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*cough* It disgusts me that Republicans (Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) comes to mind) would say: "America has been divided,” he said, “and the center of America is disappearing, and the violence is appearing in the streets, and it’s coming from the left." We have divisiveness, and he wants to just add fuel to the fire. There's violence coming from both sides of the spectrum and both sides should be working to stop it, not justify their "self-defense" or whatever bullshit they come up with to justify these heinous acts by claiming it's *really* the other side.

It's not a left or right thing. It's a left and right thing. And both parties (which don't really represent the left or right) will milk it to their own advantage. Expect more laws? More crackdowns? No real solutions? 100% When you're an incumbent, doing stuff that solves problems might get you replaced next election cycle. But doing nothing? That's almost a guaranteed win. Unless you're not being "tough on crime". Like another poster suggested, we really just need to make murder illegal. Clearly that's the problem and more laws upon that line are the solution.

*puke*

Food is fairly inexpensive, you typically see all kinds of poor people who suffer from obesity.

That's because "food" is cheap, but "healthy food," can be quite expensive. Many of the hispanics who pick produce suffer from diabetes because while unhealthy beans and rice are cheap and plentiful, on their subsistence (or worse) wages, they can't afford the very vegetables and fruit that they harvest.

According to the Hartford Currant, some Yale students signed a petition that called for repealing the First Amendment.

"I think the constitution should be one big safe space, right?" Ami Horowitz tells one student.

"Hurting people's feelings ... should not be protected speech," he says to another.

Horowitz got 50 signatures in less than an hour.

You say that like you are a member of the cult of scientology.

There is a myth that all mass shooters are on anti-depressants.

(1) It's false. For example the Sandy Hook shooter had no medication in his bloodstream.
(2) The origin of the myth is a scientology front
(3) Mass-shootings are a form of suicide and anti-depressants reduce suicidal thoughts and behaviors.
(4) Anti-psychotics cut homicide rates in patients by 93%
(5) People who are happy don't commit suicide. Given that some 20% of the adult population is taking anti-depressants it is not surprising that some mass-shooters would be on anti-depressants. It would be anomalous if they weren't.

Here is an idea, lets use Military to kill people and break things

Definitely. It's a critical part of our Judeo-Christian heritage to kill people and break things.

We don't have to worry about the Air Force making plans for global warming, because they're all convinced Jesus will come back and save us before that happens.

http://blogs.courant.com/susan...

Personally, I think Jesus is going to be pissed at what his followers have done to the perfectly good planet his dad made for them. And using 'Jesus is coming soon anyway' as an excuse!

Here is an idea, lets use Military to kill people and break things

Definitely. It's a critical part of our Judeo-Christian heritage to kill people and break things.

We don't have to worry about the Air Force making plans for global warming, because they're all convinced Jesus will come back and save us before that happens.

http://blogs.courant.com/susan...

I don't necessarily like knowing cops have this information but so long as there's rules over the collection (see above) I'm okay with this.

But you have no idea if they are following those rules at all. Police have a long history of flagrantly violating such rules:
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com...
http://www.thenewsherald.com/a...
http://articles.courant.com/20...

And using their position to rape and murder:
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetim...
http://time.com/3159146/oklaho...
http://articles.courant.com/20...

Access to 1 weeks worth of data would allow the public as a whole to see how they are being monitored. The few criminal investigations that may be impacted pale in comparison to the overwhelming public right to know what the police are up to.

I don't necessarily like knowing cops have this information but so long as there's rules over the collection (see above) I'm okay with this.

But you have no idea if they are following those rules at all. Police have a long history of flagrantly violating such rules:
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com...
http://www.thenewsherald.com/a...
http://articles.courant.com/20...

And using their position to rape and murder:
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetim...
http://time.com/3159146/oklaho...
http://articles.courant.com/20...

Access to 1 weeks worth of data would allow the public as a whole to see how they are being monitored. The few criminal investigations that may be impacted pale in comparison to the overwhelming public right to know what the police are up to.

