Can you name which unethical business practice John McCain referred to today as an “injustice being inflicted on the American people” while introducing a bill to stop it?
Wow. That answer did surprise me.
Ditto.
That’s the John McCain who ran in the Presidential primaries before he was diverted from the path by a question at a town hall meeting.
Suddenly the universe doesn’t make sense. I need to see those devil details.
Federal regulators are pressing the Supreme Court to stop big pharmaceutical corporations from paying generic drug competitors to delay releasing their cheaper versions of brand-name drugs. They argue these deals deny American consumers, usually for years, steep price declines that can top 90…
Sigh … I hate Peeps. But still - buy union-made candy this Easter. A working family will appreciate it.
UPDATE: Huzzah!!! There’s more:
- Cadbury Eggs
- Jelly Bellies
- Laffy Taffy
- Necco Wafers
- Mike and Ikes
- Thin Mints
- Tootsie Rolls
- Ghirardelli chocolates
Awesome list!!
Jelly Belly may be a Union Shop, but the company owner is no friend to working families.
“I dunno Comrade, looks like Chinese Space Junk”.
Good stuff to tell you.
Took my VIKINGS midterm2 yesterday and felt fine about it. On my way to my CHEM20A TA’s office hours, I saw a few people near this guy who looked like he was contemplating running and jumping over the bike rack or something. Then I realized he was just contemplating throwing up. I stood there (eating, BTW) and watched him finally decide that he should move somewhere else to do this. His friends quickly pointed to the nearby garbage cans. He moved to them and stood over them for a minute or so and then started hurling into them. During this, a few other people had joined his friends exclaiming “Woo-hoo!” and “DONE!” which made it seem like they’d just come out of a midterm. Vomit Guy’s lunch came up in waves (as it does) and finally he finished and moved back to his friends.
Either he had just taken a midterm or was drunk or was hung-over. What do you think?
I took a CHEM20A quiz today. That felt fine, too. Go figure that I would be doing well in quantum mechanics and not in classes that I think are much “easier”. Maybe it’s like my friend Roxy said; that I’m just fascinated with the stuff. It doesn’t hurt at all that Professor Baugh’s exams are straight-forward and that he’s not trying to “trick us” on them. Jesus, this would be an extremely easy subject to make very tricky and difficult on a test.
On the “work front”, I got my official offer today to work as an intern this summer at Symantec Corp. Provided they don’t find anything I don’t know about in my background check, I’ll be working in Security Technology and Response, apparently a division that works closely with R&D and comes up with ways to apply the developments and imagine new ways to further the developments. Symantec is one of the biggest cyber-security companies in the world. I’m pumped.
Interesting. Will you be working on Symantec’s SOPA collaborative efforts?
Researchers Improve Internet Security
Most financial transactions on the Internet are safeguarded by a cryptographic technique called public-key encryption. Where traditional encryption relies on a single secret key, shared by both sender and recipient, public-key encryption uses two keys that are mathematically related. One, the public key, is published on the Internet, and any sender can use it to encrypt a message; the second, the private key, is known only to the recipient and is required for decryption.
Standard public-key encryption is secure as long as an attacker knows nothing other than the public key. But financial institutions and other large organizations seek security against more sophisticated attacks, called chosen-ciphertext attacks (CCAs), in which the attacker also has examples of successful decryption.
Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/02/researchers-improve-internet-securityMy CHEM professor was talking about something similar being developed wherein the information is sent a la the “double slit experiment”. Essentially two pieces of information sent that make no sense on their own, but where their “waves” interfere, the information being sent is clear.
Is that like when you’re at a bar, and two friends are trying to tell this story, but it takes both of them for the story to make any sense?
Also, do only some of us see the new dashboard design? I haven’t had it yet.
Only relevant if you use FF, I had to do the following:
Go to the about:config page.
Locate the Preference Name layout.spellcheckDefault and change the value to 2.
I don’t know what it’s like where you are but here in Vineyard, we’re under attack. All holy hell broke loose right about midnight. I thought a train was going by until I saw the sky light up…small explosions all over the neighborhood..
…INCOMING!!
*ducks under the sheets*
Cartoon by Zachary Kanin. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/ZQHGGD
“They took er jerbs.”
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