forced me to decline certain job opportunities because relocation is not an option, because of real estate values. (I would not seek, nor do I believe anyone will offer, a $45,000 relocation bonus to start, and that's what it would cost me to walk away from my home, never mind the fact that I like where I'm living and would prefer a *benefit*, not just a break-even proposition, for relocating.)
My story is not at all uncommon. I'm not bankrupt, but I'm at the threshold. And I have university degrees, more than a decade of experience, and the real estate in question is a modest property.
>Hmmm... in 7th grade all I got was a psychotic coach telling me to do laps.
I had a psycopathic priest literally beating me. He had told me a story about killing a Russian soldier, and I had questioned that story on the basis of his being a Catholic Priest who wasn't supposed to be killing anyone, Russian or otherwise. I ended up having to leave that school, and it wasn't that much later that I started college (at age 17, instead of doing a "Senior year" of high school.)
>>EFF @ Gitmo: Fuck, I don't want a cock-meat sandwich...
>Why would the EFF have something against chicken?
Cock meat is very coarse and tends to be dry and bitter. If you marinade the cock in a fine white wine, say, coq-au-vin, it can be delicious. But if you do a cock like a frying hen or just try to bake it, it's not a very tasty meal.
So in other words, you're saying that a company can pretty much use any pirated software they want, even broadcast the fact that they use it, and as long as they don't get caught in the act, that's ok -- no legal repercussions are possible.
Cool. That's basically what I was told by the General Counsel of a largish company I worked for as well.
Why do you need the BSA? The evidence Sony needs is right there on the disc. Copyright infringement on an industrial scale is already shown in prima facie evidence.
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>I've never heard of someone under-reporting their hours because they wanted to, only because their employer doesn't want to pay for those hours.
My point is, I will personally report the violation to federal agents who investigate crimes related to Federal Withholding of income tax and Social Security, next and every time I witness the crime being committed.
I don't know how I can make that any more clear.
If it's *my* music (I composed, arranged, performed and recorded it, and reserve all rights to it), I consider the placement of "DRM" or any other restrictions on distribution to be an infringement of my copyright.
I am anxiously awaiting a RIAA suit that names as its property, someone's property who is not represented by the RIAA. (To make that clear, I would like for this to be the error that ends the establishment of the RIAA, sending its members into bankruptcy and dissolution due to the fines that follow :-)
Was the study done on the researcher's computer? One that the subject knows he will never see again?
I would actually have caught it, but I'm by any standards, a technically sophisticated user. But even if I realized the dialog was being "faked" with JS or whatever, I still wouldn't give a crap what happened to the grad student's computer. I'd assume one of two things: If I thought the dialog was real, then my guess would be you have some linkage looking by address into a DLL whose version has changed, or, whoever made your website is either an idiot and/or has some kind of hokey web builder tool like maybe a cracked dreamweaver or something...
Maybe, if I caught on to the game enough to realize the purpose of the experiment was to see if the user caught these error boxes, then *maybe* I'd care. Mostly I'd just laugh. The user who is savvy enough to even care about these error dialogs, probably sees right through them, and the rest, as the study unsurprisingly found, just want them to go away. I'd be thinking "you know, if I had a web based test to administer to the public, I am certain it would be from an unprivileged user account on a linux box" as I clicked whatever image I thought might make the popup go away. I might have even tried to see if I could get firefox to block it :)
>Which should have made it easier for you to pay for college.
College tuition is cheap, provided you are not hell bent on a high tier school, or going to a state school outside your home state.
Living indoors, eating 1 to 3 meals per day, and driving a car, all add up.
To do those things with no job can be quite difficult.
"Oh yes, I'm sure that there's no such thing as a person who manages to be as productive as you are in 40+X hours a week by working only 40 hours a week, but has a sucky boss who measures productivity in hours worked."
The real problem comes in with an hourly job where hours worked are not the hours reported.
Here's the deal. The first time it happens, I will report you to the Social Security Administration, who will not only ask for the money you stole from them, but will want to investigate to see how much more money you stole.
Don't you dare ask me to report on a time card "40 hours" if I worked "41", let alone "80." I will make a Federal Case out of it, quite literally, because it is a Federal Crime, one that cheats the Federal Witholding system and Social Security.
>If your job requires you to work 80 hours a week, your "work ethic" demands that you just go ahead and
>work 80 hours a week? What about 120? What about 160? What if they require you to sleep on a cot in
>front of your desk so that they can call you up whenever they might need you, that's OK, too?
Dude, we are just testing you to see if you have any integrity.
If you actually comply with these crap requests we are going to fire you.
>How many people have become unemployed and then taken a job at 2/3 of the salary?
I tried very hard to find 2/3 of my salary. I settled for about 1/3.
I've managed to hold out for a couple of years using savings to supplement my income.
I like my job and my job likes me but it's not sustainable.
>How many people put up with crap they'd normally resign over, because of the state of the jobs
>market.
