In the ER, the advantage with Digital is that the pictures can be tied directly to the hospital records.
So what's the problem then? Are digital photographs not acceptable for the courtroom? If not there are certainly electronic signatures and whatever can guarantee the chain of evidence from the point where the picture was uploaded to its use in court (before that the photographer is responsible).
I was working with a client that had just SUN Solaris and NT for their client platforms.
Um what about all those BSD tools that you get with the resource kit? Microsoft even used to distribute source code to the 'Posix' style stuff.
It wasn't major but it allowed me to get some useful stuff onto a Win box that was under a very retsrictive third-party support contract.
We certainly had a lot of Perl though and our principle in-house test tool was built around TCL.
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Sorry, but I believe that you are wrong. A long time ago before Linux started in the mainstream, we saw two FSF projects that particularly caught everyone's attention.
The first was the Gnu Emacs editor, very hacky but quite ubiquitous and the other was GCC, the Gnu C Compiler. Here was a program development system that cost nothing other than download time, there were plenty of Unix development systems but they were costing $1000/workstation or more (that figure came from Solaris a few years ago).
Linus wrote a Kernel, but he built it on top of FSF utilities. Hurd caught creeping featuritis and didn't make it out. Maybe Linus would have had a similar problem if he didn't have the growing pool of GPL'ed tools to draw from.
I would agree that "Peer Review" isn't for the masses. Peer review should be done by peers. Restrict Moderation to a selected pool, but allow metamoderation to further refine moderation. Scientific journals often use review panels.
The moderation criteria should be clear, as to whether someing is ok, duplicate or sloppy science (i.e., poorly described or unrepeatable).
You can get some very good night-vision outside the US. You may, for example, try here, for example. Other companies would quite happily put the whole thing together and produce the software.
The military stuff is harder to get, but if you get them to do the equipment assembly, then it becomes a low-light news reporting equipment and somewhat easier to process the export certification. Russia gets very nervous about high end equipment going south.
At the time, a lot of people in St. Petersburg were going for the anti-submarine missile/torpedo theory. Some evidence supporting a cover up was the rumoured immediate evacuation by helicopter of some senior naval officers from "Peter the Great" about a quarter of an hour after the test firing.
Personally, I'm more inclined to think that this was an accident onboard due to a torpedo malfunction. These torpedoes weren't liked by a lot of people in the submarine fleet due to a record of malfunction.
The Dutch are in NATO. There are a lot of divers with North Sea experience on the team including British and American as well. I know that several British commercial divers from the North Sea got their training in the Royal Navy.
However, only Russians are allowed inside. The retrieval of the crewmens' bodies earlier was by Russian divers only.
I don't know how this works about the bow section though. This would have been cut from outside but it is inevitable that a lot of information could have been gathered by divers after the bows were removed. Even just looking at the hull cross section would have been interesting (sound damping, etc.).
This looks interesting, could someone with some Mod points, mod this up so it gets noticed. It has a 0 because the poster didn't register and posted as AC.
Re:I was almost killed by terrorists!!!!!!!
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A long time ago, I worked on a VMS port of a program called PGP after I read about it in DDJ. I was working at a securities exchange and thought that this could be kind of interesting. After I left, I kept on with my contributions to PGP (this is why my name was on the original keyring) until it was commercialised.
A couple of years ago, I was being driven past independence square in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, a minute or so after we left the square, there was a tremendous explosion, shortly afterwards another. We arrived at our appointment in a government building to find it being evacuated just then another bomb went off by the headquarters of the National Bank, much further away, but it rattled the glass of the building we were visiting a couple of miles away. The National Bank was next to my hotel!
Coordinated bombings is one one of the hallmarks of Osama bin Laden and it was in an adjacent country (about five hours drive). It would not be surpising at allI lived and was uninjured, somebody a few minutes behind me was killed in their car by the blast on the square.
As one of the original porters of PGP and possibly almost a victim of Osama bin Laden (certainly of some Islamic fundementalist terrorists), I can better comment than most here.
Electronic intelligence gathering is a very good way of spending a lot of money, but it doesn't really work. Even if people do not use encryption, they can coordinate attacks using the personal columns.
Please remember that the sabotage attacks of the French resistance preceding D-day were co-ordinated using the BBC world service radio broadcasts! Terrorists can use personal columns
In the need we need human intelligance. Many of the persons best qualified to do this were born outside the US and have at least spent long periods of their lives travelling. These are not the regular people employed by the FBI or the CIA.
