My iPhone can't stream radio for shit even on 3G. It seems a big reason for the low stock price right now is concern that they wont be able to refinance their debt next year.

And how does that help with legal liability? Your just as obligated to have a rational policy for retaining or destroying documents and trouble tickets as you are for email.

And not every task that I have is a discrete "issue" that can be filed as a trouble ticket. It may be an aspect of a discussion that I want to learn more about, or a link to a document that I haven't fully read yet, or any of a hundred other things.

Even if your idea was feasible for internal communication it doesn't address communication between companies. When I'm corresponding with a customer I can't just send them links to documents because there are potentially firewall or virus issues, and because that is not how people use email thus it would piss them off.

"Should" be used? That may be the best policy for limiting discovery in lawsuits, but it would seriously damage the operation of the business. I can't immediately resolve an issue emailed to me most of the time, and I rely on saving emails with important information for later use. I'd say these are pretty common ways that people use email.

You want to mitigate legal risk, not necessarily eliminate it.

But that doesn't equate to legal requirements for a company to retain ALL email.

No it doesn't. But there are two issues with email. First is that if you don't have a standard policy for retention/destruction of email (or network share backups or whatever), it opens you up to allegations that you destroyed evidence after a lawsuit was filed. If people can delete things at any time, it makes it hard to show if it was coincidence that your VP just happened to delete all that relevant stuff after a suit was filed or not. With a standard policy, if everyone complies, then this matter is much more cut and dry.

Second is Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. I know a lot of companies have banned external instant messenging because of retention concerns related to Sarbanes-Oxley (since you can't easily log AIM and other IM discussions). I'm a bit surprised that Apple hasn't got policies in place given their issues with improper options in the past. Similar laws, I guess they didn't take the scandal very seriously.

Sometimes people make the wrong call. It happens. Columbine freaked a lot of people out. If you can suggest a better candidate, by all means let's hear it.

I agree with you...seems to me that just after the internet caught on everyone was worried and trying to figure out how to regulate it. None of the regulations worked and now...well we're pretty used to the internet the way it is. I don't think Obama or Holder or the administration will really give a shit about censoring the internet.

I would note that Russ Feingold is on the Senate Judiciary Committee so he will actually be questioning Holder for confirmation. I've seen people link to Obama's public input site, if you're really concerned about this issue you might want to send an email to Feingold as well and ask him to bring it up. I'm not sure it'll rate high enough with all the big-name issues like torture out there, but it's the best shot.

I'm not sure I buy this. CS is still one of the best paying degrees out there. Even among engineering degrees, it's high. The only things better that come to mind would be finance (not anymore), law, and medicine. And if $$$ is why women go to college why do so many of them major in psych or English?

One thing that occurred to me on this topic...I know quite a few girls that are fairly nerdy. They like sci fi and graphic novels and video games. But they're not CS types. They major in art or english...the usual stuff. I don't know what keeps them away from Engineering as a career, especially as women are now thriving in areas like Chemistry and Biology.

Well, I think to some extent this DOES happen if not as publicly. I know that the University of Michigan (which had the famous affirmative action supreme court cases a few years back) provided similar benefits to men seeking nursing degrees because they were underrepresented.

I've also heard some murmuring about the lack of men teaching in elementary schools and teaching in general.

*whoosh*

What is the deal with this disdain for people trying to earn money? So what if he wrote books that made good blockbusters. There's nothing wrong with that. The world does not consist of writers who are like Steinbeck and worthless hacks, Crichton is one of many pop-fiction writers in the middle. I thought The Lost World was an ok book...not his best, but ok. The movie was awful.