Why not make the password something like a printed number on the router itself? I know it's encoded in firmware, especially with the factory reset button, but it's not too hard to say read the ID and print up corresponding stickers. They already do it for the MAC address information.
No, what people seem to miss about my reply is that money no longer matters once you or a loved one has cancer. It is ignored, as it should be. You no longer live for "stuff" and you no longer have expendable income. You are happy to pay whatever needs to be paid to get your spouse or yourself through this. I've said it a million times, and I'll say it again: I have no problem working five jobs if I need to.
That said, that does *not* mean I can't comprehend value and worth of the product/services I purchase.
"The person paying for it." - You are right in that the insurance carrier pays for it, but the bottom line below that is that _we_ pay for it with higher premiums, etc.
What I mean when I say, "who cares" about the cost is that, really, nobody should care and a way should be made. Naturally, economics comes into play, but one of the things I pray for is that _profit_ will be thought of second, compared to technology, cures that make history, and the health of patients first. Sadly, *that* prayer has a snowball's chance in hell of coming true.
But, I digress. You are right, people are branded as insensitive when they speak about healthcare and profits. (I try not to, unless they say something seriously bad or mean.) There really *is* only so much to go around, and I can tell you exactly how many homeless or pseudo homeless people I can see from my window here in Hartford. The medical care for those folks is the emergency room at the local hospital, instead of a PCP. (IE: They can't afford it, so they wait until they are taken there by ambulance.)
I think your points are very true, but can be summed up with the idea that maybe the "it takes a village" logic is, these days, thrown out the window and replaced with, "after my profit is had, I'll help the village."
Truthfully, I agree with you - I don't know if x-rays or protons would make much difference. As it stands now, her tumor markers are "normal" and the mastectomy did its jorb. So lets pray she never needs it.
There are not that many hospitals who have the real estate to accommodate such a machine.
I work at a large hospital in CT and I agree with you. The only place I can see putting something that big would be to, well, level a *lot* of nearby buildings. Not exactly going to happen. But I can tell you that my transfer paperwork would be in place the moment that side of the hospital opened.:P I didn't think about what happens when it goes down and the "lineup" of people waiting. Good point. Worth it for a hospital to have five x-ray setups versus 1 proton setup that may fail.
Sometimes the cancer information, treatments, and statistics (which are odd), make the inner math geek in me very interested and very scared at the same time. It's a weird juxtaposition.
Personally, who cares how expensive it is. I mean, we're not rich people and we are pretty close to that sarcastic "upper lower middle class" line.. but watching my wife go through chemo and surgery (no radiation, thank God) hurt me more than I can ever explain. If there was a way to make sure that radiation was a little "cleaner" and crisp around the edges, I'd say go for it. Chemo and surgery are hell enough.
Plus, x-rays are so last century. Everyone knows the new thing is protons.
The car in my analogy is simply a necessary evil to get from the idea that driving on the roads is not a right, it's a privilege granted to someone when they are given a driving license. Oh and I guess I kind of snuck in multiple license stuff; a general license may not allow you drive a motorcycle, and a CDL license is needed to drive a large truck of some sort, etc.
They *do* want the best of both worlds. They are slow to change (toward the net, technology, etc) and are like an old man who doesn't want to change because he's "always done it this way." Sad, really.
Sometimes I think that the whole "first sale" doctrine should apply to photography. Without *me* in the photograph, it wouldn't be the same photograph, so I should be allowed to be in "control" on that photo. (IE: It's reuse, sale, and such.) But it just doesn't work that way, really.
You missed the point in my "akin"... you are still driving with a license. The license (driver's license) is the "license" I was referring to in my "akin", above.:P
I kind of agree, in principal, but I think you miss a point.
The money you pay for is *not* for the content itself, it is for the *right* to use the content on that specific physical piece of media. Akin to not buying the road, but purchasing (through fees and testing) the license to use the road with your car. You can't drive your car where it is not allowed (think: tarmac), and you can't drive on the road, things you are not allowed to drive (think: firetruck).
