What were the jury members saying after the trial? Who were the witnesses and what was their standing in the community? How did the decedent's estate fare where the bastards claimed that they were not bastards?
Aside from the births and deaths, the property records will be very valuable.
Many of these documents are available in microform, but the actual value of the documents will be increased exponentially where the full text is searchable. At present the vast majority are available as images.
When he says he is in favor of amending the Constitution to permit the foreign born to run for president so long as they have been citizens for 20 years and been residents for 20 years?
The ONLY person that applies to is Arnold. There is just no way that Henry Kissinger could run
Tru Googleing Hatch and Amendment and see how many times the good Mormon from Utah proposes this amendmen.
The public record prohibits dispute where: (1) Hatch proposes the amendment; and, (2) Hatch supports Arnold's candidacy; and, (3) Hatch is openly biased towards his Church.
Incoherent? Inarticulate? Not where Mormons operate with the authority of God in their public policy pronouncements.
Yep, you B simpeler. If you think healthcare can be abandoned along with roads, and the power grid, you are an idiot.
Exactly how will you keep from dying from that nasty scarlet fever epidemic - or from the drug resistant strains of TB?
Excuse me wizard, but the life you save with public health spending may well be your own.
Of course, if you want to play "rugged individualist" then I suggest that you take your jeans and a t-shirt and head up to Alaska and rough it outdoors for the winter. You can prove to yourself exactly how tough, smart and dead you can be.
All of the girlie R's don't like Arnold. The big bidness boys LOVE Arnold and they are behind the Mormon R's amending the Constitution to permit Arnold becoming the second coming of Ronald.
Pardon me boys, but the nasty discourse about Bose brings to mind the excited comments about Burt & Dick Rutan's Spaceship One a few weeks ago.
I think that the/. boys would all agree that Burt & Dick are engineers' engineers. The real Rocket Scientists.
When the Voyager around-the-world flight was planned it was determined that the pilots would lose all of their high-end hearing due to the constant sound drone from the engines. Amar Bose offered his latest noise-cancelling headset to the Rutans and they worked.
Whatever else, the rocket scientists found Bose technology worth incorporating into a world-record flight.
Seems to me that the Bose technology used to cancel constant SPL's high enough to deffen the pilots must have some expression at the consumer-speaker level. Frankly, IMHO the use of Bose in consumer application has raised the sound reproduction quality mark from the muddy speakers found on most consumer products.
Are there better? Yes. But, a "mid-range" audio system around here runs from $2,500.00 to $25,000.00 and up and in the consumer world the "mid" or "high" range begins and ends in the $0-$2,500.00 range.
As for monster cables v. Bose speakers - there is no question - Bose speakers sound much better than 14g wire. For just about every person who is not an audio snob or technician, Bose sound just fine, thank you.
Now, after the rest of the snobs finish beating this dead horse, please consider the quality of sound that we hear every day. In my world I'd be happy if the majority of sources were at least Bose quality. Unfortunately, they aren't. Listen to the next car stereo you come across (or, that drives down the street) and tell me that the speakers are better than the average Bose installation?
That was a waterbed with a polymer causing the water to "gel" and give slower response to transient noise. The Basment was Alex's and you and I go way back....
You know, the general public has free access to all of the peer-reviewed journals. They call them libraries. They, too, are paid for with our tax dollars.
On the other hand, printing non-reviewed data or preliminary data results in "cold fusion" BS.
In another field, the lack of prestige that a peer-reviewed journal carries would have permitted the nay-sayers to swamp Peter Mitchell's chemi-osmotic membrane transport theory (that lead to the discovery of active ion channel pumps). The establishment roundly criticized him. Absent the peer-review panel that critically examined his work, I doubt that cellular microchemistry would have made the advances it did in the early 1980's.
You are correct, the big journals will continue...but what do we lose by consolidating yet another group of publishers? These aren't "The Enquirer"; these are rigorous niche publications and their loss will contribute to further losses in our access to controversial and innovative work on the edges of established fields.
