Rambler330’s Comments

• Apr 7th, 2015 @ 1:56am

  (untitled comment)

  on Should People Be Told Key Results Of Genetic Tests They Never Took?
  Someone probably already has plans to incorporate the information into all the other marketing/marketable data on people and sell it.
• Mar 30th, 2015 @ 4:40am

  What is the False Positive rate?

  on Spyware-For-Business Company Thinks Concerns About 'Medical Bills' Are Indicators Of An 'Insider Threat'
  I can't see where the accuracy of such of a system would be very high. What kind of resources is a company going to deploy to verify that an employee is actually a risk after being flagged? What are they going to do after 6 months when 80% of their employees have been identified as risks?
• Mar 27th, 2015 @ 12:18pm

  No new toys...

  on Defense Department Keeps Losing 'Sensitive' Explosives Gear, Then Finding It For Sale On Ebay
  No more new toys till you learn to take care of the ones you already have.
• Mar 22nd, 2015 @ 9:40am

  Re: Re: Computer algorithms/code used by local government should be published

  on Beyond Freedom Of Information Requests: Freedom Of Code Requests
  Not when you get to cherry pick your data. If I throw out all the houses that had sold for low prices and pick only the 4 highest selling houses as the "comps", I skew the data to justify raising your taxes. In any housing market you will have homes on the market that have unreasonably high prices. Often someone will meet that asking price.
• Mar 21st, 2015 @ 8:39am

  Computer algorithms/code used by local government should be published

  on Beyond Freedom Of Information Requests: Freedom Of Code Requests
  This brings up an interesting conversation I had with my brother the other day.
  He had recently received his city's tax assessment on his home in a major city in Canada. He felt that it was too high by about 25%. Looking at the list of supposed comparable homes in the area, none of them where really comparable. Different size, number of bedrooms/bathrooms, presence of attached garage, lot size, etc. One home was over a mile away in a completely different neighborhood. Several more comparable homes had recently (past 6 months) sold in the close neighborhood, but we're not listed as comps. The one thing they all had in common was that they had all sold for well above market value.
  So the question came up as to whether or not the algorithm used to find the comparable homes had been tuned to maximize (and justify) the tax revenue for the city.
  (My brother is appealing his assessment and is confident it will be lowered.)
• Mar 19th, 2015 @ 5:10am

  Re: Throwing it open to all...

  on Government Pays $18k To Journalists Whose Tank Plant Photos It Deleted
  I always thought that these type of incidents call for a "flash mob" type of response.
  Google "Joint Systems Manufacturing Center lima ohio" and click on Images and see top secret sensitive photos of the facility!
• Mar 12th, 2015 @ 10:02am

  Why does the user/gov employee get to choose

  on State Dept. Employees Only Retained .01 Percent Of Emails As FOIA-Able 'Official Records'
  Which are "record emails"? All emails should be retained. So out the 1 billion emails in 2013, only 41,749 had to do with actual work?
  Seems we are paying a lot of people to not do any actual work.
• Mar 12th, 2015 @ 4:09am

  Walkmart Logo

  on Walmart Not Horsing Around With Parody Domain Site
  Perhaps they should go after the marketing team that came up with the Walmart logo.
  It is very similar to the international symbol for asshole.