Having worked in a hosptial, I'll tell you that's not acceptable.
Medical records are probably the most sensitive records there are, and therefore it's essential that any access to them is both autenticated and audited. The first ensures that only authorized people can access them. The second ensures that in the event of misuse of the records, this can be detected - eg if someone who has autorization to access records decides to look up their neighbours without good reason.
Hubble was designed to be fixable. However, that in itself means a great cost. If you add up the cost of the service missions plus the extra costs in the original design, you find that you could launch a series of non-servicable Hubbles instead.
Firstly the shuttle has trouble getting into any useful orbit. As a later comment mentions, Columbia is going to be scrapped because it can't even get into the oribit of the ISS. Unless your sick satellite happens to have gone into a reasonably stable LEO, then the shuttle has no chance of getting to it.
Secondly, even once they got to the satellite, there would be no way for the astronauts to work with the satellite. The Hubble was specially designed to be openable by astronauts as the regular service missions were planned before it was designed. This means that they can't access the satellite to to the major modifications which would be needed to either launch it into it's original orbit, or modifify to to be a comms platform. That means that any modifications would have to be done on earth which brings me to
Thirdly, under the modern safety rules, a satellite fully fueled with propellant isn't allowed to be in the shuttle for landing. And as they can't access the satellite to safely jetison the fuel, that means that it can't be brought back to earth either.
Even if that wasn't true, what do you think that a TV broadcast satellite would do at the ISS? It's designed to take a signal broadcast from the ground, and rebroadcast it over it's target area. It's basically a solar panel hooked upto a amplifer joining the transmitter to the receiver. Nothing which isn't already on the ISS.
The amount of dollars involved doesn't really make a difference.
If an insurance company takes a policy where they might have to pay out a billion dollars, then the first thing they'll do is to go to other insurance companies and take out policies of their own, up to say $900 million. At the same time, the other insurance companies are taking out policies with them for their big ticket items. This way, if the policy has to be paid out, no one company has to suffer a huge loss.
Actually, the ammunition used was.223-caliber, not.220. How's that for hair-splitting, and why are there two such similar calibers?
There is more to a cartridge than just the caliber. You actually need about 10 numbers to describe a cartridge completely, including the length and the size of the rim. There are even instances when the caliber are identical but the cartridges are different, eg the AK47 takes a 7.62 x 39 mm cartridge, the standard NATO round is also 7.62, but 51 mm long instead.
I'd say it's a symptom of a missing feature. Obviously people want to be able to adjust their preferences, and don't have an interface for doing so. If the tvio had a slider for 'gay', and 'military' etc, which could be adjusted by the user, then that would give the user the ability to decrease the likelyhood of programs they don't want to be downloaded.
You can get fireproof ceramic sheets for asbestos replacements and new installations which need heat isolation. Much safer and possible to buy from any building supply store
Most mammals have 6 appendages, 4 limbs, tail and head. Digits vary a lot, though 5 is the usual maxium. You're 5 sense organs is quite contrived. Why are the lips an organ, but the skin isn't? Other mammals have extra organs that we don't, for example whiskers.
Basically, if you force something like this, then you can make a connection. Doesn't mean the connection is real.
Gnutella opens 1 to n connections between your server and remote servers. Each one is kept open for communication until one end closes it, at which time the client will open a connection to a new server.
The process of opening a new connection can involve multiple opens, as it will search to find a client which is currently operating and able to accept new connections (not overloaded) from a cache of hosts which have been seen to previously communicate on the network.
You have to seperate computer scientists, who research basic principles, with programmers, who implement those principles in available packages. No computer scientist would recommend that your develop an OS without memory protection, nor try to simulate multipe users on a system without file ownership. It didn't stop Microsoft.
Anybody who doesn't RTFM _before_ asking is asking for trouble.
No arguments here, however in my experience the FM is much easier to R in the Unix world than in the Microsoft world. Part of this is the differences in the API. The Unix API was very small and well designed, and while it's had some weird things added, it's still fairly compact. The Windows API tends to have a lot of different ways of doing basically the same thing. For example, under Unix, you have read() which will read a file. Under Windows, you have read() which is a ANSI C way of reading a file. You also have ReadFile(), ReadFileScatter(), and ReadFileEx, which are 3 different windows specific APIs. That means that if I want to do the same task under Unix and under Windows, I've got to read more documentation under Windows.
2.0 had pipes and redirection too. At the time when MS was going from 1.0 to 2.0, their stratagy was for Unix to eventually replace DOS. That's why they created Xenix.
A lot of comments have been similar to this one. However, from my reading of the document, they're not talking about the systems that the students would use, but the infrastructure - the file servers, the webservers, the firewalls & routers. That's why Samba and Netatalk are on the list. It would be a very strange setup if this wasn't the case, because they've got 4 Samba servers, 7 Netatalk servers, but they're only claiming to have saved 22 commerical OS licenses, which would mean only 11 clients!
Everyone agrees that the desktop and the server are very different environments, don't use arguments suitable for one when discussing the other.
1 - The article you linked says that McDonalds is testing imports of as much as 1%of its beef from down under. That's hardly a "considerable amount of foreign beef".
I'd disagree that your conclusion is warnted on that evidence. If McDonalds imported 75% of it's beef from Argentina, and 1% from down under, then it's true that considerable amount of foreign beef is imported. I belive that the facts are that different McDonalds around the world have different primary sources, for example Japanese McDonalds do use primarily Australian beef, while the US is primarily American beef.