"I pulled out my laptop, hooked it up to an unused RJ45 jack with a cat5e cable that I had brought from home, and did the assignment."..do that in the corporate world and you will get fired, even when the sysadmin is nice about it. No admin wants unauthorized equipment on his/her network. Do you know if that was the reason you got detention instead of the page access? Circumventing security could simply be not putting in a password to get a connection - something that may be "forced" on the crappy boxes the school may have.
Next time, don't use your laptop.
If anything, to protect yourself. If the admin is as bad as you say they are... what's to say your machine won't get filled with crap from the one security hole you forgot to patch/watch?
"[not having] the tools to do it"... yeah, the current version of Photoshop, with it's *current* features may be a different tool! A better tool? Possibly. How hard is it to understand that simply asking for the current version of software is a legit thing to do as a professional? I used to run Rapid Sql 5.x and holy shit, you couldn't even scroll with a mouse wheel on the open files; and to top it all off, closing a file located on a network share meant that it would freeze RSQL....I didn't even have to play squeaky wheel, I simply asked and pulled the "this hurts productivity" card and now my team has the latest version and all is well. So fuck off if you think that forcing yourself to use an older version is the way to go simply because you lack the balls to hold your hand up and say, "In order to do my job well, I need X, Y, and Z."
Oh hey, I usually don't feed the trolls but here is some info for starters:
I'm a Sr. Systems Programmer for a very large hospital.
I'm under the strict impression that everyone puts their pants on one leg at a time, just like I do. Titles don't mean much, and the truth and facts are what they are. If it is *physically* impossible to do the job you are required to do, because you do not have the tools to do it, YOU, the EMPLOYEE are *charged* with the (gasp) responsibility of holding your hand up and saying, "I need X to do Y and if I don't have X, I can't do Y."
Then, when you are denied X, revise your "CQI" or TQM or whatever TLA your org calls it... goals to reflect that performing task Y is *no longer* something you are required to do, because ultimately you will do it wrong....that's my usual angst response. In reality, I like my job enough to *RESEARCH* not one way to do a job, but the best way to do it - which includes looking for the best tool for the job.
I think that alot of the users wont realize that if Google encrypts their data with the password that the users provide, then there will no longer be that friendly "Forgot your password? Let us reset it for you." button....why would the button go away? Why can't the security questions, mother's maiden name, and whatnot be answered just like they are today? Because now there are file up there on the Google servers? If your security questions are as crappy as your passwords... you probably won't forget your password.
I simply created my own team over at netflixprize.com to get access to the datasets. I don't plan on submitting anything worthwile to the project, or rather the contest - however, I do plan on learning a lot about more methods of datamining. What I do here at work isn't mining, but simply reporting. (Albeit on tables with millions of records, still.)
I found that this application may be a good way to tinker with some math, statistics, and such while I self learn - with no intention of submitting anything real to netflix itself.
I don't know, about your second problem. They separate the dev/test data from the quiz data - and even that is halved into two sections. With the intent to stop a "hill climb" in the results. What says that the dataset used in developing the code is a subset of the data used in the test to find the winners?
How much of a "diet plan" is simply a substitute for what the human body really needs: Someone to pay attention to it. Pay attention to yourself, how much you eat, poop, gain, lose, and crave. Alter it based on what works and do not follow it to a T. Simply put: If what works changes, change what you do.
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Why not make the password something like a printed number on the router itself? I know it's encoded in firmware, especially with the factory reset button, but it's not too hard to say read the ID and print up corresponding stickers. They already do it for the MAC address information.
No, what people seem to miss about my reply is that money no longer matters once you or a loved one has cancer. It is ignored, as it should be. You no longer live for "stuff" and you no longer have expendable income. You are happy to pay whatever needs to be paid to get your spouse or yourself through this. I've said it a million times, and I'll say it again: I have no problem working five jobs if I need to.
