The whole purpose of any DVR unit is to watch the ads for you. How long 'till the functionality is released for the box to simply respond to the adserver to 'send another ad' and >>/dev/null .
If the goal of the appointment was to find someone ineffective, then this is the guy to appoint. I'm only sorry that he was appointed to the position of Federal Bureau of Outsourcing or Department of Squashing Consumer Rights.
So these cameras are being placed in one school with the hope that funding will show up to place them in other schools, at $3K to $10K per installation with the sole justification being
"If it works one time, locates one missing child or saves a child from a sexual attack, I feel it's worth it,"
.
The article does not state that this is an ongoing problem -- rampant missing children or sexual attacks on campus. But the article does not contrast the time (money) spent on false alarms vs. spending funds for additional law enforcement personnel -- instead of paying for more unproven face recognition systems.
On the flip side, has
anyone considered what VoIP
telemarketing spam would be like? Would the "do not call" list still
apply? It would be very interesting to see a spammer initiate several
thousand calls and only handle the ones that answer... No longer
limited by the number of outgoing trunks...
Considering that the FTC/FCC cannot even
effectively regulate telemarketers now, I have trouble seeing what any
regulation/taxation would be good for.
Why can't the FTC tax 'Michael Nkomo a citizen of Zimbabwe' as
he currently has '$18.6Million presently hidden in a safe
place.' ???
http://www.419eater.com/html/mike_nkomo.htm
When is Mr. Barrett going to fairly castigate the US for a plethora of non-G3 cell phone standards, and a failure to switch to the metric system? Not to mention TV signals (NTSC == Never Twice the Same Colour), English spelling, and the proper side of the road to drive on.
"The success of our SCOsource licensing initiative, at least initially, will depend to a great extent on the perceived strength of our intellectual property and contractual claims and our willingness to enforce our rights."
Didn't Rambus use this same tactic? What happened to them?
This is an example of computer generated credability (CGC) -- (TM). This is characterized by:
1.) Generate a news story including LotR so it will be picked up on slashdot
2.) ??
3.) Profit!
When the first line of the article reads:
You don't have to exist to get an MTV Movie Award.
one should wonder if the motive is just to drive up viewership.
I've always wondered if anything that was aired on MTV really existed.
I can't recomend the risks site too highly. (redundent I know) Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks
On how to be 0wned by other people: Counterpane: Crypto-Gram . Shares with comp.risks the reframe of "I can't belive people don't learn from this" Counterpane: Crypto-Gram http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gra m.html
Don Norman's _The Design of Everyday Things_ and website also offer insight on how to avoid UI failures relating to failures. http://www.jnd.org/index.html
Also, get a copy of _Code Complete_ and/or _Code Write_ by Steve McConnell [pub: Microsoft Press Which is rich irony) Lots of mistakes and how to avoid them. The cautionary note might be that most of these failures are human related at some level. Whether it be at the project level, or the UI level -- there are lots of ways to cause a failure.
Finally, avoid any kind of carreer in Software QA. There is no better way to just get kicked around at the expense of the people putting the bugs in the software in the first place.
Keith and Mick seem to know what they're doing and may not be all that concerned about the future
If you sum up their ages, it comes in right around 134. They are (probably) not burning through other peoples money like some pet food dot com. They've made their billion, married their super models, and pretty much out lived everybody else in their industry. The future they concerned with is propably not a get rich quick scheme -- that probably doesn't matter any more.
Now Mick, feel free to send those comp tickets to the enclosed address.....
Slashdot Mirror
I have the list!!:
Naughtius Maximus
Sillius Soddus
Biggus Dickus
Incontinentia Buttocks
.
.
Now if only Uber/Otto can automate the drinking of Budweiser
even if you have a strong support organization, one slacker responding with this to a customer, and the entire brand is tarnished.
After all, they helped us rescue Matt Damon from Mars.
