Well, third-hand smoke is considered by at least some docs to be a direct cancer risk.
Among the substances in third-hand smoke are hydrogen cyanide, used in chemical weapons; butane, which is used in lighter fluid; toluene, found in paint thinners; arsenic; lead; carbon monoxide; and even polonium-210, the highly radioactive carcinogen that was used to murder former Russian spy Alexander V. Litvinenko in 2006. Eleven of the compounds are highly carcinogenic.
After reading this, I noticed it was great but the most obvious omission is a GUI test runner. Fortunately, it is possible that if you want to see a comforting green bar when your tests pass or an anxiety-inducing red bar when they fail. you'll need an IDE with integrated JUnit support such as Eclipse. Neither the Swing nor the AWT test runners will be updated or bundled with JUnit 4.
Why bother with GUI testrunners when you can just create a nice set of webpages containing your JUnit results in detail? That way anyone with a web browser can take a look. In your Ant buildfile, have JUnit output the results as XML, and use the junitreport task to automagically transform it to HTML.
For a small amount of effort, you'll get something like this.
The part that amazes me these days is that people bother to send personal email through their work address when perfectly good webmail clients exist (*cough*gmail*cough*). Yes, your employer can probably see that you're surfing Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo/Home *nix Server. However, your email is not likely to be captured by their system, and remains private.
So, why do people still use work for private mail?
At the company I work for, and I imagine others as well, webmail sites are blocked at the proxy server. They want all of the mail to go through one entry/exit point, just like all of the web traffic does. Of course I can think of about five ways to circumvent this, but the vast majority of employees will just accept that they are not supposed to use webmail.
Personally, since it's their internal network and hardware, I don't care if they look at every bit that goes in and out of my (work) desktop. I have nothing to hide, and if I have some sort of sensitive private communication to make, I can wait until I get home or go outside and use my cell phone. I don't see the problem here.
Sod's Law: It will go wrong at the worst posible time.
Don't forget about Adams' Corollary:
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
The real question that nobody seems to ask is : HOW THE FUCK DOES THE USPTO EVEN CONSIDER SUCH APPLICATIONS?
And a related side question is, how the fuck does the USPTO grant so many obvious/devious/retarded/nonsensical patents? I know they don't have Einsteins on the payroll to review them, but come on!...
The USPTO is a
fully fee-funded operation [emphasis mine] with an annual budget of around $900 million, and more than 6,000 employees all located in Crystal City, VA.
...Its two main components are the patent office and the trademark office, with the majority of staff in the patent office. Patent examiners tend to be scientists and engineers. Trademark examiners are predominately attorneys. Both have active unions.
So it would seem that we have a semi-privatized organization whose primary annual income is realized by awarding patents. Still surprised that so many of these gems just "slip through" and nothing is done about it?
Next time, have your friend head to www.java.com for the JRE. java.sun.com is aimed at developers - it says so right at the top of the page. www.java.com is aimed at regular users. It doesn't say that, but there is a reassuring picture of a cow in some kind of tractor beam at the top of the page.
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Well, third-hand smoke is considered by at least some docs to be a direct cancer risk.
Why bother with GUI testrunners when you can just create a nice set of webpages containing your JUnit results in detail? That way anyone with a web browser can take a look. In your Ant buildfile, have JUnit output the results as XML, and use the junitreport task to automagically transform it to HTML.
For a small amount of effort, you'll get something like this.
The part that amazes me these days is that people bother to send personal email through their work address when perfectly good webmail clients exist (*cough*gmail*cough*). Yes, your employer can probably see that you're surfing Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo/Home *nix Server. However, your email is not likely to be captured by their system, and remains private.
So, why do people still use work for private mail?
At the company I work for, and I imagine others as well, webmail sites are blocked at the proxy server. They want all of the mail to go through one entry/exit point, just like all of the web traffic does. Of course I can think of about five ways to circumvent this, but the vast majority of employees will just accept that they are not supposed to use webmail.
Personally, since it's their internal network and hardware, I don't care if they look at every bit that goes in and out of my (work) desktop. I have nothing to hide, and if I have some sort of sensitive private communication to make, I can wait until I get home or go outside and use my cell phone. I don't see the problem here.
Sod's Law: It will go wrong at the worst posible time.
Don't forget about Adams' Corollary:
And a related side question is, how the fuck does the USPTO grant so many obvious/devious/retarded/nonsensical patents? I know they don't have Einsteins on the payroll to review them, but come on!...
Well, according to this document:
So it would seem that we have a semi-privatized organization whose primary annual income is realized by awarding patents. Still surprised that so many of these gems just "slip through" and nothing is done about it?
Next time, have your friend head to www.java.com for the JRE. java.sun.com is aimed at developers - it says so right at the top of the page. www.java.com is aimed at regular users. It doesn't say that, but there is a reassuring picture of a cow in some kind of tractor beam at the top of the page.