1- It's totally normal for the hospital to require encryption and strict access control. But since you're using your own PC, they can't force you to install anything on it, just forbid you to connect to their network. They should buy you a PC, and configure it as they wish. As for Off-site access, same deal.
2- Their encryption solution sucks. What did they choose ? I'm getting good feedback on BitLocker and Truecrypt. Is there not a bit of user hysteria going on ?
He's probably alluding to the snafu at Danger (an MS subsidiary), were a botched disk upgrade + botched backups lost pretty much all of Sidekick's clients data.
Danger was seen as a trailblazer in cloud-based stuff, BTW. We've been warned:-p
Actually, both are price fixing, and illegal in my country (France). When a manufacturer advertises prices, the small type reads "price generally seen in most stores" or some much, because manufacturers can't enforce pricing through resellers, and thus can't assume their "recommended" prices will stick. Actually, "recommending" a price is frowned upon. IIRC, Apple has a clever way to enforce uniform pricing anyway.
In the same way, several competitors can't get together to agree on prices indeed.
well, mine was that before saying that printing is bad, we've got to make sure that the alternatives aren't worse. Giving tablets to everyone does not make sense, I'm curious about how many printed pages someone has to "consume" per year for switching to tablet/ereaders to be ecologically justified.
Yes and no. Both actually mainly deal in feelings and money. Case in point: does anyone actually know the cradle-to-grave environmental impact of any action or object ? Is it better to get a $30 light bulb, or a $0.5 one and give $49.5 to a charity ? Is planting a tree in my garden and then watering it a "good" move ? Actually, should I not actually use more water, because the profits generated go into improving supply and efficiency ? and so on...
i'd actually be interested in knowing how many pages of paper it takes to make as much environmental damage as a single iPad, cradle-to-grave, including a realists % of recycling of both.
1- and one time catholics chose to die on the cross for their faith. Ratty chose to join hitlerian youths to avoid his family "ostracised, bullied to buggery, or worse". nothing to see, move along.
2- the accomplice of a criminal is pretty much committing the same crime.
maybe the ones who will be happy are the ones who actually think priests should not be left to abuse children, and that they and the ones who covered up for them should face justice ?
1- we've seen what the effect was when people did NOT have access to all that information: child abuses perpetuating over decades, among other things. 2- the pope is not under attack specifically as a CEO, but as the guy at one time in charge of the child abusing priests that were left to abuse freely. 3- to me, he's just trying to convince believers that information not from the church is bad. it seems to work on you.
relevant (rl-vnt) adj. Having a bearing on or connection with the matter at hand.
Nothing about being correct, just about having a bearing. You can be relevant and wrong (as public opinion often is when making political decisions), or irrelevant and right (if you're an hermit who actually has the answer to the question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Yes and no. Information, like Science, has good and bad uses. Bad arguments remain bad arguments, so that's not really an issue. I'm more concerned about a kind of tunnel effect: someone getting killed once for fairly local news, no it makes front page pretty much every time, giving the impression that insecurity is on the rise even while it's actually down. We must learn to deal with that.
The argument that it's OK to do it because others are doing does not fly. It's moral relativism at its worst.
The issue is not that some priests did fail, it's that the church as an institution did its best to cover it up, in the process creating opportunities for abuse to last longer and spread.
I'd add to dunkelfake's reply: - no apps. Winmob7 is incompatible with anything that came before. Yes, that means all winmob 6.x apps won't run - closed shop. Apps can only be installed from the Apple-like appstore. - v1.0. We all know how good MS's 1.x versions are.
With Palm seemingly soon to be out of the running, only Android and MeeGo remain as reasonnably open platforms for geeks, and Meego is still a pipedream.
I think you nailed it. I'm looking to use my phone as a media player (video, music, ebooks) and a stopgap 'netbook', and file sharing / network access on the iPhone is too locked down. Plus no SD card really sucks.
I'm looking at the HD2 right now, hopefully the Dell Streak will come out before I'm freed from my 2y contract (in July).
I'm assuming you don't feel up to running your own full-fledged web server. Opera Unite solves most issues I associate with Facebook and the like: 1- you keep ownership of your stuff. No more finding your personal photos used in someone's ads. 2- you keep control of your stuff. Everything remains on your hard drive, you can pull it off the web anytime you want. 3- you can easily backup everything. It's all in a directory. 4- tight and reliable user groups management. No more finding out that private party pictures reserved for friends or family made their way to the 'everybody' group because FB screwed up or tried to monetize more.
It does have drawbacks though: - you need an always-on PC - it's a bit rough around the edges still - it doesn't mesh the way Facebook does. you've got to go to everyone's pages one by one to keep up to date on everyone.
The Pre is slated for release in France this month or next. That's GSM, as all of Europe. By law, operators and shops pretty much HAVE to sell unlocked versions alongside subsidized, locked handsets (which operators, also by law, have to unlock for free 6 months into your contract if you request it).
