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  1. Re:No, you shouldn't buy any music... on RIAA Settles With 12-Year-Old Downloader · · Score: 1

    Actually, I think that might cause the smaller record labels to just collapse. Then those bands would be in serious trouble, while Britiny and N'Sync waited the boycott out.

    No, I think I will continue to support my independent music.

    That's a very interesting point you make about the $2,000. I think I will ask a lawyer friend about that...precidents now set and all. Very good idea bninja!

  2. Re:I took action today... on RIAA Settles With 12-Year-Old Downloader · · Score: 1

    sweet! My roommate and I where just recently discussing buying some type of digital music service for the apartment.

  3. Re:I took action today... on RIAA Settles With 12-Year-Old Downloader · · Score: 1

    I believe it. I've nearly been there myself a few times.

    And your right, and it's sad. I'll still like the music, I just won't support it anymore. I've been working on that too, buring complelation cd's, listening to the music around my friends who haven't heard of it...I was even thinking about staging some type of pirate radio station just playing non-riaa music. I could probably get many promo-cds just by writting the various artists and telling them what I'm up to.

    ah...the possibilities....a radio station as a protest against the RIAA. Ranting against the RIAA with EDM. And you might be able to get tactic unwritten approval from the artists themselves.

  4. Re:bleck on Advice for an Open Source Development Grant? · · Score: 1

    It has to be HIPAA compliant to hold PHI. It's a medical record app, so obviously it would have that in it. To be HIPAA compliant you have to only use vendor supported software. With that vendor you need to sign a BAA.

    Therefor, I don't think you could just download it and use it without vendor support and it stay compliant. You would have to get support from someone who could sign a BAA, which probably shouldn't be an employee. Or, your IT staff might be able to become the "support", depending on the software and if they understood the sourcecode enough to fix it on their own...they would have to satisfy this because it's an unacceptable risk to assume the community support around the product would be enough to keep it properly patched. Plus, if you left their screwed unless they hire someone else with that skillset.

    In my area of the country, I do not personally feel that there are enough qualified job seekers to replace such a person. They would have to understand the source itself. Now that's not a hard feat, but you can't rely on that enough to mitigate it. Not when it IS the medical record software. If that gets penetrated, your in pretty big trouble legally. It would be one thing if it was their word processor.

    It's really a gray area, prime for a HMS audit and court desicion.

    Some people think I mean this about OSS in general. I don't. I mean it about this particular product. Due to the circumstances currently surrounding the industry, it might not get all the benifits normally associated with having such a project. It might not have a large user base because many people are afraid of using it as a HIPAA violation. It might not even be worth making it open-source, and make more business sense releasing it under a different liscense like one that only allows source to customers or such.

  5. Re:HIPAA on Advice for an Open Source Development Grant? · · Score: 1

    Wow. Your an ass. And you completly missed my entire point. I'm not talking about open source in general. Im talking about this particular project. Therefor, your entire argument is moot. I actually agree with you completly. I disagree with the way you say it, as that makes enemies, not converts. I see the thread from your other postings, but I can assure you I'm not the person to take your rage out on. 80% of the machines at my business run Linux. It would be 100% but it's hard to do Win32 security research just using WINE.

    This particular law requires vendor support. It wants an externally designatted source that will say "we support this software for technical issues". This could be just about anyone who downloads it and takes the time to learn it. It could be them. It will probably be the people funding them.

    I don't know where you copied and pasted that from, but don't throw your fanatisism at me. How long have you waited to post that? Or is it something you post often? I advocate Linux as much as I can, but I don't just attack random people, especially when I have a) no idea who they are and b) obivously don't understand their point.

    Don't bother replying, as I don't think there is any point in discussing this any further. You are correct in the argument, completly wrong in your choice of posts to reply to. Flames like that make Linux look bad.

