The article isn't signed: it has as much scientific value as an Anonymous Coward post.
Funny how we can't check out the author to see if he (or she) is really a shill for the workers' comp insurance companies, not unlike the shills for Exxon who deny that the planet is getting warmer.
Ever been to a trial of a personal injury case? There are plenty of orthopedic physicians who will, for a buck, testify that Joe Plaintiff wasn't really crippled, or even hurt, in the accident that totalled his car.
The shill orthopedists live in great, big houses up on the hill.
That was the Ford TFI (Thin Film Integrated) circuit that was impossible to fix in the field (it even had proprietary screw heads) so you had to get towed to a Ford dealership from wherever your car broke down.
And as to GM, I could never understand why they made cars with headlights that couldn't be turned off by users. That was the first of many dealbreaking anti-features of GM cars (of which the OffStar is just the latest).
When is somebody going to offer a massive cash prize for:
1. A cure for diabetes; 2. A method of testing one's blood sugar without consumable ($1/test) test strips.
The prize would have to be massive enough to incentivize claiming the prize as opposed to the huge economic disincentives going the other way (pushing insulin, selling test strips).
Remember before they invented a cure for ulcers? People with ulcers were blamed for having "too much stress." Then they found out ulcers were caused by virii, end of blame.
Among my various other gigs, I've often worked as a contractor doing certification and accreditation (C&A) paperwork for half a dozen fed. govt. agencies. "C&A" is the required paperwork that is supposed to certify that an agency's systems have been secured in accordance with applicable NIST, DoD, etc. standards. Understand that many, if not most, agencies devote far more time, money, and effort to making the paperwork look good than they do to actually securing the systems. Some agencies, and some of their contractors, think the NIST SP 800-37 C&A process, DIACAP, FISMA reporting, etc. is just a worthless paper shuffle. Some are even still using SP 800-26 risk assessment questionnaires in lieu of a full C&A. I can't tell you how many job interviews I've gone on where the contractor company's hiring manager would actually brag about how they are going to falsify the C&A and snow the agency's inspector general, OMB, or whomever. My standard response to that has been, "Can I visit you in prison?" (Usually this spells the end of that particular interview process.) Since, up to now, nobody has actually gone to federal prison for submitting bogus C&A documentation, some people thought they could get away with this kind of bogosity forever. A strange and unlikely confluence of events caused the Unisys situation: they (allegedly) cheated on the C&A process, AND the intruders pwned the DHS network, including the main admin password. The successful intrusions caused an audit which exposed the C&A fraud (which otherwise would have slid on by). Too bad, so sad.
He should also sue the city under 42 USC 1983 for violating his civil rights. The agreement he was forced to sign, putporting to waive his right to sue the city in exchange for not being criminally prosecuted, is unconscionable and is tantamount to extortion.
I can't believe nobody here has stated the obvious: By going to Google and demanding that the Claremont Insider blog be taken down, the city has censored them. What if the Los Angeles Times had printed the pay stubs and the city had responded by having the police seize its printing presses? What is this, Soviet Russia? The operators of the Claremont Insider, IMO, have a great lawsuit for violation of their civil rights under 42 USC 1983, IAAL. Even more so if the city were stupid enough to sue or arrest them.
While I have no truck for Amazon's ridiculous 1-click patent or the social parasite-patent lawyers who defend it, I'm sick and tired of getting awakened nearly every day by some %^&* back-East headhunter who doesn't get that, since I live in SoCal, this means I am on Pacific Time and it's not OK to call me at 6 AM. Especially because most of the time their job requires that I relocate to some one-Waffle-House flyover town back East.
who have to pay $1/blood glucose test (~$100/mo) for consumable test strips. Would somebody please offer an X Prize for whomever invents a consumable-free method of testing blood sugars.
The defendants are SOL. Screw up the lower court proceedings and you'll find your appeal is screwed from the get-go. Many people who get sued are in denial, they delay retaining counsel until it's too late. I bet the defendants in this case could have hired a lawyer and successfully defended or settled the case for a lot less than $40K.
