"Their crime was ranking highly in Google, while Google said what they were doing was OK."
There's the letter of the law and there's the spirit of the law. EE may have been compliant with the letter of Google's law at the time, but if you'd asked Google and Google users specifically they would've told you it was sleazy/not ok.
Google eventually understood the sleaziness and changed their policy to address this specifically. End users also understood the sleaziness and went elsewhere.
I suspect you are coming from the same background as me, where "coffee" means espresso. I need to keep reminding myself when reading these discussions that for most people in the US plain "coffee" means brew or drip type. (I'm Puerto Rican BTW, where most households use a moka pot[1] that produces coffee very similar in strength to espresso.)
The article has a sidebar explaining "hot-desking":
"Hot-desking - the idea that employees don't retain a fixed desk in an office - is a key part of organisations' move towards cheaper, more flexible workplaces. The more employees work from home, the more organisations can shrink their offices to accommodate only the number of people who are in every day."
In addition to the telecommuting angle, I've seen open plan offices like this that also have a limited number of closed rooms where employees can go for a while if they want some privacy, or if they need to work with a colleague for a while. That seems like a good compromise.
Because I was there early, my iCloud email/Apple ID is a fairly short but uncommon word, and I receive at least three of these emails every week. I also constantly get subscribed to newsletters I never requested, and receive many messages (both emails and through iMessage) from people who thought they were contacting someone else.
I have two theories on why is this:
1. There is at least one person out there in the world who is convinced they own my iCloud email address, but have "forgotten" their password, so they keep trying to reset it. Meanwhile they keep giving out the address as though it were theirs.
2. There's simply an astounding number of people using iCloud, many of them technically unsophisticated users, so data entry mistakes in login forms and other places will be more common.
I do reset my password every week or so, just to be safe.
I don't know, I wouldn't use Glengarry Glen Ross as an example of something you'd aspire to. The play/movie is a criticism of the sleazy "sales animal" culture where the product doesn't matter, closing sales is equated to virility, and the players are so desperate for a sale they'd lie, steal and ruin other people's lives for it.
> But the real trouble is that some countries don't allow an author to surrender their moral rights
Correct. This is what happened in Puerto Rico. In preparation for the Puerto Rico version of CC, the University of Puerto Rico Cyberclinic did a comparative study of moral rights across the world: http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/international/pr/moral-ri... which is pretty informative.
I agree with this. There's also a strong correlation between sloppy writing and poor reading comprehension. This is usually someone who never takes time to sit down and read edited or well-crafted prose.
Why is good reading comprehension important for programmers? You see it often: A fellow programmer complains they can't find an answer to a particular problem they're having, even when the solution is staring them right in the face in the first Google search result. Good reading comprehension helps you help yourself.