I've published in peer-reviewed journals and I've published in non-peer reviewed journals. The peer-reviewed journals are professionally edited. These journals have a significant overhead in the article selection process and vetting and keeping an up-to-date peer panel is a non-trivial task. I don't begrudge these publications their overhead.
As it stands today, you can subscribe to Nature (and any number of the sub-journals i.e. Nature -Neuroscience, etc.) and have on-line access to the entire journal and the archive. That saves a trip to the library if your research involves tracking the publications of another researcher who has just published in your field. No sudden web-publication system will have that archive abailable.
Finally, there are a number of open-access science abstract services in Europe.
Hmm. How about logging in the Tongass? The industry received $36Meg of taxpayer support and posted profits of $2Meg last year.
Or, what about the no-bid contracts for Cheney's corporation, Halliburton?
These "businesses" are many orders of magnitude greater wastes of money than are any science publishers. The AAAS and Nature routinely publish government-financed research and they are the top of the heap. Hell, I think it would be nearly impossible to find any published research that didn't have taxpayer support - even in the JIR!
Hmm...making use of your purchase history to market to you and the people like you? Isn't that the very reason that Wal Mart does data mining?
According to the WSJ the results of Wal Mart's data mining include the placement of goods in the entry to the store(s) (by region) according to season and holliday. The pricing of goods within the store are calculated to bring you in to buy the "loss leaders" but the product of the data mining profile they created from your purchases reveals that you will buy two packages of toilet paper (at a premium of $0.15 over all local local grocery stores) when you buy those -$0.05 discount flip-flops.
I have a client who bought a software product from an eBay auction. The product was offered as a "remainder" that was "unopened" and eligible for upgrade.
What the client received for $350 was a pirated copy of the software.
I sent notices off to the software company and to eBay's legal dept. I had no answers. A couple of years ago I had very rapid responses to such communications from an attorney.
Perhaps eBay is the way these cards are turned into cash...but the 3 hour turnaround isn't consistent with eBay....
Where one of the cards was empty in three hours the problem is within the control of Wal Mart. If the matter is considered as a glitch in the system and the cards just expire too fast, well that is one thing...an error that Wal Mart should have caught.
If there is an insider trading information (that could NEVER happen, right?) then security is way off and Wal Mart still loses.
If the system is open to outsiders to hack and they have the ability to grab the latest cards purchased and burn data and make purchases within three hours then the system is way too open.
People who pull off these scams aren't interested in most goods - they want cash. I suppose that the easiest method is to buy a case or 10 of cigarettes or to try to return a high-dollar item. The former can be sold almost anywhere and the latter will give the thief cash, but only after a second pass at the Wal Mart chain. The latter is a high-risk approach and it isn't consistent with an ongoing breach...
If only a few stories are out about these cards, but the breach of the cash control system is so complete that the funds can be diverted within three hours, then the problem is far more common and serious than Wal Mart wants to disclose. The system must have been compromised so thoroughly that only a complete replacement would eliminate the problem. Wal Mart data mines (last I read, they had the largest database of consumer purchases on the planet) and these cards are clearly an integral part of their data capture system. The cost of "fixing" the system must be far greater than the losses thus far. Of course, that could be hundreds of millions of dollars....
Anybody who would do this to an ex is nuts. Sane people forget the bad relationships as fast as possible.
Criminal charges in CA may or may not have been fully explored at this time. The DA or USA can put the matter before a Grand Jury and revise the indictment. CA has a "right to privacy" incorporated in the state constitution. I suspect that there are federal actions available for creating an unauthorized radio transmission station.
On the civil side: (1) Trespass to Chattels (tampering with the car) (2) Intrusion into Seclusion (electronic tail) (3) Invasion of Privacy (where car is parked on private property) (4) Defamatory publication of embarrassing private facts (the web page) (5) Tortious interference with business or business expectancy (tracking business contacts) (6) Prima Facie Tort (It's just plain wrong) (7) Tortious exposure to toxic/noxious substance (unauthorized RF) (8) Civil conspiracy (where somebody else helped install / build the device)
Why automate the tracking of an ex? To do her harm. What other reason could there be? If the guy wanted to shoot up the gal's male friends or screw over her business contacts he would have the information necessary. There is nothing "harmless" about this outrage. I think the guy needs 30 days in the electric chair followed by a quick dunk in the pacific near a few nurse sharks.
