Daily Archives: July 20, 2015

EFF warning about Xerox tech

This was amusing.  the EFF has raised an alarm about Xerox and other companies that use tech for carpool lane mis-use and other car surveillance tech could be a huge privacy risk. http://www.i4u.com/2015/04/90711/iff-raises-privacy-concerns-over-xeroxs-automated-vehicle-occupancy-detection

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Xerox #5 for the 10 worst companies to work for

Well on the plus side, its moved up from the bottom 3 worst companies.  This has to be the latest I have ever seen one of these reports from glassdoor for the previous year.  Anyways looks like employees at Xerox … Continue reading

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Xerox still in hot water in Orange County

I sometimes wonder if the services direction is a good one to go into.  Xerox seems to run into alot of issues with it. http://voiceofoc.org/2015/07/santana-xerox-collapse-should-fuel-calls-for-outside-oversight/

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Interesting Patent from Xerox

I thought for some reason they already did this.  But Xerox has an interesting patent on stopping the reproduction (copy) of banknotes. http://www.securingindustry.com/security-documents-and-it/patent-watch-xerox-system-to-prevent-banknote-copying/s110/a2416/#.VaZMa7WnSiw

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Xerox is hiring

Call center jobs anyways. http://www.indystar.com/story/money/2015/07/14/companies-plan-add-jobs-indy-area/30137893/

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A robotic arm for 3D printing

Interesting build where the author’s used a robotic arm to print out houses.  In this case for emergency shelters for folks.  My 2 cents, I like the idea if it used cement, but I think the portable shelters I have … Continue reading

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build a custom dog washer

OK I like this build, its cheap, simple, and works.  I hate washing the dogs, holding them down, etc etc.  One changes I would do to this build (roughly $10-15 in cost).  Maybe add in misters instead of holes.  I … Continue reading

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Using .NET to grab user data

I found this to be amusing.  Apparently since .NET was opensourced, hackers have started using it to get user data and spreading malware.  Why didn’t they use it before?  Well they maybe cheap and didn’t want to buy a license.  … Continue reading

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Unique business cards

Interesting article about some different business cards out there.  I like the end where they list out how you could get a card like the demo’ed ones. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-places-learn-swift-apples-programming-language/ Possible sites for custom cards: http://us.moo.com/ http://gotprint.net/g/welcome.do http://www.jukeboxprint.com/

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How to learn Swift for free (or almost)

So thinking of writing an app for your iPhone, you may want to brush up on how to write code in swift, Apples reality new programming language.  The article below goes over several free, or cheap sites that can help … Continue reading

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