the same way self winding watches work. Your arm is not a windmill either. In this case, a small magnet, in a tube, wrapped in a coil, such that when the user walks, the magnet slides from one end of the tube to the other, and back again. The real trick is to figure out how to arrange this little setup to maximize the number of times the process occurs, with minimal movement.
Smartphones barely last a day with a 1300mAh @ 3.7v = 4.8 watt battery
Using a self-winding mechanism similar to a watch in a smartphone would be completely worthless, it wouldn't power the phone for more than a few seconds
Yes, we're overpopulated, and the fact that you and at least 6 billion other people on the planet would deny it has no bearing on the fact.
When you say "we" you should specify, because the world is not overpopulated, only portions of it. Out of 7 billion people on earth, 2 billion are in China, yet China is smaller than the US and our 300 million people. So china has 7 times more people and less land than the US. The US isn't growing very fast either, with 100,000 in 1915 and 200,000 in 1968. "We" have a long way to go before we are overpopulated.
They don't? Trailers that show all the big stunts in 15 seconds and the walk-on cameo by a star as if he was a featured actor; actresses that start to disrobe... out of context lines from reviews...etc., etc.
No, they don't deceive, not in the same way as apps do or being rickrolled does. I expect movie previews to show the best parts, but the preview is usually a good representation of what the movie it like.
I very rarely give 1 or 5's on anything. (or 8-10 on 10 point scales). Made me really surprised when some cashier told me that if I took their survey and gave less than an 8, their employer considered that a "bad" review. I don't expect exceptional service from a cashier. I can't really imagine what they could do to earn an 8. They get a 5 or maybe a 6 if they take my money and move me along quickly because that's what I expect them to do.
No, cashiers or anyone in service should always get a 10 out of 10. You're only dealing with them for a few minutes at most, there's no reason why they should only provide "average" service. A smile and warm greeting from a cashier is all it would take to go from 5 to 10 since that's far more than what most cashier's provide in the few minutes you spend with them.
I had a support position where we were expected to receive at least a 4 out of 5 on reviews. Getting a 4+ was as easy as adding "Good afternoon (USERS NAME)" to the beginning of the email instead of just jumping into describing the problem. That tiny touch of sensitivity and personalization in the email was all it took to go from average to above average.
As always, the 1 star ratings are the ones we should be reading. They highlight the problems.
No. Ratings of 2 through 4 stars should be read, rest could be largely ignored.
I already know what the 5-star ratings will say, that the product or app is amazing. Usually those are people who just received their product or app, tried it for a few minutes and they're still very excited by it. I also already know what the 1-star ratings will say, that the product or app completely sucks. Sometimes these 1 star ratings are from people who were using the product or app wrong or they're upset about something else entirely.
Example: reviews of the Escort Passport 9500ix radar detector on Amazon. Out of 198 reviews, 20 are 1-star. Some of those 1-star reviews are complaining that the software updates are not compatible with Macs which, for the majority of users, doesn't matter at all, so those ratings are worthless. Other 1-star reviews complain the price is too high which also does not matter because if you're reading the reviews there's a good chance you already know the price and you're comfortable with it. And other reviews said the item arrived broken and was replaced under warranty or that Amazon is not a authorized dealer. That's nice, but it doesn't tell me much about the performance of the product does it?
It's the 2 through 4 star ratings that are interesting. It's usually the people who actually used the product or app for awhile and found some flaws they'd like to discuss. The reviews are usually well thought out and go into great detail, unlike a 5-star "I LOVE THIS!" review or 1-star "THIS SUCKS!" review. A 2-star rating to me means the user actually tried to use the product but it has some major problems. Again in the 2-star category the radar detector had a lot of complaints about not being Mac compatible. The 3 or 4 star ratings are usually the most interesting, because those are from people who used the product for a long time and found some minor flaws they're willing to live with. Those are the reviews I read first.
The way it is today, you feel like you are at a bazaar and you are being hocked a $10 Rollex; you think to yourself "if this thing breaks even 15 minutes from now I will never see this guy again."
^----------- THIS. That's why apps live and die by their rating: I won't even bother downloading a FREE app if the rating is 2-stars or less.
This is also why I'd rather buy on eBay than Craigslist. Even though Craigslist means I get to go physically touch the item I'm purchasing, if it breaks 5 minutes after leaving then I'm out of luck. At least eBay I have feedback and Paypal that *might* support me.
