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telework-promoted-to-cut-gas-costs

Posted by: admin 16 years, 1 month ago

According to a recent study, federal workers could save $55 on monthly fuel costs.

The online-based telework promoting organization figured that current fuel prices cost typical GS-7, Step 5 federal employees $138.80 a month, nearly 7 percent of their after-tax income. The organization's study, titled "Gas Fuels Telework," is based on a survey of 3,500 federal employees registered with the Telework Exchange Web site.
If you've been in DC area traffic, then you know that anything that gets cars off the roads is a good thing.

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identity-theft-the-nanny-state-and-ambulance

Posted by: admin 16 years, 1 month ago

Mordaxus at Emergent Choas has an inciteful post on how the government can protect people from identity theft.

I can think of a situation we need protection from. Here is a scenario. Let us take the case of a lender, Larry. We need a law to make it so that if Larry lends money to Alice, he cannot try to collect it from Bob. That's all we need. If we have that, we'll have all the legal protection we need to solve identity theft.
This is an interesting idea, but I fear that it is too simplistic. I suspect that this is the current law. The problem is really the burden of proof. Currently, Bob has to prove to Larry that he did not borrow the money. Larry gets to put all sorts of nastiness onto Bob's credit report that Bob will never be able to get off. Bob can sue Larry, butas mordaxus points out, the way to change the business practice is to make it not worthwhile, which means a class-action lawsuit.

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ted-stevens-site-hacked-by-irony

Posted by: admin 16 years, 1 month ago

Hot off the tubes:

Almost as freaky as his infamously disjointed "series-of-tubes" speech last year about the Internet (which briefly earned him the Most Lampooned Politician on the Web award), Stevens's reelection site asks visitors to enter a username and password and then -- as they unsuccessfully fumble for a password -- condemns them with a warning that begins:

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of-lexus-lanes-and-safety-spikes-tm

Posted by: admin 16 years, 1 month ago

and information security.

I just finished reading the Undercover Economist by Tim Hartford. Great Read. He has a chapter on externality charges. While he doesn't use the term, he's talking about Lexus Lanes - toll lanes that charge a fee for access - think a paid HOV lane.

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the-choicepoint-of-johns

Posted by: admin 16 years, 1 month ago

Of course, it makes complete sense. From the Freakonomics blog, an interview with an "escort":

Q. Do you typically know the true identity of your clients, and if so, how?

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