And how much money do you think they're likely to lose if this law does pass? It's a calculated risk that might wind up SAVING them money in the long run.

Yes, exactly! Getting the people involved is NOT the solution! The real solution is that they just have to offer a bigger bribe than the media companies!

Well, the stocking stuffer would be the USB keys and teh stuff on them is just a bonus (or something to be deleted).

There is also a reason the sky is blue, what the fuck does that have to do with this discussion?

Everything I've seen says that he was a contractor. In order to be a contractor, you're basically told a job you have to do and you do it. The company can't demand much more than that, or you become an employee and that's not something they want. If they wanted that, then they would have hired him as an employee, they didn't, they hired him as a contractor!

They also have their own set of advantages. When you NEED a HDMI cable NOW you'll wind up paying $30 for it rather than the $1-5 you would pay online.

I think if the government is going to take my money, they should do it when I receive it rather than when I'm trying to spend it. We already have the income tax infrastructure fully set up with state and federal taking my money before I even get my check. Modify this a bit and everything is taken care of without any fuss.

If stolen property is found, it is confiscated and eventually given back to the rightful parties. If the dealer is knowingly buying your stolen property, he's an idiot since it can potentially be repossessed without any compensation back to the dealer.

He can't use that! It's hosted on Google Code!

There've been a few times that a book I wanted had a Borders sticker on it that covered up the MSRP. If you peeled the sticker back, you'd see the Borders price was a buck higher. Not always, but even to make me only buy clearance books from them.

Sorry, meant to say full refund with receipt or full retail price without.

They took away a piece of functionality that it was advertised as having. If I had a PS3, I'd want them to take the whole thing back & credit me the full retail price (if I liked it, I'd pick up a used one ... at least then Sony wouldn't directly get my money).

I know there are a lot of analogies floating around out there, but to me the fact of the matter is it doesn't matter how big the functionality was, it was an advertised feature. What if it was blueray playing functionality that they decided to yank out? Not a big deal, right? I mean you can pick up a new blueray player for $80 or so, less if you find it on sale, hardly a real reason to be upset.

Anything I've ever seen like this always exists on a virtual lan (or even on a physically seperate lan) so it's generally not causing security risks. Even if it is on the same internal network, those devices don't require an external port being forwarded to them either.

It's just a calendar with shift times, as long as everyone involved doesn't mind it being on GCal, it shouldn't be a problem, but a random piece of hardware being connected to a hospital network IS a big deal. No one who's said anything is concerned about the safety of the shift times data, they ARE concerned about the HOSPITAL data that is on the same network & can be compromised by one security oversight on that server.

So, because the hospital doesn't share a calendar in iPhone compatible format they don't have a "good IT manager?"

Isn't Nokia at least suing over hardware patents, mostly? I think that theres a bit of a difference between a software patent and a hardware patent.