Don't use Windows for mission critical applications where money changes hanges. Although these articles only mention it in passing, either in an attempt to remove technical "jargon" or due to a wish to defer to MSFT, it does mention that these guys exploited vulns in NT, and fails to mention that they exploited any other OS. Maybe it's blaming the victim, but why were these CIOs astonished when they were hacked? Best case is that it was lack of research on their part. Worst case it was plain stupidity. Nevertheless, MSFT isn't held accountable.
On a related note, I was an indirect victim when they targeted an online shop that I purchased some stuff from (www.thenerds.net). Although I didn't lose cc info, the shop told me that my account was being held hostage unless they paid up. My response: I won't do business with them again, for depending on MSFT to secure their e-biz. I've also gone to a disposable Credit Card, which I recommend: www.mbnashopsafe.com.
Bottom line: any "CIO" that depends on MSFT for e-biz security gets what's coming to him.
While Palms are still being bought and sold, I wouldn't exactly consider them the best case model for driving business profit.
And that's really besides the point--Apple isn't considering anything. Jobs likes "integration", and it's particularly integration that makes the iTunes Music Store work--if it was a standalone app, not nearly as many people would have bothered. But the fact that it is pre-installed, and works with Apple hardware for playback, is a large part of what's driving the TMS success.
This is just foaming at the mouth by analysts, who must feel more and more like they need to justify their salaries by spouting opinion.
I'm no fan of this idea--I also think it's overexpensive with a limited demographic, and, more importantly, I have never used one myself.
However, wouldn't this be better than a clipboard in these ways: comprehensive, immediate patient records; records for every patient ever serviced by the state or hospital; check for drug interactions; keyword search for unusual ailments; in-hand visuals ie x-ray scans; even the mundane, like prescription writing-spelling check.
A two-hour battery life, admittedly, defeats almost any use they might have: it's impossible for it to be useful if it can't stay on. But that aside, don't the mentioned uses make it worthwhile?
Apple developed "Airport Admin Utility for Windows". Doc says this utility will only work with Dual Ethernet base stations, aka "snow", ie neither Graphite base stations nor Extreme base stations. Does 8.6 even support AirPort as a client? I can't recall.
The only decision for some security patches is how long do you wait before deploying it.
That's not quite the only choice--you have two other choices: adopt Linux; adopt Macs. If the cost of patching is really that great, it raises the cost of the machine--until maybe purchasing a Mac isn't all that expensive after all.
What part of "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand?
Which word of "well regulated" do you find it easier to ignore? The paradox, of course, is that to regulate of course you have to infringe. But which absolute trumps the other?
and you make the technological changes to the medium to prevent it's abuse by the common rabble of the world
If you weren't thinking of group-moderation when you wrote this, I think it fits. Although moderation has it's problems,/. remains the most readable site of any other medium with public write access and the equivalent amount of volume. The closest analogy are leaflets, I think, and those still have a much higher barrier of entry to the fucktards than does/.
I'm sure folks from the Dark Side will chime in if it's possible in Windows, but for sure Mac OS X and 9 have the capability to magnify text under the mouse. OS 9 required an addition from the CD, IIRC; OS X lists the ability as just another system preference. This is all in addition to text-to-speech abilities built in to the system, both in 9 and X, which is one thing I don't think Windows includes.
I'd be interested, mostly to exclude search hits that were not related to the topic of interest by anything other than an accident of vocabulary.
For example, if I wanted to search for the use of "Star Wars" in relation to the "Space Defense Initiative" and am not interested in the movie "Star Wars", I would very much like to have a search of "Star Wars !movie". I don't think Google can do this very well, although I haven't tried much either. Another example would be multiple operators, eg +(Apple AND/OR Mac AND/OR MAC) and (job AND/OR position). Most search engines can't seem to handle multiple part substitutions very well.
It isn't a myth. You're just too much of a coward to recognize what's happening in this country. As another poster mentioned, a citizen of our country has been detained for weeks without charges or a public hearing. I wonder--why haven't the same people that told you that was a myth tell you about the injustices being done to Mike Hawash?
The only way we ended up with something as good as we have was due to the fact that it was created by a small group of very intelligent men with much foresight.
Yes--but critical in that process was that they next released those ideas to the world . If they had kept those ideas to themselves in an attempt to charge for them, the nascent Internet would have ended up with all those Betamaxes. Imagine if I owed $1.50 for the HTML tags that I just used, because it was, frankly, someone else's idea.
