I've long thought that police officers should be required to carry video and/or audio recorders (portable radios already exist that have that feature) that continuously record their actions, and that any interactions with the public that are captured by those recorders have to be made public if the person recorded requests it or it was highly in the public interest (a judge would have to rule on that).
I'm personally aware thru my late father, who was an accountant, of two companies that had employees embezzling funds for years. One telltale sign was that they never took vacations, because their replacements would have discovered what they were up to. Businesses should insist that their personnel take time off, just to make malfeasance easier to detect.
FTFA: Although this appears to be an episode executed in good faith from all sides, it left traders in a busy town out of pocket and the last geocacher to find the box outside Karen's café with a police caution.
Exactly what offense did the geocacher commit in this case? Is acting in a manner somebody might possibly find suspect now a crime in the UK?
This is just the latest example of what happens when you invest the kind of power that we have in government. Those levers will be used to attain the ends of whoever brings the most money to the table to coopt the people controlling it.
Are you willing to take the bad with the good? What if some communities want to do away with net neutrality, or regulate any of a myriad of other things we've looked to the feds to regulate up to now? Pushing those decisions down to the local level means that along with stuff you like, you're going to get stuff you don't.
I think in the US that any nonbank financial entity worth 50 billion or more is subject to regulation under the "too big to fail" law. I wonder what that would look like in Facebook's case?
If motion is relative, how does the universe know which of us is moving in the near-light-speed vehicle so that person's clock runs slower than the stay-at-home's? We're both moving relative to each other.
I always set up a separate email account for every vendor I deal with. A surprising number of those email addresses end up getting into the hands of spammer/scammers. I always notify the companies that someone has compromised their email database, but only once have I received a response. It's no big deal for me to just divert all future email to that account to dev/null, but are there US federal laws that cover this, and is there any federal agency that should be notified so that these companies take security more seriously?
The SEC regulations for offering shares to US investors are a lot stricter than for non-US. My guess is that they cannot meet the requirements, which I would take as a big red flag that Facebook is severely overvalued right now.
One might also say that the laws involving private property ownership are 'stricter' in Zimbabwe. In either case, I would indeed take it as a red flag not to invest there.
Require any store that sell beverage containers to accept them in return for cash or credit.
Require any large store that sells them provide automated reverse vending machines (Tomra) at the front of the store and they must pay out cash.
Barcodes must be attached to the product and intact for there to be a refund.
Raise the deposit on various items until you meet specific recycling rate targets.
Make defrauding the machine a felony.
California has a scheme much like this. Interestingly, there's a push on to raise the deposits, not because people aren't redeeming the items for the deposit, but because they are. Like any good kleptocracy, California spends whatever funds aren't nailed down (and some that are), and unredeemed deposits have been a cash cow for them. With the economic downturn the redemption rate went way up, so poof, there went all that unclaimed money. They want to jack the deposits higher so that the amount they used to get is restored. Of course, that'll encourage even greater redemptions so they'll have to raise it again...
By 2020, we'll probably be paying $10 deposits on cans of Coke.
I used to work in a group that tested each other's code. It was great. The best times I ever had as a programmer was in coming up with fiendish tests that would reduce a colleague's code to a smoldering pile of ash. Testing your own stuff is boring and you're bound to have blind spots to what to test since you wrote the code in the first place. Make it a challenge where you win if you kill somebody else's code, though, and it becomes a fun game and highly motivating.
This seems like a perfect venue for a flash crowd. Imagine hundreds of people showing up at once, snapping pictures of everything in sight. Just to liven things up, some percentage of them could just use their cell phones to text, which if held in the right position would look like they're taking pictures.
When people who sling around the term "deniers" either drop that or start using the equally-loaded term, "believers", then I'll know we've begun an honest debate. Until then, they're just exposing themselves as partisans who've staked out one side and are intent on demonizing even principled opposition as being from a bunch of know-nothings. That this comes up in the context of a decrying of "political assaults" takes this from hypocrisy to farce.
In some places, it's illegal to enter an intersection if the light is already yellow. That always made sense to me - yellow was the 'head's up' for cars behind the line to slow and stop.
