Seriously, this poster's attitude is WAY wrong! Instead of throwing up barriers which will only piss off your customers (which now even Microsoft knows is a bad thing), you need to solve 'why' they are asking for this in the first place, and then giving then a viable solution.
That customer obviously has a valid business reason for asking for this --probably the condescending tone he gets whenever he asks for a one-off report-- and the DBA better jump at the opportunity he has to show how he can meet a client's need. If that means getting better metal to handle the increase in adhoc queries, so be it.
The poster needs to remember it is that customer who generates his pay-cheque, and lay off the 'top of the food-chain' crap that'd see him fired if I were his boss.
Let's face it, there will be someone out there who looks at the money, looks at his or her situation, and sells this guy out.
Not that I am condoning such action, but I think a really good way to protect this fellow's anonymity from this law firm is to flood the lawyer's office with 'I know who did it' communications. If the lawyer gets a few hundred thousand emails/phone calls/letters suggesting it was a neighbor of yours and that you have proof, the few who are telling the truth with be lost in the haystack --so to speak. Anyways, that is how I'd do it if I were such a person.
This pay-per-use hardware is really old news, and I certainly hope they don't get the patent on their 'unique' business model. HP did this back in 2002-ish with their Superdome offerings --back when Itanium was a curse word. It didn't work so well then and it won't work so well now.
BTW, go with Amazon's EC2 + S3 services for your web hosting.
I once worked at a company that operated lotteries in the Caribbean. One of the UNIX admins had a knack for patterns and a lot of data. He calculated the odds of specific numbers winning the jackpot in various islands and came out with a few that were winners more often than the others. Probably the same thing this guy did.
I then asked him hypothetically if I should play those or the ones that haven't won yet. His answer... "I don't know."
The bottom line is it is *still* random, but the house always gets its share.
The political analysts may yet be right though. There's nothing to say he can't do both. Bush commutes Libby's sentence today, and before leaving the Whitehouse --and while the media attention is on the newly elected president-- George gives Libby a full pardon.
Why not? And the only ink it'll get is the editorial section.
Does anyone else see the irony in Libby's conviction? Obstruction of Justice
I firmly believe solar panels should be excluded from any HOA but you obviously missed the point of HOAs --draconian or otherwise.
HOAs protect *your* equity in *your* house by forbidding decorations, 'improvements', and exceptions to the architectural standards. And knowing that for the majority of Americans their house is the largest investment they'll ever have, HOAs make a lot of sense. Sure they restrict your freedom to put park your 800sqft RV with Hawaiian lua detailing, or the three cars on cinder-blocks you've been meaning to fix for the last 12 years, the two-thousand piece collection of cement bird baths and garden gnomes your wife has, or even the two 24ft satellite dishes you use to talk with your friends on Mars on your front lawn, the truth of the matter is that when everyone's house looks uniform and well-maintained, the value of all the houses in the whole neighborhood goes up.
And a homeowners 'agreement' is just that, "I'll agree not to fix my cars on the front lawn, if you agree to leave the cement garden gnomes in the backyard."
To our fellow humans on the other side of the pond and regarding #5, specifically speaking of lawyers:
5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
"Since idle lawyers tend to become politicians, there is a certain social value in keeping them busy" (Operating System Concepts, 6th Ed. by Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne. ISBN: 0-471-41743-2). We also have something akin to the natural nitrogen cycle over here whereby schools excrete lawyers, idle lawyers break down into politicians, and then they either shoot themselves politically (see Jack Abramoff et al), shoot themselves literally(see Dick Cheney), or have some crazed lune do it for them (see #13 --btw, we have known all this while but we are not telling). Some person then takes up the 'cause' to become a lawyer, and the cycle is complete. Interrupting the precious balance would be disastrous. Too many lawyers would become politicians with not enough crazed lunes, expensive gifts, or hunting expeditions to control their population. God only know what would happen if we took the guns away too...
Tongue firmly planted in cheek and foot firmly planted in mouth.
I don't know much about the baseball legend, but having his name and money behind the project can't be a bad thing. Let's hope that this is not vaporware in the making, but that they do come out with at least one really hot and solid game, soon!