I have a pretty good idea what my carmel latte will taste like. Movie previews are usually an accurate portrayal of what the movie will be like. I bought a used iPod Touch for $100 before being locked into a iPhone contract so I could see what the big deal was. But I've downloaded some truly horrible apps. Awful, disgusting, WTF apps. Apps I used for a minute and thought "Oh no! This isn't even close to the description!" It's the app equivalent of being rickrolled, and who likes to be rickrolled? Even though it takes only seconds out of your life, no one likes to think they were getting X and they're given Y instead. It comes down to this: no one likes to feel deceived. Lattes don't deceive. Movie previews don't deceive. iPhones/iPads don't deceive. App descriptions sometimes deceive and we don't like it.
I wish the blog post would have mentioned the author's credentials. If anyone else is wondering "Why should we listen to this maniac?" according to his About page he's "Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University"
1) I used VB because it was the right tool for the job and it runs natively on XP without a compiler. As I said I do not have admin rights, my position is not administration, fortunately I'm a little higher on the totem pole and don't have to spend my days wiping drives and pushing carts full of computers to setup around the building (oh how I don't miss that)
2) all code was written while at work
3) I'm the only one here that knows coding. Like most large companies, the higher you go on the totem pole the less they seem to know
4) To answer other questions: before I got here they did everything by hand, probably wasting about 10+ hours a week throughout the department.
5) Another reason I wrote the code is it could lead to a better position, or at least it makes me seem more valuable
6) Upper management knows about the code but officially it's not sanctioned so I'm the only one permitted to use it which puts me in a strategic position: they've begun giving me the work of co-workers so they can save that 10+ work hrs a week, which means I've become more valuable and losing me might hurt productivity
We'll see how it goes, but I say do whatever it takes (within reason) to make yourself seem more valuable
Most organizations are not deserving of free work on the part of an employee, regardless of hourly or salaried compensation. The only two times I can think of that might warrant some kind of uncompensated work would be where either a a company is in trouble and employees pulling extra effort might save their jobs, or where the extra work is likely to result in a better position in the company.
I don't see either being the case in the way you describe it. If you can't do it on the clock or at the office, don't do it.
My current position requires me to do some repetitive tasks. Rather than spend several minutes a day doing the same thing again and again I wrote some small VB scripts that can do the work while I grab coffee. I was not compensated for this.
I wrote the code for a few reasons:
a) saves me a lot of time
b) I'm the only one permitted to use it since it's not officially "approved" (yet)
c) I have it expire after a month. Doing this means no one can use it after the date unless they change the system time but no one in our department is given admin rights (shocker, I know)
d) if i'm ever fired or quit they'll just wipe my PC and the program will be lost anyway.
e) the program startup intro screen has my name and personal email address if they ever need to contact me to discuss purchasing
If you can write something that saves you time I say go for it, but make it expire, or at least nag, and remember to include methods of contacting you.
Roku is the worst? I "cut the cord" in 08, been doing everything thru Xbox XBMC ever since.
Relatives were looking for a cable alternative but i thought a xbmc would be too complicated so I bought them a Roku LT for Christmas. For $50 it's pretty amazing, came with crackle and pandora, added Netflix and they were just in shock at all the content available for only $7 a month. Dead simple to use, makes an iPhone look complicated, and the hd video quality looked better than I had hoped.
Can you explain why the Roku is the worse?
Are they allowing them to keep their jobs? Are they signing a contract that states "Zynga guarantees to keep you as an employee for XX months if you sign over your stocks"?
Doubt it. Sounds like Zynga's horribly shady, think I'd go elsewhere, Zynga probably looks pretty good on a resume.
Wouldn't be much of an IPO if the employees already owned most of the company.
The IPO will kill Facebook. They will be publicly owned and have shareholders to answer to, shareholders who want the company to make more money. Facebook will have to charge more for their worthless advertising, charge game and app developers, and eventually even charge users, even $1 a month from each user would be 500 million a month revenue. People will eventually tired of it and move to whatever the next Facebook is.
