Well, looking at the CEO..."Prior to @stake, Mobley spent more than 20 years in the high technology sector with IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation (HP) and Compaq Computer Corporation (HP)."
He did high-end sales of technology. Really, he is probably pretty good at his job as CEO. You don't need to know how to program a computer to run a company like @stake.
Christina Luconi has been there since the company started.
The VP of Finance "Mr. Lescinskas was a director at Cambridge Technology Partners, a systems integration and implementation consulting firm. In his role, he was responsible for the financial planning and analysis of the North American Business Unit, a $400 million dollar operating entity."
The general idea is they don't look too VC, at least not the old-style VC. They are all successfull in the IT industry already. It's not like the old days where the VC would replace the company with exectutives that knew "business" but not the technology.
Well, we where doing OK back in the 80's before the oil bust. Then we recovered from that in the telecom boom. Now we are feeling the effects of both the telecom bust and the depression of the total economy.
There is a crapload of fiber for really cheap around here though. I can get 1/4 of a rack off an OC-3 for $350 a month. We have a large wcom plant just north of us.
It's the Oklahoma protectionism. We have a large amount of of call-centers here. This law would adversly affect our economy. Therefor they are going to try and block it.
It's actually cheap to live here. I'm in Tulsa, and a $12/hr job can get you a decent apartment, car, etc. Of course this whole thing is going to collapse with the outsourcing to India...
And yes, many Tulsans take things way too seriously. It's because we have nothing else to do!
I'm in Tulsa, and we have three radio stations and at least two TV stations controlled by Clear Channel. We even have a "Clear Channel Riverfest" every year. Maybe you live in a cave.
It's all the marketing department probably. They came up with the idea, and just told the techs to "implement this". They probably had some tech guy on their research board who is looking to "move up" the corp ladder and sees this as an amazing project to head up, and doesn't care about technical difficulties. He's not the one implementing it anyway, so what does he care?
What we need to do is start contacting our ISP's and complain about this. We also need to launch complaints from IT departments around the world at them, telling them how this is screwing things up. Those of you in the states need to write your various represenetives and tell them that this may possibly be illegal. Someone also needs to tell ICAAN, but I'm sure they've noticed.
We then need to keep this pressure up, then someone starts a DDOS against them just using bad domain names. If there is an outage, this can be further used as bad PR against them.
I am calling my upline ISP to complain in a few minutes. Everyone else who works in IT needs to complain to their ISP, the authorities, and ICAAN. Loudly.
This is a common thing when learning speed-reading. You basically do the same thing, but ignore the rest of the word and intuitivly know what the word was from the other words in the sentence.
However, it also makes reading out-loud difficult when you are used to skipping words when you read them.
Ms. Frank, the MTV executive, noted the limitations of unlimited customization, even amid unlimited access. For young Americans, she said, "because of the way they've trained themselves to use media, they never have to be exposed to an idea, an artist, or anything that they did not select for themselves."
Yes, because people that d/l music and such live in a cave and never come out. Thy must make their own food and clothes too, because they are never exposed to an idea they did not select. I can't walk outside my house without being exposed to ideas I did not select. My neighbor's clothes, billboards, branding on food at the store...I am forced to look at these things just to survive. I don't really want to at times...
I think she should have said "They haven't been exposed enough to our ideas, our select artists, or all our other marketing campaigns because they feel they have freedom of choice."
Yes, that is the case. They said so. No matter what ulterior motives they have, that is "the case" as far as the law is concerned.
They can't show to just anyone. Then it would be changed, and that's not what they want. They want it to stay in there so they can claim ownership.
It has high value to their strategy. That strategy is "owning" Linux and charging huge amounts of money to everyone using it, and giving them binaries for it.
They really just wanted IBM to buy them...but it seems their plans where not laid very well.
A large group or company could do that, but a smaller business couldn't show enough evidence of the ability to do it in-house. It would not have the same abilities as non-mission critial software.
Of couse someone could pick it up in a distro and decide to support it. The smart move would be for a hospital with an IT staff to pick it up, start helping with it, then outsource the program (with support) to their local clinics. I know that's what I'll be doing with it if it goes anywhere.
There are many small ISP-ish companies out there operating off business-level broadband all over the world. I'm one of them. We've got five Linux servers doing various tasks in the third bedroom of our all-bills paid apartment. We make enough money to pay bills and have some lifestyle afterwards. Of course, that's not everything we do...but I know there are many companies like mine around the world. Some people, some boxes, some bandwidth.
Because SCO wants to control Linux. They are trying to make a case that Linux has SCO IP in it. Once that is proved, then they plan to move on and say it is therefor theirs, they are the rightfull owner of Linux. Then they will close the 2.4 kernel, and only release it in binary form. That's there plan.
