From one's food purchaes, I imagine it would be rather trivial to analyse one's health habits and give one a prediction of life expectancy.
Furthermore I suspect the health services would be interested in this data so they can prepare themselves for likely trends in poor health for years to come.
Next your (virtual?) doctor will be sending you emails advising buying less junk food and beer, while your bank will be advising saving for future health expenses along with the obvious contact from health insurers.
The sad thing is it could all be rather useful, however the spammers will no doubt find a way to completely bollocks everything up for everyone.
Well lets try to turn the parent troll into a valid post (thus causing the troll to disappear into a puff of logic).
How long is it before ATM's / "grocery stores" (supermarkets here) are linked into dating sites and your email?
They know you are looking for a date, and perhaps the ATM gives you messages that the supermarket will give you a good deal on aftershave, and rather than buying beer for consumption at home, you would meet more women if you left the house once in a while.
For those of you who feel the threat of Outsourcing breathing down your neck, what are you doing to try and stay in your current job, or even in this current market?
Easy - by using web and telephone logs, work out which companies your company has been in contact with or are looking at.
Edit your firewall to redirect any requests (perhaps using keywords "outsource" etc) to a random pr0n site. Using your administrative access to the telephone system, redirect any calls made to "threat" companies to a dummy call queue in your voice processing system that plays random music. Log who is trying to contact these people and pull their weblogs for future ammunition. (deliberate pr0n surfing etc.)
Your company directors will gradually come to associate outsource companies as a load of pr0n URL hijackers who never answer the phone. If anyone gets too close, mention that the weblogs have been "interesting" lately and "wouldnt it be a shame" if someone lost their job due to pr0n surfing.
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er.. that information would be in the title of the window that says "This program is not responding"...
Actually it's true that people simply do not read dialog boxes - one of our support guys was called out yesterday after a user complained that her computer kept giving an error every time she shut down this new program she has.
The "error" was a dialog box that said "Are you sure you want to quit?"
So according to the article, having a seperate sysadmin means:
Slower development times
Increased communication overhead
Increased dependencies
Slower rates of change
De-skilling of the workforce
Extra manpower needed
More paperwork
They forgot to add:
Servers set up correctly. Servers patched Less hacking incidents Coders unable to browse pr0n and get away with it...
I have a symbol compact flash 802.11b card. I had a habit of keeping it in my shirt pocket, and one day I remember idly having my hand on my chest, feeling the CF card and thinking "Blimey! I'd forgotten all about that! I might have put my shirt in the wash!" then thinking "heh - as IF! I'm FAR too smart to do something STUPID like that!!!"
Cut to two weeks later and I'm pulling clothes from the washing machine, then I hear a clatter on the floor. Cue guttaral moan that could probably be hard across the street. Yep - I'd washed the CF card complete with spin cycle.
I left it on a radiator for about two weeks, then crossed my fingers and put it in my PDA - it worked fine and has done ever since!
I recall that when this sort of thing first appeared in the states, the databases were hosted on NT4/IIS4 systems that were unpatched and vulnerable to the RDS database attack.
Basically anyone with rudimentary knowledge that was freely available on the net at the time could feasibly insert new records into the database.
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So.. if they can find x number of "defects" per y lines of code...
Why not fix them?
...Apple Mail has done this since Panther came out.
...and Outlook 2003 has done this since before Panther came out.
On October 21st 2003 to be precise, as opposed to Panther on October 24th 2003.
Incidentally has anyone noticed that Panther has Microsoft style crash error reporting back to Apple now?
I know you're trolling
Please define "trolling" in this context please.
Preferably a charity dedicated to teaching people how to correctly use the apostrophe.
Actually I was thinking more along the lines of a charity for anal people.
...and money. If he want's to throw away money he should give it to a charity.
From one's food purchaes, I imagine it would be rather trivial to analyse one's health habits and give one a prediction of life expectancy.
Furthermore I suspect the health services would be interested in this data so they can prepare themselves for likely trends in poor health for years to come.
Next your (virtual?) doctor will be sending you emails advising buying less junk food and beer, while your bank will be advising saving for future health expenses along with the obvious contact from health insurers.
The sad thing is it could all be rather useful, however the spammers will no doubt find a way to completely bollocks everything up for everyone.
The PDA market is the place to look for alternative input methods - there is certainly some development in virtual keyboards.
