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Actually, Benoit is trying to sell the video to a website. That's what's meant by "compensation."

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/02/v-fullstory/2248396/witnesses-said-they-were-forced.html

Noriega also noted that Benoit’s video is evidence and that it could help investigators.

But, Benoit said he is considering an offer from a website to sell the video.

Noriega is the police chief. He wants a copy of the video for Internal Affairs, but Benoit hasn't even filed a complaint, let alone handed over any video. If Benoit really wanted some justice, and if he had anything worth showing, he would already have uploaded it to YouTube and handed copies to reporters: TV news editors love police brutality manifest on video. Benoit wants to make a buck, and what he's got may not be very revealing after all. The reporter for the Miami Herald got to see the video, at least, but he also reported that it was on a SIM card, which points to his lack of diligence in rendering a detailed account of what he saw when he was with Benoit. Most of that story is Benoit's; read the story carefully for what's actually on the video and what's not attested on the video, because the reporter doesn't always make that distinction clear.

they put fucking melamine in milk and I'm not talking about the incident in 2008 - they did it again.
April 27 2011: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/27/2187359/china-seizes-melamine-tainted.html

ignoring safety standards is one thing..
this smells of old fashioned greed - someone is getting a huge bonus for coming in under budget and ahead of schedule.

i'd hate to be an astronaut in their space program.

That strikes me as an overstatement. Either that, or my search parameters meet my needs better than your search parameters, or some such nonsense.

From time to time, I do notice trash crop up in a search. Sometimes, the first 5 or 10 results are pretty obviously noise accompanying the signal. But, ten pages of results? Never. Not even a full page. Crap - I'm going to check something - some stupid term - UTERUS!

http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=uterus&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

I clicks the first ten links:
wikipedia - not good, not bad, it's informational
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/19263.htm - looks alright, educational, I guess and seems to lead to other educational material (didn't check)
www.medicinenet.com/uterine_cancer/article.htm - looks alright again - educational, but there are links to what look like practitioners sites.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/226-hysterectomies-in-6-months-in-rajasthan/149579-3.html - news article, appears to be about forced sterilization, or unethical doctors
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/17/2171976/south-florida-activists-pen-the.html - 'nother news article about an activist group
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/prolapsed_uterus/article_em.htm - looks like a mirror of medicinenet above - same adverts, different article
http://www.nuff.org/health_theuterus.htm - you'll note I'm not digging deeply - looks like a nonprofit concerned with women's health?
http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/uterinehealth/a/abouttheuterus.htm - looks like what the name implies - educational
http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/uterus.html - lots of links, looks like it's educational, but again, I'm not digging deep here
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5918 - another medicinenet mirror, this happens to be yet another related article

Somewhere, somehow, perhaps my settings tend to show pertinent results? I don't know - maybe you're trying to pull the wool over our eyes?

I looked at the three websites linked above, and they didn't really seem that bad to me. The author of the blog doesn't say if he can read Japanese or not, and it should not be assumed that he can for the fact that he wrote the blog entry in the first place. I think that probably makes a difference. Just looking at the language itself makes it seem more complicated than it might be.

Something that I've noticed on various Asian sites over the years is that they seem to be mainly text based, displaying a lot of information right when you go to them. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially for the Asahi Shimbun or it's English page. It's a newspaper, it should have a lot of information displayed right in front. So should the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (linked above). The New York Times has one of the best newspaper websites around, mainly because it uses very few images and displays a lot of information right on it's front page. Other local newspaper websites I've visited leave little to be desired. I think if the New York Times website were written in Japanese, one might feel the same way as the blog author.

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernández Rundle praised ACORN. ``We've been very aggressive about a lot of these cases,'' she said. ``But we would not have known about these workers unless ACORN brought it to us.

ACORN reported voter registration fraud to the police, how corrupt of them!

Kupfernigk,

1) You're correct. Thanks :D

2) It was a joke. Dave Berry is a humorist writer for the Maimi Herald. You may find his work entertaining; see his columns here: http://www.miamiherald.com/dave_barry/.

3) In the case of the quote from the parent, this was an example of sarcasm. Humor made by highlighting (and emphasizing) mistakes.

Love,
Anonymous Coward ;-P

I'd agree except for one thing... Cops should be under *more* scrutiny than the general public.

