You can carry a swiss army knife (although airport customs sometimes don't like them and may make them travel in the hold) but not a lock-knife or bowie knife with a large blade. I can't think of a single time when I'd need one of these in daily life unless I was a butcher/hunter etc - you don't need a blade more than a couple of inches long to cut rope, etc. I also can't see any reason why you should be allowed to bring such a knife into a public place like a football match
I can, however, see why you shouldn't be allowed to bring a large bladed knife into a football ground, what with hooliganism etc etc.
Any secretary that claims to need a paper knife shaped like a "small sword" - well, I'd employ them to fend off vendors, but I'd find it hard to justify a blade like that rather than, say a letter-opener
i registered a new domain through ukreg.com and am getting spam to it already. mail at that account has never been used and the only online presence it has is a holding page at that domain's web page without an email address on it.
they're letting the kids out of camp x-ray? whilst that cvnt rumsfeld states on the record that even if the detainees at guantanemo bay are found innocent they may need to be detained for as long as he wants?
like i said, bet you my karma points they're not released by the 25th of september.
As an example, I work with FDA approved and validated systems. You would not believe, and I can't be bothered, detailing the amount of documentation, version control and testing we use to guarantee 100% that the environment is *exactly* to spec.
A new patch out from MS? Can we just stick it on? Nope. We need to test in depth, we need to formally do a performance qualification, and we need to document all this to the nth degree: this is medical data, and you can't take chances that a patch might affect it.
...i've had a little light on my dashboard saying SERVICE pop up a few thousand miles ago. the car's making funny noises and there's a big cloud of black smoke that follows me around. do you think something might be wrong?
no, they're as quiet as something like a WD JB "Caviar" model. Really nice, and totally at home in a desktop. Very impressed so far: 5 year warranty and all...
...joe sixpack on dial-up is going to let windows update the 36MB of stuff advertised (i shit you not: the last 5 machines i've built have advertised between 36 and 69 FRICKING MEG of windows update - and that's not including service pack 1 which i applied from CD. shame MS don't separate the security hotfixes from media player 9 and the rest of the crap they push at you through windowsupdate.com...
Keynote Systems (Quote, Company Info) said it is currently monitoring the situation. As of 4:50 p.m. Eastern, the online monitoring firm reported the Internet is performing normally and major Web sites in the U.S. are also performing normally, although a few of the news Web sites are showing slightly-longer download times.
C'mon people, I'm trying to download Medal of Honor off Overnet, get it up!
"21CFR11 is a wonderful thing for safety and prevents many sorts of disasters - but it's not perfect for preventing things like system DLLs being changed."
Like hell it doesn't! Every part of my systems down to the little rubber feet on the bottom are detailed down to DLL level through version-controlled documents that are wet-ink signed on completion. We're considered validated by the FDA.
There's nothing wrong with using IE and IIS (well, maybe not IIS!) in a medical sector, but you take precautions. Lock it down, firewall it off and certainly don't expose it to the internet.
I *certainly* wouldn't let anyone using a PC that I don't admin and lockdown access the systems I admin. If anyone wants to sit at home in the garden looking at my systems using their insecure wifi connection they can't. Simple as that. It's just good practice. GxP, in fact.
this applies to software development and implementation too. i do this for a living for a major drug company, and we're putting in a new data capture system for use in a clinical trials department. it's very, very time consuming and difficult to do this to the level of detail and accountability that the FDA requires - but this is a good thing. it *should* be difficult to get approval as you're dealing with things that have a direct impact on people - whether thru drug efficacy, or though a medical aid that could cause harm if misued.
That will be because you either don't untick the boxes on credit applications, or you've been dealing with a crappy company.
Argos, for example (British catalogue clothes and tat seller) will run a full credit check on anyone who orders a catalogue. Doesn't matter if you're paying in cash, you'll get credit checked. Enough credit checks and your rating is in the toilet...
perfect! perhaps we could run it on a commodore amiga, and make sure that only one person knows how it works. then we could staple their lips together and cut off their hands.
you stop software installs and removable media through good security policy, not by running your mission critical stuff on an obscure OS that you can't support and your vendor won't support either.
MEDICAL DATA CAPTURE STUFF NEEDS TO BE VALIDATED AGAINST FDA REQUIREMENTS. THIS IS *HARD* AND YOU DON'T GET IT BY ACCIDENT.
Ask anyone who's worked on a validated or 21CFR11-compliant system.
I can't breathe on our systems without exhaustive revalidation procedures and that's the way it should be.
It's very easy to poke fun at sectors you have no experience of, but rest assured all the checks and balances you think should be there, ARE. And then some.
and never underestimate how easy it is to poke fun at people on slashdot without having to back it up with evidence. i'm sure a lot of healthcare IT professionals would love to have a quiet word with you about your glib comments.
in a validated environment you can't have MS automatically installing things that you've not tested in a test environment. any systems that deal with financial transactions, anything relating to data protection, anything in the pharma industry: you'd be breaking compliance downloading the latest patch willy nilly.
it's your ass when you find due to some obscure interaction it's fragged your data...
