Even if the control machines loose DNS resolution, might not the botnet be configured to fall back to connecting to well known IP addresses to accept commands? Seems like the logical thing to do if you are creating an illegal network...
Ok if it's just a question of population density, then why does broadband suck so badly in NYC then? Why is there no FiOS in Boston yet? Because providers just want to charge under served customers overinflated prices and spend the minimum on their infrastructure they can without it failing completely.
Personally, I think the FTC should define broadband for advertising purposes. Just like anything that wants to call itself "juice" must be 10% real fruit content, anything that wants to advertise itself as broadband should be required to operate at at least X Mbps and be capped at no less than Y GB/mo.
I live in Boston and I regularly see birds in the Prudential mall near my work. It's got 50 foot high glass ceilings, bamboo stands here and there... hell, it's basically an aviary.
I'm pushing 32 and the only reason I have a landline is that I needed a phone # to subscribe to DSL. The only outgoing calls I've ever made on it was to activate new credit cards since I only give out the number to people likely to spam me.
I think that whether you rely on POTS says more about where you live than your age. Cell service in metro areas outside of clubs or movie theaters is pretty darn reliable. I've acquired more rollover minutes on my cell than I'll ever use since the primary way I communicate with people is through txt these days anyway.
This might be be moot now, but under XP, Explorer's address bar understood environment variables. I would always just put %APPDATA% in there and hit enter. You might want to give that a shot.
For all who're so afraid of some badbadbad country having "da bomb": FexEx does not ship nuclear ordnance overnight. So unless that country also has the means to reliably send a bomb somewhere near you, don't bother worrying.
Just stash your bomb in with a few keys of marijuana or coke. That stuff seems to have no problem making it into the country.
Apple would stand to be sued by the stockholders and Steve Jobs if Apple had intentionally violated the medical privacy act (HIPPA), which is FEDERAL LAW.
Unless Apple administers its employee's health plan (i.e. they're self-insured), they are probably not bound by HIPAA. HIPAA covers providers, insurers, and medical clearing houses. Employers aren't covered and they don't need to be. If the covered entities are obeying the law, Apple, Inc. should have no way of getting their hands on Jobs's medical history short of him voluntarily disclosing his condition. Once that happens you have no protections under HIPAA.
Also, even if your employer has a self-sponsored healthcare plan, only disclosures made to the plan as part of medical care are covered (i.e. filing claims). If you walk in to your boss's office and tell them about a medical procedure you're having, that is not considered protected healthcare information.
Incidentally, that's why you should stay the hell away from services like Google Health. They're not covered entities either. Any patient-facing hosted EMR service not run by a covered entity is bound only by its promise to make nice.
They were afraid that without their data system they wouldn't be able to bill for the services to the patients.
The article said they lost their electronic health record system. While the EHR *might* contain insurance information (many don't), its primary purpose is continuity of care. The article doesn't have a lot of details, so it's possible that they had some sort of all-in-one solution, but the common case is for the practice management system to be a separate system from the EHR.
In fact it's hardly rare for the clinical records system to be from an entirely different vendor than the business software. They're almost certainly in communication, typically via HL7, but unless their IT department really botched something, one going down shouldn't bring the other one with it.
The fact is that a modern hospital is a shambling Frankenstein of patched together systems: imaging, capitation, scheduling, pharmacy, identity management, billing, EHR... And since most hospitals computerized those systems piecemeal over the years and they are reluctant to discard historical data/spend too much money on IT, you will have any number of interface engines sitting between them, trying to get them all to communicate.
In that kind of scenario, intermittent outages be it from hardware or software failure, while annoying, are a fact of life. I'm sure Methodist Hospital would not have turned away a gunshot victim that stumbled into their ED, or sent a ambulance with a heart attack patient in an inbound ambulance 10 minutes up the road if that would affect the patient's outcome.
I think it's premature to say "OMG, they couldn't bill, so they let people bleed on the sidewalk." It's more likely the case that they got so overwhelmed with paperwork, that they redirected as many of their ambulatory cases as they could to neighboring facilities. It's definitely a cautionary tale of how reliant we've become on these systems though.
Eternal Darkness was made by Silicon Knights, not Nintendo, and they've been too busy with the boondoggle that was Too Human do anything for the Wii AFAIK. In fact, I haven't heard anything about them since Too Human was released. Hopefully the studio's not sunk. They put out some good games.
America's border and our living conditions are far more porous than EU's (in fact, more than just about any other nation)
I don't know about all of the EU, but having flown into France and Holland, the entry procedure consisted of presenting my passport and smiling. As an American citizen, you're scrutinized more coming home than you are visiting the EU, so I'm not sure what you mean by more porous.
I think most visual artists will tell you that the process informs the final product. Applying a Photoshop filter is a far cry from working with the original equipment.
