Rite of passage? Newbies! Call me an old fart, but when I upgraded my computer, I had to visit a brick and mortar store. Reagan was President, Microsoft Windows didn't exist, and Internet retailing (to say nothing of retailers like Newegg which was founded in 2001) didn't exist. Now get off my lawn you insensitive clods!
I have an Asus N-16 reflashed with DD-WRT, I don't know whether the WAN port is GigE, but I can say I'm very happy with it. My only complaint (one of my own making) is that my IPv6 tunnel has to be manually started on boot. I'm too lazy to do that because it happens so infrequently.
I worked for a subsidiary of one of the US major carriers including the period from before 9/11 to after the TSA was created. Going through security five times a week, you notice things. At my airport terminal, the carrier hired Wackenhut (now part of G4S Secure Solutions) to staff the checkpoints. What concerned me most about that arrangement was that it was the carrier could exert pressure upon the security vendor to meet passenger per hour quotas that might pressure the security vendor to cut corners. I felt that if the function were to be nationalized, it should have been the Coast Guard that perform that function. It seemed a good fit to me if you think of an airport as an "Air Coast" that the Coast Guard branch of the DoD could do this. (The DHS didn't exist yet). That and the Coast Guard was already excluded from many Posse Comitatus Act restrictions thanks to the "War On Drugs" in the 1980's.
Back to the original conflict of interest: The important thing being that remove even the appearance that private airport security might have any incentive to lower screening quality to meet passenger metrics.
I agree with the near universal condemnation of TSA. The TSA as implemented was a dismal failure. What doomed the implementation was a "safety at any cost" mentality. They were told "do anything and everything to make us safe" and they did anything and everything they felt would make us just a teeny-weeny bit safer without considering how practical it was. It's especially costly in that some costs are not financial costs. It's of course impossible to quantify, but one could argue that we've spent untold billions of dollars in lost liberties.
My solution? Make it a Coast Guard function. Change the mandate from "make us safe no matter what" to "make us as safe as you can."
No, not in the case of breaking an arm. It was merely the first injury that popped into my head. I wasn't suggesting to take that literally, but rather trying to suggest any number of plausible scenarios where a patient deliberately deceives a physician out of fear of insurance company reactions. The "Chilling Effect" as it were. And it's plausible that there is a scenario where that lie could jeopardize the quality of care.
Furthermore, it may lead to patients lying to their physicians. When you have codes that suggest "hazardous" activities, if patients worry about rise in premiums due to risky behavior then they may lie about the cause of an injury. Patient: "I broke my arm bone while going to church." Doctor: "You wear skateboard pads to church?" Patient: "Um... sure, doesn't everyone?"
I don't think Apple history is an indication. Not in this case. John Scully was an "old school" CEO. He believed you grew market share by proliferation of product variations - after all, it worked for Pepsi. That led to product confusion. Tim Cook has been at Apple for fifteen years and I'm sure he understands why they're on top.
Does anyone know if the law has a parenting exemption? Some teachers are parents. I believe that it's a responsibility as a parent to periodically look at how his or her children use social media. As the parent of two teens, I know several other parents of teens who happen to be both a fellow parent and a teacher at the high school where my kids go. I believe those teachers should be able to "friend" their children just as I've "friended" mine.
Brazil has a long standing tradition of matching visa fees and procedures of the US for US citizens. The idea being do unto your citizens what you do unto ours. So Brazil started fingerprinting US citizens the same time the US started fingerprinting Brazilian citizens.
There is an old tradition of airport telex machines (still in use today) being used to communicate with the outside world in the days before the Internet. Just before a massive crackdown, dictators would shutdown all phone lines going out of the country but overlook the airport telex circuits.
And people are moderating this as "Insightful"? The law is the law. Good luck with an attitude like that in court.
I know it's a popular meme on/. to morally justify piracy because of the belligerence of copyright trade associations towards the public and onerous contracts they make artists accept; but, none of that changes the fact that what they're doing is legal. Immoral? Absolutely. But it is legal.
Now enforcement of the law is another thing all together. What's the likelihood of getting caught? Probably very low. It's like speeding. I drive a little fast. I know where the areas of traffic enforcement are along my commute to work. I know they let me get away with about five MPH over the posted speed.