Hi, Personally, I want a much higher fraction of gun wielding, baton-toting, chokehold knowing police officers to be good people doing good things. 5-10% of the police force is a lot of bad apples, given their ability to cause mayhem. Teachers - they may not teach you, they may pick on you, but they won't kill you or beat you senseless. Probably.

As for fraternities, It is just incorrect to call fraternities wholesome things with adult oversight from local volunteers. Seriously? To solve the problem, though, instead of nail polish you could simply avoid going into fraternities or off-campus parties altogether. Especially freshman fall.

"The reason laws against covert photography were missing " was because the law lags behind technology quite a bit, generally. There have certainly been plenty of laws against covert voice recording, despite your (not untrue) belief that "such laws would also apply to people working for the State, and governments did NOT want their own people limited by such laws." Agents of the state could not willy-nilly listen in to phone calls (legally anyway) without demonstrating to the judiciary that you were in pursuit of specific information related to a specific criminal case. Of course, all that goes out the window now that we realize that Arabs and/or Muslims are having conversations freely behind our backs.

My random reading of the newspaper for the past few years encountered several cases where a camera hidden in a bathroom or somewhere could not result in prosecution of the pervert involved, since there was no law against it, and they could only be prosecuted if there was an audio track so that the anti-eavesdropping laws applied.

"No matter how intrusive, they say, video voyeurism is typically not illegal." [ca. 1998] http://articles.courant.com/19...

"Nearly all audio recording without consent of one or all parties is unlawful. Recording audio is very different from video, and there are definite federal and state laws prohibiting surreptitious recording and monitoring of audio interactions. These laws are taken extremely seriously by authorities and failure to adhere to them could result in serious consequences." http://www.jlmmerchandise.com/...

You could always get as much health care as you could pay for.

Actually you can get as much health care as it takes to deal with your critical issues, whether you can pay for it or not. The sign in our local ER is clear: they cannot refuse to treat you because you don't have money.

Once you are out of the ER, that's when ability to pay is an issue.

Someone has to pay for all those subsidies and expanded health insurance coverage.

ACA is supposed to be for people who couldn't buy health insurance. Here is the story of a UCONN law student who was paying $39/month for health insurance who went to the ACA exchange looking for a cheaper plan. He found it: medicaid. He now pays nothing at all for his health insurance, the taxpayers are footing the entire bill. So, while he's paying $39 less a month, we're picking up the tab, and it costs us all more.

And this talks about higher costs for young people overall. So "pay less" is a very localized phenomenon.

On occasion, if the power company fucks up badly enough, there are consequences . Frankly, regardless of whether or not it was a good idea to give the IT staff advanced notice (it wasn't) offshoring your IT in New England will likely come back to bite them in the ass in the winter. It's not like there are snow and ice storms that would interrupt power and communications and the ability to remotely connect to IT systems, after all ...

On occasion, if the power company fucks up badly enough, there are consequences . Frankly, regardless of whether or not it was a good idea to give the IT staff advanced notice (it wasn't) offshoring your IT in New England will likely come back to bite them in the ass in the winter. It's not like there are snow and ice storms that would interrupt power and communications and the ability to remotely connect to IT systems, after all ...

When Aaron Swartz tapped into MIT's network and scooped up data from one non-profit company, the U.S. Attorney threatened him with 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine. So what kind of jail time did 38 Attorneys General threaten Google with for using its Street View cars to scoop up passwords, e-mail and other personal information by tapping into the networks of their states' unsuspecting citizens? None.

Not withstanding the fact that you can't actually put a noncorporeal being in jail, the various AG offices threatened Google with significantly way more than $1 million in fines - and in fact were ready to get court orders to force Google to turn over all of their data.

So what you're saying is that Lanza would have done the same amount of damage as fast as he did without the use of a semi-automatic assault rifle?