Just recently in S. Florida a couple ex-cops were arrested for attempting to frame a suspected drunk driver in order to protect one of their own:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/02/1660786/2-ex-cops-arrested-in-video-frame.html

If it weren't for the cameras, the driver would have gotten an undeserved penalty.

There is an argument that some people parrot: The bad guys deserve it.

But cops are there to enforce the law, not to make the law or judge the law. Once they step over those bounds we are in trouble.

Just to update this post. The Miami Herald reports the pipe in 21 inches in diameter.

Hey, IBM is making out like a bandit. A corporation doesn't do things for the public good, they do it for the bottom line. Lose your respect (if you had any left) for Florida's elected officials. Personally, I had none left to lose, but then, I read Carl Hiaasen's column in the Miami Herald, which is a great way to completely disillusion yourself.

Reading this article earlier today, about conquering resistant infections in Norway. Sounds like they've basically figured it out. What are the chances that we can get that kind of smarts imported into the US?

Cheers.

I'm fucking sick of people comparing the US government to the Chinese government. Get a fucking clue. The US government has made some mistakes but the Chinese government killed 30 MILLION of its citizens, it attacks protesters with tanks, executes the mentally retarded, and jails those who protest their own children's deaths at the hands of the government corruption.

Are you paid by the Chinese government to write these posts or just ignorant?

Another interesting article today about Goldman Sach's role in the subprime mortgage fiasco. A former Goldman exec has a tell all book out coming out "The 88 Biggest Lies on Wall Street". You have to take him with a grain of salt because he is probably a scumbag and has just turned to profiteering through his tell all book but I like this money quote:

"It's not just unethical," Talbott said of the chain of profiting subprime players extending from real estate appraisers to Wall Street. "It's totally criminal."

It is entertaining to see one of Goldman's own turn on them, it doesn't happen often.

From mortgage brokers, to appraisers, rating agencies and the big Wall Street banks that securitized all that sub prime garbage as AAA rated bonds, chances are EVERY one involved knew exactly what they were doing, that it was criminal, and it would eventually collapse. They were just pocketing as much money as they could as quickly as they could so they could cash out before the house of cards fell. It was massive organized crime and it was basically the largest Ponzi scheme in histroy, much bigger than Madoff and noone seems to be going to jail for it. Maybe EVERY is a little harsh, it appears some people at Merril Lynch, Citigroup and AIG had absolutely no idea the hole they were digging for themselves and their company though chances are they all still cashed out rich before their companies imploded. I wager Goldman knew exactly what they were doing, and in particular had billions in hedges through AIG to cover them if those bonds went to crap. Unfortunately AIG had hundreds of billions of those derivative contracts and absolutely no capital to cover them so if the government hadn't bailed out AIG, and funneled billions to Goldman Sachs through AIG with no strings attached Goldman would have ended in bankruptcy. Fortunately for Goldman a former Goldman CEO was treasury secretary when the shit hit the fan so he could steer billions to Goldman at tax payer expense to keep them afloat.

This McClatchy investigation suggests otherwise.

I don't think people are arguing that you should get vaccinated for the flu because it will protect you from the grim reaper. But good job debunking that one. Now we no longer have the false hope that the H1N1 vaccine was really a panacea for all disease and death.

5 links to the same story about one person who came down with a rare disorder 10 days after getting a flu shot. Say it with me: "coincidence is not causality".

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/64730177.html

http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Non-food/Miscellaneous/virginia_player_wins_200_million_lottery_jackpot_101020090859.html

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1285214.html

You don't want to get a flu shot, good for you. Neither do I!

But there's no empirical evidence that it's at all dangerous, and plenty that says it does just what the health officials and doctors suggest: protects against the flu. Every argument I've seen against the H1N1 flu shot (including yours) falls into the FUD category.

"I think the loans are one thing but tuition rates are a larger issue. "

tuition prices are so high because kids keep getting approved for loans. I imagine schools might someday see the same thing the housing market has recently if the prices keep going up faster than inflation. Can't sustain that forever.

It is in society's interest to allow plenty of free speech that can result in harm, because much harmful speech can also do good. This case is no different. Some advertising doubtlessly increases people's happiness. (Consider, for example, someone who learns about laser-eye surgery through a commercial, who may not have been exposed to this information in another way. Or a book ad in the newspaper for a book that's actually good.)