As there are electronic components in automotive keys, URL can do part time contracting in finding lost keys."URL! Find Daddy's Keys!" . . .
Good on ya mates!
Chimpeach! -- or some other note that not all US citizens favor the policies of George W. Bush.
But that's assuming that you are in the %5 of /. readers that don't already have brain damage. ..Now where's my hammer?
The whole purpose of any DVR unit is to watch the ads for you. How long 'till the functionality is released for the box to simply respond to the adserver to 'send another ad' and >> /dev/null .
With this announcement, we are now officially in an economic bubble.
If the goal of the appointment was to find someone ineffective, then this is the guy to appoint. I'm only sorry that he was appointed to the position of Federal Bureau of Outsourcing or Department of Squashing Consumer Rights.
or just a
Bank Panic
Maybe step one would be not to criminalize model rocketry
o ck etry_future_000823.html
e s/ body.html
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/r
and
http://www.sas.org/E-Bulletin/2003-02-28/featur
The great thing about working at an airport is nobody complains if you turn up the stereo.
they still use bullock carts for carrying the produce...
And why not? Have you priced tractors lately? If you don't have alot to pull or plow, an appropiate technology.
So these cameras are being placed in one school with the hope that funding will show up to place them in other schools, at $3K to $10K per installation with the sole justification being "If it works one time, locates one missing child or saves a child from a sexual attack, I feel it's worth it," . The article does not state that this is an ongoing problem -- rampant missing children or sexual attacks on campus. But the article does not contrast the time (money) spent on false alarms vs. spending funds for additional law enforcement personnel -- instead of paying for more unproven face recognition systems.
Why can't the FTC tax 'Michael Nkomo a citizen of Zimbabwe' as he currently has ' $18.6Million presently hidden in a safe place.' ??? http://www.419eater.com/html/mike_nkomo.htm
When is Mr. Barrett going to fairly castigate the US for a plethora of non-G3 cell phone standards, and a failure to switch to the metric system? Not to mention TV signals (NTSC == Never Twice the Same Colour), English spelling, and the proper side of the road to drive on.
200 kg gorilla would be more persuasive. Standards indeed.
Didn't Rambus use this same tactic? What happened to them?
If it contains OSS, it _must_ have been taken from SCO.... ;-) for the humor impaired
This is an example of computer generated credability (CGC) -- (TM). This is characterized by:
1.) Generate a news story including LotR so it will be picked up on slashdot
2.) ??
3.) Profit!
When the first line of the article reads:
one should wonder if the motive is just to drive up viewership.I've always wondered if anything that was aired on MTV really existed.
I can't recomend the risks site too highly. (redundent I know)
a m.html
Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks
On how to be 0wned by other people: Counterpane: Crypto-Gram . Shares with comp.risks the reframe of "I can't belive people don't learn from this"
Counterpane: Crypto-Gram
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gr
Don Norman's _The Design of Everyday Things_ and website also offer insight on how to avoid UI failures relating to failures.
http://www.jnd.org/index.html
Also, get a copy of _Code Complete_ and/or _Code Write_ by Steve McConnell [pub: Microsoft Press Which is rich irony) Lots of mistakes and how to avoid them.
The cautionary note might be that most of these failures are human related at some level. Whether it be at the project level, or the UI level -- there are lots of ways to cause a failure.
Finally, avoid any kind of carreer in Software QA. There is no better way to just get kicked around at the expense of the people putting the bugs in the software in the first place.
If this "CEO's" knowledge of IT is roughly equivalent to his knowledge of the law, I wouldn't loose to much time reading /. over it.
If you sum up their ages, it comes in right around 134. They are (probably) not burning through other peoples money like some pet food dot com. They've made their billion, married their super models, and pretty much out lived everybody else in their industry. The future they concerned with is propably not a get rich quick scheme -- that probably doesn't matter any more.
Now Mick, feel free to send those comp tickets to the enclosed address.....