We use it in Pharma every other day! Just match the inferred info against that list and if the person being referred is in the list, you cannot use the info. Period.
Instead of trying to chase every other bit of information to delete it (ludicrous and utter impossible), use opt-in.
I've been through all roles in an IT dept; from Helpdesk in my younger years, to Developer, Sysadmin, Infrastructure responsible and now Demand manager (that is, I lead the IT projects for our business clients) and I have always thought that within IT our main problem is that we really don't know each other, we don't understand how important is what "that other jerk" is doing for the whole process and we think that what we do is "the most vital part"... So, we insult, since we don't understand.
Here in Europe, auto insurance IS mandatory by law and medical insurance IS mandatory (social security) for anyone having a payroll...
... But mandatory music... That's another thing!
Moreover, in Europe "artists" are already quite subsidized for the most majority of the crap they produce... They good ones (the ones we like) make their living from they work... Isn't that amazing?:)
I did this summer. Have "evangelized" (do you say it that way) all my family with great results.
I started to do it to avoid all the "son, what's that window that appears on my PC?" calls from my mom, but the side effects are just great: faster navigation, more secure PC, less hanging... And for free!:)
My brother his doing is PhD in History of Art with electronic art as subject, so he goes to all of these events (lucky bastard!)
You can find his weblog about the event here
(he is going to kill me for this). It's in spanish, so I suppose you can bablefish or something if you don't read Cervantes language.
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there was a SIG here.
it is gone now. (Quiz: where does my SIG comes from?)
I have backup copies of my CDs to carry on the car. That way, I do not put in danger originals buy scratching them on the car.
I have even downloaded albums that I had on CDs that were too scrached to be used.
So I think we, the customers, should be entitled to make backup copies of digital content, or at least, get back what we payed for (the content, not the media).
I fact, one of my colleagues has asked me for my original copy of a PS2 game that he bought for his kid (so damaged as not being usable)...
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there was a SIG here.
it is gone now. (Quiz: Where does my SIG comes from?)
Sorry to correct you, but the ones that lost spanish poll were the Conservatives (Partido Popular, or PP), not the Socialists (Partido Socialista Obrero Español, or PSOE), who won.
In any case, ETA has degraded from a band of psychos with a blurry excuse of independentism to a bunch of mobsters with a blurry excuse of independentism...
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There was a SIG here.
It is gone now. (Quiz: Who know where my SIG comes from?)
Here in Spain we have our local RIAA version, SGAE.
They practice thievery and general mob practices on a regular basis. I know what I'm talking about, I worked for two years on a.com that had to pay "revolutionary taxes" to them because we sold venue tickets... The last one? The have been able to pass a ruling that forces CD-RW makers to pay them a "tax" for every unit sold.
Of course, the final users are the ones who have to pay... So I end up paying a "tax" to a private (yes private, it is not institutional) institution to be able to record my last vacation pictures on CD!!!!
I don't understand were these people get the force from, but something has to be done...
Here in Spain, pirate smartcards were rampant until the main dish company changed the technology (changing their smartcards) and killed the market. The same thing happened in France...
I'm progressively getting away from Google when I search for "technical" or "less common" subjects...I try to use instead Alltheweb or just ask friends about it.
Try to find papers about LCD technology... You end up with tens of thousands of links to "cheap LCD" or "best LCD display".
Search engines (in general) are getting too "comercial" (Hey! they have to make a living...) Maybe a good idea would be a "Techie" search engine? does anybody know about something like that?
I work for company member of the Volkswagen Consortium (you know, the german cars...).
This company runs all its corporate mail on Exchange 5.5, there are more that 200 sites with over 100.000 users worldwide. We all share a common directory that enables us to find the contact information of anyone in the company (worldwide as I said).
I personally manage about 4.000 users and it works just great!
I've been working with mail systems for over 6 years and with every flavour you can imagine: FirstClass, Netscape Messenger, sendmail, MS-Mail, different flavours of POP3 servers, Lotus, etc. and what I have learned is that the perfect solution is the working one.
Leave aside your *NIX/Windoze integrism and look for the right solution for the problem at hand. I've just finished a migration of sendmail to Exchange and it was a real nightmare, why? Because I inherited a badly configured and managed sendmail system. If you don't know how to manage it, don't blame the tool, blame yourself.
The right tool for the right job, it's that simple!
I work as a mail admin in a big company in Spain.
One of the latest tasks has been to implant a "mail firewalling" policy to avoid harmfull attachments reach the company network (EXE files, Scripts, etc.).
They are now considering restrincting more things like big Jpeg attachments and even scan mails in search of potential "threats" (porn, violent content, etc.)
With the current software we are using we could obtain very detailed information about what are employee doing with corporate e-mail, but management knows something for sure: they will go as far as the cost of doing it is inferior to the cost of "improductivity" that e-mail activity produces.
It is just too expensive to chase people around... It is a matter of money!
This sounds to me like trying to patent the wheel or... gravity?
It doesn't make any sense, standards 'de facto' like this shoudn't be ever considered for patenting or any kind of 'fee-required' thing.
Even though somebody invented the method, is like saying: "Hey! I invented pointers, so now every application that uses a pointer should pay me a fee for every pointer used..."
In the French revolution there was a period called "La terreur" in wich if you wanted someone killed you just needed to denounce him/her to the "Revolution comitee" for antirevolutionary activities...
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Jesus Christ!
It's called a Robinson list!
We use it in Pharma every other day! Just match the inferred info against that list and if the person being referred is in the list, you cannot use the info. Period.
