There's an iphone app that lets you access health records in the US, so I was under the impression you already had a centralised database and the required usernames/passwords to access them, otherwise how could that work?
Health professionals seem to need to use these books as a primary source of information. Bizzare but true.
That's because hospitals and GPs don't share information, and a lot of medical details are still filed on paper rather than stored on any kind of computer (when I visit the hospital I'm amazed by the trollies of thick bundles of paper that have to be pushed around just from one side of the room to another to enable any kind of system to work).
I get hit by this - I have to have identical blood tests from both the GP and the Hospital because the Hospital refuses to give the GP access to my records, and they use different unconnected computer systems anyway, so probably can't (the GP has what looks like a fairly modern PC based records system, running a windows variant. The Hospital is using black&white terminals run from a mainframe in the basement.. and it's taken them 10 years to get that rolled out as far as they have)
The problem is that gov. contracts have to go to the lowest bidder (I think by law, but it may be merely policy) rather than the best company. The lowest bidder is likely to be the one that's compromised security to get a lower bid in. I'd wager that most slashdotters could come up with a better set of security safeguards that the system that's finally released (over budget and late, of course).
Not really. You don't have to return all data in a database in response to a query - if someone get permission to get one piece of information if the security is setup right that's all they'll get. If it was me I'd want to see the exact wording of the warrant before they'd see anything.
The database really already exists - got a national insurance number? It includes your date of birth & address (everyone gets sent an NI card on their 16th birthday). That's tied to the NHS database, from which you can find out medical details (although the hospital records are for the most part still not computerised).
They're after more information, but it's not going to give anyone any information that they didn't already know. And anyway, useful to a paedophile? Paranoia much? It's far easier for them to wander down to the local primary school than hack into a government database and extract the details one at a time (basic securiy procedure says you won't be able to access more than a single record at a time, and that'll be logged anyway).
8 years ago I thought a 128kb bonded ISDN line was fast. Now 8mb is considered normal - a 64x speed increase. Fast forward another 8 years and you're talking about your raw internet speed being about half a gig (maybe even faster.. I should be on 100mb by the end of the year). It goes without saying a lot of that will be taken up with video and large files which will need to be transferred. Gigabit ethernet will creak under that kind of load.
DLLs are just shared libraries. Without them Windows would not be taken seriously as an OS.. however they were firmly stablished by Windows 3.0 (didn't look too deeply at 2.0 to see if they were there).
You might be confusing with OLE, which was supposed to allow any application to embed itself into any other application.. examples were given of dragging and dropping live spreadsheet graphs into word processors and the like (WHY?? Just embed the final image FFS). Except the API to implement it was absolutely hideous (I still have nightmares about it) and the way it tried to merge the menu bars of the two applications was a complete cludgefest. Pretty much the only people that ever used it seriously were Microsoft, and I don't think even they do it any more.
There's a meta-analysis going around of the 'exhaustion counter' (which goes up as much as it goes down) that seems to be showing an almost flat usage of ipv4... it's been posted before but it's not on google that I can find.
Even if there's some sudden run on ipv4 and it does run out in 18 months, the amount of investment needed to convert means it won't happen for a few years after that either.
The only reason I'd plug my phone into the PC is to charge it. I can do certain other things over USB but generally don't bother - bluetooth & wifi cover it.
Bluetooth is on the list because it's been around for years and you still can't get decent support for stereo headsets or other simple connections to work.
Get a proper phone.
This stuff has worked for *years*. Bluetoothing files between phones and PCs is a staple of a lot of people around here (I used to participate, but it gets a bit dull when you've had the 50th 'welcome to the gay hotline' ringone sent to your phone).
Also it's wrong anyway.. Firsly, if you decentralise too much the communication issues between developers mean that you get fragmentation, and most of the work ends up never being used because nobody ever hears of it. Secondly you can't even really do it - there will always be one definitive release, with a set of core developers. For most projects that's basically as far as it ever goes - despite intentions few people have the time to devote to a project, so most (I expect nearly all) opensource porjects whilst being theoretically decentralised are really only one tree with 3 or 4 people maximum committing to it. The linux kernel is the exception to this somewhat, but it can't be used as a general model.
In the corporate world of course decentralisation makes no sense (tracking,auditing and access control is *important* to a company and you can't have people going off and doing their own thing). So in no way is decentralisation 'inherently superior' - it depends on your circumstances.
There was a programme on TV the other week about some guy in Canada who's been awake for about 3 years, using some experimental drug (that they named, but I forget about it other than I discovered it was illegal in this country).
