MAKING OUTSOURCING WORK A Verizon risk team, looking for data breaches on a client’s computers, discovered that one company software developer was basically idle for many months, yet remained productive–because he had outsourced his projects to a Chinese software developer who would do all the work and send it back. The employee earned several hundred thousand dollars a year, … [Read more...] about Outsourcing And Intelligent Design And Least Competent Dogs
January
Lingering Guilt and Beer Law and People With Issues
LINGERING GUILT An Arizona appeals court ruled in February that someone can be guilty of driving under the influence of marijuana even though its psychoactive ingredient has long left his system. Since tests of marijuana measure both active and inactive ingredients, and since the active substance vanishes quickly but the inactive one remains in the body for weeks, a marijuana … [Read more...] about Lingering Guilt and Beer Law and People With Issues
Wolf Education and Crappy Art And Least Competent Criminals
NOT EVEN A PIN DROP Officials at England’s 12th-century St. Peter’s Church in Seaford, East Sussex, which is renowned for its eerie quiet, created a 30-minute CD recently of near-total silence, first as a small-scale fundraising project, but later for general sales (since word-of-mouth had attracted orders from as far away as Ghana). Those who have heard it said they could make … [Read more...] about Wolf Education and Crappy Art And Least Competent Criminals
Crazy Kids And Dogs That Drive And Motor Oil Thieves
CRAZY KIDS An estimated 3.2 million kids aged five to 12 take mixed-martial arts classes, training to administer beatdowns modeled after the adults’ Ultimate Fighting Championships, according to a January report in ESPN magazine, which profiled the swaggering, Mohawked Derek “Crazy” Rayfield, 11, and the meek, doll-clutching fighting machine, Regina “The Black Widow” Awana, … [Read more...] about Crazy Kids And Dogs That Drive And Motor Oil Thieves