Convenience is a subjective quantity. It is much handier to just leave your keys in your ignition switch than to have to keep track of them or fish around in your pockets every time you want to do something as routine as open your car door or start the engine. (Don't we all just love car-computer analogies?)
Full disclosure has been shown to be the most reliable way to get companies to fix security problems in their software..
Bugs will be found and exploited privately whether public disclosure takes place or not. There is a thriving market for zero-day exploits--exploits that are then used either by governments of criminal organizations to render computing systems to be less reliable and/or secure than their owners would expect them to be.
Some convenience will always have to be sacrificed in the interest of security, whether the system in question is a computer, a car, or a house. The only way to absolutely maximize convenience is to absolutely sacrifice security. (and privacy)
" Even if signals in the chip were moving at the speed of light, a chip running above 5GHz wouldn't be able to transmit information from one side of the chip to the other."
Eh?
At 300 Megameters per second, the signal would travel 6cm during one clock cycle. Just how large of a "chip" are we talking about, and how much clock skew can we design into our processor?
When dealing with 'users' of the caliber that you describe, it really isn't possible to securely exchange data. Unfortunately, most 'users' can't be trusted not to have the file scraped off of their own box once they've received it. Without a minimal amount of computer knowledge and skills (which appears to be beyond the capabilities of most users), it just isn't possible to guarantee any security at all.
"...which is why policing agencies would prefer this kind of thing be left to specialized police task forces. This is one of those issues where public opinion tends to be binary, but the truth tends to lie in shades of grey."
There are high voltage regulator and amplifier tubes that can be run high enough to be useful generators, without the leaded glass getting in the way. The anode geometries are often more suited to the task too.
CRT's have been built using leaded glass for decades; about as long as color TV has been around. (with its higher typical 2nd anode voltages)
Frankly, purpose built x-ray tubes aren't all that hard to come by in the first place.
Sure, in both devices, X-rays are produced at the surface of the anode. However, since the anode voltage of a CRT is much lower than that of a purpose-built x-ray tube, the energy level of these x-ray photons is very low (the wavelength is long) such that the glass of the CRT itself blocks most of the radiation. Any metal shielding around the tube blocks even more. X-rays produced by the impact of electrons with only 10-25 kev energy just don't penetrate well.
Of course there is something _major_ you are missing, but that is merely par for the course.
Meeting people online is better with respect to the fact that _petty_ initial-impression-based perceptions that may have pushed you away from someone you saw IRL, yet didn't matter in the long term, won't hold you back from experiencing the companionship of a unique person who has qualities that you would have overlooked, had you looked upon them in person, initialy.
There are good and bad aspects to both approaches.
All the more reason to have significant potential costs in the form of fines in order to encourage the persons responsible to choose more wisely. When the boss sees the loss of patient privacy as a mere externality, the status quo will continue.
Wouldn't it be great if you could just buy a 40 - 60 inch 1080p computer monitor for some fraction of the cost of the complete PC? (... and then just swap out or modify the connect media PC as necessary)
I guess the question that comes to my mind is: Why would anyone want to run a LAMP stack on a relatively expensive tablet, when there are cheaper and more suitable low-power options available?
Actually, Coulombs is a measure of charge, not energy. The energy (in Joules) stored in a capacitor is 1/2 CV^2. Stated another way, the amount of energy stored in joules is equal to one half the number of coulombs of charge times the voltage across the capacitance. But otherwise, your statement about the total charge being equal to the integral of the current over time (which can be construed as a count of electrons moved... 1 Coulomb = 6.241 x 10^18 electrons worth of charge ; 1 amp of current = 1 Coulomb/sec)
From TFA: "19-year-old Nicholas Webber and 18-year-old Ryan Thomas were still at school when they were arrested after trying to pay a £1,000 ($1,600) hotel bill with a stolen card in October 2009. After finding details of 100,000 stolen credit cards on Webber’s laptop, the police uncovered the existence of the website, as well as registered losses on 65,000 bank accounts. "
It would seem the evidence obtained from the boy's computer implicates them in much more serious crimes than just running a shady website.
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Convenience is a subjective quantity. It is much handier to just leave your keys in your ignition switch than to have to keep track of them or fish around in your pockets every time you want to do something as routine as open your car door or start the engine. (Don't we all just love car-computer analogies?)
Full disclosure has been shown to be the most reliable way to get companies to fix security problems in their software..
