The application process required opening a PDF in Adobe Acrobat READER. It used some proprietary extension and if opened in any other application just had a note that said to use Acrobat Reader.
When opened in Acrobat Reader it had a form with a button at the bottom to submit the information. He tried to process it using the most recent version of acrobat for each of the following operating systems:
On Linux, the button did nothing.
On Windows XP in a virtual machine, the button half worked (asked for login info)
On native boot Windows 7, it worked all the way
The takeaway is this: a government process used a supposedly open format but ruined it by using a proprietary extension that only worked on a recent version of proprietary software running on a recent version of a proprietary operating system.
Would any other manufacturer do that? Would the retail store that sold you any brand of laptop?
If it's an Acer? Probably not, but that's probably because they don't have a ton of retail stores all over the place. More than likely, I would have gotten it from some place like Newegg and would have to go through warranty-by-mail service. If it's an Apple? Absolutely. Apple is different. You're paying a significant premium on their product partly because they're selling you the boutique experience. They have these stores all over the place with their "Genius Bars" that offer to diagnose/fix their products. It only makes sense from their point of view: move your data into a refurb model, send the broken one off to a central place to be fixed, and send you on your way. What do they do with a broken iPhone that you costs $1000? They transfer your stuff to a new one and send you on your way. Why should a laptop be any different? I should say that may expectations may differ from reality. What does Apple actually do with a broken laptop?
You bought an Apple that broke. Welcome to the club, but surely you wouldn't expect your local Acer (or whatever) shop, assuming there is one, to replace a shell, mainboard, keyboard and optical drive with a two hour turnaround.
No. If that much was wrong with it, I would expect them to put my HDD in a new unit and send that original one back to the manufacturer.
keepass is cross platform, using the same file on Linux/Win/Android/MacOS. You can store the encrypted database in a cloud-based service like dropbox and have a highly portable system for password storage on-line & off-line.
That's what I do. For added security, I have a key file that I never put online and only stored locally on my laptop/phone. That way, even if someone gets my database AND somehow intercepts my password they're still out in the cold.
KeeCloud is a good place to start. Then just pick a browser integration plugin and you're off. For android, Keepass2Android is a good choice, too. It has an integrated keyboard that will directly type the username and password into the browser (or app) so you can avoid all those clipboard stealing exploits.
Apple tried this a few years ago with the iPhone 4. It didn't work out so well. Simply holding the phone in the "wrong way" made it drop the connection.
Thanks. I'll have a read through the papers this weekend. I'm a bit bummed that some of it's from the 70's and 80's. Doesn't mean that it's invalid, just means that there might be new information because our understanding of genetics and brain pathways has come a LONG way since then. Anyway, it's a starting point and I appreciate it.
Sources? Seriously. I really want to see that paper. I know some people it might apply to and would like to read/analyze it myself and pass it on if it's true.
Some states allow doctors to give you medication directly (besides those little sample bottles). Those are called dispensing practitioners and they often need another special certification on their license. Can a robot do the job of a pharmacist? No more than they can do the job of a doctor. Ever try one of those online diagnosis things? Exactly. It's not just about facts and observations. It's about clinical insight and experience, too. There exist today programs that attempt to stop the errors and they're OK at best. Usually what ends up happening is that the prescribers get alert fatigue and turn off the notices for all but the most egregious of errors. I mean, seriously, JNC guidelines might say that anyone with stage II hypertension gets 2 drugs automatically. Doctor prescribes those drugs. System pops up error about therapeutic duplication. Can you imagine how annoying that would be to click past 20, 30, 40 times a day? A pharmacist knows exactly what's going on and just moves on with checking the rest of the prescriptions. Plus, sometimes the doctor does seemingly stupid things on purpose. I've seen (multiple times, I might add) vaginal cream prescribed for a male...with nosebleeds. The doctor figured it might help hydrate the nasal mucosa. Did it work? I don' t know. Would a machine have ever let that through? Probably not. That being said, a pharmacist does a lot more than just make sure you're doctor's not asleep at the wheel. They also take on clinical functions. In the VA system, they have the authority to change therapeutic choices after the patient has been diagnosed by the doctor. Think about it. Pharmacists spend as much time learning about drugs as the doctor does learning about your body. It only makes sense that the body expert figures out what's wrong and the drug expert optimizes the therapy. Maybe in 10 or 20 years those informatics systems will be good enough to do the double checking pharmacists can get on to some real work.
