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© Copyright Frank D. Kanu 2000-2008

I just don’t get it. Grownups complaining that their boss does what they do to their children. “But I only do that to protect my children!”

And so does your boss! And we all know that most bosses consider the business their child right?

Back in 2004 I noted that there is no privacy on the internet.

In 2006 I wrote that 1/4 of companies fired employees because of misuse of e-mail.

In 2007 the German Consulting Group released a study done with 400 German top managers about truth and fiction; 79% said their e-mail contains lies.

And yesterday I read Reading emails is among the most benign erosions of perceived privacy in the corporate world.

Companies have rules; companies explain why e-mail and phone calls are monitored.

Yet, employees still complain.

But it is the companies that have to go to court for wrongful doings of employees.

What do you think?

Who is really unethical here?

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Since days a splogger rips continuously one specific posting from one of my blogs.

The splogs about pages states that the blog is a search engine and one would hurt oneself if one asks to have the content removed.

Would you name it a search engine when a page is surrounded by at least 7 ads?

But anyway, the request to remove has been honored a few times, just to have the posting back after some hours. WTF?

Google ads are still happily displayed, despite a complain of copyright infringement. And honestly I do have a big fuzz with Google’s attitude. Blogger is full of splogs, of “blogs” that add hundreds of postings a day, but real blogs get shut down immediately: A friend of wife had her single post blog shut down within 24 hours because Google found out it’s a splog. WTF?

I had to complain 6 times before Google took action against a Blogger account that ripped my content—including the copyright note. WTF?

Which blogger can’t say they had images stolen? Or content? Had images hotlinked and get cursed at and threatened with legal action for daring to replace the hotlinked image? Get’s slammed for using their own content?

One friend got cursed at in a public forum because he is so rude to think that his copyrighted photographs are actually his. How dare him!

But what is really worst is the attitude of some hosting and blog-platform providing companies. Even with the copyright of someone else displayed you still get comments like this (since most splogs do not have any way to contact them the only option is to go to the host):

• “We are too busy to look into this right now”
• “This is not our problem”
• To make a claim of Copyright Infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), you must provide the following information per TITLE 17, CHAPTER 5, § 512, C, (3) “Elements of notification” of the “Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code” available at http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html
  Followed by a lot more legal stuff. Does anyone really think that the majority of bloggers can afford that?

Doesn’t that send the message: We make stealing easy and don’t care as long as we can make a profit?

And then there are those who claim they didn’t “know” or they “forgot”. WTF?

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Search engines punish the original poster by lowering their ranking. A few weeks ago I read that a search engine result had only splogs in the first 20 returned results; and almost only splogs in the first 70. WTF?

Is that the future for search engine results for blogs?

A great many of the wonderful blogs I used to read have vanished. Because of sploggers? Content theft? At least in two cases that is true.
How sad.

People stealing, changing the copyright note; claiming it is theirs and then asking for royalties for their work. (Happens way too often with open source software).

So where does this all lead us?

To a web filled with search engines and useless results. Or do you really want to visit 50 splogs before seeing a real result?

To webpages with 50 ads per 5 word sentence?

To feeds with no more than copyright notes?

What do you think?

How do your protect your copyrighted material?

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in helping people deal with high energy prices and food prices,” said the President.

Way too little way too late.

Someone needs to tell him in something like three words or less that the stimulus is supposed to boost the economics, not to offset the cost increase we see everywhere.

But than what can one expect from the Commander Guy who spends trillions for a war that was announced to cost less than 600 billion and has its mission accomplished—5 years ago.

(I for one am tired of hearing about the progress being made. It’s years later and there are more and more American soldiers giving their lives for—yeah, for what?)

Did you read that the economic actually grew slightly in the first quarter ? One has to wonder how that can be with all the companies reporting income losses and layoffs. Oh, wait a minute—Dubya’s friends at the work: The oil companies (I am extremely disturbed by the obscene profits the oil companies are reaping. ) report new profit records every quarter.

Let’s face it: If a commander in chief needs to call himself the “commander guy ” he got his priorities wrong and is everything but a leader.

Anyway, for me the real issue about the stimulus pay is this:

By law, the stimulus payments are offset to satisfy past-due taxes, student loans, child support and certain other debts.
Child support? Yes! I fully support that—after all that money goes to a child (at least in theory…)

Past due taxes, student loans and certain other debts? You got to be kidding me!

Not only that even Dubya recognizes how useless the stimulus has become—now the pay does not even go to those who more likely would actually spend it…

What’s even worst—a family with children that has debts will not get a darn thing. Or get what children need: School supplies, clothes, etc. And those cost. But one has to guess that the debt is already so insanely high that even a little not paid stimulus helps…

But since children do not have a lobby…

Families need more support, especially in times with a rotten economics. Other countries—like Germany —pay Kindergeld an allowance for every child.

