I accepted that argument the first time about mammograms. It sounded reasonable that they based their recommendation on science.
I did Not accept that argument the second time.
Especially since the second time mirrors so exactly that story from the UK about the college-aged woman being denied....
So you accept something based on a scientific study but reject the same conclusion based on an isolated incident? As people love to point out here on/. the plural of anecdote is not data.
Someone did an interesting study on US healthcare -- there are areas where people living there incur significantly higher medical costs, because of additional procedures and tests that are performed there. But the study found that there was either no correlation between these high costs and positive medical outcomes -- in fact the reverse was often true -- the people in the lower cost areas had better medical outcomes. It is a fallacy to believe that these tests have zero risk for patients -- there will be false positives and these false positives cause medical issues.
Yes, there will be people who suffer because they are undiagnosed, such as the college student you mentioned, but across the population the medical outcome will be better by only making these tests available to older patients -- that's what the study showed.
Phones have been hard wired to contracts for years now,
Oh, yes, that's why I have been able to take phones on my family plan and put another carrier's SIM card in them and have them work. Yes, really locked down. The phones were locked when I bought them, but the carrier gave me the code to unlock them at no charge to me.
I wonder how much of the failure rates is due to problems with Nvidia chips?
Before I get downmodded as a troll or for flamebait, please note that Nvidia has had well documented problems with reliablility, due to materials used in the chip bumping and finishing processes.
It really is a non-problem. Just 10 mnutes ago, I set up two LCD monitors at just less than their native resolutions because everything looks too small. At this less-than native resolution, everything looks fine. There really isn't an issue.
Not really true. Things like radar were also highly advanced military technologies, which the US/Brits had, and the Germans/Japanese did not.
Not really true. The Germans had radar -- in fact they deployed it in aircraft before the Brits. The Germans had radio-based naviagation systems on their bombers (unfortunately for the Germans, the Brits found out about this system and were able to subvert the system, causing the Germans to drop lots of bombs in the North sea and other sparsely populated areas).
"We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieving greater prosperity and opportunity for all."
Apparently this guy is either in denial or is ignorant about what GS is actually doing -- it is clear that their high-speed trading is effectively a zero sum game and by enriching themselves, they are not providing greater prosperity for others. In fact, they provide the reverse -- they impoverish the rest of us.
But what should we expect from them? When I was young (a long time ago), the banks did not hire the brightest people -- they hired the second rate school leavers -- bright enough to do well at school, but not go on to university.
Stop relying on blacklists as your primarily (or only!) filtering mechanism
The people with the problem (the new owners of the IP address space) are not the people who can make the problem go away by your suggestion. Yes, it might be nice if everyone did make this change, but it is also highly unlikely.
I have seen even worse use of blacklists -- for example I came across one company that was rejecting email if a blacklist was matched anyhere in the "Received" lines, and their set of blacklists included lists of dynamic addresses so you could not send them an email from most residential IP addresses, even if it was relayed by a normal non-spammy source (for example an ISP's outgoing mail relay)
Newer datacenters don't have raised floors because it is more energy efficient to have concrete floors.
Hogwash.
Yeah, what do I know about the subject? I'm just quoting from a recent talk given by Subodh Bapat, Vice President, Energy Efficiency and Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems.
That's interesting, but the OP really needs to know what is good or not. For example, you state "Raised Floor Height". What is good? Newer datacenters don't have raised floors because it is more energy efficient to have concrete floors. "Cooling Capacity" -- what's good and what is bad? How is this measured? Some datacenters may talk aobut how cool they keep the ambient air, but there isn't much evidence that this actually provides a noticable difference to the lifetime or any other factor related to the equipment.
If you have transmission lines running from point A to point B then why cant you just string a data line right below the transmission lines? You already own the right of way. You already have the towers/pole line ran. Compared to the cost of a big high tension line the cost of a little data line would be nothing.
That's fine until some PHB realizes that they have a massive amount of spare bandwidth and decides to sell it......
But seriously, they could set up a VPN using MPLS (or some other equivalent technology) at the telecom company level and the systems would not need to be accessible from the Internet. Then the attacker would need to break into the telecom company network first.
Because he feels the same way you do. You don't seem at all eager to adapt your behavior to the terms on which products are being marketed. You instead want to force the providers to change.
Yes, I do expect the providers to change.
I, and other customers have something Comcast needs: subscription revenue. In order to obtain that revenue Comcast must provide something of value to me. If Comcast wants me to change my behavior, it has to provide a compelling reason for the change. Comcast must provide some benefit to me to induce my change of behavior.
This exec shows no inclination of providing any benefit in return for any change of behavior, so why should I (and millions of other customers) change our behavior?
No, the first such laws were for felonies - after the third felony (murder, armed robbery, rape, etc.) you got life in prison.
Maybe that was what people expected, but in CA, what happens is that people get locked away for life for 3 minor crimes (for example, shoplifting and other minor offenses).
The question for Italy is "Which Italian design"? Italy has several 220V outlet styles which are in active use. The UK used to have a couple of round pin designs also in common use, but these have pretty much gone the way of the dodo (except for some specialst uses).