Sadly, yes, he probably would have. They found discarded 30-round magazines with as few as 15 rounds fired from them, and reports are that he "reloaded frequently." He started shooting about 9:35 a.m., and stopped shooting 11-14 minutes later. He fired 50-100 rounds, meaning he fired 4-9 rounds per minute, or one round every 7-15 seconds, on average.

If you're familiar with a weapon, you can swap a magazine in seconds. Lanza was familiar with these weapons, they were owned by his mother, who took him to the gun range where he fired them. Reducing the capacity of the magazines he had access to would have had little to no effect on the "amount of damage" he would have done - he wasn't emptying magazines to begin with.

The US has almost double the rate of any other industrialized nation when it comes to gun related crime. The reasons for that are fairly simple: a) it's too easy to buy a gun, b) the cultural insanity that calls itself the "gun culture" has put weaponized assault on the forefront of everyone's mind.

That's a vast oversimplification of the problem. Much of our gun violence is drug related. In fact, it's incredibly rare, statistically speaking, that a mass murder is committed like this. handguns are the tool of choice for most gun homicides, to the extent that "other guns" are involved at a rate roughly similar to knives and blunt objects.

In fact, murders like what happened at Sandy Hook or Virginia Tech or Columbine are mostly caused by mental health problems. These are surprisingly rare. The other crimes

People outside major cities are perfectly happy to reap the rewards they bring to our society, but when it comes to gun violence, the non-city dwellers say "Screw you, we're keeping our guns. You're on your own".

The irony of you making this statement is delicious. For all of your hand-wringing, the solutions being proposed to "stop crimes like this" do nothing to stop the vast majority (i.e., inner city poor & drug trafficking-related) gun violence in the least. But, because suburban white kids were killed at Sandy Hook, AR-15s are evil and need to be banned today - nevermind that handguns kill vastly more people, and that those people are vastly inner city young men who are involved in gangs and drug trafficking. They're not as photogenic, being brown inner city folks, but if you truly cared about "violence," you'd stop focusing on the statistical aberration that occurred at Sandy Hook, and start focusing on the vastly larger problem of handgun violence related to gang and drug trafficking. It's very clear that you're one of the comfortable suburban middle classers opining about how we're going to "keep our kids safe."

Yes, clearly all of the NNSA security forces are nothing more than mall rent-a-cops. That would explain consistently performing at the top of SWAT competitions year after year after year...

In China, it is forbidden for private citizens to own firearms, for the most part. Yet, this guy went and carved up 22 people at an elementary school today with a knife. Do we need knife control laws now too?

How about better identification and treatment of mental illness that causes people to want to kill children? That sounds like an actual solution to the problem, rather than a band-aid on cancer.

> LED accent lighting.... can be very dim, but provide enough light to act as a night light.
We used amber -- switched separately. Those (no blue) can be as bright as you want, including reading lights.

(The health issues are emerging in epidemiology statistics for use of blue-white light at nighttime)
http://articles.courant.com/2012-06-20/health/hc-light-dangerous-ama-0621-20120620_1_breast-cancer-light-pollution-ama-board-member
Adverse Health Effects of Nighttime Lighting
http://www.ama-assn.org/resources/doc/csaph/a12-csaph4-lightpollution-summary.pdf

Or in other words, if there's a specific channel someone wants to watch, but is on a very expensive tier, that being the only way to get said channel, hence the problem.

I'm kind of curious how well Comcast MyTV is going to do in those markets available to receive it. Although I'm not sure if it's cheaper.

http://mobile.courant.com/p.p?m=b&a=rp&id=856353&postId=856353&postUserId=47&sessionToken=&catId=6225&curAbsIndex=2&resultsUrl=DID%3D6%26DFCL%3D1000%26DSB%3Drank%2523desc%26DBFQ%3DuserId%253A47%26DL.w%3D%26DL.d%3D10%26DQ%3DsectionId%253A6225%26DPS%3D0%26DPL%3D5

"There certainly is intentional theft, but some of it is not intentional," Claire D'Amour-Daley, Big Y spokeswoman said Friday.