I think you're getting a little carried away there. Even in a vacuum, an object at rest dropped from 324m (1063ft.) on earth will impact at 80m/s (~180mph).
Remember, if you neglect drag, you can just use simple linear acceleration, which ignores mass anyway:
So your 1cm^2 sample will impact with approximately the energy than a typical sedan traveling at 40mph. And, of course, chucking 6 million pounds of anything off the Eiffel Tower will cause a big crash. However, it will hardly be earth shattering (picture a building collapsing).
In the real world, the object will be subject to atmospheric drag and can only impact slower.
Another sanity check you could perform would be to calculate the potential energy of the object at the top of the tower, which can only be greater than the kinetic energy at impact due to losses from friction.
Depending on the intended use of the image there are several standards out there for capturing, transmitting, and archiving imaging data. If you have some free time you might want to try looking up DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine). DICOM images are typically stored in a PACS (Picture Archiving/Communication System).
Alternatively, if you are talking about building up an electronic health record, you could create a CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) document for the encounter with the image embedded in it and store it in an XDS (Cross-site Document Sharing) repository.
The age was 21 in the novel, it was raised to 30 for the film to broaden its appeal or to make the portrayals by older actors more believable. I've heard both explanations.
Ha! I read that first line and was about to post the same thing. Sales and marketing are that biggest work drinkers out there. He needs to get out to a users' conference.
I heard that the real reason they don't let you use third party HDDs is that their drive has DRM hardware built into it. They don't want any unapproved data being written to or read off that drive. Of course it has the side effect that they can therefore gouge us on the price.
Well, if it's mapped to the location bar, you can just hit CTRL-L to go there. Besides, I'm sure someone will release a "Ubiquity Classic" extension at some point. Almost every Firefox tweak or new feature has had an extension to roll it back;).
Oh, and Bill, let me know how that Lyme disease works out for you, K? Not every damn thing spread by mosquitos is combated by keeping current on your shots. Moron.
Lyme Disease is spread by deer ticks. If those were North American mosquitoes they almost certainly weren't Malaria carriers. The chances of any particular mosquito being a carrier of any human illness is vanishingly small. Especially considering the time of year the bugs probably weren't wild ones but research mosquitoes raised in captivity and therefor clean.
Realize that even with Network Neutrality laws in place, there will still be government mandates regarding various types of service.
I don't believe that's necessarily true. You can have a proscriptive instead of a prescriptive law. e.g. "All internet carriers are prohibited from routing traffic bound to a given destination preferentially to any other destination" or something of the sort.
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Even if the control machines loose DNS resolution, might not the botnet be configured to fall back to connecting to well known IP addresses to accept commands? Seems like the logical thing to do if you are creating an illegal network...
Ok if it's just a question of population density, then why does broadband suck so badly in NYC then? Why is there no FiOS in Boston yet? Because providers just want to charge under served customers overinflated prices and spend the minimum on their infrastructure they can without it failing completely.
Personally, I think the FTC should define broadband for advertising purposes. Just like anything that wants to call itself "juice" must be 10% real fruit content, anything that wants to advertise itself as broadband should be required to operate at at least X Mbps and be capped at no less than Y GB/mo.
I live in Boston and I regularly see birds in the Prudential mall near my work. It's got 50 foot high glass ceilings, bamboo stands here and there... hell, it's basically an aviary.
I'm pushing 32 and the only reason I have a landline is that I needed a phone # to subscribe to DSL. The only outgoing calls I've ever made on it was to activate new credit cards since I only give out the number to people likely to spam me.
I think that whether you rely on POTS says more about where you live than your age. Cell service in metro areas outside of clubs or movie theaters is pretty darn reliable. I've acquired more rollover minutes on my cell than I'll ever use since the primary way I communicate with people is through txt these days anyway.
This might be be moot now, but under XP, Explorer's address bar understood environment variables. I would always just put %APPDATA% in there and hit enter. You might want to give that a shot.
You may have to commit a little light.... treason.
Right, because herpes and HPV didn't exist until 1980 :P
Is this a corollary to the old adage about software bloat: "a piece of software will gain features until it is capable of reading email"?
"A piece of consumer electronics will gain features until it can take digital photographs".
Just stash your bomb in with a few keys of marijuana or coke. That stuff seems to have no problem making it into the country.
Unless Apple administers its employee's health plan (i.e. they're self-insured), they are probably not bound by HIPAA. HIPAA covers providers, insurers, and medical clearing houses. Employers aren't covered and they don't need to be. If the covered entities are obeying the law, Apple, Inc. should have no way of getting their hands on Jobs's medical history short of him voluntarily disclosing his condition. Once that happens you have no protections under HIPAA.
Also, even if your employer has a self-sponsored healthcare plan, only disclosures made to the plan as part of medical care are covered (i.e. filing claims). If you walk in to your boss's office and tell them about a medical procedure you're having, that is not considered protected healthcare information.
