Most emails written using a company's email system are done while on the clock. This makes these emails property of the company in my opinion.

The company I work for also required that I sign a system access agreement, which includes that anything created (including emails) are the properly of the firm, period. Doesn't matter if you're killing time between calls to write lyrics to the song, technically those lyrics belong to the company if they're written using a firm-issued computer connected to the firm's network.

Sounds like this should have been implemented at the start. A hardcore mode would have been fun.

This is my opinion, but when you're on the clock you have no expectation of privacy.

When you're working, you're being paid to do a job. When you work for 8 hours, you're selling your time to an employer. Your employer has every right to monitor what you're doing with the time you've sold them.

In the call center I work in, we really don't have a "Bathroom" idle code, and its pretty redundant. Instead we have codes such as Lunch, Break, System Problem, End of Day (for doing time sheet), Unavailable, Meeting, Training, etc. We're expected to take our bathroom breaks using our allotted "Break" time (which is 30 minutes over a 8 hour day) or during our Lunch. If we have to take a bathroom break and we've used all of our break time, we can use unavailable, but its heavily discouraged.

This allows the call center to maintain their SLAs by keeping their workforce accountable for their time used, which is 100% okay.

I'm very happy with the way my workplace keeps tabs on how I use my time.

Why are people getting their panties in a bunch for collecting information that was being broadcast publicly?

That would be like someone getting upset because something they posted on Twitter was used to deny them a job.

"So Google has the right to monitor your chats and emails?"

How do you think Google sends targeted Ads to you based on the content of your emails?

Google is just as privy to your emails when sending it via Gmail as your employer is when you send email via your corporate email system.

But will it play Doom?

Excel Embeds: Turning Excel files into MySpace pages one sheet at a time.

Wiretapping requires both parties in the conversation be unaware of the recording. From what it seems, only the officer was unaware, not the man being pulled over.

This is not wiretapping. A decent defense lawyer will get this thrown out in milliseconds.

The recoup in costs for an iPhone is the 2 year agreement you must sign in order to get the phone.

+1 Funny, if I had mod points

If I had mod points I'd mod you up.

Its not hard to manipulate profile information to do this. The child probably wanted 100% in every game he played but couldn't do it, so he resorted to cheating.

Microsoft probably doesn't use a heuristic approach to detecting cheating. They probably got tools on the console that can detect if a person's profile was edited using 3rd party tools. Microsoft doesn't want to reveal this process because it would make it easier for cheaters to bypass the system. It would be foolhardy for Microsoft to rely on a system that just flagged people for being "too good." Not even Blizzard, the king of banning people, does this. Blizzard has tools (Warden Client) to detect cheating and flag the account for further review. For example, Blizzard just doesn't say "this guy farmed 100 herbs a minute, he must be cheating". Instead Blizzard says "a known cheating program was detected on the system" or "he was herbing from under the terrain and using a memory hack to teleport from one node to another instantly".

Microsoft probably flagged his account as cheater because the Xbox detected because a process on the Xbox 360 detected the cheating, not that he's "too good" to have collected so many achievement points.

I think the mother is just being a mother and defending her son.

I tried watching Avatar in 3D (I was forced to go with friends). Halfway thru the movie I had to take off the glasses and watch the movie 2D in a terrible-looking way because I couldn't stand trying to focus in on the background and it not focusing because it isn't a real 3D scene.

Lawyers are paid to represent their CLIENT's interests, not their own. This guy could have personally disagreed with the RIAA and the Supreme Court's ruling, but as an attorney you are obligated to represent your client in the best possible manner.

I'm pretty sure a defense lawyer for Jarad Loughner personally believes her client is guilty and should get the chair for his crimes, but she's still obligated to defend her client as best as possible.

Grats, you ran a story on government trying to save money.

How does this affect my "rights online"?