Bugs will be found and exploited privately whether public disclosure takes place or not. There is a thriving market for zero-day exploits--exploits that are then used either by governments of criminal organizations to render computing systems to be less reliable and/or secure than their owners would expect them to be.
Some convenience will always have to be sacrificed in the interest of security, whether the system in question is a computer, a car, or a house. The only way to absolutely maximize convenience is to absolutely sacrifice security. (and privacy)
" Even if signals in the chip were moving at the speed of light, a chip running above 5GHz wouldn't be able to transmit information from one side of the chip to the other."
Eh?
At 300 Megameters per second, the signal would travel 6cm during one clock cycle. Just how large of a "chip" are we talking about, and how much clock skew can we design into our processor?
I call bullshit on the above statement.
When dealing with 'users' of the caliber that you describe, it really isn't possible to securely exchange data. Unfortunately, most 'users' can't be trusted not to have the file scraped off of their own box once they've received it. Without a minimal amount of computer knowledge and skills (which appears to be beyond the capabilities of most users), it just isn't possible to guarantee any security at all.
Is that a Pam Anderson reference?
Matlab seems to run better on Linux too.
"...which is why policing agencies would prefer this kind of thing be left to specialized police task forces. This is one of those issues where public opinion tends to be binary, but the truth tends to lie in shades of grey."
Yeah... Fifty shades of Grey
"Hrm, is it odd that I meant that metaphor one way and it fits a few others?"
It's not odd... it just fits...
There are high voltage regulator and amplifier tubes that can be run high enough to be useful generators, without the leaded glass getting in the way. The anode geometries are often more suited to the task too.
CRT's have been built using leaded glass for decades; about as long as color TV has been around. (with its higher typical 2nd anode voltages)
Frankly, purpose built x-ray tubes aren't all that hard to come by in the first place.
Sure, in both devices, X-rays are produced at the surface of the anode. However, since the anode voltage of a CRT is much lower than that of a purpose-built x-ray tube, the energy level of these x-ray photons is very low (the wavelength is long) such that the glass of the CRT itself blocks most of the radiation. Any metal shielding around the tube blocks even more. X-rays produced by the impact of electrons with only 10-25 kev energy just don't penetrate well.
But this has been modus operandi for MS since the 1980's...
Nothing new here... just move along...
Of course there is something _major_ you are missing, but that is merely par for the course.
Meeting people online is better with respect to the fact that _petty_ initial-impression-based perceptions that may have pushed you away from someone you saw IRL, yet didn't matter in the long term, won't hold you back from experiencing the companionship of a unique person who has qualities that you would have overlooked, had you looked upon them in person, initialy.
There are good and bad aspects to both approaches.
"The best part of waking up..."
At least better than a knock at the door at 5am.
Us 'old guys' know how to kick some serious ass....
sarcasm detected
All the more reason to have significant potential costs in the form of fines in order to encourage the persons responsible to choose more wisely. When the boss sees the loss of patient privacy as a mere externality, the status quo will continue.
"... will cost a non-profit Idaho hospice center $50,000, ..."
I'm not so sure just how strong of a message this will send.
Encrypting patient data should be a no-brainer in this day and age.
I figured that he did that for Deanna.
Wouldn't it be great if you could just buy a 40 - 60 inch 1080p computer monitor for some fraction of the cost of the complete PC? (... and then just swap out or modify the connect media PC as necessary)
I guess the question that comes to my mind is: Why would anyone want to run a LAMP stack on a relatively expensive tablet, when there are cheaper and more suitable low-power options available?
... it is the effects caused by the impact of the bullets that kill people.
How many countries can you name that have governments that are not? ("corrupt and dangerous")
that's killing him.
Actually, Coulombs is a measure of charge, not energy. The energy (in Joules) stored in a capacitor is 1/2 CV^2. Stated another way, the amount of energy stored in joules is equal to one half the number of coulombs of charge times the voltage across the capacitance. But otherwise, your statement about the total charge being equal to the integral of the current over time (which can be construed as a count of electrons moved... 1 Coulomb = 6.241 x 10^18 electrons worth of charge ; 1 amp of current = 1 Coulomb/sec)
From TFA: "19-year-old Nicholas Webber and 18-year-old Ryan Thomas were still at school when they were arrested after trying to pay a £1,000 ($1,600) hotel bill with a stolen card in October 2009. After finding details of 100,000 stolen credit cards on Webber’s laptop, the police uncovered the existence of the website, as well as registered losses on 65,000 bank accounts. "
It would seem the evidence obtained from the boy's computer implicates them in much more serious crimes than just running a shady website.