Obviously, we're all speculating. Much of my music came from ripping CD's I own. Given all the different ripping options (bit-rate, variable bit-rate, codecs) I'm sure there are hundreds of legal rips out there of the same song. That said, there are dozens of illegally shared rips out there. What's the difference between a legal rip on my drive and an illegally shared rip of the same disc that used the same settings I did? None.
Any file, in and of itself, is neither legal nor illegal. It just is. The method of acquiring any file can be illegal, but not the file itself.
And most of those species have a half-dozen or more strains with different levels of toxicity. For example in B.Anthracis (NCBI taxon:1392) has almost a dozen strains. Strain Stern (NCBI taxon: 260799) is mostly harmless because it's missing the two plasmids found in some other strains like Ames and Ames Ancestor (NCBI taxon: 261594) which produces very deadly toxins from plasmid px01.
Ames was the variant released in the Antrax Attacks of 2001.
http://pathema.jcvi.org/pathema/anthrax_resources.shtml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
The aesthetics of too many wires running everywhere is at best a minor concern if it ever was a concern at all. Utility companies (including telcos, of course) are a Natural Monopoly because the physical plant infrastructure is so expensive that it's a prohibitive barrier to entry for any competition. The common solution for decades has been to accept that fact and balance the negative effects of a monopoly via strong regulation that prevents things like price gouging and service apathy.
We're at an interesting inflection point where wireless services and wired services are really competing with each other. The wireless services are not quite as much of a monopoly as wired services, but the barriers are still pretty high.
Let me address several comments. My choice of.NET is just one example of the "trade school" problem. The same is true of any language/environment/database "Platform": J2EE, Ruby on Rails,.NET just to name few.
I also respect that students need to "Hit The Ground Running" upon graduation. Hiring managers look for platform skills, not whether an applicant understands Quick Sort, Directed Graphs, Linked Lists and Combinatorics. But all that knowledge is vital.
I agree a lot of people worked very hard. But another very important factor that I feel is under-appreciated is that problem wasn't really as dire as the mainstream was lead to believe it was.
At the time, I was working for an air carrier. Passengers can book a flight 330 days in advance and past flights are kept for 30 days. The interface with the reservation system uses month and day. This led to my mantra, "You can't have a Y2K problem if you don't have a Y."
"College as a waste of time" is also an indicator of what's wrong with modern university education. They're turning into glorified trade schools. I've had recently graduates tell me, "We studied.NET at school." I'm sorry,.NET is a trade not Computer Science. In my book, you're not a real computer graduate unless you believe that Computer Science is language agnostic.
There are four parts to SSL: Ciphers, Hashes, Randomness, and Public Key Crypto.
Public Key and Hashes are used by the SSL endpoints to validate the identity of the other end. Both ends must agree on a mutual Certificate Authority and the web of trust that extend from it.
Randomness is used to create a session key, shared via Public Key to seed the Cipher used to encrypt the session.
Weaknesses in hashes makes it easier to spoof a trusted site. Weaknesses in Randomness makes it easier to guess the Cipher key (this is the vector I've seen exploited the most). Weaknesses in Public Key makes everything vulnerable - which is why people are worried about Quantum Crypto.
I don't know what the going rate per second of CGI is, but George turned many of his actors in Episodes 2 and 3 into digital marionettes. George doesn't trust actors. He was blending parts of multiple shots (use Aniken from shot 6 and Padmé from shot 7) to form a single final scene of them about to kiss. This is ridiculous. There's a reason Hayden Christensen hasn't done anything of note before or since Star Wars. I would not be surprised to find out that of the 142 minutes of run time, over 100 minutes of it had significant CGI digital manipulation.
Contrast that with SGU (which my gut tells me has at most five minutes of CGI per episode) SGU hires good, exerienced actors - Robert Caryle, Louis Ferreira, Lou Diamond Phillips.
Intel makes more than one kind of CPU. The site appears slashdotted, but I very seriously doubt is will be based upon the x86 series of processors. Plus it could be that Apple is going to use Intel fabrication facilities to make the A6 chip (or whatever it's called). They eat too many amp-hours.
Their stated reason is because the Android ecosystem is too fragmented and too insecure. The fragmentation would required them to test their app on dozens of platforms. Security is a major concern of the content providers.
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Rite of passage? Newbies! Call me an old fart, but when I upgraded my computer, I had to visit a brick and mortar store. Reagan was President, Microsoft Windows didn't exist, and Internet retailing (to say nothing of retailers like Newegg which was founded in 2001) didn't exist. Now get off my lawn you insensitive clods!