Incidentally, that's why you should stay the hell away from services like Google Health. They're not covered entities either. Any patient-facing hosted EMR service not run by a covered entity is bound only by its promise to make nice.
The article said they lost their electronic health record system. While the EHR *might* contain insurance information (many don't), its primary purpose is continuity of care. The article doesn't have a lot of details, so it's possible that they had some sort of all-in-one solution, but the common case is for the practice management system to be a separate system from the EHR.
In fact it's hardly rare for the clinical records system to be from an entirely different vendor than the business software. They're almost certainly in communication, typically via HL7, but unless their IT department really botched something, one going down shouldn't bring the other one with it.
The fact is that a modern hospital is a shambling Frankenstein of patched together systems: imaging, capitation, scheduling, pharmacy, identity management, billing, EHR... And since most hospitals computerized those systems piecemeal over the years and they are reluctant to discard historical data/spend too much money on IT, you will have any number of interface engines sitting between them, trying to get them all to communicate.
In that kind of scenario, intermittent outages be it from hardware or software failure, while annoying, are a fact of life. I'm sure Methodist Hospital would not have turned away a gunshot victim that stumbled into their ED, or sent a ambulance with a heart attack patient in an inbound ambulance 10 minutes up the road if that would affect the patient's outcome.
I think it's premature to say "OMG, they couldn't bill, so they let people bleed on the sidewalk." It's more likely the case that they got so overwhelmed with paperwork, that they redirected as many of their ambulatory cases as they could to neighboring facilities. It's definitely a cautionary tale of how reliant we've become on these systems though.
Eternal Darkness was made by Silicon Knights, not Nintendo, and they've been too busy with the boondoggle that was Too Human do anything for the Wii AFAIK. In fact, I haven't heard anything about them since Too Human was released. Hopefully the studio's not sunk. They put out some good games.
I don't know about all of the EU, but having flown into France and Holland, the entry procedure consisted of presenting my passport and smiling. As an American citizen, you're scrutinized more coming home than you are visiting the EU, so I'm not sure what you mean by more porous.
I think most visual artists will tell you that the process informs the final product. Applying a Photoshop filter is a far cry from working with the original equipment.
I think you're getting a little carried away there. Even in a vacuum, an object at rest dropped from 324m (1063ft.) on earth will impact at 80m/s (~180mph).
Remember, if you neglect drag, you can just use simple linear acceleration, which ignores mass anyway:
So your 1cm^2 sample will impact with approximately the energy than a typical sedan traveling at 40mph. And, of course, chucking 6 million pounds of anything off the Eiffel Tower will cause a big crash. However, it will hardly be earth shattering (picture a building collapsing).
In the real world, the object will be subject to atmospheric drag and can only impact slower.
Another sanity check you could perform would be to calculate the potential energy of the object at the top of the tower, which can only be greater than the kinetic energy at impact due to losses from friction.
Also:
Depending on the intended use of the image there are several standards out there for capturing, transmitting, and archiving imaging data. If you have some free time you might want to try looking up DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine). DICOM images are typically stored in a PACS (Picture Archiving/Communication System).
Alternatively, if you are talking about building up an electronic health record, you could create a CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) document for the encounter with the image embedded in it and store it in an XDS (Cross-site Document Sharing) repository.
The age was 21 in the novel, it was raised to 30 for the film to broaden its appeal or to make the portrayals by older actors more believable. I've heard both explanations.
Ha! I read that first line and was about to post the same thing. Sales and marketing are that biggest work drinkers out there. He needs to get out to a users' conference.
If you don't punish the actors, the actions will continue.
I heard that the real reason they don't let you use third party HDDs is that their drive has DRM hardware built into it. They don't want any unapproved data being written to or read off that drive. Of course it has the side effect that they can therefore gouge us on the price.
Great! So when can we zero out the Pentagon's budget?
Well, if it's mapped to the location bar, you can just hit CTRL-L to go there. Besides, I'm sure someone will release a "Ubiquity Classic" extension at some point. Almost every Firefox tweak or new feature has had an extension to roll it back ;).
Lyme Disease is spread by deer ticks. If those were North American mosquitoes they almost certainly weren't Malaria carriers. The chances of any particular mosquito being a carrier of any human illness is vanishingly small. Especially considering the time of year the bugs probably weren't wild ones but research mosquitoes raised in captivity and therefor clean.
All in all a pretty cool stunt in my opinion.
I think it's from the sitcom "Alice". No I'm not that old, I've just seen the reruns :)
I don't believe that's necessarily true. You can have a proscriptive instead of a prescriptive law. e.g. "All internet carriers are prohibited from routing traffic bound to a given destination preferentially to any other destination" or something of the sort.