That is not to say McFarlane doesn't have money. He is part owner of the Edmonton Oilers --GO OILERS!-- NHL franchise and not only did they make it to the the Stanley Cup last year, they have completely sold out their season tickets this year AND have a lottery-based system for the remaining tickets because demand is so hot.
Even as a part owner and with the recent windfall, he probably has more than a couple of coins to rub together.
History lesson: Back in the early 90s maybe, McFarlane got together with a group of local businessmen and bought the Oilers when Peter Pocklington (a meat magnate if there is such a thing) threatened to sell the Oilers franchise to a US city. Peter Pocklington was the man who sold Wayne Gretzky dismantling the Oilers dynasty for a few bucks and placing the Oilers in the 'farmteam' basement of the NHL. This series of events elevated McFarlane and the consortium of local businessmen to heroes in the eyes of Edmonton city folk.
About three years ago when I was buying a PC that would become my fileserver, I looked into buying an SGI box. I wanted something different than a white box to experiment with. I tried to find a vendor in the Ottawa area and couldn't. I tried to buy one online and couldn't. I sent SGI a message on their 'contact us' webpage about buying a SGI machine and got no response.
With a sales response like that, it is no wonder they are having trouble. I sincerely hope they find a way out of bankruptcy --they have a hell of an filesystem in XFS-- but they NEED to make it easier to purchase their equipment.
The good news (for telecommuters): This ruling will push more companies towards telecommuting. The bad news (for office-dwellers): This ruling will push more companies to completely disallow surfing during work hours.
I worked at a company that printed currency so security was pretty tight. Inter-office memos and emails with new corporate policies from the CSO came regularly. One day we got a corporate email saying that USB drives were not allowed on the premise and employees found with one were subject to dismissal. I was dumbfounded...
You see the group I worked with developed lottery terminals. Inside each lottery terminal was one card flash and one USB thumb drive. Software was stored on the card flash, updates and dynamic data on the thumb drives. We were swapping those in and out all the time. I had twenty of them on my desk at any given moment.
I can't agree more with this fella. I work for a company that does lotteries on small carribean islands. The terminals are connected for the most part on bought-for private radio frequencies.
Well, we ran into a bandwidth problem on a stretch that goes over a mountain connecting two small cities. Some craphead decides we can save money by using consumer 802.11b routers and tinker the antennas to get over the mountain instead of doing it the right way and looking at professional solutions. Worked well until someone in the back office decides to install a wireless switch to connect all of the accounting PCs.
All of a sudden we lose our critical backbone and terminals go quiet all over. And much to their surprise by then the other non-overlapping frequencies were taken by some of the other businesses in the area. And you know what our solution was? Move from b to g and look into pre-n. Idiots.
You HAVE to understand that 802.11 is a public frequency that works in a survival of the fittest mode where the strongest signal wins. The only thing that separates anyone from getting a stronger signal is time and inconvenience.
My suggestion to you is if it is critical (meaing that you depend on it for your livelihood), go wired or professional. Otherwise go wireless.
I have an Auditron made by Turtlebeach and I will never again take my CDs out of their cases. It only runs audio (mp3, wav, Internet Radio) with both a digital and RCA out which for me is just fine but if you are looking for video, get a tivo.
The best things about the AT is that THERE IS NO SERVER-SIDE SOFTWARE! It runs using the SMB protocol so it is really easy to set up on both windows and linux. It has its own remote, a lcd display on the front of the standard stereo width box, and a web interface to the device. You can have multiple ATs on the network and multiple sources of music files. And for the developers out there, since day one they have had a well-documented API for user projects. It is really slick.
The only problem is that it is no longer being manufactured so finding one is dificult but well worth it. Funny thing is, the AT got its latest PC Magazine's Editor's Choice award AFTER they stopped manufacturing it.
PC Magazine Editor's Choice 2004
TechEdge Editor's Choice 2003
PC Magazine Editor's Choice 2002
I was going to say 'he sure would' until I thought about it some more. Most if not all software sold now strictly limits the liability of the software purchased to the value of the software bought (ie $20).
So all he has to do is create a 'buglist' that includes the 'arbitrary' destruction of the $HOME directory when 'certain' serial numbers are entered and then don't do anything about 'the bug'. That would prove to the courts that it was a known issue and that the purchaser/pirate is restrained by the EULA.
Do you think Microsoft does business any differently? They have destroyed my PC many a time and are not the least bit liable for it. I have no expectation of that either.