I have an Asus N-16 reflashed with DD-WRT, I don't know whether the WAN port is GigE, but I can say I'm very happy with it. My only complaint (one of my own making) is that my IPv6 tunnel has to be manually started on boot. I'm too lazy to do that because it happens so infrequently.
Right now, they're under DHS. But before 2000, they were DoD.
I worked for a subsidiary of one of the US major carriers including the period from before 9/11 to after the TSA was created. Going through security five times a week, you notice things. At my airport terminal, the carrier hired Wackenhut (now part of G4S Secure Solutions) to staff the checkpoints. What concerned me most about that arrangement was that it was the carrier could exert pressure upon the security vendor to meet passenger per hour quotas that might pressure the security vendor to cut corners. I felt that if the function were to be nationalized, it should have been the Coast Guard that perform that function. It seemed a good fit to me if you think of an airport as an "Air Coast" that the Coast Guard branch of the DoD could do this. (The DHS didn't exist yet). That and the Coast Guard was already excluded from many Posse Comitatus Act restrictions thanks to the "War On Drugs" in the 1980's.
Back to the original conflict of interest: The important thing being that remove even the appearance that private airport security might have any incentive to lower screening quality to meet passenger metrics.
I agree with the near universal condemnation of TSA. The TSA as implemented was a dismal failure. What doomed the implementation was a "safety at any cost" mentality. They were told "do anything and everything to make us safe" and they did anything and everything they felt would make us just a teeny-weeny bit safer without considering how practical it was. It's especially costly in that some costs are not financial costs. It's of course impossible to quantify, but one could argue that we've spent untold billions of dollars in lost liberties.
My solution? Make it a Coast Guard function. Change the mandate from "make us safe no matter what" to "make us as safe as you can."
No, not in the case of breaking an arm. It was merely the first injury that popped into my head. I wasn't suggesting to take that literally, but rather trying to suggest any number of plausible scenarios where a patient deliberately deceives a physician out of fear of insurance company reactions. The "Chilling Effect" as it were. And it's plausible that there is a scenario where that lie could jeopardize the quality of care.
Furthermore, it may lead to patients lying to their physicians. When you have codes that suggest "hazardous" activities, if patients worry about rise in premiums due to risky behavior then they may lie about the cause of an injury. Patient: "I broke my arm bone while going to church." Doctor: "You wear skateboard pads to church?" Patient: "Um ... sure, doesn't everyone?"
I don't think Apple history is an indication. Not in this case. John Scully was an "old school" CEO. He believed you grew market share by proliferation of product variations - after all, it worked for Pepsi. That led to product confusion. Tim Cook has been at Apple for fifteen years and I'm sure he understands why they're on top.
Does anyone know if the law has a parenting exemption? Some teachers are parents. I believe that it's a responsibility as a parent to periodically look at how his or her children use social media. As the parent of two teens, I know several other parents of teens who happen to be both a fellow parent and a teacher at the high school where my kids go. I believe those teachers should be able to "friend" their children just as I've "friended" mine.
Brazil has a long standing tradition of matching visa fees and procedures of the US for US citizens. The idea being do unto your citizens what you do unto ours. So Brazil started fingerprinting US citizens the same time the US started fingerprinting Brazilian citizens.
There is an old tradition of airport telex machines (still in use today) being used to communicate with the outside world in the days before the Internet. Just before a massive crackdown, dictators would shutdown all phone lines going out of the country but overlook the airport telex circuits.
And people are moderating this as "Insightful"? The law is the law. Good luck with an attitude like that in court.
I know it's a popular meme on /. to morally justify piracy because of the belligerence of copyright trade associations towards the public and onerous contracts they make artists accept; but, none of that changes the fact that what they're doing is legal. Immoral? Absolutely. But it is legal.
Now enforcement of the law is another thing all together. What's the likelihood of getting caught? Probably very low. It's like speeding. I drive a little fast. I know where the areas of traffic enforcement are along my commute to work. I know they let me get away with about five MPH over the posted speed.
Obviously, we're all speculating. Much of my music came from ripping CD's I own. Given all the different ripping options (bit-rate, variable bit-rate, codecs) I'm sure there are hundreds of legal rips out there of the same song. That said, there are dozens of illegally shared rips out there. What's the difference between a legal rip on my drive and an illegally shared rip of the same disc that used the same settings I did? None.