Electronics usually is a bit cheaper in the UK or Germany, though. Reliable French stores are: www.phonehouse.com www.materiel.net (my favorite, very trystworthy though a tad more expensive) www.fnac.com (very large retail chain, a bit top-heavy when you need help/service though)
I don't quite agree about the 3. I briefly had a Psion 3, it's quite different from a Pilot / PDA. It really tried to mimic a (smaller) full PC, with Office apps, lots of keyboard use... it only fit in very large pockets. I understand how many people liked it a lot, especially when you had to actually type a lot, including numbers. For contact / calendar / to-do list and later music / video playing, it really was not that hot. I think the Psion 3 and the Palm Pilots really fall in different categories.
You're right about the 7 and netbooks: psion where first. I really-really wanted one at on time, they were very expensive though. I tried to make do with a 5mx, but the thing was just too small, I went back to my Nec 8201 (TRS PC-100) because the keyboard was actually usable, and serial port "synching" had a lot of geek cred. I'd have loved a Sinclair Z88... even today, the form factor feels very right for quick and dirty emailing with large hands.
It seems Palm could not market water to the thirsty.
The Palm Pilot was the first successful PDA. I'm still using my TX, because it is so reliable and convenient. I'm still looking for as good an experience with smartphones. The LifeDrive was everything the iPod is, minus the iTunes store, sexy ads, and "nano" option. Fatal oversights, it seems. The Foleo was a netbook, a couple of years before netbooks took off. The Treos are basically BlackBerrys without the push mail and the "pro" cachet. And finally, the Pre has the snazziest mobile OS to this day, but glitchy hardware, and lame ads and distribution.
In the end, it seems to me that Palm got lots of things right, and systematically failed at key final steps. Advertising and distribution certainly, and also that extra feature that would really have made people sit up and notice that they needed the gizmos. I'll be sad to see them go, what a waste.
French comic Pierre Desproges had a very un-comical set, starting with "I got a story to tell you. An authentic story. I insist that it is authentic, because it is more or less its only interest". It was something about buying batteries, but not by lot of 4... Would you be related, perchance ?
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If goal is to secure the data, I'm afraid the solution may defeat the purpose, and be very inconvenient to use. Why not go for remote access instead ?
I see 2 issues.
1- It's totally normal for the hospital to require encryption and strict access control. But since you're using your own PC, they can't force you to install anything on it, just forbid you to connect to their network. They should buy you a PC, and configure it as they wish. As for Off-site access, same deal.
2- Their encryption solution sucks. What did they choose ? I'm getting good feedback on BitLocker and Truecrypt. Is there not a bit of user hysteria going on ?
some say you need good perf/watt and low idle power ?
He's probably alluding to the snafu at Danger (an MS subsidiary), were a botched disk upgrade + botched backups lost pretty much all of Sidekick's clients data.
Danger was seen as a trailblazer in cloud-based stuff, BTW. We've been warned :-p
Actually, both are price fixing, and illegal in my country (France). When a manufacturer advertises prices, the small type reads "price generally seen in most stores" or some much, because manufacturers can't enforce pricing through resellers, and thus can't assume their "recommended" prices will stick. Actually, "recommending" a price is frowned upon. IIRC, Apple has a clever way to enforce uniform pricing anyway.
In the same way, several competitors can't get together to agree on prices indeed.
well, mine was that before saying that printing is bad, we've got to make sure that the alternatives aren't worse. Giving tablets to everyone does not make sense, I'm curious about how many printed pages someone has to "consume" per year for switching to tablet/ereaders to be ecologically justified.
corollary: however much I pollute is but a drop in the sea of pollution humanity generates, hence I can do whatever I want with no consequence ?
your logic is deeply flawed.
Waou, that was a convincing argument. everything is an environmental negative, BTW
Yes and no. Both actually mainly deal in feelings and money. Case in point: does anyone actually know the cradle-to-grave environmental impact of any action or object ? Is it better to get a $30 light bulb, or a $0.5 one and give $49.5 to a charity ? Is planting a tree in my garden and then watering it a "good" move ? Actually, should I not actually use more water, because the profits generated go into improving supply and efficiency ? and so on...
i'd actually be interested in knowing how many pages of paper it takes to make as much environmental damage as a single iPad, cradle-to-grave, including a realists % of recycling of both.
1- and one time catholics chose to die on the cross for their faith. Ratty chose to join hitlerian youths to avoid his family "ostracised, bullied to buggery, or worse". nothing to see, move along.
2- the accomplice of a criminal is pretty much committing the same crime.
maybe the ones who will be happy are the ones who actually think priests should not be left to abuse children, and that they and the ones who covered up for them should face justice ?
1- we've seen what the effect was when people did NOT have access to all that information: child abuses perpetuating over decades, among other things.
2- the pope is not under attack specifically as a CEO, but as the guy at one time in charge of the child abusing priests that were left to abuse freely.