I really hope those Zynga employees quit. If someone came to me and said "give us your millions in stock or lose your $60,000 a year job" I'd laugh in their face. Who would be dumb enough to give up the stock? If they did give up the stock Zynga should have fired them anyway for being dumb and giving up the stock, obviously the employee had very poor decision making skills.
this part of the article really hit home: "By any reasonable measure, my friend is a success. His now-grown kids are well-educated. He has a big house in a good part of town. Paid-for condo in the Caribbean....."If I’d been required to take those two tests when I was a 10th grader, my life would almost certainly have been very different. I’d have been told I wasn’t ‘college material,’ would probably have believed it, and looked for work appropriate for the level of ability that the test said I had."
I took all those tests and blew them out of the water, according to the tests I should have several college degrees and done fantastic at life. But I have no degree, parents made just barely too much for me to receive financial aid and the govt wouldn't allow me to file on my own until I was 24. I still went but the money ran out before I could finish.
But I did fine. Went into real estate during the bubble and cleaned up. My house is paid off (real house, not on wheels) and I drive a recent porsche convertible and my 10 yr reunion was just a few years ago.
So where does that leave me? Tests said I'd do fine but college didn't work out, and still I'm doing better than most Americans my age.
No need to start apple-is-evil conspiracy theories.
Reading comprehension is your friend too if you would have just read the link that you linked to: "What’s happened with iFitness? Through my various searches no one seems to know for sure. All we do know is that it is no longer available in the app store."
Seriously a low 6-digit uid and you can't read? I'd expect that from AC but you disappoint me. I looked at your linked homepage, think you should stick to skiing, leave the Informative comments to someone else.
if the models are virtual does that mean they want virtual customers too? I mean if they couldn't find human models for these bikinis how are they going to find human customers to buy them?
Maybe they should have a contest with their customers, "Be the next H&M model"
I've already lived this with iTunes. I bought iFitness (more here. During an iOS upgrade there was some sort of issue and PC backup turned out to be corrupt and couldn't restore the apps. "No problem," I thought, "I downloaded all of these apps from the store, I can just re-download everything."
How would it be possible for every state to give the govt money and have the govt give all the money back? Doesn't the federal govt use the money it's been given to pay for things like the military? I'm sure California isn't the only state that pays more to the govt then it receives back.
The only difference between this and giving your medical information to the guy that gets your Starbucks in the morning is that at least lawyers have the bar association and other organizations which may keep them in line regarding private information.
Exactly. The story is a bit misleading because it leaves out the fact that either Ms. White picked up the information herself and brought it to the attorney's office or signed a document giving them full permission to obtain any medical records necessary for her personal injury case. Either way she gave them permission to have those records.
However HIPAA still applies to attorneys. Just because she handed those records to the attorney doesn't mean he gets to show them to the world, in fact that's exactly what an attorney's *not* suppose to do. Even when I was a loan officer awhile back I had to sign HIPAA agreements because I could see medical bills on credit reports and apparently even knowing the Doctor's name and price of a procedure is covered under HIPAA.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Bar Association got involved and suspended some licenses due to this gross breach of confidentiality.... or at least issued some stiff fines since this is an obvious breach to fine for and they're always looking for excuses to take a little extra $.
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the same way self winding watches work. Your arm is not a windmill either. In this case, a small magnet, in a tube, wrapped in a coil, such that when the user walks, the magnet slides from one end of the tube to the other, and back again. The real trick is to figure out how to arrange this little setup to maximize the number of times the process occurs, with minimal movement.
No.
Watches will run years on a CR-2025 battery pumping out 163mA @ 3V =~ 0.5 watt.
Smartphones barely last a day with a 1300mAh @ 3.7v = 4.8 watt battery
Using a self-winding mechanism similar to a watch in a smartphone would be completely worthless, it wouldn't power the phone for more than a few seconds
Yes, we're overpopulated, and the fact that you and at least 6 billion other people on the planet would deny it has no bearing on the fact.
When you say "we" you should specify, because the world is not overpopulated, only portions of it. Out of 7 billion people on earth, 2 billion are in China, yet China is smaller than the US and our 300 million people. So china has 7 times more people and less land than the US. The US isn't growing very fast either, with 100,000 in 1915 and 200,000 in 1968. "We" have a long way to go before we are overpopulated.
Movie previews don't deceive.
They don't? Trailers that show all the big stunts in 15 seconds and the walk-on cameo by a star as if he was a featured actor; actresses that start to disrobe... out of context lines from reviews ...etc., etc.