However, an injunction prohibiting his use of the technology forever and a good long litigation followed by a judgment that he can never pay off would serve well. Also, a web page with his video depo playing over and over might be a real deterrent to the next wizard who wants to play dirty with their toys.
You properly use the contraction "it's" and you use it twice in the same sentance. This is a record on/..
However, the PIs that I use don't need to spoof phone numbers and anybody who spoofs the name of a major company is diluting a trademark and is also violating the Lantham Act.
Why a person with your command of the language would miss the obvious is beyond my comprehension. BUT, it is the high point of reading/..
The other replies refer you to the Apple Switch site and it is valuable. The Versiontracker site and the versiontracker suite are well worth the annual fee. You will have Apple's automatic software update for OS and Apple Apps and then you have the versiontracker product that supports BOTH Apple and third-party apps. It's invaluable.
I really find the OSXlist a great resource.
If you have Micro$oft data, bite the bullet and buy their office suite (if you can claim student or educator status, the price for three installs is below $200.00) and you have transparent exchange between platforms.
As for the problems that will crop up, the best utilities are Techtool Pro 4, xupport and Diskwarrior.
Networking, printing and email are a snap. If your printer isn't supported in native OSX 10.3.5 then look into the free CUPS and GIMP print apps. I can print to anything but a daisywheel....
I like Logitech trackballs over 3 button / scroll-wheel rodents - but I own and use all. A Right-Click is CTRL-Click on the single button rodent.
Finally, get a copy of the keyboard shortcuts (Xupport has a list) and learn them. The productivity increase is at least 10:1 when you learn the shortcuts.
People who support the wrong political party, dumb people, stupid people, lawyers and people who litigate things you don't like, religions you don't like, people with race or color or national origin or a gender or with a disability or who are between the age of 40 and 65 that you don't like for any of those reasons, people who talk about the government and some core laws (no murder and no private weapons/drug/medical/legal/money-printing/army organizations operating outside regulations) are the "annoyances" of a free society.
Creating pop-up ads to sell pop-up ad blockers is a mild form of extortion. It is the equal of owning a graffitti removal service by day and creating graffitti to remove by night.
I think a proper remedy is to have these folks send a crisp $10.00 bill to every person they bombarded. Make them sign every apology, fold the bill into the letter and seal the envelope (the court can then take the envelopes and mail them using postal addresses not disclosed to the two - just in case they get some new idea of how to use the post to extort money).
Simple answer: arrange for the spyware to email the data to all of the computers in a couple of departments...and throw in a, "I have no idea how that happened...maybe he brought in a trojan from home".
Legal issue: he was terminated for cause and he is not a "whistleblower" - he set up the boss. He will lose.
I agree that the RFID should be disabled or removed after the product is purchased.
FWIW the real fun will start when these critters turn up with products liability issues....say, you are overcharged by a wrong code - or you are arrested for shoplifting when all you did was wear a new pair of sneakers into the wrong store.
False arrest is a nice little offense, and you can make a nice little hit by suing the company that arrests you -but the real bucks are in the products liability suit against the manufacturer of the RFID tag for failing to make the tag automatically disabled when purchased.
Of course, the really big deal wil be when the RFID tags screw up whole inventories and millions of dollars then they will become more or less useless.
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It's OVER, man. Game Over. It's OVER, man. Game Over. It's OVER, man. Game Over.
will make hay with this archive.
What were the jury members saying after the trial? Who were the witnesses and what was their standing in the community? How did the decedent's estate fare where the bastards claimed that they were not bastards?
Aside from the births and deaths, the property records will be very valuable.
Many of these documents are available in microform, but the actual value of the documents will be increased exponentially where the full text is searchable. At present the vast majority are available as images.
Got me on the spelling.
The legal definition is the definition I refered to.
When he says he is in favor of amending the Constitution to permit the foreign born to run for president so long as they have been citizens for 20 years and been residents for 20 years?
