Patient safety is another one. If you can't keep up with the paperwork then the next doctor that sees the patient has no idea what drugs were given, etc. Without all the facts available, diagnosis and treatment go out the window.
True assuming it is a read mostly database. You also have to scatter triggers throughout to make sure that updates occur atomically on all the redundant copies. Still, redundancy on the internet can be annoying. For example, often when I'm looking for advice on how to use a unix command I'll end up with the first 10 hits in google having about 5 that are exact word for word copies from someone's post to a forum. First copy helpful, maybe, but if I don't find what I need in it the next for are just in the way.
If your domain doesn't have a logical target audience given its name, ie. it isn't something like "itsallaboutcars.com" then for the love of God don't put random stuff up there just to fill space. The best that could happen is it gets indexed by search engines and people looking for something specific end up on your page randomly which contains no unique content. Similar to database design, if its redundant it doesn't need to exist. If your domain name does have an obvious relavent market, how about finding someone that has that interest that is willing to share the costs of hosting with you?
They aren't being accused of making up the evidence, just that the evidence wasn't obtained in a legal manner. The guy's lawyer isn't even saying that he didn't do it, just that if you throw out the evidence then they have no case. The pain of it for the RIAA if it does get ruled illegial would be how do they go about getting the information? Can't exactly get a warrant for evidence against "whoever it is that connects to me to get pirated material". As far as I know you have to name the suspect in the warrant. Still doesn't mean that illegal things aren't happening just that it might not be legal to find out who's doing it:)
An excerpt from a world were that was allowed to happen:
Then Reginald inserted his
---- by cheap viagra now -----
access card into the
---- Play online casino games at -----
slot.
I agree they would have to go. Preferably by developing a psychological problem that makes them compulsively buy stuff from ads and leads to a Viagra/Cialis/Ensyte overdose.
I think it could be relatively easy to convience publishers that DRM books or whatever is sufficient protection to make sure people don't keep the book. After all if they rely on DRM to protect the purchases why not the rented books? If you don't trust DRM, then why do you make your customers suffer with the drawbacks of something that doesn't produce any value? At least that would be my arguement.
My bad, at my work we are a Mac/Linux shop. We let people get a PC "if required" for something they use. Our purchasing has Windows to run SAP (which is controlled by the organization headquarters. I searched for what the system requirements were and got http://help.sap.com/saphelp_ep60sp0/helpdata/en/01/5be93bb3596754e10000000a11402f/content.htm , looks like windows only. But I think that is just for the client Portal part, my bad. Anyways, good to hear there is *nix versions out there.
The buck a song is almost certainly the a la carte thing you mentioned. After all, there are a lot of people that went and bought the Elton John tribute single from when Princess Diana died that otherwise wouldn't own a Elton John album (my dad bought the whole family one:)). Similarly with a lot of other artists you might only like one song, so you can just buy that song. The revenues go down a lot because they can't sell the whole package to you.
Ebook cheaper, true. But the Kindle still isn't available outside of the US, damn you Amazon! There is competing devices, but having integrated wireless delivery is a must in my book. I just can't justify paying 200-400 dollars for a device I have to plug into a computer to get content, especially when it is the same price as one that as a bonus gives me mobile internet access. Also the other large reader device (Sony) is Windows only. Boo.
Movies and stuff: I agree 100%. My friend has movie on demand service at home, cool you can watch the movie. But he pays slightly more than you would to rent it in a store and he doesn't get the extra features, commentaries and such. Again, boo, I'll go to the video store and pick up some beer while I'm on the way home:)
I'd love to see a lower price or even free model for ebooks. Public libraries bug me, at least the ones in my area. If they have a book that I like that is a part of a series, often they'll have something like the first, second and fourth book. Nice, just get into the series then you can't find the next book. I don't necessarily want to own the book, just read at and give it back. If they had some sort of license server type model where you could check out the book electronically and then "return it" when your done that would be awesome. Mah, I should run for office, virtual libraries here I come:)
information can be freely replicated with no transfer of resources between the two parties involved
True, but that doesn't mean it doesn't cost anything to produce. Put it this way an author, publisher, musician etc, has to make money. The amount of money has to come from sales or subscriptions. So the cost of each item sold times the number of items sold less the cost of production should be what they need for a reasonable profit. What is a reasonable profit can be debated, but none the less I think most people would agree it is greater than zero. The internet makes the cost of producing another copy of the product close to zero, but there still is the cost of the studio, engineers, musicians, writers time etc. In short just because it costs nothing to make another copy doesn't mean that all copies should be free.
