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Submission + - 9 Laws of Physics That Don't Apply in Hollywood

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Ant

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @04:49AM

Ant writes: "Neatorama lists nine laws of physics that don't apply in Hollywood (movies and television/TV shows). In general, Hollywood filmmakers follow the laws of physics because they have no other choice. It's just when they cheat with special effects that people seem to forget how the world really works..."

Submission + - Donating to Janitor Retirement Funds

Submitted by alterimage on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @04:05AM

alterimage writes: I'm a Computer Science major at night working by day in Accounting for a major telecom provider with a client list consisting of most the companies on this list. Daily, I see customer payments come and go in excess of $50,000. Strangely, rather than have these payments conducted by an IVR system or over the internet, the majority of these payments are conducted over the phone with individuals such as myself, who are instructed to write down and document all the specific banking information, and to keep them on hardcopy in an unlocked file cabinet, accessible to anyone..
Having experience with social engineering and fraud, I've already advised my boss that it's probably not a good idea for the minimum-wage cleaning staff to see bank routing and account numbers laying around everywhere, and was told that I'm over-reacting. So I ask Slashdot- At what point should the human aspect of security be considered in the business environment? Should I just smile, nod, and play along in this situation?

Comment This is not entirely realistic.. (Score 2, Informative) 852

by phazer on Monday March 05, 2007 @12:10PM (#18238082) Attached to: 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux

None of the two computers have an ATI video card. Allegedly the ATI drivers sometimes even work, but I have yet to see this for myself.

The author has a HP Laserjet standing around? Nice. Good luck with a Canon "software" printer or other GDI printers though.

One or the other would've made the report much more interesting to me.

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