Insurance companies have squeezed nearly all the profit out of the pharmacy. So, even for a high volume store a lot of the corporate people are loathe to allow more than one pharmacist to be working at any one time. Pharmacists aren't cheap at around $1/minute. And when you're only making $1-2 per script, that's even more expensive. The problem, though, is that, by law (and for good reason), nearly everything that happens in the pharmacy needs to go through the pharmacist. Best cough med? Only the pharmacist can answer. Dangerous med? Needs counseling? Only the pharmacist. New phone in? Only the pharmacist. Then, every single prescription needs to be checked and signed off on by the pharmacist. You have to understand that literally the only person behind the counter who has more than a few months formal training is the pharmacist and that, again by law, they are ultimately responsible for ANYTHING that goes wrong behind the counter. The pharmacist legally needs to be involved in everything that happens in the pharmacy and everything that happens takes them away from finishing your prescription. Don't get me started on insurance rejects. Those can literally take all day. This pretty much sums it up. It's irreverent, but it sums it up. As for centralizing, we're doing that. Several chains (Walgreens and Wal-Mart come to mind) have invested in centralized pharmacies that fill maintenance meds with robots and deliver the filled prescriptions to the local pharmacy. They can fill thousands of scripts in a single night. It's a HUGE time saver when it works right (which it usually does). As far as e-prescribing goes, all the pharmacies are on board and most of the doctors are coming around. it's usually a lot better than the illegible handwritten scripts. It just allows for new forms of stupid, though. I've gotten no shortage of prescriptions telling me that patients use their diabetic testing supplies orally. REALLY?
What your asking about is called "Unit of Use" in the industry and quite a few companies offer them. If they don't and it's a popular drug, other companies called pharmacy repackagers will do it for them. For the most part, I love them. I just grab your drug off the shelf and slap a label on it. No counting, no verifying that the right pill just came out of the open bottle, nothing. Just labeling. That's the easy part, though. The reason it takes so long are the myriad of other distractions: the phone, insurance rejects, bad handwriting, patient inquiries, etc. Then there's also that other part: making sure the doctors aren't trying to kill you. Not all medications get along nicely. Some combinations will make you feel ill, some will make one med not work, and some will just outright kill you. Your primary care might not have gotten the memo from your cardiologist that he just changed your blood pressure medication. So, that antidepressant that slows down your heart a little bit along with that other med from your cardiologist may cause your heart to pump too slowly to perfuse your body. If I don't catch that and give you your med, you could die. So, I have to call one (or possibly both) of your doctors to see which is more important for you. There's more that goes on behind the counter besides lick, stick, count, and pour.
Right, and that probably speeds up the process for you by a LOT. Like I said, though, it's not just you. Other people's meds can hold up your order. Most systems in retail pharmacy prioritize on a first-come-first-served basis. There are other priorities in there (like if you won't be back until tomorrow or if you just had 4 teeth pulled and you're bleeding on my counter), but there's little manual prioritizing. So when I'm trying to type up your prescription, but I keep getting a reject for someone who's been there for an hour, the computer is going to make me take care of their problem first. Your paying cash just means that I won't have any issues with YOUR prescription when I finally get to it.
If you want a pretty good, over-the-top description of a pretty bad day (and possibly a good laugh), check out this blog article. It's extremely irreverent but covers quite a few of the problems that we actually do deal with in a given day.
