What? No, the FIRST thing he needs is a new place to live. If he's trying to farm in the middle of the fucking desert, his problem is obvious. The bags & bags of fertilizer is a terrible idea -- it's just like the U.S. government: If it doesn't work now, throw more money at it instead of fixing what's actually wrong. If the plants won't grow, throw some more fertilizer down. What then? They are locked into paying all their profit into buying more fertilizer because the ground will not give any nutrients. Move to a place that isn't all SAND, and maybe you could grow something. I'm no genius, but even I can figure that one out.
> What's wrong with the cop stopping the kid, asking his name and address
Because that is infringing on his rights. Y'know, that whole Bill of Rights thing... 4th Amendment? "The right of the people to be secure in their persons," etc.
> They just prevent him from profiting by diverting traffic
He wasn't diverting traffic at all!!! If people typed the name correctly, they would get to the correct site. Diverting traffic would mean that he hijacked DNS or something and people who typed in falwell.com would be rerouted to fallwell.com.
> Doesn't matter if car is even functional according to the DMV guy I talked to. If its got a VIN and it belongs to you, its got to be insured.
I believe he was either lieing or uninformed. If you modify a car to be a racecar, it does not need to be insured (although considering the money you put into one, it's a pretty darn good idea -- but that's a slightly different kind of insurance). If you turn a bus into a house and take the wheels off, there's no way they can force you to insure it.
> would the contract only cover what was originaly expected?
IANAL (duh). I'm guessing that if you hadn't signed a new contract, it would cover what went on in both positions. Unless, of course, the non-compete agreement for the first job was for 2 years after, then you held the next job for two years. That could get tricky.
> would [he] have done so without the experience and knowledge he gained while working for Jiffylube?
So McDonalds owns the personal experiences and knowledge I gained while working there? (BTW, I haven't worked there, it's an example).
Changing oil is an extremely common thing, it would be nearly impossible for them to claim that his idea would not have come to him while doing something completely unrelated. Of course, this does not apply if his process used some method/idea that only Jiffy Lube used.
> All I said was that the EFF condones illegal file shring
Which is what I'm arguing against. Neither of the quotes say that they condone illegal activities, just that they condone listening to music from P2P networks. That means that you are assuming they mean illegal files, but they do not say that.
> Fairly strong evidence would be more appropriate, though I agree,
I didn't mean to try to negate you, I really do mean "what have we witnessed?" I claim ignorance and have no idea what is special about them. Just that they only live in one place?
Sounds like you do. The hospitals do not choose the OS that goes on a CT Scanner server, the company developing it does.
For smaller hospitals, they may not even have much choice in the workstation OS, if they want to use a clinical application that is not a million dollars.
> Ever have your computer crash, and have your sound card remain on with a steady tone, or similar behavior? Now imagine the same thing happening while shooting radiation into a patient.
Except that a radiation therapy unit is (usually) somewhat indepentent from the computer. It takes instructions, not a simple "it's on" vs. "it's off." If the computer crashes, it should either quit immediately or quit after the most recent dose instruction is finished.
Because you've never smelled what IS right. While he may be exaggerating a bit about 4GB of RAM (the video card is correct though), the point of his post is spot-on. I am the IS department at a relatively small hospital. Our CT scanner gets about 70 Hi-hi-hi-res images for a small scan. When I say Hi-Res, I don't mean 1024x768, I mean like 10,000x7,000. Seventy of those is gonna take a lot of power to switch through quickly and a very high speed network to transfer reliably.
It doesn't HAVE to run on Windows, but if it doesn't, many hospitals won't buy it. Do I like that? Hell no, but if the vendor wants to stay in business, they will do what the hospitals want them to do. It really is that simple.
> Grow a pair & post as yourself
Wow, I guess your full name is Kikta? Strange name. Whether he calls himself "Anonymous Coward" or "Big Billy Ray Buttfuck," he would be hiding behind an alias, just like you. How about YOU post as yourself and give us your full name, address, phone number, social security number... Grow a pair and post that if you are so sure of your position (which I doubt).
Basically, what this post is saying is, don't open your fucking mouth when you obviously don't know what you are talking about.
> "... I don't think anyone will die." > > Would you bet "everything" (civil, criminal??) on this?
