...I wasn't gonna do it, but I'm jailbraking my shit again. Not because I need the added functionality, but because it's currently the only method I have to bite my thumb at CrApple (besides not buying their products...but they are just so PERTY and SHINY!!).
Not talking about ISP's here. If AT&T is going through some growing pains, then they may need to temporarily limit network speeds per user, but when they implement the upgrades, which they do in fact have plans to do, then the caps can either be raised or removed completely. Otherwise, Apple's decision to cancel the exclusivity deal may become more a of a reality.
Once the computer is in working order it will be shipped to San Fransisco where the new Systems Admin will finally be able to sniff out that backdoor appliance.
Maybe someone has already said this, but I'm too lazy to read the posts...why not implement some sort of bandwidth limitations? Here at work, we have a 15Mbps connection of which I let the 75 users have 1.2 Mbps each. Before I made the change, we were hitting the ceiling all the time and experiencing slow page loads and what-not. Now, it's smooth sailing all the time because, even though technically if 10 or 12 people start hitting it hard, then we are back at with the original issue, but that never happens. If it does, my monitor catches them and I send them a friendly email. I know AT&T can't mimic this exact scenario, but they could throttle the users back a bit. I get close to 2Mpbs from AT&T here and I don't know why I would ever need that much, unless I'm downloading some crazy big email attachment or tethering (shhhh).
Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, boys...you are missing the original point. Like I said, I don't give a flying turd what the goddamn "P" stands for. The point is that some (stealing a reference from a previous post) Barney Fife bastard sitting in front of the database saying "Oh look what else is in this completely un-related query that happened to come up as we were looking for something else" shouldn't be allowed to happen...HIPAA or no HIPAA.
(My turn): IME (I'm an IT professional in the medical world) HIPAA does in fact protect the privacy of patient information through things like monitor covers that make it so you have to be perpendicular to the screen to see the information, or mandating that health care offices, when using wireless networking, implement them using appropriate encryption and even something as simple as using the peel-and-stick sign in sheets so the next patient can't see who was even in the office before him. These few examples are meant to PROTECT privacy and as a collective help ensure that a doctor's office or hospital is, in fact, HIPAA compliant.
Do violent video games make kids more violent? Well, I never used to think so until my 6 year old started playing them. Almost immediately we noticed a change in his behavior and an increase in his aggressiveness. I fought it for a long time because I have been playing violent games since Doom and Quake and I totally didn't want to believe it...plus, I had always wanted my son to be able to play those games with me. So, after many arguments with my wife, and after strict guidance from his pediatrician, I caved and we put up the games. he HATED it but, I must admit, the temper tantrums ceased and he became a much more calm and respectful kid.
I know what you are thinking: "He stopped because he was playing too many games in general". No, actually we only cut out the violent games. He still plays the games that, whoever that legal group is that decides what is ok for kids to play, say it's ok for him to play. It sucks because I never wanted to be that guy, but here I am. I guess I need to hang up my Logitech Mouseman and get a trackball because I'm certainly only months away from carpal tunnel.
I don't care what the "P" stands for. I should have a right to privacy regardless of what acronyms some jackass decides to use to implement bullshit regulations and policies to convey a CYA facade.
Otherwise, what would keep someone from gaining access to information completely irrelevant to the records being subpoenaed in the first place? I'm actually surprised HIPAA didn't get involved sooner since patients' privacy could have been compromised.
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Unless of course you were trying to be a dick and making reference to the fact that the human appendage, which we don't really know anything about, is somehow supporting your case that evolution is bullshit....in which case: Fuck off
I use TrueCrypt and create an encrypted volume that only I have the credentials for. They might be able to get on your machine and view files but if you never give them the password to the encrypted file then you are safe. I guess through subpoena or something like that they COULD, in theory, eventually gain access but that's a huge pain in the ass and you could very easily delete the file. It also makes for easy backup to disc or another machine, if needed.