We would haveto go back to 2.2 and work up from there. Plus, it would be a nightmare for Redhat, IBM, etc.
There's the rub, so to speak. It's only mentioned in the first security audit protocal draft, released in 2000. This rather expansive tomb was cut to shreds to be put in the final ruling. It had some issues, as requirering C2-level compliance. It was quite...insane. But, it's what the government wanted to impose. It's based off IRS 1075 (I think), which is the IRS security guidelines for their IT.
We now have a much 'looser' standard. The originals where protocals, this is just a standard. Nothing exact on purpose. If you read the whole thing including the comment and answer section (it's over 250 pages), there is much whining about it. Some suggested that it be dropped completely. We have some type of compromise.
However, when the HFC walks through the door with their auditors, I want to make damn sure my clients are not going to be fined or arrested. I try to hold them to as much of the original standard (and the generally recognized computer security standards) as is financially feasable. That's my risk analysis. I explain that to my customers too. Basically...it's go to someone else if you want to risk your license.
I have a copy of the original ruling on my companies site: http://www.med-is.com/files/proposed-sec.pdf I don't know how avalible it still is on HMS's site. That's where that quote comes from. I would say "happy reading", but it really is a monstrocity.
I never thought of MS doing something like that, but I could really see it. As to the lockdown...Someone who is good at risk analysis would never suggest his customer go with a completely propriotory system. Most of the bigger clients run some *nix flavor for the backend...screw TCO, it's people's lives on the line.
But really I was just talking about that one particular instance of this medical software, and how they might not see a wide acceptence of it under the "rouge install" catagory. That's one of the major stregths of OSS, and they might not get all they where thinking of.
It's a modern intepretation of Gnosticism. The Creator God is whatever real AI is behind it all, the Archeons are the Agents and the other AI. Even one of the Archeons went over to humanities' side. I'm not even going to comment on how Neo and crew fit it.
There are some hints to VALIS by PKD in it too. Read that book, then look at the movies in a different light.
I think that there might be a reason to why it looked fake. Perhaps because it really is fake, in the Matrix, and the multiple Agents are causing rendering problems in the software. System overload of sorts, especially with all the physcial law violations that over 200 people where causing all at the same time. Also, there is a theory that the Matrix itself is run partially on human's brains via parrallel processing. When AS takes over, that brain is no longer a processing node. There where no "real" people in that fight, therefor pershaps the software had to compensate by reducing the quality of the "area" in whole.
It would make sense since the entire area (buildings included) seemed fake as well. We will probably get some sort of explanation in the next movie that makes the scene make more sense in this area.
3.4.3 Vendor-supplied system software is supported by the vendor.
Page 28, HCFA Core Set of Security Requirements Audit Protocols.
Interview system software personnel concerning a selection of system software and determine the extent to which the operating version of the system software is currently supported by the vendor.
That was the original standard set out in 2000.
And it doesn't just involve the transmission of data. It also has to provide for it's integrity. Go read the Final Security Ruling. There's three different sections on it. It's all about risk analysis and risk migration.
Using NT is going to be a big problem. It's not going to be supported anymore. No more patches, no more fixes. By proper risk analysis, it is far too dangerous, especially by 2005 when all this has to be fixed. Simply put, when HMS walks in the door they won't be happy to see such a sight.
IMHO, Northern Lights is far more trancendental that his other works. He's getting better as time goes by. His songs are more complex, and have pretty good lyrics and themes. They are one of my fav bands.
If the electroclash crowd feels that the music fits under that banner, then it does. The scenes the entity that deciedes what's in and out. If they say VNV is in, then it is. I'm not saying it is, but that's the way it works.
But I have to agree, it's not really in the Miss Kitty/Faint sort of groove, either. It's got it's own sound, it's own themes. And much of the sythpop still sounds like whiney boy bands, just with more electronics.
That's a really good question. I'm thinking that there will be some cases brought to court, a spectical made of them by the gov, and then other places will scramble. The computer security portion hasn't passed it's dealine yet, but the privacy part has.
The basic idea is to keep personal health information private. If you can see other people's charts, then that's not being private, and they are in violation. Someone could report them, and there would be an investigation. It's as simple as going to a website, or making a phonecall.
There is a cut-off point where a entity is no longer covered under HIPAA. It's not in the original specs, but was passed later as part of the extension. If you have nine or less full-time employees, or less than 25 and are hospital, then you don't have to comply. However, they make no guarentee that your medicare claims will be processed quickly. You might have problems finding a claims processor to process them as well.
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Well, looking at the CEO..."Prior to @stake, Mobley spent more than 20 years in the high technology sector with IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation (HP) and Compaq Computer Corporation (HP)."