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How come this got accepted when all the Really Cool Stuff (tm) I put in didn't?
I wondered what all that harp noise business was about
You can carry a swiss army knife (although airport customs sometimes don't like them and may make them travel in the hold) but not a lock-knife or bowie knife with a large blade. I can't think of a single time when I'd need one of these in daily life unless I was a butcher/hunter etc - you don't need a blade more than a couple of inches long to cut rope, etc. I also can't see any reason why you should be allowed to bring such a knife into a public place like a football match
I can, however, see why you shouldn't be allowed to bring a large bladed knife into a football ground, what with hooliganism etc etc.
Any secretary that claims to need a paper knife shaped like a "small sword" - well, I'd employ them to fend off vendors, but I'd find it hard to justify a blade like that rather than, say a letter-opener
i registered a new domain through ukreg.com and am getting spam to it already. mail at that account has never been used and the only online presence it has is a holding page at that domain's web page without an email address on it.
...as you cry yourself to sleep again.
Valves have warmer overdrive characteristics and some natural compression when pushed slightly.
like i said, bet you my karma points they're not released by the 25th of september.
nope, all ok so far.
your turn: go out into a major city with a broomstick in your hands and shout "allah is great! allah is great" and see how long you last.
A new patch out from MS? Can we just stick it on? Nope. We need to test in depth, we need to formally do a performance qualification, and we need to document all this to the nth degree: this is medical data, and you can't take chances that a patch might affect it.
Result? You don't rush out and patch stuff.
+4 Interesting? FFS, people...
Since I bought these pills I saw advertised in my Hotmail, I now have a 13" dick and can beat people to death with it....!
no, they're as quiet as something like a WD JB "Caviar" model. Really nice, and totally at home in a desktop. Very impressed so far: 5 year warranty and all...
...I just got a WD Raptor 10,000rpm SATA drive witha 5 year warranty (under 100UKP) for my desktop. Try and keep up, people!
...joe sixpack on dial-up is going to let windows update the 36MB of stuff advertised (i shit you not: the last 5 machines i've built have advertised between 36 and 69 FRICKING MEG of windows update - and that's not including service pack 1 which i applied from CD. shame MS don't separate the security hotfixes from media player 9 and the rest of the crap they push at you through windowsupdate.com...
Keynote Systems (Quote, Company Info) said it is currently monitoring the situation. As of 4:50 p.m. Eastern, the online monitoring firm reported the Internet is performing normally and major Web sites in the U.S. are also performing normally, although a few of the news Web sites are showing slightly-longer download times.
C'mon people, I'm trying to download Medal of Honor off Overnet, get it up!
Like hell it doesn't! Every part of my systems down to the little rubber feet on the bottom are detailed down to DLL level through version-controlled documents that are wet-ink signed on completion. We're considered validated by the FDA.
There's nothing wrong with using IE and IIS (well, maybe not IIS!) in a medical sector, but you take precautions. Lock it down, firewall it off and certainly don't expose it to the internet.
I *certainly* wouldn't let anyone using a PC that I don't admin and lockdown access the systems I admin. If anyone wants to sit at home in the garden looking at my systems using their insecure wifi connection they can't. Simple as that. It's just good practice. GxP, in fact.
this applies to software development and implementation too. i do this for a living for a major drug company, and we're putting in a new data capture system for use in a clinical trials department. it's very, very time consuming and difficult to do this to the level of detail and accountability that the FDA requires - but this is a good thing. it *should* be difficult to get approval as you're dealing with things that have a direct impact on people - whether thru drug efficacy, or though a medical aid that could cause harm if misued.
Argos, for example (British catalogue clothes and tat seller) will run a full credit check on anyone who orders a catalogue. Doesn't matter if you're paying in cash, you'll get credit checked. Enough credit checks and your rating is in the toilet...
as, strangely, it's accurate
you stop software installs and removable media through good security policy, not by running your mission critical stuff on an obscure OS that you can't support and your vendor won't support either.
MEDICAL DATA CAPTURE STUFF NEEDS TO BE VALIDATED AGAINST FDA REQUIREMENTS. THIS IS *HARD* AND YOU DON'T GET IT BY ACCIDENT.
Ask anyone who's worked on a validated or 21CFR11-compliant system.
I can't breathe on our systems without exhaustive revalidation procedures and that's the way it should be.
It's very easy to poke fun at sectors you have no experience of, but rest assured all the checks and balances you think should be there, ARE. And then some.
and never underestimate how easy it is to poke fun at people on slashdot without having to back it up with evidence. i'm sure a lot of healthcare IT professionals would love to have a quiet word with you about your glib comments.
Cool! That's just what we need! What happened to wifi standards 0 to 810, anyway?
it's your ass when you find due to some obscure interaction it's fragged your data...
any with WOL or a bios that supports it. My old work dell used to turn itself on at 8am every weekday so it looked like i arrived early...