No, they don't deceive, not in the same way as apps do or being rickrolled does. I expect movie previews to show the best parts, but the preview is usually a good representation of what the movie it like.
There are exceptions: the trailer for Bridge to Terabithia is NOTHING like the movie. The youtube comments give it away, but half-way through the movie the girl dies and the rest of the movie is about the boy dealing with the death of his best friend.
I very rarely give 1 or 5's on anything. (or 8-10 on 10 point scales). Made me really surprised when some cashier told me that if I took their survey and gave less than an 8, their employer considered that a "bad" review. I don't expect exceptional service from a cashier. I can't really imagine what they could do to earn an 8. They get a 5 or maybe a 6 if they take my money and move me along quickly because that's what I expect them to do.
No, cashiers or anyone in service should always get a 10 out of 10. You're only dealing with them for a few minutes at most, there's no reason why they should only provide "average" service. A smile and warm greeting from a cashier is all it would take to go from 5 to 10 since that's far more than what most cashier's provide in the few minutes you spend with them.
I had a support position where we were expected to receive at least a 4 out of 5 on reviews. Getting a 4+ was as easy as adding "Good afternoon (USERS NAME)" to the beginning of the email instead of just jumping into describing the problem. That tiny touch of sensitivity and personalization in the email was all it took to go from average to above average.
As always, the 1 star ratings are the ones we should be reading. They highlight the problems.
No. Ratings of 2 through 4 stars should be read, rest could be largely ignored.
I already know what the 5-star ratings will say, that the product or app is amazing. Usually those are people who just received their product or app, tried it for a few minutes and they're still very excited by it. I also already know what the 1-star ratings will say, that the product or app completely sucks. Sometimes these 1 star ratings are from people who were using the product or app wrong or they're upset about something else entirely.
Example: reviews of the Escort Passport 9500ix radar detector on Amazon. Out of 198 reviews, 20 are 1-star. Some of those 1-star reviews are complaining that the software updates are not compatible with Macs which, for the majority of users, doesn't matter at all, so those ratings are worthless. Other 1-star reviews complain the price is too high which also does not matter because if you're reading the reviews there's a good chance you already know the price and you're comfortable with it. And other reviews said the item arrived broken and was replaced under warranty or that Amazon is not a authorized dealer. That's nice, but it doesn't tell me much about the performance of the product does it?
It's the 2 through 4 star ratings that are interesting. It's usually the people who actually used the product or app for awhile and found some flaws they'd like to discuss. The reviews are usually well thought out and go into great detail, unlike a 5-star "I LOVE THIS!" review or 1-star "THIS SUCKS!" review. A 2-star rating to me means the user actually tried to use the product but it has some major problems. Again in the 2-star category the radar detector had a lot of complaints about not being Mac compatible. The 3 or 4 star ratings are usually the most interesting, because those are from people who used the product for a long time and found some minor flaws they're willing to live with. Those are the reviews I read first.
The way it is today, you feel like you are at a bazaar and you are being hocked a $10 Rollex; you think to yourself "if this thing breaks even 15 minutes from now I will never see this guy again."
^----------- THIS. That's why apps live and die by their rating: I won't even bother downloading a FREE app if the rating is 2-stars or less.
This is also why I'd rather buy on eBay than Craigslist. Even though Craigslist means I get to go physically touch the item I'm purchasing, if it breaks 5 minutes after leaving then I'm out of luck. At least eBay I have feedback and Paypal that *might* support me.
I have a pretty good idea what my carmel latte will taste like. Movie previews are usually an accurate portrayal of what the movie will be like. I bought a used iPod Touch for $100 before being locked into a iPhone contract so I could see what the big deal was. But I've downloaded some truly horrible apps. Awful, disgusting, WTF apps. Apps I used for a minute and thought "Oh no! This isn't even close to the description!" It's the app equivalent of being rickrolled, and who likes to be rickrolled? Even though it takes only seconds out of your life, no one likes to think they were getting X and they're given Y instead. It comes down to this: no one likes to feel deceived. Lattes don't deceive. Movie previews don't deceive. iPhones/iPads don't deceive. App descriptions sometimes deceive and we don't like it.