Good point. An added bonus: some of the students might have questions why something was done a certain way and not another. It will let you know what needs to be more documented, or perhaps changed easier then trying to guess what another person won't "get" about your network.
Unfortunately, that's not a Microsoft Monopoly, in either case. If its (a) then their IT staff suck, not Microsoft's fault, and not making Microsoft a monopoly. If its (b) then Linux sucks for their needs, which again is not Microsoft's fault and does not make Microsoft a monopoly.
Exactly. Or:
c) Their IT staff is really good at supporting Windows but doesn't know, nor care to learn how to support Linux. So they can replace all their IT staff or they can go with Windows.
There is still a lot of software out there that doesn't support Linux at least on the client side. For example: SAP, AutoCAD, MS Office (sucks but still the best office suite IMHO) are all Windows client only systems. Sometimes not bidding isn't picking on the vendor you don't go with, sometimes it is "I know what I need, and I know only one vendor supplies it".
P.S. I'm a UNIX/Linux admin not a MS fanboy. I just would rather see a well supported system that meets the users' needs, than have somebody go with a platform they can't support just because it is cheaper and the developers' say it can do what they need.
seems like an obvious feature it should have shipped with. A product called Offline Review for a medical imaging device for a cancer treatment system. The problem: it shipped before the "offline" part was implemented. Recommended workaround: have the physician available to review the image during the treatment rather than on his own time. Yeah, because physicians can stop having clinical hours so that they can watch each treatment that therapists' do, and oh yeah patients from the same doc have to be secheduled at different times to allow for this. Nice.
My understanding was it isn't just the "chief of police but a general "industry" wide conference. Yeah I see your and others point about the chief of police thing. However, I'd think it would be someone pretty high up that should be involved in this case. This will probably result in a billion + settlement, not something you give to the small fish in your organization.
Nice good tip. Actually neither a windows workstation or windows password, Mac site. But we do us NTLM passwords for radius and stuff I we still generate the hashes in NTLM. Hmm, another excuse to have a linux box kicking around:)
Exactly. At my work we occasionally need to crack a password for an account. Our password policy is fairly strong, minimum 8 characters, must have a symbol, letter and number in it. Anyways we can crack the passwords in a couple hours or less from the password hash on a workstation. On a network the trick is to not let someone try very often, and protecting the password hashes, ie if your using LDAP or AD passwords, encrypt the queries to the nameservice etc so somebody doesn't get the hashes to crack offline.
Yeah or the EC has decided they want more money. Hmm, our coffers are looking a little low, I know lets sue MS again, hmm which product to chose...
While I don't always agree with MS's practices, having a competition hearing at a time when the regional experts are unavailable is stupid. They offered to find and pay for a location themselves as the meeting room wasn't available outside of the window, but the EC refused. I think a reasonable request has been turned down for political reasons.
If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently
I disagree. For FOSS developers market share is pretty much the only way you know that you are making a difference. You can volunteer for all sorts of reasons, fun project, want to learn a new language etc. But "Is anyone using this?" is a very big piece of the puzzle.
For for profit code, market share translates into revenue and profits, revenue pays your salary, allows the company to grow etc. With out a growing company you have to rely on attritition for advancement. So yeah market share is important. A caveat is though if you are in a growing industry then you can get a way with still having the same market share.
Hence why hacking someones email account first makes the most sense. I have more sites that use this method, or just reset the password and send me the new one to the email account on record, than I have ones that ask me a "security" question. Another option that my collegue proposed which is a good idea, is let the user type in their own security question. He had a site that let him do that and is using a really bizarre question that only he would know the answer to.
