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Interesting.

I know that on most Domestic US flights, doctors, nurses, and paramedics are not permitted to open the medical bag unless their identity (and license) are confirmed by a flight medical group, and even at that, in situations where there is no doctor on the flight (but a paramedic or RN is), they will act upon the authority of a ground based doctor who approves all medication use.

In 2004, I was on a flight from CMH -> SJC and there was a medical emergency. At the time, I was a licensed paramedic, and pressed my call button when there was a page for 'medical personnel on the flight' after some delay when nobody else pressed their button. A flight attendant came up, asked me what my training was, and went to the front to call somewhere. A few minutes later, she brought a bag and took me to the back galley and handed me an airphone with a doctor on the other end, who confirmed with me the proper dosing and timing of ACLS drugs as we worked together to stabilize a patient. The process itself was like riding around with a doctor in the back of an ambulance -- he was very methodical about asking questions and quickly approved medication within reason at my discretion.

Ultimately, the flight was diverted, the patient was (very quickly) offboarded from the back galley and after some fuel for the plane, we were back on our way to SJC.

US Airways gave me a fair amount of miles (50K? 100K? I don't remember the exact number), upgraded the rest of my flight to first class, and provided me Platinum status for the rest of the year, along with a few other trinkets/swag pieces.

They do collect fingerprints from travelers -- TSA PreCheck -- but it's 100% opt-in.

Interesting.

I opted out this morning. I have friends on flight crews who opt out (either by KCM or by the freedom frisk) and I haven't heard anyone in my circles complain about it on Facebook.

If you're really interested in looking more at this, look at the flightaware stats for the flights going out of KILN -- Wilmington, Ohio.

Outside of a Corporate Jet going to New Orleans (R&L Carriers), it's all ABX Air traffic...and it's going to airports near major Amazon Warehouses (Lehigh Valley/Allentown was the biggest one that came to mind when I was looking at the flights).

Atlas (ABX Air Competitor) doesn't have a lot of wiggle room -- they're doing freight contracts for DHL and PAX contracts for the Oil and Gas companies to Africa right now.

I think what Amazon's doing right now is moving or rebalancing the freight -- something that they've traditionally done via semi -- in order to get it in place for the holiday season. It will be interesting to me to see if these flights continue to keep up during the slower months in the beginning of the year.

I completely agree. As a society, we need to figure out who's truly dangerous and lock them up, and provide rehabilitation or community based correctional options (probation, community service, jail) to those who we're really mad at.

I was a public defender for a year. When I was interviewed, I was told that I'd normally do about 80-100 cases a year. During that year, I experienced true burnout around my 250th case. I took an unpaid Leave of Absence and ultimately left law because of this.

Unfortunately, the current criminal system requires plea bargaining to exist, because, if it didn't happen, you wouldn't have enough judges, juries, or courtrooms to handle the mess.

A few years ago in California, a District Attorney who was running for re-election made the edict during campaign time declared that there was to be no more plea bargaining. Unfortunately, what happened was that prosecutors could not handle the trials, and had to release a fair amount of inmates for speedy trial violations, had to move cases to other counties who had the availability of courtrooms, and cases that should have been resolved in six months were taking upwards of a year to go through the motions of a trial.

Suffice to say, plea motions are the grease that keep the 'speedy trial' machine running in the United States.

Listhub has its own problems -- specifically when MLS'es update data, Listhub has to ensure that all of the applications that use its data are updating their information as well. Listhub is also one HUGE xml file that is a pain in the ass to process. (We explored with a python based parser that chunked the file up into smaller listings and then imported that into Elasticsearch; but ultimately gave up and resorted into a C based parser that threw everything into MongoDB.

Getting and keeping real estate listings up to date is a big pain in the ass. There's no standardized residential listing data, and while you might get RETS feeds or data dumps from the MLS nightly, it's still on you to ensure that all of the information is parsed correctly and displayed in accordance to the MLS'es standards (or risk being cut off).

Often, MLSes have terms in their contract that say that regardless of the source, that their information must be the canonical source for information in some cities -- which is a huge problem with dealing with REO'ed (Real Estate Owned) properties and the banks that want to sell them.

I know of a startup that eventually just resorted to scraping realtor.com (and I'm sure that they're still doing it to this day) instead of dealing with the various headaches of managing the contracts with the MLSes and RETS providers.

