Haha. Really? How long do you think it would take for your company to be:
Sued out of existence for tortious interference
Threatened, if not charged with felony violations of wiretap / call recording statutes
Don't think you can even say "We won't record, but will have multiple witnesses". The cross-examination will merely make note of the act that your witnesses stood to materially gain from what they were doing. Not so good.
he was quite annoyed because he had negotiated a different start date with my new hiring manager (I did not know this).
What the fuck?
Your old manager, acting as a reference, put himself in a position where he purported to have the authority to negotiate a contract on your behalf? I know you negotiated a different date, but the sheer unmitigated balls of this guy! Misrepresentation, if not outright tortious interference, or even fraud, there.
Good relationships or not, I'd not have taken that for a moment.
Speaking as someone who works in the medical insurance field, examples like this show precisely how fucking farcical healthcare in the US really is.
Ask more PCPs, specialists what their rates are for paying cash. You'll often find it's a half, or usually a third of what they bill insurance. My wife gets chiro. To pay out of pocket? $45. With insurance, $30 copay on a $140 bill to insurance (and yes, I know that the insurer doesn't pay that full amount, it's usually negotiated down, in this care, probably to $100) - that money is still coming from you, just amortized. It's a fucking racket where you are bent over and smacked, hard, for the "privilege" of amortizing your healthcare. Here's another hint: why do most healthcare plans not cover preventative medicine? Show me a single health insurance policy in the US that covers gym membership, but not weight loss surgery, rather than the other way around.
It doesn't cost $140 for my wife to get chiro. It didn't cost the ER $5,000 to treat your son, but they are so accustomed to the gravy train that they'll do anything to claim it does.
You mean, the kind of behavior you're asking of the person you're firing for, amongst other reasons, not documenting the network to your desired standards or per your requirements? I could see how that might not work...
Proper administrative policies would have had version control archiving router and switch configurations, thereby completely alleviating the impact of disabling break key recognition.
Would you mean, perhaps, administrative policies that from all of this, it would appear to have been Childs job to implement? Not entirely sure why he wouldn't have also locked that down and denied people access to it the same way as he did in general, but alrighty then.
Exactly. I owed $700 last year in federal taxes. Figured I'd use my stimulus check to pay it.
Not an issue. My stimulus check was for $500, "taking into account tax owed".
Not a problem, my intention was to pay it, but the government makes sure you don't have too much discretion with that change burning a hole in your pocket.
But let's not be too facetious, if you're claiming that "most of the people you know no longer use laptop or desktop computers to access the Internet", I'd be inclined to call BS.
I absolutely agree. I think we're both on the same wavelength - just that your comments provoked tangential thoughts in my head (as an aside, I think "stay married for the children" as a sole reason for avoiding divorce can lead to a lot of harm, but that doesn't negate your thoughts on intact families).
My thoughts were more that society is "solving the wrong problem" by saying "You two over there, you're not old enough to have sex!"... "Oh, you're willing to get married?"... "Your parents think you're not?"... "Hey, a judge can overrule their objections"... "Congratulations, you two are now old enough to have sex!"
I'd love to hear what the divorce rates are for teen marriages.
You highlight the crux of a problem. Why is it not okay for teens to fuck, unless they're married, when it all becomes somehow righteous and loving and special?
You might want to tell Jock Sturges. Or Sally Mann. Hell, you might want to tell Borders and Barnes and Noble, and MoMA. I was in there last night, and lo and behold, they were peddling child porn!
I think someone might have noticed when a museum or gallery had an exhibition of Sally Mann's photographs of her children, from birth to teen, nude.
It has EVERYTHING to do with there being sexual or suggestive content.
That's a fairly disingenuous argument. "Your Honor, this web script that asked users to fill out information on the applications, movies, games, music they wanted to share by BitTorrent, the fact that/we went out of our way/ to write such scripts, and/we went out of our way/ to host and maintain such software, that means nothing. We were just innocent bystanders, no more guilty of contribution than Ikea was for making the desk my laptop sat on!"
And when a company/goes out of its way/ to build an appliance that runs an embedded GPL app, will that defense wash, too? That one of their developers just happened to do something infringing?
Not really. most people I know hate their cell phone as they can't use half the features as the interface is clumsy at best. I hand them my iphone and they really start to understand how to do things.
LOL. You believe that? What features would they be? "Use Maps", hmm, on my phone, "Menu Button > Maps" - hard! Pair a Bluetooth device, "Settings > Bluetooth > Add Device", and I'm pretty sure the iPhone is identical there. Send picture messages? Oh, wait, iPhone can't do that, because apparently no-one really wants to send picture messages...
Please, name a few features that no-one used on their cellphones until the iPhone came along. I'll wait here with bated breath.
