There's still an issue with MFP copy machines being sold and re-provisioned to other businesses. Scanned medical documents buffered on the drives can still be recovered for many of the units. Only the newer machines (or updated firmware) will encrypt the data on writes. But often they're expensive so they're not replacing the refurbished units quick enough. It will be another 10+ plus years before they get flushed out of the market would be my guess.
Point being. I'm curious to know if hipaa compliance now requires taking the drives out of the machines, or having written certification the data buffered in these copy machines will be securely wiped.
Agreed. To my knowledge, that BlockBuster app that comes pre-loaded with the Verizon Droid2 was never part of the linux platform. Unless of course, all you Linux junkies have a fetish for BlockBuster that I don't know about.
In all seriousness, imagine if Dell pulled a stunt like this in that all that crap-ware couldn't be removed. If you attempted to load your own OS and not the Dell OEM factory image, you would be left in the cold without warranty support. That's exactly what the cell carriers are doing. Punks!
Perhaps. But I'm just so tired of people on Slashdot bashing Republicans (and they deserve it for sure) while making the Democrats to be less of a problem. All the while they show just how incompetent they can be. Republicans need to stay the hell away from our bedrooms while Democrats need to stay the hell away from anything financial. But the double standards I see scream intellectual dishonesty. It's precisely this behavior as to why we have douche-bags in office! God damn! I wish people would be more intelligent when they vote. I wish people would learn to pay attention while driving. That at least would be a start.
I'd be better off asking for a pony that would shit gold and diamonds. Odds are better.
You know what. Fuck you! I would rather the Republican destroy America and rebuild it back to it's former glory and the hand over our nation to a bunch of Democrat filled narcissistic psychopaths whom would rather boil us like frogs. The later is far far far worse!
No. It means they will now be banned along with model rockets. With technology and material so damn cheap, I whole wholeheartedly expect the federal gov to drop the ban-hammer all sorts of potential equipment used for this kind of warfare. At the very least, there will be official purchase registries combined with fuzzy logic used to tip off the FBI.
In principle don't have a problem with that. However, that might pose a problem for businesses with international branch offices. At that point, you would have to rely on DNS requests tunneled through a pinned up VPN and/or local host files. PITA is what that would be.
I could see that happening in Austin, TX of all places. It's next to fucking impossible to find a parking spot anywhere. In fact, the city has grown in population beyond intended scope. Too crowded for the motorist, and to a lesser extent, cyclists too.
Actually it was about preventing future acts of terrorism. Saddam never took sides accept his own. But that's not to say he wouldn't have had supported one group over another if he personally had something to gain from it. Let's not forget what kind of man he was. Legally, it was about WMDs spearheaded with a testimony given by Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi. AKA "Curveball". So not only were the facts BS, but many UN members were already knee shit in corruption (Oil for Food for example). These members had a benefit to keeping that dictator in power to act as their proxy agent and pimp. As for the Iraqi's themselves? No one ever cared for their well being. Not before, and certainly not after. Those clamoring for support only do so to get back at Bush.
Well, politics always dictate the solution. So yes, technically it would be a clusterfuck from there. But in theory, I could see each nation running their own set of root servers with trust relationships between. That's not to say however that your primary nation of residence will not override those records legally belonging to another nation.
Perhaps it can be traced back further, but I've always had the impression that Western fantasy RPG character sets can be traced back to J. R. R. Tolkien's work. Talk about being stuck in a time warp.
You want to know why basic hearing aids are so damn expensive? Because they're FDA approved. Thus, they can lock-in the price the market will bare. Given how the average citizen is abstracted from the true cost of medical care thanks to medical insurance, the profit margins are astronomical. The supply/demand ratio is way out of tune with normal market forces. Getting a game FDA approved is pure genius. Games are a dime-a-dozen these days. But, get the insurance to cover the expense and you can charge pretty much what you can get away with.
Up until the machines become intelligent (perhaps self-ware too) to the point of re-writing and optimizing their own AI. Basically they become self-sufficent and thus direct competitors to all but those that own the rights to its intellectual property and royalties. Basically you now have government sponsored lordships of the machines reaping oodles wealth they create. There will be no middle class left. Just a few uber wealthy with the rest of society very very poor. Now while even the poor would live a rich material lifestyle thanks to the tireless working machines, we would have very little political rights and privileges over the wealthy elite.
