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The last 4 digits of his SSN. The last 4 are often used as a default password for financial accounts and to verify identity over the phone. Along with the date of birth (dob). It's a bad idea that it's used so much for security, but it is. It's a good thing for scammers to have and asking for it and the dob in this context is a huge red flag.

He is seen briefly in the documentary about him. He definitely did not want the documentarian there filming him.

From the article: "Data engineers are the janitors who keep your data clean and flowing."

Hm, I wonder why he's having problems hiring janitors.

Article's title sure is misleading.

A better title would be "When skilled talent wants to be paid market rate, but can't get it without leaving".

Sounds great. When will we see reputable validation of their extraordinary claims?

"Paid $75k to Love a Brand on Instagram – Is It an Ad?"

If you are a public figure paid 1 cent to endorse a product, then it is an ad. If you fail to clearly disclose this ad identity and relationship then it is dishonest, possibly criminal.

Nothing more to discuss. This specific situation is vastly beyond any possible gray area.

So out of 170 study participants found on the internet, of whom those with any disclosed history of depression were removed, 70 were found to be clinically depressed on the basis of a screening questionnaire (http://cesd-r.com/). That's 41% of the sample.

They cite cost as the issue, that only 2600 users represent half of all comments on their entire system.

I don't know how much they are paying for a third party to manage their comment system, but I will bid $500/month to handle those 2600 users comprising half of all comments, or $1000/month for all comments. All inclusive bid. I can get this tiny number of users running on a pretty modest system.

My proposed system will also save money on subpoenas and moderation overhead by not storing ip addresses and not having paid moderation.

> If I remember correctly, Great Value Parmesan cheese was rated the worst (highest) level of wood pulp additives when tested vs other major brands.

I buy that brand too and recommend it. The label clearly lists cellulose among the ingredients and it has a legitimate function as a decaking agent. At 7.8%, it did not have the highest cellulose level in that study, though it was close. I've bought grated parmesan with low levels of cellulose, and some of it's more clumpy. However, it seems the 4% brands have the right mix. WalMart's doubling that does seem to be working as a cheap filler. The cheese in it is actually parmesan though. Much more interesting in that study though was that some brands such as Market Pantry, Always Save, and Best Choice all contained absolutely no parmesan cheese at all.

Buying a brick of hard parmesan and grating it oneself is by far the best way to go, but cheap bottled stuff that isn't too bad is more convenient for kids to work with.

Here's the Davis study with the specific brand names and what specific chemical or taste tests they failed.

http://olivecenter.ucdavis.edu/research/files/oliveoilfinal0...

Glad to see the cheap WalMart generic oil I buy was one of the few that passed. Interesting to see so many of the high end brands were fakes.

Because she told them she did. Noor Mateen told the FBI she was with him when he bought ammunition and a holster and that she once drove him to the Pulse nightclub because he wanted to scope it out. She told federal agents she tried to talk her husband out of carrying out the attack against the nightclub.

Maybe the FBI should spend less time suing Apple and more time finding out where the wife of the Orlando shooter has disappeared to given she was proven to have assisted him with the crime and knew about it in advance.

The FBI might also do well to look into the mother of the San Bernardino shooters who lived with them in a house full of bombs and guns and yet somehow never had any idea what was going on.

These seem better leads than this constant obsession with searching everyone's phones.

Yes, also Niantic's founder John Hanke has an actual documented history of CIA funding. It's not unreasonable paranoia for nations to suspect this may be an absolutely brilliant trojan horse especially given the data it collects and the access permissions it requires on some devices.

Exactly so. The above is clearly a PR campaign.

> Just because there's not a one-to-one correspondence between a word in a language and a word in another, does not mean you can't express the same content through a combination of words and sentences.

The article specifically acknowledges and discusses this in the third paragraph. That means that the fact the parent comment is currently the top voted comment means that very few commenters and voters have read even the beginning of the article.

Here is "False Positives Equal False Justice" which analyzes the particular drug field tests used, showing they have an enormous false positive rate.

http://www.cacj.org/documents/sf_crime_lab/studies__misc_mat...

The judge's ruling ( https://ecf.ksd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2013cv2... ) hinges on his statement on page 13 that "a reasonably trustworthy field test that returns a positive result for the presence of drugs is a sufficient basis, in and of itself, for probable cause."

Given the established accuracy of the field test used, no sane and honest person would ever claim it is "reasonably trustworthy", making the judge's claims moot.

Thanks, those articles are helpful in understanding the real issues.

This next article gives the other side of the story regarding the lawsuit.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/alma-lawsuit

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/custom/...

From the article, the CDC finds reduced landline use correlated with smoking and drinking, and thus poor health outcomes. There's a sort of inference that one has to do with the other.

Many pay as you go cell plans can cost less than land plans, especially with all the taxes and fees. It's a luxury to own both. Therefore poor people, who are more likely to smoke, are thus more likely to both smoke and have only a cell phone.

Regarding drinking the correlation is that people who only have a landline binge drink less. This is clearly because the tiny 8% that have land line only are mostly much older retired and rural people who just are not part of the cell phone generations. Binge drinking is correlated with youth and so this metric follows from age and not phone use.

Not having a land line does not cause people to smoke or drink, nor is not having a landline a dangerous daredevil maneuver. It's an economic one. And having only a landline is a factor of age demographics.

In my own case I can certainly afford both but I only have a cell because the land line has constant heavy static making it useless for understanding speech, and since phone lines are now shared responsibility of many companies, none take responsibility for fixing them. Equipment falls apart and falls into disrepair. Service calls take weeks of calls to get done and the service personnel have to come in from out of state and are incompetent and incapable of fixing problems. As a result, no one in my entire area maintains their land line any more since none of our phone lines work.

It's an infrastructure issue just like decaying and falling apart bridges. Cell reception just works and is cheaper. However my case and that of my neighbors, that of decaying infrastructure is possibly atypical or a minority reason for cell phone only use compared to the income and age reasons of others.

Like most developers, I've stumbled into lots of security problems over the years. The first few times I attempted responsible disclosure, but that resulted in enough close calls that I simply don't report them anymore. I document them. Sometimes I might mention them to others who have an interest.

I would now never report a security flaw without a iron clad set of laws in place to protect the rights of white-hats, whether we are licensed and approved security researchers or not.

Why not just get rid of the state owned propaganda channels? Why is that never an option. It's absurd to have to be subjected to state propaganda and be made to pay for it. Brainwashing should be free, no?

OK, but most people use them for their cameras, I never even heard of anyone using them on car systems, but I'll accept it is true.

Given this, why should the 99% that are taking their own photos pay a tax to support a record label organization that one of the posts above from a German says doesn't even pay out to the musicians?

ARGGGGGGGG. As someone who doesn't pirate, I really resent having to pay money to media companies just because they feel entitled to it.

I remember years ago there was a tax on cassette tapes, so every tape we made and of our own band we had to pay Michael Jackson and Madonna for the privilege. Completely absurd and infuriating.