Perhaps you didn't read the article.
It mentions that the researcher in question has added extra hardware to get around the problem. The new hardware checks for sweat flow from the finger, and can distinguish between cadaver and living fingers.
"Number Crunching" 24 Hours - Period terriorism suspects in Australia (al_Qaeda death toll: 88) can be detained before criminal charges must be levelled.
5 Days - Period terriorism suspects in Spain (al_Qaeda death toll: 191) can be detained before criminal charges must be levelled.
7 Days - Period terriorism suspects in USA (al_Qaeda death toll: 3,000) can be detained before criminal charges must be levelled.
90 Days - Period terriorism suspects in UK (al_Qaeda death toll: 52) should be allowed to be detained before criminal charges must be levelled.
"On Saturday afternoon a three-inch pressure water pipe burst under the Lecture Centre. This resulted in six feet of water collecting in the Plant Room, and the power being shut down for three nearby buildings.
Pumping the water out started on Saturday night and was completed by late Sunday. The area has now to be dried out before power can be restored - this process started on Sunday night. The Power Company are due back on site at noon today to see if the system is dry enough to commence testing (which takes several hours).
All of the above means that our Central Lecture building is closed today. Two other buildings are open under temporary power. This will be withdrawn when the Power Company start testing. It is hoped that the necessary testing and powering up can take place so that all buildings return to normal tomorrow (Tuesday) morning."
Computer Centre staff came in at the weekend and despite the unplanned power loss, all IT services were running by Monday morning.
"The results of this "survey" are that for ads to be more effective (interested clicks per copy of ad sent out) they need to be less intrusive -- which anybody with half a brain could work out."
Remember, you're talking about media executives here. Half a brain?
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are, do. Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers, Okay - kill yourself - seriously.
You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself. Planting seeds.
I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke... there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations. I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart." Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags! "Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags!
Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!"
Back in the 80s I stayed a while with a British Army base in Germany. At the time they were on 24 hour alert; i.e. if the Russians invaded they'd be ready to move out to the combat theatre in 24 hours.
One of the tasks I accompanied them on was guarding a series of ammo bunkers. During the briefing I was permitted to listen in to the initial instructions, but I was sent out of the room when they gave out the "silent alarm' code. This is the code you use when you're under duress, i.e. if your wife is held hostage or someone is holding a gun on you.
In one episode of Dr Who, the Brigadier managed to give a silent alarm to the Doctor, even without having made a previous arrangement. He was phoning the Doctor with a gun at his head, and he said "Everything is perfectly fine. And Doctor, you can tell that to the Grenadier Guards." This was sufficient to alert the Doctor to the situation.
It's not in production, just a concept
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I work at Brunel, and designs from the students in our Design Department hit the BBC webpages every year around this time. And each year, we get a flood of email to our 'webmaster' email address, cursing the design for not curing cancer or ending poverty.
You have to realise, these designs are developed as an exercise in the skills taught by the course. Some of them are interesting, but they're not finished products. You might as well criticise engineering students for wasting their time building balsa bridges and devices to allow an egg to be dropped off a roof without breaking.
Me: Hi, this is Paul from MoDaCo. Cocky: Er, Hi. Me: You have something of mine, and I want it back. Cocky: So what do we do now? Me: Do you still have the phone? Have you sold it? Cocky: I still have it - minus the box. What are you going to do? Me: I'm giving you one chance... send me the phone, via Special Delivery, today, and I will not go to the Police. I'm gonna ban your ass for life and expose you on the forum, but I won't go to the police. Cocky: OK
Just the other week I was reimaging a PC classroom. Out of 20 PCs, one had a nonstandard keyboard. It had a layout such that when you pressed the hotkey combination to bring the system properties window, the PC would immediately power down.
After the third time it caught me out, I pulled it out the PC and snapped it in half against the edge of the desk. It had a rubber cap under every key, and they sprung out all over the place like confetti.
Then I turned to my collegue and said "Please would you grab me a fresh keyboard? This one isn't working anymore." He sympathised, as it had pissed him off plenty, previously.
