The OpenVoting folks in the article complained about using the Whistle Blower/Money type lawsuit. But having read a lot of articles on Diebold and its "tactics" it seems like the only thing Diebold will listen to is an argument (court case) that affects its bottom line. That whole "follow the law and do it right" concept is lost on them. Maybe if Diebold has to cough up $100M or more they might consider doing it right. Either that or they'll pay off with vouchers for free voting machines!
Another use would be to keep track of the staff. There are frequent news stories about how the staff is either abusing or neglecting the patients they are entrusted to care for. While working at these places seems like it can suck at times you are still expected to provide the patients with proper care -- not rough them up, ignore them, or rob them.
The datacenters I've had gear located in have had great security. IN YOUR CAGE. They were very upfront about "if you leave your stuff laying around or your cage unlocked there's a good chance it'll be liberated."
Admittedly in these datacenters there were cameras everywhere..
And of course there are stupid people in these places -- like the folks (not from our company) that were wandering around and wondered "What does this Emergency Shutoff Button on this big power unit do?" Shut off a big portion of the datacenter. The result being certain folks permanently banned and better warnings/protection around the EPO buttons. (admittedly that's a tough one -- 'cause when you need to turn it off you REALLY don't want to waste time..)
After looking at the "GPS-chip Verichip(r)" all I could think was that if that hit me with enough force to penetrate my skin it would hurt a lot more than any mosquito bite I've ever gotten. Maybe if the mosquito had malaria and I was hospitalized for a couple of weeks the pain would be equivalent.
Even assuming wire a LOT finer than typical magnet (coil wrapping) wire, that looks like one hell of a big device. Maybe you are required to bend over so they can inject it as a suppository.
So were there ever any reports on what the Russians have sitting in orbit from the cold war days? There were always rumors floating around about each side (US & Russia) having hung some pretty deadly hardware.
If you become the CEO of a troubled company and it fails it doesn't reflect poorly on you. Once you've joined the "CEO" club you're golden. All potential companies looking to hire you as their new CEO care about is that you have already been a CEO. Ignore the fact that your previous companies have failed miserably.
What NASA doesn't show you is the guy who takes Pringles cans, paints over 'em (after eating all the chips), and declares it "space ready" (for only $500k/unit!)
Someone should put together the whole thing:
- Jackets (with RIAA on back)
- Dark Sunglasses
- "Official" Incident reports (with pink copies)
- Camera
- Tape Measure & Scale
- Holsters with realistic looking fake guns
- Holsters with handcuffs
- RIAA labelled boxes to haul away goods
This will all be solved when the Patriot Act III is silently passed. I'm sure it will have a provision for the government to be able to identify who you voted for in each election. And will be able to get at the information without a subpeona -- just a simple letterhead request.
But I'm sure this wouldn't be abused. Nope. Never.
Since it is "public" information the Dept of Treasury should be required to provide (maybe with a FOIA request) the home addresses/telephone numbers/email addresses of all of their employees. That would be inline with what they are doing.
After reading the article all I can say is that I hope she gets a little "personal time" herself. She's a pretty good example of what is wrong with today's educational system (here in the US). A high and mighty "I know best" incompetent.
The problem is that "on-site" service plan isn't offered. So you have to bring it into the shop. But on the plus side "parts and labor" are included in the cost.
My mother has had a Bernina "do everything" sewing machine for a couple of years now. The hardware is great (aside from the fact that it runs WinCE). It connects to a Windows computer via a USB cable. (at least that's what they say).
The "core" documentation isn't too bad. Using the machine with the horribly expensive Bernina memory cards is easy.
The PC Software & "Technical" Support is CRAP. The software limps along and requires all sorts of drivers and such. The documentation for "how to install" the software is pretty minimal. And it doesn't get you to the stage of a "working" implementation. Contacting the local store was pretty useless. Contacting the company was incredibly useless. The website is horrible. After several months of software updates and idiots the store finally found someone that had made it work before. They came out to my parent's house and got it working after several attempts.
So I'd recommend against Bernina unless you know someone that already has it working. If Bernina wishes to dispute any of what I said above they are welcome to contact me. My parents have a large papertrail covering their experience and I'm sure would LOVE to talk.
Also it is very nice to be living 1500 miles away so that I don't have to support the parent's computers. Getting that whole thing working sounded like a real nightmare.
Safety is one thing. But that's not a big concern to a politician unless he/she/it can rant about it and get recognition in the news. Ignore the fact that these same politicians have been happily voting to CUT spending to NASA. Can't be bringing things like that up. Unpatriotic.
What really matters to the politicians is making sure the people in their state/county get a cut of the pie. It doesn't really matter whether these people are QUALIFIED to build part of the project, it just matters that they get the $$. (and that the politician gets the kickbacks..)
I wonder if slashdotting the whitehouse.gov robots.txt is considered a terrorist act. At least we'll all get to meet each other at the US Government sponsored "First Annual Slashdot Terrorism Conference" get together at guantanamo as we all are held as enemy combatants..
Slashdot Mirror
Guess we should have been looking for Weapons of Magnetic Disruption...
The OpenVoting folks in the article complained about using the Whistle Blower/Money type lawsuit. But having read a lot of articles on Diebold and its "tactics" it seems like the only thing Diebold will listen to is an argument (court case) that affects its bottom line. That whole "follow the law and do it right" concept is lost on them. Maybe if Diebold has to cough up $100M or more they might consider doing it right. Either that or they'll pay off with vouchers for free voting machines!
