"Why not? In the U.S., don't we already record fingerprints at birth? Let's just all do this." Nope. We generally do footprints of babies then the parents get them. My oldest was a preemie. His footprints look like my thumb print, except for the fact that my thumb doesn't have 5 tiny toes. Also, when the police do the 'voluntary fingerprint' thing for kids, the prints are kept by the parents in case the unthinkable happens.
FTA:"It launched an investigation after finding cut wires in a piece of computer equipment intended to transfer data from station sensors to the ground, the agency said." If the equipment was built by an outside contractor and the cut was inside it, well, maybe it was the contractor's employee. If it was in house, cut wires would show up. I think the prelaunch diagnostics would have found it anyway.
She might be a nut. Apparently "She has talked with representatives from the CDC and DEP and spent roughly two to three hours a day over the past several weeks, talking on the phone and in person and contacting local papers to get the word out on what she believes are dangerous light bulbs." She was told they weren't a problem: "Officials have said that Bridges has little to worry about and she could easily clean up the bulbs by hand.
State Toxicologist Andrew Smith said it would be unlikely that a person could contract mercury poisoning from the levels of mercury found in Bridges' daughter's room."
The Ellsworth American article: http://ellsworthmaine.com/site/index.php?option=co m_content&task=view&id=7446&%20Itemid=31/
Maybe a little common sense is in order here?
The Boston problem became worse because two 'real' (actually fake, but made to look real) pipe bombs were found that day. One was planted by a disgruntled employee at Tufts (NE Med Ctr). So, when a bunch of vaguely claymore shaped things started to get noticed flipping the bird using LEDs (rather than blinking numbers, I guess), especially at 'strategic locations', well, the inevitable happened.
I won't fault the response, at the time it just all seemed a little odd.
The Quabbin Reservoir is big(412 billion gallons) and supplies Boston and some neighboring towns. The MWRA (Mass Water Resources Authority) also was responsible for building the outfall systems required to handle the use of this water. The problem isn't the existence of the water but the pipes and connections. Some towns see the MWRA as costly and are exploring other means. I doubt that 16 mile pipes and the costs of desalination are cheaper for Brockton than an MWRA hookup, but that doesn't figure sewer costs in.
GIGO.....
Now, US law only: The basis of the Claus Von Bulow appeal argued by Dershowitz concerned the use of a private investigator to find evidence. The chain of evidence should be held by government police from discovery to trial. The notorious 'black bag' was held by private individuals then turned over to police, thus 'tainting' it. Also, the PI was hired by Mrs. Von Bulow's son, who believed Dr. Von Bulow guilty of murder. (Hell, he was...IMHO). Dershowitz agued that the PI was acting as an 'agent' of the government, thus needed a warrant, as would any government agent. Bottom line, in the US, if you want to get the bad guys, use the police. It is commented here that this makes them 'corporate lackeys'. Bullshit. The cops, on a local level, are real people that have jobs like the rest of us. They can and they will investigate a crime.
Bottom line? If the police show up at my door with a warrant or probable cause, they come in. If a private citizen shows up, I can tell them to go to hell, point a gun at them (depending on the local laws) and call the police to thwart the home invasion. ANY entry that isn't a lawful government entry,without my permission is trespassing, or worse.
Well, its been years since I've owned a telescope, but IIRC astronomical scopes inverted the image. You need a terrestrial scope to see the, well, neighbors.
Did SCO have a hand in it to gain sympathy/press?? The problem is the price of getting caught in such a plot. The mainstream press would see SCO in a very negative light if they had dirty hands in writing this code. Very soap opera, very understandable to the non computer savvy. The press would eat SCO alive and the public would see them in that light. My call? I think they are playing the game by offering the reward, but they had no part in the execution of the code. But who knows? It's amazing how some would play Machiavelli without having read Machiavelli.
Model railroading is as addictive as free beer. A Slashdotter would understand it, if exposed to it. Just plain fun. I remember the days of the eighties where a PC could be used to control the switches and stuff through the printer port. Some folks are into history, some into accurate modeling (including weathering, some into track layout and fabrication and of course scenery construction. It's all fun, you can pick and choose what you want to do and there's no criticism, really. But Google for "garden railways" and you will find the outside, huge layouts. Like I say, fun.
Why not? A hijacked propane truck is a BLEVE (boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion) waiting to happen in the hands of someone that knows what they are doing. The ability to stop a truck cold if someone figures out it's been hijacked could be a blessing.
The Columbine little darlings tried and failed to set off propane fueled bombs in the school. If they had succeeded....
If a contractor performs work on a house and doesn't get paid (or a sub-contractor) they generally have the right to a 'mechanic's lien' on the property. It clouds title and he gets paid, even if he has to wait for a sale and closing. The threat by the person getting screwed here WOULD BE SIMILAR IF it was a matter of not getting paid.
"I want my money or I will do what I have to to get paid.", is the message from a mechanic's lien.
Unfortunately, it looks like she is trying to jack up the price, to quote: "unless she was paid more money".
Well, a contract is a contract. She got paid, but wanted more. So, it is extortion. Using our medical records.
The hospital is at fault for compromising the record in such a way, I would guess.
