His point was that the 2 GHz PC you have on your desk right now doesn't contain any Trusted Computing hardware. For that matter neither does any 3 GHz PC you could buy tomorrow or any of old Pentium I-IVs you can get at Goodwill. So why buy a new 486 spec machine? If you can't decipher such a simple argument maybe you are as dumb as you sound.
I think it is important to point out that the article does not criticize athletes high pay in general, but more specifically players with long-term contracts that under perform. Their examples are an NBA player and a MLB player. I want to point out that contracts in the NBA and MLB are guaranteed. That means if the player gets hurt, or just doesn't perform the team still has to pay them the entire contract. So even if you fire Shawn Kemp you have to pay him the $100 million. Now contrast that with the NFL, the league with the highest chance of career ending injuries. NFL contracts are not guaranteed. If you are cut by a team you are only guaranteed that years money, if after the roster deadline, and your signing bonus.
I usually hate the keyboards that come with computers. Either the keys are too small, or the feel is spongy. There is always something. That is why I take my old school Gateway2000 AnyKey programmable keyboard to every job I have had the last 5 years. It is large with a nice touch. It has an extra row of function keys on the left side that I can program for UNIX macros, and it has a complete keypad and a separate 9 key arrow pad on the right. Great for games. I have 3 of them so I don't have to use a computer for work or at home without one.
Well when you figure out how to get a device like a cell phone to figure the route of a packet from one node to another somewhere across the country in a mesh of a billion devices you let me know.
You know there is a reason that all the telcos go around the country digging up everything to lay fiber down. It isn't because they are idiots. Wireless systems that use repeaters have low bandwidth, terrible latency, and are not dependable in all weather conditions. And I don't want anyone posting about how wireless is now up to 100mb and that is a lot of bandwidth. For the traffic you are talking it is a drop in the bucket. People now complain about how slow their cable modems. Imagine a world where everyone calling in/out of a town somewhere in Nevada had to go through the same set of wireless repeaters somewhere in the desert. Good plan.
The Homeland Security Chief is not Richard Clarke. It is Tom Ridge. Do people even read the articles they submit? It plainly says " President Bush's special adviser on cyberspace security said". I love to bitch about the editorial control of this site, but this is obvious.
1) Richard didn't have much say about when IX was released. Though I do agree that 8 and 9 were weak in comparison to the other Ultimas. But let us not pile on. We don't know what the situation was inside Origin between EA and Garriot. A new company where he has more control and a whole new game series to create could do him good.
2) Don't compare ION Storm's offices and these. The offices that they moved into are the bottom floor of Works.com building that was already built out. Hell, they aren't even buying furniture. They are taking the furniture that was left when Works laid off a ton of people. Property around 360 here is getting a lot cheaper. Look at who were right around here: Living.com, Netpliance,...
Sweet. That is like right across the street from my house. I also know a guy at Works. I think in a few months they may be subleasing ALL their space out.
You don't see a good side. How about shorter checkout lines at stores, or practically no lines at all. Just push your cart near the scanner and swipe your credit card. Less overhead for stores also means cheaper prices. And when the added barcode scanners that allowed quicker checkout and inventory we didn't see a huge drop in retail labor.
No I am not a cop. I usually have the opinion that the police and in perticular the Justice Department and taking too much of our liberty in the effort to curb crime. But besides the timely return of evidence, this appears to be an over reaction from the community to a lawful FBI investigation.
I hope you are using hyperbole to make a point with this post. Commenting on public knowledge on a published story cannot be compared to actual scanning of a server computer. I will agree that passive scanning and some probing of open ports on a computer isn't nessiaryly a crime with no other action, it is behaviour that can warrant further investigation especialy after a crime has been commited on that same server. The point I want to reitterate here is that perhaps you shouldn't go snooping around computers that aren't yours. Over the years "I am just curious." and "I wanted to see if I could do it." have been used as escuses for hackers that have done everything from simple probing of a server to breaking into the phone system. The criminal justice system and most of the public have grown tired of these escuses and their use as a defence has been refuted numerous times in court. You would want the police to take notice of a thug going around your parking lot trying car doors with a slim jim in his hand, and System Admins would like the police to take notice and investigate people who "shake the handles" of their servers.
So this guy was "Shocked! Shocked" that the FBI would find his testing of know exploits as suspicious and worthy of inquiry. If I was snooping around my neighbors house the day after they got robbed giggling all the doornobs and seeing if any of the windows were open I would get run in by the police too. You can't go around scanning other peoples' servers for exploits no matter how curious you are. If you want to play those games you have to accept the possible consequences. Maybe he can complain that the FBI hasn't been prompt in the return of his equipment, but he is under investigation for a crime. Also, it isn't the FBI's job to make sure they let you wake up and have breakfast before questioning you. They said you didn't need to answer the questions and you could have told them to ask all questions through your lawyer. To all Hackers: Stop your whining. You want to play at being edgy and faux criminal in your actions be prepared to for what that brings you. Grow up.