The ONLY person that applies to is Arnold. There is just no way that Henry Kissinger could run
Tru Googleing Hatch and Amendment and see how many times the good Mormon from Utah proposes this amendmen.
The public record prohibits dispute where: (1) Hatch proposes the amendment; and, (2) Hatch supports Arnold's candidacy; and, (3) Hatch is openly biased towards his Church.
Incoherent? Inarticulate? Not where Mormons operate with the authority of God in their public policy pronouncements.
Dispute the facts.
What the hell are you saying?
... and" isn't a proper conjunction.
"is you live in California and you think there is no need to pay taxes"
"Is you" isn't a [roper subject-verb pair.
"Is you
I've never said that, "there is no need to pay taxes";, It was you, Fuzzums.
Frightfully moronnic. Please go back to school now. Your mother is calling.
Oh, and if you will stop eating those paint chips you will not get much dumber.
qqqq moron
Yep, you B simpeler. If you think healthcare can be abandoned along with roads, and the power grid, you are an idiot.
Exactly how will you keep from dying from that nasty scarlet fever epidemic - or from the drug resistant strains of TB?
Excuse me wizard, but the life you save with public health spending may well be your own.
Of course, if you want to play "rugged individualist" then I suggest that you take your jeans and a t-shirt and head up to Alaska and rough it outdoors for the winter. You can prove to yourself exactly how tough, smart and dead you can be.
qqqq moron
Pronounced:
Spo (long O) Li a (long A) tion
SPOILATION is the last refuge of the above-the-law. It will result in a judgment against the party spoiling the evidence - sooner or later.
All of the girlie R's don't like Arnold. The big bidness boys LOVE Arnold and they are behind the Mormon R's amending the Constitution to permit Arnold becoming the second coming of Ronald.
RINO - I think NOT!
how far you drive, how long you f**K and anything else he can. How nice that the democrats aren't to blame for this abomination.
Time to expose the 13-car owner 'govner for what he is - aggressively hostile to everything the average guy or gal needs.
Pardon me boys, but the nasty discourse about Bose brings to mind the excited comments about Burt & Dick Rutan's Spaceship One a few weeks ago.
/. boys would all agree that Burt & Dick are engineers' engineers. The real Rocket Scientists.
I think that the
When the Voyager around-the-world flight was planned it was determined that the pilots would lose all of their high-end hearing due to the constant sound drone from the engines. Amar Bose offered his latest noise-cancelling headset to the Rutans and they worked.
Whatever else, the rocket scientists found Bose technology worth incorporating into a world-record flight.
Seems to me that the Bose technology used to cancel constant SPL's high enough to deffen the pilots must have some expression at the consumer-speaker level. Frankly, IMHO the use of Bose in consumer application has raised the sound reproduction quality mark from the muddy speakers found on most consumer products.
Are there better? Yes. But, a "mid-range" audio system around here runs from $2,500.00 to $25,000.00 and up and in the consumer world the "mid" or "high" range begins and ends in the $0-$2,500.00 range.
As for monster cables v. Bose speakers - there is no question - Bose speakers sound much better than 14g wire. For just about every person who is not an audio snob or technician, Bose sound just fine, thank you.
Now, after the rest of the snobs finish beating this dead horse, please consider the quality of sound that we hear every day. In my world I'd be happy if the majority of sources were at least Bose quality. Unfortunately, they aren't. Listen to the next car stereo you come across (or, that drives down the street) and tell me that the speakers are better than the average Bose installation?
That was a waterbed with a polymer causing the water to "gel" and give slower response to transient noise. The Basment was Alex's and you and I go way back....
I have the originals recorded on tape from the NPR broadcasts in the 1970's. I also have the vinyl and (gasp) the 6 CD set the BBC published.
Do DNA's memory (and, family) the kindness of buying another copy to rip.
If you don't a Vogon will drop by and read his poetry to you...
You know, the general public has free access to all of the peer-reviewed journals. They call them libraries. They, too, are paid for with our tax dollars.
On the other hand, printing non-reviewed data or preliminary data results in "cold fusion" BS.