And lest someone think that they could have gotten rich if they had only charged for it--wrong. The Internet simply would not have been used and nobody would have gained.
The Apple AirPort Base Station can be set to operate exclusively in g speeds--it will ignore b clients. I dunno if this is a common or standard feature of g access points, but there you go.
OTOH, if you're looking for something that does both b and full-speed g at the same time, is that even technically possible? And no, I didn't RTFA. However, for instance the Apple base staion again--if it does both b and g, the g speed doesn't crash all the way back to b, but is rather diminished by about 1/2 of it's typical speed. YMMV depending on range and b/g client ratio, and what the different clients are accessing.
IANAL, to be sure, but I always thought that would fall under "self-incrimination" and therefore I couldn't be compelled. Although your lockbox analogy gives me pause--but I don't think you necessarily have to give them the key; they just have the right to force it even absent the key. I suppose they could (brute) force digital encryption, also. But the rule that allows for warrants never considered an unbreakable lock, as its creation is a feature of the rise of modern technology. Hm.
Little of Microsoft's software development work has been getting THEIR software to work on other platforms...
They've been doing this for the Mac now for years. The strategy is probably the same, as well--to tie up the format. If WMP is available on Linux, but QuickTime is not, which are you more likely to use for development? If you're targeting a Linux device, like, I dunno, a TiVo? Or PDA? etc. And then once the majority of the available media/development skills are invested in WMP--whoops! No more Linux vesion! So you had better buy a Windows version, or do without the media (since no other formats available any longer.)
True story: when I was in High School, an automated phone service was instigated, in which if you skipped class a computer would automatically call home and inform on you. Well, I had better things to do than go to class Every Single Day, and I sure didn't want to wait around in the evening just to be the one that picked up the phone.
So, once I got the call, I taped it; then, using an acquired phone list of the students, randomly, and at a late hour, called and played this message back. Parents were furious that the school was calling them so late; students were pissed that they were getting calls when they had attended; the credibility of the system was shot to shit. So whenever someone actually skipped, they would just report that it must've been the Mad Phone Prankster and that the call wasn't legitimate. A $30K computer system shut down with $1 worth of Memorex.
Not that I'm flaming, but maybe there's something that you can be helped with in terms of using the Mac. I understand (really! I do!) that it's not for everyone, but I've found that usually when people say that they don't care for the Mac experience, that they haven't been educated how to use it. This is true among power users especially--they have grown accustomed to having certain features/abilities in one place, and when they can't find it on the Mac in the same place, get frustrated.
So, are there any particular problems that you, or anyone, is having that you wish to pose to the community?
What OS do you use? What OS are you paid to support? If the answer to either of those is Windows, you're not part of the solution...
But I do think you're right in that Apple would have been just as bad if they had won. The question is academic, however, and they do present a real choice--it's not like you would be recommending that your site move to Amigas. So what would happen if you put in a P0 for 1000 eMacs?
Speaking ethically, not legally, how much can we borrow from the ideas of others to develop new ideas? For instance, all scientific discovery that I'm aware of before this century depended on large part on working from the ideas of others. Now, the notion of IP has provided an incentive to stop sharing ideas--but will this hurt human scientific development?
To exaggerate the issue--if you develop a cure for cancer, but its ideas depend on the work of another scientist, should you develop the cure? What if the scientist prohbits access to the information for personal reasons? Along those lines, how do you determine valuation? ie If one is to be compensated, does the scientist with the original idea get more compensation that the scientist that developed the idea? Why? What proportion?
Amendment V No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Ashcroft has done more damage to our country and our constituion than the terrorists could ever have dreamed of doing. The terrorists have won, and the current administration has done nothing but help them. I believe a regime change is needed indeed--vote against the regime in 2004.
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Don't use Windows for mission critical applications where money changes hanges. Although these articles only mention it in passing, either in an attempt to remove technical "jargon" or due to a wish to defer to MSFT, it does mention that these guys exploited vulns in NT, and fails to mention that they exploited any other OS. Maybe it's blaming the victim, but why were these CIOs astonished when they were hacked? Best case is that it was lack of research on their part. Worst case it was plain stupidity. Nevertheless, MSFT isn't held accountable.