In particular, fruits, vegetables and self-serve bakery items can be misidentified by customers using a self-checkout terminal, D'Amour-Daley said.

"We don't just carry one type of apple. We carry apples in a bag, we carry loose applesso it could be an identification problem. It can be tricky," she said.

Losses at stores with self-checkout lines were 20 percent to 65 percent higher than at retailers with all traditional check stands, according to a report by Adrian Beck and Colin Peacock, two British researchers. In total, not just including self-checkout, retail losses in 2009 attributable to theft, mispriced and mis-scanned items and other factors totaled an estimated $278 billion, or 1.65 percent of retail sales. Cutting those losses by one-half, could boost retailers profits by as much as 36 percent, the study said.

No, they don't. The ONLY thing they do is raise enrollment. The year after a team wins a championship or does well, they've seen enrollment rise.

UConn lost roughly $280,000 in football, according to the numbers. Only three BCS programs lost more — Syracuse, which lost $835,000, Wake Forest ($3.07 million) and Duke ($6.72 million). Rutgers, which spent $19.07 million on its football program, was the only other school to fail to make a profit, although the Big East school broke even.

Basketball doesn't make money either.
"Let's just take a look at two schools, my own Holy Cross and big-time power North Carolina to highlight the flaws. According to the article, the Holy Cross basketball team racked up $1,549,329 in expenses while generating an identical amount in revenue and therefore exactly broke even.".

And as a whole, only 19 D1 Football schools were in the black.

no it does not. It's the same as "gun control" you cant buy a gun in the USA if you are a criminal. yet criminals have guns. In the UK guns are flat out illegal, yet criminals have guns. http://articles.courant.com/2010-03-03/community/hc-new-london-shooting-fatal-0303_1_private-vehicle-police-suspect

All it does is give a couple of rich jerks some "attaboys" for fighting crime when they are really doing nothing but harming businesses and freedom in general. (Note: dont try to compare USA shooting crimes to the UK unless you multiply the UK number by the population disparity.)

How this trick works is I have someone - camera at the ready pointing at your laptop, filming... and then I email you a NSFW image. When your email client previews the image, ZOMG you are looking at porn. Guilty!

After seeing the video, I have to admit I was wondering why there was a camera zoomed in SOOOoooo close onto a senator's laptop computer.

I mean, it's not like this was a senator caught playing solitaire in a wider shot. Also, there was supposedly something more interesting going on, like a speech about an abortion bill. Why would a cameraman think to himself, "I know! Let's ignore the speech and zoom in on $randomSenator's laptop screen! That's interesting!" unless he knew something interesting was about to happen....

Plus, he's using Firefox. Are you guys really going to pick on him after realizing that?

Oh ya, he uses Firefox. Give this man a total pass! WTF, he's supposed to be an elected official performing a JOB. But you know what's really sad? He's not alone. Check out these other officials (Democrats) playing Solitaire and viewing ESPN.com.

http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/2009/09/connecticut-budget-solitaire-photo.html

Please stay away from Arizona. I like the law here a lot, why do you want to protect the intruder? If you don't belong in a house then don't enter it, how hard is that to follow? Whenever places pass laws against Castle Doctrine there are always asshole criminals who break into someones house, get shot up but not killed, and then end up suing the poor homeowners. Also look at gun control stats and you will find that anywhere in the US that has increased gun control there is an increase in criminal behavior and places with less gun control usually have much lower rates of crime.

While you may feel safe calling the police and waiting for them to arrive when an intruder breaks into your home I prefer to actually be able to protect myself and if the intruder does not respond and run the other way after my warning then they will be having a close conversation with a bullet not long after. Many home invasions in Arizona result in the homeowner and others seriously injured or dead and many are also kidnapped (Phoenix is number 2 in the WORLD for kidnappings, Mexico City is the only other city in the world with more), I won't be messing around with any intruders that is for sure. Here is a link to an article about how Phoenix is the kidnapping capital of the USA:

http://articles.courant.com/2010-03-17/news/hc-freshperez-mexico-drug-carte.artmar17_1_drug-cartels-ciudad-juarez-border-town

Okay. What do I win?