Safety of the plug is less important if you are only dealing with 110V. And as for the built-in fuse: how many plugs are actually fitted with a fuse that is appropriately rated for the device it connects?
The British plug has undergone a change some time back which does make it a lot more safe: encasing the upper ends of the live and neutral pins in plastic, so that one can't touch the metal of the live pin when inserting or removing the plug while it is actually live.
What I hate are those blanking plates that are sold as a child safety device. Since the plate is held in place using a plastic earth pin, it actually opens the shutters that normally prevent access to the live socket. I think that people who buy these plates don't understand the safety features built into a UK 13A socket.
We're not all dummies who will see our machines experience huge slowdowns, files that shouldn't have changed grow in size, lots of network activity, and not think that something is wrong
Your post assumes that all infections (viruses/trojans, worms, etc) are designed to use large amounts of resources. That may be a faulty assumption.
I have yet (in over a decade of tending windows and NT servers) had a single machine get infected.
Let's be clear here (and the same is true for anyone running Linux), you don't know that none of your machines were infected. You know thatyou never discovered an infection.
That's exactly why I don't care. When I send an unencrypted email, my mail server sees it, my router sees it, my ISP can see it, and 10 or 20 other servers between me and the destination mailerserver can probably see it too.
Perhaps your mail goes unencrypted, but most of my email does not. My email leave my house and travels to my own mailserver in an encrypted form. From my mailserver, if going to gmail, the connection uses SMTP-TLS -- in other words, once again it is encrypted.
An increasing number of mailservers support SMTP-TLS today, so the old assumptions about intermediate routers being able to read mail are no longer valid.
Gmail and many webmail services offer an https option for reading email, also pops or imaps (or pop-with-tls) are also becoming commonly used, so downloading of emails is increasingly encrypted.
The reboot hack is a reasonable workaround in the field, as long as the downtime is documented and understood by leadership,
That depends on the time to reboot and the level of redundancy of equipment. What would you say if a missile hit something because the officers had told the operators to reboot the system just at that time?
That is where the judge gets the interpretation that there is no expectation of privacy. If you understand that Google employees can read your email in gmail, then you don't expect that your emails are private.
And, following that logic, my banking details are not private because bank employees can read them, my medical details are not private because insurance company employees can read them, my phone calls are not private because telephone company employees can listen to them, etc..
Replying to my own post, but I see from RTFA that the judge addressed the privacy policies. However, he seems to have read them differently to me. He says that Gmail uses agree to google disclosing the information in response to a lawful request (ie, a subpoena) and somehow reads from this that users dont have any expectation of privacy.
Personally, I would think that expecting disclosure to require a warrant was pretty much an expectation or privacy. Otherwise, we can never have an expectation of privacy. Perhaps he means that because Google employees can read the emails, there is no expectation of privacy, but this is using a black and white test where is it not appropriate. I understand that Google employees can read my emails in gmail, but I have reason to expect that the contents won't go any further.
The way I've always heard it, regular email is just like a postcard - anyone in the chain who touches it can read it.
ISPs are increasingly supporting smtp-tls. That means that the transfers are encrypted between mailservers. To send an email to another party requires that the email goes through a limited number of mailservers, but the ISPs whose role is providing connectivity between those mailservers can't read the emails.
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So you accept something based on a scientific study but reject the same conclusion based on an isolated incident? As people love to point out here on /. the plural of anecdote is not data.
Someone did an interesting study on US healthcare -- there are areas where people living there incur significantly higher medical costs, because of additional procedures and tests that are performed there. But the study found that there was either no correlation between these high costs and positive medical outcomes -- in fact the reverse was often true -- the people in the lower cost areas had better medical outcomes. It is a fallacy to believe that these tests have zero risk for patients -- there will be false positives and these false positives cause medical issues.
Yes, there will be people who suffer because they are undiagnosed, such as the college student you mentioned, but across the population the medical outcome will be better by only making these tests available to older patients -- that's what the study showed.
And it "just works" on ARM processors? So "PC" should really be "x86-based PC".
Oh, yes, that's why I have been able to take phones on my family plan and put another carrier's SIM card in them and have them work. Yes, really locked down. The phones were locked when I bought them, but the carrier gave me the code to unlock them at no charge to me.
I wonder how much of the failure rates is due to problems with Nvidia chips?
Before I get downmodded as a troll or for flamebait, please note that Nvidia has had well documented problems with reliablility, due to materials used in the chip bumping and finishing processes.
It really is a non-problem. Just 10 mnutes ago, I set up two LCD monitors at just less than their native resolutions because everything looks too small. At this less-than native resolution, everything looks fine. There really isn't an issue.
Not really true. The Germans had radar -- in fact they deployed it in aircraft before the Brits. The Germans had radio-based naviagation systems on their bombers (unfortunately for the Germans, the Brits found out about this system and were able to subvert the system, causing the Germans to drop lots of bombs in the North sea and other sparsely populated areas).
Apparently this guy is either in denial or is ignorant about what GS is actually doing -- it is clear that their high-speed trading is effectively a zero sum game and by enriching themselves, they are not providing greater prosperity for others. In fact, they provide the reverse -- they impoverish the rest of us.
