The fall transition to standard time is linked to an increase in crime that costs the country billions of dollars annually. Transitions into and out of daylight saving time are linked to disrupted sleep patterns, increased heart attack risk, and an uptick in fatal car accidents.
And last week, a team of researchers from the departments of psychiatry and political science at the universities of Aarhus, Copenhagen and Stanford added another formal complaint to the indictment against clock-turning: The autumn shift to standard time appears to be closely linked to a jump in depression diagnoses around this time of year.
Why do we continue with this practice? What are the actual benefits?
I don’t know, did we really need a study to show this? “The researchers ran a series of studies asking participants to plan for an important event or goal, like the meeting with their boss or launching their new company. In one study, they asked students to create a study plan for a final exam…
This is one of many concerns we should have about security searches that allow agents to review the information on electronic devices. “Just as border security is fundamental to national security, so too is the principle of client confidentiality fundamental to the American legal system,” Klein added. She said the association is troubled about directives…
Turns out the speed didn’t stay quite that high so the download will finish sometime this evening. No biggie, since the only CD-R’s I have in the office are 650MB anyway. I would have had to wait until I go home and grab a 700MB and burned tomorrow if it had finished by 5PM. 🙂…
Part of me can’t help but wonder how much training the attorneys at this firm attended, or if they were “too busy” to be bothered with learning how the eDiscovery review platform worked, or what the scope of work agreement with the vendor actually was? The event highlights the increasing risks of relying on unfamiliar…
“Financial data has a finite lifespan because it becomes worthless the second the customer detects the fraud and cancels the card or account. Most forums for such data have a high enough surplus of stolen payment cards that they have fire sales. But information contained in health care records has a much longer shelf life…