Fuck you frenchy, I hope you and your fat wife drown in a vat of wine.

Fat wife?

Any job interview will mean she will have to detail the offense and her "arrest record".

Not exactly true, it depends on the wording of the application. If she is only asked for felony convictions then she doesn't have to list it. According to the Hartford Courant she plead to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct.

Here's a "interesting biz in our area" piece in my local paper. Contact them, or any other local design house: http://www.courant.com/business/hc-cornershop1008.artoct08,0,6635443.story

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power"-- Mussolini

OK, if we are going to quote Mussolini as a great political scientist, let's extrapolate on this a bit. Who created Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the true "merger of state and corporate power" in this crisis? Democrats. Who further extended this by creating the CRA? Democrats. Who expanded its mission into accusing bankers of racism ("redlining") and extorting them to make more bad loans, or else be investigated? Democrats. Who ignored warnings and blocked efforts at reform in 2003? Who killed efforts at GOP reform of the FMs in 2005? Democrats. What party was Chris Dodd, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee who took millions in lobbying money from the financial services industry and got sweetheart loan deals a member of? Democrats. What party was the guy who was boning the assistant director of Fannie Mae while he was on the House Financial Services Committee a member of? Democrats.

Funny, I see a lot of suspects that your oh-so-insightful post left out.

But don't worry. help is on the way. Barack Obama, who also got a sweetheart loan deal, will be sure critics can't speak out against him. He will define truth, just as Orwell predicted, since the media is asleep at the switch. What party is he from?

Whoever modded parent as "insightful" are all so busy slamming Fox News that you don't even know who is responsible for all of this. But don't let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Well, bear with me this time. I clicked on the "Google" logo today, and the first "news release" in the results is this page. From which I take this part:

If all goes according to plan, the Large Hadron Collider, a gigantic particle accelerator underground near Geneva, could re-create the very moment 13 billion years ago when scientists believe a tremendous explosion known as the "big bang" created the universe.

Now you see that and what do you think? If the experiment is "successful" they will re-create a "tremendous explosion"! No wonder why people is a bit scared of those experiments.

My Feeds: Select: All 95 subscriptions, None, Unassigned A to Z Kids Stuff children http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/atoz.xml ABC News: Top Stories news http://my.abcnews.go.com/rsspublic/fp_rss20.xml About Computing Center technology http://z.about.com/6/g/pcworld/b/rss2.xml About.com Archaeology Archaeology http://z.about.com/6/g/archaeology/b/rss2.xml All Things Digital technology http://feeds.allthingsd.com/atd-feed/ Archaeology News Archaeology news http://www.topix.net/rss/science/archaeology.xml Ars Technica tech news http://feeds.arstechnica.com/arstechnica/BAaf ArsTechnica: Security Content Security technology http://feeds.feedburner.com/arstechnica/security BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition U.K. http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss.xml BBC News | Science/Nature | World Edition Science/Nature http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/science/nature/rss.xml Boing Boing odd http://feeds.boingboing.net/boingboing/iBag Breaking News: CBSNews.com news http://www.cbsnews.com/feeds/rss/main.rss Breitbart.tv varied news topics http://www.breitbart.com/xml/recentvideo.xml ChannelWeb Complete Feed Computer news http://www.crn.com/cwb/globalcontent/cweball/index.xml;jsessionid=L0I1HBDQISHBCQSNDLQSKH0CJUNN2JVN Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories news http://www.csmonitor.com/rss/top.rss CNN.com - Offbeat odd http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_offbeat.rss CNN.com - Politics politics http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_allpolitics.rss CNN.com - U.S. U.S. news http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_us.rss Computerworld Breaking News technology http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/News Cool Tools technology http://feeds.feedburner.com/CoolTools Courant.com - Connecticut News Ct. news http://feeds.courant.com/Courant/ConnecticutNews Defense Tech U.S. defense news http://www.defensetech.org/index.rdf Discovery News - Technology technology http://dsc.discovery.com/news/subjects/technology/xdb/topstories.xml Drudge Report news http://feeds.feedburner.com/FeedPalooza/lwDu Dvorak Uncensored news http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?feed=rss2 Engadget robots & gadgets http://www.engadget.com/rss.xml Extremetech technology http://rssnewsapps.ziffdavis.com/extreme.xml Fark.com news http://www.pluck.com/rss/fark.rss FileForum software http://fileforum.b

