Comment Re:Management botched it again (Score 1) 128
Insightful? I was not trying to be insightful. I guess nobody clicked on my link.
Insightful? I was not trying to be insightful. I guess nobody clicked on my link.
...and turned the old system off without making sure...
It's not like the previous system of oversized crayolas and little yellow sticky notes was much better than the new system. Under the old system, the 20 inmates would have probably been marked released by the system, but kept in jail indefinitely.
Man Suing Dallas County Jail
May 30th, 2007 | By admin | Category: Dallas County, In The News
By Jack Fink, CBS 11
A North Texas man is suing Dallas County and the maker of its jail computer system for violating his civil rights. He claims he was lost in the system for six days.
Jim Muise credits a political leader from a foreign country for helping him get released and now he wants justice.
Muise is an automotive journalist. His stay in the Dallas County Jail kicked his emotions into overdrive.
“I felt like no one on the outside was able to hear me,” Muise said.
Muise said he was falsely arrested outside a Dallas restaurant for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
“I had people, friends of mine, associates of mine sitting outside the jail the morning after I was arrested willing to post the bond, and they couldn’t find me to say how much the bond was,” Muise said.
His name was nowhere to be found in the computer system in February, 2005, a month after it had gone online.
Muise, who is a Canadian citizen, got so desperate at one point he made a collect call to relatives in Halifax, Nova, Scotia. Luckily for him, they’re close family friends with a Canadian senator who in turned called the jail to help find Muise.
Muise was released the next day. “If not for my family and other people working so hard for me, I might still be there,” he said.
He is now suing the county and InfoIntegration, the company that installed the software.
“They knew, or should have known, that if their system didn’t work properly, people’s civil rights would be violated,” Muise’s attorney said.
The company hasn’t responded in court yet, but in a similar case, it denies the system was faulty and inaccurate.
The county hasn’t filed a response in court either, but Commissioner John Wiley Price said the county has corrected the problems.
“We know where people are in the system,” Commission Price said. “We know when they come into the system.”
Muise wants someone held accountable. “Somebody’s got to stand-up for what goes on,” he said.
The new platform is made by Intergraph, an Alabama company, according to a report this week in the Dallas Morning News.
An Alabama company? I guess that's what happens when your Excel programmers aren't paid the market rate.
When cops freak out because they are being recorded, people go all ballistic.
When cops (with guns) freak out because they are being recorded, (pardon the following pun), but they're the ones who go all ballistic.
I don't blame them for being upset.
I don't blame them for being upset either, but I hope you realize there is a difference between an unarmed taxi driver freaking out because he's being recorded and an armed cop freaking out because he's being recorded.
You must be confusing P&G with PG&E.
In California, PG&E is a utility company and its business is to sell electricity.
Procter & Gamble, on the other hand, owner of the Duracell Powermat brand, is a branding company. Its business is to grow and sell brands at huge premiums, even if it means it has to massively overpay for preferential shelving placement in retail/coffee establishments.
Because make no mistake, Starbucks is getting paid for this. The real patron here is Proter & Gamble.
When I'm mixing languages, and I have to type accents, I type much faster and much more accurately on my phone than on my PC.
That's only because the virtual keyboard on my phone has mined my gmail archive, my sms history, my twitter posts, and my facebook posts, that it knows what I'm going to type before I type it. And here, I'm not just talking about word completion, or accent completion, my phone has enough data on me that if I start a sentence a particular way, it not only knows enough to complete the word I'm typing, but it also knows the next sequence of words I'm going to type next.
Keep in mind that this isn't a self selected group of kids who's parents spent extra time educating them. These are kids who parents left the kids to figure out their education on their own. Only being their to answer questions that the child initiated.
I'd argue that what you're talking about still represents a self-selected group of parents.
A single parent working two jobs for instance may not be there when a child has a question in need of an answer. And a single parent with little income and little education may opt to buy a television and an xbox simply to keep their child occupied and staying still.
Blacks do poorly in America. They also do poorly everywhere else.
Clearly, you haven't travelled much.
