Who gives a flying fsck that this guy sold modded Xboxen.
The authorities should be out there catching dangerous criminals instead of being the thought police.
I for one do not give a shit about some corporation's bottom line. Eat flaming death, you corporate mongrels!
This looks too much like HMS taking revenge on Chip for the complaint about the misuse of open proxies.
Getting exposure with those who understand the technical stuff like logging in with ssh etc is worthwhile.
I can't offer any useful advice, but my friend was in a similar situation a few years ago. A local government outfit pressed police charges against a friend for misuse of the local government's network (downloading heaps of stuff). Even though most of the logins were not from his home number (it was dialup access), the stupid police proceeded with the charges. As it happens, the username was the name of the local government, and the password was the name of the local government with 1 on the end.
Because he had marriage problems and his wife was throwing a fit about it, he didn't fight it and changed his plea to guilty.
Months later the entire local government was sacked by the state government for corruption.
Those connected with the local government even managed to follow him interstate and have him sacked from his new job.
I believe he complained about the username and password and things to do with the network before all this happened.
In short, you must fight this. They have no case since you were authorized to work from home using the company resources and the management had knowledge of this. They also have the burden of proof that you were engaging in some kind of illegal behaviour.
Honestly I don't think you have anything to worry about legally. The biggest problem will be the legal bill these bastards are running up for you.
Get lots of publicity (= negative publicity for HMS). Make sure everyone knows what's happening.
Wait for this to blow over, then sue them to the ends of the earth.
they are on the right track and I support them in this fight against Intel. But it's only the first step in a fight against abusive business practices and monopolies.
For example, I fail to see how AMD is genuine about fair and open competition when it does nothing about Microsoft's monopoly. The anti-trust case against Microsoft was a joke. Not a single mention of how Microsoft has exclusive access to hardware documentation.
As the OpenBSD project notes in its page for the release of OpenBSD 3.7 (song lyrics section), Microsoft receives documentation on chipsets and such years in advance. Not only that, but Microsoft will often be the only receipient of documentation.
Microsoft has a monopoly on "consumer" desktop operating systems because an OS that can't drive the latest gadgets and other hardware gets no support in the mainstream market. OS/2 was far superior to Microsoft DOS, but it died because of the dearth of device drivers.
While AMD is at it with the Intel anti-trust lawsuit, let's see AMD support manufacturers who release programming interface documentation for their chipsets, PCI cards, graphics accelerators and so forth.
The people in suits who run the tech companies need to understand that developers having programming interface docs is not the same as giving out circuit schematics.
Dennis Ritchie tells me of his experiences with Plan 9 development: even with good support from company X, a lot of documentation was flat out wrong. We've got no hope with unavailable or wrong docs.
Let's see graphics cards, sound cards, USB devices, memory controller chipsets, PCI and USB chipsets, scanners, digital cameras, and everything else documented WITHOUT the requirement for ridiculous NDAs.
Let's also see Phoenix Technologies relieved of its cozy little monopoly on BIOSes. LinuxBIOS is far superior to their junk, with one board going from power-on to Bash prompt in just 3 seconds.
How is it that AMD whinges about Intel when they are in bed with Intel and others in the Trecherous Computing scandal? How is it that they do not pressure VIA to release chipset documentation? How is it that they ignore Microsoft's monopoly while harping on about Intel's monopoly and business practises?
It is SHAMEFUL that the Linux and FSF developers either sign NDAs or encourage other developers not to cooperate with those seeking documentation or those pressuring companies to release documentation:
How can we end Microsoft's monopoly with free software and open source developers turning their backs on everyone else, and with AMD complicit in supporting Microsoft's monopoly?
Before you pass it off as "too simplistic" or not "deeper", that game probably has well over 10^30 different possible configurations, easily defeating similar games like Chess, and on par with games like Go.
I hear you. But there is so much more to life than games. I think...;-)
Better game? Something other than a game?
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I would probably enter a contest or two if the project was a bit "deeper" than cops and robbers.
I'm sure it takes skill to do this, but I mean, how about something that keeps the interest a bit more?
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Space! Now we can go see the sights of...
Oh wait.
Who gives a flying fsck that this guy sold modded Xboxen. The authorities should be out there catching dangerous criminals instead of being the thought police. I for one do not give a shit about some corporation's bottom line. Eat flaming death, you corporate mongrels!
