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I don't think you realise why researchers ended up in this situation.

You want to get a Phd? you have to publish something... anything.

You want money for experiments? You need publications even if you do the rest of the theoretical work on your own.

You want to get funds for some new or to continue some research? You need publications.

I'm not defending those that publish all sorts of crap as research but the whole system is rigged.

Everyone is asking for as many publications and citations as possible to even lend you a lab for 1 day to test something.

Excuse my language but what the f are you expecting?

Edit: formatting

The law is about what he is spending. If I go and pay for ads on my own initiative, he doesn't need to declare it just like Basescu didn't declare all the stuff NGOs paid for him back in the days.

EDIT: I do find it impossible for him to spend 0 on it though. You have to travel from A to B (at the very least)

I don't think you realize the ammount or scrutiny and approvals required to allow an exployee to use a sub on the main domain in corp.. A very very.. very limited ammount or people can do DNS changes for the main domain with a crap ton of signatures and eyes monitoring the whole thing.

Dave can test his stuff on a newly bought domain for testing or the internal domains.

Your password is useless when it comes to hardware keyloggers. We run yearly tests to see if people check for "extra hardware". Needles to say we have a very high failure rate.

It's hard to get a software keylooger installed on a corp. machine. It's easy to get physical access to the office or even their homes and install keyloggers all over the place and download the data via BT.

"You were hired to do a job." --- It's not as black and white as that. You're paid for your time and expertise for a number of hours/day. You do get as job description but that is just for reference. That is the "minimum" for your job in most companies. Things can be added or removed as the job progresses.

If you write code (any unrelated code) during work hours - it's done on their time, they paid you for it, they own it.

If you write code(work related) even outside working hours - They own it. At best you might get some money for your overtime and such.

if you write (urelated) code on their laptops on test it on their infra outside work hours - gray area, can go either way. most likely a settlement and they get the code.

if you write unrelated code and test it with you own resources - depends on the lawyers but, in most places, it's yours to keep. If the CEO suite or senior management see value in it. Be ready to to defend it.

I did have this exact discussion when I started with a global 500 corp as I do write code for various things when needed and also write small apps for extra £. The above pretty much sums up the discussion with the UK lawyer. It's not my job to write code but I do to make my life easier. I also document it for handover if I decide to leave.

EDIT: a few typos and the below

The lawyer's advice was, if I write anything unrelated that I want to keep - publish/sell in my wife's name.

spot on. As a general rule of thumb I keep a form of activity/issues log and send a monthly summart to the finance guys and head of dept along with "expected issues". Letting things crash and burn is a thing I learned from one of my managers a while back. It's great for raises, bouses and rep. Takes a good deal of effort not to fix things I know will break though.

I'll be the unpopular voice here (not defending g for the,imho, monopoly though): - Google is not killing anything and don't owe you traffic; - You don't get traffic because your website is less algorithm oriented than other sites (among a ton of other things).

if you want to unserstand how and why certain websites rank and all that sort of stuff just lurk on black hat SEO forums and see how they game system. I don't recomment their services but it's worth reading about the things they take into account. From keywords, density, headings all the way to domain age and server location.

Maybe 9 eyes?

The countries involved in the 5 Eyes, 9 Eyes, and 14 Eyes alliances and their partners

    Five Eyes countries: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
    Nine Eyes countries: The Five Eyes plus Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, and France
    Fourteen Eyes countries: The Nine Eyes plus Italy, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, and Spain
    Partners of the 14 Eyes: Israel, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, British Overseas Territories