He didn't seem to be dead. Could have been a zombie, I guess.
creationism is very much a minority opinion amongst christians (in fact I've only ever met one who thought like that, and I've met a lot of christians over the years). The belief in a literal 7 days is something that historically would have been laughed at long before darwin. A few noisy fundies in the US don't get to choose what christianity is, no matter what you might want to think.
Handbags, whatever their size, also have tardis-like qualities - no matter how much goes into them they're never full, and if you ever see a woman empty one, be prepared for a pile of junk about a foot high to come out of it.
Dammit slashdot, I *am* capable of having an original thought more than once every 2 minutes and all your slow down message does it mean I have to submit 50 times instead of one.
I have a header file around whose sole purpose is to switch all that crap off. There are a number of defines you can set to stop the deprecation warnings.
Given that dst is a pointer, sizeof(dst) is generally going to be 4 or 8, and not do what you want.
It's more likely that programmers will just pass len to both parameters, defeating the point. Unless you define a pointer type that contains a length attribute (which wouldn't be a bad idea, but MS haven't done that) you're just relying on lengths being passed around the code being accurate, which isn't any safer.
A bad programmer will always be a bad programmer. Someone who would use strcpy on user data or memcpy not knowing the destination length, is the same kind of person that's going to work around this. For everyone else it's just a pain.
Eve is so big though that never happens. I played it for a month or so.. not much, I'll admit. In that time I went all over the place doing every quest I could get my hands on and never once met another person... It's space - if you had 10,000 people playing at once they could all be so far apart from each other they'd never meet.
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There's an iphone app that lets you access health records in the US, so I was under the impression you already had a centralised database and the required usernames/passwords to access them, otherwise how could that work?
Health professionals seem to need to use these books as a primary source of information. Bizzare but true.
That's because hospitals and GPs don't share information, and a lot of medical details are still filed on paper rather than stored on any kind of computer (when I visit the hospital I'm amazed by the trollies of thick bundles of paper that have to be pushed around just from one side of the room to another to enable any kind of system to work).
I get hit by this - I have to have identical blood tests from both the GP and the Hospital because the Hospital refuses to give the GP access to my records, and they use different unconnected computer systems anyway, so probably can't (the GP has what looks like a fairly modern PC based records system, running a windows variant. The Hospital is using black&white terminals run from a mainframe in the basement.. and it's taken them 10 years to get that rolled out as far as they have)
The problem is that gov. contracts have to go to the lowest bidder (I think by law, but it may be merely policy) rather than the best company. The lowest bidder is likely to be the one that's compromised security to get a lower bid in. I'd wager that most slashdotters could come up with a better set of security safeguards that the system that's finally released (over budget and late, of course).
Not really. You don't have to return all data in a database in response to a query - if someone get permission to get one piece of information if the security is setup right that's all they'll get. If it was me I'd want to see the exact wording of the warrant before they'd see anything.
The database really already exists - got a national insurance number? It includes your date of birth & address (everyone gets sent an NI card on their 16th birthday). That's tied to the NHS database, from which you can find out medical details (although the hospital records are for the most part still not computerised).
They're after more information, but it's not going to give anyone any information that they didn't already know. And anyway, useful to a paedophile? Paranoia much? It's far easier for them to wander down to the local primary school than hack into a government database and extract the details one at a time (basic securiy procedure says you won't be able to access more than a single record at a time, and that'll be logged anyway).
10GB ethernet will happen.
8 years ago I thought a 128kb bonded ISDN line was fast. Now 8mb is considered normal - a 64x speed increase. Fast forward another 8 years and you're talking about your raw internet speed being about half a gig (maybe even faster.. I should be on 100mb by the end of the year). It goes without saying a lot of that will be taken up with video and large files which will need to be transferred. Gigabit ethernet will creak under that kind of load.
DLLs are just shared libraries. Without them Windows would not be taken seriously as an OS.. however they were firmly stablished by Windows 3.0 (didn't look too deeply at 2.0 to see if they were there).
You might be confusing with OLE, which was supposed to allow any application to embed itself into any other application.. examples were given of dragging and dropping live spreadsheet graphs into word processors and the like (WHY?? Just embed the final image FFS). Except the API to implement it was absolutely hideous (I still have nightmares about it) and the way it tried to merge the menu bars of the two applications was a complete cludgefest. Pretty much the only people that ever used it seriously were Microsoft, and I don't think even they do it any more.