The fact that there are some justifiable limitations on speech, and that many countries place extreme limitations on speech, does not affect this. Furthermore, fraudulent marketing is already illegal. For example, http://www.miamiherald.com/business/5min/story/1215075.html

Here's a crazy idea: how about nuclear power? Oh, that's right, the word "nuclear" is too super-scary for the science-based environmentalists. Never mind that they actually are better for the environment than anything else.

I would agree with you if, by "actually," you really mean "not actually." Many opponents of nuclear power, myself included, are not so much bothered by radioactive waste disposal issues. We are much more concerned about the high cost of system failures.

Everyone here is familiar with how difficult it is to keep defect rates in the 5 sigma region, let alone the 6 sigma region. Even with a spectacular 6 sigma failure rate, that means some failures _will_still_happen_. The longer a plant operates, the more likely a problem with occur. The more plants the operate, the greater the number of towns and cities that will be contaminated.

No control system is fool-proof, as students of the nuclear power industry know. What is most dangerous to safe reactor operation is the idea that a system, or one (or more) engineer(s), is fool-proof. Chernobyl and Three Mile Island should cure anyone of that attitude. The reality is, reactor contamination "events" are much more common that industry advocates would like you to believe (see below).

Remember, nuclear power in some places is a for-profit industry. Nuclear power industry CEO's have the same short-term incentives to minimize labor costs, keeping reactors online, and minimizing maintenance costs that AIG, Comcast, AOL, Best Buy, McDonalds, and every other for-profit company has. In other places, it's run by the incumbent utility company. With threats of budget reductions due to economic trends, political decisions (tax cuts anyone?), etc., event public and quasi-public utilities experience many of these pressures.

So, before portraying opponents of the nuclear power industry as milksops (or whatever you were insinuating), educate yourself a bit.

I prefer no to have a few hundred MBA's riding shotgun on doomsday machines. It's bad enough as it is already.

See also:

• http://news.google.com/news?q=nuclear%20reactor%20leak (way too many results show up)
• http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/17/national/17nuke.html
• http://www.miamiherald.com/982/story/1035992.html
• http://www.physorg.com/news162708897.html
• http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/18446
• https://secure.wikileaks.org/wiki/The_Monju_nuclear_reactor_leak
• http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/HBASE/nucene/nucacc.html

You get the point. You don't want one of these in your backyard. Nobody does. So let's not build any more of 'em.

Such people do exist. Like this bank president. Yes, bank president.

Because it would draw attention to the VA. You know, the socialized healthcare system that severely reduced care costs.

...and instituted high quality health care using innovative new techniques and maintaining rigorous quality standards.

If that's what reducing care costs is going to do, I'll keep sucking up the insurance payments.

They would no longer be able to make political endorsements, but could report on all issues including political campaigns.

Bullshit they would be able to do that. The line between reporting information and advocacy gets blurry. Sometimes the information has such inescapable conclusions, that there's just no line at all.

Did you watch Frontline this week? It slammed GWB's big spending pretty hard. Had that episode run before the 2004 election, you damn well know some people would be screaming that it should be "regulated" speech.

Don't believe me? There's a case before SCOTUS right now, where they're trying to decide whether a movie about a politician was a documentary or campaign advocacy.

Required-to-be-"objective" news would have to be so softball that it's pointless. You can't report what any politician does or says, because their action might be too "obviously" right or wrong, so that mere information becomes political persuasion. If president Johnson goes up to the podium, blows a baby's brains out, sucks up the blood, and grins at the reporters, nonprofit reporters can't say he did that, or their so-called "news" will be labeled "Johnson-bashing."

You think I'm being absurd, but there's that Hillary movie case. It made it to the courts, dudes. This is not a joke and I'm not making it up; it happened and it does happen all the time. In my own locality, there was a stink about whether mailing information about voting records was too PAC-like. I'm not complaining/cheering here about these decisions going the right or wrong way, but they have to be made and sometimes it's a mess. Reporters aren't going to want to get into that kind of trouble, so non-profit news will suck.

From the summary, it seems that they're defining "lost" as just "the voter intended to cast a vote for the office, but none registered", and include those caused by user error (the voter pulling out the voting card before confirming their vote, or failing to confirm their vote altogether).