The alternative is that we bless these orgaisations with the master keys to our communications. And then watch whilst the people that the CIA and FBI do employ like Hansen sell it to whoever pays the most.
Phil gets upset about these things, please remember that he was also out in Nevada protesting against nuclear weapons testing.
Programs like PGP have helped aid organistaions tremendously, especially thouse concerned with human rights.
There were secret key programs before and after PGP, however what it did was more of an assistance to electronic commerce, i.e. solve the key distribution problem using public key encryption between two unrelated entities. Bin Laden's organisation is essentially one umbrella organisation, a bit like the Pentagon and this is a different world to where a program like PGP helps the most. Interestingly enough, GnuPGP forms the basis for encrypting and signing securities and cash transfer instructions now within Uzbekistan. I don't know whether it ever helped the terrorists there (I doubt it), but it certainly helps the economy. The countries that value it the most are those that have sufferred in the past from the most oppression.
Through a variety of means public key encryption has left the US. In any case, there are other schemes for authentication and privacy that come from outside the US. To bolt the door now will only harm the US commercially.
Ok, I've said my piece!!!!
Re:Count the lives that PGP has saved
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AMongst others, I believe that Amnesty International as well as many human rights organisions use programs like PGP.
The problems of someone hacking an online news service are well known. Already there have been incidents involving the posting of inaccurate ad-hoc financial data to services, forcing the price of securities to move up or down.
Yahoo is far from being a prime mover in the news field. If a service such as CNN or the BBC was hacked, major mischief could take place.
Why bother hijacking some airliners if you can just fake the publicity? Ok, an extreme example, but smaller stories can be placed or alterations made without the information being checked.
In a similar vein, we once looked at taking annual reports of companies in electronic form, getting the company to sign them, the auditor and then the publishing service. The reader then has a very good audit trail, but frankly the problem is to train your average auditor about electronic signatures, not even considering the others.
This was about a key financial document. Does anyone think that this would be feasible for anything other than some especially reliable news service?
We have ru-journaled our files on non-rotating memory for a long-time (about ten years). As the data is many GB, we use HD backed RAM with enough battery to copy everything to disk in a hurry.
Nokia is also into making set-top boxes for Sat TV. There is an obvious synergy in doing games and TIVO-style digital recorder.
There has been a lot of stuff around about Nokia's problems with s/w and mobile phones. The truth is that between they have some of the best stuff, which makes their phones much easier to use than many competitors. True, WAP sucked, but it did on many supplier's early phones.
As for the Finnish connection, well Nokia and Linux would be a good combination!
Too right, they even said the same on the BBC Worldservice News.
Braindead!!!!!
The gestation of HHGTG was definitely in the head of Adams, but the birth came via the BBC in their more imaginative years before the Golgafrinchans took over the management again.
You could switch back to OpenVMS. Good distributed file system, really nice distributed lock manager - not as fast, propietary as hell but it works well enough for serious applications.
Note this is also my peeve about WinClusters (NT or 2K), the job was half done.
There is no way I could believe that the CCS runs on a laptop. I can beleive that they do have a Solaris system up there because sometimes there have been complaints about the Unix command syntax.
Some of the laptops on the shuttle certainly do run Windows/NT and we know from the logs that they have NT and Exchange on board.
I am a British citizen with a residential address in the UK where I hardly ever live. The TVLA just troll through various registers to get lists of householders and they Spam them with threatening letters.
Periodically I reply, complaining of the reception quality in Germany and Russia where I live most of the time and they shut up.
The point is that unless you are operating a TV to pick up a transmission, you are guilty of nothing, so a warrant is valueless unless you are watching TV. Many licence prosecutions were thrown out because the TV was only used for playing games, or because it was a display device for one of the older microcomputers.
The argument for the continuation of the licence is that simply by its presence, it helps keep commercial TV in the UK 'honest', i.e., good content and not to overdo the advertisements. Therefore, even if you only watch commercial TV, you benefit.
Most countries will run passenger manifests from incoming international flights through a computer. Persons who are flagged as interesting are genererally put on some kind of alert list so customs/immigration are forwarned.
I don't see anything happening with trains to be particularly different, especially if they cross a border. Certainly, public transport has never had problems with watch-lists in the past, this is just an upgrade to use electronic technology.
Mach is *much* more modular than Linux. It is an architecture while Linux happened.