It depends on the state. Neither Ohio or PA required anything back in 2008 (not sure about now). Here in Florida, we just started registering the technicians a few years ago. Prior to that, there were national certifications like the ExCPT and the PTCB which could help you land a job (and hopefully get payed better) but was NOT required. You literally just had to have a high school diploma and some semblance of competence. Now you either got grandfathered in (with like 1000+ hours) or you complete a board approved training program (which can be completed on the job as long as it's done within 6 months of hire). But when I started many years ago as a pharmacy tech, I spent two days in a computer room doing training then I was counting pills and helping patients. You are right, however, about IV compounding. In most hospitals it's done by a tech. The FDA has gotten crazy strict about it lately after a lot of mishaps, so now you need to take a lot of training in USP 797 before they will even let you in the clean room.
Honestly, as far as the US is concerned, that's probably the result of socialized healthcare. When you only have one insurance company and one formulary to deal with, it's a lot easier for the doctors to write for something that's going to be payed for. And, if they know it won't be payed for, they don't need to wait for the pharmacy to let them know before they start the paperwork for a prior authorization. A LOT of what slows down your prescription here in the states is third party rejections. Even if it's not your med, it may take me a few minutes to call the insurance company to get the override for a therapy change that they should have let me put in myself. That's assuming I don't have to write up a fax and send it in to the doctor so THEY can get an override. It's obnoxious. Considering Canada has socialized medicine, though, I have no idea what's slowing them up.
I work in pharmacy and I can't tell you the number of people over me who aren't even certified as a pharmacy technician. They either came up through the retail division or through some MBA pathway and they sit there and make decisions about how a retail pharmacy should run without having worked in any sort of pharmacy. It's how you get stupid stuff like a 15 minute guarantee that prioritizes speed over patient safety. It's difficult because the executives at the top don't understand why it's a problem. How are you supposed to bring your issues to someone who has no idea how those issues impact your daily life? I mean, how long does it take to put a sticker on a bottle and fill it with pills? I can imagine it's the same in IT. In a previous life I'd fallen into a couple of IT positions (by virtue of "knowing computers" better than the other people at the small business) and trying to explain security to them is like trying to explain an egg shell to a brick wall. I can only imagine what IT people in a dedicated department must go through trying to justify themselves to 20 layers of management. Good luck.
I'm sorry but I read your submission and it quotes the article saying "the world’s most popular song belongs to...the world." What other interpretation is there besides that meaning it's public domain? As the AC below (and the articles) state, the song was published in 1922 without a notice of copyright. Under the laws governing copyright at the time, that means that they could not assert copyright on the Happy Birthday words. It's public domain. I guess, theoretically, some cockroach could crawl out of the woodwork tomorrow and say "but look, my great grandaddy published the words WITH the copyright statement in 1921! I own the words!" Yes, it's possible, but not particularly likely. The only group to ever assert copyright on it was Warner and the chain of holders before they finally purchased it. At this point it might as well be over.
Just as bad, if not worse, are those annoying-as-hell ads that automatically redirect you to the app store. I used to not be able to surf the web on my wife's iPad because it would always switch from Safari to the App Store, then it started happening on my Android devices, too.
The deciding factor on which browser I use on my mobile devices is now "Does it have an ad-blocker?" The mobile web is useless without it.
Neither do I. Region locking in today's global, free-trade world is just moronic. I live in the US, so I'm "lucky" enough to have access to most of these services. However, I have not now, nor will I ever subscribe to Hulu. I don't even use their free service because I hate advertisements.
All I'm pointing out is the source of their stupidity. There is no adversarial relationship. There is no distributor to talk reason to them. There is no negotiation or discussion. They have essentially created a content producer coop to do the digital distribution so they can exist in a vacuum and do things "the way they've always been done."
In fairness, I'd imagine it's probably not Hulu but the content providers that dictate that policy.