On a related note, I was an indirect victim when they targeted an online shop that I purchased some stuff from (www.thenerds.net). Although I didn't lose cc info, the shop told me that my account was being held hostage unless they paid up. My response: I won't do business with them again, for depending on MSFT to secure their e-biz. I've also gone to a disposable Credit Card, which I recommend: www.mbnashopsafe.com.
Bottom line: any "CIO" that depends on MSFT for e-biz security gets what's coming to him.
This question posed in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". You have what the author would call "stuckness."
Imagine if Slashdot read like this transcript.
Lord Johnny Mnemonic: My Lords, do you agree that the original post in this thread shall be labled a "First Post" and condemned as such?
Minister Cowboy Neal: Aye, and who will join me in moderating up all Natalie Portman posts?
The content would be the same, but it sure would be lot more polite...
While Palms are still being bought and sold, I wouldn't exactly consider them the best case model for driving business profit.
And that's really besides the point--Apple isn't considering anything. Jobs likes "integration", and it's particularly integration that makes the iTunes Music Store work--if it was a standalone app, not nearly as many people would have bothered. But the fact that it is pre-installed, and works with Apple hardware for playback, is a large part of what's driving the TMS success.
This is just foaming at the mouth by analysts, who must feel more and more like they need to justify their salaries by spouting opinion.
I'm no fan of this idea--I also think it's overexpensive with a limited demographic, and, more importantly, I have never used one myself.
However, wouldn't this be better than a clipboard in these ways: comprehensive, immediate patient records; records for every patient ever serviced by the state or hospital; check for drug interactions; keyword search for unusual ailments; in-hand visuals ie x-ray scans; even the mundane, like prescription writing-spelling check.
A two-hour battery life, admittedly, defeats almost any use they might have: it's impossible for it to be useful if it can't stay on. But that aside, don't the mentioned uses make it worthwhile?
Apple developed "Airport Admin Utility for Windows". Doc says this utility will only work with Dual Ethernet base stations, aka "snow", ie neither Graphite base stations nor Extreme base stations. Does 8.6 even support AirPort as a client? I can't recall.
The only decision for some security patches is how long do you wait before deploying it.
That's not quite the only choice--you have two other choices: adopt Linux; adopt Macs. If the cost of patching is really that great, it raises the cost of the machine--until maybe purchasing a Mac isn't all that expensive after all.
What part of "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand?
Which word of "well regulated" do you find it easier to ignore? The paradox, of course, is that to regulate of course you have to infringe. But which absolute trumps the other?
and you make the technological changes to the medium to prevent it's abuse by the common rabble of the world
If you weren't thinking of group-moderation when you wrote this, I think it fits. Although moderation has it's problems,
I'm sure folks from the Dark Side will chime in if it's possible in Windows, but for sure Mac OS X and 9 have the capability to magnify text under the mouse. OS 9 required an addition from the CD, IIRC; OS X lists the ability as just another system preference. This is all in addition to text-to-speech abilities built in to the system, both in 9 and X, which is one thing I don't think Windows includes.
So, once again, buy a Mac.
Me: Hello?
Telemarketer: Would you like to sign up for our cell phone plan?
Me: I'm sorry, I don't use the phone.
TM: You mean, you don't use cellphones?
M: No, I don't use the phone. Sorry.
TM: Aren't we using the phone now to communicate?
M: No, I don't think so. I think you're just another voice in my head.
(without missing a beat) TM: Well, this voice in your head is telling you to sign up for our cellphone plan...
I'd be interested, mostly to exclude search hits that were not related to the topic of interest by anything other than an accident of vocabulary.
For example, if I wanted to search for the use of "Star Wars" in relation to the "Space Defense Initiative" and am not interested in the movie "Star Wars", I would very much like to have a search of "Star Wars !movie". I don't think Google can do this very well, although I haven't tried much either. Another example would be multiple operators, eg +(Apple AND/OR Mac AND/OR MAC) and (job AND/OR position). Most search engines can't seem to handle multiple part substitutions very well.
It isn't a myth. You're just too much of a coward to recognize what's happening in this country. As another poster mentioned, a citizen of our country has been detained for weeks without charges or a public hearing. I wonder--why haven't the same people that told you that was a myth tell you about the injustices being done to Mike Hawash?
The only way we ended up with something as good as we have was due to the fact that it was created by a small group of very intelligent men with much foresight.