The officials were also hungry, so after breaking down the door of the local Microsoft branch, they accepted some contract work backing up Microsoft Word, etc. onto a redundant array of independent disks.
Actually, a craps pass or come line bet with full odds has a house percentage far less than 1.4% (with Las Vegas 3x/4x/5x odds, it's about 0.55%). The 1.4% house edge is only on the pass or come line ("flat") bet, the odds are free (0% house advantage). This is also different from the "risk of ruin" which is calculated as the odds you will lose all of your money after X number of bets. And yes, if you stick to pass or come line bets with full odds (avoiding other more expensive bets), you might well have a +EV if you include the value of "comps."
More noteworthy, gaming regulations require that slot machines that are posted as having a certain percentage payout must pay out that amount. In Las Vegas and Atlantic City, there are slots with signs reading "99.8% Payout" (in other words, the vigorish -- the fee charged by the casino for the privilege of gambling there -- is 0.2%). If slot players were rational, they would line up to play these machines; they could play longer and win more often. Instead, in my experience, these machines sit empty. Inference: Most slot players don't understand the concept of vig, or don't care.
You can sometimes find video poker machines posted as paying over 100%, of course you need to know an optimal VP strategy to take advantage of them.
Thank you GNU for writing a GPL that is sufficiently ineffable that it will create millions of billable-as-in-expensive-imported-beer hours for attorneys.
What does any of this have to do with My Rights Online? As between Google and Microsoft, and which outfit gains a couple of points of market share as opposed to the other, I care about as much as I care about Darfur or Paris Hilton.
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I don't care if they allow cell phones on planes that won't be here for 12 hours.
The article isn't signed: it has as much scientific value as an Anonymous Coward post.
Funny how we can't check out the author to see if he (or she) is really a shill for the workers' comp insurance companies, not unlike the shills for Exxon who deny that the planet is getting warmer.
Ever been to a trial of a personal injury case? There are plenty of orthopedic physicians who will, for a buck, testify that Joe Plaintiff wasn't really crippled, or even hurt, in the accident that totalled his car.
The shill orthopedists live in great, big houses up on the hill.
That was the Ford TFI (Thin Film Integrated) circuit that was impossible to fix in the field (it even had proprietary screw heads) so you had to get towed to a Ford dealership from wherever your car broke down.
And as to GM, I could never understand why they made cars with headlights that couldn't be turned off by users. That was the first of many dealbreaking anti-features of GM cars (of which the OffStar is just the latest).
Attention, Slashdot-reading philanthropists!!
When is somebody going to offer a massive cash prize for:
1. A cure for diabetes;
2. A method of testing one's blood sugar without consumable ($1/test) test strips.
The prize would have to be massive enough to incentivize claiming the prize as opposed to the huge economic disincentives going the other way (pushing insulin, selling test strips).
Remember before they invented a cure for ulcers? People with ulcers were blamed for having "too much stress." Then they found out ulcers were caused by virii, end of blame.
Hi! I'm the cyber security consultant from Unisys! We're doing a test....
If you continue in government contracting, you'll encounter worse.
Among my various other gigs, I've often worked as a contractor doing certification and accreditation (C&A) paperwork for half a dozen fed. govt. agencies. "C&A" is the required paperwork that is supposed to certify that an agency's systems have been secured in accordance with applicable NIST, DoD, etc. standards. Understand that many, if not most, agencies devote far more time, money, and effort to making the paperwork look good than they do to actually securing the systems. Some agencies, and some of their contractors, think the NIST SP 800-37 C&A process, DIACAP, FISMA reporting, etc. is just a worthless paper shuffle. Some are even still using SP 800-26 risk assessment questionnaires in lieu of a full C&A. I can't tell you how many job interviews I've gone on where the contractor company's hiring manager would actually brag about how they are going to falsify the C&A and snow the agency's inspector general, OMB, or whomever. My standard response to that has been, "Can I visit you in prison?" (Usually this spells the end of that particular interview process.) Since, up to now, nobody has actually gone to federal prison for submitting bogus C&A documentation, some people thought they could get away with this kind of bogosity forever. A strange and unlikely confluence of events caused the Unisys situation: they (allegedly) cheated on the C&A process, AND the intruders pwned the DHS network, including the main admin password. The successful intrusions caused an audit which exposed the C&A fraud (which otherwise would have slid on by). Too bad, so sad.
