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The Disposable Computer > March 4, 2004

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Disposable Computer > It Had To Happen:
The Disposable Computer > March 4, 2004 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
It Had To Happen: The Disposable Computer .. Disposable Computer Offers High Security .. Dispose of this

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Dan Bricklin on accidents

Dan Bricklin on accidents 09/07/2004 08:01 PM
Dan has written a thoughtful essay that tries to help us learn from accidents and extreme, intentional accidents (= terrorism). He looks at Charles Perrow's Normal Accidents and the 9/11 Commission Report (which he has excerpted helpfully here). Dan draws too many insights to summarize, but the need for providing flexible, two-way communication systems so that non-officials can act effectively leaps out at me. (By coincidence, Dewayne Hendricks today talked about how a couple of strategically positioned repeaters were able to provide a forest fire command center with wifi communications access.)...

Two die in road accidents

Two die in road accidents 04/20/2004 02:58 AM
A woman and a child are killed in separate road traffic collisions in counties Down and Fermanagh.

No Accidents in Over 30,000 Years!

No Accidents in Over 30,000 Years! 04/04/2005 06:28 PM
Pro-forma nuclear safety is harder than ever to sell. There's ass-kissing to the sci-fi community (.pdf, download it), the instructional video (warning, boring .wmv, > 12 mins long). But... The design lifetimes of Yucca Mountain and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant won't protect future generations from groundwater absorbing transuranic waste (Pu239 and like toxins, deadly when ingested for 240,000 years). Do you have this stuff in your back yard today, and how will it get there safely? On top of that, the capacity problem, which looks intractable as long as we keep relicensing plants. If I didn't know better, I assume the only way the government could succeed in getting this done would be to hoodwink us.

Three die in separate accidents

Three die in separate accidents 07/30/2004 01:50 AM
Three people are killed in two separate road crashes in County Londonderry and County Down.

Women die in separate accidents

Women die in separate accidents 04/30/2004 04:15 PM
Two women are killed in separate road traffic collisions in counties Antrim and Londonderry.

Hybird Auto Accidents

Hybird Auto Accidents 05/04/2004 03:13 PM

Rescuers prep for hybrid car accidents: Some interesting questions here. Are electric motors more dangerous that internal combustion engines in the event of an accident? What happens if someone drives one into a lake? Will anyone attempting to rescue the occupants get shocked?

Hybrids draw power from two sources, typically a gas or diesel engine combined with an electric motor. The battery powering the electric motor carries as much as 500 volts, more than 40 times the strength of a standard battery.

That worries those who must cut into cars to rescue people inside. "If you can't shut it down, you don't know where the high voltage is," said David Dalrymple, an emergency medical technician...

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Three dead in road accidents

Three dead in road accidents 09/19/2004 02:05 PM
Three young people are killed in separate road accidents in Northern Ireland at the weekend.

England car flags may cause accidents
(Reuters)

England car flags may cause accidents
(Reuters) 06/07/2004 10:40 AM
Reuters - Tens of thousands of England fans are flying St George's flags from their cars as Euro 2004 nears -- so many that they have been accused of risking accidents.

Road accidents leave five dead

Road accidents leave five dead 09/26/2004 09:05 PM
A total of five people are killed in four separate accidents on Scotland's roads over the weekend.

Rescuers Prep for Hybrid Car Accidents

Rescuers Prep for Hybrid Car Accidents 05/04/2004 03:15 PM

CNN.com - Rescuers prep for hybrid
car accidents - May 4, 2004

CNN.com - Rescuers prep for hybrid
car accidents - May 4, 2004 05/06/2004 06:03 AM
CNN.com - Rescuers prep for hybrid car accidents - May 4, 2004 .. Read article

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Vast Majority Of Popup Click Throughs
Are Accidents

Vast Majority Of Popup Click Throughs
Are Accidents 07/13/2004 10:30 PM
For years, anyone with a bit of common sense has known that pop-up ads were bad for business. They piss people off and studies have even shown that they're bad for business generating more negative feelings for the brand than positive responses. The problem, still, was that advertisers who used them still swore by them, pointing to the much higher clickthrough rates than other types of ads. Advertisers used this stat to prove that, for as much as popups pissed people off and brought them ill-will, they still "worked." Well, now it's time to disprove that as well. A new study has shown that approximately 90% of popup clickthroughs are accidental, caused by people trying to shut down the damn windows so they can get on with their surfing. This quote says it all: "Achieving an over-inflated click-through rate might help brands to justify their spend, but they are only deceiving themselves. The brand, which we used in our research study, is not only wasting up to 90% of its budget by paying for unintentional click-throughs, it is also frustrating and deceiving users."