Have a look at this.
RFID of course!
And nowadays it seems to be "work that out then worry about privacy."
Well lets try to turn the parent troll into a valid post (thus causing the troll to disappear into a puff of logic).
How long is it before ATM's / "grocery stores" (supermarkets here) are linked into dating sites and your email?
They know you are looking for a date, and perhaps the ATM gives you messages that the supermarket will give you a good deal on aftershave, and rather than buying beer for consumption at home, you would meet more women if you left the house once in a while.
Isn't this what XML is for? Communication of any data types?
For those of you who feel the threat of Outsourcing breathing down your neck, what are you doing to try and stay in your current job, or even in this current market?
Easy - by using web and telephone logs, work out which companies your company has been in contact with or are looking at.
Edit your firewall to redirect any requests (perhaps using keywords "outsource" etc) to a random pr0n site. Using your administrative access to the telephone system, redirect any calls made to "threat" companies to a dummy call queue in your voice processing system that plays random music. Log who is trying to contact these people and pull their weblogs for future ammunition. (deliberate pr0n surfing etc.)
Your company directors will gradually come to associate outsource companies as a load of pr0n URL hijackers who never answer the phone. If anyone gets too close, mention that the weblogs have been "interesting" lately and "wouldnt it be a shame" if someone lost their job due to pr0n surfing.
... Decapitating children ...
...you mean as opposed to UNIX .ps postscript format?
I agree though - what's wrong with HTML?
They should just make them out of lego - would make clustering one HELL of a lot easier.
"...Unix-based Mac OS X system firewall simple enough protection for most users -- is enabled by default (in Mac OSX Server)..."
Actually, in all versions of server up to and including Jaguar, no, it isn't.
Not upgraded our XServe to Panther yet so I can't speak for that - anyone know if this is the default (for Panther SERVER)?
Panther Workstation does not start it by default. (Well not on my PowerBook after upgrade from Jaguar it didn't anyway).
"HyperSoar's trajectory follows a skipping pattern. Passengers would feel 1.5 times the force of gravity at the bottom of each skip, and weightlessness out in space. The experience would be comparable to being on a swing, although HyperSoar's motion would be 100 times slower."
Anyone else thinking about investing their life savings into sick bag companies?
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er.. that information would be in the title of the window that says "This program is not responding"...
Actually it's true that people simply do not read dialog boxes - one of our support guys was called out yesterday after a user complained that her computer kept giving an error every time she shut down this new program she has.
The "error" was a dialog box that said "Are you sure you want to quit?"
So according to the article, having a seperate sysadmin means:
Slower development times
Increased communication overhead
Increased dependencies
Slower rates of change
De-skilling of the workforce
Extra manpower needed
More paperwork
They forgot to add:
Servers set up correctly.
Servers patched
Less hacking incidents
Coders unable to browse pr0n and get away with it...
I have a symbol compact flash 802.11b card. I had a habit of keeping it in my shirt pocket, and one day I remember idly having my hand on my chest, feeling the CF card and thinking "Blimey! I'd forgotten all about that! I might have put my shirt in the wash!" then thinking "heh - as IF! I'm FAR too smart to do something STUPID like that!!!"
Cut to two weeks later and I'm pulling clothes from the washing machine, then I hear a clatter on the floor. Cue guttaral moan that could probably be hard across the street. Yep - I'd washed the CF card complete with spin cycle.
I left it on a radiator for about two weeks, then crossed my fingers and put it in my PDA - it worked fine and has done ever since!
Have you considered the more traditional husband and wife games such as "Hide the Sausage"?
Are they shaken continuously?
Less gravity = a larger three dimensional footprint within which to operate. It would be able to spread 'up' easier if you like.
I recall that when this sort of thing first appeared in the states, the databases were hosted on NT4/IIS4 systems that were unpatched and vulnerable to the RDS database attack.
Basically anyone with rudimentary knowledge that was freely available on the net at the time could feasibly insert new records into the database.
Couple this with the fact that vigilantes DO exist out there and DO kill sex offenders, this is downright irresponsible and dangerous. If these people are a danger keep them locked up - don't encourage violence.
WiFi is fine, but packing 200 passengers into a small train carriage and allowing each to use a WiFi transmitter is just stupid.
Not as stupid as packing 200 passengers into a small train carriage that has CAT5 cabling trailing everywhere!