Okay, so first there was the story about
the planned DHS television series .
And then there was the follow-up reporting that
the whole thing was an investment scam
and there was no such show after all.
Following through on the story,
it looks like the ringleader behind the scam has been
sentenced to one year in prison
and an accomplice to five years probation and $250 a month in
restitution.
The TV Squad article says retribution ,
which would be strange if true.
But it’s not .
(Read the announcements of the accomplice’s
indictment
and
guilty plea .)
At $250 a month, it’s going to take a long time to repay the court-ordered
$3.4 million in restitution.
Two years later,
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled
that the judge who imposed the one-year sentence for the ringleader
failed to follow sentencing guidelines
(which call for a minimum of 57 months),
and ordered that he be sentenced again.
Meanwhile, the accomplice
appea...
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Unlikely excuses: A faulty microchipFrom: blogs.msdn.com
Post Date: 2007-10-11 07:00:01
Last year,
a talking action figure was discovered to utter a curse word .
A spokesperson for the store said that the problem might be
a faulty microchip.
Huh?
What microchips fail by saying curse words?
I mean, I can see the voice chip failing by generating static
or chopping up the audio so as to become unintelligible,
but what are the odds that a chip will just happen to fail by
reassembling the audio to form a popular curse word?
Mind you, the problem may sti...
more Microspeak: ActionableFrom: blogs.msdn.com
Post Date: 2007-10-10 07:00:00
The word actionable
has as its primary meaning "providing grounds for legal action",
but in the world of management, it is the secondary meaning
"capable of being acted upon" that is more common.
Something that is actionable provides a specific demand
for action.
Although I’m not necessarily a big fan of the word itself,
I definitely appreciate the value of the concept it is trying
to capture.
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