Study: Cameras Increase Fatal Rear End
Accidents (Ontario)

Study: Cameras Increase Fatal Rear End
Accidents (Ontario) 04/13/2005 04:28 AM
Study: Red Light Cameras Increase Fatal Rear End Accidents (Ontario) .. aren’t all they’re cracked up to be .. there's an increase, not decrease in accidents

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"this might happen to it"

"this might happen to it" 05/16/2004 09:15 AM

Here's Something That Doesn't Happen
Every Day... (Reuters)

Here's Something That Doesn't Happen
Every Day... (Reuters) 06/25/2004 06:56 AM
Reuters - An exploding vending machine turned the coolant freon into phosgene, a poisonous gas used as a chemical weapon in World War One, and forced the evacuation of 10 people from a Texas hospital, officials said on Thursday.

It was bound to happen...

It was bound to happen... 05/24/2004 05:24 PM
Spammers have managed to pollute my bayesian filters. Dammit. And not in a safe way. Just because, I decided to take a look at my spam folder. Normally I don't, I just unconditionally delete the damn thing. Today... well, I figured I'd look. Couldn't hurt, right? Only 10K messages, about 91M of crud, and it's not like there are words I've never seen in it. Unfortunately stuff in there did upset me. Not because it was foul, obscene, tasteless, or lacking in any sort of aesthetic. Nope, it's because there was mail I recognized. For some reason the autolearning that...

How the Semantic Web Will Really Happen

How the Semantic Web Will Really Happen 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Kendall Grant Clark: A Web of Rules "if the Semantic Web is to happen, it will be because of a...

ENT is starting to happen!

ENT is starting to happen! 05/11/2004 01:43 PM
(ENT2.0 mod RSS1.0) = 0.

Time for ENT 2.0?. It's very interesting to read Danny's toughts about ENT and RSS 1.0. Maybe it's time for a new release of the ENT specs, RSS 1.0 compatible. Oh... and what about Atom?
[Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog]

I've certainly thought about things which, with the benefit of hindsight, I would have done differently.  I was never comfortable with having the topic name as the text content of the <topic> element and I've no idea why I did it, there are other bugbears in there too.

I'd also like to give more thought as to how ENT feeds can be supported by topic map resources in real applications.  At the moment we don't publish XTM or XFML maps out of K-Collector but we could (I used to publish XFML from liveTopics but those files got big!)

Lastly I would really like to make a push for ENT support in other applications.  It seems a shame to me that, more than a year on, no other applications seem to have picked up on the benefits topic based aggregation offer to users.
[Curiouser and curiouser!]

Right on to Paolo and Matt!

Here we go!

I highly endorse using ENT as a way of us all standardizing on attaching keywords to RSS feeds.  On both sides.

Think vulnerabilities only happen in IE?
Think again

Think vulnerabilities only happen in IE?
Think again 04/13/2005 01:43 AM
ZDNet Apr 13 2005 5:36AM GMT

Eventually, it had to happen

Eventually, it had to happen 05/28/2004 12:47 PM

An offshoot photoblog, just about flowers.

Ask Jeeves: How Did That Happen?

Ask Jeeves: How Did That Happen? 06/01/2004 05:21 PM
Source: Traffick - Jeeves' market strength has been sustained enough to suggest that where there's smoke, there must be fire. Investors are accumulating the stock, possibly because someone else might be interested in acquiring Ask Jeeves. But why? Here are...

Something You Really Don't Want to
Happen... (Reuters)

Something You Really Don't Want to
Happen... (Reuters) 09/08/2004 07:17 AM
Reuters - A Dutch driver was covered in hundreds of liters of manure when a tank burst on a lorry carrying fertilizer, police said on Tuesday.

Why Cloning Didn't Happen in U.S.

Why Cloning Didn't Happen in U.S. 02/13/2004 05:53 AM
Korean researchers leapfrogged American scientists Thursday when they announced they had derived the first embryonic stem cells from a human clone. So why wasn't the U.S. first? Kristen Philipkoski reports from Seattle.