3- to me, he's just trying to convince believers that information not from the church is bad. it seems to work on you.
Huh ?
relevant (rl-vnt)
adj.
Having a bearing on or connection with the matter at hand.
Nothing about being correct, just about having a bearing. You can be relevant and wrong (as public opinion often is when making political decisions), or irrelevant and right (if you're an hermit who actually has the answer to the question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
They"re not used to having to actually justify themselves, god usually does that for them.
Yes and no. Information, like Science, has good and bad uses. Bad arguments remain bad arguments, so that's not really an issue. I'm more concerned about a kind of tunnel effect: someone getting killed once for fairly local news, no it makes front page pretty much every time, giving the impression that insecurity is on the rise even while it's actually down. We must learn to deal with that.
The argument that it's OK to do it because others are doing does not fly. It's moral relativism at its worst.
The issue is not that some priests did fail, it's that the church as an institution did its best to cover it up, in the process creating opportunities for abuse to last longer and spread.
The whole vatican is a PR operation these days.
I'd add to dunkelfake's reply:
- no apps. Winmob7 is incompatible with anything that came before. Yes, that means all winmob 6.x apps won't run
- closed shop. Apps can only be installed from the Apple-like appstore.
- v1.0. We all know how good MS's 1.x versions are.
With Palm seemingly soon to be out of the running, only Android and MeeGo remain as reasonnably open platforms for geeks, and Meego is still a pipedream.
I think you nailed it. I'm looking to use my phone as a media player (video, music, ebooks) and a stopgap 'netbook', and file sharing / network access on the iPhone is too locked down. Plus no SD card really sucks.
I'm looking at the HD2 right now, hopefully the Dell Streak will come out before I'm freed from my 2y contract (in July).
I'm assuming you don't feel up to running your own full-fledged web server. Opera Unite solves most issues I associate with Facebook and the like:
1- you keep ownership of your stuff. No more finding your personal photos used in someone's ads.
2- you keep control of your stuff. Everything remains on your hard drive, you can pull it off the web anytime you want.
3- you can easily backup everything. It's all in a directory.
4- tight and reliable user groups management. No more finding out that private party pictures reserved for friends or family made their way to the 'everybody' group because FB screwed up or tried to monetize more.
It does have drawbacks though:
- you need an always-on PC
- it's a bit rough around the edges still
- it doesn't mesh the way Facebook does. you've got to go to everyone's pages one by one to keep up to date on everyone.
The Pre is slated for release in France this month or next. That's GSM, as all of Europe. By law, operators and shops pretty much HAVE to sell unlocked versions alongside subsidized, locked handsets (which operators, also by law, have to unlock for free 6 months into your contract if you request it).
Electronics usually is a bit cheaper in the UK or Germany, though. Reliable French stores are:
www.phonehouse.com
www.materiel.net (my favorite, very trystworthy though a tad more expensive)
www.fnac.com (very large retail chain, a bit top-heavy when you need help/service though)
you mean you've seen and tested a working copy of DNF ?
I don't quite agree about the 3. I briefly had a Psion 3, it's quite different from a Pilot / PDA. It really tried to mimic a (smaller) full PC, with Office apps, lots of keyboard use... it only fit in very large pockets. I understand how many people liked it a lot, especially when you had to actually type a lot, including numbers. For contact / calendar / to-do list and later music / video playing, it really was not that hot. I think the Psion 3 and the Palm Pilots really fall in different categories.
You're right about the 7 and netbooks: psion where first. I really-really wanted one at on time, they were very expensive though. I tried to make do with a 5mx, but the thing was just too small, I went back to my Nec 8201 (TRS PC-100) because the keyboard was actually usable, and serial port "synching" had a lot of geek cred. I'd have loved a Sinclair Z88... even today, the form factor feels very right for quick and dirty emailing with large hands.
It seems Palm could not market water to the thirsty.
The Palm Pilot was the first successful PDA. I'm still using my TX, because it is so reliable and convenient. I'm still looking for as good an experience with smartphones.
The LifeDrive was everything the iPod is, minus the iTunes store, sexy ads, and "nano" option. Fatal oversights, it seems.
The Foleo was a netbook, a couple of years before netbooks took off.
The Treos are basically BlackBerrys without the push mail and the "pro" cachet.
And finally, the Pre has the snazziest mobile OS to this day, but glitchy hardware, and lame ads and distribution.
In the end, it seems to me that Palm got lots of things right, and systematically failed at key final steps. Advertising and distribution certainly, and also that extra feature that would really have made people sit up and notice that they needed the gizmos. I'll be sad to see them go, what a waste.
French comic Pierre Desproges had a very un-comical set, starting with "I got a story to tell you. An authentic story. I insist that it is authentic, because it is more or less its only interest". It was something about buying batteries, but not by lot of 4... Would you be related, perchance ?