In another field, the lack of prestige that a peer-reviewed journal carries would have permitted the nay-sayers to swamp Peter Mitchell's chemi-osmotic membrane transport theory (that lead to the discovery of active ion channel pumps). The establishment roundly criticized him. Absent the peer-review panel that critically examined his work, I doubt that cellular microchemistry would have made the advances it did in the early 1980's.
You are correct, the big journals will continue...but what do we lose by consolidating yet another group of publishers? These aren't "The Enquirer"; these are rigorous niche publications and their loss will contribute to further losses in our access to controversial and innovative work on the edges of established fields.
I've published in peer-reviewed journals and I've published in non-peer reviewed journals. The peer-reviewed journals are professionally edited. These journals have a significant overhead in the article selection process and vetting and keeping an up-to-date peer panel is a non-trivial task. I don't begrudge these publications their overhead.
As it stands today, you can subscribe to Nature (and any number of the sub-journals i.e. Nature -Neuroscience, etc.) and have on-line access to the entire journal and the archive. That saves a trip to the library if your research involves tracking the publications of another researcher who has just published in your field. No sudden web-publication system will have that archive abailable.
Finally, there are a number of open-access science abstract services in Europe.
Hmm. How about logging in the Tongass? The industry received $36Meg of taxpayer support and posted profits of $2Meg last year.
Or, what about the no-bid contracts for Cheney's corporation, Halliburton?
These "businesses" are many orders of magnitude greater wastes of money than are any science publishers. The AAAS and Nature routinely publish government-financed research and they are the top of the heap. Hell, I think it would be nearly impossible to find any published research that didn't have taxpayer support - even in the JIR!
Hmm...making use of your purchase history to market to you and the people like you? Isn't that the very reason that Wal Mart does data mining?
According to the WSJ the results of Wal Mart's data mining include the placement of goods in the entry to the store(s) (by region) according to season and holliday. The pricing of goods within the store are calculated to bring you in to buy the "loss leaders" but the product of the data mining profile they created from your purchases reveals that you will buy two packages of toilet paper (at a premium of $0.15 over all local local grocery stores) when you buy those -$0.05 discount flip-flops.
I have a client who bought a software product from an eBay auction. The product was offered as a "remainder" that was "unopened" and eligible for upgrade.
What the client received for $350 was a pirated copy of the software.
I sent notices off to the software company and to eBay's legal dept. I had no answers. A couple of years ago I had very rapid responses to such communications from an attorney.
Perhaps eBay is the way these cards are turned into cash...but the 3 hour turnaround isn't consistent with eBay....
Where one of the cards was empty in three hours the problem is within the control of Wal Mart. If the matter is considered as a glitch in the system and the cards just expire too fast, well that is one thing...an error that Wal Mart should have caught.
If there is an insider trading information (that could NEVER happen, right?) then security is way off and Wal Mart still loses.
If the system is open to outsiders to hack and they have the ability to grab the latest cards purchased and burn data and make purchases within three hours then the system is way too open.
People who pull off these scams aren't interested in most goods - they want cash. I suppose that the easiest method is to buy a case or 10 of cigarettes or to try to return a high-dollar item. The former can be sold almost anywhere and the latter will give the thief cash, but only after a second pass at the Wal Mart chain. The latter is a high-risk approach and it isn't consistent with an ongoing breach...
If only a few stories are out about these cards, but the breach of the cash control system is so complete that the funds can be diverted within three hours, then the problem is far more common and serious than Wal Mart wants to disclose. The system must have been compromised so thoroughly that only a complete replacement would eliminate the problem. Wal Mart data mines (last I read, they had the largest database of consumer purchases on the planet) and these cards are clearly an integral part of their data capture system. The cost of "fixing" the system must be far greater than the losses thus far. Of course, that could be hundreds of millions of dollars....
Anybody who would do this to an ex is nuts. Sane people forget the bad relationships as fast as possible.
Criminal charges in CA may or may not have been fully explored at this time. The DA or USA can put the matter before a Grand Jury and revise the indictment. CA has a "right to privacy" incorporated in the state constitution. I suspect that there are federal actions available for creating an unauthorized radio transmission station.