Yes--but critical in that process was that they next released those ideas to the world . If they had kept those ideas to themselves in an attempt to charge for them, the nascent Internet would have ended up with all those Betamaxes. Imagine if I owed $1.50 for the HTML tags that I just used, because it was, frankly, someone else's idea.
And lest someone think that they could have gotten rich if they had only charged for it--wrong. The Internet simply would not have been used and nobody would have gained.
The Apple AirPort Base Station can be set to operate exclusively in g speeds--it will ignore b clients. I dunno if this is a common or standard feature of g access points, but there you go.
OTOH, if you're looking for something that does both b and full-speed g at the same time, is that even technically possible? And no, I didn't RTFA. However, for instance the Apple base staion again--if it does both b and g, the g speed doesn't crash all the way back to b, but is rather diminished by about 1/2 of it's typical speed. YMMV depending on range and b/g client ratio, and what the different clients are accessing.
FWIW, I get mine from WAMU. I made a note that I appreciated the mp3 stream the last time I contributed.
http://www.wamu.org/
I'm a pro Mac user, and I actually thought the same thing on the first read-through. Wish I was a support guy in his neighborhood!
IANAL, to be sure, but I always thought that would fall under "self-incrimination" and therefore I couldn't be compelled. Although your lockbox analogy gives me pause--but I don't think you necessarily have to give them the key; they just have the right to force it even absent the key. I suppose they could (brute) force digital encryption, also. But the rule that allows for warrants never considered an unbreakable lock, as its creation is a feature of the rise of modern technology. Hm.
Little of Microsoft's software development work has been getting THEIR software to work on other platforms...
They've been doing this for the Mac now for years. The strategy is probably the same, as well--to tie up the format. If WMP is available on Linux, but QuickTime is not, which are you more likely to use for development? If you're targeting a Linux device, like, I dunno, a TiVo? Or PDA? etc. And then once the majority of the available media/development skills are invested in WMP--whoops! No more Linux vesion! So you had better buy a Windows version, or do without the media (since no other formats available any longer.)
This thing is crying out to be hacked.
True story: when I was in High School, an automated phone service was instigated, in which if you skipped class a computer would automatically call home and inform on you. Well, I had better things to do than go to class Every Single Day, and I sure didn't want to wait around in the evening just to be the one that picked up the phone.
So, once I got the call, I taped it; then, using an acquired phone list of the students, randomly, and at a late hour, called and played this message back. Parents were furious that the school was calling them so late; students were pissed that they were getting calls when they had attended; the credibility of the system was shot to shit. So whenever someone actually skipped, they would just report that it must've been the Mad Phone Prankster and that the call wasn't legitimate. A $30K computer system shut down with $1 worth of Memorex.
Yeah Dawgs! Garfield Class of '88.
Not that I'm flaming, but maybe there's something that you can be helped with in terms of using the Mac. I understand (really! I do!) that it's not for everyone, but I've found that usually when people say that they don't care for the Mac experience, that they haven't been educated how to use it. This is true among power users especially--they have grown accustomed to having certain features/abilities in one place, and when they can't find it on the Mac in the same place, get frustrated.
So, are there any particular problems that you, or anyone, is having that you wish to pose to the community?
What OS do you use? What OS are you paid to support? If the answer to either of those is Windows, you're not part of the solution...
But I do think you're right in that Apple would have been just as bad if they had won. The question is academic, however, and they do present a real choice--it's not like you would be recommending that your site move to Amigas. So what would happen if you put in a P0 for 1000 eMacs?
I can actually put "Genius" in my resume. The only downside is that most (non-Mac) people think I'm kidding.
Speaking ethically, not legally, how much can we borrow from the ideas of others to develop new ideas? For instance, all scientific discovery that I'm aware of before this century depended on large part on working from the ideas of others. Now, the notion of IP has provided an incentive to stop sharing ideas--but will this hurt human scientific development?
To exaggerate the issue--if you develop a cure for cancer, but its ideas depend on the work of another scientist, should you develop the cure? What if the scientist prohbits access to the information for personal reasons? Along those lines, how do you determine valuation? ie If one is to be compensated, does the scientist with the original idea get more compensation that the scientist that developed the idea? Why? What proportion?
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Ashcroft has done more damage to our country and our constituion than the terrorists could ever have dreamed of doing. The terrorists have won, and the current administration has done nothing but help them. I believe a regime change is needed indeed--vote against the regime in 2004.