Check this Wikipedia article out. Look at the list of owners to the right. NBC-Universal, Fox, Disney. Why do you think they're so stuck on showing ads even on the pay service? It's because it's all they know.
Hundreds of cartoon characters were created in the early and mid 1900s. Only a few became successful and one of them was Mickey. Why should Disney make that asset available free to the public because the luck, creative and technical skills in pulling off a creative masterpiece is a lot? Why do creators of copyrighted work owe free stuff to the public? Do members of the public mail at least one dollar bill per year to failed artists? No. But artists are supposed to be charitable to the public somehow.
So end this scam called limited times for copyrighted work. Disney and M. Mouse were valuable a few decades ago, are valuable today and will remain valuable a 100 years from today.
I really hope that's sarcasm. I can't really tell. Sorry, but it just doesn't read well in print without some kind of sarcasm tag or a whole lot of exclamation points or something to indicate it.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Notice the parts about promotion and limited that I highlighted? Yeah...copyright is a contract between the public and the artist. They get to make something, profit from it for a while, then we get to make something new out of it or just make it part of our culture and share it with others all we want. The current state of copyright has perverted that.
More than that, the graphs aren't clearly labeled, or in some cases they aren't even unit-labeled!
That kind of amateur bullshit is like nails down the chalk board.
Be grateful for what you get around here. At least it's better than that lame-ass HP smartwatch article that we got a week ago. This one at least tells you what products were tested!
Anyway, most of the graphs seem to have some kind of legend. They're just not very clear or consistent. Sometimes the unit is in the proper legend in the top right and sometimes it's in the subtitle of the graph. If it's a synthetic benchmark it won't have a unit. It's just a "score." Usually higher is better.
Like many system administrators, I used to restrict access to port tcp/22 on most of my servers based on source IP address; this provided some protection from "zero-day" exploits against OpenSSH, as well as eliminating the annoying "log spam" caused by brute force attacks. This worked fine as long as I always connected from the same location, but heading off to conferences meant that I needed to either tunnel SSH connections over other SSH connections or make temporary changes to my firewall rules.
Yeah. I used to have my SSH available on my public IP but finally got sick of getting emailed security loss that were a mile long with login attempts from Asian and Arabian countries I'd never been to. It was convenient being able to SCP files and everything without a hassle, but it wasn't worth the security risk.
Now, I just have our private access only and have to connect to my OpenVPN server first. Haven't gotten a single failed login attempt notification since. It's just really lame that it's come to this. You simply cannot have more than a bare minimum of ports open to the public or they WILL try to hack you.
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When opened in Acrobat Reader it had a form with a button at the bottom to submit the information. He tried to process it using the most recent version of acrobat for each of the following operating systems:
The takeaway is this: a government process used a supposedly open format but ruined it by using a proprietary extension that only worked on a recent version of proprietary software running on a recent version of a proprietary operating system.
Would any other manufacturer do that? Would the retail store that sold you any brand of laptop?
If it's an Acer? Probably not, but that's probably because they don't have a ton of retail stores all over the place. More than likely, I would have gotten it from some place like Newegg and would have to go through warranty-by-mail service.
If it's an Apple? Absolutely. Apple is different. You're paying a significant premium on their product partly because they're selling you the boutique experience. They have these stores all over the place with their "Genius Bars" that offer to diagnose/fix their products. It only makes sense from their point of view: move your data into a refurb model, send the broken one off to a central place to be fixed, and send you on your way. What do they do with a broken iPhone that you costs $1000? They transfer your stuff to a new one and send you on your way. Why should a laptop be any different?
I should say that may expectations may differ from reality. What does Apple actually do with a broken laptop?
You bought an Apple that broke. Welcome to the club, but surely you wouldn't expect your local Acer (or whatever) shop, assuming there is one, to replace a shell, mainboard, keyboard and optical drive with a two hour turnaround.