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Cellphones are incredibly price sensitive, and a PocketPC license isn't cheap. While Palm is improving, it misses useful features like Java support.
Medical records are probably the most sensitive records there are, and therefore it's essential that any access to them is both autenticated and audited. The first ensures that only authorized people can access them. The second ensures that in the event of misuse of the records, this can be detected - eg if someone who has autorization to access records decides to look up their neighbours without good reason.
Hubble was designed to be fixable. However, that in itself means a great cost. If you add up the cost of the service missions plus the extra costs in the original design, you find that you could launch a series of non-servicable Hubbles instead.
Firstly the shuttle has trouble getting into any useful orbit. As a later comment mentions, Columbia is going to be scrapped because it can't even get into the oribit of the ISS. Unless your sick satellite happens to have gone into a reasonably stable LEO, then the shuttle has no chance of getting to it.
Secondly, even once they got to the satellite, there would be no way for the astronauts to work with the satellite. The Hubble was specially designed to be openable by astronauts as the regular service missions were planned before it was designed. This means that they can't access the satellite to to the major modifications which would be needed to either launch it into it's original orbit, or modifify to to be a comms platform. That means that any modifications would have to be done on earth which brings me to
Thirdly, under the modern safety rules, a satellite fully fueled with propellant isn't allowed to be in the shuttle for landing. And as they can't access the satellite to safely jetison the fuel, that means that it can't be brought back to earth either.
Even if that wasn't true, what do you think that a TV broadcast satellite would do at the ISS? It's designed to take a signal broadcast from the ground, and rebroadcast it over it's target area. It's basically a solar panel hooked upto a amplifer joining the transmitter to the receiver. Nothing which isn't already on the ISS.
If an insurance company takes a policy where they might have to pay out a billion dollars, then the first thing they'll do is to go to other insurance companies and take out policies of their own, up to say $900 million. At the same time, the other insurance companies are taking out policies with them for their big ticket items. This way, if the policy has to be paid out, no one company has to suffer a huge loss.
There is more to a cartridge than just the caliber. You actually need about 10 numbers to describe a cartridge completely, including the length and the size of the rim. There are even instances when the caliber are identical but the cartridges are different, eg the AK47 takes a 7.62 x 39 mm cartridge, the standard NATO round is also 7.62, but 51 mm long instead.
I'd say it's a symptom of a missing feature. Obviously people want to be able to adjust their preferences, and don't have an interface for doing so. If the tvio had a slider for 'gay', and 'military' etc, which could be adjusted by the user, then that would give the user the ability to decrease the likelyhood of programs they don't want to be downloaded.
Unless it's in the contract that you can, forever, sooner or later you won't.
It doesn't suprise me. With those 3 causes, you've covered 3/4 of the possible causes, with only random failure left over.
Only one?
Apollo 12.
You can get fireproof ceramic sheets for asbestos replacements and new installations which need heat isolation. Much safer and possible to buy from any building supply store
I personally use both Razor and Spamassain, and between them I get very little left over spam, and no false positives.
Basically, if you force something like this, then you can make a connection. Doesn't mean the connection is real.
Gnutella opens 1 to n connections between your server and remote servers. Each one is kept open for communication until one end closes it, at which time the client will open a connection to a new server.
The process of opening a new connection can involve multiple opens, as it will search to find a client which is currently operating and able to accept new connections (not overloaded) from a cache of hosts which have been seen to previously communicate on the network.
You have to seperate computer scientists, who research basic principles, with programmers, who implement those principles in available packages. No computer scientist would recommend that your develop an OS without memory protection, nor try to simulate multipe users on a system without file ownership. It didn't stop Microsoft.
No arguments here, however in my experience the FM is much easier to R in the Unix world than in the Microsoft world. Part of this is the differences in the API. The Unix API was very small and well designed, and while it's had some weird things added, it's still fairly compact. The Windows API tends to have a lot of different ways of doing basically the same thing. For example, under Unix, you have read() which will read a file. Under Windows, you have read() which is a ANSI C way of reading a file. You also have ReadFile(), ReadFileScatter(), and ReadFileEx, which are 3 different windows specific APIs. That means that if I want to do the same task under Unix and under Windows, I've got to read more documentation under Windows.
2.0 had pipes and redirection too. At the time when MS was going from 1.0 to 2.0, their stratagy was for Unix to eventually replace DOS. That's why they created Xenix.
A VT100? I had to do with a VT52 clone. No inserts or deletes, so you had to clear the screen and redraw all the time.
Everyone agrees that the desktop and the server are very different environments, don't use arguments suitable for one when discussing the other.
I'd disagree that your conclusion is warnted on that evidence. If McDonalds imported 75% of it's beef from Argentina, and 1% from down under, then it's true that considerable amount of foreign beef is imported. I belive that the facts are that different McDonalds around the world have different primary sources, for example Japanese McDonalds do use primarily Australian beef, while the US is primarily American beef.
The correct quote is "Effect techniques for securing content have not yet been invented."
I belive I saw a piloted nuclear missile on that excellent documentary "Dr. Strangelove, or how I learned stop worrying and love the bomb"
Well not 'lots', three. City of Death, The Pirate Planet, and Shada.
Even in America, which has the biggest 'mob rule' around has channels like PBS, Discovery Channel, etc.