And the sun doesn't shine just for me, but I like it's warmth.
One means of employee theft is to have an accomplice bring items to the register, and the employee 'forgets' to ring some items up. At Frys this should be minimal, with the way you get in one line, and then are sent to the next available register; the odds of your accomplice being the one to serve you are much lower.
Without another person or system checking the register attendants work, this would be nearly impossible to catch, and buddies of employees would be walking out the door with more than the store could afford, and stay in business. They could have a bank of video cameras over the registers, or simply keep all the good stuff behind a claim counter that you visit after ring-out. Each would have it's costs and fustrations.
The case in the main article will probably involve a settlement with the guy, and the store will continue the practice; since the settlement amount will be lower than the losses if they don't maintain the practice. If too many folks leave without being checked, and they tended to be folks who used a particular register attendant, they'll probably just fire that register attendant. Retail employment sucks.
At least the article submitted was reasonably accurate with the title, the interesting bit was getting arrested for not giving ID.
I have a mentally disabled friend, Bi-polar, with audio and visual hallucinations. He can't even open a saving account, because he dosn't have a drivers license. State ID card dosn't count, and paying a chunk, and waiting a few months for a passport is unappealing, plus, to get a passport, he needs ID... to get the passport they could use other evidence, such as a school yearbook photo (Homeschooled), goverment employee ID (too disabled to work still)... anyway, he does not have a drivers license, which is a good thing, I doubt you want to be runover by a guy swerving so as not to hit an angel floating in front of his car. He did get arrested for waving a knife at his uncle, who has cancer, because he thought he could cure him; but he should not be arrested for not presenting his papers.
If Circuit City, Best Buy, Frys, or McDonalds does something offensive, you can just choose not to shop there. You can't pick and choose (as an individual) your law enforcement officer of the day.
In law, slander of title is normally a claim involving real estate..... Alternatively, it is casting aspersion on someone else' property,...... saying a product infringes copyright or patent when it does not in order to discredit it.......
Injurious falsehood torts include trade libel and slander of title. Trade liable refers to the disparagement of the quality of another's goods or services, while slander of title refers to the disparagement of another's title to property. In order to state claim for trade libel, a plaintiff must allege the publication of the disparaging statement and that the statement has played a material and substantial part in causing others not to deal with him.
If the universe is like a balloon, what if instead of expanding forever, or 'crunch'ing together, it were to pop?
Space suddenly shrinking away from a rupture, sections slapping against each other, as it is blown across the 'room' as it expells time from the rupture.
Maybe there is a 'valve' where time can be added and released, to maintain pressure.
Or, maybe it's a special type of balloon, made for a special purpose...
Perhaps the Universe is the Whoopie Cushion of the Gods.
Someone I knew bought an iPod, and since (afaik) it only works with iTunes, I was trying to setup iTunes on a PC.
It wanted to know his address, and that was OK, except... I could not tab the focus to the 'State' field in the address dialog which was required to be filled in to proceed). It was skipped in the tab order, with no way to select it except with a mouse. Of which that machine had Zero. (Windows MCE box, to which all his CDs had previously been ripped, fully setup and used previously without a mouse.)
Not the biggest issue in the world, but pretty annoying.
D) Appears to only affect Gigabit and above networking.
item C is possibly the key to this bug, I'm sure the Networking people did lots of perfomance testing, and so did the Multimedia people, as well as the Kernel folks... But, perhaps the full ramifications of the Thread Scheduler could not have been tested in every other combination.
The basic problem is that Multimedia playback changes the thread scheduler, which affects EVERYTHING. it could have been "Inkjet Printing while playing audio fails", "cannot hot-swap IDE drives while playing audio", "an open audio application blocks hibernate if brand XYZ laptops"... by chance, gigabit networking performace was affected, not because of any direct link.
Whats needed is for all performance or reliability minded software to be tested both normally, and while playing music in the background (or just with a program that turns on MMCSS, and then does nothing else). Just like when running under a debugger, multi-core machine, virtual machine, etc. different timing, thread deadlock, and race conditions may be found.
If you rate, and measure by a specific goal, that's what your subordinates will achieve, to the detriement of others.
Examples:
Video card benchmark software used specific bitmaps; so some video card makers hard-coded those bitmaps into their drivers. benchmark score went WAY up, everything else went slightly down.
No Child Left Behind; except the ones you expell from zero tolerance rules (photo of a gun, asprin, etc.), saving more budget for those left.
Mortgage lenders being rated on Volume, instead of Quality of loans; see the current fiscal crisis.
