That's good to know. My next questions are going to be.. What's your favorite bar, songs, pics? Who are your friends, and what do they look like? Do you ever mention picking up your child or dropping them off at a given time (in Chat, Email or Voice Mail)? If so, does your employer store this information? Can your employer stop a stranger from getting your GPS information about your home and anywhere you go in a given day? Your employer can only tell you what information about you that it gathers from your phone. I'd ask your employer's IT /Security department how much info they keep, how long, and most importantly, how secure do they store this information of you. It won't be me who busts you out in this post, but if someone were to tell you your life-history in a response to your post, would you be freaked-out? I would. Should you be surprised? You won't now, because I'm telling you. Should you think twice about this arrangement with your boss? Somehow, I think you won't, but I could be wrong.

You didn't "forward/disable" the camera or speaker. you are a dumbass.

What if you were a sex worker? Would you be ready at any notice? Never mind, you would like it or not. Some complain of loss of privacy, while others sell yours to the next highest bidder. Capitalism works; it trickles down as long as your mouth is open.

Actually, there is. You're off the clock, so tell em to stay out of your fucking life until I clock in again (get it?). Your employer and you have a business relationship that ends at the end of YOUR work-day, UNLESS they have evidence of behavior that requires you to pee in a coupe owned by the boss, or take a breathalyzer by shoving your tongue down the throat of said boss' wife. Should you be caught on PUBLIC (NOT COMPANY) camera with said boss' girl friend, the company should stay the fuck out of your life, unless you bring her home to mom, and she happens to be in bed with said boss; now that's mixing personal business with professional. In those cases, hire a professional. Otherwise, let him live, and chuck it up to stupidity on your part. As for the tracking part with the phone, that's easy. Forward professional calls to your personal cellphone, tie professional phone call to bosses car, and see where the story goes. Remember, this is a business relationship, not a marriage, but if they insist, you have every right to cheat when you feel weak or they feel cheap.

What happens to his pension plan, if he has one with the company? I mean, he was on the clock when he died, which is about as loyal as you can expect from an employee. Proving his ill intentions in the media is one thing. Negating his pension fund to whomever has legal rights to it is something else. Or is it?

Thank You. I can't say it better than you. I only add, if the horse is red, labelled it red. For those who disagree, I understand that the green crayon tastes the same as the red one, but that's still no excuse. The label should not deny that the crayon is made from your grandmother's hooves, if that's the case. The truth matters; straight from the horse's mouth.

Wow. Send this to the top of the comments, you crazy moderators!

How can you deduce if a comment was sincere, versus a contrary or inflammatory comment for the sake of it? For some, I think, expressing bile is their way of mental exercise, without even realizing that they are trying to weigh the merits of what they say. Without knowing the person ( a context), every comment, pretty much comes out of context, and the trick of the pen versus the trick of deduction always requires further engaging that person in negative and positive arguments. As an earlier poster mentioned, a real troll doesn't respond; they eat popcorn instead.

If it is non-trivial for you to detect a troll, then you're just stupid ;

I agree. Working on the right response to what one perceives as trolling would be a better detector and deterrent. Some people are simply being contrary for the sake of inflaming an argument, off-topic or not. Others are triggered by an off-subject comment, and have a real emotional tie to the off-subject comment. Perhaps someone like this needs to be simply socially-steered back to the topic. Someone above this thread suggested hiding a troll's comments, rather than deleting them, allowing them to get the sense that they are being ignored. I think this could be a great social experiment, if trolls weren't always allowed negative responses and being banned. Not everyone who is perceived as someone intending to disrupt the conversation is such a person. We, as a group, have to be smarter than the individual. This would include allowing participants of a topic to "tag" another as a troll without them knowing about it for a day or two. Another approach is to allow only positive responses to the troll's posts, hiding the negative responses, once someone has been trolled. The opposite approach is to allow ONLY excessively negative, inflammatory responses (no intelligent responses), to someone "tagged" by PARTICIPANTS not PROCTORS of the discussion. The boundary of intelligent response and inflammatory, hateful speech needs to needled back out to the individual as a group response, in order for this to work. The simply UP/DOWN flagging doesn't cut it. Humans are non-linear beings, and our ways of rating each other's responses and how we respond to them should also be non-linear. BTW, I agree, detecting a troll through automation is just a form of censorship, and does little to allow the PARTICIPANTS of the topic to deal INTELLIGENTLY with those who's motivation is to disrupt the conversation.

I agree. Every great empire in the ancient world were great because of excellent use of many different fields, such as engineering, military, philosophy, writing, sculpturing, painting, textiles, commerce, shipping, trade, etc. It's also cool how societies borrow from both past societies and the societies with whom they interact. EG: The trade of eastern spices from the silk-road would also bring philosophy and new languages as par for the course.

Good point. However, imaginary and irrational numbers is a pretty creative way to solve a problem. PI comes to mind.

You are a crack pot. Now, go produce a movie that everyone wants to see, then post it for free. Otherwise, piss off.

I've never understood people who think it's their right to steal other people's hard work.

Would it be OK if someone else took over your role in your family, just because they could do so easily?
Granted, it's not easy now, but the future is always one step ahead of you.

Is it OK to replace you as care-giver of your family, simply because it is easy to do,
despite what you do, because others can use your history of good works towards your own family (EASILY) as reasons to why THEY should replace you?

No worries, your logic is soon coming soon, so please continue to support it. *sigh*

First off, I understand that you are NOT siding with pirates, but stating that you think the measure will be ineffectual.

But, for the rest of those reading this, who download songs for free, I have this to say.

Yeah, screw Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones, just because YOU think you have a right to free music and videos. Why don't you create a song of your own, post it on line for free, and show us your culture? I tend to think you need the culture of the world to be any good at producing your own "culture".

Just saying.