This, of course, should be used in conjunction with what Eldavojohn said and get it in writing that the property is yours. That might not keep them from snooping, however and this solution would keep them from "stumbling" across something you may perfer to keep private.
There will be no proactive solution; this sort of thing will only be improved upon in increments as things break. John Doyle mentions "Band-Aids" but that's exactly how it needs to evolve....like any other living organism.
Yeah it's amazing what a little fear will make people do. About 80 years ago there was a whole group of men that "ver joost followink orderz". I think it resulted in the death of about 6 Million Jews...give or take.
I work for an accounting firm that has a team of IT auditors who, between all of them, can barely spell "TCP/IP", let alone implement a proper network security test. They run various programs and review various policies and at the end of their testing the client is given a piece of paper, by people these with pieces of paper, given to them by other people with pieces of paper, that say they are secure and can go about their business so they can say their asses are covered for one more year.
I shudder to think how it will affect my company, and ultimately me and my family, when one of these companies gets hacked and loses thousands of patients' information and financial records because they thought they were secure, based on what some company that they paid thousands of dollars to, told them.
I think the next list he needs to run is the top 10 stories that generated the most response from/. members. I bet a large majority of them involve coming up with creative ways to destroy things, including hard drives.
These old businesses will either have to adapt to changing technology or close their doors. Why couldn't the phone co. offer VoIP solutions of some sort? Or become a host for SIP trunking? It's not like they don't have the lines and the numbers....
You guys remember a few years ago when EA released Need for Speed: Underground and it was lacking LAN support? It wasn't long before someone made their own fix and put out a Lan Patch that added the feature. I bet someone will do the same for Starcraft 2.
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That's assuming you were running Vista before. If you were running XP then you have to install clean.
...I wasn't gonna do it, but I'm jailbraking my shit again. Not because I need the added functionality, but because it's currently the only method I have to bite my thumb at CrApple (besides not buying their products...but they are just so PERTY and SHINY!!).
Oprah uses it and she has a shitload of sheep out there.
Not talking about ISP's here. If AT&T is going through some growing pains, then they may need to temporarily limit network speeds per user, but when they implement the upgrades, which they do in fact have plans to do, then the caps can either be raised or removed completely. Otherwise, Apple's decision to cancel the exclusivity deal may become more a of a reality.
Once the computer is in working order it will be shipped to San Fransisco where the new Systems Admin will finally be able to sniff out that backdoor appliance.
Maybe someone has already said this, but I'm too lazy to read the posts...why not implement some sort of bandwidth limitations? Here at work, we have a 15Mbps connection of which I let the 75 users have 1.2 Mbps each. Before I made the change, we were hitting the ceiling all the time and experiencing slow page loads and what-not. Now, it's smooth sailing all the time because, even though technically if 10 or 12 people start hitting it hard, then we are back at with the original issue, but that never happens. If it does, my monitor catches them and I send them a friendly email. I know AT&T can't mimic this exact scenario, but they could throttle the users back a bit. I get close to 2Mpbs from AT&T here and I don't know why I would ever need that much, unless I'm downloading some crazy big email attachment or tethering (shhhh).
That's true, although porn leads to head-flexing as well.
Hah! if I could post and mod in the same story I'd totally mod you.
I guess sperm banks will have to go by the next-most synonymous name: britneyspears.se
Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, boys...you are missing the original point. Like I said, I don't give a flying turd what the goddamn "P" stands for. The point is that some (stealing a reference from a previous post) Barney Fife bastard sitting in front of the database saying "Oh look what else is in this completely un-related query that happened to come up as we were looking for something else" shouldn't be allowed to happen...HIPAA or no HIPAA.
(My turn): IME (I'm an IT professional in the medical world) HIPAA does in fact protect the privacy of patient information through things like monitor covers that make it so you have to be perpendicular to the screen to see the information, or mandating that health care offices, when using wireless networking, implement them using appropriate encryption and even something as simple as using the peel-and-stick sign in sheets so the next patient can't see who was even in the office before him. These few examples are meant to PROTECT privacy and as a collective help ensure that a doctor's office or hospital is, in fact, HIPAA compliant.