...the/. 'ers remember who bought the Bettmann Archive?
According to the article, "Peter Fydler, archive marketing director at..." which implies they WILL sell it, probably commercially to news organizations or whatever (think History Channel)seems balanced by "By using the newsreel archive to create a huge collection of still images, people can have access free of charge to printable pictures, which will add to their enjoyment of history," he said.
So it seems that this archive will be freely available for non-commercial and research use.
Every card I ever got (in the last few years, by a legitimate bank) needed to be activated by a phone call before it could be used. If she activated it, it's hers. If not, with no original sig, it simply isn't hers.
I think the real complaint here is the use of the info on the form used by the folks soliciting by spam and stuff. But, lesson learned: You just wrote down all your personal info INCLUDING your SS# and threw it in a container near them. Not a good move.
Wether it is trash is generally based on the concept of a 'reasonable expectation of privacy', where trash is generally considered public, like trash placed on a curb. So, a trash can under a checkout counter could very WELL be considered private, if a carbon copy of a credit transaction is placed in it the store is generally telling you that THEY will be responsible for disposing of it properly and securely. This case sounds a little like 'dumpster diving' which MIGHT be trespassing, unless it's their own trash can. Then it's just paper retrieval. Probably.
Since there was no forged sig on the application, there may not be a crime there. She is not, however gonna be responsible for the use of the card unless she activated it herself. The folks that did this get paid by the successful application, so THAT's their profit motive.
Well, look at it this way. If you place a hamburger in front of you, carefully, it won't go anywhere. Blow on it and the wind would be enough for it to sail away. It will probably come apart, because there's nothing to prevent that from happening. If you replace the burger with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich it will fly away, but it won't come apart. It's glued together. So, if you stick to (heh) sticky food, you can scoop it off the plate with a Spork (of course). It will stick to the plate AND the Spork. Then it will stick to the roof of your mouth. So, it seems that a bowl of beef stew will become God's own mess but Jello might not. Just think how difficult it is to get some stuff off dishes in the sink. I mean fresh, not 3 days old...
So, sticky food on a plate could work. As far as the action/reaction forces are concerned, if it's on the plate and you are holding it, it all balances out. You don't go flying off into a bulkhead or something.
But of course, IANAnA.
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"Why not? In the U.S., don't we already record fingerprints at birth? Let's just all do this." Nope. We generally do footprints of babies then the parents get them. My oldest was a preemie. His footprints look like my thumb print, except for the fact that my thumb doesn't have 5 tiny toes. Also, when the police do the 'voluntary fingerprint' thing for kids, the prints are kept by the parents in case the unthinkable happens.
FTA:"It launched an investigation after finding cut wires in a piece of computer equipment intended to transfer data from station sensors to the ground, the agency said." If the equipment was built by an outside contractor and the cut was inside it, well, maybe it was the contractor's employee. If it was in house, cut wires would show up. I think the prelaunch diagnostics would have found it anyway.
Maybe leaving it on the microwave isn't such a good idea, either. Are they REALLY that damn sensitive? I'll take a mechanical lock anyday.
She might be a nut. Apparently "She has talked with representatives from the CDC and DEP and spent roughly two to three hours a day over the past several weeks, talking on the phone and in person and contacting local papers to get the word out on what she believes are dangerous light bulbs." She was told they weren't a problem: "Officials have said that Bridges has little to worry about and she could easily clean up the bulbs by hand. State Toxicologist Andrew Smith said it would be unlikely that a person could contract mercury poisoning from the levels of mercury found in Bridges' daughter's room." The Ellsworth American article: http://ellsworthmaine.com/site/index.php?option=co m_content&task=view&id=7446&%20Itemid=31/
Maybe a little common sense is in order here?
The Boston problem became worse because two 'real' (actually fake, but made to look real) pipe bombs were found that day. One was planted by a disgruntled employee at Tufts (NE Med Ctr). So, when a bunch of vaguely claymore shaped things started to get noticed flipping the bird using LEDs (rather than blinking numbers, I guess), especially at 'strategic locations', well, the inevitable happened. I won't fault the response, at the time it just all seemed a little odd.
Rather than read 'indymedia' propaganda' try an Iraqi blog. Google them or start here: http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com
They have the "z-motion nano-positioner"!! Which is apparently quite useful http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=z-mo tion+nano-positioner&btnG=Google+Search
The motorcycle trip was a fake. The trip through the area was real
The Quabbin Reservoir is big(412 billion gallons) and supplies Boston and some neighboring towns. The MWRA (Mass Water Resources Authority) also was responsible for building the outfall systems required to handle the use of this water. The problem isn't the existence of the water but the pipes and connections. Some towns see the MWRA as costly and are exploring other means. I doubt that 16 mile pipes and the costs of desalination are cheaper for Brockton than an MWRA hookup, but that doesn't figure sewer costs in. GIGO.....
