>It is well established that inventions or other IP created while under the employee of a company are the exclusive property of said company.
Ok, so he can't give the passwords to another company or publish them. He's still not under any obligation to tell them the passwords after he's been fired anymore than a programmer would be obligated to tell his company the source code for some proprietary application after he'd been fired.
What if next week they lose the passwords again...should he be compelled once again to tell them the passwords? No. They should have had a system in place to document this kind of information.
>When you are fired from work, you can't simply raid your cubicle and take everything in it. The same applies to any company property.
Which is not at all what he did. He simply knew the passwords and they did not. They should have got them from him before they canned him. If I was to be fired, and my employer later called me for some password, I'd tell them to get lost.
Because he's a dictator acting on a whim, right? The thing I want to know is who is supporting his ideas? Do the Aussies have some conservative/religiously motivated party down there like we do in the USA?
This thing goes down 410 miles. Geothermal wells go maybe a mile. Even the deepest well in the world is only about 20 miles. I doubt we're going to release any pressure with even our best efforts.
"Even more directly, the versions of the promises that I read contained explicit statement that MS reserved the right to change it's mind whenever it felt like it, no reasons required."
That's utter nonsense. From the MS Community Promise:
"Microsoft irrevocably promises not to assert any Microsoft Necessary Claims against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing or distributing any implementation, to the extent it conforms to one of the Covered Specifications
And from the FAQ:
"Q: Is this Community Promise legally binding on Microsoft and will it be available in the future to me and to others?
A: Yes, the CP is legally binding upon Microsoft. The CP is a unilateral promise from Microsoft and in these circumstances unilateral promises may be enforced against the party making such a promise. Because the CP states that the promise is irrevocable, it may not be withdrawn by Microsoft. The CP is, and will be, available to everyone now and in the future for the specifications to which it applies. As stated in the CP, the only time Microsoft can withdraw its promise against a specific person or company for a specific Covered Specification is if that person or company brings (or voluntarily participates in) a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft regarding Microsoft’s implementation of the same Covered Specification. This type of “suspension” clause is common industry practice."
"When Bush stated publicly that the federal government should have all search data tied to IP addresses, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft handed it over without any official government mandate or court order"
Use UNetBootin for making bootable USB drives to install Linux.
All this little MS app does is format you drive, mark the partition as Active, and extract the Windows 7 ISO to it. You can do it manually just like that if you wanted.
"Why don't you shut the fuck up...Fuck off and die, all you ever seem to do is spout shit on any topic...One of these days somebody's going to catch up with you in real life and kick your whining ass."
Please tell me this is an attempt at making satire of OS fanboys in general. If not, you might want to reconsider what it is about a piece of software that makes you so insane when people don't like it as much as you do.
It was similar to this issue, but that was back in March and maybe they've fixed it by now. But really, the benefit over my ISP's DNS really isn't worth the hassle.
I'll stick with my ISP's DNS. One thing I've noticed about using third party DNS services like OpenDNS is that location aware sites that serve up content from different servers depending where you are (like YouTube) don't work well.
Why wouldn't the Wikipedia comply/help even if they didn't legally have to? I don't think there's any compelling reason to protect the anonymity of someone who's blackmailing someone else from your website.
I've toyed with OpenLDAP...its neat. I just wish that there was something like GPO's for Linux. I'd switch this little company I've been doing work for over to Linux in a second.
>As a matter of interest, can you tell me what you have really gained from moving from XP to Win 7
You could really ask that question about pretty much any desktop OS over the last 10 years and the answer would still be the same: just some glitter. It's all the same...you click some icons on a desktop to open stuff, you can drag things around on the desktop and put them in folders, you can organize things in menus, etc etc etc. Theres really NOT THAT MUCH different between OS X, Windows, Gnome, or KDE.
I use Windows and I like the Gimp and I used OpenOffice just fine for a long time for all of my classes (until I needed MS Office for Excel and Access classes).
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>It is well established that inventions or other IP created while under the employee of a company are the exclusive property of said company.
Ok, so he can't give the passwords to another company or publish them. He's still not under any obligation to tell them the passwords after he's been fired anymore than a programmer would be obligated to tell his company the source code for some proprietary application after he'd been fired.
What if next week they lose the passwords again...should he be compelled once again to tell them the passwords? No. They should have had a system in place to document this kind of information.
>He was ordered to surrender them before he was fired.