That must be in places where people have superhuman reaction times and massless cars. I know that I'd have a hard time bringing my car to a stop if the light turned yellow a tenth of a second before I get to the intersection.
San Diego had this problem. The city either deliberately chose lights that already had short yellows or it set the yellows short after the cameras were installed. That was just one aspect of the fiasco that was the red light camera program. Some attorneys found that many tickets, which were originated by the red light camera company but supposedly "reviewed" by an officer, had in fact been issued without the review. The cop had gone on vacation and presigned a bunch of the "reviews" so people were in effect being ticketed by Lockheed. People who went to court and attempted to subpoena the red light camera design, software, and installation documents (so that they could assess whether the cameras were operating correctly when the alleged offense occurred) were threatened by Lockheed with a lawsuit for attempting to access trade secrets. There were many other questionable things that went on in the program that I've now forgotten about, but suffice it to say that the whole thing smelled so bad that the city terminated the program. It's since come back, but with major changes.
I've wondered how long it was going to be before states start applying escheat or unclaimed property laws to unclaimed mail-in rebates that seem to infest the retail electronics business. For governments facing massive deficits, there's a lot of money sitting there, smiling provocatively.
'Many companies see the on-call issue as analogous to a fire fighter's job. Most of the time, a fire fighter is off-duty but on call, hanging around the firehouse, cooking, sleeping, or whatever.
And if no fires occur, do firefighters not get paid that day? I already know the answer to that.
One of the sites I like to look at from time to time is a blog of webmasters who post some of the more bizarre search requests that have led people to their sites. A recent one: "masturbate with armor all".
http://www.disturbingsearchrequests.com/
Aren't there GPS child trackers already available? If you were worried about an Alzheimer's patient, couldn't you just strap one of those to the person's wrist? I presume you can get them with bands that prevent easy removal, or could retrofit one.
Czar is becoming overused. I think we need to start appointing Emperors. And we should give them cool names like Emperor Jones, Scourge of the Broke Automobile Companies.
If you don't want the trouble, you shouldn't host it. That being the case, just tell your source about Wikileaks and let him handle the posting. Problem solved, at least where you're concerned.
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I've long thought that police officers should be required to carry video and/or audio recorders (portable radios already exist that have that feature) that continuously record their actions, and that any interactions with the public that are captured by those recorders have to be made public if the person recorded requests it or it was highly in the public interest (a judge would have to rule on that).
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I'm personally aware thru my late father, who was an accountant, of two companies that had employees embezzling funds for years. One telltale sign was that they never took vacations, because their replacements would have discovered what they were up to. Businesses should insist that their personnel take time off, just to make malfeasance easier to detect.
FTFA: Although this appears to be an episode executed in good faith from all sides, it left traders in a busy town out of pocket and the last geocacher to find the box outside Karen's café with a police caution.
Exactly what offense did the geocacher commit in this case? Is acting in a manner somebody might possibly find suspect now a crime in the UK?
This is just the latest example of what happens when you invest the kind of power that we have in government. Those levers will be used to attain the ends of whoever brings the most money to the table to coopt the people controlling it.
Are you willing to take the bad with the good? What if some communities want to do away with net neutrality, or regulate any of a myriad of other things we've looked to the feds to regulate up to now? Pushing those decisions down to the local level means that along with stuff you like, you're going to get stuff you don't.
I think in the US that any nonbank financial entity worth 50 billion or more is subject to regulation under the "too big to fail" law. I wonder what that would look like in Facebook's case?
If motion is relative, how does the universe know which of us is moving in the near-light-speed vehicle so that person's clock runs slower than the stay-at-home's? We're both moving relative to each other.
I always set up a separate email account for every vendor I deal with. A surprising number of those email addresses end up getting into the hands of spammer/scammers. I always notify the companies that someone has compromised their email database, but only once have I received a response. It's no big deal for me to just divert all future email to that account to dev/null, but are there US federal laws that cover this, and is there any federal agency that should be notified so that these companies take security more seriously?
The SEC regulations for offering shares to US investors are a lot stricter than for non-US. My guess is that they cannot meet the requirements, which I would take as a big red flag that Facebook is severely overvalued right now.