No. If that much was wrong with it, I would expect them to put my HDD in a new unit and send that original one back to the manufacturer.
keepass is cross platform, using the same file on Linux/Win/Android/MacOS. You can store the encrypted database in a cloud-based service like dropbox and have a highly portable system for password storage on-line & off-line.
That's what I do. For added security, I have a key file that I never put online and only stored locally on my laptop/phone. That way, even if someone gets my database AND somehow intercepts my password they're still out in the cold.
KeeCloud is a good place to start. Then just pick a browser integration plugin and you're off. For android, Keepass2Android is a good choice, too. It has an integrated keyboard that will directly type the username and password into the browser (or app) so you can avoid all those clipboard stealing exploits.
I have to ask, though...what are her parents doing hiding in the fridge? That much cold and lack of movement can't possibly be good for their joints.
Apple tried this a few years ago with the iPhone 4. It didn't work out so well. Simply holding the phone in the "wrong way" made it drop the connection.
undoing overrated mod...sorry
Thanks. I'll have a read through the papers this weekend. I'm a bit bummed that some of it's from the 70's and 80's. Doesn't mean that it's invalid, just means that there might be new information because our understanding of genetics and brain pathways has come a LONG way since then. Anyway, it's a starting point and I appreciate it.
Sources? Seriously. I really want to see that paper. I know some people it might apply to and would like to read/analyze it myself and pass it on if it's true.
Some states allow doctors to give you medication directly (besides those little sample bottles). Those are called dispensing practitioners and they often need another special certification on their license.
Can a robot do the job of a pharmacist? No more than they can do the job of a doctor. Ever try one of those online diagnosis things? Exactly. It's not just about facts and observations. It's about clinical insight and experience, too. There exist today programs that attempt to stop the errors and they're OK at best. Usually what ends up happening is that the prescribers get alert fatigue and turn off the notices for all but the most egregious of errors. I mean, seriously, JNC guidelines might say that anyone with stage II hypertension gets 2 drugs automatically. Doctor prescribes those drugs. System pops up error about therapeutic duplication. Can you imagine how annoying that would be to click past 20, 30, 40 times a day? A pharmacist knows exactly what's going on and just moves on with checking the rest of the prescriptions.
Plus, sometimes the doctor does seemingly stupid things on purpose. I've seen (multiple times, I might add) vaginal cream prescribed for a male...with nosebleeds. The doctor figured it might help hydrate the nasal mucosa. Did it work? I don' t know. Would a machine have ever let that through? Probably not.
That being said, a pharmacist does a lot more than just make sure you're doctor's not asleep at the wheel. They also take on clinical functions. In the VA system, they have the authority to change therapeutic choices after the patient has been diagnosed by the doctor. Think about it. Pharmacists spend as much time learning about drugs as the doctor does learning about your body. It only makes sense that the body expert figures out what's wrong and the drug expert optimizes the therapy. Maybe in 10 or 20 years those informatics systems will be good enough to do the double checking pharmacists can get on to some real work.
Insurance companies have squeezed nearly all the profit out of the pharmacy. So, even for a high volume store a lot of the corporate people are loathe to allow more than one pharmacist to be working at any one time. Pharmacists aren't cheap at around $1/minute. And when you're only making $1-2 per script, that's even more expensive. The problem, though, is that, by law (and for good reason), nearly everything that happens in the pharmacy needs to go through the pharmacist. Best cough med? Only the pharmacist can answer. Dangerous med? Needs counseling? Only the pharmacist. New phone in? Only the pharmacist. Then, every single prescription needs to be checked and signed off on by the pharmacist. You have to understand that literally the only person behind the counter who has more than a few months formal training is the pharmacist and that, again by law, they are ultimately responsible for ANYTHING that goes wrong behind the counter. The pharmacist legally needs to be involved in everything that happens in the pharmacy and everything that happens takes them away from finishing your prescription. Don't get me started on insurance rejects. Those can literally take all day.
This pretty much sums it up. It's irreverent, but it sums it up.