In real terms, the idea of Mach is much better in that the OS is more modular. On the other hand it took a lot longer to get it going.
The advantage of Linux, it it was relatively easy to get off the ground and easier to run development in an ad-hoc fashion.
Linus was just having his fun. Even Gurus, like to troll sometimes.
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If you buy a certified OS, it is certified to a given patch level only. Any patches force a recertification process which is lengthy.
Chances are that it will work the same way with SE Linux. You do not apply a patch unless you have audited it thoroughly. You have source so you *can* do it.
It won't mean that the US govt is going to through out closed source software, but it is going to make life a lot easier in places where they have to do interesting stuff, like the implementation of DMZs. There you need to know exactly what is going on. For that, you need source.
Um, I have played with more than a couple of embedded OS platforms. I would trust them to manage traffic-lights, but the problem was they were not sufficiently well understood for larger stuff.
The environmental stuff is something else. I don't understand the arguments. However, I certainly do understand the need to have a well understood platform and something that directly relates to the development platform.
In openVMNS, there were several data structures asscoiated with security: NSA (Notional Security Access), KGB (Key Grant Block), CIA (Compound Intrusion Analysis).
It was just an in-joke with the developers. Nothing sinister there at all. The current supposition hanhs off something called nsa_key or something as mentiojned in the earlier post.
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So what's the problem then? Are digital photographs not acceptable for the courtroom? If not there are certainly electronic signatures and whatever can guarantee the chain of evidence from the point where the picture was uploaded to its use in court (before that the photographer is responsible).
Um what about all those BSD tools that you get with the resource kit? Microsoft even used to distribute source code to the 'Posix' style stuff.
It wasn't major but it allowed me to get some useful stuff onto a Win box that was under a very retsrictive third-party support contract.
We certainly had a lot of Perl though and our principle in-house test tool was built around TCL.
The first was the Gnu Emacs editor, very hacky but quite ubiquitous and the other was GCC, the Gnu C Compiler. Here was a program development system that cost nothing other than download time, there were plenty of Unix development systems but they were costing $1000/workstation or more (that figure came from Solaris a few years ago).
Linus wrote a Kernel, but he built it on top of FSF utilities. Hurd caught creeping featuritis and didn't make it out. Maybe Linus would have had a similar problem if he didn't have the growing pool of GPL'ed tools to draw from.
The moderation criteria should be clear, as to whether someing is ok, duplicate or sloppy science (i.e., poorly described or unrepeatable).
The military stuff is harder to get, but if you get them to do the equipment assembly, then it becomes a low-light news reporting equipment and somewhat easier to process the export certification. Russia gets very nervous about high end equipment going south.
Personally, I'm more inclined to think that this was an accident onboard due to a torpedo malfunction. These torpedoes weren't liked by a lot of people in the submarine fleet due to a record of malfunction.
However, only Russians are allowed inside. The retrieval of the crewmens' bodies earlier was by Russian divers only.
I don't know how this works about the bow section though. This would have been cut from outside but it is inevitable that a lot of information could have been gathered by divers after the bows were removed. Even just looking at the hull cross section would have been interesting (sound damping, etc.).
This looks interesting, could someone with some Mod points, mod this up so it gets noticed. It has a 0 because the poster didn't register and posted as AC.
A couple of years ago, I was being driven past independence square in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, a minute or so after we left the square, there was a tremendous explosion, shortly afterwards another. We arrived at our appointment in a government building to find it being evacuated just then another bomb went off by the headquarters of the National Bank, much further away, but it rattled the glass of the building we were visiting a couple of miles away. The National Bank was next to my hotel!
Coordinated bombings is one one of the hallmarks of Osama bin Laden and it was in an adjacent country (about five hours drive). It would not be surpising at allI lived and was uninjured, somebody a few minutes behind me was killed in their car by the blast on the square.
As one of the original porters of PGP and possibly almost a victim of Osama bin Laden (certainly of some Islamic fundementalist terrorists), I can better comment than most here.
Electronic intelligence gathering is a very good way of spending a lot of money, but it doesn't really work. Even if people do not use encryption, they can coordinate attacks using the personal columns.
Please remember that the sabotage attacks of the French resistance preceding D-day were co-ordinated using the BBC world service radio broadcasts! Terrorists can use personal columns
In the need we need human intelligance. Many of the persons best qualified to do this were born outside the US and have at least spent long periods of their lives travelling. These are not the regular people employed by the FBI or the CIA.
