.Net is IT 'asbestos', says PeopleSoft
News PeopleSoft president and CEO Craig Conway has described Microsoft's .Net initiative as the information technology equivalent of asbestos. It's like asbestos," he said. Net is a home formula to make your own asbestos.
[May 19, 2003, 8:50]
Neurosurgeon: Mobile phones 'worse than smoking'
News Mobile phones could represent a public-health time bomb akin to asbestos or smoking, according to a study by neurosurgeon Dr Vini G Khurana. It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking...
[April 1, 2008, 8:57]
Pollution tsars call for 'urgent' nanotech regulation
News Asbestos for insulation, chlorofluorocarbons for refrigeration, and tetra-ethyl lead in petrol were all used in the report as examples of materials which were initially thought harmless but later revealed to have public health costs.
[November 12, 2008, 16:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Sales of asbestos underpants soar as the Dell Exploding Laptop Experience starts to hit home. If not, then I'm afraid asbestos underpants are the only way forward. Monday 14/8/2006 The unprecedented recall of 4.1 million batteries sets various new...
[August 18, 2006, 20:35]
Safety experts meet in Cyberspace
News The latter ranges from asbestos poisoning to the more extreme dangers of rape and kidnapping. Safety '98 is the world's first free, online conference about health and safety. Running from 2 to 13 November, it aims to educate and stimulate...
[November 2, 1998, 11:35]
Good memories
Talkback Time to get the Asbestos underwear out of the wardrobe. These brought back good memories. May I suggest a few more: AMD vs Intel Object-oriented (databases/languages/systems/etc) vs that other rubbish (a touch of bias creeping in there)
[September 4, 2009, 18:18]
UK workshops find patent directive faulty
Talkback The "inventor" of software patents should be nominated for the (in)famous "Asbestos Cork Award". Dear Reader, The whole and only idea behind software patents is to illegalize all Open_Source projects in one blow - and doing so killing off all...
[June 15, 2005, 8:25]
Mobile-phone industry: Tumour study 'very selective'
News There is a growing and statistically significant body of evidence reporting that brain tumours, such as vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma) and astrocytoma, are associated with 'heavy' and 'prolonged' mobile-phone use, particularly on the...
[April 1, 2008, 14:22]
Government warning over hazardous IT waste
News Due to their chemical content, some everyday business items such as computer monitors, televisions and fluorescent tubes have now joined materials such as asbestos under the 'hazardous' banner. The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural...
[June 24, 2005, 15:30]
MoD IT project late, over budget, failing to impress
News As well as problems with software delivery, the PAC blames "totally inadequate research" in assessing the buildings where terminals would be installed — many of which were subsequently found to contain asbestos — for causing delays to the project.
[January 16, 2009, 9:00]
Microsoft's antitrust concessions are 'pointless'
Talkback Although, today I officially nominate ms for the (in)famous "Asbestos Cork Award" ! really have(n't) a clue or (not) even a cue. Because off " Easy use Windows " the development of systems that are a.stable & secure, b.userfriendly has been...
[August 1, 2005, 6:57]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Is it lined with asbestos? Monday 29/3/2004 Deep in the bowels of Manchester, something is smouldering. A mile-long tunnel thirty metres below the ground catches fire -- how does a tunnel catch fire? and hundreds of fibres are burned away.
[April 2, 2004, 18:40]
Extensions are bugs, not features
Talkback World Trade Organization Appellate Body decision in WTDS 135 EC - Asbestos (March 12, 2001), para. Albert said: "By using the namespace prefixes it also improves things like XML validation and extensibility compared to ODF.
[February 29, 2008, 17:28]
Schools panic over WiFi
Blog Comment To use separate concerns, asbestos and tobacco also took a long term and a lot of interestingly contradictory research before it was finally accepted there was a risk, so you can use perfectly good case examples on both sides!
[November 22, 2006, 12:40]