I wish the blog post would have mentioned the author's credentials. If anyone else is wondering "Why should we listen to this maniac?" according to his About page he's "Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University"
1) I used VB because it was the right tool for the job and it runs natively on XP without a compiler. As I said I do not have admin rights, my position is not administration, fortunately I'm a little higher on the totem pole and don't have to spend my days wiping drives and pushing carts full of computers to setup around the building (oh how I don't miss that)
2) all code was written while at work
3) I'm the only one here that knows coding. Like most large companies, the higher you go on the totem pole the less they seem to know
4) To answer other questions: before I got here they did everything by hand, probably wasting about 10+ hours a week throughout the department.
5) Another reason I wrote the code is it could lead to a better position, or at least it makes me seem more valuable
6) Upper management knows about the code but officially it's not sanctioned so I'm the only one permitted to use it which puts me in a strategic position: they've begun giving me the work of co-workers so they can save that 10+ work hrs a week, which means I've become more valuable and losing me might hurt productivity
We'll see how it goes, but I say do whatever it takes (within reason) to make yourself seem more valuable
Profitable for the user? Is that a feature?
iOS has been turning developers into millionaires since 2009
/. becoming a millionaire developer is definitely a feature.
And who can forget Angry Birds got their start on iOS?
Since this is
Most organizations are not deserving of free work on the part of an employee, regardless of hourly or salaried compensation. The only two times I can think of that might warrant some kind of uncompensated work would be where either a a company is in trouble and employees pulling extra effort might save their jobs, or where the extra work is likely to result in a better position in the company.
I don't see either being the case in the way you describe it. If you can't do it on the clock or at the office, don't do it.
My current position requires me to do some repetitive tasks. Rather than spend several minutes a day doing the same thing again and again I wrote some small VB scripts that can do the work while I grab coffee. I was not compensated for this.
I wrote the code for a few reasons:
a) saves me a lot of time
b) I'm the only one permitted to use it since it's not officially "approved" (yet)
c) I have it expire after a month. Doing this means no one can use it after the date unless they change the system time but no one in our department is given admin rights (shocker, I know)
d) if i'm ever fired or quit they'll just wipe my PC and the program will be lost anyway.
e) the program startup intro screen has my name and personal email address if they ever need to contact me to discuss purchasing
If you can write something that saves you time I say go for it, but make it expire, or at least nag, and remember to include methods of contacting you.
Roku is the worst? I "cut the cord" in 08, been doing everything thru Xbox XBMC ever since.
Relatives were looking for a cable alternative but i thought a xbmc would be too complicated so I bought them a Roku LT for Christmas. For $50 it's pretty amazing, came with crackle and pandora, added Netflix and they were just in shock at all the content available for only $7 a month. Dead simple to use, makes an iPhone look complicated, and the hd video quality looked better than I had hoped. Can you explain why the Roku is the worse?
He wants a media server not a HTPC.
then pretty much any old PC with a bunch of 3.5" drives would work.
I googled "build a media server" and found several guides. Here's one for $300 with six 3.5" bays and here's a 4U rackmount server case with twenty 3.5" drive bays for roughly $1,000
Sorry to be a downer but lets face it, once Samsung or another hardware manufacturer collects your money, you're on your own.
That's a big reason why iOS device owners have ALWAYS ranked their satisfaction much higher than Droid users.
Sorry but that's the truth.
You're right.
Galaxy S is just barely a year old, came out September 2010 in the US
iPhone 3GS came out June 2009 but supports iOS 5 that was released last month
The most recent iOS device to not receive software updates from Apple is the iPhone 3G, released June 2008, which received it's last update to 4.2.1 on November 22, 2010, over 2 years after the iPhone 3G was released.
Say what you will about Apple, but they support their devices a long time.
FTFA: "The Novo7, an Android 4.0 tablet based on the MIPS JZ4770 processor. It retails for under $100."
Stop saying it's available for under $100 because it doesn't really exist
There's no reviews, it's not for sale, it's vaporware. How can you claim it's the year of Android based on a vaporware product?
Are they allowing them to keep their jobs? Are they signing a contract that states "Zynga guarantees to keep you as an employee for XX months if you sign over your stocks"?
Doubt it. Sounds like Zynga's horribly shady, think I'd go elsewhere, Zynga probably looks pretty good on a resume.
Wouldn't be much of an IPO if the employees already owned most of the company.
