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Tell Grandma not to worry. Tell her that you are fully compliant to RFC 1149, and that 82 22 has been replaced with 1149 as the new Internet standard.:)
There's been a few cases where computers that were running the Distributed.net RC5-64 keycracking client were stolen and recoverd.
The client uploads and downloads blocks of possible keys to and from a central keyserver - and the "reported" blocks have your email address attached to them. So when the PC's/Laptops were stolen, they contacted Distributed.net, who went through the keyserver logs and found the IP address of the stolen computer. This information was turned over to authorities and the stolen computers were traced to the thieves and returned to their rightful owner(s). I am unaware of whether the distributed.net client(s) were CLI or GUI, or if they were running in "hidden mode". If in hidden mode they'd be invisible to the thief.
It's an interesting (and free) solution to finding stolen laptops... well... as long as the thief goes out onto the internet before wiping the hard drive.. but how many thieves are that saavy?
The "portability" factor could be solved by having either an encrypted wireless ethernet connection for the PDA's or maybe an infrared port in each room. The encrypted wireless ethernet would be the most secure.
"reliability & security" - I think that there'd be a heart-monitoring machine in the room with the patient if their heart needed monitoring. Besides, I think we're only talking about hospital records here - not patient monitoring. For reliability I'd imagine that they'd have some sort of failover and clustering server with a large RAID storage system. Security would only be as strong as the designers create it.
And if "Legal Considerations" are taken into account - I would imagine that there would be some sort of "on the fly" encryption that each Doctor's PDA would have that would put a unique digital signature onto each doctor's report.
I don't believe in censorship, nor do I believe that Napster or BMG have the right to censor any form of speech.
Personally, I feel the responsibility lies within each individual to censor the content that surrounds oneself. I don't like pro-nazi bands... no more than I like gangster rap... or modern country, but they ALL have the right to their freedom of speech and expression. Just because I don't like something or I find something offensive doesn't mean that it should be censored.
As a practicing Roman Catholic, I found Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ" offensive towards my beliefs, but I would never have wanted him censored.
Censorship is a form of oppression... like nazism.
If thereare Little Green Men, and they have such advanced technologies as to flying around in saucers all over space.... they know we're here... and they'll contact us when they're damn ready to speak to us.
Put your CPU cycles to better use... like curing disease or creating stronger encryption.
It would be an ideal world if corporations such as MS were posting these full-time positions instead of saving the money on benefits by using an endless supply of temps to cover the full-time work. It's fine to hire temps for temporary work. But if you're going to execute the practice of using temps to fill full-time positions, this is BAD. What happened to your sister is sad. This is not her fault for being a TEMP, but the fault lies upon the corporation that "used" her.
"Imagine the IBMers working at this other company demanding that their client give them the same benefits as its employees."
Imagine that!!! Imagine that corporations actually hire people full time with competitive wages, benefits, options, paid vacations...
You might want to read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, and read about people like W.E.B DuBois, and the labor struggles in America. It's sad that IT workers who are educated, highly skilled and VERY MUCH IN DEMAND are put into situations of low pay, forced to work over 5 days or 40 hour work weeks, no health benefits, no paid vacations, and no job security.
Of COURSE it's good!!!! It's about time Corporate America is punished for taking advantage of working people. We (IT people) have skills that are DESERVING of high salaries, full benefits, stock options, paid vacations, 401k's, etc. Unfortunately the.gov lets corporate america RAPE the working people through TEMP services. I'm not talking about the SMALL companies that have no need for full-time 24/7/365 IT staff... I'm talking about the LARGE corporate entities that are exploiting talented, skilled, and educated workers. I temped for a short while, and ended up at a few corporations who had NO intentions of hiring full-time employees. Instead, they'd use temps like toilet paper. A temp could be doing GREAT work for them, hoping to get hired full-time and as soon as their contract gets near the end, said corporation terminates the worker and gets another fresh TEMP. This is an endless cycle that corporations use to save money on benefits. Granted some people enjoy temp life... (masochists), but for the rest of the working people that are subjected to TEMP for survival, they don't get the full-time perks of things like... oh... MEDICAL benefits. And medical benefits should NOT be an option! Corporations who want healthy workers should be more than willing to provide their employees with the BEST coverage available. Salaries should not be affected by a benefits package, either!!!