What a $4000 investment of both SCOX stock at its height and the same in Molson Canadian.
SCO stock 3/21/2000 High 132 Close 117.75
SCO stock 8/31/2004 High 3.96 Close 3.80
$4000 in SCO stock would have got you around 30 shares and you would have a value of $115 today. $4000 in Molson Canadian (at $30 for 24 bottles) would get you a deposit (at $.10 a bottle) of about $320.
And you'd still be drinking your investments today!
Regarding your seven figure comment, I really think that can't happen in the current US judicial realm.
Microsoft vs small kid in western Canada named Mike Row who comes up with MikeRowSoft.com domain. He 'asks' for money after million-dollar Microsoft lawyers bait him some. Judge will find proof of cybersquatting because money was asked for. Microsoft would have won summarily if not for the bad press.
See any similarities? As soon as money is talked about she'll have her domain ripped from her. Katie Jones is in a world of hurt right now. She has a domain that has been hijacked in every sense of the word by a multi-million dollar company. One way or another, she is going to walk away from this the loser.
Let's think about the consequenses of this statement.
In a world without patents: Deep pocket corporations are now able to legally rob and steal people's life work and/or bring it to market sooner than small inventor/innovator who knows alot about (insert previously patentable widjet or technology) but nothing about marketing, business, or corporate espionage.
In a world with patents: Patent holders lean on everyone within spitting distance with over generalized patents. Corporations are formed for the simple purpose of building patent chests and profitting from litigation. Inventors require staff of lawyers. Lawsuits abound and become cost of doing business.
Decreasing the time allowed for patent monopoly: Small corporations and scientists are adversely hindered from their patent monopoly because they cannot get their innovation to market as quickly as those with deeper pockets. Certain technologies (automotive/aerospace/pharmaceutical) are also hindered because the time to market takes longer than the patent's time.
Increasing the time allowed for patent monopoly: Development in technologies mired in patents is done only by the companies holding the patents. Development breeds more patents cementing a small base (or maybe just one) of companies into that technology. Company becomes monolithic and innovation is stiffled.
Realistically there is no best case which means the problem isn't in 'patents' but in something else. Part of the problem is that patent enforcement is easier than technological innovation. Add greed and you solve the shortest path problem really quickly.
Sharpdevelop - Free (GPL).net IDE, requires the.net framework and SDK Bloodshed Dev-C++ - Excellent free (GPL) C and C++ IDE, using the Windows GCC port
You asked for suggestions on IDEs? I use IBM's free Eclipse with QNX's free C/C++ extension called CDT everyday on both linux and windose (Well actually my buddy uses the linux port). It is phenomenal and getting better everyday. I am using a old borland compiler but you can use any C/C++ compiler you want including gcc. I don't program in the.Net world but I am pretty sure there is a.Net plugin somewhere. And if you can't find one you can write one pretty quickly with IBM's plugin development perspective.
I'm into rippin' my CDs for my Turtle Beach Audiotron (fair use, RIAA jerks) so I also am not without EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to rip beautifully to.wav, LAME to convert to.mp3, MP3Gain to normalize, and ID3-Taggit to manage tags and filenames. Details
In short, Consumers Union reported in their magazine, Consumers Report, that the 1995-1996 Isuzu Trooper was dangerous because they tipped under minimal conditions and gave them a failing grade. Lots of people read Consumers Report. Isuzu sued for libel and eventually lost.
Carefully reading the article now, it cost Consumers Union over USD$100,000 to defend themselves which they received after the verdict.
The true question is: Do you have or does this researcher from Yale who does work in France have $100,000+ available to defend yourself/himself before a verdict is handed out?
I think that technology and stress do not directly relate but that technology has created a faster pace. Technology creates 'higher and faster' expectations that not everyone can keep up with.
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Seriously, this poster's attitude is WAY wrong! Instead of throwing up barriers which will only piss off your customers (which now even Microsoft knows is a bad thing), you need to solve 'why' they are asking for this in the first place, and then giving then a viable solution.
That customer obviously has a valid business reason for asking for this --probably the condescending tone he gets whenever he asks for a one-off report-- and the DBA better jump at the opportunity he has to show how he can meet a client's need. If that means getting better metal to handle the increase in adhoc queries, so be it.
