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Comment: Everyone needs to stop playing lawyer (Score 1) 457

by wmelnick (#39067471) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce?

Lots of people on here are giving answers that to a techie makes perfect sense, but in the real world do not.

Assuming you live in the US, are you in a Community Property state? In that case you might both own all of it. If not then other things come into play, but "who took the picture" and "who owns the copyright" and "in whose name is the domain registered" are stupid questions on their own.

You need to consult a matrimonial lawyer and not get advise from people who are giving "common sense" answers which are likely neither.

Comment: Re:wrong approach (Score 1) 260

by wmelnick (#39039811) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Making a Tablet Run Only One Application?

Wrong approach. People will walk off your tablets. Instead, have the users bring their own. Set up an open wireless connection that supplies the users with a captive DNS directing everything to your internal service that only serves up your content.

Don't provide any other open connection. Then your crap shows up on everybody's ipad and android phone. Be prepared to fend off angry customers.

But at least you save the cost and headache of managing all those tablets and don't have to.replace.them every week.

Right, because that disables the 3G connection so well.

Comment: Re:Washington State law protects you if you live h (Score 1) 465

by wmelnick (#39014273) Attached to: Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy?

That is a great suggestion - play armchair lawyer. Then when the company sues you and claims that the code does fall under one of the parts,you find yourself on the receiving end of a lawsuit and have to hire a lawyer.

Discuss this with your employer ahead of time. If the employer does not give you an exception, either find a new job or expect to fight a lawsuit and but several thousand dollars aside for legal expenses.

Comment: Re:Similar Situation (Score 5, Insightful) 165

by wmelnick (#38690822) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Advancing a Programming Career?
Here is the problem you are about to face... Next time you work under someone, you are going to second-guess everything they do. What you need to do it to ask your company to send you for management training, my guess is that based on how you phrased things you have never had any. After that you need to take the time to figure out how to explain to your subordinates how you want something done and let them do it. You may think you are the best person to do something, but if you can teach 5 or 10 (or more) people to do it the same way, that makes you far more valuable to the company and will get a you a larger paycheck as well. You just need to figure out how to do it all in a way that does not stress you to the point of snapping and eventually it will become easy and natural. All that being said there is nothing to stop you from trying to teach the occasional night class at a local college.

Comment: Safety is the reason (Score 4, Informative) 891

But it is wrong. There are cars from the 1980s that get great gas mileage. The difference is the mandated changes for safety, which has made cars heavier. It takes more steel to make a car crumple the right way. I am not saying this is a bad thing - I am a fan of living through car crashes, but that is where the major mileage decrease happened.

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