Any file, in and of itself, is neither legal nor illegal. It just is. The method of acquiring any file can be illegal, but not the file itself.
There went the Internet
And most of those species have a half-dozen or more strains with different levels of toxicity. For example in B.Anthracis (NCBI taxon:1392) has almost a dozen strains. Strain Stern (NCBI taxon: 260799) is mostly harmless because it's missing the two plasmids found in some other strains like Ames and Ames Ancestor (NCBI taxon: 261594) which produces very deadly toxins from plasmid px01.
Ames was the variant released in the Antrax Attacks of 2001.
http://pathema.jcvi.org/pathema/anthrax_resources.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks
The aesthetics of too many wires running everywhere is at best a minor concern if it ever was a concern at all. Utility companies (including telcos, of course) are a Natural Monopoly because the physical plant infrastructure is so expensive that it's a prohibitive barrier to entry for any competition. The common solution for decades has been to accept that fact and balance the negative effects of a monopoly via strong regulation that prevents things like price gouging and service apathy.
We're at an interesting inflection point where wireless services and wired services are really competing with each other. The wireless services are not quite as much of a monopoly as wired services, but the barriers are still pretty high.
Let me address several comments. My choice of .NET is just one example of the "trade school" problem. The same is true of any language/environment/database "Platform": J2EE, Ruby on Rails, .NET just to name few.
I also respect that students need to "Hit The Ground Running" upon graduation. Hiring managers look for platform skills, not whether an applicant understands Quick Sort, Directed Graphs, Linked Lists and Combinatorics. But all that knowledge is vital.
I agree a lot of people worked very hard. But another very important factor that I feel is under-appreciated is that problem wasn't really as dire as the mainstream was lead to believe it was.
At the time, I was working for an air carrier. Passengers can book a flight 330 days in advance and past flights are kept for 30 days. The interface with the reservation system uses month and day. This led to my mantra, "You can't have a Y2K problem if you don't have a Y."
"College as a waste of time" is also an indicator of what's wrong with modern university education. They're turning into glorified trade schools. I've had recently graduates tell me, "We studied .NET at school." I'm sorry, .NET is a trade not Computer Science. In my book, you're not a real computer graduate unless you believe that Computer Science is language agnostic.
There is no difference between a byte to my phone versus a byte to other device.
Mod parent up.
There are four parts to SSL: Ciphers, Hashes, Randomness, and Public Key Crypto.
Public Key and Hashes are used by the SSL endpoints to validate the identity of the other end. Both ends must agree on a mutual Certificate Authority and the web of trust that extend from it.
Randomness is used to create a session key, shared via Public Key to seed the Cipher used to encrypt the session.
Weaknesses in hashes makes it easier to spoof a trusted site. Weaknesses in Randomness makes it easier to guess the Cipher key (this is the vector I've seen exploited the most). Weaknesses in Public Key makes everything vulnerable - which is why people are worried about Quantum Crypto.
Ciphers include: AES, Camellia, DES, RC4, RC5, Triple DES. Hash Functions include: MD5, MD2, SHA-1, SHA-2. Public Key includes: RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
I don't know what the going rate per second of CGI is, but George turned many of his actors in Episodes 2 and 3 into digital marionettes. George doesn't trust actors. He was blending parts of multiple shots (use Aniken from shot 6 and Padmé from shot 7) to form a single final scene of them about to kiss. This is ridiculous. There's a reason Hayden Christensen hasn't done anything of note before or since Star Wars. I would not be surprised to find out that of the 142 minutes of run time, over 100 minutes of it had significant CGI digital manipulation.
Contrast that with SGU (which my gut tells me has at most five minutes of CGI per episode) SGU hires good, exerienced actors - Robert Caryle, Louis Ferreira, Lou Diamond Phillips.
Slander is not free speech.
It's Max, the bionic dog.
Intel makes more than one kind of CPU. The site appears slashdotted, but I very seriously doubt is will be based upon the x86 series of processors. Plus it could be that Apple is going to use Intel fabrication facilities to make the A6 chip (or whatever it's called). They eat too many amp-hours.
Their stated reason is because the Android ecosystem is too fragmented and too insecure. The fragmentation would required them to test their app on dozens of platforms. Security is a major concern of the content providers.