Now that the loophole is closed up? That's a bad thing??? So exploitation is OK?? Go see Kathy Lee Gifford - I bet she can get you a nice TEMP job at one of her overseas clothing warehouses.
Anyway - I am sick and tired of seing IT labor being shafted by corporate america. It'd be NICE if either we (a) unionized IT workers, or (b) the government started to crack down on the exploitation of the working people.
(This is speaking about US information technology jobs... what you do in your country is your own business - j/k )
Corporate mentality is to be the "first to market", and the suits make impossible deadline promises to customers and stockholders without having any knowledge of the product, how it works, how long it takes to build it, or the status of the current build.
Half the problem with today's corporate world is that the SUITS never "worked their way up the ladder", so they have no CLUE on how their business model operates. I've seen so many executives shoot themselves in the foot making foolish decisions because they have no idea about their corporate work model, and then take their aggression/stress/frustration out on the IT people because they didn't meet the impossible deadline that HE had promised to some customer...
Then there could also be different distributions of the biography. The main advantage to purchasing a copy of a distribution would be the TECH SUPPORT to help the user get throught th BIG words.
And Cmdr Taco and Malda could open a new web site:
I wish Adobe had given a REASON for discontinuing the beta test and subsequent release of Framemaker for Linux, but I'd rather have NO program than one that's buggy and/or unstable.
That's 1/2 the problem with MS oper. systems and apps that run on it.
I'm not trying to create flames here... just calling it how I see it.
Ok - it was a DEC PDP11/70 running VAX VMS (which version I forget....) either way - a PDP 11/xx and a VAX are BOTH made by digital.... sheesh... and you're very correct: trek kicked serious ass!!!
Does anyone remember playing Star Trek on old mainframes in the 80's?
At my old college we used to have an old DEC VAX PDP11/70 and I remember playing Star Trek for hours up in the lab. It was text based (ala Adventure) and it was fun.:)
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Tell Grandma not to worry. Tell her that you are fully compliant to RFC 1149, and that 82 22 has been replaced with 1149 as the new Internet standard. :)
The client uploads and downloads blocks of possible keys to and from a central keyserver - and the "reported" blocks have your email address attached to them. So when the PC's/Laptops were stolen, they contacted Distributed.net, who went through the keyserver logs and found the IP address of the stolen computer. This information was turned over to authorities and the stolen computers were traced to the thieves and returned to their rightful owner(s). I am unaware of whether the distributed.net client(s) were CLI or GUI, or if they were running in "hidden mode". If in hidden mode they'd be invisible to the thief.
It's an interesting (and free) solution to finding stolen laptops... well... as long as the thief goes out onto the internet before wiping the hard drive.. but how many thieves are that saavy?
"All versions are available for order immediately from redhat.com and through retail outlets worldwide beginning April 24."
MAYBE that's why you don't see it yet.... *duh*
I've got a 1Ghz PIII at work and an AMD 1ghz athlon at home - both running Slackware on them and HANDS DOWN the Athlon kicks the PIII's ass!
It's better for GiMP, and it even runs the DISTRIBUTED.NET RC5-64 keycracking client faster!
(I'm getting 3.5 million keys/sec on the Athlon!)
Oh - and I forgot to mention the price difference between the 2 chips - go to Pricewatch.com to see the difference!
AMD - more bang for your buck!
I wonder how many copies are actually used in a production environment.
I'd be willing to bet it's vaporware.
Haven't we beaten the Napster issue to death already?
oh.... those other FANS....
nevermind.
How can this be modded down for being "redundant" when nobody in the 32 posts in front of me made a reference to this M.C. Hawking rap song???
Please read the moderator's FAQ before moderating, if you don't know how to be an effective moderator, then please opt not to moderate.
I can see "resistance" being a major factor.
The "portability" factor could be solved by having either an encrypted wireless ethernet connection for the PDA's or maybe an infrared port in each room. The encrypted wireless ethernet would be the most secure.
"reliability & security" - I think that there'd be a heart-monitoring machine in the room with the patient if their heart needed monitoring. Besides, I think we're only talking about hospital records here - not patient monitoring. For reliability I'd imagine that they'd have some sort of failover and clustering server with a large RAID storage system. Security would only be as strong as the designers create it.