Google IPO to happen this month?

Google IPO to happen this month? 07/12/2004 10:36 PM
Google's heavily-hyped IPO may happen this month. The offering, expected to raise up to US$2.7 billion, will be conducted as a Dutch auction.

Opinion: Don’t let this happen to
you

Opinion: Don’t let this happen to
you 03/30/2005 05:42 PM
Conventional wisdom says you just don’t put images of smoking, battered Macs on the cover of a Mac magazine. To which we say phooey.

Yo Apple, make this happen

Yo Apple, make this happen 12/24/2004 01:01 PM

Now that I have a phone that takes some impressive photos (This shot is probably the best example I've seen for color, depth, and light that the little cam can capture), I really wish iPhoto could manage my images instead of my preview-free bluetooth file browser.

I bet it'd be trivial for Apple to enable connections via Bluetooth (to your paired devices) to import photos.

Innovation doesn't just happen in
headlines

Innovation doesn't just happen in
headlines 04/19/2005 11:32 AM
Boy, did MySQL's David Axmark just put his finger on why the general press doesn't often grasp what's going on with open source. Speaking at this morning's opening keynote at the MySQL conference, Axmark said: "Open source has always been...

Accident waiting to happen.

Accident waiting to happen. 12/26/2003 12:36 PM
Laptop Steering Wheel Mount - Mount your laptop on your car's steering wheel? - Accident waiting to happen... Sure you are supposed to use it while parked but we all see idiots in traffic doing everything from applying make-up to reading the newspaper. Doesn't anybody just drive their car anymore?

Straw: EU poll may not happen

Straw: EU poll may not happen 04/22/2004 05:16 AM
Jack Straw says a deal on an EU constitution is not certain, as the Daily Express switches support to the Tories.

What would happen if Microsoft bought
AMD?

What would happen if Microsoft bought
AMD? 12/08/2003 08:04 AM

The Difference Between What You Want To
Happen And What's Happening

The Difference Between What You Want To
Happen And What's Happening 12/29/2003 01:44 PM
We've writt en about Magnatunes and the Creative Commons a few times before, so yet another article on Magnatunes and the Creative Commons isn't all that interesting. However, this one makes a very good point which is worth repeating. The article asks, if people can get their music for free, why would they bother paying for CDs. The response, which Magnatunes founder basically tells them, is that they're asking the wrong question. People are already downloading music for free, and thus, the recording industry needs to figure out a way to adjust to that reality. The original question (what happens if people can get their music for free?) is like asking "but, what happens to buggy makers when automobiles are around?" The answer seems obvious to everyone, except those involved in the recording industry: they adapt or die. The recording industry is so focused on what they want to happen, that they've missed what's actually happening. The article also suggests that, so far, Magnatunes is doing quite well, and has the potential to be a viable longterm business - based on the idea of giving away music as a promotional good.

IDC: Consolidation to Windows won't
happen

IDC: Consolidation to Windows won't
happen 04/23/2004 09:20 AM
SINGAPORE - Microsoft Corp.'s domination of the client operating systems market will fade over the next few years, according to Avneesh Saxena, vice-president for Asia-Pacific computing systems research at IDC.

Traffic Sim Predicts Jams Before They
Happen

Traffic Sim Predicts Jams Before They
Happen 07/03/2004 05:11 AM

Tragedy 'must not happen again'

Tragedy 'must not happen again' 01/28/2004 10:17 AM
Dr David Kelly's family urges the government to take action to ensure their tragedy is never repeated.

Sun: open-source Java "will happen"

Sun: open-source Java "will happen" 06/04/2004 10:37 AM
Sun has pulled another rabbit out of its hat this week, as they have apparently decided to open source Java. Who will it benefit aside from IBM?

What Would Happen If Steve Jobs Died?

What Would Happen If Steve Jobs Died? 08/02/2004 10:32 AM
By Apple-X.net (via MyAppleMenu)

The Ten Reasons Ease Of Use Doesn't
Happen On Engineering Projects

The Ten Reasons Ease Of Use Doesn't
Happen On Engineering Projects 11/06/2002 06:25 AM

Bush Says Won't Let Iraq Prison Abuses
Happen Again

Bush Says Won't Let Iraq Prison Abuses
Happen Again 05/15/2004 12:57 PM
Reuters via Wired News May 15 2004 4:50PM GMT
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