I worked in the EMR biz for about 3 years. You will probably not find one product that will meet all your EMR needs. Most hospitals use mulitple systems and then try to link then together with HL7 (a standard message protocol for medical systems see hl7.org). They will have 1 system for lab (probably from SMS) and 1 for billing/admit and another for archived transcribed data (www.emrx.com). Most of these systems will run on Unix or a mainframe at the backend. They key to what you are looking for is a cross platform user interface. Many hospitals (like Scott and White) are trying to push vendors to use a standard HTML/WEB interface on all their products so that doctors can have a sort of medical information portal at the terminal when you log in. I worked on this type of interface before I left my last job. Last time I was at the HIMSS confrence, big medical systems conf., almost every company was touting their web strategy and their html interfaces.
I think everyone is missing his point when he calls Linux the worst operating system ever. He does have a Microsoft bias slant and his promoting NT over Unix, but that is not the point of his last statement. He is making a obviously ludicrus statement and leap of logic to make a point. The point is that Linux people point to NT vulerablilites and say "look we are better", but as it turns out that is not always the case. And I would argue that the statement is correct with the interpretation of "ha, may those without sin cast the first stone".
There was already precidence for this type of decision. A perfect example is "The Last Seduction". Since it couldn't get a distributer for the longest time the filmmakers sold it to Showtime first. Eventually they got a distributer and showed the movie. Then it did get the required one week showing in Manhattan or LA. But since it was first screened on TV it was not considered a theatrical movie. The same thing applies for web released movies. To be a theatrical release the movie first needs to run in theaters.
This "worm" is basically in the same vien as the ILOVEYOU virus and other email attachment viruses. They base their spreading and damaged on 2 things. One, a distrobution method. Two, the user executing the code voluntarily. In this case the method of execution is the same, a VBScript that is made to look like something it is not so that a user will execute it. The authors just replaced the distrobution method of email and address books with GNutella and its distrubuted searching. This virus is realy nothing new. Users should just remember not to blindly execute programs they download of the net. They should also check the extensions of files to make sure they are not scripts. Also, this virus does not expose any weakness of closed source Gnutella or expose any new weakness of Windows. It just exploits they same weakness that ILOVEYOU and the other VBscript viruses exposed in VBScript and Windows security.
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We all know that the real winners were all the geeks that got to hang with Jennifer Garner for the night. Yuh!
His point was that the 2 GHz PC you have on your desk right now doesn't contain any Trusted Computing hardware. For that matter neither does any 3 GHz PC you could buy tomorrow or any of old Pentium I-IVs you can get at Goodwill. So why buy a new 486 spec machine? If you can't decipher such a simple argument maybe you are as dumb as you sound.
So was it stolen by SD-6 or the Covenant?
Where is Jennifer Garner when you need her?
I think it is important to point out that the article does not criticize athletes high pay in general, but more specifically players with long-term contracts that under perform. Their examples are an NBA player and a MLB player. I want to point out that contracts in the NBA and MLB are guaranteed. That means if the player gets hurt, or just doesn't perform the team still has to pay them the entire contract. So even if you fire Shawn Kemp you have to pay him the $100 million. Now contrast that with the NFL, the league with the highest chance of career ending injuries. NFL contracts are not guaranteed. If you are cut by a team you are only guaranteed that years money, if after the roster deadline, and your signing bonus.
You can see from the front page of the site that the most important news at Free Shoe U this weekend is that Chris Rix looked good against the Terps.9 /08/3f5b9d1f5e8ad
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Where is the "Obvious" tag? Oh wait, this isn't Fark.
I usually hate the keyboards that come with computers. Either the keys are too small, or the feel is spongy. There is always something. That is why I take my old school Gateway2000 AnyKey programmable keyboard to every job I have had the last 5 years. It is large with a nice touch. It has an extra row of function keys on the left side that I can program for UNIX macros, and it has a complete keypad and a separate 9 key arrow pad on the right. Great for games. I have 3 of them so I don't have to use a computer for work or at home without one.
Well when you figure out how to get a device like a cell phone to figure the route of a packet from one node to another somewhere across the country in a mesh of a billion devices you let me know.
You know there is a reason that all the telcos go around the country digging up everything to lay fiber down. It isn't because they are idiots. Wireless systems that use repeaters have low bandwidth, terrible latency, and are not dependable in all weather conditions. And I don't want anyone posting about how wireless is now up to 100mb and that is a lot of bandwidth. For the traffic you are talking it is a drop in the bucket. People now complain about how slow their cable modems. Imagine a world where everyone calling in/out of a town somewhere in Nevada had to go through the same set of wireless repeaters somewhere in the desert. Good plan.
I would argue that '3L337' doesn't make any sense either. I do believe that Webster and most Style Guides would also agree.
The Homeland Security Chief is not Richard Clarke. It is Tom Ridge. Do people even read the articles they submit? It plainly says " President Bush's special adviser on cyberspace security said". I love to bitch about the editorial control of this site, but this is obvious.
1) Richard didn't have much say about when IX was released. Though I do agree that 8 and 9 were weak in comparison to the other Ultimas. But let us not pile on. We don't know what the situation was inside Origin between EA and Garriot. A new company where he has more control and a whole new game series to create could do him good. ...
