First, have you seen the picture of the circuit board?
Second, the person who reported it as suspicious was a person who worked at an Information booth, not the TSA or somebody else (marginally) trained as to what a potential explosive device looks like.
She was also reported as carrying a putty-like substance in her hands (which turned out to be Play-Doh.
The police, acting on a tip that somebody was wearing a Rube Goldeberg electronics device and carrying a putty-like substance, jacked her up.
Were this a real terrorist carrying plastics and wearing an electronic trigger, the average person would expect a full-on response from law enforcement. The police, not knowing whether it was real or not delivered a full-on response.
Until all this can be sorted out, we're posting the text of our Labor Day post minus the images in question. We maintain the city claims of confidentiality for the information posted on their website are baseless.
It does not mention if the text posted is the entirety of what was readable in the scans prior to their removal.
You are very confused. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.
Yes, a California judge has recently ruled that the compensation of public employees is public information. But all of the pay stubs that I have seen in, oh, the last 20 years have more information on them than that.
Many pay stubs have the employee's social security number on it. Is that public information? Are all of one's deductions for various benefits also public information? What about the ones dealing with health care? Or one's marital status? Or amount of tax withholding?
In fact, an employee's pay stub probably has enough information on it to steal that employee's identity. Yes, the public has a right to know what a public employee earns. The public doesn't have a right to steal a public employee's identity.
The same Pfizer that just announced yet another loss of identity data and has been fingered as having compromised hosts that are sending out Viagra spam? (I am not making this up!)
Something tells me that these guys need to be working more closely with their IT department, not less.
You have never been in an Air Force nuclear weapons storage area, have you? I have. When weapons are moved, it isn't just some guy pulling up in a forklift and driving it over to the fligtline. Even when conventional weapons are moved, the whole thing looks like a combat operation, including SP's with heavy weaponry.
I don't blame them, really. If you are a professionnal blogger (read former print journalist) the more traffic you can generate for your site, the more you make. Get it posted on/. or digg or wherever and watch the traffic flow.
And just what is the "guaranteed rate" stated in your terms of service? Hmmm? Probably somethign along the lines of, "We guarantee that some of your packets will get somewhere eventually."
You want a circuit that's not overprovisioned? Call up your telco and price a fractional DS3 that connects directly to your ISP. OF course, there's no guarantee that it won't be overprovisioned past the ISP's MPOE.
Major ISP's in the US have told me in meetings that P2P makes up 70-80% of their total traffic. Do you really believe that the majority of this is legal content?
Yup. And businesses were slow to upgrade from NT4 for Win2k as well. It's expensive to upgrade an enterprise's underlying OS. You need to test all of your in-house & 3rd party apps to ensure they work, you need to plan to actually upgrade the machines, train users, etc... Until there's a compelling financial reason to do so, most companies choose to stay with what they already have installed.
The US uses 850MHz & 1900Mhz for GSM, most of the rest of the world uses 900Mhz & 1800Mhz. The F3 uses the latter 2 frequencies and won't work in the US.
Assuming you are a Cingular/T-Mobile customer, you can just buy an unlocked GSM phone (remember to check to make sure it works with US frequencies) and stick your SIM card in it.
For a cheap, dependable model, may I suggest the Sony Ericsson T637? Yes, it has some of those features you don't want. But you can get one as cheap as the aforementioned F3.
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First, have you seen the picture of the circuit board?
Second, the person who reported it as suspicious was a person who worked at an Information booth, not the TSA or somebody else (marginally) trained as to what a potential explosive device looks like.
She was also reported as carrying a putty-like substance in her hands (which turned out to be Play-Doh.
The police, acting on a tip that somebody was wearing a Rube Goldeberg electronics device and carrying a putty-like substance, jacked her up.
Were this a real terrorist carrying plastics and wearing an electronic trigger, the average person would expect a full-on response from law enforcement. The police, not knowing whether it was real or not delivered a full-on response.
She's a dumbfvck and deserves whatever she gets.
CastleCops needs to start treating what they are doing more like a business and less like a hobby.