"[...] one can't help but wonder if such a device will breed less assertive graduates who lack the will to stand up and voice their opinion on sensitive issues."
My mate Dave says laptops are only good because "they go further when you heave them out the window."
I remember a laptop that became a desktop after a mere 18 months, because the battery failed and *they had stopped making them*. It had to be plugged into the wall forever after that.
My reason for avoiding laptops is the heat dissapation. If you set a laptop and a desktop next to each other and run the hard drives intensively, the desktop can run 24/7 forever, essentially. The laptop stops itself after a few minutes because the hard drive is getting too hot. You sometimes get the same effect on some of the 'all-in-one' PCs that have the LCD screen built on.
My Mum bought a laptop. I told her she'd find the built in mouse pad less easy to use than a real mouse, and also it'd need to be plugged into the mains and network all the time. But she went ahead and got one anyway. A year later, and the laptop is tied down just as I had predicted. It has a USB hub too, with a scanner, printer, etc. It never gets taken 'off the grid' and used for mobile computing. No suprises there.
Slashdot Mirror
Take a leaf out of Google's book, and call it
Wikipedia beta
Perhaps you didn't read the article. It mentions that the researcher in question has added extra hardware to get around the problem. The new hardware checks for sweat flow from the finger, and can distinguish between cadaver and living fingers.
Edward Penishands?
I believe another very common password is
letmeinN
where N is a single digit number.
"Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies?"
- lyric from 'The end of an act' song by Trey Parker and Matt Stone on the Team America sound track.
Yeah!
I wish I'd paid, so I could ask for my money back.
Guantánamo bay is in Cuba.
The USA goverment picked an offshore holding facility to get around the USA's legal requirements.
From 'Private Eye' 2005/11/11 - http://www.private-eye.co.uk/
"Number Crunching"
24 Hours - Period terriorism suspects in Australia (al_Qaeda death toll: 88) can be detained before criminal charges must be levelled.
5 Days - Period terriorism suspects in Spain (al_Qaeda death toll: 191) can be detained before criminal charges must be levelled.
7 Days - Period terriorism suspects in USA (al_Qaeda death toll: 3,000) can be detained before criminal charges must be levelled.
90 Days - Period terriorism suspects in UK (al_Qaeda death toll: 52) should be allowed to be detained before criminal charges must be levelled.
Sounds like a nice setup.
It doesn't sound scalable though, so you couldn't for instance run Google like that.
--
Does that seem right to you?
Release the Novell 20!
:(
These management euphemisms get more and more abstruse.
We have a flood to deal with:
"On Saturday afternoon a three-inch pressure water pipe burst under the Lecture Centre. This resulted in six feet of water collecting in the Plant Room, and the power being shut down for three nearby buildings.
Pumping the water out started on Saturday night and was completed by late Sunday. The area has now to be dried out before power can be restored - this process started on Sunday night. The Power Company are due back on site at noon today to see if the system is dry enough to commence testing (which takes several hours).
All of the above means that our Central Lecture building is closed today. Two other buildings are open under temporary power. This will be withdrawn when the Power Company start testing. It is hoped that the necessary testing and powering up can take place so that all buildings return to normal tomorrow (Tuesday) morning."
Computer Centre staff came in at the weekend and despite the unplanned power loss, all IT services were running by Monday morning.
"The results of this "survey" are that for ads to be more effective (interested clicks per copy of ad sent out) they need to be less intrusive -- which anybody with half a brain could work out."
Remember, you're talking about media executives here. Half a brain?
Homer: "Undo! Undo!"
Here's a comment on advertising from Bill Hicks.
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are, do. Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers, Okay - kill yourself - seriously.
You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself. Planting seeds.
I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke... there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations. I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart." Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags! "Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags!
Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!"
Yes. Once I was researching studies on second hand tobacco smoke.
Ebay offered me 'great bargains on 2nd hand tobacco.'
Uh huh?
If anyone were completely happy, they immediately have two problems.