On the civil side:
(1) Trespass to Chattels (tampering with the car)
(2) Intrusion into Seclusion (electronic tail)
(3) Invasion of Privacy (where car is parked on private property)
(4) Defamatory publication of embarrassing private facts (the web page)
(5) Tortious interference with business or business expectancy (tracking business contacts)
(6) Prima Facie Tort (It's just plain wrong)
(7) Tortious exposure to toxic/noxious substance (unauthorized RF)
(8) Civil conspiracy (where somebody else helped install / build the device)
Why automate the tracking of an ex? To do her harm. What other reason could there be? If the guy wanted to shoot up the gal's male friends or screw over her business contacts he would have the information necessary. There is nothing "harmless" about this outrage. I think the guy needs 30 days in the electric chair followed by a quick dunk in the pacific near a few nurse sharks.
However, an injunction prohibiting his use of the technology forever and a good long litigation followed by a judgment that he can never pay off would serve well. Also, a web page with his video depo playing over and over might be a real deterrent to the next wizard who wants to play dirty with their toys.
Did you hear the one about the literate /.'er?
Yea. Sure. It's cool that it's out there.
/..
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You properly use the contraction "it's" and you use it twice in the same sentance. This is a record on
However, the PIs that I use don't need to spoof phone numbers and anybody who spoofs the name of a major company is diluting a trademark and is also violating the Lantham Act.
Why a person with your command of the language would miss the obvious is beyond my comprehension. BUT, it is the high point of reading
The other replies refer you to the Apple Switch site and it is valuable. The Versiontracker site and the versiontracker suite are well worth the annual fee. You will have Apple's automatic software update for OS and Apple Apps and then you have the versiontracker product that supports BOTH Apple and third-party apps. It's invaluable.
I really find the OSXlist a great resource.
If you have Micro$oft data, bite the bullet and buy their office suite (if you can claim student or educator status, the price for three installs is below $200.00) and you have transparent exchange between platforms.
As for the problems that will crop up, the best utilities are Techtool Pro 4, xupport and Diskwarrior.
Networking, printing and email are a snap. If your printer isn't supported in native OSX 10.3.5 then look into the free CUPS and GIMP print apps. I can print to anything but a daisywheel....
I like Logitech trackballs over 3 button / scroll-wheel rodents - but I own and use all. A Right-Click is CTRL-Click on the single button rodent.
Finally, get a copy of the keyboard shortcuts (Xupport has a list) and learn them. The productivity increase is at least 10:1 when you learn the shortcuts.
Enjoy!
People who support the wrong political party, dumb people, stupid people, lawyers and people who litigate things you don't like, religions you don't like, people with race or color or national origin or a gender or with a disability or who are between the age of 40 and 65 that you don't like for any of those reasons, people who talk about the government and some core laws (no murder and no private weapons/drug/medical/legal/money-printing/army organizations operating outside regulations) are the "annoyances" of a free society.
Creating pop-up ads to sell pop-up ad blockers is a mild form of extortion. It is the equal of owning a graffitti removal service by day and creating graffitti to remove by night.
I think a proper remedy is to have these folks send a crisp $10.00 bill to every person they bombarded. Make them sign every apology, fold the bill into the letter and seal the envelope (the court can then take the envelopes and mail them using postal addresses not disclosed to the two - just in case they get some new idea of how to use the post to extort money).
Simple answer: arrange for the spyware to email the data to all of the computers in a couple of departments...and throw in a, "I have no idea how that happened...maybe he brought in a trojan from home".
Legal issue: he was terminated for cause and he is not a "whistleblower" - he set up the boss. He will lose.
I agree that the RFID should be disabled or removed after the product is purchased.
FWIW the real fun will start when these critters turn up with products liability issues....say, you are overcharged by a wrong code - or you are arrested for shoplifting when all you did was wear a new pair of sneakers into the wrong store.
False arrest is a nice little offense, and you can make a nice little hit by suing the company that arrests you -but the real bucks are in the products liability suit against the manufacturer of the RFID tag for failing to make the tag automatically disabled when purchased.
Of course, the really big deal wil be when the RFID tags screw up whole inventories and millions of dollars then they will become more or less useless.