Companies cutting costs to raise shareholder value, by outsourcing manufacturing of pet food, toys, and tires to the cheap labor in China, which is rated by production quantity, not quality; a few dead puppies, brain damaged children, and people killed in auto accidents.
A small software company I worked at did not want me entering bugs into the database until they were approved to be fixed; that way it appeared that all bugs were fixed.
(this was the place, where after I pointed out that a user to a website under development could create a user name with embedded script tags, the response I got was "Why would anyone want to hack the website?", this was a supposed "Web Development" company, that created a website for Wizards of the Coast... Being a contractor, I just left within the first month, not wanting to be associated with the Impending Doom.)
First, to travel a long distance with B.A. by plane, he'd have to be tricked into taking a sedative, then loaded onto the plane.
Hannibal and Face would be too busy sexually harrasing the women themselves to get serious for a while. Murdoc would 'get to know the enemy' by joining the monkeys, while B.A. would be pissed about getting tricked again.
Inspired by the earlier drugging of B.A., Hannibal would come up with the plan to have Murdoc sleeping drug the monkeys while B.A. and Face Montage-Weld a specialized monkey-scooper truck, to load them on the plane. As they leave they drop the monkeys into the compound of the military dictator.
If the registation companies are no longer allowed to provide obfuscation, then numerous 3rd party services will open, most run by the same people who run the registrars.
We gave up our financial security for convienence.
Instant credit at stores, Drive the car off the lot today, get a cell phone in 10 minutes...
Maybe, instead of the consumers credit rating being damaged when a business gives credit without solid proof of indentity, the company needs to eat the loss.
I wonder if anyones tried sueing a company for Slander/Libel over a false credit report entry...
Back in '96 I worked as the database administrator of a county government budget database, 2 gigabytes of multidimensional data containing the work of about 100 people, to track where over $2 billion was going to go in '97.
After I improved the performance by a factor of ten by reordering the dimensions, I had enough free time to be 'proactive', finding and providing fixes for things such as everyones payroll being short by.8 percent; and creating an Excel add-in to perform common tasks (Sitting with the analysts, to watch their workflow, and observing them do things like manually comparing 2 very long columns of numbers to be sure they were equal... something very easy to automate, so I did)
At one point, I got the systems administrator to do a test restore of the nightly backup.
It seems that since the database software was running, the database file itself was always being skipped.
After messing around with shutting down and restarting the database every night (which did not work well). Eventually I just scheduled a 'report' that exported all the data needed to rebuild it from scratch to a CSV file, along with a copy of the schema.
That sounds a lot like SCO's case. AT&T made [Unix/Codec], forked the division that made it to [Caldera/Lucent], who then changed name and ownership to [SCO/Alcatel], who then found that AT&T had licensed the technology really cheap and perpetually to everyone else, so it's not the profit center they hoped. So they [SCO/Alcatel] try to claim the Licenses from AT&T don't apply now that they own it, and demand a higher rate.
Basically, it's like having the house you're renting inherited by the landlords son, who wants to raise the rent, but you have a 99 year lease based on 1960's rates.
it would generate unique animated fish of uncountable variety, and show them swimming around, and you could breed pairs together to generate realistic children and such...
I tried running it on a 486 once, unfortunetly, it was so much faster than the system is was designed for, it didn't work (first thing on program startup was a benchmark, seeing how many minutes it took to generate a fish... since it took less than one minute, it crashed with a divide by zero)
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I actually found that mildly amusing.
And the sun doesn't shine just for me, but I like it's warmth.
One means of employee theft is to have an accomplice bring items to the register, and the employee 'forgets' to ring some items up. At Frys this should be minimal, with the way you get in one line, and then are sent to the next available register; the odds of your accomplice being the one to serve you are much lower.
Without another person or system checking the register attendants work, this would be nearly impossible to catch, and buddies of employees would be walking out the door with more than the store could afford, and stay in business. They could have a bank of video cameras over the registers, or simply keep all the good stuff behind a claim counter that you visit after ring-out. Each would have it's costs and fustrations.
The case in the main article will probably involve a settlement with the guy, and the store will continue the practice; since the settlement amount will be lower than the losses if they don't maintain the practice. If too many folks leave without being checked, and they tended to be folks who used a particular register attendant, they'll probably just fire that register attendant. Retail employment sucks.
At least the article submitted was reasonably accurate with the title, the interesting bit was getting arrested for not giving ID.