Too many of the security questions are information that is publically available, especially if you are well known. How hard would it be to find out "mother's maiden name", "birthday", "pets", "where you met your spouse" etc etc. for a celibrity. I have a hard enough time trying not to find out that information about them. Ah crap while flipping to the business section I accidentally found out that Britney Spears shaved her head, crap I didn't need to know.
I agree. I don't think users are entitled to access to your page, or even "fair" access to your page. If they don't like it they can go elsewhere. It would be similar to a brick in mortar store giving crappy service, if you don't like it go somewhere else next time. That was the whole point in the experiment anyways, they were trying to answer the question "How slow is too slow?".
Hopefully this will get them to speed up their pages. Hotmail for instance is an absolute dog. I have a symmetric 155Mb connection at work, even accessing my account when the connection is otherwise idle takes ~2-3 seconds to login. So there is a lot of wait in the backend that could be optimized away I'd wager. Anyways, I suspect this isn't something that hasn't been done before. Amazon for example would be very interested in this, when you have to justify a new multi million dollar datacenter it is nice to be able to quantify the need for more capacity in dollar terms.
This doesn't really work that well if the password is actually for someone's email account, though.
Exactly. If I was malicious wouldn't attack someone's bank account directly. I'd crack their email account and then likely get dozens of passwords at once. I'd likely get information about other accounts they have that I wasn't aware of, oh you have an investment account from your last jobs pension, how nice.
Once you have the email account you can then with a lot of sites tell them that you forgot the password and have them resend it to the compromised email address. The problem with security questions IMHO is that a lot of the questions are something that you could ask someone or could come up in normal conversation. Hey what elementary school did you go to? Oh you have an uncle on your mothers side, whats his name? (now I know your mothers maiden name). Etc. It is the same thing that you hear about not using words for passwords. It makes them easier to guess.
I guess the problem then becomes that sometimes information isn't interesting enough to keep until you have something come up that you need it for. For example say someone rights an article for the editorial section of a newspaper. Not really interesting. Now 20 years later they are running for political office. Those letters are now interesting but they didn't have apparent worth at the time.
I like the idea in a way though that the consumers decide whether the content is useful enough to hang on to. In a way that is what ptp networks can do. Something that is a fad quickly isn't seeded much and becomes less available. Something that is deemed important/enjoyed/whatever is highly available to be retrieved. Another big challenge becomes though, shouldn't the author be able to remove something in some circumstances? Say embarassing photos that they posted on a social site when they were a kid. Should those remain available even without the originator's continued consent?
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Patient safety is another one. If you can't keep up with the paperwork then the next doctor that sees the patient has no idea what drugs were given, etc. Without all the facts available, diagnosis and treatment go out the window.
True assuming it is a read mostly database. You also have to scatter triggers throughout to make sure that updates occur atomically on all the redundant copies. Still, redundancy on the internet can be annoying. For example, often when I'm looking for advice on how to use a unix command I'll end up with the first 10 hits in google having about 5 that are exact word for word copies from someone's post to a forum. First copy helpful, maybe, but if I don't find what I need in it the next for are just in the way.
If your domain doesn't have a logical target audience given its name, ie. it isn't something like "itsallaboutcars.com" then for the love of God don't put random stuff up there just to fill space. The best that could happen is it gets indexed by search engines and people looking for something specific end up on your page randomly which contains no unique content. Similar to database design, if its redundant it doesn't need to exist. If your domain name does have an obvious relavent market, how about finding someone that has that interest that is willing to share the costs of hosting with you?
They aren't being accused of making up the evidence, just that the evidence wasn't obtained in a legal manner. The guy's lawyer isn't even saying that he didn't do it, just that if you throw out the evidence then they have no case. The pain of it for the RIAA if it does get ruled illegial would be how do they go about getting the information? Can't exactly get a warrant for evidence against "whoever it is that connects to me to get pirated material". As far as I know you have to name the suspect in the warrant. Still doesn't mean that illegal things aren't happening just that it might not be legal to find out who's doing it :)
Well depending on the demographics of the mission crew, I might be tempted to join the 300 mile high club.