2) Don't compare ION Storm's offices and these. The offices that they moved into are the bottom floor of Works.com building that was already built out. Hell, they aren't even buying furniture. They are taking the furniture that was left when Works laid off a ton of people. Property around 360 here is getting a lot cheaper. Look at who were right around here: Living.com, Netpliance,
Oh, I forgot to add...
Thou art gay!
Work... All I do all day is check Fuckedcompany to make sure that I am not on it. Oh yeah, and go to S&W meetings.
Sweet. That is like right across the street from my house. I also know a guy at Works. I think in a few months they may be subleasing ALL their space out.
You don't see a good side. How about shorter checkout lines at stores, or practically no lines at all. Just push your cart near the scanner and swipe your credit card. Less overhead for stores also means cheaper prices. And when the added barcode scanners that allowed quicker checkout and inventory we didn't see a huge drop in retail labor.
No I am not a cop. I usually have the opinion that the police and in perticular the Justice Department and taking too much of our liberty in the effort to curb crime. But besides the timely return of evidence, this appears to be an over reaction from the community to a lawful FBI investigation.
I hope you are using hyperbole to make a point with this post. Commenting on public knowledge on a published story cannot be compared to actual scanning of a server computer.
I will agree that passive scanning and some probing of open ports on a computer isn't nessiaryly a crime with no other action, it is behaviour that can warrant further investigation especialy after a crime has been commited on that same server.
The point I want to reitterate here is that perhaps you shouldn't go snooping around computers that aren't yours. Over the years "I am just curious." and "I wanted to see if I could do it." have been used as escuses for hackers that have done everything from simple probing of a server to breaking into the phone system. The criminal justice system and most of the public have grown tired of these escuses and their use as a defence has been refuted numerous times in court. You would want the police to take notice of a thug going around your parking lot trying car doors with a slim jim in his hand, and System Admins would like the police to take notice and investigate people who "shake the handles" of their servers.
So this guy was "Shocked! Shocked" that the FBI would find his testing of know exploits as suspicious and worthy of inquiry. If I was snooping around my neighbors house the day after they got robbed giggling all the doornobs and seeing if any of the windows were open I would get run in by the police too. You can't go around scanning other peoples' servers for exploits no matter how curious you are. If you want to play those games you have to accept the possible consequences. Maybe he can complain that the FBI hasn't been prompt in the return of his equipment, but he is under investigation for a crime. Also, it isn't the FBI's job to make sure they let you wake up and have breakfast before questioning you. They said you didn't need to answer the questions and you could have told them to ask all questions through your lawyer.
To all Hackers: Stop your whining. You want to play at being edgy and faux criminal in your actions be prepared to for what that brings you. Grow up.
I worked in the EMR biz for about 3 years. You will probably not find one product that will meet all your EMR needs. Most hospitals use mulitple systems and then try to link then together with HL7 (a standard message protocol for medical systems see hl7.org). They will have 1 system for lab (probably from SMS) and 1 for billing/admit and another for archived transcribed data (www.emrx.com). Most of these systems will run on Unix or a mainframe at the backend. They key to what you are looking for is a cross platform user interface. Many hospitals (like Scott and White) are trying to push vendors to use a standard HTML/WEB interface on all their products so that doctors can have a sort of medical information portal at the terminal when you log in. I worked on this type of interface before I left my last job. Last time I was at the HIMSS confrence, big medical systems conf., almost every company was touting their web strategy and their html interfaces.
I think everyone is missing his point when he calls Linux the worst operating system ever. He does have a Microsoft bias slant and his promoting NT over Unix, but that is not the point of his last statement. He is making a obviously ludicrus statement and leap of logic to make a point. The point is that Linux people point to NT vulerablilites and say "look we are better", but as it turns out that is not always the case. And I would argue that the statement is correct with the interpretation of "ha, may those without sin cast the first stone".
There was already precidence for this type of decision. A perfect example is "The Last Seduction". Since it couldn't get a distributer for the longest time the filmmakers sold it to Showtime first. Eventually they got a distributer and showed the movie. Then it did get the required one week showing in Manhattan or LA. But since it was first screened on TV it was not considered a theatrical movie. The same thing applies for web released movies. To be a theatrical release the movie first needs to run in theaters.
This "worm" is basically in the same vien as the ILOVEYOU virus and other email attachment viruses. They base their spreading and damaged on 2 things. One, a distrobution method. Two, the user executing the code voluntarily. In this case the method of execution is the same, a VBScript that is made to look like something it is not so that a user will execute it. The authors just replaced the distrobution method of email and address books with GNutella and its distrubuted searching. This virus is realy nothing new. Users should just remember not to blindly execute programs they download of the net. They should also check the extensions of files to make sure they are not scripts. Also, this virus does not expose any weakness of closed source Gnutella or expose any new weakness of Windows. It just exploits they same weakness that ILOVEYOU and the other VBscript viruses exposed in VBScript and Windows security.