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maybe instead of just a loud sound, they should put a loud voice telling them the situation and what to do ... I guess some alarms do that


About 90 dollars a month in a little iPhone app called TweakyBeat .. it was free for like three years, then some day I asked myself if I could change it from free to pay, and yes you can.


hmmm, mission impossible? which one?


MI:1. Physical security hack. It's a stretch, but physical security is the first step to network security. When I worked at a bank, we kept the locations of our data centers pretty hush-hush. The employees badges didn't even have the bank logo.


agree, if you've got this far, why not show it real time, as an option maybe


thanks raquo, and yes, this is kind of the teaching i meant ;)

this is certainly useful information for me, something i could try


I'm in mexico city, if you ever visit this city ;) ....... ok not exactly south america but anyways ;)



i thougth your where talking about the grand theft auto "rockstar" company, that would have been interesting ;)


"could the age of celebrity finally be over?"

Thats like saying that the piano would kill all virtuosos, because all the notes are already there, as opposed to a violin where the player has to press the string on the right spot.

Just getting the pitch right is not gonna make the music, not by a long shot.


"Taking the time to author original, thought provoking and/or informative posts ..."

But maybe you should do this sort of thing just because is good for you in the first place (as opposed to good for your blog/PR). Write down and develop your thoughts on paper, just as you do with code/pseudocode. Then once you have something worthy, publish/share it.


Goot pt. Wanted to say this as well, just couldn't find the words.


hey ericb, can you tell us how you learned social psychology? maybe what books, sites ... etc ?

also im checking the material that FleursDuMal mentioned ;)


Absolutely. I was a psych major. Another huge thing I learned, btw, was that my persistence (stubbornness, if you ask my wife ;) lets me learn most anything, which is how I came to be a developer.

Instead of how I learned it, I'll point you to some topics in social psych:

Read Cialdini, the psychology of influence.

This doubles for attracting investment and women: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_proof

Social skills-the parens are part of the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_(psychology)

Halo Effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect

Interesting experiments:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

http://www.prisonexp.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

If an area I listed here or in the original post is of particular interest, let me know and I'll reply with the specifics of what I meant, or pointers to some info on it.


thanks!, supercool! ;)


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