    Congradulations, you have scored 100%

  6. Re:I took action today... on RIAA Settles With 12-Year-Old Downloader · · Score: 5, Informative

    You should buy music, just not RIAA. Metropolis Records, who carries Electronic Body Music, Industrial Dance Music, and other amazing types of music, aren't members of the RIAA.

    They have the kind of music you hear in "good" clubs, and on movies. It's a billion times better than top 40 crap.

    A Different Drum Records (http://www.adifferentdrum.com/) for synthpop, Niliaihah Records (http://www.nilaihah.com/) for some other EBM/darkwave...

    There's a ton of other non-RIAA music out there. Go listen to Covenant's song "We Stand Alone" off of "Northern Lights". The Azonic's "Progression" (oh my god can she sing). DeVision "Dinner Without Grace". Some of those are a bit old, but will give you a good taste of what is out there. I haven't listened to the "radio" for music for nearly three years now.

  7. Re:HIPAA on Advice for an Open Source Development Grant? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In creating medical software you have to use code sets. They are somewhat modular, but I don't know how modular they are to be able to change them between countries. That would be up to the writers, and is probably something they really need to look into. If they can make the codesets modular, then that would help in more world-wide acceptance.

    I think the same about the funding. I really was commenting on the whole "open source" of it.

    It won't have the "rouge install" factor behind it, because it can't. You can't use it without some type of vendor support, or at least where PHI is concerned.

    If it violated the service contract, someone could end up in jail.

  8. bleck on Advice for an Open Source Development Grant? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I don't know if anyone could even use it. Under HIPAA law you have to have a business associate's agreement with all vendors, and ALL vendors must supply support for the products or they aren't compliant. That's not even about the actual security or code flow of the program, but the whole project itself.

    I do HIPAA audits, and I couldn't give them a a good rating on the risk analysis if they used it, because of that. No support==non-compliant. I could suggest they buy it from your company if your selling it, I don't see it being used by an IT staff somewhere without a vendor.

  9. Other countries on 14 Years Later, Cold Fusion Still Gets The Cold Shoulder · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Other countries are still working on it, as the article states about Japan. What is the chance that it is just ostrasized in the US, or maybe even "blacklisted" media-wise? It's alot like the stem-cell debate in a way.

    We are just ignoring something that might be possible "out of hand". The MIT prof said several times "I wish some physicist would prove us wrong now", but they don't. It's just completly ignored, even though there is some current evidence. But other countries continue work.

    There is a vested intrest against cold-fushion and pro hot-fushion in the US. Hot fushion is a hard thing to do, therefor it's not really profitable as an energy source for the public. Plus, the US already is against nuclear plants after three-mile island and such. So, we stay dependent on...coal. Oil for the initial energy source.

    Other countries don't need to be tied to oil like the US is, and are moving on. Just as our prohibition on stem-cell research is mostly religious based. Someone else will figure it out, and we will have some problems dealing with someone else with the upper technological hand for once...especially if they don't like us.

  10. Re:Best quote on RIAA Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn' · · Score: 1

    actually I've just been too busy to get around to putting it back up.

    It used to not even resolve, but I've since then moved it back to my office but haven't done anything else to it.

  11. Best quote on RIAA Parses 'P2P' As 'Peer 2 Porn' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    KaZaA is just like Joe Camel," she said referring to the cartoon logo that had been used by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings to promote its Camel cigarette brand. "KaZaA has done an incredible job of attracting young people to their site, and as a result they have been really able to attack children."

    I don't think I've ever heard Kazaa or such being associated with a product image specifically created to get kids to damage their health. She (Laura A. Ahearn, the director of Parents for Megan's Law) makes it sound like Kazaa is luring "kids" and then just giving them child porn.

    I wonder how much she is getting paid to say stupid crap like that.

  12. Re:Another Reason Not to Offshore High-Tech Work on Taiwan Under Cyber Attack from China · · Score: 1

    Even worse: wait until we outsource all the data centers over there. When business logic is being operated in India, and Pakistan and Inda finally nuke each other. There goes our entire economy in a flash of bright light.