And if "Legal Considerations" are taken into account - I would imagine that there would be some sort of "on the fly" encryption that each Doctor's PDA would have that would put a unique digital signature onto each doctor's report.
For "a beowulf cluster of these". Come on trolls, you're letting the rest of us down! Happy/merry all.
Personally, I feel the responsibility lies within each individual to censor the content that surrounds oneself. I don't like pro-nazi bands... no more than I like gangster rap... or modern country, but they ALL have the right to their freedom of speech and expression. Just because I don't like something or I find something offensive doesn't mean that it should be censored.
As a practicing Roman Catholic, I found Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ" offensive towards my beliefs, but I would never have wanted him censored.
Censorship is a form of oppression... like nazism.
Running SETI@Home is very much a waste of time
If thereare Little Green Men, and they have such advanced technologies as to flying around in saucers all over space.... they know we're here... and they'll contact us when they're damn ready to speak to us.
Put your CPU cycles to better use... like curing disease or creating stronger encryption.
"Imagine the IBMers working at this other company demanding that their client give them the same benefits as its employees."
Imagine that!!! Imagine that corporations actually hire people full time with competitive wages, benefits, options, paid vacations...
You might want to read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, and read about people like W.E.B DuBois, and the labor struggles in America. It's sad that IT workers who are educated, highly skilled and VERY MUCH IN DEMAND are put into situations of low pay, forced to work over 5 days or 40 hour work weeks, no health benefits, no paid vacations, and no job security.
Now that the loophole is closed up? That's a bad thing??? So exploitation is OK?? Go see Kathy Lee Gifford - I bet she can get you a nice TEMP job at one of her overseas clothing warehouses.
Anyway - I am sick and tired of seing IT labor being shafted by corporate america. It'd be NICE if either we (a) unionized IT workers, or (b) the government started to crack down on the exploitation of the working people.
(This is speaking about US information technology jobs... what you do in your country is your own business - j/k )
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AMD vs. Intel, Compaq vs. Ibm, Dell vs. Gateway - "Who will be the first to market"....
I guess this explains all the "first posts" on /. too.
Corporate mentality is to be the "first to market", and the suits make impossible deadline promises to customers and stockholders without having any knowledge of the product, how it works, how long it takes to build it, or the status of the current build.
Half the problem with today's corporate world is that the SUITS never "worked their way up the ladder", so they have no CLUE on how their business model operates. I've seen so many executives shoot themselves in the foot making foolish decisions because they have no idea about their corporate work model, and then take their aggression/stress/frustration out on the IT people because they didn't meet the impossible deadline that HE had promised to some customer...
Then there could also be different distributions of the biography. The main advantage to purchasing a copy of a distribution would be the TECH SUPPORT to help the user get throught th BIG words.
And Cmdr Taco and Malda could open a new web site:
www.biodot.org
I wish Adobe had given a REASON for discontinuing the beta test and subsequent release of Framemaker for Linux, but I'd rather have NO program than one that's buggy and/or unstable.
That's 1/2 the problem with MS oper. systems and apps that run on it.
I'm not trying to create flames here... just calling it how I see it.
Even though I'm voting for Nader - I feel like I'm betraying Al Gore.
After all - he did INVENT the Internet!!!
*heh*
"Note: This article is a piece of satire meant to brighten your day. "
http://www.nadertrader.com it was working ok yesterday. NA-DER NA-DER!!!
Amsterdam?
What are they on drugs???
Do they have a crack epidemic there?
The people on this committee seem to be on the pipe... crack pipe, hash pipe, etc.....
Planet Slashdot
Microsoft Planet(tm) 2000
(when it's inhabited - that would be sp1)
This was on /. 2 days ago....
What's next? monitors that omit odors/scents?
Ok - it was a DEC PDP11/70 running VAX VMS (which version I forget....) either way - a PDP 11/xx and a VAX are BOTH made by digital.... sheesh... and you're very correct: trek kicked serious ass!!!
Does anyone remember playing Star Trek on old mainframes in the 80's?
:)
At my old college we used to have an old DEC VAX PDP11/70 and I remember playing Star Trek for hours up in the lab. It was text based (ala Adventure) and it was fun.