{"id":181083,"date":"2016-10-08T04:27:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/08\/linkage-267\/"},"modified":"2016-10-08T04:27:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T09:27:00","slug":"linkage-267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/10\/08\/linkage-267\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/09\/30\/us_grants_patent_for_shapes_on_a_screen\/\">Ludicrous Patent of the Week: Rectangles on a computer screen<\/a> (<i>The Register<\/i>) The USPTO needs to be burned to the ground.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/corpgov.law.harvard.edu\/2016\/09\/29\/90-cents-of-every-pay-for-performance-dollar-are-paid-for-luck\/\">90 Cents of Every \u201cPay-for-Performance\u201d Dollar are Paid for Luck<\/a> (<i>The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation<\/i>) Most of the luck involves who their parents are.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/069d4a38-8738-11e6-a75a-0c4dce033ade\">The left in Europe needs to change political course<\/a> (<i>Financial Times<\/i>) The financial meltdown showed the neoliberal center left to be a failure.&nbsp; We need a real left.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/37836-where-local-governments-are-paying-the-bills-with-police-fines\">Where Local Governments Are Paying the Bills With Police Fines<\/a> (<i>Truth-Out<\/i>) Rather unsurprisingly, Louisiana leads this hall of shame.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.co.uk\/security\/2016\/10\/iot-ddos-mirai-botnet-details\/\">Brace yourselves: Source code powering potent IoT DDoSes just went public<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica UK<\/i>) Fasten your seatbelts, it&#8217;s going to be a bumpy ride<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-09-28\/how-actual-nuts-and-bolts-are-bringing-down-oil-prices\">How Actual Nuts and Bolts Are Bringing Down Oil Prices<\/a> (<i>Bloomberg<\/i>) Oil drillers have finally discovered standardization, creating significant efficiencies.  What took them so long?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>John Oliver opens a can of whup ass on the standard excuse used by police, that any misconduct is the fault of a few &#8220;Bad Apples.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zaD84DTGULo?rel=0\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ludicrous Patent of the Week: Rectangles on a computer screen (The Register) The USPTO needs to be burned to the ground. 90 Cents of Every \u201cPay-for-Performance\u201d Dollar are Paid for Luck (The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation) Most of the luck involves who their parents are. The left in Europe &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[806],"class_list":["post-181083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}