As for centralizing, we're doing that. Several chains (Walgreens and Wal-Mart come to mind) have invested in centralized pharmacies that fill maintenance meds with robots and deliver the filled prescriptions to the local pharmacy. They can fill thousands of scripts in a single night. It's a HUGE time saver when it works right (which it usually does).
As far as e-prescribing goes, all the pharmacies are on board and most of the doctors are coming around. it's usually a lot better than the illegible handwritten scripts. It just allows for new forms of stupid, though. I've gotten no shortage of prescriptions telling me that patients use their diabetic testing supplies orally. REALLY?
What your asking about is called "Unit of Use" in the industry and quite a few companies offer them. If they don't and it's a popular drug, other companies called pharmacy repackagers will do it for them. For the most part, I love them. I just grab your drug off the shelf and slap a label on it. No counting, no verifying that the right pill just came out of the open bottle, nothing. Just labeling. That's the easy part, though. The reason it takes so long are the myriad of other distractions: the phone, insurance rejects, bad handwriting, patient inquiries, etc. Then there's also that other part: making sure the doctors aren't trying to kill you. Not all medications get along nicely. Some combinations will make you feel ill, some will make one med not work, and some will just outright kill you. Your primary care might not have gotten the memo from your cardiologist that he just changed your blood pressure medication. So, that antidepressant that slows down your heart a little bit along with that other med from your cardiologist may cause your heart to pump too slowly to perfuse your body. If I don't catch that and give you your med, you could die. So, I have to call one (or possibly both) of your doctors to see which is more important for you. There's more that goes on behind the counter besides lick, stick, count, and pour.
If you want a pretty good, over-the-top description of a pretty bad day (and possibly a good laugh), check out this blog article. It's extremely irreverent but covers quite a few of the problems that we actually do deal with in a given day.
It depends on the state. Neither Ohio or PA required anything back in 2008 (not sure about now). Here in Florida, we just started registering the technicians a few years ago. Prior to that, there were national certifications like the ExCPT and the PTCB which could help you land a job (and hopefully get payed better) but was NOT required. You literally just had to have a high school diploma and some semblance of competence. Now you either got grandfathered in (with like 1000+ hours) or you complete a board approved training program (which can be completed on the job as long as it's done within 6 months of hire).
But when I started many years ago as a pharmacy tech, I spent two days in a computer room doing training then I was counting pills and helping patients.
You are right, however, about IV compounding. In most hospitals it's done by a tech. The FDA has gotten crazy strict about it lately after a lot of mishaps, so now you need to take a lot of training in USP 797 before they will even let you in the clean room.
Honestly, as far as the US is concerned, that's probably the result of socialized healthcare. When you only have one insurance company and one formulary to deal with, it's a lot easier for the doctors to write for something that's going to be payed for. And, if they know it won't be payed for, they don't need to wait for the pharmacy to let them know before they start the paperwork for a prior authorization.
A LOT of what slows down your prescription here in the states is third party rejections. Even if it's not your med, it may take me a few minutes to call the insurance company to get the override for a therapy change that they should have let me put in myself. That's assuming I don't have to write up a fax and send it in to the doctor so THEY can get an override. It's obnoxious.
Considering Canada has socialized medicine, though, I have no idea what's slowing them up.
I work in pharmacy and I can't tell you the number of people over me who aren't even certified as a pharmacy technician. They either came up through the retail division or through some MBA pathway and they sit there and make decisions about how a retail pharmacy should run without having worked in any sort of pharmacy. It's how you get stupid stuff like a 15 minute guarantee that prioritizes speed over patient safety.
It's difficult because the executives at the top don't understand why it's a problem. How are you supposed to bring your issues to someone who has no idea how those issues impact your daily life? I mean, how long does it take to put a sticker on a bottle and fill it with pills? I can imagine it's the same in IT. In a previous life I'd fallen into a couple of IT positions (by virtue of "knowing computers" better than the other people at the small business) and trying to explain security to them is like trying to explain an egg shell to a brick wall. I can only imagine what IT people in a dedicated department must go through trying to justify themselves to 20 layers of management. Good luck.
