It is settled law that the company owns all data on its computers, email accounts etc, at least in the USA. If you are doing it at work, your employer has every right to be sniffing and logging that data, encrypted of otherwise since you are working for them and as a result you, for the time you are at work, are part of the company.

Depends on what you call "Elder". Those in their 60s and 70s yes. Those of us in our 40s and slighty older than us are even more screwed than you youngsters. We have paid in all our lives (25+ years) the same as those in their 70s and 80s who have gotten everything but when we get to retirement age in 15-20 years there will be nothing left for us and everything we paid in will have been sucked dry.

Here are a few online courses that might help

http://chemistry.about.com/od/onlinecourses/Online_Chemistry_Courses.htm

Agreed. You cannot be expected to shift gears and look at code for free. The client write the spec or at least the majority of it. It behooves them to test the code to make sure it meets the spec when they get it. Support costs, it is not a freebie.

I write into my contracts: 1/3 due up front (agreement of the spec). 1/3 due at delivery. 1/3 due at acceptance. Acceptance is either when they sign off, or one week after delivery of product or delivery of the fix of the last bug determined between delivery and acceptance. Anything after acceptance is billable. Any "bug" that does not match the initial spec is not a bug, but rather additional work to be billed. The original spec is initialed on all pages by them Any changes that they ask for and I agree to during the course of the product being developed are added to an amended spec, sometimes gratis, sometimes at an additional cost. It is a pain, but it is the only way that these things go smoothly.

Stop reading shitty English translations. The penalty of death is for smiting your parents, not backtalking. If you kill your parents are are to be put to death. Does that maybe make a little more sense? As for Leviticus 10:9 that prohibits a Kohen (Priest) entering the part of the temple when drunk. If you are going to bash religion, perhaps you should learn a little about it first.

If a CIO is being looked at this way, perhaps the CIO is functioning more as a CTO, handling technical details, than a CIO. If a company has only one of these psotions, then the CIO will naturally have to take care of the CTO duties and will likely have little time to devote to a CIO's duties, which are far more business-oriented.

Running your own small business from home is far different from telecommuting into an established business. Like you, I am lucky enough to be working from home running my own business. That means I get to work in my pajamas every morning, be home when my son gets home from HS and spend time with him. I get to nap in the middle of the day if I feel like it or work late into the night if that is what I want. But do not think that what we have is what most people here have.

Panera. Decent coffee and good wifi.

I am like you. I roll out of bed (8-ish), make coffee, get into my recliner, grab my laptop and get almost all of the "real" work done that needs to be. Then around 12:30, I have lunch then jump into the shower and get dressed. Any calls or appointments happen in the afternoon and when my son comes home at 2:30 I spend an hour with him before he starts his activities, at which point I go back to work until my wife gets home at 5:30 or I meet her at the gym at 4:30 (alternating days).

What is right for someone else is not going to be right for you. Find out what works best for you by changing it up every week for the first few months. I also find that my winter and summer schedules are far different. In the summer I can roll out of bed at 6:15 and head to the gym, no way I can do that in the winter.

The problem with that is that without patent protection the company has to keep the formula and process to make it secret, which means no peer review because you cannot review something that you cannot look at. That makes drugs far more dangerous.

forehead? too bad.

Since India is a signatory to the Berne convention, they could be sued in an international court, or even in a national court in Germany (I think Bayer is from Germany) and then the Indian government and/or the generic house could owe Bayer ALL of the money they would have made on every pill sold by this generic house plus potentially other damages.

If that was really true, don't you think that pharma companies would give their money to companies that would do this for them at 5x the return per dollar?

As a taxpayer, all I can say is that firing this guy was a bad idea. There was already a discrimination lawsuit in place, now it will get even more complex and since NASA is a Federal agency, we the taxpayers have to pay for the lawyers on the NASA side. This was a government job, so there is a property right in question here. There is a freedom of religion question as well (whether you agree with him or not). The guy is having his side paid for by a Defense fund, so he is not going ot run out of cash.

So there are 2 probable outcomes: (1) This guy wins and we the taxpayers have to give him a ton of money. or (2) He loses and the case gets appealed, and appealed and appealed. This will be in the 9th Circuit eventually which means they will side with NASA based on their track record then it goes to the Supreme Court who is likely to hear it since there are a few Constitutional questions here, and whether he wins and gets a ton of money or loses and does not get any money, we taxpayers still have to waste all kinds of taxpayer money funding government lawyers.