Perhaps you shouldn't make it 28? Life is too short to deal with someone who is terrible to you. It is a hard road to go down, but my life would have been hell without it and now I'm happier than I ever thought I could have been. Broken hearts heal.

Exactly - and don't forget that the more comments the better as well, which is going to increase LOC. I would rather have 20,000 lines of well-documented code than 2,000 lines of obfuscated, non-documented code any day.

This is why I love Slashdot. A discussion on spending money for food vs. housing turns into a math discussion, with tons of replies and people arguing sets, limits, etc. That's awesome.

Did anyone look at their other apps? From a reviewer page for ColorMagic (http://appshopper.com/photography/colormagic), their other apps are about 95% tour guide applications for various locations.

Yes, they were inflating their reviews. But it doesn't look like this company is doing cheap knock-offs of thousands of apps. This is just sloppy journalism (or no research done). Nothing like getting a story out there and over-sensationalizing it. It's not like it couldn't have stood on its own merit - Apple finally spanked somebody for over-inflating reviews (which should have happened long ago IMO).

I absolutely love the fact that my post got moderated "overrated". Apparently we have some management types on Slashdot these day that got some mod points. It's a perfect example of how some people feel about BCP.

And uh, aren't "overrated" mod points for things that have been modded up a whole bunch that you don't agree with?

And not just backups, it sounds like they had no BCP plan at all. This is a massive oversight, but a fairly common one. I've consulted for a number of years, and it's amazing at how many companies don't have a BCP plan at all, and sometimes it includes simple backups of data.

The companies where I've seen this basically do a risk assessment and say "well, we are willing to accept the risk of downtime because BCP is too costly". Unfortunately they don't weigh the chance of an outage or disaster appropriately, and then find themselves severely screwed when a tornado, storm system, or fire occurs, and then they are either out of business (in a small company) or take enough of a hit to make a headline on Slashdot and cripple the business.

Seriously, when are companies going to realize that this is a critical component of IT? I've felt like I've talked till I was blue in the face about this over the years.

I can imagine that there's citizens of China that have unfettered access to the internet; there are plenty of companies out there that host software VPN's that allow a user to appear to be from a different country. The information is out there, you just have to know how to get it, although there is some risk. Hell, a business could probably make a good amount of money hosting terminal or Citrix servers just for FireFox usage for China users.

I'm sure there's a fairly large risk involved, and the punishments are probably severe. But where there's a will, there's a way, especially in technology.

Spinal implants and other non-heart related implants do allow wireless communications. That's how I turn on and off my spinal implant. Granted it only seems to support a distance of within a foot of the implanted battery pack to the controller, but still. I honestly don't know if it's the controller or the receiver that requires that distance though.

Guess which website I'll be visiting tonight?

I have a spinal implant, which is basically an implanted tens-unit, that I use to block the pain from the degenerative disease I have. Although the device has a top level setting, it still hurts if I crank it up that far. If someone was able to remotely turn on my device and turn the intensity up and shorten the waveform they could bring me to my knees. If I couldn't turn it off I'd be in some serious trouble, since I couldn't flee.

As much as it's not life-threatening in my case, it's still pretty damn scary. I can't imagine having a pacemaker that could be disrupted remotely. Although talk about a great tool for the CIA for remote-kills.

Let me clarify a bit then: In this case, Fox created controversy by running sweepers and the story with words that were judgmental and suggested that people should be disgusted with Sharon Osbourne. They did not report just on the facts and let people decide on their own how they felt, they provided their own color commentary and helped create the buzz of the story.

IMO the news is supposed to be fact, not commentary, and the way the news is reported is just as important as what is reported. Fox (and CNN, MSNBC, etc) don't deliver just facts, they deliver "human interest stories" and news item from a slanted perspective. I don't like being told how to feel on things, but there are so many people that do like being told. The news should absolutely be reporting on anything and everything; that is their job.

And to the people that think that no one cares, people do and that's why we can't have nice things. The amount of made-up outrage out there is ridiculous; people love to feel outraged. That's why radio and TV content have both gone to hell IMO.