The poster needs to remember it is that customer who generates his pay-cheque, and lay off the 'top of the food-chain' crap that'd see him fired if I were his boss.
Let's face it, there will be someone out there who looks at the money, looks at his or her situation, and sells this guy out.
Not that I am condoning such action, but I think a really good way to protect this fellow's anonymity from this law firm is to flood the lawyer's office with 'I know who did it' communications. If the lawyer gets a few hundred thousand emails/phone calls/letters suggesting it was a neighbor of yours and that you have proof, the few who are telling the truth with be lost in the haystack --so to speak. Anyways, that is how I'd do it if I were such a person.
This pay-per-use hardware is really old news, and I certainly hope they don't get the patent on their 'unique' business model. HP did this back in 2002-ish with their Superdome offerings --back when Itanium was a curse word. It didn't work so well then and it won't work so well now. BTW, go with Amazon's EC2 + S3 services for your web hosting.
I once worked at a company that operated lotteries in the Caribbean. One of the UNIX admins had a knack for patterns and a lot of data. He calculated the odds of specific numbers winning the jackpot in various islands and came out with a few that were winners more often than the others. Probably the same thing this guy did.
I then asked him hypothetically if I should play those or the ones that haven't won yet. His answer... "I don't know."
The bottom line is it is *still* random, but the house always gets its share.
The political analysts may yet be right though. There's nothing to say he can't do both. Bush commutes Libby's sentence today, and before leaving the Whitehouse --and while the media attention is on the newly elected president-- George gives Libby a full pardon.
Why not? And the only ink it'll get is the editorial section.
Does anyone else see the irony in Libby's conviction? Obstruction of Justice
I firmly believe solar panels should be excluded from any HOA but you obviously missed the point of HOAs --draconian or otherwise.
HOAs protect *your* equity in *your* house by forbidding decorations, 'improvements', and exceptions to the architectural standards. And knowing that for the majority of Americans their house is the largest investment they'll ever have, HOAs make a lot of sense. Sure they restrict your freedom to put park your 800sqft RV with Hawaiian lua detailing, or the three cars on cinder-blocks you've been meaning to fix for the last 12 years, the two-thousand piece collection of cement bird baths and garden gnomes your wife has, or even the two 24ft satellite dishes you use to talk with your friends on Mars on your front lawn, the truth of the matter is that when everyone's house looks uniform and well-maintained, the value of all the houses in the whole neighborhood goes up.
And a homeowners 'agreement' is just that, "I'll agree not to fix my cars on the front lawn, if you agree to leave the cement garden gnomes in the backyard."
To our fellow humans on the other side of the pond and regarding #5, specifically speaking of lawyers:
5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns, lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're not grown up enough to handle a gun. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
"Since idle lawyers tend to become politicians, there is a certain social value in keeping them busy" (Operating System Concepts, 6th Ed. by Silberschatz, Galvin, and Gagne. ISBN: 0-471-41743-2). We also have something akin to the natural nitrogen cycle over here whereby schools excrete lawyers, idle lawyers break down into politicians, and then they either shoot themselves politically (see Jack Abramoff et al), shoot themselves literally(see Dick Cheney), or have some crazed lune do it for them (see #13 --btw, we have known all this while but we are not telling). Some person then takes up the 'cause' to become a lawyer, and the cycle is complete. Interrupting the precious balance would be disastrous. Too many lawyers would become politicians with not enough crazed lunes, expensive gifts, or hunting expeditions to control their population. God only know what would happen if we took the guns away too...
Tongue firmly planted in cheek and foot firmly planted in mouth.
I don't know much about the baseball legend, but having his name and money behind the project can't be a bad thing. Let's hope that this is not vaporware in the making, but that they do come out with at least one really hot and solid game, soon!
That is not to say McFarlane doesn't have money. He is part owner of the Edmonton Oilers --GO OILERS!-- NHL franchise and not only did they make it to the the Stanley Cup last year, they have completely sold out their season tickets this year AND have a lottery-based system for the remaining tickets because demand is so hot.
Even as a part owner and with the recent windfall, he probably has more than a couple of coins to rub together.