I'm sorry, that HP is a bureacratic, bungling, inept corporation that doesn't know its ass from its elbow most of the time (and I should know, I used to be an engineer for them) is evidence of a Microsoft monopoly how?
The MSFT license said that he was entitled to a refund from HP - which makes sense, why should MSFT be refunding him money for something he bought from HP - but HP was more interested in doing everything possible to dissuade him from thinking that was correct, possible, feasible, or wise.
Running the tracker would constitute 'assistance'. Maintaining it. Creating code to allow people to upload '.torrent' files would be assistance. These are things that COULD NOT BE DONE on the site without the assistance of those that run TPB.
Are you kidding me? One of the first people you blame is the opponents of file sharing? Get real - these are often the same folk who go to black hat conventions, and spend their spare time devising attacks on software - I think it's far more logical that people doing things like this are very much the fans of TPB.
"Little stupid scriptkiddie somewhere that doesn't understand" is also a bit of a reach. All the more "mature" warez/sceners know far better than to do this kind of thing, right?
... and don't boast proudly 'hilarious' retorts to letters claiming that this is what they do by agreeing with it and saying "So whatcha gonna do about it? Huh? Huh?"
I just love how many Americans have been so brainwashed into thinking they are the Land of the Free, and that they are the only country in the world with the right to free speech/right to bear arms/a Constitution/etc et al.
Granted, DevArt has gone way downhill (and it wasn't that high uphill to begin with), but let's be brutally honest - it's not often that Encyclopedia Dramatica gets it right without having to resort to exaggeration or hyperbole, but their article on SheezyArt is scarily accurate.
It was built as a shameless ripoff of DevArt - numerous people diff'ed the HTML and CSS and found huge swathes blatantly stolen. Even now, it still is largely a carbon copy of DA.
It was built by furries who were pissed that DA started removing hardcore furry porn (I shivered at that phrase). Now it's a fairly even mix between "badly drawn anime doodles" and said furry porn.
Ye gods, there are few things that should be "nuked from orbit", but sheezyArt is one of them.
What Adobe does is check how many machines have that serial installed on it and if you attempt to activate a third it will tell you that you have exceeded the number allowed and that you must deactivate one of the other installs. The software makes it easy to deactivate itself so you can reinstall elsewhere. The silly part is that Adobe sets an entry in your hosts file pointing to activation.adobe.com or something close to that.
Not that you'd know about warezing Adobe or anything.
There's a couple of checks that are performed - and hence the reason for the firewall exceptions - one being that it sends out a broadcast query on your network segment to make sure the serial isn't being used on multiple machines, and another to check number of activated installs.
Or, far more plausibly, Microsoft extended the 'protection' of system DLLs to application DLLs too. It's probably picking up on the fact that the DLL changed, attempting to replace it, but failing (remember, 'beta'), more so than sophisticated theorems about Adobe having registered an MD5 of a DLL with Microsoft for shipping in the Windows 7 beta.
But that would mean we couldn't scream bloody murder at Microsoft.
Of course she opted. She went to the Dell site, chose her laptop, and chose the "Downgrade to XP (add $49)" option. She chose it voluntarily, and then sued because she felt it should have been free, or cheaper. Bleh.
Right, because it's not like Microsoft trains staff to support XP, so when you call that 1-800 number, someone knows what you're talking about. Hell, it's not like they pay staff to maintain the servers that look after the knowledge base, the IVR, hey, even the aforementioned staff.
Wait, they DO have to pay those things? Wow, shit, I guess that makes a mockery of them being able to just 'toss in a copy of XP for "next to nothing"', don't it?
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Don't think you can even say "We won't record, but will have multiple witnesses". The cross-examination will merely make note of the act that your witnesses stood to materially gain from what they were doing. Not so good.
What the fuck?
Your old manager, acting as a reference, put himself in a position where he purported to have the authority to negotiate a contract on your behalf? I know you negotiated a different date, but the sheer unmitigated balls of this guy! Misrepresentation, if not outright tortious interference, or even fraud, there.
Good relationships or not, I'd not have taken that for a moment.
Ask more PCPs, specialists what their rates are for paying cash. You'll often find it's a half, or usually a third of what they bill insurance. My wife gets chiro. To pay out of pocket? $45. With insurance, $30 copay on a $140 bill to insurance (and yes, I know that the insurer doesn't pay that full amount, it's usually negotiated down, in this care, probably to $100) - that money is still coming from you, just amortized. It's a fucking racket where you are bent over and smacked, hard, for the "privilege" of amortizing your healthcare. Here's another hint: why do most healthcare plans not cover preventative medicine? Show me a single health insurance policy in the US that covers gym membership, but not weight loss surgery, rather than the other way around.
