BBG’s John Brownlee says it superior than I ever could: You can’t farm out Photoshop work to chlorine huffers, TI. I’ve had theophylline fever dreams with more cogent Newtonian physics than this. Really, what else can you state?

BBG’s John Brownlee says it superior than I ever could:

You can’t farm out Photoshop work to chlorine huffers, TI. I’ve had theophylline fever dreams with more cogent Newtonian physics than this.

Really, what else can you state?

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Only days after Taser International was found liable in a wrongful death suit, a new study conducted by CBC News/Radio-Canada and the Canadian Press have concluded that one in three people shot by a Taser require medical attention. The information was gathered from RCMP incident reports filed between 2002 and 2007. Of the 3,226 tasings laid down during that period, 910 of the victims went to a medical facility to treat their injuries—and many more potentially serious cases didn’t seek treatment.

Obviously, this report isn’t the last word on the subject and we will surely see more studies in the years to come. And my guess is most of these studies will be in conflict with one another. Hell, we’ve already seen one incident where a Taser might have helped someone with a heart condition. What’s next? A study that finds Canadian criminals are more sensitive to electrocution than American criminals? [CBC News via Digg]

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Like the 27-inch 2707WFP before it, Dell’s new UltraSharp 2709W features a mediocre 1920 by 1200 resolution with a 9-in-2 media card reader and 6ms response time, but the contrast ratio has been upgraded to to 3000:1 and the brightness level to 450 nits. Outside of that you’ll get just about each port you could possibly need—from USB to HDMI to DisplayPort. Plus, it can be had for $999, which is only about $200 more than the 2707WFP is selling for right now on the Dell website (still a bit expensive if you ask me).

[Dell]

Via [Gizmodo]

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According to legend, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) always gets their man. This time, instead of a lone mounted officer in a rocky and snow filled landscape catching the criminals, the market enforcement team of the RCMP caught three former executives from the telephone equipment company Nortel.

Former CEO Frank Dunn, Chief Financial Officer Douglas Beatty and corporate controller Michael Gollogy were charged today with fraudulently misstating financial results as Nortel attempted to right itself after the tech bubble burst of 2001.

The three were also accused of making false entries and omitting materials in Nortel’s books. The alleged illegalities date back to the begin of 2002 and follow through to June 30 of 2003. It is believe the fraud was conducted to paper over the decline of company stock prices. Nortel eventually posted billions in losses and was forced to layoff thousands of employees.

Nortel reacted to the news of the criminal charges by issuing a statement saying the company wasn’t a target of the investigation and that the former executives were dismissed for cause in 2004.

In 2007, Nortel settled civil charges filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC claimed Nortel’s business practices let it meet “unrealistic” revenue and earnings forecasts it had provided to Wall Street. Nortel paid $35 million to settle the charges.

The RCMP said it received co-operation from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. and Ontario securities regulators, and Nortel.

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Cool new rc automobile, ideal seen from my blog http://www.qwerf.com/?p=210 I love my gadgets, you can “look around” the room

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The U.S. 9th Circuit appeals court ruled yesterday on the privacy of employees’ text messages and e-mails. The ruling makes it more difficult for employers to read correspondence sent by workers on company accounts. The ruling makes it illegal for employers that contract an outside business to transmit text messages to read them unless the worker concurs. Employee e-mails can only be read by employers if they are kept on an internal server.

The appellate ruling springs from a lawsuit filed by Ontario police Sgt. Jeff Quon and three other officers. They sued after wireless provider Arch Wireless turned over transcripts of Quon’s text messages to the Ontario police department. Police administrators read them to determine whether department-issued pagers were being used solely for work purposes.

A lawyer for the city of Ontario and its police department says his clients will probably appeal the ruling, which means the case could go before a six judge panel of the 9th Circuit or the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Hey, look – gas prices keep going up! How about that? We can’t save you any money on gas but we can give you three free months of TeleNav GPS service on your cell phone. There’s a feature that finds cheap gas in your nearby vicinity, too. Hey, I guess we CAN save you money […]

Hey, look – gas prices keep going up! How about that? We can’t save you any money on gas but we have the ability to give you three free months of TeleNav GPS service on your cell phone. There’s a feature that finds cheap gas in your nearby vicinity, too. Hey, I guess we CAN save you money on gas in a roundabout way. Here’s more info…

TeleNav GPS Navigator includes access to updated gas prices for thousands of local gas stations around the country. You can quickly search for the cheapest gas in your area and get GPS turn-by-turn directions there. Gas prices are listed in the Business Finder directory under “Gas by Price.”

Sounds simple enough, right? Here’s how the contest will work…

Leave a comment with a guess at what the June 30th national average price for regular-grade gasoline will be (it’s currently $4.082 as of Monday, see the chart above). Make sure to use your actual e-mail address in the comment form so we can contact you if you win. The three geniuses with the closest guesses will each win three months of TeleNav GPS service for use on their cell phones. If you comment more than once, we’ll use your most current comment for the contest.

Guessing ends at 11:59 PM EDT one week from this day, Wednesday, June 25th. Winners will be contacted soon after the new national averages are released on the Energy Information Administration’s web site on Monday, June 30th. Make sure to add that extra decimal place to your guess to ensure you get as close as possible.

So to reiterate: Get your guess in by 11:59 PM EDT on Wednesday, June 25th. Then check back on Monday, June 30th to see if you’ve won.

No buy necessary! Many will enter, few will win! Good luck and have fun!

Check phone compatibility here [TeleNav.com]

Via [crunchgear]

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