History lesson: Back in the early 90s maybe, McFarlane got together with a group of local businessmen and bought the Oilers when Peter Pocklington (a meat magnate if there is such a thing) threatened to sell the Oilers franchise to a US city. Peter Pocklington was the man who sold Wayne Gretzky dismantling the Oilers dynasty for a few bucks and placing the Oilers in the 'farmteam' basement of the NHL. This series of events elevated McFarlane and the consortium of local businessmen to heroes in the eyes of Edmonton city folk.
About three years ago when I was buying a PC that would become my fileserver, I looked into buying an SGI box. I wanted something different than a white box to experiment with. I tried to find a vendor in the Ottawa area and couldn't. I tried to buy one online and couldn't. I sent SGI a message on their 'contact us' webpage about buying a SGI machine and got no response.
With a sales response like that, it is no wonder they are having trouble. I sincerely hope they find a way out of bankruptcy --they have a hell of an filesystem in XFS-- but they NEED to make it easier to purchase their equipment.
You alluded to something that gives this lawsuit a silver lining...
*IFF* the case goes to court and *IFF* the facts we are being told by Torrentspy are correct then either the MPAA wins or loses.
If they win, the DMCA becomes diluted.
If they lose, the MPAA becomes weakened and perhaps seen in a more criminal light.
I think good things could happen if Torrentspy can prove this and the case goes before a judge. Thoughts?
You forgot...
4. High schools and Universities spending more money on coaches and teams then teachers and profs
The good news (for telecommuters): This ruling will push more companies towards telecommuting.
The bad news (for office-dwellers): This ruling will push more companies to completely disallow surfing during work hours.
-1 offtopic: Dude, keep your self ontopic. This is about the skywalker boy at not Intelligent Design versus Darwinism .
Speaking of dumb approaches...
I worked at a company that printed currency so security was pretty tight. Inter-office memos and emails with new corporate policies from the CSO came regularly. One day we got a corporate email saying that USB drives were not allowed on the premise and employees found with one were subject to dismissal. I was dumbfounded...
You see the group I worked with developed lottery terminals. Inside each lottery terminal was one card flash and one USB thumb drive. Software was stored on the card flash, updates and dynamic data on the thumb drives. We were swapping those in and out all the time. I had twenty of them on my desk at any given moment.
Policy can only go as far as reality.
I thought we liked Carly? http://www.linux-mag.com/2002-02/fiorina_01.html
What am I going to do with all these signs?
I can't agree more with this fella. I work for a company that does lotteries on small carribean islands. The terminals are connected for the most part on bought-for private radio frequencies.
Well, we ran into a bandwidth problem on a stretch that goes over a mountain connecting two small cities. Some craphead decides we can save money by using consumer 802.11b routers and tinker the antennas to get over the mountain instead of doing it the right way and looking at professional solutions. Worked well until someone in the back office decides to install a wireless switch to connect all of the accounting PCs.
All of a sudden we lose our critical backbone and terminals go quiet all over. And much to their surprise by then the other non-overlapping frequencies were taken by some of the other businesses in the area. And you know what our solution was? Move from b to g and look into pre-n. Idiots.
You HAVE to understand that 802.11 is a public frequency that works in a survival of the fittest mode where the strongest signal wins. The only thing that separates anyone from getting a stronger signal is time and inconvenience.
My suggestion to you is if it is critical (meaing that you depend on it for your livelihood), go wired or professional. Otherwise go wireless.
I have an Auditron made by Turtlebeach and I will never again take my CDs out of their cases. It only runs audio (mp3, wav, Internet Radio) with both a digital and RCA out which for me is just fine but if you are looking for video, get a tivo.
The best things about the AT is that THERE IS NO SERVER-SIDE SOFTWARE! It runs using the SMB protocol so it is really easy to set up on both windows and linux. It has its own remote, a lcd display on the front of the standard stereo width box, and a web interface to the device. You can have multiple ATs on the network and multiple sources of music files. And for the developers out there, since day one they have had a well-documented API for user projects. It is really slick.
The only problem is that it is no longer being manufactured so finding one is dificult but well worth it. Funny thing is, the AT got its latest PC Magazine's Editor's Choice award AFTER they stopped manufacturing it.
PC Magazine Editor's Choice 2004 TechEdge Editor's Choice 2003 PC Magazine Editor's Choice 2002
I was going to say 'he sure would' until I thought about it some more. Most if not all software sold now strictly limits the liability of the software purchased to the value of the software bought (ie $20).
