• (cs) in reply to C-Octothorpe
    C-Octothorpe:
    geoffrey:
    One thing I don't get. If someone fails to leave the sunbed before the timer expires presumably they would be locked in and can only be released by the arrival of a new customer?

    Then you have to consider date/time vulnerabilities that are typical with timers, eg Y2K - potentially someone who went into the sunbed on December 31st 1999 would be trapped for a century or until a member of staff went to check on them if the timer incorrectly rolled over to January 1st 1900.

    One thing is for sure: they would be one wicked piece of jerky!

    FTFY

  • GA Shumway (unregistered)

    The not a bit less amusing but slightly more on the hardware side equivalent is http://www.circuitcellar.com/archives/priorityinterrupt/244.html

  • goobernutz (unregistered) in reply to Michael

    Or a skull...

  • Amol (unregistered)

    A wise man once said, dont build you business around IT. Build your business and then build IT around it. Now I know Why...

  • DavidTC (unregistered)

    You know, I feel pretty much the same way about electronic voting.

    It's like we're in a contest to try to invent something that works worse than what we already have, because it's 'technological'. In doing so, we introduce a dozen different security issues, all to save manpower that we don't actually save anyway!

  • Trevor (unregistered) in reply to geoffrey

    For the most part I believe its just the Users moving backwards. Tis the terrible shame of momentum. Even in a negative direction its awfully strong.

  • Frank (unregistered) in reply to geoffrey
    geoffrey:
    I am not sure massive exposure to high doses of UV radiation should be considered a gift.

    You're getting UV from your CRT!

  • ipsi (unregistered) in reply to geoffrey
    geoffrey:
    Remind me again why we stopped using TN3270?

    We haven't. I still need to interact with it as part of my job...

  • Ryan (unregistered)

    TRWTF here is solving problems you don't have and neglecting the ones that you do.

  • MB (unregistered)

    Since when is sending an UDP broadcast a 'lowlevel network trick'?

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