I'm going to play Devil's Advocate and go against the IT sympathizing majority and say that it depends. I can see it being entirely possible that inside a place like a hospital, in a department that is as high tech as the OP is claiming, that a Department Head may be in charge of organizing the set up and maintenance of medical equipment that is outside of IT's direct (or at least day to day) control. A territorial Department Head, especially a knowledgeable, may want to keep IT's involvement as minimal as possible, if only to avoid red tape.
I work as the head of IT for a library which, admittedly, is not nearly as regulated as a hospital, but we've had some similar issues. The library system we are a member of will, for a fee, manage our network, we choose to run our network and servers internally. Every once in a while, we'll make a change to our internal network, such as a superscope addition, and they'll scream bloody murder, and say we can't do that, that they need access to everything to keep it all from blowing up or something. Without telling us why. So, without knowing the full scope of IT's role at the hospital, I can potentially see a situation where the Department Head may not be completely unjustified in asking why IT wants access.
Pot has roughly the same effect as vallium on some, which allows them to get past their own anxiety to accomplish a task better like public speaking. It does nothing to make them more creative, just lets them use their existing talents better.
But, in this particular example, if a person performs the task more because they have less anxiety, they develop a higher level of ability, just through extended practice.
And as far as the hallucinogenics go, you can't actually perform more efficiently on them, but sometimes it's possible to get a flash of insight that you can apply when you come off of them.
I switched over to Vivo Barefoot (http://www.terraplana.com/mens-vivo-barefoot-c-153_157.html), which really is just an expensive moccasin with a Kevlar sole. I even started running in them.
I used to hate running because it hurt like crazy. Now, because I'm running right, it's a lot better.
Honestly? Yes.
I think it's a matter of risk more than anything. A writer of a trojan could claim that it wasn't intended to be used for illegal purposes, he didn't mean for it to have any purpose but pen-testing and research, etc., that may help him avoid heavier prosecution than the person who is actually committing the act.
I know that its probably not the Reg at the University of Chicago, but that is one library that you could walks into and need a search party to find your way out again. And they are planning on making it BIGGER...
Librarians need to go out and play Halo 2 so, what, they can understand what book a client wants? So they can work out a gamepad interface into catalogues? Perhaps it's so they can develop a first person shooter where the books zip around and you have to shoot the one you want. Or maybe so we can get one of those nifty glove interfaces that clueless Hollywood producers put into theoretically "futuristic" movies that show information retrieval as some sort of 3-d experience zipping around holographic Tron-like landscapes
I think that you are missing the point here. The article is not stating that librarians need to turn the entire book and information hunting experience into a video game, but rather that we need to adjust how we view the process towards how a patron of the library might view it. The digital-native/digital-immigrant analogy is fairly straight forward: both can use technology, just that one person does it as a matter of course, while the other needs to translate the information from one paradigm to another before they can use it. The argument that librarians need to play more games is just another way of stating that librarians need to throw themselves more completely into the world of technology in the same way a person studying a foreign language would throw themselves into a foreign country to gain greater fluency. The shock is greater, but the results may just be worth it.
The student is the supplicant (as much as the article seems to want to mock this), and the student that wants to know can jolly well learn how to learn. This is the greatest skill that any university can teach, and simply plopping it in a student's lap does that student no good.
Not quite. As you so aptly put, being a librarian is a job and one large (although not only) part of that job is aiding people in doing research and looking for information. The generations are changing and librarians need to cope with the fact that the younger patrons are expecting information in a different way, and this means that librarians need to relate on a, yes, more personal level with them and on their own terms.
[quote]The speed limit on the Kennedy in Chicago is well, it is always like 5 MPH regardless of what the government says. I hate that god damn slow moving parking lot.[/quote]
And yet, Lake Shore drive is a posted 30-40mph, but people drive it as if it were 90. I guess it all evens out in the end ^_^
Okay, I agree with the part of the act that would protect a web master from prosecution for keeping an archive of an offending posting or whatever. Now whether or not that archive should be required is another thing entirely.
But when the article starts going into things like this:
The other section of McCain's legislation targets convicted sex offenders. It would create a federal registry of "any e-mail address, instant-message address, or other similar Internet identifier" they use, and punish sex offenders with up to 10 years in prison if they don't supply it.
I begin to think that our wonderful congressmen should take a basic computer course. Things that apply to real life, such as keeping a record of changes in address, changes in telephone numbers, etc, often just don't apply to the internet. Its hard keeping track of people in the real world, but the internet is built upon anonymity.
And when you start requiring people to report stuff on things like chatrooms, message boards, and IM conversations, things just become absurd. The equivalent would be forcing the reporting casual conversations in which they mentioned that a high school girl "was hot."