The posting I read (before posting) said:
Until all this can be sorted out, we're posting the text of our Labor Day post minus the images in question. We maintain the city claims of confidentiality for the information posted on their website are baseless.
It does not mention if the text posted is the entirety of what was readable in the scans prior to their removal.
Actually, the California ruling came about as the result of the Contra Costa Times suing the City of Oakland.
http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_6732431
Dear Rokkaku:
You are very confused. And I mean that in the nicest possible way.
Yes, a California judge has recently ruled that the compensation of public
employees is public information. But all of the pay stubs that I have
seen in, oh, the last 20 years have more information on them than that.
Many pay stubs have the employee's social security number on it. Is that
public information?
Are all of one's deductions for various benefits also public information?
What about the ones dealing with health care?
Or one's marital status?
Or amount of tax withholding?
In fact, an employee's pay stub probably has enough information on it
to steal that employee's identity. Yes, the public has a right to know
what a public employee earns. The public doesn't have a right to steal
a public employee's identity.
What do they teach them in schools these days?
Had a look at Myspace or Facebook? Sigh.
problem solved
Twice invaded and saved by France.
Yeah, but what have you done for us lately? Say, in the past 100 years? Oh, that's right, you were too busy surrendering to the Germans. Sorry!
http://www.networkmirror.com/p0HL5pKL5D9ZVmgq/www.freepascal.org/index.html
and
http://www.networkmirror.com/06poF0hRSRppE66S/www.osnews.com/story.php/18592/index.html
The same Pfizer that just announced yet another loss of identity data and has been fingered as having compromised hosts that are sending out Viagra spam? (I am not making this up!)
Something tells me that these guys need to be working more closely with their IT department, not less.
Someone was listening to NPR this morning...
:)
I'd sooner bite my own leg.
It's a really, really old pun. I can remember singing it before going snorkeling in Hawaii over 15 years ago.
The name of his blog is The Database Column after all.
and the pain makes you beg
that's a moray
You have never been in an Air Force nuclear weapons storage area, have you? I have. When weapons are moved, it isn't just some guy pulling up in a forklift and driving it over to the fligtline. Even when conventional weapons are moved, the whole thing looks like a combat operation, including SP's with heavy weaponry.
I don't blame them, really. If you are a professionnal blogger (read former print journalist) the more traffic you can generate for your site, the more you make. Get it posted on /. or digg or wherever and watch the traffic flow.
Apple is only of many poster children of this expression.
Please write that out long hand 1000 times.
And just what is the "guaranteed rate" stated in your terms of service? Hmmm? Probably somethign along the lines of, "We guarantee that some of your packets will get somewhere eventually."
You want a circuit that's not overprovisioned? Call up your telco and price a fractional DS3 that connects directly to your ISP. OF course, there's no guarantee that it won't be overprovisioned past the ISP's MPOE.
Major ISP's in the US have told me in meetings that P2P makes up 70-80% of their total traffic. Do you really believe that the majority of this is legal content?
It is if they ever want to use you as a source again.
Yup. And businesses were slow to upgrade from NT4 for Win2k as well. It's expensive to upgrade an enterprise's underlying OS. You need to test all of your in-house & 3rd party apps to ensure they work, you need to plan to actually upgrade the machines, train users, etc... Until there's a compelling financial reason to do so, most companies choose to stay with what they already have installed.
If you are going to take them to court and win, you have to prove you were damaged.
If you're going to create such an inflammatory headline, perhaps you could at least pick the right Amendment to get us all riled up about.
Which is why different mfg's appear from time to time. Dell gets millions of dollars from the a/v mfg's to install this "crapware".
The US uses 850MHz & 1900Mhz for GSM, most of the rest of the world uses 900Mhz & 1800Mhz. The F3 uses the latter 2 frequencies and won't work in the US.
Assuming you are a Cingular/T-Mobile customer, you can just buy an unlocked GSM phone (remember to check to make sure it works with US frequencies) and stick your SIM card in it.
For a cheap, dependable model, may I suggest the Sony Ericsson T637? Yes, it has some of those features you don't want. But you can get one as cheap as the aforementioned F3.
Good luck!