Another use would be to keep track of the staff. There are frequent news stories about how the staff is either abusing or neglecting the patients they are entrusted to care for. While working at these places seems like it can suck at times you are still expected to provide the patients with proper care -- not rough them up, ignore them, or rob them.
I see CmdrTaco posed for the box cover.
The datacenters I've had gear located in have had great security. IN YOUR CAGE. They were very upfront about "if you leave your stuff laying around or your cage unlocked there's a good chance it'll be liberated."
Admittedly in these datacenters there were cameras everywhere..
And of course there are stupid people in these places -- like the folks (not from our company) that were wandering around and wondered "What does this Emergency Shutoff Button on this big power unit do?" Shut off a big portion of the datacenter. The result being certain folks permanently banned and better warnings/protection around the EPO buttons. (admittedly that's a tough one -- 'cause when you need to turn it off you REALLY don't want to waste time..)
After looking at the "GPS-chip Verichip(r)" all I could think was that if that hit me with enough force to penetrate my skin it would hurt a lot more than any mosquito bite I've ever gotten. Maybe if the mosquito had malaria and I was hospitalized for a couple of weeks the pain would be equivalent.
Even assuming wire a LOT finer than typical magnet (coil wrapping) wire, that looks like one hell of a big device. Maybe you are required to bend over so they can inject it as a suppository.
Just a little late for April 1st...
So were there ever any reports on what the Russians have sitting in orbit from the cold war days? There were always rumors floating around about each side (US & Russia) having hung some pretty deadly hardware.
If you become the CEO of a troubled company and it fails it doesn't reflect poorly on you. Once you've joined the "CEO" club you're golden. All potential companies looking to hire you as their new CEO care about is that you have already been a CEO. Ignore the fact that your previous companies have failed miserably.
It always scares me to look at Guiness and see it staring back at me with those red eyes and fangs.
Wonder what the Canadian "tax" on that drive will be.
Probably more than the drive would cost.
What NASA doesn't show you is the guy who takes Pringles cans, paints over 'em (after eating all the chips), and declares it "space ready" (for only $500k/unit!)
Someone should put together the whole thing:
- Jackets (with RIAA on back)
- Dark Sunglasses
- "Official" Incident reports (with pink copies)
- Camera
- Tape Measure & Scale
- Holsters with realistic looking fake guns
- Holsters with handcuffs
- RIAA labelled boxes to haul away goods
All you have to supply is the attitude.
This will all be solved when the Patriot Act III is silently passed. I'm sure it will have a provision for the government to be able to identify who you voted for in each election. And will be able to get at the information without a subpeona -- just a simple letterhead request.
But I'm sure this wouldn't be abused. Nope. Never.
Since it is "public" information the Dept of Treasury should be required to provide (maybe with a FOIA request) the home addresses/telephone numbers/email addresses of all of their employees. That would be inline with what they are doing.
After reading the article all I can say is that I hope she gets a little "personal time" herself. She's a pretty good example of what is wrong with today's educational system (here in the US). A high and mighty "I know best" incompetent.
So are these available in the US? I've got a brother-in-law that needs one.
Wonder what happens if you ignore whitespace differences...
So if SCO is so against GPL software why don't they stop using it in their product. And hyping it as core parts of their products. i.e., Samba.
I guess I'm confused why if they are so against it they don't pull all of the GPL'd software from their products to show their resolve.
Oh. Wait. Could it be because ALL their software was written by other people?
The problem is that "on-site" service plan isn't offered. So you have to bring it into the shop. But on the plus side "parts and labor" are included in the cost.
So does this mean that they intend to sue microsoft too?
Thought microsoft's TCP stack had a little of the *bsd stuff in it.
My mother has had a Bernina "do everything" sewing machine for a couple of years now. The hardware is great (aside from the fact that it runs WinCE). It connects to a Windows computer via a USB cable. (at least that's what they say).
The "core" documentation isn't too bad. Using the machine with the horribly expensive Bernina memory cards is easy.
The PC Software & "Technical" Support is CRAP. The software limps along and requires all sorts of drivers and such. The documentation for "how to install" the software is pretty minimal. And it doesn't get you to the stage of a "working" implementation. Contacting the local store was pretty useless. Contacting the company was incredibly useless. The website is horrible. After several months of software updates and idiots the store finally found someone that had made it work before. They came out to my parent's house and got it working after several attempts.
So I'd recommend against Bernina unless you know someone that already has it working. If Bernina wishes to dispute any of what I said above they are welcome to contact me. My parents have a large papertrail covering their experience and I'm sure would LOVE to talk.
Also it is very nice to be living 1500 miles away so that I don't have to support the parent's computers. Getting that whole thing working sounded like a real nightmare.
*grumble* - browsers that support multiple windows aren't all that useful.
My bad. Flame away.
Maybe this will be a wakeup call to Novell to get their shit together and do something about this.
Safety is one thing. But that's not a big concern to a politician unless he/she/it can rant about it and get recognition in the news. Ignore the fact that these same politicians have been happily voting to CUT spending to NASA. Can't be bringing things like that up. Unpatriotic.
What really matters to the politicians is making sure the people in their state/county get a cut of the pie. It doesn't really matter whether these people are QUALIFIED to build part of the project, it just matters that they get the $$. (and that the politician gets the kickbacks..)
I wonder if slashdotting the whitehouse.gov robots.txt is considered a terrorist act. At least we'll all get to meet each other at the US Government sponsored "First Annual Slashdot Terrorism Conference" get together at guantanamo as we all are held as enemy combatants..