It's interesting that Intel seems to be selling off a lot of the acquisitions that they've acquired in the last few years -- first Mashery and now Havok. I wonder if this is a change of direction from Intel to go back to the chipset/foundry business.

I believe it's "(person's name) Advises a lock on (the) phone (signal)."

In 1997 Ohio (the state where I'm currently residing) passed Senate Bill 2, which largely eliminated the parole board, and introduced something called "Flat Time."

In the past, the judges had a bit of leeway (based on the statue) that they could set as a minimum time, and then the parole board would release you, on parole, for a period of one or two years, based on your institutional behavior. Senate Bill 2 eliminated all of that -- if you were sentenced to two years, you were going to do every bit of two years. Judges still had the options of "Shock" parole (boot camp) and "Super Shock" parole (judicial release), but, even in the mid-to-late 2000's, they got rid of the boot camp option, and now the only decision that will let you out early is the judge pulling you out of prison and back to the county for a Judicial Release...which moves you from the state's probation/parole roster back to that counties probation roster.

As crime increases, the stressors grow on the probation department, so they are less likely to release someone via the judicial release framework, so you see 90-95% of guys do every day of their time. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections (and the internal joke there amongst a lot of the staff joke that they need to drop the word "Rehabilitation" from their name) has cut funding, and staffing, to most (if not all) of the good prison programs (When I volunteered at ODRC in the mid to late 90's, you could learn Novell Netware administration, some Unix administration, and some basic C programming if you worked in a library: they removed that option around 2003 and never brought it back, and replaced those inmate workers with paid staff positions. In 2009, they eliminated those staff positions and moved back to the paper method of managing library records (with card catalogues and borrower cards)). Prisoners have nothing to do, so they socialize with other prisoners, and they organize prison gangs, learn how to become better or more effective criminals, and leave prison more enamored to go back out and do more crime.

A great example of this is the Heartless Felons gang in Ohio -- they started in the youth prisons in the state around 2004/2005, and, now they are in every prison in Ohio and in most of the major cities.

Unfortunately, I really think that the solution isn't more prisons or more programs, it's reforming the way that we sentence and punish people. As a society, we need to be able to differentiate between the people who as a society, we are truly afraid of (and send them to prison for intensive rehabilitation) and people we are just mad at (and send them to therapy, community based work programs, and community based correctional facilities -- keeping them in the towns where their families live so that their children don't become the next group of Heartless Felons.

I worked for a major newspaper company (before they sold their assets off and focused on TV/Radio). Every change that was made on our CMS was logged...and stored on the backend. She might not be able to see the changes, but...the changes are probably still there. Editors didn't always focus on the technology side of the house -- they just wanted to make sure that the newspaper was presented in the best image available.

As a country, we are imprisoning too many people. The laws are pretty clear and won't change the prison pipeline.

We really need to figure out who is truly dangerous and needs to be kept off of the streets versus who we're mad at as a society (and funnel those people to probation, treatment, and community-based correctional programs).

They're running SHARES internally; most everything else is specific applications with hooks into shares for data processing and return.

I just got an email from abovenet -- apparently they had a fiber cut and they're having major routing issues affecting the san francisco area.

If you're in the US and that is happening, it's a "Brand Standards" violation: the hotel can start losing reservations from Hilton if they are a franchise, and the employee can get disciplined if they are a corporate property. The next time that it happens, call the HHonors helpdesk and complain...and they'll usually comp you 1000 HHonors points and send you on your way after sending the hotel a nastygram.

This is something that just started happening in March...so, it's also possible that some hotels just don't have a clue yet, but honestly, there's no excuse if you have a reservation with your hhonors number on the profile.

Which is really interesting -- if you are a top tier Hilton member (Gold/Diamond), the front desk folks are not even allowed to ask for your ID or credit card (as long as you have a CC stored in your Hilton HHonors profile).

What do you do if your profile is compromised?

Sourceforge sold their commercial offerings (SFEE) to CollabNet in 2007...and they haven't directly competed in that space since.

RedHat was the worst when it came to this.

In 2007, I interviewed for a professional services position within RedHat. I had a phone screen and then three or four weeks would go by, and then the recruiter would ask me for another phone screen. It eventually ended up with a stay in Chicago for an in-person...series of phone calls and one face-to-face interview.