Who's to say that I can't hop on both feet without a pogo stick? Perhaps I just like to hop? It is my favorite mode of travel ^_^
Here's to bad spellink and the falure of the Amerikan skol sistem!
A corporation is not a person, and has no inherent rights as such. Thus, a corporation may be restricted in its speech, up to and including forcing it to allow speech it does not support.
Technically, under the 14th amendment, a corporation is considered to be an artificial "person", but not a citizen, and is given the rights as such.
You are right that speech may be restricted, although the first amendment is always up for debate, in regards to both natural and artificial persons, and in this particular case, the amendment has been upheld in more recent legislations in the interest of the listener, regardless if the speaker is an artificial person.
I don't care for frivilous cases of strong-arming domain names from people. At the same time, however, the rules, whether they be actual laws or just plain ettiquete, should be equal for all. Registering other people's trademarks and names as domain names (and I do mean names that are clearly distinctive trademarks and not common names that just happen to be parts of trademarks), in my mind, is breaking the rules.
At this point in time, the internet is still somewhat free (as in speech, not as in beer.) According to the rules in place, anyone can register any.com domain name based only on whether or not the name has already been taken. And this is the way it should be.
You say that everyone should have equal rights to the rules, but, using myself as an example, if someone wanted to register my unusual last name (and they already have) I'd be powerless to stop them, irregardless of their intentions, due to financial restrictions. In this senario, I have a less then equal chance at getting it back. I have to roll with the punches and except the fact that the domain name is not mine.
Corporations should not be able to strong-arm ANY domain name. If they want the name bad enough, they should make an offer to purchase it.
Technically, for those of you who havent taken economics, the supply and demand rule means that if you drop the price, demand for the product goes up, and if you rase the price demand for the product goes down.
The trick is finding the right balancing point where the demand at a certain price gives you the most profit. Barring price flooring (retail prices cant drop below a certain amount) on Apple's end, it just might be that the current prices reflect the most profit for the stores, so why would they drop the price and make less money?
Okay, lets get the self introduction out of the way: Im a ninteen year old college student at DePaul University, Chicago (I commute,) a Computer Science major with a minor in Japanese Studies, and am the oldest of four children (10/m, 11/f, 13/m).
I was the first in my family to get into computers. Although my parents initially fought against that damnable AOL (which I now know them to have been totally right, for completely different reasons,) they eventually caved and I had internet access.
To be honest, I looked at porn (and still do on occasion.) I like to think that Im not THAT screwed up because of it, but who knows, I post on slashdot after all ^_^;
But on to the point of my post: Im at the age where Im, for the most part, an adult, but still have a foot in the children`s years. My parents still dont know anything about computers, and due to my hobby (and major) my house has a fairly well developed network, including a custom router/firewall/squid.
Now, I dont view myself to be too old for some elderly sibbling teasing and blackmail. Lets just put this way, he doesnt look at the pron sights that much any more. They`re so funny the way they squirm when you mention the porn site that they visited earlier that day (which I, ahem, checked for, *cough* respectable portrail of the oppisite sex.)
Unless we're missing something... Who's to say that Microsft haven't been doing a little unpublished research, looking for buffer overflows and other vulnerabilities that they're soon going to demonstrate? There are still bright people at Microsft. There are certainly people bright enough to find bugs in software (maybe they won't find much wrong with the Linux kernel, but it's not going to be too difficult to find bugs in myriad GNU and other packages that come with a typical distro). They might view finding and making public security holes in the competition as a more valuable and profitable exercise than securing their own OS and software.
Shear numbers. Although Microsoft can employ brilliant people to look for security holes in their competitor`s OS, Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, etc also have brilliant people on their staff looking for holes, in addition to the thousands of users, who are also looking for holes as a hobby, then coming up with fixes for them.
And the best part of this is, because of the Open Source initiative, if one distro finds a fix, soon all of the distros that have similar holes have fixes.
And if you dig 1,000 page per book trilogies, I made it through the first book of the Otherland series. Some crazy computer fiction, and, again, so much more. Great stuff. Unfortunately, when I finished the first book, the second hadn't been released and I haven't got around to finishing the trilogy.
Technicaly, the Otherland series by Tad Williams has four books, "City of Golden Shadow", "River of Blue Fire", "Mountain of Black Glass" and "Sea of Silver Light" and I recomend the highly. Never had around three and a half thousand pages fly by so quickly, even quicker than the Wheel of Time series.
I mean, God! What was I thinking? Wanting a duel boot! Sure, Micro$oft, take control over my MBR, I dont want it! Lilo? Who needs it? I mean, its not like I actually wanted to run Linux after I installed it...