Stupid mouse clicked the wrong mod option. Sorry.
I'm sorry but I read your submission and it quotes the article saying "the world’s most popular song belongs to...the world." What other interpretation is there besides that meaning it's public domain? As the AC below (and the articles) state, the song was published in 1922 without a notice of copyright. Under the laws governing copyright at the time, that means that they could not assert copyright on the Happy Birthday words. It's public domain.
I guess, theoretically, some cockroach could crawl out of the woodwork tomorrow and say "but look, my great grandaddy published the words WITH the copyright statement in 1921! I own the words!" Yes, it's possible, but not particularly likely. The only group to ever assert copyright on it was Warner and the chain of holders before they finally purchased it. At this point it might as well be over.
The deciding factor on which browser I use on my mobile devices is now "Does it have an ad-blocker?" The mobile web is useless without it.
I just fired up Opera (shares the Blink engine) and gave it a try. Sure enough, it crashed and restarted. Wonder where the issue is...
All I'm pointing out is the source of their stupidity. There is no adversarial relationship. There is no distributor to talk reason to them. There is no negotiation or discussion. They have essentially created a content producer coop to do the digital distribution so they can exist in a vacuum and do things "the way they've always been done."
In fairness, I'd imagine it's probably not Hulu but the content providers that dictate that policy.
Check this Wikipedia article out. Look at the list of owners to the right. NBC-Universal, Fox, Disney. Why do you think they're so stuck on showing ads even on the pay service? It's because it's all they know.
Hundreds of cartoon characters were created in the early and mid 1900s. Only a few became successful and one of them was Mickey. Why should Disney make that asset available free to the public because the luck, creative and technical skills in pulling off a creative masterpiece is a lot? Why do creators of copyrighted work owe free stuff to the public? Do members of the public mail at least one dollar bill per year to failed artists? No. But artists are supposed to be charitable to the public somehow.
So end this scam called limited times for copyrighted work. Disney and M. Mouse were valuable a few decades ago, are valuable today and will remain valuable a 100 years from today.
I really hope that's sarcasm. I can't really tell. Sorry, but it just doesn't read well in print without some kind of sarcasm tag or a whole lot of exclamation points or something to indicate it.
In the event that it's not, you do realize how stupid, ignorant, and deluded you are, right? The text of the constitution that authorizes copyright reads:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Notice the parts about promotion and limited that I highlighted? Yeah...copyright is a contract between the public and the artist. They get to make something, profit from it for a while, then we get to make something new out of it or just make it part of our culture and share it with others all we want. The current state of copyright has perverted that.
More than that, the graphs aren't clearly labeled, or in some cases they aren't even unit-labeled!
That kind of amateur bullshit is like nails down the chalk board.
Be grateful for what you get around here. At least it's better than that lame-ass HP smartwatch article that we got a week ago. This one at least tells you what products were tested!
Anyway, most of the graphs seem to have some kind of legend. They're just not very clear or consistent. Sometimes the unit is in the proper legend in the top right and sometimes it's in the subtitle of the graph. If it's a synthetic benchmark it won't have a unit. It's just a "score." Usually higher is better.
The unofficial official FreeBSD security posture: two layers, where the outer layer has a singular purpose in life.
Protecting sshd using spiped
Yeah. I used to have my SSH available on my public IP but finally got sick of getting emailed security loss that were a mile long with login attempts from Asian and Arabian countries I'd never been to. It was convenient being able to SCP files and everything without a hassle, but it wasn't worth the security risk.
Now, I just have our private access only and have to connect to my OpenVPN server first. Haven't gotten a single failed login attempt notification since. It's just really lame that it's come to this. You simply cannot have more than a bare minimum of ports open to the public or they WILL try to hack you.