The IT staff at my former employer saved copies of all email that went through the server... indefinitely. No, they didn't tell employees they were doing it. And yes, they had a search engine so they could do across the board searches of whatever terms seemed interesting at the time.
I find it interesting that different companies are going to different extremes. Some are limiting their exposure by trying to delete all mail and others are saving all mail in order to be able to comply with court orders (or perhaps just get a bit big brother-ish.
For a REALLY strange twist, the company I'm speaking of forced employees to maintain mailboxes under 100MB... while the server admins never deleted a single email that hit the server.
Add to your wishlist: support for LOTS of file types. I have ebooks in html, doc, rtf, pdf, palm, mobi and I don't even know what all else.
Who in their right mind wants to do conversion on every book they already have?
This is a neat gadget, but it's got to be e-ink for me or the battery life will just be pathetic. Additionally, I don't see the new ergonomic features they're touting as being worth the added cost of two eink displays versus one.
Worked against my mom too! She used to say things like "clean your..." at which point I stuck my fingers in my ears and hummed "ohhhhhmmmmm".
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A smoker who can't handle going without his fix for 6 hours can stay the fuck off my airplane, thanks. If your addictions are so massively out of control that you go into rage mode at 30,000 feet, you should be prosecuted, not coddled. Two pack a day man can get a grip or not fly.
And here I was beginning to think that the connotation of 'rabid' might be seen as hyperbolizing the shift of values in the US over the past 20 odd years.
Its a phone. Yah, lots of new wiz bang features, most of which the average person won't ever use. Most of the rest will be used a handful of times by someone to show off how advanced their PHONE is.
If I wait a year, I'll get the equavalent of this model for free with a new service contract. Even then, I won't be using most of the functionality.
The most I can ever see being useful in a phone is email, gps and voice calls. Even then, I think you'd need to be traveling for work to actually use those features enough to pay for them.
But what do I know? I live in a van down by the river.
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Don't rabid anti-smoking laws even get acknowledged?
When you talk about irritable passengers, you have to at least give a nod to the two pack a day man who has to go without a fix from the time he arrives at the airport until he departs. Maybe he'll get lucky and he can go sit in the bullet-proof glassed room with it's own ventilation system, but even that has to annoy him quite a bit.
Isn't there a lot of tobacco use in the Mideast? Are we really sure that terrorism isn't just a form of protesting the loss of a man's right to give himself lung cancer anywhere he chooses?
This kind of feedback could have astounding implications when you consider a 'porn tree' that viewers branch down based on their unconscious response to the stimulus before them.
It might be just a small part of robotic teaching, but it could be industry changing for cyber-porn if someone actually developed the 'porn tree' and could get actors to play out a scene a couple of dozen ways with varying camera angles etc.
Just wait. Open source software never seems to go away.
Just the other day I got an "I clicked it but it won't install" email about a piece of software that works perfectly well if you read the documentation.
The sad bit is that this software hasn't been actively developed since 2002 and I still get support requests fairly regularly.
A similar experiment was recently conducted to determine the existence of life in Congress. A large pile of money was left sitting out which sublimated while votes accreted; thereby proving the existence of life in Congress. It is still up for debate how long before intelligent life is found in Congress.
My girlfriend and I are traveling fulltime and living in the national forests, wildlife management areas, etc. I LOVE when we're in a state that has proactively put tons of information about their outdoor recreation areas online.
It's so much easier to find places to stay and know what's nearby in areas like this than in the more backwards areas where you are just guessing and stopping to ask the locals, who often have no idea or just give bad advice.
This is good for the state of Georgia, it's citizens and anyone traveling through the state that enjoys the ootdoors (the big blue room).
The entire concept of a non-compete clause is to discourage brain drain and startup competition from previous employees. Isn't it obvious that this would reduce new startups where enforceable and have no impact where its not?
Sorry, but this just isn't news to me.
I can already see the Doom clone for customer service reps.
1) Customer lures you in with the promise of an easy frag. - "I can't get my email." 2) Customer side steps your opening salvo - "Yes, my computer is plugged in." 3) You run out of ammo while the customer bunny hops towards you. - "I have just tried telnetting to port 110 on pop.yourcompany.com and recieved a timeout. I then tried a traceroute and can't reach your facility." 4) Customer drops a grenade on your head - "No, I think it could be the power outage in your data center that is being reported on CNN right now." 5) You respawn in the middle of 10 customers holding grenades. - "Somebody turn on the ambush for God's sake!"
From the responses here, it sounds like people are expecting this thing to perform triple bypass surgery all on it's lonesome. It's not designed to replace surgeons. It's designed to augment them. If it replaces anyone currently, it would be nurses and anesthesiologists. Surgeons will have better visual display than the naked eye can manage and the machine will allow them to cut more precisely.
What this really does is get treatment to trauma cases sooner and without endangering the medical staff by putting them closer to the battle. As a side benefit, it may allow surgeons with nerve damage or simple age-related problems to continue to operate when they could not do so manually.
Just the other day I ran across an old thread on the linux security audit mailing list where a few of us were bitching about the second spam in a month! In the end, they elected to leave it an open, unmoderated list so that non-subscribing developers could continue to post responses to things they may have been cc'd on.
Seven short years later and our current spam catch rate (at a regional CLEC) is over 98% and far from perfect...
That's my guess. Looking at what was changed, other than 'set dressing', I can't think of a good reason to change only the background other than to present an anonymous room or a room that does not exist without having their leader stand in front of a white sheet and look ludicrous.
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The IT staff at my former employer saved copies of all email that went through the server... indefinitely. No, they didn't tell employees they were doing it. And yes, they had a search engine so they could do across the board searches of whatever terms seemed interesting at the time.