Seriously, now. How old are you? We may play with toys and watch cartoons, but at least at the end of the day, we can sigh contently and say we did something that day that we enjoyed.
Can you say the same? Or are you too busy looking at how other people think of you to do something you actually enjoy.
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I'm going to play Devil's Advocate and go against the IT sympathizing majority and say that it depends. I can see it being entirely possible that inside a place like a hospital, in a department that is as high tech as the OP is claiming, that a Department Head may be in charge of organizing the set up and maintenance of medical equipment that is outside of IT's direct (or at least day to day) control. A territorial Department Head, especially a knowledgeable, may want to keep IT's involvement as minimal as possible, if only to avoid red tape.
I work as the head of IT for a library which, admittedly, is not nearly as regulated as a hospital, but we've had some similar issues. The library system we are a member of will, for a fee, manage our network, we choose to run our network and servers internally. Every once in a while, we'll make a change to our internal network, such as a superscope addition, and they'll scream bloody murder, and say we can't do that, that they need access to everything to keep it all from blowing up or something. Without telling us why. So, without knowing the full scope of IT's role at the hospital, I can potentially see a situation where the Department Head may not be completely unjustified in asking why IT wants access.
Pot has roughly the same effect as vallium on some, which allows them to get past their own anxiety to accomplish a task better like public speaking. It does nothing to make them more creative, just lets them use their existing talents better.
But, in this particular example, if a person performs the task more because they have less anxiety, they develop a higher level of ability, just through extended practice.
And as far as the hallucinogenics go, you can't actually perform more efficiently on them, but sometimes it's possible to get a flash of insight that you can apply when you come off of them.
does that mean i should wear iron clad boots?
No, just Kevlar moccasins.
I switched over to Vivo Barefoot (http://www.terraplana.com/mens-vivo-barefoot-c-153_157.html), which really is just an expensive moccasin with a Kevlar sole. I even started running in them.
I used to hate running because it hurt like crazy. Now, because I'm running right, it's a lot better.
But what about Japan? The most polluted first world country with some of the longest life expectancies in the world...
What a coincidence! I beg, borrow and steal for my medication too!
What? No, I'm not a doctor, just an addict! xD
Honestly? Yes. I think it's a matter of risk more than anything. A writer of a trojan could claim that it wasn't intended to be used for illegal purposes, he didn't mean for it to have any purpose but pen-testing and research, etc., that may help him avoid heavier prosecution than the person who is actually committing the act.
I know that its probably not the Reg at the University of Chicago, but that is one library that you could walks into and need a search party to find your way out again. And they are planning on making it BIGGER...
I think that you are missing the point here. The article is not stating that librarians need to turn the entire book and information hunting experience into a video game, but rather that we need to adjust how we view the process towards how a patron of the library might view it. The digital-native/digital-immigrant analogy is fairly straight forward: both can use technology, just that one person does it as a matter of course, while the other needs to translate the information from one paradigm to another before they can use it. The argument that librarians need to play more games is just another way of stating that librarians need to throw themselves more completely into the world of technology in the same way a person studying a foreign language would throw themselves into a foreign country to gain greater fluency. The shock is greater, but the results may just be worth it.
The student is the supplicant (as much as the article seems to want to mock this), and the student that wants to know can jolly well learn how to learn. This is the greatest skill that any university can teach, and simply plopping it in a student's lap does that student no good.Not quite. As you so aptly put, being a librarian is a job and one large (although not only) part of that job is aiding people in doing research and looking for information. The generations are changing and librarians need to cope with the fact that the younger patrons are expecting information in a different way, and this means that librarians need to relate on a, yes, more personal level with them and on their own terms.
[quote]The speed limit on the Kennedy in Chicago is well, it is always like 5 MPH regardless of what the government says. I hate that god damn slow moving parking lot.[/quote]
And yet, Lake Shore drive is a posted 30-40mph, but people drive it as if it were 90. I guess it all evens out in the end ^_^
Okay, I agree with the part of the act that would protect a web master from prosecution for keeping an archive of an offending posting or whatever. Now whether or not that archive should be required is another thing entirely.
But when the article starts going into things like this:
I begin to think that our wonderful congressmen should take a basic computer course. Things that apply to real life, such as keeping a record of changes in address, changes in telephone numbers, etc, often just don't apply to the internet. Its hard keeping track of people in the real world, but the internet is built upon anonymity.
And when you start requiring people to report stuff on things like chatrooms, message boards, and IM conversations, things just become absurd. The equivalent would be forcing the reporting casual conversations in which they mentioned that a high school girl "was hot."
Who's to say that I can't hop on both feet without a pogo stick? Perhaps I just like to hop? It is my favorite mode of travel ^_^ Here's to bad spellink and the falure of the Amerikan skol sistem!
