To make a long story short, the promises are more of the same stuff The same stuff being large piles of equine feces? When they try to spin this, remember the old definition of an excuse: it's nothing more than a reason wrapped up in a lie.
Considering a single modern quad core Pentium has about twice the processing power as this mainframe. You are kidding, right? These systems are massively parallel machines, and are frequently used these days to present dozens of operating system images running concurrently. They support nifty ideas like instant failover and clustering on one machine, with arbitrary SMP to scale up performance as necessary.
Why not have her make the password something like "her two favorite toys, plus her age?" Admittedly, this might not be the strongest password in the world, but at least it reinforces the concept. I guess you could always go with something like fingerprint authentication or some other gadget, but in my opinion that's teaching her to trust yet another device in between her and the OS. Not the best habit to get into...
My name is Ern Mormoney; I'm employed in the public relations wing of General Motors Corporation. We would like to offer you a free educational seminar on the grossly exaggerated representation of global warming and fossil fuel consumption trends seen frequently in the media. Your seminar will feature an all-expenses paid trip to sunny Detroit, where you'll be treated to a weekend of fun in the sun with the following perks:
1. Unlimited access to mood-alterning chemicals of all kinds.
2. Hookers. Lots of hookers.
3. Informative lectures on new breakthoughs in mathematics ("New Math" for short, dealing largely with how to use appropriately visualize fuel prices).
4. Fun-filled games of "chicken" in company-provided Corvettes.
5. Did we mention the hookers?
We've selected you for our special promotional getaway because of your "insightful" commentary on this website. Respond with 24 hours to confirm your seat; they're going faster than our stock price decline!
I feel that proving who you are to this system will be more annoying and frustrating than signing up for or logging into gmail. That's where you're (partially) wrong. Sure, the initial identity verification process is going to be stringent, but once you're set up the system is supposed to allow you to access your information via your standard Google login. HIPAA requirements are largely targeted at storage standards for healthcare data with respect to security measures to prevent improper access and information dispersal. It's about establishing and maintaining an auditable chain of custody for the data, with provable security requirements at each stage.
Yes, I love Google. Yes, I'm certain that with all the brainpower they've got they're working hard to address the requirements on their side. My question is simple: how are they doing this? Are they shifting the burden of responsibility for security considerations largely to the consumer with regard to their home or office computers? If so, (1) is that going to be a realistic long-term solution that stands up to scrutiny, and (2) in my opinion that's a nightmare waiting to happen given the number of grossly insecure boxes out there. It's one thing if your email account gets compromised; it's quite another to have confidential medical information improperly divulged.
If an adult harasses a child of mine yeah I'm going to try to sick whatever law I can on them I think I'd do a little more than that. There are lots and lots of ways to make someone sincerely regret their actions without having to involve the authorities, at minimal risk to oneself. A little creativity can go a long way in a sufficiently motivated individual...
This particular ISP may be bitching and moaning but frankly that's because they're discovering they can't compete. Well, when companies essentially sell something they don't really have (overselling their bandwidth), it starts to look an awful lot like banks that can't cover their deposit obligations. Not pretty, the main difference being that big government isn't inclined to bail out an ISP that screws itself.
I dream of the slug-like cable and phone companies being driven under by agile local providers You mean the agile local providers who buy their bandwidth from larger suppliers, and then proceed to oversell it to maximize their profits (or even just be competitive enough to stay in business)? Right, that's gonna work out real well...
I'm not really sure how you'd go about caching things like audio streams, at least not on a large scale... besides, where would the caching take place? The packets still have to get from point A to point B, and unless everyone at your house or office always listens to the same thing (kinda defeating the purpose, I would think) it's not going to get you any bandwidth reductions.
Lots and lots of Tic-Tac-Toe. All jokes aside, I'd like to think we could get more than 7.4 million allocated to these sorts of projects. Accelerate the singularity, I say...
I always called "routing." Anyhow, who wants to bet on an upcoming "land grab" for IPV4 addresses? I mean this in the sense that people will start setting up whatever silly services they have to in order to justify the additional IPs in the short term, in the belief that they're going to be unavailable later or at much greater contractual cost. Sorta like the Y2K scare, but arguably more amusing to watch (not to mention profitable if you're in the right position).
I can assure you, governments of any technical sophistication have been able to listen to your phone calls for a while now, whether they're encrypted or not. Unless of course you're using aftermarket bolt-on crypto solutions, in which case they're still going to get the info if it really matters.
I have carried one, a company machine that was issued to me for field work. It's not a matter of specifying a "better" laptop, either. It's simply that in my opinion nothing about the Vaio makes it worth the price. Their cheapest laptop weighs 6.2 pounds and costs USD $949. Their higher end machines (such as the ultra-portable UX) cost as much as USD $2,400. It's absolutely not worth it to me to pay that much money for less weight. My arm isn't going to fall off flying across the country with any modern laptop.
There's a reason Sony's marketing site for the Vaio series is www.sonystyle.com.
I'd say since you both do a lot of mobile computing, its probably a good idea to go with the wireless broadband option. Here's some questions to think about, however:
1. How much data transfer do you do? A buddy of mine ran into trouble with Sprint for downloading craploads of ISOs on his connection. Your mileage may vary.