In that sense, the problem seems not to be electronic voting so much as just a poor set of instructions. Poorly designed ballots in other places can lead to a similar level of "lost" votes -- for example in the U.S. state of North Carolina, about 2.5%-3% of ballots in presidential races fail to register a vote for President, compared to 1.1% in other states. The primary culprit? A poorly designed ballots where voters THINK they're casting a straight-ticket vote for every office, but in reality are casting one for every office except President.

I can't imagine that ever being a serious problem.

How an online time warp blindsided United Airlines

It's a pity this is featured in what is supposed to be the "funny" section of Slashdot, although "funny" is probably stretching it a bit to begin with.

I lived in Mexico City for four years. I went to college there. Kidnapping is not a joke there, and if it was bad back then, I can only imagine how bad it is now. In all honesty, fuck Slashdot for putting this up. Getting the body parts of your relatives in the mail (or finding your child murdered in the trunk of a car) is not funny.

BTW, the posting on this section is completely fucking broken.

I think I'd be afraid to ride on that bus:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/631908.html

Cops arrest 9 married couples for having sex thanks to an anonymous tip claiming they were prostitutes. No evidence of prostitution was found, just a bunch of people having sex in a jacuzzi.

if the crime was actually committed.

So cops don't go and arrest a doctor because someone puts a gun in their car and calls from a payphone to claim the doctor was waving it at them? Of course, they let him go, but almost certainly the arrest remains on his record and reputation.

Ignoring the cases above, how many thefts and murders happen every day?

Florida definitely has a problem... http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/595847.html

For a biting critique of Florida's new standards, and a defense of craziness, see "Our Reputation for Flakiness is at Stake" by Carl Hiaasen [ http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/carl_hiaasen/story/421075.html].

Don't forget the non tech gift guides from Dave Barry

Slashdot readers interested in the news that the NYT is "free" might be interested in other free as in beer newspapers. Who could possibly resist the temptation to visit the best newspaper in the English language - The Sun. http://www.thesun.co.uk/
You can check out if it is going to be a Zoe McConnell day, which legend has it, augurs good luck.
The Miami Herald http://www.miamiherald.com/ is free too and available in a Spanish edition. Speigel (the English version) http://www.spiegel.de/international/ is free too, and the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/ and the Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ are also free. Oh and the Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/ which could once claim to be the finest newspaper in the English language is free also. Robert Fisk appears in that one, I believe he finds some sympathy with some slash dotters. Private Eye http://www.private-eye.co.uk/ remains annoyingly non-free for cheapskates like myself and neither is Viz http://www.viz.co.uk/- which used to be funny once. Top Tip number eleven is quite funny. A very brief trawl of the internet should probably result in an appropriate newspaper for every possible shade of opinion.

The Russians seem to think so.

In 1999, the Russian Army evacuated the city of Grozny of civilians, leaving (obstensibly) only the dug-in insurgents in the city. Russian forces then cordoned the city and laid waste to it with massive barrages of fuel-air munitions, delivered via TOS-1. The city was totally destroyed.

That was using Fuel-Air Explosives (FAE's), which use aerosolized hydrocarbon-based fuel. Judging from the mass-to-yeild ratio reported for this new bomb (~5.5x that of TNT), it's an aluminum-based thermobaric munition. Thermobarics use aluminum (or less commonly boron) based fuel, distributed and usually detonated by high explosive charge. Compared to fuel-air bombs this results in greater reliability, more energy released per unit mass, and much more energy released per unit volume (since 75% aluminum + 25% composition-B HE is about 2.5x denser than hydrocarbon-based fuels).

For what it's worth: (1) the old-generation american fuel-air explosives used ethylene oxide as their fuel, which increased reliability but at the expense of energy density. (2) the american armed forces have aluminum-based thermobaric munitions in their inventories, too.

And yeah, comparing FAE's and thermobarics to nukes is misleading. Thermobarics can offer up to ~8x the energy density of conventional high explosives, but even small nukes generate thousands times more boom per unit weight. Nukes are the cheap and easy way to destroy a city, but the Russians decided the political price would be too high, and used FAE's instead (which are much cheaper than equivalent-yield high explosives, but nowhere nearly as cheap per unit yield as nukes).

-- TTK

Seems if there are more problems at the NHC...why the original poster didn't include these articles in the first place is beyond me.