Instead of trying to chase every other bit of information to delete it (ludicrous and utter impossible), use opt-in.
It's not so hard...
"The best argument against democracy is obtained talking five minutes with the average voter" - Winston Churchill ... And he was a democrat!
No project should ever be a democracy, it is plain nonsense...
Discuss about ideas, propose things, whatever... But a clear guidance and leadership takes you to the end...
Completely agree...
I've been through all roles in an IT dept; from Helpdesk in my younger years, to Developer, Sysadmin, Infrastructure responsible and now Demand manager (that is, I lead the IT projects for our business clients) and I have always thought that within IT our main problem is that we really don't know each other, we don't understand how important is what "that other jerk" is doing for the whole process and we think that what we do is "the most vital part"... So, we insult, since we don't understand.
Instead of insulting, try to understand.
Here in Europe, auto insurance IS mandatory by law and medical insurance IS mandatory (social security) for anyone having a payroll...
... But mandatory music... That's another thing!
Moreover, in Europe "artists" are already quite subsidized for the most majority of the crap they produce... They good ones (the ones we like) make their living from they work... Isn't that amazing? :)
The thing is: what is more lucrative, to be an escort or to be a politician?
You go into a room and put coins and then the glass gets clear and a lady in scant clothing is dancing and...
Err... Nevermind! Nothing to see here, just move along! :)
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there was a SIG here.
it is gone now.
I started to do it to avoid all the "son, what's that window that appears on my PC?" calls from my mom, but the side effects are just great: faster navigation, more secure PC, less hanging... And for free! :)
---
there was a SIG here.
it is gone now.
You can find his weblog about the event here (he is going to kill me for this).
It's in spanish, so I suppose you can bablefish or something if you don't read Cervantes language.
---
there was a SIG here.
it is gone now.
(Quiz: where does my SIG comes from?)
No! But thanks for participating...
It comes more from the videogame arena...
I have backup copies of my CDs to carry on the car. That way, I do not put in danger originals buy scratching them on the car.
I have even downloaded albums that I had on CDs that were too scrached to be used.
So I think we, the customers, should be entitled to make backup copies of digital content, or at least, get back what we payed for (the content, not the media).
I fact, one of my colleagues has asked me for my original copy of a PS2 game that he bought for his kid (so damaged as not being usable)...
---
there was a SIG here.
it is gone now.
(Quiz: Where does my SIG comes from?)
Sorry to correct you, but the ones that lost spanish poll were the Conservatives (Partido Popular, or PP), not the Socialists (Partido Socialista Obrero Español, or PSOE), who won.
In any case, ETA has degraded from a band of psychos with a blurry excuse of independentism to a bunch of mobsters with a blurry excuse of independentism...
----
There was a SIG here.
It is gone now.
(Quiz: Who know where my SIG comes from?)
They practice thievery and general mob practices on a regular basis. I know what I'm talking about, I worked for two years on a .com that had to pay "revolutionary taxes" to them because we sold venue tickets...
The last one? The have been able to pass a ruling that forces CD-RW makers to pay them a "tax" for every unit sold.
Of course, the final users are the ones who have to pay... So I end up paying a "tax" to a private (yes private, it is not institutional) institution to be able to record my last vacation pictures on CD!!!!
I don't understand were these people get the force from, but something has to be done...
-----
There was a SIG here.
It is gone now.
I agree
.SIG here, it is gone now...
Here in Spain, pirate smartcards were rampant until the main dish company changed the technology (changing their smartcards) and killed the market.
The same thing happened in France...
Werwerf
There was a
Try to find papers about LCD technology... You end up with tens of thousands of links to "cheap LCD" or "best LCD display".
Search engines (in general) are getting too "comercial" (Hey! they have to make a living...) Maybe a good idea would be a "Techie" search engine? does anybody know about something like that?
This company runs all its corporate mail on Exchange 5.5, there are more that 200 sites with over 100.000 users worldwide. We all share a common directory that enables us to find the contact information of anyone in the company (worldwide as I said).
I personally manage about 4.000 users and it works just great!
I've been working with mail systems for over 6 years and with every flavour you can imagine: FirstClass, Netscape Messenger, sendmail, MS-Mail, different flavours of POP3 servers, Lotus, etc. and what I have learned is that the perfect solution is the working one.
Leave aside your *NIX/Windoze integrism and look for the right solution for the problem at hand. I've just finished a migration of sendmail to Exchange and it was a real nightmare, why? Because I inherited a badly configured and managed sendmail system. If you don't know how to manage it, don't blame the tool, blame yourself.
The right tool for the right job, it's that simple!
I work as a mail admin in a big company in Spain. One of the latest tasks has been to implant a "mail firewalling" policy to avoid harmfull attachments reach the company network (EXE files, Scripts, etc.). They are now considering restrincting more things like big Jpeg attachments and even scan mails in search of potential "threats" (porn, violent content, etc.)
With the current software we are using we could obtain very detailed information about what are employee doing with corporate e-mail, but management knows something for sure: they will go as far as the cost of doing it is inferior to the cost of "improductivity" that e-mail activity produces.
It is just too expensive to chase people around... It is a matter of money!
In the French revolution there was a period called "La terreur" in wich if you wanted someone killed you just needed to denounce him/her to the "Revolution comitee" for antirevolutionary activities...
It sound much the same to me...
God! This crap is unusable!
Apple at least spends money testing that the design can be used without the user having to go to the chyropractic!