GregQuinn

I don't and none of my friends seem to either.

A very interesting caveat from the paper:

"It is important to note that it is assumed that the victim is wearing the WAD on the wrist of the preferred hand used to interact with keyboards. In fact, in our attack scenario it would be harder, if not impossible, for the attacker to infer keystrokes if the victim is right-handed but is wearing the WAD on the left hand for example."

A WAD is any wearable arm band device.

The whole purpose of the offer is to let the client decide how much you're worth to them. I provide no up-front rate or fee.

It's always the clients who claim to be 'innovative', 'game changing', 'disruptive' etc. that are the most risk averse. They seem completely blind to the cognitive dissonance.

You grossly underestimate how conservative and risk averse most clients are.

As a consultant I have tried a variation on your approach. I've offered to work for a client for 2-3 weeks. At the end of which THEY get to decide how much I'm worth. I reserve the right not to carry on working for them but for those 2-3 weeks I will accept whatever they pay including nothing.

In over a decade not one client has accepted this deal.

Waterstones also has a click and collect system.

You can order books on-line through their website and pick them up at any store. The on-line price is also lower than the store price.

Absolutely this. While reduced data storage may have been a beneficial side effect the real driver was update consistency.

Try this: http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/oftel/consumer/advice...

It's not illegal to record a conversation between two parties. However if you share this recording with a third party (in this case Facebook) then you have to obtain the consent of the other party.

There's no might about it.

This would definitely be illegal in the UK.

I've dealt with many outsourcers (TCS, Infosys, Accenture, IBM etc.) and WITHOUT EXCEPTION their business model is time and materials.

Although his comments are accurate there's nothing terrible profound about them.

For quite a while everybody has realized that out sourcing was never anything more than labour cost arbitrage, dressed up with fairly empty "sales" rhetoric.

However he misses a more fundamental way in which clients and outsourcers interest are misaligned. Because outsourcers are essentially selling bodies they have no incentive to become more efficient through labour cost reduction.

I suspect this failure is the real reason for the current "in sourcing" vogue. As software development and delivery becomes increasingly automated the labour cost component will drop, along with the pressure to outsource.

The outsourcers business model is fundamentally broken and it's only a matter of time before this shows up in the bottom line.

Nearly all the standard data modelling tools(ERwin,System Architect, Enterprise Architect ...) have a facility for reverse engineering a schema. This produces an ER diagram for the schema. It's worth pointing out however that this diagram gives you structure not semantics. The latter has to come from elsewhere.

Here in the UK "in-store pickup" is known as "click and collect" and it's becoming very popular. In addition the on line price is often lower than the in store price.

Travis Goodspeed had a nice hack using Celestrak data http://travisgoodspeed.blogspot.co.uk/

...Often 2-3 candidates could have done the job brilliantly,..

Tell me more about the skills shortage.

Never ever under any circumstances whether an employee or a contractor agree to an exit interview. There is nothing for you to gain.

Take the lady's advice and just say NO!

It will disappear. A lot of new cars in Europe already have a USB port built into the dashboard.