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This looks too much like HMS taking revenge on Chip for the complaint about the misuse of open proxies.
Getting exposure with those who understand the technical stuff like logging in with ssh etc is worthwhile.
I can't offer any useful advice, but my friend was in a similar situation a few years ago. A local government outfit pressed police charges against a friend for misuse of the local government's network (downloading heaps of stuff). Even though most of the logins were not from his home number (it was dialup access), the stupid police proceeded with the charges. As it happens, the username was the name of the local government, and the password was the name of the local government with 1 on the end.
Because he had marriage problems and his wife was throwing a fit about it, he didn't fight it and changed his plea to guilty.
Months later the entire local government was sacked by the state government for corruption.
Those connected with the local government even managed to follow him interstate and have him sacked from his new job.
I believe he complained about the username and password and things to do with the network before all this happened.
In short, you must fight this. They have no case since you were authorized to work from home using the company resources and the management had knowledge of this. They also have the burden of proof that you were engaging in some kind of illegal behaviour.
Honestly I don't think you have anything to worry about legally. The biggest problem will be the legal bill these bastards are running up for you.
Get lots of publicity (= negative publicity for HMS). Make sure everyone knows what's happening.
Wait for this to blow over, then sue them to the ends of the earth.
When? Yes please. Let the revolution begin. It's time the people took back the planet and fucked off corrupt and greedy governments.
they are on the right track and I support them in this fight against Intel. But it's only the first step in a fight against abusive business practices and monopolies.
For example, I fail to see how AMD is genuine about fair and open competition when it does nothing about Microsoft's monopoly. The anti-trust case against Microsoft was a joke. Not a single mention of how Microsoft has exclusive access to hardware documentation.
As the OpenBSD project notes in its page for the release of OpenBSD 3.7 (song lyrics section), Microsoft receives documentation on chipsets and such years in advance. Not only that, but Microsoft will often be the only receipient of documentation.
Microsoft has a monopoly on "consumer" desktop operating systems because an OS that can't drive the latest gadgets and other hardware gets no support in the mainstream market. OS/2 was far superior to Microsoft DOS, but it died because of the dearth of device drivers.
While AMD is at it with the Intel anti-trust lawsuit, let's see AMD support manufacturers who release programming interface documentation for their chipsets, PCI cards, graphics accelerators and so forth.
The people in suits who run the tech companies need to understand that developers having programming interface docs is not the same as giving out circuit schematics.
Dennis Ritchie tells me of his experiences with Plan 9 development: even with good support from company X, a lot of documentation was flat out wrong. We've got no hope with unavailable or wrong docs.
Let's see graphics cards, sound cards, USB devices, memory controller chipsets, PCI and USB chipsets, scanners, digital cameras, and everything else documented WITHOUT the requirement for ridiculous NDAs.
Let's also see Phoenix Technologies relieved of its cozy little monopoly on BIOSes. LinuxBIOS is far superior to their junk, with one board going from power-on to Bash prompt in just 3 seconds.
How is it that AMD whinges about Intel when they are in bed with Intel and others in the Trecherous Computing scandal? How is it that they do not pressure VIA to release chipset documentation? How is it that they ignore Microsoft's monopoly while harping on about Intel's monopoly and business practises?
It is SHAMEFUL that the Linux and FSF developers either sign NDAs or encourage other developers not to cooperate with those seeking documentation or those pressuring companies to release documentation:
http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#37
How can we end Microsoft's monopoly with free software and open source developers turning their backs on everyone else, and with AMD complicit in supporting Microsoft's monopoly?
But they are thinking of the children... or how to extract money out of them, anyway.
Microsoft... how do you want to be 0wned today?
You can already make hotkeys in Linux using X: http://www.4momo.de/artikel__show_db__other__104.h tm (Hotkeys and Linux, The Definitive Guide). Why spend a small fortune on a keyboard when you can customise X?
I hear you. But there is so much more to life than games. I think... ;-)
I would probably enter a contest or two if the project was a bit "deeper" than cops and robbers. I'm sure it takes skill to do this, but I mean, how about something that keeps the interest a bit more?
psychological. Imagine walking around knowing you had no heart? Spooky.