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Comment Everyone needs to stop playing lawyer (Score 1) 458

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

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) 467

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

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.

Comment Re:An IT dept. with its own goals?!? (Score 1) 214

Spoken as one who has never worked in an IT department. IT departments are generally understaffed to being with and the people in them are not exactly overpaid. So while you want your new phone to be supported, where does the time and training for it come from? If you really want to use it, you should be the one making the case, because otherwise you are just asking a bunch of overworked and underpaid people to voluntarily make their own lives miserable. If what you say was the truth then it would be easy to get management to send everyone in IT out for training or to hire in a new person with those skills, but that just never happens.

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