I actually read about this in my local paper Hartford Courant this morning. I don't think the CNN article really does a good job indicating the "hostile" in this hostile takeover. Note the part where Laurer directed UTC not to have further contact with board members.

My impression is that UTC has been getting more heavily into security over the last several years and they are probably more interested the ATM/check machine aspect of Diebold, in spite of Diebold's entanglements with voting machines.

Actually HP is now the #1 computer maker. They surpassed Dell in 2006.

http://www.cio-today.com/news/Strategy-Shift-Gives -HP-Lead-over-Dell/story.xhtml?story_id=12300BCZCB J9

http://www.courant.com/business/hc-ymleckey0624.ar tjun24,0,4681941.story?coll=hc-headlines-business

According to http://www.courant.com/news/local/hcu-amerotrial-0 606,0,4739321.story the state is unlikely to prosecute her a second time.

Also, there, it states that her sentencing was postponed 4 times this spring as the state considered new evidence. It's not clear how much - if any - time was spent in jail.

It's disturbing that the teachers unions did not come to her defense, or at least push to have more light shed on the situations that teachers face regularly in the classroom. Yeah, this girl was a substitute, but the case has a large bearing on teachers in general.

If I was sent to investigate this situation, and ran into a pregnant substitute teacher who was given instructions not to turn off the computer under any circumstances it would be hard not to take a look at the potential pop-up/spyware situation. Is there nobody that works for the police department, prosecutors office, the school, or the school board who has any real IT experience?

Yep, o-l-d. old - like since Jan. this year, I think - but hey, it's zonk and the weekend and he's tired and can't find his stuffed monkey, so what ya' gonna do...

ZONK!!! Wake up or go home - sorry, you are at home...please either at least wake ALL the up, or go back to sleep, preferably away from the keyboard, dammit :)

http://www.google.com/search?q=best+buy+internal+w ebsite&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-U S:official&client=firefox-a

From Feb 2007
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070209/124307.s html

March 2007
http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-watchdog0302, 0,5198012.column

All good things must come to an end.

"Oh yeah, a computer that speaks and understands English, that's weird." There's software out currently that translates voice into text, http://www.courant.com/technology/hc-techcol1221.a rtdec21,0,4539347.story?track=rss The reverse shouldn't be too hard either? With 100 years to perfect it, I'd be surprised if it's not in common use by then. As to the aliens speaking English, supposedly you're hearing what they're saying via the universal translator, not the actualy words they're speaking. Now as to the plauseability of software that can listen to a few minutes of audio and then be able to translate it, it sounds a bit far fetched, but 100 years ago who thought we'd be able to watch a movie in color on a device that can fit in your pocket?

the show agrees with the prevailing slashdot opinion that record companies suck, but as someone who watched the episode, let me point out that it does not address (well) many current and relevant issues, such as downloading music (original Napster or iTunes), underground recording (DJ Dangermouse), fair use or other slashdot favorites.

It seemed rather a limited episode to me. Just look at the press reaction page for the episode (and no, not all of the comments are from reactionary neoconservative RIAA lobbyist stooges).

Shame on Frontline for making a relatively poor episode; I have to agree with Roger Catlin of The Hartford Courant when he says "When it wanders away from subjects of grave importance, the usually excellent 'Frontline' can stumble badly."

However, when they are on, they are on, IMHO.

And Kudos to Frontline for posting such negative criticism on their own website; such honesty is rare.