I have a mentally disabled friend, Bi-polar, with audio and visual hallucinations. He can't even open a saving account, because he dosn't have a drivers license. State ID card dosn't count, and paying a chunk, and waiting a few months for a passport is unappealing, plus, to get a passport, he needs ID... to get the passport they could use other evidence, such as a school yearbook photo (Homeschooled), goverment employee ID (too disabled to work still)... anyway, he does not have a drivers license, which is a good thing, I doubt you want to be runover by a guy swerving so as not to hit an angel floating in front of his car. He did get arrested for waving a knife at his uncle, who has cancer, because he thought he could cure him; but he should not be arrested for not presenting his papers.
If Circuit City, Best Buy, Frys, or McDonalds does something offensive, you can just choose not to shop there. You can't pick and choose (as an individual) your law enforcement officer of the day.
Well, once as I was leaving Fry's, the door-checker caught that the register person had double-rung an item, saving me $49.99 + sales tax.
Since then, I always double-check myself, but it's not completely without customer benefit.
Most of a large stores losses are from employees, or so I've heard.
I'd rather the first thought be for a Suit than a Gun...
Lawsuits are a civilised, non destructive means. I'd rather pay a lawyer to defend me in a suit that a doctor to pull a bullet from my lung.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slander_of_title
..... Alternatively, it is casting aspersion on someone else' property, ...... saying a product infringes copyright or patent when it does not in order to discredit it.......
In law, slander of title is normally a claim involving real estate
http://www.bolender-firm.com/news0205.html
Injurious falsehood torts include trade libel and slander of title. Trade liable refers to the disparagement of the quality of another's goods or services, while slander of title refers to the disparagement of another's title to property. In order to state claim for trade libel, a plaintiff must allege the publication of the disparaging statement and that the statement has played a material and substantial part in causing others not to deal with him.
Two Words:
Tax Writeoff
If the universe is like a balloon, what if instead of expanding forever, or 'crunch'ing together, it were to pop?
Space suddenly shrinking away from a rupture, sections slapping against each other, as it is blown across the 'room' as it expells time from the rupture.
Maybe there is a 'valve' where time can be added and released, to maintain pressure.
Or, maybe it's a special type of balloon, made for a special purpose...
Perhaps the Universe is the Whoopie Cushion of the Gods.
Hopefully, next spring they will stop doing that since:
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/13/leaked-vista-s
"...new feature is an option to create a recovery disk..."
Someone I knew bought an iPod, and since (afaik) it only works with iTunes, I was trying to setup iTunes on a PC.
It wanted to know his address, and that was OK, except... I could not tab the focus to the 'State' field in the address dialog which was required to be filled in to proceed). It was skipped in the tab order, with no way to select it except with a mouse. Of which that machine had Zero. (Windows MCE box, to which all his CDs had previously been ripped, fully setup and used previously without a mouse.)
Not the biggest issue in the world, but pretty annoying.
My suspicion is:
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s /2007/02/VistaKernel/
A) Networking stack in Vista is rewritten, for example, IPv6 is native, IPv4 is optional.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/column
B) Audio stack is re-written, allowing for the new mixer, where each app has its own volume control (and some DRM, but that's not relevent to this issue)
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=7
C) the Thread scheduler is changed in Vista
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/issue
D) Appears to only affect Gigabit and above networking.
item C is possibly the key to this bug, I'm sure the Networking people did lots of perfomance testing, and so did the Multimedia people, as well as the Kernel folks... But, perhaps the full ramifications of the Thread Scheduler could not have been tested in every other combination.
The basic problem is that Multimedia playback changes the thread scheduler, which affects EVERYTHING. it could have been "Inkjet Printing while playing audio fails", "cannot hot-swap IDE drives while playing audio", "an open audio application blocks hibernate if brand XYZ laptops"... by chance, gigabit networking performace was affected, not because of any direct link.
Whats needed is for all performance or reliability minded software to be tested both normally, and while playing music in the background (or just with a program that turns on MMCSS, and then does nothing else). Just like when running under a debugger, multi-core machine, virtual machine, etc. different timing, thread deadlock, and race conditions may be found.
Well, when I typed the 'drop them in the dictators compound' bit, I was thinking about Kirk, Tribbles, and Klingons.
If you rate, and measure by a specific goal, that's what your subordinates will achieve, to the detriement of others.
Examples:
Video card benchmark software used specific bitmaps; so some video card makers hard-coded those bitmaps into their drivers. benchmark score went WAY up, everything else went slightly down.