I find it interesting that different companies are going to different extremes. Some are limiting their exposure by trying to delete all mail and others are saving all mail in order to be able to comply with court orders (or perhaps just get a bit big brother-ish.
For a REALLY strange twist, the company I'm speaking of forced employees to maintain mailboxes under 100MB... while the server admins never deleted a single email that hit the server.
Add to your wishlist: support for LOTS of file types. I have ebooks in html, doc, rtf, pdf, palm, mobi and I don't even know what all else.
Who in their right mind wants to do conversion on every book they already have?
This is a neat gadget, but it's got to be e-ink for me or the battery life will just be pathetic. Additionally, I don't see the new ergonomic features they're touting as being worth the added cost of two eink displays versus one.
I vote for public spankings of elected officials behaving in a manner their mothers would disapprove of!
Worked against my mom too! She used to say things like "clean your ..." at which point I stuck my fingers in my ears and hummed "ohhhhhmmmmm".
A smoker who can't handle going without his fix for 6 hours can stay the fuck off my airplane, thanks. If your addictions are so massively out of control that you go into rage mode at 30,000 feet, you should be prosecuted, not coddled. Two pack a day man can get a grip or not fly.
And here I was beginning to think that the connotation of 'rabid' might be seen as hyperbolizing the shift of values in the US over the past 20 odd years.
Its a phone. Yah, lots of new wiz bang features, most of which the average person won't ever use. Most of the rest will be used a handful of times by someone to show off how advanced their PHONE is.
If I wait a year, I'll get the equavalent of this model for free with a new service contract. Even then, I won't be using most of the functionality.
The most I can ever see being useful in a phone is email, gps and voice calls. Even then, I think you'd need to be traveling for work to actually use those features enough to pay for them.
But what do I know? I live in a van down by the river.
Don't rabid anti-smoking laws even get acknowledged?
When you talk about irritable passengers, you have to at least give a nod to the two pack a day man who has to go without a fix from the time he arrives at the airport until he departs. Maybe he'll get lucky and he can go sit in the bullet-proof glassed room with it's own ventilation system, but even that has to annoy him quite a bit.
Isn't there a lot of tobacco use in the Mideast? Are we really sure that terrorism isn't just a form of protesting the loss of a man's right to give himself lung cancer anywhere he chooses?
This kind of feedback could have astounding implications when you consider a 'porn tree' that viewers branch down based on their unconscious response to the stimulus before them.
It might be just a small part of robotic teaching, but it could be industry changing for cyber-porn if someone actually developed the 'porn tree' and could get actors to play out a scene a couple of dozen ways with varying camera angles etc.
But this is the intraweb. If you nip someone in the butt, your page rank goes up. Porn is king! Long live Porn!
Just wait. Open source software never seems to go away.
Just the other day I got an "I clicked it but it won't install" email about a piece of software that works perfectly well if you read the documentation.
The sad bit is that this software hasn't been actively developed since 2002 and I still get support requests fairly regularly.
...when you can have the entire world referring to 'Bucky Balls'.
That should be enough for any man.
A similar experiment was recently conducted to determine the existence of life in Congress. A large pile of money was left sitting out which sublimated while votes accreted; thereby proving the existence of life in Congress. It is still up for debate how long before intelligent life is found in Congress.
My girlfriend and I are traveling fulltime and living in the national forests, wildlife management areas, etc. I LOVE when we're in a state that has proactively put tons of information about their outdoor recreation areas online.
It's so much easier to find places to stay and know what's nearby in areas like this than in the more backwards areas where you are just guessing and stopping to ask the locals, who often have no idea or just give bad advice.
This is good for the state of Georgia, it's citizens and anyone traveling through the state that enjoys the ootdoors (the big blue room).
The entire concept of a non-compete clause is to discourage brain drain and startup competition from previous employees. Isn't it obvious that this would reduce new startups where enforceable and have no impact where its not? Sorry, but this just isn't news to me.
I can already see the Doom clone for customer service reps.
1) Customer lures you in with the promise of an easy frag. - "I can't get my email."
2) Customer side steps your opening salvo - "Yes, my computer is plugged in."
3) You run out of ammo while the customer bunny hops towards you. - "I have just tried telnetting to port 110 on pop.yourcompany.com and recieved a timeout. I then tried a traceroute and can't reach your facility."
4) Customer drops a grenade on your head - "No, I think it could be the power outage in your data center that is being reported on CNN right now."
5) You respawn in the middle of 10 customers holding grenades. - "Somebody turn on the ambush for God's sake!"
The actual tool is hosed. sql connection limit is being hit constantly.
Well that didn't take long... and I was just starting to enjoy myself.
From the responses here, it sounds like people are expecting this thing to perform triple bypass surgery all on it's lonesome. It's not designed to replace surgeons. It's designed to augment them. If it replaces anyone currently, it would be nurses and anesthesiologists. Surgeons will have better visual display than the naked eye can manage and the machine will allow them to cut more precisely.
What this really does is get treatment to trauma cases sooner and without endangering the medical staff by putting them closer to the battle. As a side benefit, it may allow surgeons with nerve damage or simple age-related problems to continue to operate when they could not do so manually.
Yup. Laziness will getcha
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And here I was thinking that solved all of my web design problems. Now I might have to learn a second type of tag!
Just the other day I ran across an old thread on the linux security audit mailing list where a few of us were bitching about the second spam in a month! In the end, they elected to leave it an open, unmoderated list so that non-subscribing developers could continue to post responses to things they may have been cc'd on.
Seven short years later and our current spam catch rate (at a regional CLEC) is over 98% and far from perfect...
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That's my guess. Looking at what was changed, other than 'set dressing', I can't think of a good reason to change only the background other than to present an anonymous room or a room that does not exist without having their leader stand in front of a white sheet and look ludicrous.
How about 'new hypothesis may explain...'