The IPO will kill Facebook. They will be publicly owned and have shareholders to answer to, shareholders who want the company to make more money. Facebook will have to charge more for their worthless advertising, charge game and app developers, and eventually even charge users, even $1 a month from each user would be 500 million a month revenue. People will eventually tired of it and move to whatever the next Facebook is.
I really hope those Zynga employees quit. If someone came to me and said "give us your millions in stock or lose your $60,000 a year job" I'd laugh in their face. Who would be dumb enough to give up the stock? If they did give up the stock Zynga should have fired them anyway for being dumb and giving up the stock, obviously the employee had very poor decision making skills.
this part of the article really hit home:
"By any reasonable measure, my friend is a success. His now-grown kids are well-educated. He has a big house in a good part of town. Paid-for condo in the Caribbean....."If I’d been required to take those two tests when I was a 10th grader, my life would almost certainly have been very different. I’d have been told I wasn’t ‘college material,’ would probably have believed it, and looked for work appropriate for the level of ability that the test said I had."
I took all those tests and blew them out of the water, according to the tests I should have several college degrees and done fantastic at life. But I have no degree, parents made just barely too much for me to receive financial aid and the govt wouldn't allow me to file on my own until I was 24. I still went but the money ran out before I could finish.
But I did fine. Went into real estate during the bubble and cleaned up. My house is paid off (real house, not on wheels) and I drive a recent porsche convertible and my 10 yr reunion was just a few years ago.
So where does that leave me? Tests said I'd do fine but college didn't work out, and still I'm doing better than most Americans my age.
Google is (or should be) your friend. Type ifitness and it's about the sixth link down: http://itsmichaelw.com/review/why-was-ifitness-removed-from-the-app-store/
No need to start apple-is-evil conspiracy theories.
Reading comprehension is your friend too if you would have just read the link that you linked to:
"What’s happened with iFitness? Through my various searches no one seems to know for sure. All we do know is that it is no longer available in the app store."
Seriously a low 6-digit uid and you can't read? I'd expect that from AC but you disappoint me. I looked at your linked homepage, think you should stick to skiing, leave the Informative comments to someone else.
if the models are virtual does that mean they want virtual customers too? I mean if they couldn't find human models for these bikinis how are they going to find human customers to buy them?
Maybe they should have a contest with their customers, "Be the next H&M model"
you *could* call it that...
I've already lived this with iTunes. I bought iFitness (more here. During an iOS upgrade there was some sort of issue and PC backup turned out to be corrupt and couldn't restore the apps. "No problem," I thought, "I downloaded all of these apps from the store, I can just re-download everything."
Nope, despite being one of the five best fitness apps it was pulled from the market for unknown reasons. Some claim it was banned for posting fake positive reviews, but that seems completely unnecessary considering how much praise iFitness received.
Because of that I no longer trust my phone or the "cloud" to keep my data safe.
If they're 0.000000312 kilometers per hour how fast is that "scale speed"? If they were the size of a car, how fast would they be traveling?
How would it be possible for every state to give the govt money and have the govt give all the money back? Doesn't the federal govt use the money it's been given to pay for things like the military? I'm sure California isn't the only state that pays more to the govt then it receives back.
That's nice, thanks for the links... oh wait, you didn't post any, but I did, to an attorney's website, where an attorney says something like this is a HIPAA violation.
The only difference between this and giving your medical information to the guy that gets your Starbucks in the morning is that at least lawyers have the bar association and other organizations which may keep them in line regarding private information.
Exactly. The story is a bit misleading because it leaves out the fact that either Ms. White picked up the information herself and brought it to the attorney's office or signed a document giving them full permission to obtain any medical records necessary for her personal injury case. Either way she gave them permission to have those records.
However HIPAA still applies to attorneys. Just because she handed those records to the attorney doesn't mean he gets to show them to the world, in fact that's exactly what an attorney's *not* suppose to do. Even when I was a loan officer awhile back I had to sign HIPAA agreements because I could see medical bills on credit reports and apparently even knowing the Doctor's name and price of a procedure is covered under HIPAA.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Bar Association got involved and suspended some licenses due to this gross breach of confidentiality.... or at least issued some stiff fines since this is an obvious breach to fine for and they're always looking for excuses to take a little extra $.