Do you have any idea what you are talking about? They are not running Windows on most (any???) life-critical systems. We are talking about CT (CAT) scanners, MRIs, etc. Normally, nothing invasive like Dialysis. So the only way it would cause harm to the patient is if their life relied on the immediate reading of images.
The devices themselves DO NOT RUN ANY OS. The devices are medical equipment that take pictures and send them to a "server," basically. They can also print directly to dry film (y'know, the normal translucent X-Ray pictures) if the server happens to crash. Or, the images can be sent to another device, such as a viewing workstation or a different server. It can be a pain in the butt to do it very quickly, but it's not impossible by a long shot.
> some pinhead PHB somewhere is trying to save a buck.
That isn't it at all! Most of these devices they are talking about are probably Diagnostic Imaging devices (AKA Radiology, X-Ray). They don't just take an image & print it out -- they move large numbers of images (slices) over the network to other PCs for review, in some cases, off-site. Without having these machines connected to the network, Teleradiology is nigh on impossible. For a small hospital, such as the one where I work, there is no way we could operate without our CT scanner detached -- we would have to have the radiologists go into the CT control room to go over the scans. That means that while they're reviewing images, the CT cannot be used to scan the next patient. That is unacceptable.
> "Patching Off-the-Shelf Software Used in Medical Information Systems."
Also Known as POSSUM-IS... interesting acronym, and strangely fitting for the exitsing "security" -- play dead instead of taking responsibility for security (BTW, Yes, I work in a hospital with Philips & GE equipment).
Okay. I am not a fortuneteller and do not have ESP, so I cannot say for sure that there will never be a time that it should change. So yes, it must not change casually. Thanks.
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> Looking at your website I see your only 20
Ah yes, ad-hominems for everyone!
> He explicitly states he wants people to watch DVD's on this thing.
I wonder what DVD region the player will be set to...
> Forget not being able to read - what about having no electricity?
Yeah, well the guy bought stock in Duracell just before announcing the device...
> Failing all that, he needs a new place to live
What? No, the FIRST thing he needs is a new place to live. If he's trying to farm in the middle of the fucking desert, his problem is obvious. The bags & bags of fertilizer is a terrible idea -- it's just like the U.S. government: If it doesn't work now, throw more money at it instead of fixing what's actually wrong. If the plants won't grow, throw some more fertilizer down. What then? They are locked into paying all their profit into buying more fertilizer because the ground will not give any nutrients. Move to a place that isn't all SAND, and maybe you could grow something. I'm no genius, but even I can figure that one out.
> What's wrong with the cop stopping the kid, asking his name and address
Because that is infringing on his rights. Y'know, that whole Bill of Rights thing... 4th Amendment? "The right of the people to be secure in their persons," etc.
Ah, context makes me look like a fool :)
> They just prevent him from profiting by diverting traffic
He wasn't diverting traffic at all!!! If people typed the name correctly, they would get to the correct site. Diverting traffic would mean that he hijacked DNS or something and people who typed in falwell.com would be rerouted to fallwell.com.
Other than your choice of words there, I agree.
> Doesn't matter if car is even functional according to the DMV guy I talked to. If its got a VIN and it belongs to you, its got to be insured.
I believe he was either lieing or uninformed. If you modify a car to be a racecar, it does not need to be insured (although considering the money you put into one, it's a pretty darn good idea -- but that's a slightly different kind of insurance). If you turn a bus into a house and take the wheels off, there's no way they can force you to insure it.
> How does $6,000 to $12,000 per year sound to insure your older car?
"Extortion," that's how it sounds.
> so far do not seem to have affected my rates (nor should they, since I had nothing to do with either one
You're lucky. Many (I think most, but can't prove it) insurance companies will raise your rates even if you have proven it's not your fault.
> would the contract only cover what was originaly expected?
IANAL (duh). I'm guessing that if you hadn't signed a new contract, it would cover what went on in both positions. Unless, of course, the non-compete agreement for the first job was for 2 years after, then you held the next job for two years. That could get tricky.
> would [he] have done so without the experience and knowledge he gained while working for Jiffylube?
So McDonalds owns the personal experiences and knowledge I gained while working there? (BTW, I haven't worked there, it's an example).
Changing oil is an extremely common thing, it would be nearly impossible for them to claim that his idea would not have come to him while doing something completely unrelated. Of course, this does not apply if his process used some method/idea that only Jiffy Lube used.
> the raw output you get is not readable like the final image.
So the machines themselves do not have any DICOM interfaces?