The blacks you find in Europe for instance are usually from the very elite of their home countries. Barring an historical reason, the rule of thumb is that the more difficult it is to immigrate into a particular country for a particular ethnic population that is far away, only the most connected, only the most educated, and only the richest out of all of them will be able to get in.
And even then you don't find Asian Americans with high levels of illiteracy despite the fact that many of them either still live or recently came from those urban blight zones.
Not that I disagree with your main thesis, but I'd like to add one more point about Asian Americans.
Asian Americans are a self-selected group. Asian Americans represent a tiny fraction of all the Asians who have succeeded in crossing the Pacific ocean and successfully gotten into America. This makes them quite different from other populations who just had to cross a desert to get here.
For example, I have a Korean friend who boasts about his first generation family doing janitorial work and doing back breaking landscaping work to raise and successfully put all their children through some of the very top Universities in the United States, but if you probe his story just a little bit, you'll find that his family back in the days before they immigrated used to be part of the very elite of his home country. And yes, his family did lose every material possession coming to the United States and they did have to start over from scratch, which is no small feat, but at the very least, we have to admit that having made it this far and immigrating into the United States, his family was certainly not ordinary to begin with.
What are the procedures when the information that the iris scanner has recorded is no longer valid?
The procedure will be that the student is blocked from entering the main entrance and required to report to the nurse's office within 45 seconds for mandatory drug testing.
Until the result of the drug test comes back from the lab, the nurse will issue the student with a pre-scanned animal eye in a jar to act as a temporary key. Also the kid in the wheelchair, the student with a bad case of cross-eyes, and the tenured Professor with macular degeneration, will be given their own permanent animal eye in a jar for accessibility reasons.
Everybody else, they will just do as they normally do when security gets too difficult, and they'll just leave the windows unlocked and the back doors propped open, just to make sure that they can come back into their building/dormitory, and/or to give a way for their own friends to get in (thus nullifying any kind of security against unknown outsiders).
As a Canadian, I'm looking for a Canadian cloud provider that guarantees data is located in Canadian data centres, is Canadian-owned (U.S. law treats subsidiaries of U.S. companies as U.S. companies), and is only subject to Canadian laws.
Good luck with that. Canada is one of the senior partners of the ECHELON program (a program that mandates the exchange of information).
And even then, the ECHELON program isn't abiding by any law, whether they be Canadian laws, British laws, or even US laws.
Why would the average person give a fuck about their privacy? Most people have nothing to hide, and unless they are a fanatic or a hobbyist, they could not care less who reads their stuff.
I agree with you. The average person probably doesn't care, but that doesn't mean he/she shouldn't care. Privacy is important to everyone, even if you're one of those persons who mistakenly believes that you have nothing to hide.
Divorces, custody disputes, false accusations, lovers' quarrels, medical sexual history, medical history, dating, underage alcohol consumption/sexting/sex, stalkers, job interviews, job-related credit checks and/or background checks (depending on the type of job and your local laws), salary negotiations, career promotions, college/school applications, car accidents, car insurance penalties, red-lining, profiling, red light cameras, speed cameras, identity thefts, arbitrary tax laws, IRS audits/penalties (if you don't live in the US, replace IRS with the relevant tax/customs authorities), collection agencies, filesharing, porn, sexual orientation, tethering, rooting your own device, netflix/hulu-specific throttling, recycling fines, arbitrary electricity/water consumption fines/penalties, housing association violations, neighborhood/city zoning/building violations, cigarette smoking violations, dog leash/breed violations, contrived political redistricting, poll tampering, etc.
And it is true, that as individuals, we may not care that much about each particular privacy-related issue, but as a whole and as an aggregate, we should care, because every single one of us is impacted by at least some of these issues and consequences.
I have a 3D TV without the glasses, but I still don't like it. I have it turned off by default.
If any of the other 5% of households are like mine, they will have it turned off by default as well.
Thankfully, help is on its way.
You mean when BT was privatized? What are "M&P grades" for those of us not from the UK?
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