Now, US law only: The basis of the Claus Von Bulow appeal argued by Dershowitz concerned the use of a private investigator to find evidence. The chain of evidence should be held by government police from discovery to trial. The notorious 'black bag' was held by private individuals then turned over to police, thus 'tainting' it. Also, the PI was hired by Mrs. Von Bulow's son, who believed Dr. Von Bulow guilty of murder. (Hell, he was...IMHO). Dershowitz agued that the PI was acting as an 'agent' of the government, thus needed a warrant, as would any government agent. Bottom line, in the US, if you want to get the bad guys, use the police. It is commented here that this makes them 'corporate lackeys'. Bullshit. The cops, on a local level, are real people that have jobs like the rest of us. They can and they will investigate a crime. Bottom line? If the police show up at my door with a warrant or probable cause, they come in. If a private citizen shows up, I can tell them to go to hell, point a gun at them (depending on the local laws) and call the police to thwart the home invasion. ANY entry that isn't a lawful government entry,without my permission is trespassing, or worse.
Well, its been years since I've owned a telescope, but IIRC astronomical scopes inverted the image. You need a terrestrial scope to see the, well, neighbors.
And all this time I thought they were using webdings...
Did SCO have a hand in it to gain sympathy/press?? The problem is the price of getting caught in such a plot. The mainstream press would see SCO in a very negative light if they had dirty hands in writing this code. Very soap opera, very understandable to the non computer savvy. The press would eat SCO alive and the public would see them in that light. My call? I think they are playing the game by offering the reward, but they had no part in the execution of the code. But who knows? It's amazing how some would play Machiavelli without having read Machiavelli.
Oh and my programming skills are obvious by the unclosed parenthesis in the previous post...heh...
Model railroading is as addictive as free beer. A Slashdotter would understand it, if exposed to it. Just plain fun. I remember the days of the eighties where a PC could be used to control the switches and stuff through the printer port. Some folks are into history, some into accurate modeling (including weathering, some into track layout and fabrication and of course scenery construction. It's all fun, you can pick and choose what you want to do and there's no criticism, really. But Google for "garden railways" and you will find the outside, huge layouts. Like I say, fun.
Kinda makes us WANT global warming????
...according to a poll on technical innovation website T3.co.uk. The story is in this Ananova article describing just how vital it is.
Why not? A hijacked propane truck is a BLEVE (boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion) waiting to happen in the hands of someone that knows what they are doing. The ability to stop a truck cold if someone figures out it's been hijacked could be a blessing. The Columbine little darlings tried and failed to set off propane fueled bombs in the school. If they had succeeded....
If a contractor performs work on a house and doesn't get paid (or a sub-contractor) they generally have the right to a 'mechanic's lien' on the property. It clouds title and he gets paid, even if he has to wait for a sale and closing. The threat by the person getting screwed here WOULD BE SIMILAR IF it was a matter of not getting paid. "I want my money or I will do what I have to to get paid.", is the message from a mechanic's lien. Unfortunately, it looks like she is trying to jack up the price, to quote: "unless she was paid more money". Well, a contract is a contract. She got paid, but wanted more. So, it is extortion. Using our medical records. The hospital is at fault for compromising the record in such a way, I would guess.
...the /. 'ers remember who bought the Bettmann Archive?
According to the article, "Peter Fydler, archive marketing director at..." which implies they WILL sell it, probably commercially to news organizations or whatever (think History Channel)seems balanced by "By using the newsreel archive to create a huge collection of still images, people can have access free of charge to printable pictures, which will add to their enjoyment of history," he said.
So it seems that this archive will be freely available for non-commercial and research use.
Every card I ever got (in the last few years, by a legitimate bank) needed to be activated by a phone call before it could be used. If she activated it, it's hers. If not, with no original sig, it simply isn't hers.
I think the real complaint here is the use of the info on the form used by the folks soliciting by spam and stuff. But, lesson learned: You just wrote down all your personal info INCLUDING your SS# and threw it in a container near them. Not a good move.
Wether it is trash is generally based on the concept of a 'reasonable expectation of privacy', where trash is generally considered public, like trash placed on a curb. So, a trash can under a checkout counter could very WELL be considered private, if a carbon copy of a credit transaction is placed in it the store is generally telling you that THEY will be responsible for disposing of it properly and securely. This case sounds a little like 'dumpster diving' which MIGHT be trespassing, unless it's their own trash can. Then it's just paper retrieval. Probably. Since there was no forged sig on the application, there may not be a crime there. She is not, however gonna be responsible for the use of the card unless she activated it herself. The folks that did this get paid by the successful application, so THAT's their profit motive.
Well, look at it this way. If you place a hamburger in front of you, carefully, it won't go anywhere. Blow on it and the wind would be enough for it to sail away. It will probably come apart, because there's nothing to prevent that from happening. If you replace the burger with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich it will fly away, but it won't come apart. It's glued together. So, if you stick to (heh) sticky food, you can scoop it off the plate with a Spork (of course). It will stick to the plate AND the Spork. Then it will stick to the roof of your mouth. So, it seems that a bowl of beef stew will become God's own mess but Jello might not. Just think how difficult it is to get some stuff off dishes in the sink. I mean fresh, not 3 days old... So, sticky food on a plate could work. As far as the action/reaction forces are concerned, if it's on the plate and you are holding it, it all balances out. You don't go flying off into a bulkhead or something. But of course, IANAnA.