A corporation is not a person, and has no inherent rights as such. Thus, a corporation may be restricted in its speech, up to and including forcing it to allow speech it does not support.
Technically, under the 14th amendment, a corporation is considered to be an artificial "person", but not a citizen, and is given the rights as such.
You are right that speech may be restricted, although the first amendment is always up for debate, in regards to both natural and artificial persons, and in this particular case, the amendment has been upheld in more recent legislations in the interest of the listener, regardless if the speaker is an artificial person.
--theKiyote
Don't feel bad though - lots of people have trouble finding porn on the internet, I understand your dilemma...
I personally use PersianKitty. Works great with pop-up blocking mozilla ^_^
--theKiyote
I don't care for frivilous cases of strong-arming domain names from people. At the same time, however, the rules, whether they be actual laws or just plain ettiquete, should be equal for all. Registering other people's trademarks and names as domain names (and I do mean names that are clearly distinctive trademarks and not common names that just happen to be parts of trademarks), in my mind, is breaking the rules.
At this point in time, the internet is still somewhat free (as in speech, not as in beer.) According to the rules in place, anyone can register any .com domain name based only on whether or not the name has already been taken. And this is the way it should be.
You say that everyone should have equal rights to the rules, but, using myself as an example, if someone wanted to register my unusual last name (and they already have) I'd be powerless to stop them, irregardless of their intentions, due to financial restrictions. In this senario, I have a less then equal chance at getting it back. I have to roll with the punches and except the fact that the domain name is not mine.
Corporations should not be able to strong-arm ANY domain name. If they want the name bad enough, they should make an offer to purchase it.
--theKiyote
Technically, for those of you who havent taken economics, the supply and demand rule means that if you drop the price, demand for the product goes up, and if you rase the price demand for the product goes down.
The trick is finding the right balancing point where the demand at a certain price gives you the most profit. Barring price flooring (retail prices cant drop below a certain amount) on Apple's end, it just might be that the current prices reflect the most profit for the stores, so why would they drop the price and make less money?
Okay, lets get the self introduction out of the way: Im a ninteen year old college student at DePaul University, Chicago (I commute,) a Computer Science major with a minor in Japanese Studies, and am the oldest of four children (10/m, 11/f, 13/m).
I was the first in my family to get into computers. Although my parents initially fought against that damnable AOL (which I now know them to have been totally right, for completely different reasons,) they eventually caved and I had internet access.
To be honest, I looked at porn (and still do on occasion.) I like to think that Im not THAT screwed up because of it, but who knows, I post on slashdot after all ^_^;
But on to the point of my post: Im at the age where Im, for the most part, an adult, but still have a foot in the children`s years. My parents still dont know anything about computers, and due to my hobby (and major) my house has a fairly well developed network, including a custom router/firewall/squid.
Now, I dont view myself to be too old for some elderly sibbling teasing and blackmail. Lets just put this way, he doesnt look at the pron sights that much any more. They`re so funny the way they squirm when you mention the porn site that they visited earlier that day (which I, ahem, checked for, *cough* respectable portrail of the oppisite sex.)
--theKiyote
Shear numbers. Although Microsoft can employ brilliant people to look for security holes in their competitor`s OS, Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, etc also have brilliant people on their staff looking for holes, in addition to the thousands of users, who are also looking for holes as a hobby, then coming up with fixes for them.
And the best part of this is, because of the Open Source initiative, if one distro finds a fix, soon all of the distros that have similar holes have fixes.
Technicaly, the Otherland series by Tad Williams has four books, "City of Golden Shadow", "River of Blue Fire", "Mountain of Black Glass" and "Sea of Silver Light" and I recomend the highly. Never had around three and a half thousand pages fly by so quickly, even quicker than the Wheel of Time series.
one of the best *nix apps sights out there:
http://fink.sourceforge.net
I'm currently running windows maker on top of aqua
kiyote
I mean, God! What was I thinking? Wanting a duel boot! Sure, Micro$oft, take control over my MBR, I dont want it! Lilo? Who needs it? I mean, its not like I actually wanted to run Linux after I installed it...
not toonami. However, why they call it Adult Swim is beyond me. The cartoons they're playing would fit better in the Toonami catagory. --theKiyote
Seriously, now. How old are you? We may play with toys and watch cartoons, but at least at the end of the day, we can sigh contently and say we did something that day that we enjoyed.
Can you say the same? Or are you too busy looking at how other people think of you to do something you actually enjoy.
Ask yourself, who really cares?
--theKiyote
Chuching! Wahoo! Something to do for a person who was wondering what to do on a saturday night! --theKiyote