The other day I visited my local Verizon store for the fourth freaking time! My mission was simple: upgrade my goddamn phone and change our account from my wife’s name to mine. In sane retail environments long-standing customers with impeccable payment histories get treated like royalty. I know it will come as a shock to … Continue reading The Great Verizon Data Famine
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Controlling Cell Phones the new IT Frontier
Personal cell phones are on the IT hit list. It won’t be long before your employer starts jamming or confiscating your personal cell phone. Wait a minute isn’t that a tad hyperbolic? Wouldn’t that trigger an avalanche of “freedom of speech” lawsuits? Wouldn’t people yell “fornicate elsewhere” and quit? Ahh, if only it were so. … Continue reading Controlling Cell Phones the new IT Frontier
Revenge of the PhD Camera
Hipstamatic water meter Cameras come in two flavors. There are expensive serious cameras used by serious photographers to take serious photographs and then there are PhD, (Push here Dummy), cameras. Serious cameras meet the highest technical standards, lenses are diffraction limited, chromatic aberration approaches zero, pixel counts match Nyquist limits, ISO's exceed retinal sensitivity, auto-focus is instantaneous, color spaces … Continue reading Revenge of the PhD Camera
Analyze the Data not the Drivel 