2. How good is the coverage where you live? Do you personally know someone using the service you're interested in, and if so, how reliable is their connection?
3. What operating system are you using? If you're running Windows you're probably okay for compatibility, but I had a fair amount of trouble using a couple of different broadband cards under Linux. I got them working, but only after significant hackery.
Comcast does not, has not, and will not block any Web sites or online applications, including peer-to-peer services, and no one has demonstrated otherwise. Of course they don't block anyone's traffic. Why would anyone dare claim they would stoop to such low measures? Why, they're Comcastic!
How could this technology help me? 1. Record conversations.
2. Open subspace diplomatic channel to the Romulans.
3. Sell the conversations as intelligence data.
4. Profit!
If you have medical staff that don't care about the confidentiality of medical information, then no amount of locks will keep it confidential. Absolutely right. It's like the old quote says: locks are only designed to keep honest people out.
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The Thirteenth Floor comes to mind.
Yes, but only if you buy the upgraded model with 5 TB of RAM and 512 processors. Hardware requirements these days...
It would make it sound like a whole crapload of rip-offs?
Just imagine a beowulf cluster of these. It would make my head explode.
Why not have her make the password something like "her two favorite toys, plus her age?" Admittedly, this might not be the strongest password in the world, but at least it reinforces the concept. I guess you could always go with something like fingerprint authentication or some other gadget, but in my opinion that's teaching her to trust yet another device in between her and the OS. Not the best habit to get into...
Your car only plays that song when your GPS gives you the Sound of Silence after you express your true feelings of devotion.
Hello Slashdot User,
My name is Ern Mormoney; I'm employed in the public relations wing of General Motors Corporation. We would like to offer you a free educational seminar on the grossly exaggerated representation of global warming and fossil fuel consumption trends seen frequently in the media. Your seminar will feature an all-expenses paid trip to sunny Detroit, where you'll be treated to a weekend of fun in the sun with the following perks:
1. Unlimited access to mood-alterning chemicals of all kinds.
2. Hookers. Lots of hookers.
3. Informative lectures on new breakthoughs in mathematics ("New Math" for short, dealing largely with how to use appropriately visualize fuel prices).
4. Fun-filled games of "chicken" in company-provided Corvettes.
5. Did we mention the hookers?
We've selected you for our special promotional getaway because of your "insightful" commentary on this website. Respond with 24 hours to confirm your seat; they're going faster than our stock price decline!
Yes, I love Google. Yes, I'm certain that with all the brainpower they've got they're working hard to address the requirements on their side. My question is simple: how are they doing this? Are they shifting the burden of responsibility for security considerations largely to the consumer with regard to their home or office computers? If so, (1) is that going to be a realistic long-term solution that stands up to scrutiny, and (2) in my opinion that's a nightmare waiting to happen given the number of grossly insecure boxes out there. It's one thing if your email account gets compromised; it's quite another to have confidential medical information improperly divulged.
I'm not really sure how you'd go about caching things like audio streams, at least not on a large scale... besides, where would the caching take place? The packets still have to get from point A to point B, and unless everyone at your house or office always listens to the same thing (kinda defeating the purpose, I would think) it's not going to get you any bandwidth reductions.
Lots and lots of Tic-Tac-Toe. All jokes aside, I'd like to think we could get more than 7.4 million allocated to these sorts of projects. Accelerate the singularity, I say...
I always called "routing." Anyhow, who wants to bet on an upcoming "land grab" for IPV4 addresses? I mean this in the sense that people will start setting up whatever silly services they have to in order to justify the additional IPs in the short term, in the belief that they're going to be unavailable later or at much greater contractual cost. Sorta like the Y2K scare, but arguably more amusing to watch (not to mention profitable if you're in the right position).
I can assure you, governments of any technical sophistication have been able to listen to your phone calls for a while now, whether they're encrypted or not. Unless of course you're using aftermarket bolt-on crypto solutions, in which case they're still going to get the info if it really matters.
I have carried one, a company machine that was issued to me for field work. It's not a matter of specifying a "better" laptop, either. It's simply that in my opinion nothing about the Vaio makes it worth the price. Their cheapest laptop weighs 6.2 pounds and costs USD $949. Their higher end machines (such as the ultra-portable UX) cost as much as USD $2,400. It's absolutely not worth it to me to pay that much money for less weight. My arm isn't going to fall off flying across the country with any modern laptop.
There's a reason Sony's marketing site for the Vaio series is www.sonystyle.com.
What are you talking about? Windows comes with a fantastic firew#@$@%$%@@@#$@xs982_227s7 [NO CARRIER]
I'd say since you both do a lot of mobile computing, its probably a good idea to go with the wireless broadband option. Here's some questions to think about, however:
1. How much data transfer do you do? A buddy of mine ran into trouble with Sprint for downloading craploads of ISOs on his connection. Your mileage may vary.
2. How good is the coverage where you live? Do you personally know someone using the service you're interested in, and if so, how reliable is their connection?
3. What operating system are you using? If you're running Windows you're probably okay for compatibility, but I had a fair amount of trouble using a couple of different broadband cards under Linux. I got them working, but only after significant hackery.
Just some things to consider.
Clearly, their attorneys have opted for the Chewbacca defense.
2. Open subspace diplomatic channel to the Romulans.
3. Sell the conversations as intelligence data.
4. Profit!