I don't see any indication that this was written in Assembly language, just that it is a "Gene Assembler" - a program to assemble genetic fragments. I'd be amazed if he wrote the app in Assembly per your headline, more likely the obvious C/C++.
Assuming these in-room terminals have access to medical records and appointments, they should be physically isolated from the outside world (internet). Imagine a BO plugin installed onto a terminal that has access to that kind of information. Snooping would be bad enough, but what about tampering? What if your doctor "forgets" you're allergic to penicillan?
Data integrity and security needs to be first and foremost where lives are at stake.
Does anyone believe that we would allow such a hotbed of copyright theft to exist forever? They would be bought off, isolated from the network, or failing all else they would be attacked militarily. No corporate loss of any magnitude would be tolerated by the government for any length of time.
I recently got a Samsung Digimax 800, it's a point-and-shoot digital camera with passable image quality (1024x768) and low cost (around £100 in the UK, should be less than $150 in the US with lower sales taxes).
Downside: No LCD, it uses Smart Media, only has one compression level and it's not TTL (through the lens).
Upside: Very small, very light and cheap. Relatively easy on batteries if you avoid using the flash, and it only takes 2xAA. You can carry this everywhere and take insane numbers of pictures for nothing if you use rechargable batteries.
Look for the Jenoptik JD12, it's the same camera but tends to be even less expensive.
You might try routing it through another country a little closer to the action, like England. Se if they'll let you mail it to them for shipment. Sounds like you're willing to pay an amount on shipping equal to the value, so you might also try sending it USPS as "no value".
Sending your friend the cash is a better option. Or find an ecommerce site in Russia that will deliver it to him, but pretty dodgy giving them your credit card.
We had an ugly internal flame war about education the past few days. It was between the people who know certifications are worthless as an indicator of knowledge, and the people who know that they help you to get promoted by the PHB's running the show.
Of course they're both right.
EDS is famous around here for getting IT interns over the summer, luring them into not going back to school in the fall with 30-40K/year, then trapping them in low-level developer positions for life. After all, they don't have degrees, do they?
I've read a few posts here arguing the (mostly well-understood) problems with using heat difference engines. The engineer who designed this nitrogen car, and the other compressed gas vehicles I've seen on TV (this is not a new idea), are running small turbines using the air pressure generated when the liquid nitrogen expands into a gas.
Pick up a handy can of keyboard dusting spray and imagine it's a can of liquid nitrogen. You don't have to keep it cold, you just have to maintain the pressure in the can to keep the nitrogen as a liquid (the difference between it being a gas or a liquid is a function of pressure and tempature). When the ambient pressure in the can drops (you pull the trigger on the can, opening the valve), the liquid inside the can expands into a gas (you may actually feel it "boiling" inside the can). Now imagine you're pointing this can of dusting spray at a small model windmill. The blades on the windmill turn from the air rushing by. This is what spins the turbines in the car, and makes the wheels go round. You may also notice that the can is by now getting pretty cold. The liquid nitrogen in the can (we're pretending, remember?) is absorbing the ambient heat as it expands (this is how your refrigerator works BTW). As the can gets colder and colder, the rate of the gas coming out will slow. If the can gets cold enough, the liquid nitrogen in the can will be able to remain a liquid at room pressure. So the trick with the car is to carry enough liquid nitrogen to make the trip worthwhile, and to heat it efficiently as it expands into a gas so that the expansion chamber doesn't turn into a giant frosty popsicle and stop working.
We did all of out cgi's in C++ and built up quite a library of objects, including a template parser. Doing string handling is a little bulky, and using embedded SQL (via Oracle Pro/C or DB2's SQC) can be cumbersome, but the performance was awesome and if you're not selling the source you can deliver objects.
We've since gone to WebSphere/Java and had to quadruple the number of Solaris boxes to a similar load. Not saying I'd want to go back, and hardware's cheap, but you can't beat the speed of compiled apps vs. interpreted (or machine compiled vs. bytecode compiled).
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I don't see any indication that this was written in Assembly language, just that it is a "Gene Assembler" - a program to assemble genetic fragments. I'd be amazed if he wrote the app in Assembly per your headline, more likely the obvious C/C++.
Data integrity and security needs to be first and foremost where lives are at stake.
I got a spam on this console a few weeks ago, so naturally I assume it's some kind of crap ripoff.
Does anyone believe that we would allow such a hotbed of copyright theft to exist forever? They would be bought off, isolated from the network, or failing all else they would be attacked militarily. No corporate loss of any magnitude would be tolerated by the government for any length of time.
I recently got a Samsung Digimax 800, it's a point-and-shoot digital camera with passable image quality (1024x768) and low cost (around £100 in the UK, should be less than $150 in the US with lower sales taxes).
Downside: No LCD, it uses Smart Media, only has one compression level and it's not TTL (through the lens).
Upside: Very small, very light and cheap. Relatively easy on batteries if you avoid using the flash, and it only takes 2xAA. You can carry this everywhere and take insane numbers of pictures for nothing if you use rechargable batteries.
Look for the Jenoptik JD12, it's the same camera but tends to be even less expensive.
You might try routing it through another country a little closer to the action, like England. Se if they'll let you mail it to them for shipment. Sounds like you're willing to pay an amount on shipping equal to the value, so you might also try sending it USPS as "no value". Sending your friend the cash is a better option. Or find an ecommerce site in Russia that will deliver it to him, but pretty dodgy giving them your credit card.
We had an ugly internal flame war about education the past few days. It was between the people who know certifications are worthless as an indicator of knowledge, and the people who know that they help you to get promoted by the PHB's running the show. Of course they're both right. EDS is famous around here for getting IT interns over the summer, luring them into not going back to school in the fall with 30-40K/year, then trapping them in low-level developer positions for life. After all, they don't have degrees, do they?
Pick up a handy can of keyboard dusting spray and imagine it's a can of liquid nitrogen. You don't have to keep it cold, you just have to maintain the pressure in the can to keep the nitrogen as a liquid (the difference between it being a gas or a liquid is a function of pressure and tempature). When the ambient pressure in the can drops (you pull the trigger on the can, opening the valve), the liquid inside the can expands into a gas (you may actually feel it "boiling" inside the can). Now imagine you're pointing this can of dusting spray at a small model windmill. The blades on the windmill turn from the air rushing by. This is what spins the turbines in the car, and makes the wheels go round. You may also notice that the can is by now getting pretty cold. The liquid nitrogen in the can (we're pretending, remember?) is absorbing the ambient heat as it expands (this is how your refrigerator works BTW). As the can gets colder and colder, the rate of the gas coming out will slow. If the can gets cold enough, the liquid nitrogen in the can will be able to remain a liquid at room pressure. So the trick with the car is to carry enough liquid nitrogen to make the trip worthwhile, and to heat it efficiently as it expands into a gas so that the expansion chamber doesn't turn into a giant frosty popsicle and stop working.
We did all of out cgi's in C++ and built up quite a library of objects, including a template parser. Doing string handling is a little bulky, and using embedded SQL (via Oracle Pro/C or DB2's SQC) can be cumbersome, but the performance was awesome and if you're not selling the source you can deliver objects.
We've since gone to WebSphere/Java and had to quadruple the number of Solaris boxes to a similar load. Not saying I'd want to go back, and hardware's cheap, but you can't beat the speed of compiled apps vs. interpreted (or machine compiled vs. bytecode compiled).