  13. Re:OK, great. At least there are funny quotes on Universities Taken Offline to Fight Worms, Viruses · · Score: 1

    I wish I had mod points. Nothing sums up the entire "virus" problem like those quotes.

  14. Re:Scary ... on Executive Secretary In Every Computer · · Score: 1

    hmmmm...perhaps it's an OS thing then, instead of IE. I tested mo, and yes, it did the same thing. If you rename the dir, windows complains about it, but then you can delete the html and it doesn't delete the dir.

  15. Re:Scary ... on Executive Secretary In Every Computer · · Score: 1

    Windows 2000 already does that. Do save a web page using IE. It will make another directory under that which contains the graphics. Move just the html file, and the graphics dir moves with it. Delete just the html file, and the graphics dir will be deleted too automatically.

    I had to test it a few times, because it caught me off guard. One of the many reasons I don't use IE anymore.

  16. Re:Ever heard of OBD-III? on UK to Put Monitors in Every Car? · · Score: 1

    The protocal will demand a "received" from the satillite within two minute, or the engine die. This signel will be some obsene hash of the engine temp, the time, date, location, etc. It's response will use some large mathmatical formula that the OBD-IV will decode. If the signel response isn't correct, then it will die. It will probably have a signel strength measure too, to make sure it's the correct "strength" for the distance the satillite/roadside broadcast is, so you can't just have another peice of hardware in the car "simulating" it.

    And if you did, the automatic scripts running on the govermental computers would note that you are receiving a paycheck/buying groceries/spending money someplace without ever driving the car. A warrent will automatically be issued for your arrest. Sure, you could be using cash and having someone else take you/mass transit, but that would show up too.

    "Well, Mr. Harrkev. You say your friend Mr. Taco is giving you a ride to work. However, his traffic route analysis report does not show this to be true. Furthermore, there are cash withdraws on your account that are undocumented. Your lack of receipts proves that you have been purchasing contraband goods (due to a law being passed where receipts are mandatory and are turned in to the government). You are hereby sentenced to twenty years of corporate prision."

    Corporate prision being a system where you are forced to use your skills for some company. You go to a company-funded dorm at night, and during the day you work. Any infractions lead to additional time or transfer to a worse place. It was seen as a way to save taxpayers money, but it really doesn't.

    Yes, I do write short story fiction that incorporates these ideas. And I read alot of PKD.

  17. Re:Get the F out... on UK to Put Monitors in Every Car? · · Score: 1

    Do you actually think that would happen? What will happen is that it may start like this, but slowly degrade over a few years. Five minutes will become four, then three, then two, then one.

    Next, you will get a warning in a voice "You have violated Law 4114-542 subsection 4.14.b.98. You have sixty seconds to pull over to the side of the road before the engine is shut off. An officer will be with you shortly. Have a nice day, Mr hswedfe."

  18. Re:Third movie showing parts of 2nd on Matrix Revolutions Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    There is a hint of it in the trailer: Smith is in the Oracle's kitchen, but it's been trashed. Maybe he killed her or something.

  19. Re:Third movie showing parts of 2nd on Matrix Revolutions Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Um, whatever. You have absolutly no idea what I actually think of the CGI or such.

    I thought the movie was good too. I didn't say otherwise.

    I think the Architect's speech was actually just an attempt to manipulate Neo into doing exactly what he did. However, I don't think the Architect has taken into account Smith et al.

    People probably came out of the movie with that impression because that's basically what the Councileman said.

    I know far more about the plot than you will probably ever know, especially where the whole idea of the movies come from. I've been studing the Gnostic religion for several years now, which is a large part of what the movies are based around. I've read most of the books they used, including three of the VALIS 'trilogy' which is hinted at directly in the first movie. I could write a 10 page essay on the similarities bewteen VALIS and The Matrix pretty easily.