Wouldn’t it be nice if this President stopped telling and starts leading?

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Some people apologize for stealing—others get nasty:
Sigh… another lifter
The Twisted Mind of Copyright Thieves

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At least I consider it stealing when you take things from someone else’s blog and put them in yours. I know it wasn’t the first time that Entrecarders/Bloggers have done this. What I really wonder is—how hard can it be to actually credit the person you took the stuff from?



Look at this question mark image. On my blog here since a long time (almost a year)—created by Ada from Scramories.

As an author copyright and copyright infringement are something that I have to be very concerned about.

If people do not stop to steal content from others—where do the original authors end up? The bad impact of splogs scoring higher than the original can already been seen anywhere.

If you are a marketer—do you really need to steal?
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And removing the stolen content after being caught doesn’t make it any better.

It pretty much shows your morals and ethics towards the copyrights and content of others.

As long as you don’t get caught—you steal, right?

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Almost every day I am subscribed to another list I didn’t ask for.

Andreas S for example—do you really think I would ever read your stuff? Go thru the hassle of unsubscribing when I didn’t subscribe in the first place? See, that’s what a good e-mail filter is for. And if someone asks me—I have no good word for you. Or all the others that think adding a person to their spam mailing list is now the polite thing to do.

Really annoying are the ones that pretend it was you that subscribed; but there is a mismatch in company name, the person’s name, the date/time, the IP Address, … And those that claim: Feel free to use the unsubscribe link—which either doesn’t exist in the e-mail or leads nowhere on the web.

Relationships take time to be build—but are destroyed in an instant. So—consider yourself tagged—as spammer!

Do you like being auto-subscribed?

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Ok, the subordinate explains what is done to keep the leader up to date.





I haven’t heard that?

Either Ms. Perino was lying with her statement that the President is briefed regularly. Or the briefings are useless—because the President isn’t informed properly. Or President Bush can’t understand the briefing or follow them.

What is it?

One thing is for sure: This is everything but leadership. One of the 13 deadly sins of Stop Telling… Start Leading! The Art of Managing People by Asking Questions is: Let Everything Go Uncontrolled. Looking at Ms. Perino’s and President’s Bush statement—do you think that anybody is in control in the White House?

They have the slightest clue what is going on?

I’ve said it before: This is no leadership. Countries in economical trouble need leadership. Or the trouble worsens. America has to deal with a lot of other things that many things are handled wrongfully: The Iraq War, health care, immigration, the fight of terrorism to name but a few.

But let’s face it: If too many people have to turn every penny twice (gasoline is now well above $5 a gallon in CA) an elected leader stating: “I hadn’t heard that.” shows nothing but a lot of ignorance. Towards those that put him in power in the first place. Looking back in history—wars have been started on the grounds of badly handled economical downturns. Sure, there is the stimulus package, but it hasn’t arrived yet and how much influence will it has?

Many think it’s too little too late.

On the other hand, some companies post ever higher profits while cutting low ranked employees income and cutting the work force. But to whom are these companies going to sell their products when the average person will be living below the poverty rate?

It used to be that top managers and companies understood their ethical and economical responsibility of ensuring the wealth of everyone—to guarantee their own survival. Now it looks like the only thing that counts is profit.

Where is a leader when the country needs one?

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It’s official: The German supreme court approved the “Bundestrojaner “. German link only, but I am sure many links in all languages will follow soon…
Anyway, the Bundestrojaner is a trojan horse the government put’s on your computer.
The spying is only ok if human lives or the existence of the state are endangered. What do think how many other countries love those German politicians and judges right now? And especially Germany, a country haunted by their Third Reich past.

We all know how those things work out: Give the government a finger and they’ll rip out your arm. Or more.

We all know that laws are broken; by bad guys the so called criminals and by the good guys; just look at the news and the amount of complaints and lawsuits. But putting spyware on peoples computers?

1984 wasn’t that bad, or was it?

Or maybe this was a stroke of genius from the German government - to decrease unemployment rates. Think about it: Now everyone will get busy to get more and more anti-spy-software. Anti-government software. And the Government will get busy to write more and more trojans. It also gives a totally new meaning to buyer beware: “This computer is officially government infested.” Welcome to the world of the anti-anti-anti-trojan…

Of course the one thing you will not see is that this trojan will land on the computers of those government officials that do wrong, steal, lie, betray, molest, abuse power….

What a sad day for human kind.

Wouldn’t you agree?

PS: Germany, the same country that has states paying hackers to decrypt Skype conversations…

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