Letters to the Editor
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But isn't spying on anyone that you....
suspect of anything okay now? Can't Ms. Dunn just get the President to declare any possible leaker a "corporate terrorist" and then anything goes?
I guess we should praise Ms. Dunn for not having anyone tortured. I can hear Cheney's snarl: "That Dunn woman is such a piker. I would've tortured the whole board and found that they were all leakers in a heartbeat."
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Well stated 'afterthought'.
When HP changed the Telephone # of their West Coast Director, who would NOT accept responsibility for the failure of 'one' HP Printer, two weeks after its 'WARRANTY' expired and my request to purchase an extended 'WARRANTY' for the other SEVEN PRINTERS from the same EE Department 'Purchase Order' I should have been suspect.
However, my 'Reverse Polish Notation' could not compute or balance this HP equation {spending State University and 'Tax Payer' Dollars}.
No "Pleading the Fifth" there, merely disconnecting that Telephone #.
sub sole sub umbra virens
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Why does this merit a Congressional hearing?
Seems like a fairly mundane matter. It's not actually illegal, seemingly and no puppies and kittens were harmed. If someone wants to pursue this criminally then they should contact the State Atty. Gen'l. But this bullshit grandstanding in front of Congress, is just that, bullshit. Wow some underperforming overpaid circlejerk of asshole executives are craven? Let's call al Jazeera and make sure the terrorists don't know about that new chink in our armor.
Hey Congress!, the last time I checked HP didn't try to steal an election, like Nixon did. You fucking morons.
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To all employees ...
Newsflash ... Employers monitor email, monitor internet usage, monitor which web sites employees visit, monitor what emails are received and sent, and basically have the ability to access and review all usage of the employer's information systems. THIS IS NOT ILLEGAL. Employees should not use an employer's information systems for matters which they seek to keep private or secret.
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doesn't pass the smell test...
The company obviously went well beyond checking its own phone records and emails. It was qutie fascinating to watch these "captains of the industry" on C-SPAN. They were bobbing and weaving and straining to recollect and attempting to sound forthright and honest. Several things were painfully obvious. Corporate managers think that their shit doesn't stink, which is why they didn't bother with the common sense "smell test" for their action.s Secondly, they treat their employees like chattel and are genuinely surprised to find out that they can't do anything they want to them.
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This is actually really sad...
putting aside the specifics of the case, HP is a great old company - one of the true technology innovators - not to mention a politically progressive company. While we don't know the fallout yet, what's bad for HP is bad for SF - and it's a shame when such a respected organization stumbles like this...
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Corporate Co-Dependence
This is such a good story of "corporate co-dependence," you couldn't make it up if you tried. NOBODY KNOWS NOTHIN'.
The attorneys ask the other attorneys, who ask who "authorized" it who ask why is it necessary in the first place: what are we trying to protect? Have we got the technology? Why not use it?
It is people who have learned the fine art of not taking responsibility operating in a wider "culture" where security has become an obsession--the fashion--and there is nobody left with a sign on their desk that says: The Buck Stops Here.
It would be funny, and I admit I am laughing, except that this is a recurring mind-set. Millions of corporate hopefuls enter this world every year to be taught the value of "relative" ethics, i.e. preserve your career, keep your mouth shut, don't ask too many questions--and you too can lead a Fortune 500 Hundred Company! The secret is to see just how innocuous you can be.
Honor, truth, and decency are the stuff of traitors and fools. Give me the house on the hill NO MATTER WHAT I HAVE TO DO, the right nanny to raise the children, remove the glass ceiling--and let me show you how it is done.
If they catch me, hey, I can buy a better attorney than their attorney. That's the way everybody else does it. Why can't I?
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SR (below/above) is dead on.
Just more bullshit grandstanding by a bunch of holier than thou congressional jerk offs. What does the HP situation amount too? The foxes spying on the foxes...in one way or another that's just what corporate america does for a living. Who cares?
el coyote cojo
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It's A Revelation About Corporatocracy And The Repub Party
This is truly terrible and demonstrates the ever devolving corporate mindset.
But it's nothing compared to what Bush and the corrupt/criminal Rethugs are going to do with the wiretapping bill when they use it on ALL Americans. And they most certainly will.
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Hewlett-Packard Products
If the Hewlett-Packard board and its management paid attention to its products, rather than to who among them was saying what to whom,they might have a better company. Their reputation and excellence free ride is over.
The last product that I will buy from HP is the psc 750 printer•scanner•copier that sits malevolently next to my computer (not an HP), daring me to try to use it. This piece of junk behaves as if it were Stephen King character, whose reason de etre is to bedevil its owner.