  20. Third movie showing parts of 2nd on Matrix Revolutions Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Looking at it, especially the comment in the trailer "The machines will breach the dock walls in twelve hours" makes me think that the 3rd movie will show things that we didn't see but know already happened in the 2nd. Such as the battle (and subsequent destruction) of Zion, which is shown several times in both trailers. We where just told about it in the 2nd, perhaps we actually see it in the third.

  21. Capitalism on Power Outages Strike East Coast · · Score: 1

    To me, it's a function of capitalism. PUSH PUSH PUSH the product out the door, damn the testing. Next product. No one seriously thinks about security, enough safty, or such.

    Just like exporint tech jobs to India. Now we've begun exporting datacenter jobs. Does anyone remember that Pakistan and India have nearly gone to war repeatedly, and both have nukes? What will happen if we do get into the distributed app age, and the servers and programmers all go up in a puff of smoke? companies only think about the short-term bottom line, not caring about affects 5-10 years down the road.

  22. I've read the story on Renegade Reverse Engineering - John Woo Style · · Score: 1

    There is no reverse engineer in the story.

    "Electrical wiring. I'm an electrician. Television, rockets, computers. That sort of stuff."

    I can see where a bunch of "action" stuff could be shoved in. The electrician is a common character in PKD's stories.

    He had his memory wiped as part of a contract working for a large company. The goverment is a Police State, except that corps are still individual entities. The SP (special police) want to know what Jennings (the main character) was doing working there. Through the fortune of having a "care package" of seemingly random object left for him by himself (before his memory was wiped), he is able to figure out what is going on and do what he needs to do.

    If they stick with the story...

  23. Re:The big picture on ZigBee Low-Power Wireless Networking · · Score: 1

    Someone modded this down, but I have to totally agree:

    Blah bluetooth blah wireless blah technology...
    You are all missing the big picture. Many of us have been predicting it and now you are seeing it come to life: insane US "intellectual property" laws, a patent system run amouck, and copyright laws completely written - and now enforced - by corporations, are going to destroy this country's place in the world.

    Corporations don't care about geological artifacts; corporations don't care about people aside from their ability to generate revenue. We've already seen (in proverbial spades) how willing and able corporations can move from place to place. In their path they exploit every resource they can find until it is utterly exhausted; when US borne technology is no longer cost effective the world's corporations will not hesitate to use those derived elsewhere.

    In short, life will go on - it always does. But in the process the US is quickly losing it's lead in the technology marketplace.

    Can't really say I care. In fact, I'm kinda laughing because americans in general seem to be so incredibly fucking stupid and apathetic on these matters they're getting exactly what they deserve. But it is surely happening - from linux to AVS streaming video to "zigbee" wireless, the west is about to vividly realize what it means when you pass laws that encourage job migration to other nations WHILE passing laws that, at the same time, make your technology more expensive than any other. You might as well just raise taxes now and get that final nail driven while there's still someone here to dig the grave.

  24. Re:In flight Clippy on In-Flight Reboot? · · Score: 1

    I actually played a game back in the 90's that had this. It was one of the first games to use video of a CD. You where on some other planet, helping fight off the alien natives on the planet. You where in this suit that projected pics of what you where fighting to you. In the end, you where going to die. It offered several religious choices for final prayers. You didn't die if you took off your helmet. Then you saw what you where fighting...winged angels straight out of the bible. The game ended there, apparently for a sequel that never happened.

    I tried tracking down the name of the game on underdogs, but couldn't find anything I remember. I think it was around 1994 or so, before Blade Runner came out.

  25. Re:Thoughts on Philip K. Dick, The Matrix, Mystici on Philip K. Dick Speaks (Sorta) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think that Morpheous was incorrect about the need of humans as batteries. I think he was told that, but that isn't really what's going on. That's why it doesn't make sense. I think we will see what humans are really for in the next series.

    If they follow the VALIS storyline, neo will end up as the next Morpheous, looking for the real One. And that's where it will end, and there will be no more movies.