Friday, February 1, 2002

Cox Communications Internet Conversion Catastrophe

Companies like Cox need to learn that not everybody uses Microsoft software - and that they should take appropriate measures to avoid these types of problems.

My favorite quote from the article - Acting on a procrastinator's instincts, I set the box aside and allowed some miscellaneous home-office stuff to gather around it, putting it out of both sight and mind.

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How about now?

GE's aim is to monitor everything in real time, Mr Reiner explains, calling up a special web page on his PC: a digital dashboard. From a distance it looks like a Mondrian canvas in green, yellow and red. A closer look reveals that the colours signal the status of software applications critical to GE's business.

posted at 3:04:21 PM — permalink

Intricate Screening Of Fliers In Works

Federal aviation authorities and technology companies will soon begin testing a vast air security screening system designed to instantly pull together every passenger's travel history and living arrangements, plus a wealth of other personal and demographic information.

And this will improve airport security?

Discussion at Slashdot.

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Some Zillionaires Need Not Apply

Even if they have the millions of dollars needed for a space station vacation, delinquents, liars, drunks and the infamous need not apply.

OK, these rules only affect the space station (which is a silly waste of money, if you ask me, which you didn't...), but I feel a rant about NASA coming on...

Discussion at Slashdot.

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