Was he?
>When you are fired from work, you can't simply raid your cubicle and take everything in it. The same applies to any company property.
Which is not at all what he did. He simply knew the passwords and they did not. They should have got them from him before they canned him. If I was to be fired, and my employer later called me for some password, I'd tell them to get lost.
Because he's a dictator acting on a whim, right? The thing I want to know is who is supporting his ideas? Do the Aussies have some conservative/religiously motivated party down there like we do in the USA?
This thing goes down 410 miles. Geothermal wells go maybe a mile. Even the deepest well in the world is only about 20 miles. I doubt we're going to release any pressure with even our best efforts.
"Even more directly, the versions of the promises that I read contained explicit statement that MS reserved the right to change it's mind whenever it felt like it, no reasons required."
That's utter nonsense. From the MS Community Promise:
"Microsoft irrevocably promises not to assert any Microsoft Necessary Claims against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing or distributing any implementation, to the extent it conforms to one of the Covered Specifications
And from the FAQ:
"Q: Is this Community Promise legally binding on Microsoft and will it be available in the future to me and to others?
A: Yes, the CP is legally binding upon Microsoft. The CP is a unilateral promise from Microsoft and in these circumstances unilateral promises may be enforced against the party making such a promise. Because the CP states that the promise is irrevocable, it may not be withdrawn by Microsoft. The CP is, and will be, available to everyone now and in the future for the specifications to which it applies. As stated in the CP, the only time Microsoft can withdraw its promise against a specific person or company for a specific Covered Specification is if that person or company brings (or voluntarily participates in) a patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft regarding Microsoft’s implementation of the same Covered Specification. This type of “suspension” clause is common industry practice."
>Remember, MS can void its "promises" over .NET at any moment, the EEE is is progressing well.
No, they can't. If you make a "promise" that causes someone else to take an action, it's the same as having a contract and you can be sued.
"When Bush stated publicly that the federal government should have all search data tied to IP addresses, AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft handed it over without any official government mandate or court order"
Source?
"Stop giving facts without citations, no one cares about them."
Use UNetBootin for making bootable USB drives to install Linux.
All this little MS app does is format you drive, mark the partition as Active, and extract the Windows 7 ISO to it. You can do it manually just like that if you wanted.
Doesn't seem like that big of a deal...
"Why don't you shut the fuck up...Fuck off and die, all you ever seem to do is spout shit on any topic...One of these days somebody's going to catch up with you in real life and kick your whining ass."
Please tell me this is an attempt at making satire of OS fanboys in general. If not, you might want to reconsider what it is about a piece of software that makes you so insane when people don't like it as much as you do.
Malware is an all inclusive term for viruses, trojans, adware, spyware, etc.
It was similar to this issue, but that was back in March and maybe they've fixed it by now. But really, the benefit over my ISP's DNS really isn't worth the hassle.
I'll stick with my ISP's DNS. One thing I've noticed about using third party DNS services like OpenDNS is that location aware sites that serve up content from different servers depending where you are (like YouTube) don't work well.
Why wouldn't the Wikipedia comply/help even if they didn't legally have to? I don't think there's any compelling reason to protect the anonymity of someone who's blackmailing someone else from your website.
Yes, because justice is only for people we like.
That's true. I doubt you're going to find many graphic design companies using the GIMP, and I've never seen a company using OpenOffice.
I've toyed with OpenLDAP...its neat. I just wish that there was something like GPO's for Linux. I'd switch this little company I've been doing work for over to Linux in a second.
>As a matter of interest, can you tell me what you have really gained from moving from XP to Win 7
You could really ask that question about pretty much any desktop OS over the last 10 years and the answer would still be the same: just some glitter. It's all the same...you click some icons on a desktop to open stuff, you can drag things around on the desktop and put them in folders, you can organize things in menus, etc etc etc. Theres really NOT THAT MUCH different between OS X, Windows, Gnome, or KDE.
I use Windows and I like the Gimp and I used OpenOffice just fine for a long time for all of my classes (until I needed MS Office for Excel and Access classes).
You obviously have no clue what Active Directory is. There is no equivalent that I've seen in Linux.
Or just drag the icon to the task bar and it will pin it automagically.
Judging by how my XP, Vista, and Windows 7 machines were all fine today, I'm guessing that there's more too this than just a Windows patch.
I would be ok with that for most of the users I deal with.