This I will not do. But then, my threshold for "crap they'd resign over" pretty much has to rise to the level of a specific crime, or not getting paid, or breach of contract or whatever. I suspect some people lack integrity.
The one time I ever paid for anything on Ebay with a check, was late in 2007 for an item I really wanted for a holiday gift. This is after a few hundred Ebay transactions, never had a problem before. This seller basically just cashed my check and that was that. Vanished. Ebay support and abuse departments would never even discuss it with me. And that was that, as far as me and Ebay are concerned.
>How often do you get spam where the "From" address is someone you know?
I get a disturbing amount of spam "From" ***ME***.
But my favorite spam is an offer to refinance a post office box that has been rented under an assumed name. I have not yet identified the vector for the disclosure that was necessary to make that interesting to spammers, but I suspect amazon.com.
>we exepect our IT folks to wear suits and ties
Where? Seriously, I've seen plenty of workplaces where they make a big deal about not requiring jackets and ties, but I've never seen one that actually requires it.
"Just curious, did you crunch the numbers in your personal budget to make sure you could afford the 66% pay decrease? "
Oh yes, of course. I've been doing it for years. And this "going broke" thing isn't new. I've actually been looking for, say, contract work that I can do as a side job, for, oh, the same number of years, with limited success.
I should probably disclose that, at the time, the choices were basically between "66% decrease" and "100% decrease."
*whoosh*
"forbid you posting you're article their."
>I find it interesting that you merely have to search for something about his POW days to
>find his excuse for everything.
I couldn't find his excuse for not knowing that Spain was (1.) in Europe or (b.) an ally of the United States.
>So, why is it that you are at the "threshold" of bankruptcy?
I might be exaggerating, but I left a really high-paying (by mid-career software engineer standards) job in order to go into environmental science research. I ended with about a third of my previous salary, in a gig where a "raise" would involve me personally getting grant money into the organization (not likely in the current climate.)
I spend, on average, about $300 more each month than I actually make, just on necessities and fixed costs. This has been fairly easy to do over the last few years, since I had the money. I can sustain this for about another quarter, and after that I will not be able to do it any more without finding some other source of income.
As for my outrageously expensive house, I have a $1500/month mortgage on a 3/2 brick.
It didn't seem like such a big deal at the time.
>[A]n open source alternative to Exchange would not have Exchange's arbitrary limitations
Oops... if it's not bug-for-bug compatible, it's going to be a problem with some PHB.
>Next time buy what you can afford.
Many did, and then saw the economy collapse around them, changing the nature of "what they can afford".
Some of these were unable to liquidate their real estate, because to do so would require them to literally pay a mortgage on the amount of money that the property declined by.
In my case, it has forced me to decline certain job opportunities because relocation is not an option, because of real estate values. (I would not seek, nor do I believe anyone will offer, a $45,000 relocation bonus to start, and that's what it would cost me to walk away from my home, never mind the fact that I like where I'm living and would prefer a *benefit*, not just a break-even proposition, for relocating.)
My story is not at all uncommon. I'm not bankrupt, but I'm at the threshold. And I have university degrees, more than a decade of experience, and the real estate in question is a modest property.
>Hmmm... in 7th grade all I got was a psychotic coach telling me to do laps.
I had a psycopathic priest literally beating me. He had told me a story about killing a Russian soldier, and I had questioned that story on the basis of his being a Catholic Priest who wasn't supposed to be killing anyone, Russian or otherwise. I ended up having to leave that school, and it wasn't that much later that I started college (at age 17, instead of doing a "Senior year" of high school.)
>I built radios by asking Marconi how to do it.
Not Stubblefield?
I didn't see any mention of the kid's patent.
If the invention works, I predict he dies broke.
>In all seriousness, I hope this somehow makes it to production, what a bad ass.
In skimming TFA I didn't see anything about the kid's patent.
This could very well make it to production without him seeing a dime, ever.
He could end up being the child Philo T. Farnsworth.
>>EFF @ Gitmo: Fuck, I don't want a cock-meat sandwich...
>Why would the EFF have something against chicken?
Cock meat is very coarse and tends to be dry and bitter.
If you marinade the cock in a fine white wine, say, coq-au-vin,
it can be delicious. But if you do a cock like a frying hen or just try
to bake it, it's not a very tasty meal.
Arizona puts them on a ballot every year. They basically are exposed to a no-confidence vote all the time.
>If that even happened at all, I could whip up similar screenshots in 5 minutes.
Similar, in the sense that it can be verified as authentic by authors of some of the content?
So in other words, you're saying that a company can pretty much use any pirated software they want, even broadcast the fact that they use it, and as long as they don't get caught in the act, that's ok -- no legal repercussions are possible.
Cool. That's basically what I was told by the General Counsel of a largish company I worked for as well.
Why do you need the BSA? The evidence Sony needs is right there on the disc.
Copyright infringement on an industrial scale is already shown in prima facie evidence.
I remember thinking that should have been kind of a big deal. Then I remember never hearing another word about it before now.