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Thu, 2007-05-03 19:25 — dumell


Smartphones

Bluetooth enabled (and discoverable) phones in the room during a small meeting for bloggers - blogimiitti - in Helsinki, Finland. "Älypuhelin" means "smartphone" and "matkapuhelin" means (normal) mobile phone.

This is how bluetooth viruses spread.

Comments

Sat, 2007-05-05 19:52 — Anonymous

Viruses

"This is how bluetooth viruses spread".

True, but only if you choose to accept anything you recieve.

Wed, 2007-05-09 15:04 — dumell

ok, ok, next, next...

People are so used to going trough "ok", "ok", "accept", "next", "next" in Windows that a lot of people do accept whatever their phone receives without really considering what the UI dialog is telling them.

Thu, 2007-05-10 19:40 — pni (not verified)

There's no way to protect people from their impatient nature

I wouldn't blame Windows (though I might like to ;), the fact is that people do as they please. Whether they get warned or not.

I remember when I once was teaching a group of people to use some program, Photoshop or PageMaker. I said to this group of ten people: "click ONCE on the icon". I immediately heard something like 20-30 clicks, and after that the usual "The computer did something, I don't know what" and "help, everything went berserk".

"All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue."
-- Franz Kafka