But what should we expect from them? When I was young (a long time ago), the banks did not hire the brightest people -- they hired the second rate school leavers -- bright enough to do well at school, but not go on to university.
The people with the problem (the new owners of the IP address space) are not the people who can make the problem go away by your suggestion. Yes, it might be nice if everyone did make this change, but it is also highly unlikely.
I have seen even worse use of blacklists -- for example I came across one company that was rejecting email if a blacklist was matched anyhere in the "Received" lines, and their set of blacklists included lists of dynamic addresses so you could not send them an email from most residential IP addresses, even if it was relayed by a normal non-spammy source (for example an ISP's outgoing mail relay)
Yeah, what do I know about the subject? I'm just quoting from a recent talk given by Subodh Bapat, Vice President, Energy Efficiency and Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems.
Oh, and there are some articles about this
But please, continue to refute my statement with clear, unsupported, single-word denials. They carry so much weight in an argument.
That's interesting, but the OP really needs to know what is good or not. For example, you state "Raised Floor Height". What is good? Newer datacenters don't have raised floors because it is more energy efficient to have concrete floors. "Cooling Capacity" -- what's good and what is bad? How is this measured? Some datacenters may talk aobut how cool they keep the ambient air, but there isn't much evidence that this actually provides a noticable difference to the lifetime or any other factor related to the equipment.
That's fine until some PHB realizes that they have a massive amount of spare bandwidth and decides to sell it......
But seriously, they could set up a VPN using MPLS (or some other equivalent technology) at the telecom company level and the systems would not need to be accessible from the Internet. Then the attacker would need to break into the telecom company network first.
Yes, I do expect the providers to change.
I, and other customers have something Comcast needs: subscription revenue. In order to obtain that revenue Comcast must provide something of value to me. If Comcast wants me to change my behavior, it has to provide a compelling reason for the change. Comcast must provide some benefit to me to induce my change of behavior.
This exec shows no inclination of providing any benefit in return for any change of behavior, so why should I (and millions of other customers) change our behavior?
Maybe that was what people expected, but in CA, what happens is that people get locked away for life for 3 minor crimes (for example, shoplifting and other minor offenses).
The question for Italy is "Which Italian design"? Italy has several 220V outlet styles which are in active use. The UK used to have a couple of round pin designs also in common use, but these have pretty much gone the way of the dodo (except for some specialst uses).
Safety of the plug is less important if you are only dealing with 110V. And as for the built-in fuse: how many plugs are actually fitted with a fuse that is appropriately rated for the device it connects?
The British plug has undergone a change some time back which does make it a lot more safe: encasing the upper ends of the live and neutral pins in plastic, so that one can't touch the metal of the live pin when inserting or removing the plug while it is actually live.
What I hate are those blanking plates that are sold as a child safety device. Since the plate is held in place using a plastic earth pin, it actually opens the shutters that normally prevent access to the live socket. I think that people who buy these plates don't understand the safety features built into a UK 13A socket.
Perhaps Toyota should talk to Audi for advice on this problem?
Your post assumes that all infections (viruses/trojans, worms, etc) are designed to use large amounts of resources. That may be a faulty assumption.
Let's be clear here (and the same is true for anyone running Linux), you don't know that none of your machines were infected. You know thatyou never discovered an infection.
Perhaps your mail goes unencrypted, but most of my email does not. My email leave my house and travels to my own mailserver in an encrypted form. From my mailserver, if going to gmail, the connection uses SMTP-TLS -- in other words, once again it is encrypted.
An increasing number of mailservers support SMTP-TLS today, so the old assumptions about intermediate routers being able to read mail are no longer valid.
Gmail and many webmail services offer an https option for reading email, also pops or imaps (or pop-with-tls) are also becoming commonly used, so downloading of emails is increasingly encrypted.
That depends on the time to reboot and the level of redundancy of equipment. What would you say if a missile hit something because the officers had told the operators to reboot the system just at that time?
Let me trump your anecdote with my own anecdote.
A colleague of mine bought a new laptop with Vista on it about a month ago. It blue-screened when new and it continues to blue-screen now.
Because the is a Knowledge Base article (KB975253) about this problem?
And, following that logic, my banking details are not private because bank employees can read them, my medical details are not private because insurance company employees can read them, my phone calls are not private because telephone company employees can listen to them, etc..
Replying to my own post, but I see from RTFA that the judge addressed the privacy policies. However, he seems to have read them differently to me. He says that Gmail uses agree to google disclosing the information in response to a lawful request (ie, a subpoena) and somehow reads from this that users dont have any expectation of privacy. Personally, I would think that expecting disclosure to require a warrant was pretty much an expectation or privacy. Otherwise, we can never have an expectation of privacy. Perhaps he means that because Google employees can read the emails, there is no expectation of privacy, but this is using a black and white test where is it not appropriate. I understand that Google employees can read my emails in gmail, but I have reason to expect that the contents won't go any further.
ISPs are increasingly supporting smtp-tls. That means that the transfers are encrypted between mailservers. To send an email to another party requires that the email goes through a limited number of mailservers, but the ISPs whose role is providing connectivity between those mailservers can't read the emails.