> All I said was that the EFF condones illegal file shring
Which is what I'm arguing against. Neither of the quotes say that they condone illegal activities, just that they condone listening to music from P2P networks. That means that you are assuming they mean illegal files, but they do not say that.
> Fairly strong evidence would be more appropriate, though I agree,
I didn't mean to try to negate you, I really do mean "what have we witnessed?" I claim ignorance and have no idea what is special about them. Just that they only live in one place?
> Sounds like these hospitals need to get a clue
Sounds like you do. The hospitals do not choose the OS that goes on a CT Scanner server, the company developing it does.
For smaller hospitals, they may not even have much choice in the workstation OS, if they want to use a clinical application that is not a million dollars.
> Ever have your computer crash, and have your sound card remain on with a steady tone, or similar behavior? Now imagine the same thing happening while shooting radiation into a patient.
Except that a radiation therapy unit is (usually) somewhat indepentent from the computer. It takes instructions, not a simple "it's on" vs. "it's off." If the computer crashes, it should either quit immediately or quit after the most recent dose instruction is finished.
> like say a small text display that shows the serial number of the device
:)
I work at a Hospital with a much better solution... we put the patient's name and room # on it
> on my AWE32 and real-time spectrum analyser. Them were the days :)
Umm... in "them days" that he's talking about, the AWE32 wasn't even thought up yet.
> This just doesn't smell right
Because you've never smelled what IS right. While he may be exaggerating a bit about 4GB of RAM (the video card is correct though), the point of his post is spot-on. I am the IS department at a relatively small hospital. Our CT scanner gets about 70 Hi-hi-hi-res images for a small scan. When I say Hi-Res, I don't mean 1024x768, I mean like 10,000x7,000. Seventy of those is gonna take a lot of power to switch through quickly and a very high speed network to transfer reliably.
It doesn't HAVE to run on Windows, but if it doesn't, many hospitals won't buy it. Do I like that? Hell no, but if the vendor wants to stay in business, they will do what the hospitals want them to do. It really is that simple.
> Grow a pair & post as yourself
Wow, I guess your full name is Kikta? Strange name. Whether he calls himself "Anonymous Coward" or "Big Billy Ray Buttfuck," he would be hiding behind an alias, just like you. How about YOU post as yourself and give us your full name, address, phone number, social security number... Grow a pair and post that if you are so sure of your position (which I doubt).
Basically, what this post is saying is, don't open your fucking mouth when you obviously don't know what you are talking about.
> " ... I don't think anyone will die."
> > Would you bet "everything" (civil, criminal??) on this?
Do you have any idea what you are talking about? They are not running Windows on most (any???) life-critical systems. We are talking about CT (CAT) scanners, MRIs, etc. Normally, nothing invasive like Dialysis. So the only way it would cause harm to the patient is if their life relied on the immediate reading of images.
The devices themselves DO NOT RUN ANY OS. The devices are medical equipment that take pictures and send them to a "server," basically. They can also print directly to dry film (y'know, the normal translucent X-Ray pictures) if the server happens to crash. Or, the images can be sent to another device, such as a viewing workstation or a different server. It can be a pain in the butt to do it very quickly, but it's not impossible by a long shot.
> there is no way we could operate without our CT scanner detached
D'oh, I meant we couldn't operate WITH our CT disconnected from the network...
> some pinhead PHB somewhere is trying to save a buck.
That isn't it at all! Most of these devices they are talking about are probably Diagnostic Imaging devices (AKA Radiology, X-Ray). They don't just take an image & print it out -- they move large numbers of images (slices) over the network to other PCs for review, in some cases, off-site. Without having these machines connected to the network, Teleradiology is nigh on impossible.
For a small hospital, such as the one where I work, there is no way we could operate without our CT scanner detached -- we would have to have the radiologists go into the CT control room to go over the scans. That means that while they're reviewing images, the CT cannot be used to scan the next patient. That is unacceptable.
> "Patching Off-the-Shelf Software Used in Medical Information Systems."
Also Known as POSSUM-IS... interesting acronym, and strangely fitting for the exitsing "security" -- play dead instead of taking responsibility for security (BTW, Yes, I work in a hospital with Philips & GE equipment).
> ...casually.
Okay. I am not a fortuneteller and do not have ESP, so I cannot say for sure that there will never be a time that it should change. So yes, it must not change casually. Thanks.