The alternative is that we bless these orgaisations with the master keys to our communications. And then watch whilst the people that the CIA and FBI do employ like Hansen sell it to whoever pays the most.
Phil gets upset about these things, please remember that he was also out in Nevada protesting against nuclear weapons testing.
Programs like PGP have helped aid organistaions tremendously, especially thouse concerned with human rights.
There were secret key programs before and after PGP, however what it did was more of an assistance to electronic commerce, i.e. solve the key distribution problem using public key encryption between two unrelated entities. Bin Laden's organisation is essentially one umbrella organisation, a bit like the Pentagon and this is a different world to where a program like PGP helps the most. Interestingly enough, GnuPGP forms the basis for encrypting and signing securities and cash transfer instructions now within Uzbekistan. I don't know whether it ever helped the terrorists there (I doubt it), but it certainly helps the economy. The countries that value it the most are those that have sufferred in the past from the most oppression.
Through a variety of means public key encryption has left the US. In any case, there are other schemes for authentication and privacy that come from outside the US. To bolt the door now will only harm the US commercially.
Ok, I've said my piece!!!!
AMongst others, I believe that Amnesty International as well as many human rights organisions use programs like PGP.
Yahoo is far from being a prime mover in the news field. If a service such as CNN or the BBC was hacked, major mischief could take place.
Why bother hijacking some airliners if you can just fake the publicity? Ok, an extreme example, but smaller stories can be placed or alterations made without the information being checked.
In a similar vein, we once looked at taking annual reports of companies in electronic form, getting the company to sign them, the auditor and then the publishing service. The reader then has a very good audit trail, but frankly the problem is to train your average auditor about electronic signatures, not even considering the others.
This was about a key financial document. Does anyone think that this would be feasible for anything other than some especially reliable news service?
I know this was posted as AC, but it is funny but painfully true like the parent.
We have ru-journaled our files on non-rotating memory for a long-time (about ten years). As the data is many GB, we use HD backed RAM with enough battery to copy everything to disk in a hurry.
No loss of data there!!!!
Just leave it out of distributed binaries but allow for it to be selected during configuration.
There has been a lot of stuff around about Nokia's problems with s/w and mobile phones. The truth is that between they have some of the best stuff, which makes their phones much easier to use than many competitors. True, WAP sucked, but it did on many supplier's early phones.
As for the Finnish connection, well Nokia and Linux would be a good combination!
Later he even provided for network updates!!!!!
Braindead!!!!!
The gestation of HHGTG was definitely in the head of Adams, but the birth came via the BBC in their more imaginative years before the Golgafrinchans took over the management again.
Note this is also my peeve about WinClusters (NT or 2K), the job was half done.
Some of the laptops on the shuttle certainly do run Windows/NT and we know from the logs that they have NT and Exchange on board.
Periodically I reply, complaining of the reception quality in Germany and Russia where I live most of the time and they shut up.
The point is that unless you are operating a TV to pick up a transmission, you are guilty of nothing, so a warrant is valueless unless you are watching TV. Many licence prosecutions were thrown out because the TV was only used for playing games, or because it was a display device for one of the older microcomputers.
The argument for the continuation of the licence is that simply by its presence, it helps keep commercial TV in the UK 'honest', i.e., good content and not to overdo the advertisements. Therefore, even if you only watch commercial TV, you benefit.
I don't see anything happening with trains to be particularly different, especially if they cross a border. Certainly, public transport has never had problems with watch-lists in the past, this is just an upgrade to use electronic technology.
Not nice, but not particularly surprising.
In real terms, the idea of Mach is much better in that the OS is more modular. On the other hand it took a lot longer to get it going.
The advantage of Linux, it it was relatively easy to get off the ground and easier to run development in an ad-hoc fashion.
Linus was just having his fun. Even Gurus, like to troll sometimes.
Chances are that it will work the same way with SE Linux. You do not apply a patch unless you have audited it thoroughly. You have source so you *can* do it.
It won't mean that the US govt is going to through out closed source software, but it is going to make life a lot easier in places where they have to do interesting stuff, like the implementation of DMZs. There you need to know exactly what is going on. For that, you need source.
The environmental stuff is something else. I don't understand the arguments. However, I certainly do understand the need to have a well understood platform and something that directly relates to the development platform.
It was just an in-joke with the developers. Nothing sinister there at all. The current supposition hanhs off something called nsa_key or something as mentiojned in the earlier post.