My thoughts exactly. What is it costing 1M per hour to keep them in space and they decide to watch a movie instead?
Then Reginald inserted his ---- by cheap viagra now ----- access card into the ---- Play online casino games at ----- slot.
I agree they would have to go. Preferably by developing a psychological problem that makes them compulsively buy stuff from ads and leads to a Viagra/Cialis/Ensyte overdose.
I think it could be relatively easy to convience publishers that DRM books or whatever is sufficient protection to make sure people don't keep the book. After all if they rely on DRM to protect the purchases why not the rented books? If you don't trust DRM, then why do you make your customers suffer with the drawbacks of something that doesn't produce any value? At least that would be my arguement.
My bad, at my work we are a Mac/Linux shop. We let people get a PC "if required" for something they use. Our purchasing has Windows to run SAP (which is controlled by the organization headquarters. I searched for what the system requirements were and got http://help.sap.com/saphelp_ep60sp0/helpdata/en/01/5be93bb3596754e10000000a11402f/content.htm , looks like windows only. But I think that is just for the client Portal part, my bad. Anyways, good to hear there is *nix versions out there.
Ebook cheaper, true. But the Kindle still isn't available outside of the US, damn you Amazon! There is competing devices, but having integrated wireless delivery is a must in my book. I just can't justify paying 200-400 dollars for a device I have to plug into a computer to get content, especially when it is the same price as one that as a bonus gives me mobile internet access. Also the other large reader device (Sony) is Windows only. Boo.
Movies and stuff: I agree 100%. My friend has movie on demand service at home, cool you can watch the movie. But he pays slightly more than you would to rent it in a store and he doesn't get the extra features, commentaries and such. Again, boo, I'll go to the video store and pick up some beer while I'm on the way home :)
I'd love to see a lower price or even free model for ebooks. Public libraries bug me, at least the ones in my area. If they have a book that I like that is a part of a series, often they'll have something like the first, second and fourth book. Nice, just get into the series then you can't find the next book. I don't necessarily want to own the book, just read at and give it back. If they had some sort of license server type model where you could check out the book electronically and then "return it" when your done that would be awesome. Mah, I should run for office, virtual libraries here I come :)
information can be freely replicated with no transfer of resources between the two parties involved
True, but that doesn't mean it doesn't cost anything to produce. Put it this way an author, publisher, musician etc, has to make money. The amount of money has to come from sales or subscriptions. So the cost of each item sold times the number of items sold less the cost of production should be what they need for a reasonable profit. What is a reasonable profit can be debated, but none the less I think most people would agree it is greater than zero. The internet makes the cost of producing another copy of the product close to zero, but there still is the cost of the studio, engineers, musicians, writers time etc. In short just because it costs nothing to make another copy doesn't mean that all copies should be free.
Good point. An added bonus: some of the students might have questions why something was done a certain way and not another. It will let you know what needs to be more documented, or perhaps changed easier then trying to guess what another person won't "get" about your network.
Unfortunately, that's not a Microsoft Monopoly, in either case. If its (a) then their IT staff suck, not Microsoft's fault, and not making Microsoft a monopoly. If its (b) then Linux sucks for their needs, which again is not Microsoft's fault and does not make Microsoft a monopoly.
Exactly. Or:
c) Their IT staff is really good at supporting Windows but doesn't know, nor care to learn how to support Linux. So they can replace all their IT staff or they can go with Windows.
There is still a lot of software out there that doesn't support Linux at least on the client side. For example: SAP, AutoCAD, MS Office (sucks but still the best office suite IMHO) are all Windows client only systems. Sometimes not bidding isn't picking on the vendor you don't go with, sometimes it is "I know what I need, and I know only one vendor supplies it".
P.S. I'm a UNIX/Linux admin not a MS fanboy. I just would rather see a well supported system that meets the users' needs, than have somebody go with a platform they can't support just because it is cheaper and the developers' say it can do what they need.
seems like an obvious feature it should have shipped with. A product called Offline Review for a medical imaging device for a cancer treatment system. The problem: it shipped before the "offline" part was implemented. Recommended workaround: have the physician available to review the image during the treatment rather than on his own time. Yeah, because physicians can stop having clinical hours so that they can watch each treatment that therapists' do, and oh yeah patients from the same doc have to be secheduled at different times to allow for this. Nice.