That said, that does *not* mean I can't comprehend value and worth of the product/services I purchase.
"The person paying for it." - You are right in that the insurance carrier pays for it, but the bottom line below that is that _we_ pay for it with higher premiums, etc.
What I mean when I say, "who cares" about the cost is that, really, nobody should care and a way should be made. Naturally, economics comes into play, but one of the things I pray for is that _profit_ will be thought of second, compared to technology, cures that make history, and the health of patients first. Sadly, *that* prayer has a snowball's chance in hell of coming true.
But, I digress. You are right, people are branded as insensitive when they speak about healthcare and profits. (I try not to, unless they say something seriously bad or mean.) There really *is* only so much to go around, and I can tell you exactly how many homeless or pseudo homeless people I can see from my window here in Hartford. The medical care for those folks is the emergency room at the local hospital, instead of a PCP. (IE: They can't afford it, so they wait until they are taken there by ambulance.)
I think your points are very true, but can be summed up with the idea that maybe the "it takes a village" logic is, these days, thrown out the window and replaced with, "after my profit is had, I'll help the village."
I am glad to hear you are doing well!
:P I didn't think about what happens when it goes down and the "lineup" of people waiting. Good point. Worth it for a hospital to have five x-ray setups versus 1 proton setup that may fail.
Truthfully, I agree with you - I don't know if x-rays or protons would make much difference. As it stands now, her tumor markers are "normal" and the mastectomy did its jorb. So lets pray she never needs it.
There are not that many hospitals who have the real estate to accommodate such a machine.
I work at a large hospital in CT and I agree with you. The only place I can see putting something that big would be to, well, level a *lot* of nearby buildings. Not exactly going to happen. But I can tell you that my transfer paperwork would be in place the moment that side of the hospital opened.
Sometimes the cancer information, treatments, and statistics (which are odd), make the inner math geek in me very interested and very scared at the same time. It's a weird juxtaposition.
Personally, who cares how expensive it is. I mean, we're not rich people and we are pretty close to that sarcastic "upper lower middle class" line.. but watching my wife go through chemo and surgery (no radiation, thank God) hurt me more than I can ever explain. If there was a way to make sure that radiation was a little "cleaner" and crisp around the edges, I'd say go for it. Chemo and surgery are hell enough.
Plus, x-rays are so last century. Everyone knows the new thing is protons.
The car in my analogy is simply a necessary evil to get from the idea that driving on the roads is not a right, it's a privilege granted to someone when they are given a driving license. Oh and I guess I kind of snuck in multiple license stuff; a general license may not allow you drive a motorcycle, and a CDL license is needed to drive a large truck of some sort, etc.
They *do* want the best of both worlds. They are slow to change (toward the net, technology, etc) and are like an old man who doesn't want to change because he's "always done it this way." Sad, really.
Sometimes I think that the whole "first sale" doctrine should apply to photography. Without *me* in the photograph, it wouldn't be the same photograph, so I should be allowed to be in "control" on that photo. (IE: It's reuse, sale, and such.) But it just doesn't work that way, really.
You missed the point in my "akin"... you are still driving with a license. The license (driver's license) is the "license" I was referring to in my "akin", above. :P
I kind of agree, in principal, but I think you miss a point.
The money you pay for is *not* for the content itself, it is for the *right* to use the content on that specific physical piece of media. Akin to not buying the road, but purchasing (through fees and testing) the license to use the road with your car. You can't drive your car where it is not allowed (think: tarmac), and you can't drive on the road, things you are not allowed to drive (think: firetruck).
"I pulled out my laptop, hooked it up to an unused RJ45 jack with a cat5e cable that I had brought from home, and did the assignment." ..do that in the corporate world and you will get fired, even when the sysadmin is nice about it. No admin wants unauthorized equipment on his/her network. Do you know if that was the reason you got detention instead of the page access? Circumventing security could simply be not putting in a password to get a connection - something that may be "forced" on the crappy boxes the school may have.