It doesn't cost $140 for my wife to get chiro. It didn't cost the ER $5,000 to treat your son, but they are so accustomed to the gravy train that they'll do anything to claim it does.
You mean, the kind of behavior you're asking of the person you're firing for, amongst other reasons, not documenting the network to your desired standards or per your requirements? I could see how that might not work ...
Would you mean, perhaps, administrative policies that from all of this, it would appear to have been Childs job to implement? Not entirely sure why he wouldn't have also locked that down and denied people access to it the same way as he did in general, but alrighty then.
Speaking of not knowing what you're talking about ... you're full of shit.
Not an issue. My stimulus check was for $500, "taking into account tax owed".
Not a problem, my intention was to pay it, but the government makes sure you don't have too much discretion with that change burning a hole in your pocket.
But let's not be too facetious, if you're claiming that "most of the people you know no longer use laptop or desktop computers to access the Internet", I'd be inclined to call BS.
My thoughts were more that society is "solving the wrong problem" by saying "You two over there, you're not old enough to have sex!" ... "Oh, you're willing to get married?" ... "Your parents think you're not?" ... "Hey, a judge can overrule their objections" ... "Congratulations, you two are now old enough to have sex!"
You highlight the crux of a problem. Why is it not okay for teens to fuck, unless they're married, when it all becomes somehow righteous and loving and special?
You might want to tell Jock Sturges. Or Sally Mann. Hell, you might want to tell Borders and Barnes and Noble, and MoMA. I was in there last night, and lo and behold, they were peddling child porn!
I think someone might have noticed when a museum or gallery had an exhibition of Sally Mann's photographs of her children, from birth to teen, nude.
It has EVERYTHING to do with there being sexual or suggestive content.
And when a company /goes out of its way/ to build an appliance that runs an embedded GPL app, will that defense wash, too? That one of their developers just happened to do something infringing?
LOL. You believe that? What features would they be? "Use Maps", hmm, on my phone, "Menu Button > Maps" - hard! Pair a Bluetooth device, "Settings > Bluetooth > Add Device", and I'm pretty sure the iPhone is identical there. Send picture messages? Oh, wait, iPhone can't do that, because apparently no-one really wants to send picture messages...
Please, name a few features that no-one used on their cellphones until the iPhone came along. I'll wait here with bated breath.
The MSFT license said that he was entitled to a refund from HP - which makes sense, why should MSFT be refunding him money for something he bought from HP - but HP was more interested in doing everything possible to dissuade him from thinking that was correct, possible, feasible, or wise.
Again, what's this got to do with MSFT?
Fragmentation is a non-issue on an SSD. Access time is equal, no matter where the blocks are, be they contiguous or disparate.
Running the tracker would constitute 'assistance'. Maintaining it. Creating code to allow people to upload '.torrent' files would be assistance. These are things that COULD NOT BE DONE on the site without the assistance of those that run TPB.
"Little stupid scriptkiddie somewhere that doesn't understand" is also a bit of a reach. All the more "mature" warez/sceners know far better than to do this kind of thing, right?
... and don't boast proudly 'hilarious' retorts to letters claiming that this is what they do by agreeing with it and saying "So whatcha gonna do about it? Huh? Huh?"
I just love how many Americans have been so brainwashed into thinking they are the Land of the Free, and that they are the only country in the world with the right to free speech/right to bear arms/a Constitution/etc et al.
Granted, DevArt has gone way downhill (and it wasn't that high uphill to begin with), but let's be brutally honest - it's not often that Encyclopedia Dramatica gets it right without having to resort to exaggeration or hyperbole, but their article on SheezyArt is scarily accurate.
It was built as a shameless ripoff of DevArt - numerous people diff'ed the HTML and CSS and found huge swathes blatantly stolen. Even now, it still is largely a carbon copy of DA.
It was built by furries who were pissed that DA started removing hardcore furry porn (I shivered at that phrase). Now it's a fairly even mix between "badly drawn anime doodles" and said furry porn.
Ye gods, there are few things that should be "nuked from orbit", but sheezyArt is one of them.
Not that you'd know about warezing Adobe or anything.
There's a couple of checks that are performed - and hence the reason for the firewall exceptions - one being that it sends out a broadcast query on your network segment to make sure the serial isn't being used on multiple machines, and another to check number of activated installs.
But that would mean we couldn't scream bloody murder at Microsoft.
Explain to me how the brand-name memory I buy from Apple is different from [same brand name memory, bought from NewEgg], please.
Of course she opted. She went to the Dell site, chose her laptop, and chose the "Downgrade to XP (add $49)" option. She chose it voluntarily, and then sued because she felt it should have been free, or cheaper. Bleh.
Wait, they DO have to pay those things? Wow, shit, I guess that makes a mockery of them being able to just 'toss in a copy of XP for "next to nothing"', don't it?