Posts by DubyaG 83 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jan 2015
This statement:
"... that smoke detectors, sprinklers and fire hydrants were faulty, and fire alarms did not go off."
Is inconsistent with:
"... as Foxlink is insured for plant, equipment, and inventory the blaze won't impact its bottom line."
Either their insurance company is run by fools, or something fishy is going on. Most commercial/industrial insurers, e.g. Factory Mutual use the evil eye against companies that do not comply with their loss prevention "recommendations".
A few years ago, my wife received an Amazon Echo as a Christmas gift at an office party.
I told her we would get rid of it and returned it to Amazon for credit.
She agreed with me that we should have as few spy gadgets as possible in the house. Basically, our cell phones are it along with our home compute stuff.
If this was routine, that implies something that is done on a regular basis. In the world of Change Management, I was under the impression that changes should always have a back out plan ready to go or some other Plan B. So a routine task shouldn't take down the whole enchilada. In my case, we use on-prem Jira and when notified of the "You vill all go to the cloud" announcement a search was started for another solution. Bye Bye Atlassian.
Just goes to show you that most people have not read the constitution, so they miss the "Congress shall make no law..." part. The unfortunate part is that most of our pols carry their little pocket constitutions and say similar things. It's just performative bitching.
It seems that this would have been better handled as using one's privileged position for monetary.
Bribery refers to the offering, giving, soliciting, or receiving of any item of value as a means of influencing the actions of an individual holding a public or legal duty.
So, cash offered, actions taken on the part of a person holding a legal duty, information transmitted, cash received.
Looks like they picked the wrong law to enforce.
Reference: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/bribery#:~:text=Bribery%20refers%20to%20the%20offering,a%20public%20or%20legal%20duty.&text=Solicitation%20of%20a%20bribe%20also,receipt%20of%20a%20valuable%20gift.
Four years for just being a mule seems appropriate. What you don't know is if the feds are on the hunt for "Ed". That guy if they catch will be breaking big ones into little ones for a long time. My guess is that they did not arrest him for a while to see if they could find the other end of the drop. I be we don't hear about that one for a while, if at all.
Plumber's grease is used to lubricate various rubber parts like O-rings and seals in things like water filters and valves. There must have been some valves in the system that probably had tags on them that said, "Do not lubricate" and were duly ignored.
"Any inhabitants of the planets in the HD 98800 system would see four stars in the sky and the shadows of the stars would appear at different times. The amount of sunlight would also vary across different latitudes."
"Nightfall" by Isaac Asimov anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_and_novel)
@Artchtech,
Staying at home is not an option unless the vote is well and truly rigged. In my case, I had a choice between batshit crazy and criminal. I held my nose and chose the criminal. I fully expect the US to get itself into something that it really cannot get out of.
I told myself after season 2 of Obama that I would vote for the Republitards until the Donald got the nomination.
Some of this functionality would have been nice in my wife's case after she left her wallet in a rental car she returned to the airport (just last night). She discovered it while going to her gate. If her phone had barked at her 33 feet away from the car, she would have been tipped off. The other features (especially the honkin' battery pack) are fairly useless.
The video does point out a flaw in the design though. If tied to your phone and it really works, you should never lose your wallet (or phone) and allow someone to pilfer it. You will know you are about 30 feet away when it goes walkabout.
I read that "article" and started rolling on the floor about half way through as it degraded like the last half of the story, "Flowers for Algernon". Misspelling, grammar and atrocious use of the apostrophe accelerated as I read and enjoyed. I hope it was written to be satirical.
This reminded me of Helen O'Loy
Read it when I was kid. I still consider it really good writing.
“The 'Hollywood' portrayal of IT is that a few keystrokes can solve anything. This has led to an unrealistic expectation on technology and timescales.”
Yeah, they watch Scorpion and see the hacker type furiously on the keyboard in front of a screen displaying something like the Matrix screensaver. The hacker gets in 30 seconds and saves the world.
Not the only abuse of science in that show, but it always makes me cringe. Walter O'Reilly sold himself out for that show.
Sounds like the investigatory powers that be have probable cause to serve a warrant on Google. A murder allegedly took place and a possible recording device was present. Since the device was the property of the victim, it seems appropriate for Google to submit what it has. If it was the property of the alleged perpetrator, it would get more complicated. The Alexa is like the surveillance cameras the the police go after when canvassing the crime scenes.
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