He did high-end sales of technology. Really, he is probably pretty good at his job as CEO. You don't need to know how to program a computer to run a company like @stake.
Christina Luconi has been there since the company started.
The VP of Finance "Mr. Lescinskas was a director at Cambridge Technology Partners, a systems integration and implementation consulting firm. In his role, he was responsible for the financial planning and analysis of the North American Business Unit, a $400 million dollar operating entity."
The general idea is they don't look too VC, at least not the old-style VC. They are all successfull in the IT industry already. It's not like the old days where the VC would replace the company with exectutives that knew "business" but not the technology.
Well, we where doing OK back in the 80's before the oil bust. Then we recovered from that in the telecom boom. Now we are feeling the effects of both the telecom bust and the depression of the total economy.
There is a crapload of fiber for really cheap around here though. I can get 1/4 of a rack off an OC-3 for $350 a month. We have a large wcom plant just north of us.
It's the Oklahoma protectionism. We have a large amount of of call-centers here. This law would adversly affect our economy. Therefor they are going to try and block it.
It's actually cheap to live here. I'm in Tulsa, and a $12/hr job can get you a decent apartment, car, etc. Of course this whole thing is going to collapse with the outsourcing to India...
And yes, many Tulsans take things way too seriously. It's because we have nothing else to do!
Yep. That's capitalism for you. Using everything around you for a profit.
I'm in Tulsa, and we have three radio stations and at least two TV stations controlled by Clear Channel. We even have a "Clear Channel Riverfest" every year. Maybe you live in a cave.
It's all the marketing department probably. They came up with the idea, and just told the techs to "implement this". They probably had some tech guy on their research board who is looking to "move up" the corp ladder and sees this as an amazing project to head up, and doesn't care about technical difficulties. He's not the one implementing it anyway, so what does he care?
opps.
What we need to do is start contacting our ISP's and complain about this. We also need to launch complaints from IT departments around the world at them, telling them how this is screwing things up. Those of you in the states need to write your various represenetives and tell them that this may possibly be illegal. Someone also needs to tell ICAAN, but I'm sure they've noticed.
We then need to keep this pressure up, then someone starts a DDOS against them just using bad domain names. If there is an outage, this can be further used as bad PR against them.
I am calling my upline ISP to complain in a few minutes. Everyone else who works in IT needs to complain to their ISP, the authorities, and ICAAN. Loudly.
This is a common thing when learning speed-reading. You basically do the same thing, but ignore the rest of the word and intuitivly know what the word was from the other words in the sentence.
However, it also makes reading out-loud difficult when you are used to skipping words when you read them.
Ms. Frank, the MTV executive, noted the limitations of unlimited customization, even amid unlimited access. For young Americans, she said, "because of the way they've trained themselves to use media, they never have to be exposed to an idea, an artist, or anything that they did not select for themselves."
Yes, because people that d/l music and such live in a cave and never come out. Thy must make their own food and clothes too, because they are never exposed to an idea they did not select. I can't walk outside my house without being exposed to ideas I did not select. My neighbor's clothes, billboards, branding on food at the store...I am forced to look at these things just to survive. I don't really want to at times...
I think she should have said "They haven't been exposed enough to our ideas, our select artists, or all our other marketing campaigns because they feel they have freedom of choice."
Yes, that is the case. They said so. No matter what ulterior motives they have, that is "the case" as far as the law is concerned.
They can't show to just anyone. Then it would be changed, and that's not what they want. They want it to stay in there so they can claim ownership.
It has high value to their strategy. That strategy is "owning" Linux and charging huge amounts of money to everyone using it, and giving them binaries for it.
They really just wanted IBM to buy them...but it seems their plans where not laid very well.
A large group or company could do that, but a smaller business couldn't show enough evidence of the ability to do it in-house. It would not have the same abilities as non-mission critial software.
Of couse someone could pick it up in a distro and decide to support it. The smart move would be for a hospital with an IT staff to pick it up, start helping with it, then outsource the program (with support) to their local clinics. I know that's what I'll be doing with it if it goes anywhere.
that's a bit scary.
There are many small ISP-ish companies out there operating off business-level broadband all over the world. I'm one of them. We've got five Linux servers doing various tasks in the third bedroom of our all-bills paid apartment. We make enough money to pay bills and have some lifestyle afterwards. Of course, that's not everything we do...but I know there are many companies like mine around the world. Some people, some boxes, some bandwidth.
Because SCO wants to control Linux. They are trying to make a case that Linux has SCO IP in it. Once that is proved, then they plan to move on and say it is therefor theirs, they are the rightfull owner of Linux. Then they will close the 2.4 kernel, and only release it in binary form. That's there plan.
We would haveto go back to 2.2 and work up from there. Plus, it would be a nightmare for Redhat, IBM, etc.