Here I thought Genyo Takeda was the inventor of the Yo-Yo as a weapon.
Do violent video games make kids more violent? Well, I never used to think so until my 6 year old started playing them. Almost immediately we noticed a change in his behavior and an increase in his aggressiveness. I fought it for a long time because I have been playing violent games since Doom and Quake and I totally didn't want to believe it...plus, I had always wanted my son to be able to play those games with me. So, after many arguments with my wife, and after strict guidance from his pediatrician, I caved and we put up the games. he HATED it but, I must admit, the temper tantrums ceased and he became a much more calm and respectful kid.
I know what you are thinking: "He stopped because he was playing too many games in general". No, actually we only cut out the violent games. He still plays the games that, whoever that legal group is that decides what is ok for kids to play, say it's ok for him to play. It sucks because I never wanted to be that guy, but here I am. I guess I need to hang up my Logitech Mouseman and get a trackball because I'm certainly only months away from carpal tunnel.
FML
I totally didn't mean to mod that Redundant. Damn kid hit my elbow when I was about to click "Insightful". This post should un-do that....
I don't care what the "P" stands for. I should have a right to privacy regardless of what acronyms some jackass decides to use to implement bullshit regulations and policies to convey a CYA facade.
Otherwise, what would keep someone from gaining access to information completely irrelevant to the records being subpoenaed in the first place? I'm actually surprised HIPAA didn't get involved sooner since patients' privacy could have been compromised.
Here 1. supplementary material at the end of a book, article, document, or other text, usually of an explanatory, statistical, or bibliographic nature.
Unless of course you were trying to be a dick and making reference to the fact that the human appendage, which we don't really know anything about, is somehow supporting your case that evolution is bullshit....in which case: Fuck off
I use TrueCrypt and create an encrypted volume that only I have the credentials for. They might be able to get on your machine and view files but if you never give them the password to the encrypted file then you are safe. I guess through subpoena or something like that they COULD, in theory, eventually gain access but that's a huge pain in the ass and you could very easily delete the file. It also makes for easy backup to disc or another machine, if needed.
This, of course, should be used in conjunction with what Eldavojohn said and get it in writing that the property is yours. That might not keep them from snooping, however and this solution would keep them from "stumbling" across something you may perfer to keep private.
There will be no proactive solution; this sort of thing will only be improved upon in increments as things break. John Doyle mentions "Band-Aids" but that's exactly how it needs to evolve....like any other living organism.
Yeah it's amazing what a little fear will make people do. About 80 years ago there was a whole group of men that "ver joost followink orderz". I think it resulted in the death of about 6 Million Jews...give or take.
I work for an accounting firm that has a team of IT auditors who, between all of them, can barely spell "TCP/IP", let alone implement a proper network security test. They run various programs and review various policies and at the end of their testing the client is given a piece of paper, by people these with pieces of paper, given to them by other people with pieces of paper, that say they are secure and can go about their business so they can say their asses are covered for one more year.
I shudder to think how it will affect my company, and ultimately me and my family, when one of these companies gets hacked and loses thousands of patients' information and financial records because they thought they were secure, based on what some company that they paid thousands of dollars to, told them.
1984 called. They want their video age-ratings back...
Well....damn
I think the next list he needs to run is the top 10 stories that generated the most response from /. members. I bet a large majority of them involve coming up with creative ways to destroy things, including hard drives.
These old businesses will either have to adapt to changing technology or close their doors. Why couldn't the phone co. offer VoIP solutions of some sort? Or become a host for SIP trunking? It's not like they don't have the lines and the numbers....
You guys remember a few years ago when EA released Need for Speed: Underground and it was lacking LAN support? It wasn't long before someone made their own fix and put out a Lan Patch that added the feature. I bet someone will do the same for Starcraft 2.