No Child Left Behind; except the ones you expell from zero tolerance rules (photo of a gun, asprin, etc.), saving more budget for those left.
Mortgage lenders being rated on Volume, instead of Quality of loans; see the current fiscal crisis.
Companies cutting costs to raise shareholder value, by outsourcing manufacturing of pet food, toys, and tires to the cheap labor in China, which is rated by production quantity, not quality; a few dead puppies, brain damaged children, and people killed in auto accidents.
A small software company I worked at did not want me entering bugs into the database until they were approved to be fixed; that way it appeared that all bugs were fixed.
(this was the place, where after I pointed out that a user to a website under development could create a user name with embedded script tags, the response I got was "Why would anyone want to hack the website?", this was a supposed "Web Development" company, that created a website for Wizards of the Coast... Being a contractor, I just left within the first month, not wanting to be associated with the Impending Doom.)
What Would The A-Team Do?
First, to travel a long distance with B.A. by plane, he'd have to be tricked into taking a sedative, then loaded onto the plane.
Hannibal and Face would be too busy sexually harrasing the women themselves to get serious for a while. Murdoc would 'get to know the enemy' by joining the monkeys, while B.A. would be pissed about getting tricked again.
Inspired by the earlier drugging of B.A., Hannibal would come up with the plan to have Murdoc sleeping drug the monkeys while B.A. and Face Montage-Weld a specialized monkey-scooper truck, to load them on the plane. As they leave they drop the monkeys into the compound of the military dictator.
(maybe I shouldn't port at 2 am)
Astrographically?
If the registation companies are no longer allowed to provide obfuscation, then numerous 3rd party services will open, most run by the same people who run the registrars.
being able to use the technology will cost you an arm and a leg.
much UV light penetrates cloud cover directly, so this enhancement may be a good boost for solar power on cloudy days, when it may be needed more.
We gave up our financial security for convienence.
Instant credit at stores, Drive the car off the lot today, get a cell phone in 10 minutes...
Maybe, instead of the consumers credit rating being damaged when a business gives credit without solid proof of indentity, the company needs to eat the loss.
I wonder if anyones tried sueing a company for Slander/Libel over a false credit report entry...
more like
DDD
D@D
DDD
Back in '96 I worked as the database administrator of a county government budget database, 2 gigabytes of multidimensional data containing the work of about 100 people, to track where over $2 billion was going to go in '97.
.8 percent; and creating an Excel add-in to perform common tasks (Sitting with the analysts, to watch their workflow, and observing them do things like manually comparing 2 very long columns of numbers to be sure they were equal... something very easy to automate, so I did)
After I improved the performance by a factor of ten by reordering the dimensions, I had enough free time to be 'proactive', finding and providing fixes for things such as everyones payroll being short by
At one point, I got the systems administrator to do a test restore of the nightly backup.
It seems that since the database software was running, the database file itself was always being skipped.
After messing around with shutting down and restarting the database every night (which did not work well). Eventually I just scheduled a 'report' that exported all the data needed to rebuild it from scratch to a CSV file, along with a copy of the schema.
I've had many (nighttime) dreams set in video games, but the weirdest by far were the Nethack dreams.
Litigation should not be the last resort...
Hopefully, if I ever have a serious dispute with someone, litigation will be considered well before pistols at dawn.
That sounds a lot like SCO's case. AT&T made [Unix/Codec], forked the division that made it to [Caldera/Lucent], who then changed name and ownership to [SCO/Alcatel], who then found that AT&T had licensed the technology really cheap and perpetually to everyone else, so it's not the profit center they hoped. So they [SCO/Alcatel] try to claim the Licenses from AT&T don't apply now that they own it, and demand a higher rate.
Basically, it's like having the house you're renting inherited by the landlords son, who wants to raise the rent, but you have a 99 year lease based on 1960's rates.
While I was getting my PS/2 modded (for imports, not copies), someone came in and bought some weed off the guy doing the mod.
I believe Al Capone was brought down for Tax Evasion...
Sometimes the police are just figuring out how to bring down a specific target (which I think is a more of a greased chute than a slippery slope)
Anyone recall that 'game'/screensaver?
it would generate unique animated fish of uncountable variety, and show them swimming around, and you could breed pairs together to generate realistic children and such...
I tried running it on a 486 once, unfortunetly, it was so much faster than the system is was designed for, it didn't work (first thing on program startup was a benchmark, seeing how many minutes it took to generate a fish... since it took less than one minute, it crashed with a divide by zero)