Storm intensifies as forecasters want director removed
http://www.miamiherald.com/459/story/159712.html

Pressure builds for storm chief
http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/158757.html

Actual QuikSCAT data
http://manati.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/quikscat/
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat-bin/scatt_winds.cgi

Seems if there are more problems at the NHC...why the original poster didn't include these articles in the first place is beyond me.

Storm intensifies as forecasters want director removed
http://www.miamiherald.com/459/story/159712.html

Pressure builds for storm chief
http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/158757.html

Actual QuikSCAT data
http://manati.orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov/quikscat/
http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat-bin/scatt_winds.cgi

You read the crappy article. You should have read this article instead.

And nobody is saying the satellite isn't useful or that there won't be any impact on the accuracy of hurricane forecasts. The problem is, this guy was saying the satellite's failure would have really catastrophic effects on forecasting. But in fact his numbers are way off. Accurate estimates are important because we have limited resources, so it is important to try to spend money and effort where it does the most good.

And here's a copy of the text from Yahoo's cache, for as long as /. stays up!

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Thursday, June 21, 2007
Copyright is Dead

Anyone who doubts that the copyright regime as we know it is dead should read a short article about President Bush's Father's Day that appeared in the Miami Herald June 18, written by an Associated Press writer. (The article is at http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/142726.html.)

And here's the money quote:

        [President] Bush's twin daughters, gave him a CD they had made for him to listen to while exercising.

Let me unpack that statement. Let's assume twelve songs, copied from twelve different CDs. We'll assume for the purpose of argument that there's no problem with the original recordings being registered (17 U.S.C. 412 (2006) makes statutory damages unavailable for unregistered works) or not being marked correctly (17 U.S.C. 402 (2006)).

This mix CD isn't a compilation being copied, it's one being created, so the last sentence of 17 U.S.C. 504(c)(1) (2006) doesn't apply--the copyright rights-holder may get damages for each song copied. There's a rebuttable presumption that the infringement was willful (17 U.S.C. 504(c)(3)(A) (2006)), which means that 17 U.S.C. 504(c)(2) (2006) applies: $150,000 statutory damages per infringement.

That's $1,800,000 in statutory damages.

Excuse me while I call the RIAA and complain in the strongest possible terms. (Anyone think they'll care?) Meanwhile, the RIAA continues suing peer-to-peer infringers apace.

I have found the following links still working at the moment for aspects of this story:

Link.
Link.
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Link.
Link.
Link.

I would totally hit that.

James Gold, Older brother of Thomas, says "Will not!"
Secretary of Planetary Society claims "Liar, Liar, pants on fire"
Louis Freedman picks nose while he thinks, says wife
FLASH! LOUIS FREEDMAN PICKS NOSE!
The Case of Exploding Journalists [Dave Barry]
I Do not! claims Louis Freedman on Letterman show"

I'll update this list when I see more information. This looks really interesting -- it's hitting all the major media!.

Ok, maybe I'm picking nits here, but this isn't an editorial. Dave Barry, for those who aren't familiar with him, is a humor writer who pens his weekly column for the Miami Herald. This was just his latest. The Miami Herald has an archive of his past columns (click on the 'Living' section and then on Dave Barry's picture). If you liked this Playstation one, you ought to check out his earlier work. His greatest piece, IMO, (not on the MH site as far as I know, but available here), titled "Days of Swine and Bozos," which is a very funny sendup of political corruption and incompetence in Miami government.

I already posted this elsewhere, but here goes again. The polls in all of Florida closed at 7:00 pm local time. This story from the Miami Herald mentions that Florida was called at about 7:50 pm eastern, when the polls in western Florida, which happens to be on central time, were not yet closed.

The polls in florida did close at X o'clock, with X being 7:00 pm local time. The thing is, Florida covers two time zones. When the networks called Florida at about 7:50 eastern, the polls were still open in the panhandle. Not a very long time, but it could still be argued that it made a difference.

If you want a URL, try this one from the Mimai Herald. It's a little ways under the "Just the Beginning" heading.

read here in the Miami Herald
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Gore has retracted his concession speech. Vote difference in Florida may be less than 1000. See The Miami Herald and CNN.

A dance thought to cure disease once thought transmitted by big hairy Tarantula spiders.

mmmmmm...big hairy spiders. Good name for a company, or as Dave Barry likes to say "a good name for a rock band".

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