Oh my. This is... stupid.
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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - The founder of a company that runs answering services for doctors allegedly tried to destroy a competitor by hacking into the firm’s computer so that patients got a busy signal or heard moaning when they tried to call their doctors.
Gerald Martin, 37, was charged with computer tampering and possession of a forged instrument. If convicted, he could serve up to seven years in prison.
Stuart Hayman, president of the Westchester County Medical Society, said the alleged crime “could have prevented thousands of patients from reaching their physicians in emergency situations.”
One patient in California had to be rushed to an emergency room after failing to reach a doctor because of the alleged interference, District Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Tuesday.
Martin allegedly hacked into the computer for three days in November. Patients either heard a busy signal or “groaning, moaning in a sexual nature,” Pirro said. Martin could not be reached for comment.
I'd sue him so hard, his rotted excuse for a brain would fall out.
In other news, MacGyver is on pace for becoming a real word:
Asked how he managed to give up only one run, Leiter was speechless for a moment. "Magic, mirrors," he said. "When the moment came when I really needed to make a pitch, I was able to get it.
"And it's not that I'm lackadaisical leading up to the 'MacGyver' moment when I've got to get out of the mess, but I'm kind of relentless in the fact that I refuse to give in to the hitter or the umpire. It sometimes hurts me."
Now, to make those quotes around the word disappear -- it will become as normal as shenanigan or mulligan in everyday speech!
There's a book out called "What would MacGyver do?", which tells how to use common objects in neat ways.
The problem with using "MacGyver" as a word is that there's so many ways to spell it.
The problem with using "MacGyver" as a word is that there's so many ways to spell it.
Also, it makes me think of Patty and Selma.
So our dog has been barking once in awhile around bedtime at something which she sees out the window. She NEVER barks, so we knew it had to be something.
As I took her out for her walk at 6 this morning, what did I see in the yard but an opossum with two babies on her back! All so very cute and fluffy and staring right at us with bright black eyes. My dog, the doofus, was too busy looking down the sidewalk for other dogs to notice the opossum, so I froze, knowing if Layla saw her she'd bark and wake up the neighborhood. The opossum crept veeery sloooowly along the fence, never taking her eyes off us. Her babies hung on to her back with their teeny hands and also kept watching us. They slipped around the side of the neighhbor's house and disappeared. So cool!
Awww. It's always nice to start the morning with a cute'n'fuzzy sighting.
Sure beats a truckload of shit.
Today is dragging like it's hauling a dead body into an event horizon.