So all he has to do is create a 'buglist' that includes the 'arbitrary' destruction of the $HOME directory when 'certain' serial numbers are entered and then don't do anything about 'the bug'. That would prove to the courts that it was a known issue and that the purchaser/pirate is restrained by the EULA.
Do you think Microsoft does business any differently? They have destroyed my PC many a time and are not the least bit liable for it. I have no expectation of that either.
What a $4000 investment of both SCOX stock at its height and the same in Molson Canadian.
SCO stock 3/21/2000 High 132 Close 117.75
SCO stock 8/31/2004 High 3.96 Close 3.80
$4000 in SCO stock would have got you around 30 shares and you would have a value of $115 today. $4000 in Molson Canadian (at $30 for 24 bottles) would get you a deposit (at $.10 a bottle) of about $320.
And you'd still be drinking your investments today!
Regarding your seven figure comment, I really think that can't happen in the current US judicial realm.
Microsoft vs small kid in western Canada named Mike Row who comes up with MikeRowSoft.com domain. He 'asks' for money after million-dollar Microsoft lawyers bait him some. Judge will find proof of cybersquatting because money was asked for. Microsoft would have won summarily if not for the bad press.
See any similarities? As soon as money is talked about she'll have her domain ripped from her. Katie Jones is in a world of hurt right now. She has a domain that has been hijacked in every sense of the word by a multi-million dollar company. One way or another, she is going to walk away from this the loser.
Nine times out of ten the underdog loses.
junioradmin@rbchost:/> rm -rf core *
waiting
waiting
thinking...this is taking longer than it should
phone rings.
ctrl-| ctrl-| ctrl-| ctrl-|
Screw Patents
Let's think about the consequenses of this statement.
In a world without patents: Deep pocket corporations are now able to legally rob and steal people's life work and/or bring it to market sooner than small inventor/innovator who knows alot about (insert previously patentable widjet or technology) but nothing about marketing, business, or corporate espionage.
In a world with patents: Patent holders lean on everyone within spitting distance with over generalized patents. Corporations are formed for the simple purpose of building patent chests and profitting from litigation. Inventors require staff of lawyers. Lawsuits abound and become cost of doing business.
Decreasing the time allowed for patent monopoly: Small corporations and scientists are adversely hindered from their patent monopoly because they cannot get their innovation to market as quickly as those with deeper pockets. Certain technologies (automotive/aerospace/pharmaceutical) are also hindered because the time to market takes longer than the patent's time.
Increasing the time allowed for patent monopoly: Development in technologies mired in patents is done only by the companies holding the patents. Development breeds more patents cementing a small base (or maybe just one) of companies into that technology. Company becomes monolithic and innovation is stiffled.
Realistically there is no best case which means the problem isn't in 'patents' but in something else. Part of the problem is that patent enforcement is easier than technological innovation. Add greed and you solve the shortest path problem really quickly.
There is no solution.
Sharpdevelop - Free (GPL)
Bloodshed Dev-C++ - Excellent free (GPL) C and C++ IDE, using the Windows GCC port
You asked for suggestions on IDEs? I use IBM's free Eclipse with QNX's free C/C++ extension called CDT everyday on both linux and windose (Well actually my buddy uses the linux port). It is phenomenal and getting better everyday. I am using a old borland compiler but you can use any C/C++ compiler you want including gcc. I don't program in the
I'm into rippin' my CDs for my Turtle Beach Audiotron (fair use, RIAA jerks) so I also am not without EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to rip beautifully to
Sigh.
The short answer is yes.
Consumers Union
In short, Consumers Union reported in their magazine, Consumers Report, that the 1995-1996 Isuzu Trooper was dangerous because they tipped under minimal conditions and gave them a failing grade. Lots of people read Consumers Report. Isuzu sued for libel and eventually lost.
Carefully reading the article now, it cost Consumers Union over USD$100,000 to defend themselves which they received after the verdict.
The true question is: Do you have or does this researcher from Yale who does work in France have $100,000+ available to defend yourself/himself before a verdict is handed out?
I think that technology and stress do not directly relate but that technology has created a faster pace. Technology creates 'higher and faster' expectations that not everyone can keep up with.
Falling behind creates stress.