Of course he can still sue Circuit City.
He should also sue the city under 42 USC 1983 for violating his civil rights. The agreement he was forced to sign, putporting to waive his right to sue the city in exchange for not being criminally prosecuted, is unconscionable and is tantamount to extortion.
I can't believe nobody here has stated the obvious: By going to Google and demanding that the Claremont Insider blog be taken down, the city has censored them. What if the Los Angeles Times had printed the pay stubs and the city had responded by having the police seize its printing presses? What is this, Soviet Russia? The operators of the Claremont Insider, IMO, have a great lawsuit for violation of their civil rights under 42 USC 1983, IAAL. Even more so if the city were stupid enough to sue or arrest them.
While I have no truck for Amazon's ridiculous 1-click patent or the social parasite-patent lawyers who defend it, I'm sick and tired of getting awakened nearly every day by some %^&* back-East headhunter who doesn't get that, since I live in SoCal, this means I am on Pacific Time and it's not OK to call me at 6 AM. Especially because most of the time their job requires that I relocate to some one-Waffle-House flyover town back East.
Not directly, but some lasers will light cigarettes....
who have to pay $1/blood glucose test (~$100/mo) for consumable test strips. Would somebody please offer an X Prize for whomever invents a consumable-free method of testing blood sugars.
The defendants are SOL. Screw up the lower court proceedings and you'll find your appeal is screwed from the get-go. Many people who get sued are in denial, they delay retaining counsel until it's too late. I bet the defendants in this case could have hired a lawyer and successfully defended or settled the case for a lot less than $40K.
The officials were also hungry, so after breaking down the door of the local Microsoft branch, they accepted some contract work backing up Microsoft Word, etc. onto a redundant array of independent disks.
America's philanthropists aren't interested in helping people in America.
Actually, a craps pass or come line bet with full odds has a house percentage far less than 1.4% (with Las Vegas 3x/4x/5x odds, it's about 0.55%). The 1.4% house edge is only on the pass or come line ("flat") bet, the odds are free (0% house advantage). This is also different from the "risk of ruin" which is calculated as the odds you will lose all of your money after X number of bets. And yes, if you stick to pass or come line bets with full odds (avoiding other more expensive bets), you might well have a +EV if you include the value of "comps."
More noteworthy, gaming regulations require that slot machines that are posted as having a certain percentage payout must pay out that amount. In Las Vegas and Atlantic City, there are slots with signs reading "99.8% Payout" (in other words, the vigorish -- the fee charged by the casino for the privilege of gambling there -- is 0.2%). If slot players were rational, they would line up to play these machines; they could play longer and win more often. Instead, in my experience, these machines sit empty. Inference: Most slot players don't understand the concept of vig, or don't care.
You can sometimes find video poker machines posted as paying over 100%, of course you need to know an optimal VP strategy to take advantage of them.
Is this the same Steve Wright who bought some batteries, but found that they weren't included?
Save the birds and the bees!
Thank you GNU for writing a GPL that is sufficiently ineffable that it will create millions of billable-as-in-expensive-imported-beer hours for attorneys.
What does any of this have to do with My Rights Online? As between Google and Microsoft, and which outfit gains a couple of points of market share as opposed to the other, I care about as much as I care about Darfur or Paris Hilton.
Hey, hammers are $600. What more do you need to know about 'em.
Been there, done that, got to ride the private elevator, hate the weather there, left town.
I stand corrected. Lobbyists are really Enlightened Self-Interest Advocates.