{"id":22166,"date":"2011-08-14T17:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T23:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/14\/unblogged-bits-sun-14-aug-11-1730.html"},"modified":"2011-08-14T17:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T23:30:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-14-aug-11-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/14\/unblogged-bits-sun-14-aug-11-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 14-Aug-11 1730)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Why “business needs certainty” is destructive – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com<\/a> – “Rather than earn their returns the old fashioned way, by serving customers well, by innovating, by expanding into new markets, their ‘certainty’ amounts to being paid handsomely for doing things that carry no risk. But since risk and uncertainty are inherent to the human condition, what they instead have engaged in is a massive scheme of risk transfer, of increasing rewards to themselves to the long term detriment of their enterprises and ultimately society as a whole.”<\/li>\n
  2. Paul Meier, Revolutionary Medical Statistician, Dies at 87 – NYTimes.com<\/a> – This one’s for Margie.<\/li>\n
  3. 5 Aerial Battles That Put ‘Top Gun’ To Shame | Cracked.com<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. “Lone Ranger” filming shut down over budget issues – The Denver Post<\/a> – I think there’s room out there for a new, epic Lone Ranger movie. I don’t think a Bruckheimer film with Johnny Depp playing Tonto (!) was going to be it. Yeesh.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Why “business needs certainty” is destructive – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com – “Rather than earn their returns the old fashioned way, by serving customers well, by innovating, by expanding into new markets, their ‘certainty’ amounts to being paid handsomely … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sun. 14-Aug-11 1730)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136895,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/04\/the-insecurity-of-mobile-phone-numbers.html","url_meta":{"origin":22166,"position":0},"title":"The (In)Security of Mobile Phone numbers","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Sep-18 1:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As people use mobiles more and more for not just phone calls (wait, they do that, too?) but as their primary access to the Internet, more and more companies and sites are using your mobile number as not just your ID, but as your authenticator, too. 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