Next time, don't use your laptop.
If anything, to protect yourself. If the admin is as bad as you say they are... what's to say your machine won't get filled with crap from the one security hole you forgot to patch/watch?
Um, hey anon coward dickhead... 0 is still 0.
...I didn't even have to play squeaky wheel, I simply asked and pulled the "this hurts productivity" card and now my team has the latest version and all is well. So fuck off if you think that forcing yourself to use an older version is the way to go simply because you lack the balls to hold your hand up and say, "In order to do my job well, I need X, Y, and Z."
"[not having] the tools to do it"... yeah, the current version of Photoshop, with it's *current* features may be a different tool! A better tool? Possibly. How hard is it to understand that simply asking for the current version of software is a legit thing to do as a professional? I used to run Rapid Sql 5.x and holy shit, you couldn't even scroll with a mouse wheel on the open files; and to top it all off, closing a file located on a network share meant that it would freeze RSQL.
In all seriousness, the oldie-but-goodie is probably what the students will end up having to use in the real world anyway.
Agreed, but *man* did people take my reply far too serious! :P
That's not the case I describe, is it now?
Oh hey, I usually don't feed the trolls but here is some info for starters:
...that's my usual angst response. In reality, I like my job enough to *RESEARCH* not one way to do a job, but the best way to do it - which includes looking for the best tool for the job.
I'm a Sr. Systems Programmer for a very large hospital.
I'm under the strict impression that everyone puts their pants on one leg at a time, just like I do. Titles don't mean much, and the truth and facts are what they are. If it is *physically* impossible to do the job you are required to do, because you do not have the tools to do it, YOU, the EMPLOYEE are *charged* with the (gasp) responsibility of holding your hand up and saying, "I need X to do Y and if I don't have X, I can't do Y."
Then, when you are denied X, revise your "CQI" or TQM or whatever TLA your org calls it... goals to reflect that performing task Y is *no longer* something you are required to do, because ultimately you will do it wrong.
Refuse to teach the class citing insufficient materials. The software required is not there, so you can't do it.
Then give everyone a copy of gimp and ubuntu anyway.
WoW runs fine on my p4 with 768meg of ram, running Ubuntu Gutsy and wine...
Ahh, gotcha. I was figured I'd just create a truecrypt volume/file up there, and go with that. ;)
...you are making the assumption that the gdrive would have a different password, no?
How is gdrive any different than the current docs.google.com with a different API tacked on?
I think that alot of the users wont realize that if Google encrypts their data with the password that the users provide, then there will no longer be that friendly "Forgot your password? Let us reset it for you." button. ...why would the button go away? Why can't the security questions, mother's maiden name, and whatnot be answered just like they are today? Because now there are file up there on the Google servers? If your security questions are as crappy as your passwords... you probably won't forget your password.
I simply created my own team over at netflixprize.com to get access to the datasets. I don't plan on submitting anything worthwile to the project, or rather the contest - however, I do plan on learning a lot about more methods of datamining. What I do here at work isn't mining, but simply reporting. (Albeit on tables with millions of records, still.)
So.. wanna join my netflix team? :P
I found that this application may be a good way to tinker with some math, statistics, and such while I self learn - with no intention of submitting anything real to netflix itself.
I don't know, about your second problem. They separate the dev/test data from the quiz data - and even that is halved into two sections. With the intent to stop a "hill climb" in the results. What says that the dataset used in developing the code is a subset of the data used in the test to find the winners?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=359093&cid=21337959
Glad they found ways around the power issues. I wonder how well the commute/staffing will work out over time.
How much of a "diet plan" is simply a substitute for what the human body really needs: Someone to pay attention to it. Pay attention to yourself, how much you eat, poop, gain, lose, and crave. Alter it based on what works and do not follow it to a T. Simply put: If what works changes, change what you do.
Obscure?