1) Feeling guilty for being happy when others are not.
2) Worrying about when this happiness will end.
Back in the 80s I stayed a while with a British Army base in Germany. At the time they were on 24 hour alert; i.e. if the Russians invaded they'd be ready to move out to the combat theatre in 24 hours.
One of the tasks I accompanied them on was guarding a series of ammo bunkers. During the briefing I was permitted to listen in to the initial instructions, but I was sent out of the room when they gave out the "silent alarm' code. This is the code you use when you're under duress, i.e. if your wife is held hostage or someone is holding a gun on you.
In one episode of Dr Who, the Brigadier managed to give a silent alarm to the Doctor, even without having made a previous arrangement. He was phoning the Doctor with a gun at his head, and he said "Everything is perfectly fine. And Doctor, you can tell that to the Grenadier Guards." This was sufficient to alert the Doctor to the situation.
I work at Brunel, and designs from the students in our Design Department hit the BBC webpages every year around this time. And each year, we get a flood of email to our 'webmaster' email address, cursing the design for not curing cancer or ending poverty.
You have to realise, these designs are developed as an exercise in the skills taught by the course. Some of them are interesting, but they're not finished products. You might as well criticise engineering students for wasting their time building balsa bridges and devices to allow an egg to be dropped off a roof without breaking.
Yeesh!
Dopefish? The one from Commander Keen?
:)
Aah, memories
I call shenanigans. You can't possibly have downloaded every episode of Dr Who because there are some episodes that are lost.
OTOH if you do have every episode, get in contact with the BBC and they'll see you right.
Here, Paul posts a fuller account of the story including some details about Orange, and other involved parties.
5 0_theft_SOLVED_-t227175.html
http://www.modaco.com/MoDaCo_Summer_Event_2005_C5
Excerpt:
Me: Hi, this is Paul from MoDaCo.
Cocky: Er, Hi.
Me: You have something of mine, and I want it back.
Cocky: So what do we do now?
Me: Do you still have the phone? Have you sold it?
Cocky: I still have it - minus the box. What are you going to do?
Me: I'm giving you one chance... send me the phone, via Special Delivery, today, and I will not go to the Police. I'm gonna ban your ass for life and expose you on the forum, but I won't go to the police.
Cocky: OK
After the first time I had to try it again.
:)
Oh man it tasted so good
Rule #1: Back Up.
Rule #2: If you don't back up, and lose your data,
a) Stop whining
b) Learn from this experience
Just the other week I was reimaging a PC classroom. Out of 20 PCs, one had a nonstandard keyboard. It had a layout such that when you pressed the hotkey combination to bring the system properties window, the PC would immediately power down.
After the third time it caught me out, I pulled it out the PC and snapped it in half against the edge of the desk. It had a rubber cap under every key, and they sprung out all over the place like confetti.
Then I turned to my collegue and said "Please would you grab me a fresh keyboard? This one isn't working anymore." He sympathised, as it had pissed him off plenty, previously.
"[...] one can't help but wonder if such a device will breed less assertive graduates who lack the will to stand up and voice their opinion on sensitive issues."
Train, possibly. Breed, yeesh!
My mate Dave says laptops are only good because "they go further when you heave them out the window."
I remember a laptop that became a desktop after a mere 18 months, because the battery failed and *they had stopped making them*. It had to be plugged into the wall forever after that.
My reason for avoiding laptops is the heat dissapation. If you set a laptop and a desktop next to each other and run the hard drives intensively, the desktop can run 24/7 forever, essentially. The laptop stops itself after a few minutes because the hard drive is getting too hot. You sometimes get the same effect on some of the 'all-in-one' PCs that have the LCD screen built on.
My Mum bought a laptop. I told her she'd find the built in mouse pad less easy to use than a real mouse, and also it'd need to be plugged into the mains and network all the time. But she went ahead and got one anyway. A year later, and the laptop is tied down just as I had predicted. It has a USB hub too, with a scanner, printer, etc. It never gets taken 'off the grid' and used for mobile computing. No suprises there.