One might also say that the laws involving private property ownership are 'stricter' in Zimbabwe. In either case, I would indeed take it as a red flag not to invest there.
They'd just stick a pig foot in there.
California has a scheme much like this. Interestingly, there's a push on to raise the deposits, not because people aren't redeeming the items for the deposit, but because they are. Like any good kleptocracy, California spends whatever funds aren't nailed down (and some that are), and unredeemed deposits have been a cash cow for them. With the economic downturn the redemption rate went way up, so poof, there went all that unclaimed money. They want to jack the deposits higher so that the amount they used to get is restored. Of course, that'll encourage even greater redemptions so they'll have to raise it again ...
By 2020, we'll probably be paying $10 deposits on cans of Coke.
I used to work in a group that tested each other's code. It was great. The best times I ever had as a programmer was in coming up with fiendish tests that would reduce a colleague's code to a smoldering pile of ash. Testing your own stuff is boring and you're bound to have blind spots to what to test since you wrote the code in the first place. Make it a challenge where you win if you kill somebody else's code, though, and it becomes a fun game and highly motivating.
I initially read that as "The Federal Trade Commission said today it had permanently killed the operators of a group ..."
This seems like a perfect venue for a flash crowd. Imagine hundreds of people showing up at once, snapping pictures of everything in sight. Just to liven things up, some percentage of them could just use their cell phones to text, which if held in the right position would look like they're taking pictures.
When people who sling around the term "deniers" either drop that or start using the equally-loaded term, "believers", then I'll know we've begun an honest debate. Until then, they're just exposing themselves as partisans who've staked out one side and are intent on demonizing even principled opposition as being from a bunch of know-nothings. That this comes up in the context of a decrying of "political assaults" takes this from hypocrisy to farce.
In some places, it's illegal to enter an intersection if the light is already yellow. That always made sense to me - yellow was the 'head's up' for cars behind the line to slow and stop.
That must be in places where people have superhuman reaction times and massless cars. I know that I'd have a hard time bringing my car to a stop if the light turned yellow a tenth of a second before I get to the intersection.
San Diego had this problem. The city either deliberately chose lights that already had short yellows or it set the yellows short after the cameras were installed. That was just one aspect of the fiasco that was the red light camera program. Some attorneys found that many tickets, which were originated by the red light camera company but supposedly "reviewed" by an officer, had in fact been issued without the review. The cop had gone on vacation and presigned a bunch of the "reviews" so people were in effect being ticketed by Lockheed. People who went to court and attempted to subpoena the red light camera design, software, and installation documents (so that they could assess whether the cameras were operating correctly when the alleged offense occurred) were threatened by Lockheed with a lawsuit for attempting to access trade secrets. There were many other questionable things that went on in the program that I've now forgotten about, but suffice it to say that the whole thing smelled so bad that the city terminated the program. It's since come back, but with major changes.
I've wondered how long it was going to be before states start applying escheat or unclaimed property laws to unclaimed mail-in rebates that seem to infest the retail electronics business. For governments facing massive deficits, there's a lot of money sitting there, smiling provocatively.
'Many companies see the on-call issue as analogous to a fire fighter's job. Most of the time, a fire fighter is off-duty but on call, hanging around the firehouse, cooking, sleeping, or whatever.
And if no fires occur, do firefighters not get paid that day? I already know the answer to that.
One of the sites I like to look at from time to time is a blog of webmasters who post some of the more bizarre search requests that have led people to their sites. A recent one: "masturbate with armor all". http://www.disturbingsearchrequests.com/
Aren't there GPS child trackers already available? If you were worried about an Alzheimer's patient, couldn't you just strap one of those to the person's wrist? I presume you can get them with bands that prevent easy removal, or could retrofit one.
Czar is becoming overused. I think we need to start appointing Emperors. And we should give them cool names like Emperor Jones, Scourge of the Broke Automobile Companies.
If you don't want the trouble, you shouldn't host it. That being the case, just tell your source about Wikileaks and let him handle the posting. Problem solved, at least where you're concerned.