My understanding was it isn't just the "chief of police but a general "industry" wide conference. Yeah I see your and others point about the chief of police thing. However, I'd think it would be someone pretty high up that should be involved in this case. This will probably result in a billion + settlement, not something you give to the small fish in your organization.
Nice good tip. Actually neither a windows workstation or windows password, Mac site. But we do us NTLM passwords for radius and stuff I we still generate the hashes in NTLM. Hmm, another excuse to have a linux box kicking around :)
Exactly. At my work we occasionally need to crack a password for an account. Our password policy is fairly strong, minimum 8 characters, must have a symbol, letter and number in it. Anyways we can crack the passwords in a couple hours or less from the password hash on a workstation. On a network the trick is to not let someone try very often, and protecting the password hashes, ie if your using LDAP or AD passwords, encrypt the queries to the nameservice etc so somebody doesn't get the hashes to crack offline.
While I don't always agree with MS's practices, having a competition hearing at a time when the regional experts are unavailable is stupid. They offered to find and pay for a location themselves as the meeting room wasn't available outside of the window, but the EC refused. I think a reasonable request has been turned down for political reasons.
If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently
I disagree. For FOSS developers market share is pretty much the only way you know that you are making a difference. You can volunteer for all sorts of reasons, fun project, want to learn a new language etc. But "Is anyone using this?" is a very big piece of the puzzle.
For for profit code, market share translates into revenue and profits, revenue pays your salary, allows the company to grow etc. With out a growing company you have to rely on attritition for advancement. So yeah market share is important. A caveat is though if you are in a growing industry then you can get a way with still having the same market share.
Not to mention get your mail server blacklisted.
Too many of the security questions are information that is publically available, especially if you are well known. How hard would it be to find out "mother's maiden name", "birthday", "pets", "where you met your spouse" etc etc. for a celibrity. I have a hard enough time trying not to find out that information about them. Ah crap while flipping to the business section I accidentally found out that Britney Spears shaved her head, crap I didn't need to know.
Hopefully this will get them to speed up their pages. Hotmail for instance is an absolute dog. I have a symmetric 155Mb connection at work, even accessing my account when the connection is otherwise idle takes ~2-3 seconds to login. So there is a lot of wait in the backend that could be optimized away I'd wager. Anyways, I suspect this isn't something that hasn't been done before. Amazon for example would be very interested in this, when you have to justify a new multi million dollar datacenter it is nice to be able to quantify the need for more capacity in dollar terms.
This doesn't really work that well if the password is actually for someone's email account, though.
Exactly. If I was malicious wouldn't attack someone's bank account directly. I'd crack their email account and then likely get dozens of passwords at once. I'd likely get information about other accounts they have that I wasn't aware of, oh you have an investment account from your last jobs pension, how nice.
Once you have the email account you can then with a lot of sites tell them that you forgot the password and have them resend it to the compromised email address. The problem with security questions IMHO is that a lot of the questions are something that you could ask someone or could come up in normal conversation. Hey what elementary school did you go to? Oh you have an uncle on your mothers side, whats his name? (now I know your mothers maiden name). Etc. It is the same thing that you hear about not using words for passwords. It makes them easier to guess.
usually. Anytime the tower has a problem, the user says my CPU's broken, making a noise, won't turn on etc.
Contempt of parliment will be when YouTube replies "You got to be f**king kidding. What kind of idiot thought up that jem?"
I like the idea in a way though that the consumers decide whether the content is useful enough to hang on to. In a way that is what ptp networks can do. Something that is a fad quickly isn't seeded much and becomes less available. Something that is deemed important/enjoyed/whatever is highly available to be retrieved. Another big challenge becomes though, shouldn't the author be able to remove something in some circumstances? Say embarassing photos that they posted on a social site when they were a kid. Should those remain available even without the originator's continued consent?