I bet you posted that 18 months ago too...
There's a meta-analysis going around of the 'exhaustion counter' (which goes up as much as it goes down) that seems to be showing an almost flat usage of ipv4... it's been posted before but it's not on google that I can find.
Even if there's some sudden run on ipv4 and it does run out in 18 months, the amount of investment needed to convert means it won't happen for a few years after that either.
1990 called, it wants its 'data cables' back.
The only reason I'd plug my phone into the PC is to charge it. I can do certain other things over USB but generally don't bother - bluetooth & wifi cover it.
Bluetooth is on the list because it's been around for years and you still can't get decent support for stereo headsets or other simple connections to work.
Get a proper phone.
This stuff has worked for *years*. Bluetoothing files between phones and PCs is a staple of a lot of people around here (I used to participate, but it gets a bit dull when you've had the 50th 'welcome to the gay hotline' ringone sent to your phone).
Also it's wrong anyway.. Firsly, if you decentralise too much the communication issues between developers mean that you get fragmentation, and most of the work ends up never being used because nobody ever hears of it. Secondly you can't even really do it - there will always be one definitive release, with a set of core developers. For most projects that's basically as far as it ever goes - despite intentions few people have the time to devote to a project, so most (I expect nearly all) opensource porjects whilst being theoretically decentralised are really only one tree with 3 or 4 people maximum committing to it. The linux kernel is the exception to this somewhat, but it can't be used as a general model.
In the corporate world of course decentralisation makes no sense (tracking,auditing and access control is *important* to a company and you can't have people going off and doing their own thing). So in no way is decentralisation 'inherently superior' - it depends on your circumstances.
There was a programme on TV the other week about some guy in Canada who's been awake for about 3 years, using some experimental drug (that they named, but I forget about it other than I discovered it was illegal in this country).
He didn't seem to be dead. Could have been a zombie, I guess.
I'll believe it when it's been peer reviewed and the hypothesis has been examined by lots of people and agreed on.
Fakery happens. Sheer bad judgement happens. The fact that this has been kept secret is a huge red flag... science doesn't keep things secret.
creationism is very much a minority opinion amongst christians (in fact I've only ever met one who thought like that, and I've met a lot of christians over the years). The belief in a literal 7 days is something that historically would have been laughed at long before darwin. A few noisy fundies in the US don't get to choose what christianity is, no matter what you might want to think.
Handbags, whatever their size, also have tardis-like qualities - no matter how much goes into them they're never full, and if you ever see a woman empty one, be prepared for a pile of junk about a foot high to come out of it.
Or a CD-Aaaarrrr
The original Pirate CD.
Dammit slashdot, I *am* capable of having an original thought more than once every 2 minutes and all your slow down message does it mean I have to submit 50 times instead of one.
..and how many are going to buy it then return it because it doesn't play?
I can imagine shops refusing to stock this simply because of the return rates..
In other words, they're going bust and rather than actually try to fix the problem they decided to see if they could get some cash out of google.
There are some cases using raw data, but for any complex types you're right. And for those you just use =
I have a header file around whose sole purpose is to switch all that crap off. There are a number of defines you can set to stop the deprecation warnings.
If it's possible for that to fail then you're already open to a number of exploits because you're using user data without validating it.
If uid is "''; drop table tbl" you're screwed.
Golden rule is - if you didn't generate the data yourself, it's untrusted. You certainly never sprintf it into a string.
btw. you used a magic number. what if someone changes the size of buf without changing the second parameter? Don't do that.
memcpy_s(dst, sizeof(dst), src, sizeof(dst));
Whilst that will work, it probably doesn't do what you think.
Hint: dst and src are pointers.
Given that dst is a pointer, sizeof(dst) is generally going to be 4 or 8, and not do what you want.
It's more likely that programmers will just pass len to both parameters, defeating the point. Unless you define a pointer type that contains a length attribute (which wouldn't be a bad idea, but MS haven't done that) you're just relying on lengths being passed around the code being accurate, which isn't any safer.
A bad programmer will always be a bad programmer. Someone who would use strcpy on user data or memcpy not knowing the destination length, is the same kind of person that's going to work around this. For everyone else it's just a pain.
I'd feel a bit uncomfortable wearing *any* shirt for a month. EEeew.
Eve is so big though that never happens. I played it for a month or so.. not much, I'll admit. In that time I went all over the place doing every quest I could get my hands on and never once met another person... It's space - if you had 10,000 people playing at once they could all be so far apart from each other they'd never meet.