That was actually pretty damn funny. I was like...yes...yes...sco...hey, wait a second! Not a bad troll.
There's the rub, so to speak. It's only mentioned in the first security audit protocal draft, released in 2000. This rather expansive tomb was cut to shreds to be put in the final ruling. It had some issues, as requirering C2-level compliance. It was quite...insane. But, it's what the government wanted to impose. It's based off IRS 1075 (I think), which is the IRS security guidelines for their IT.
We now have a much 'looser' standard. The originals where protocals, this is just a standard. Nothing exact on purpose. If you read the whole thing including the comment and answer section (it's over 250 pages), there is much whining about it. Some suggested that it be dropped completely. We have some type of compromise.
However, when the HFC walks through the door with their auditors, I want to make damn sure my clients are not going to be fined or arrested. I try to hold them to as much of the original standard (and the generally recognized computer security standards) as is financially feasable. That's my risk analysis. I explain that to my customers too. Basically...it's go to someone else if you want to risk your license.
I have a copy of the original ruling on my companies site: http://www.med-is.com/files/proposed-sec.pdf
I don't know how avalible it still is on HMS's site. That's where that quote comes from. I would say "happy reading", but it really is a monstrocity.
I never thought of MS doing something like that, but I could really see it. As to the lockdown...Someone who is good at risk analysis would never suggest his customer go with a completely propriotory system. Most of the bigger clients run some *nix flavor for the backend...screw TCO, it's people's lives on the line.
But really I was just talking about that one particular instance of this medical software, and how they might not see a wide acceptence of it under the "rouge install" catagory. That's one of the major stregths of OSS, and they might not get all they where thinking of.
Really?
It's a modern intepretation of Gnosticism. The Creator God is whatever real AI is behind it all, the Archeons are the Agents and the other AI. Even one of the Archeons went over to humanities' side. I'm not even going to comment on how Neo and crew fit it.
There are some hints to VALIS by PKD in it too. Read that book, then look at the movies in a different light.
I think that there might be a reason to why it looked fake. Perhaps because it really is fake, in the Matrix, and the multiple Agents are causing rendering problems in the software. System overload of sorts, especially with all the physcial law violations that over 200 people where causing all at the same time. Also, there is a theory that the Matrix itself is run partially on human's brains via parrallel processing. When AS takes over, that brain is no longer a processing node. There where no "real" people in that fight, therefor pershaps the software had to compensate by reducing the quality of the "area" in whole.
It would make sense since the entire area (buildings included) seemed fake as well. We will probably get some sort of explanation in the next movie that makes the scene make more sense in this area.
3. System Software
3.4.3 Vendor-supplied system software is supported by the vendor.
Page 28, HCFA Core Set of Security Requirements Audit Protocols.
Interview system software personnel concerning a selection of system software and determine the extent to which the operating version of the system software is currently supported by the vendor.
That was the original standard set out in 2000.
And it doesn't just involve the transmission of data. It also has to provide for it's integrity. Go read the Final Security Ruling. There's three different sections on it. It's all about risk analysis and risk migration.
Using NT is going to be a big problem. It's not going to be supported anymore. No more patches, no more fixes. By proper risk analysis, it is far too dangerous, especially by 2005 when all this has to be fixed. Simply put, when HMS walks in the door they won't be happy to see such a sight.
IMHO, Northern Lights is far more trancendental that his other works. He's getting better as time goes by. His songs are more complex, and have pretty good lyrics and themes. They are one of my fav bands.
If the electroclash crowd feels that the music fits under that banner, then it does. The scenes the entity that deciedes what's in and out. If they say VNV is in, then it is. I'm not saying it is, but that's the way it works.
But I have to agree, it's not really in the Miss Kitty/Faint sort of groove, either. It's got it's own sound, it's own themes. And much of the sythpop still sounds like whiney boy bands, just with more electronics.
What exactly is the "fold"?
It's actaully hard to find the real good "stuff" on Kazaa. Try soulseek.
http://www.nilaihah.com/mp3s.htm
Last song on the page.
That's a really good question. I'm thinking that there will be some cases brought to court, a spectical made of them by the gov, and then other places will scramble. The computer security portion hasn't passed it's dealine yet, but the privacy part has.
The basic idea is to keep personal health information private. If you can see other people's charts, then that's not being private, and they are in violation. Someone could report them, and there would be an investigation. It's as simple as going to a website, or making a phonecall.
There is a cut-off point where a entity is no longer covered under HIPAA. It's not in the original specs, but was passed later as part of the extension. If you have nine or less full-time employees, or less than 25 and are hospital, then you don't have to comply. However, they make no guarentee that your medicare claims will be processed quickly. You might have problems finding a claims processor to process them as well.