Another six months(!) went by before they called me to ask me if I would be interested in working with them and started the verbal negotiation process.

Suffice to say, I turned them down (my work situation had changed and I wasn't looking to leave), but, I always remember that process and the length of time that it took to get there when I hear friends talking about applying to RedHat.

That's why EMS drivers love Opticomm and other traffic preemption devices -- The direction that you are traveling gets a green light -- keeping traffic in the direction that you're moving flowing (so, in theory they merge to the right, but, that's another topic for another day) -- and you get protected turn signals (so that traffic ahead pays attention to the red lights at the signal, not your red lights that they may not be able to see or notice.

To combat that, some banks are offering "Guaranteed pre-approval," but that's the bank underwriting the loan during your pre-approval paperwork, so that you can close in 72 hours as long as the titles clear.

While civil forfeiture is scary, my (very very brief) stint doing criminal law as a public defender showed me that there's also a bigger side of this -- seizing the assets of individuals who are charged with a crime so that they cannot attain private counsel, make bail, or receive any creature comforts while incarcerated. What will generally happen is that after sitting in jail for 120+ days, they'll jump at any opportunity to be released; that includes a plea agreement that includes no more jail time, but, generally also includes more financial obligations (probation, fine, license reinstatement) against the defendant.

We've moved away from a society where the police were there to truly protect and serve the community (think 1950's/60's beat cop walking the blocks during his shift) to a totalitarian police state (constant erosion of the 4th amendment, nexus centers, sweeping overreaches of the third party doctrine, stingrays, and mass deployment of license plate scanners). Big Brother would be proud.

Sourceforge tried to find a better business model -- sourceforge enterprise edition -- but then spun it off and then sold it to a different company (CollabNet) in 2007...then over the next 3-5 years, laid off almost everyone behind sourceforge.net/OSDN. The only thing left of the company now is thinkgeek.

Unfortunately, incarceration's really the only punishment (outside of probation) that courts are allowed to give. I really think that we need to have a serious discussion about the difference between what society thinks is a bad person versus who is society really afraid of -- the people who we, as a society are truly afraid of should be incarcerated.

Just like match.com/IACI did when they started charging for okcupid features -- this article: http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/04/07/why-you-should-...

suddenly disappeared.

If you don't like what's being said, change the conversation, I guess.

What about in States where you have a right to Privacy?

(Alaska has an absolute right to privacy in their state constitution)

I've had some ok luck with the Who's hiring threads, but, what really bothered me was some of the practices from these companies.

One company, allowing remote work, sent me to do a personality inventory without even talking to me first -- which really bothered me. (They're still posting looking for DevOps and Developers in Indianapolis.)

One company scheduled an introduction phone call on the 25th of the month, and then didn't show up on time and attempted to reschedule on the 15th of the following month. (Apparently, they didn't understand "Hire fast, fire faster.")

Finally, one company wasn't up-front or honest about their salary expectations until after I had spent almost a month in their system -- even taking a week off of work to do one of their "trial weeks" only to discover that they were going to offer me approximately 50% less than what I was making now and that they had a standard 'formula' for salaries...things that if I would have known, I wouldn't have wasted their time (nor mine) going forward.

Don't get me wrong -- HN has brought me a lot of great things: context, opportunities, viewpoints, and friends. Unfortunately, the "Who is Hiring" has morphed into traditional HR -- where you send a resume and don't hear back anything from anyone, versus the near-immediate feedback that you would once get in 2012.

You're also missing another part -- because they're destitute, they can't make bail, so they're more likely to take a horrible plea deal just so that they can get out of jail.

If you think that this won't be abused, you're foolish.

Paul Timmins gave a speech at NotACon in 2008 (or maybe 2009) about his experiences with getting arrested for the Lowe's breach in 2005. In the agents vigor to seize equipment for a search warrant, they tried taking his cable TV boxes, amongst everything else with a cord.

It's my fear that if anything ever happens and they come beating down my door for any reason -- right or wrong -- and see my desk with three computers and four monitors on it, that they'll find a way to think that I'm "hacking" and then I'll be screwed -- no way to work equals no money for a criminal defense (and no money to make bail and leave jail) in most cases.

The seizure laws need to be reduced, not expanded...