So the question to be asked is this scenario. Will material distraction be enough to keep people from focusing on self determination and intellectual freedoms?
So, what, everyone, being unemployed, just sits in the dark and starves ?
I think that would be one of the best times to scrap our money-driven society.
Oh boy! Where to begin... I'll try and keep it simple. Look, 'money' is nothing more than a social construct among people. Think of money as a universal IOU that can be traded beyond two people. I suppose you can look from a monkey's point of view. Monkey-A scratches the back of Monkey-B. But rather than Monkey-B returning the favor to Monkey-A, he spends the return favor on Monkey-C whom has never met Monkey-A. That's all money really is. A way to make IOUs of labor portable and fluid. No matter how technology changes society, human beings will always want to assign worth to something. A social apparatus to assess where we stand on the pecking order of self-worth. If you study why members of the Media (news, Hollywood, music industry...etc) and the white collar social scene (legal profession and politicians) become so wealthy, it all makes perfect sense. You will never get rid of either a monetary system or even a basic concept of bartering.
How about by not being such a promiscuous slut / manwhore? Being in an honest and monogamous relationship does wonders at stopping the spread of STDs. Instead, we're focusing on drugs and condoms so humanity can continue on with its wonton fuckfest.
If you're purchasing a Dell, stay away from the Samsung SSD option as they're OEM. The drives are absolute shit. Most likely a firmware issue, often Windows will just freeze because writes cannot be further committed. I've been through two different Dell laptops models and they experienced the same issue using this same drive. Only when we swapped drives did the issue go away. And that was after Dell decided to swap the motherboard, ram, CPU, and video card. Nice.
Soon, every adult will have to be paired up with a police officer. Even police officers will have to be paired up too. The rotation is random each day so as to not to form close relationships. We're all watchmen to ensure we become the perfect citizen. All actions are to be time and performed flawlessly. Robots, born and raised in the flesh. A handicap that will eventually need to be addressed.
ISPs do filter port 25 going outside their network for customers using heuristic behavior monitoring. In some cases, out-right block it all together. If I had to guess, all outbound port 25 traffic gets routed to an entire management firewall device to perform this CPU intensive task. Take ATT for example. Many of my clients here in Houston, TX can send out e-mail to a 3rd party POP server. But send more than 5 or 10 within a small window of time, and the entire port gets clamped down. I've personally confirmed this using Telnet commands. Again, not normal behavior. Definitely some activity management going on at the ISP level they're not owning up to.
Not sure I'm feeling the love for this concept. On the reads, sure. Nice idea. Writes however, not feeling the love. For whatever the reasons, PC hardware can lock up (CPU, video, motherboard, RAM etc) or because of buggy device drivers on the OS. In any event, how well can this device recover from a dirty-cache shutdown? What happens if the device just dies? Will I still be able to mount the HDD and recover data? It would be interesting to see how a journaling file system handles the abstraction of one volume read/written between two different drives. Were not talking about RAID5 here where you at least have parity data to recover from.
The 90-day requirement seems aimed at a demographic that doesn't already have internet access. If you're poor and already have internet access, Comcast will assume you'll still pay the current rate and/or you've already budgeted your finances around it. No point it reducing profit margins in their eyes. The rest of the requirements definitely fits the profile of low-income too. Specifically in the area of reducing risk as they disproportionately laps in on-time bill payment. Sometimes going over 60 days and approaching 90 days prior to making minimum payment. Comcast (like any other business) doesn't want to be left holding the bag on unpaid services and equipment.
Before any of you jump all over me, I want you to think about this for a moment (and I'm being sincere). Most likely, this program is aimed at latino and black communities. Historically they rank the highest group of unemployed and last to actually depend on Internet based technologies and services. If anything, this low priced service offering has the potential to bridge the "digital divide". But that's more of a cultural preference than one strictly of cost within that demographic, so I'm not entirely convinced it was ever a vocal problem except for what the politicians are saying.
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There's still an issue with MFP copy machines being sold and re-provisioned to other businesses. Scanned medical documents buffered on the drives can still be recovered for many of the units. Only the newer machines (or updated firmware) will encrypt the data on writes. But often they're expensive so they're not replacing the refurbished units quick enough. It will be another 10+ plus years before they get flushed out of the market would be my guess.
Point being. I'm curious to know if hipaa compliance now requires taking the drives out of the machines, or having written certification the data buffered in these copy machines will be securely wiped.
Agreed. To my knowledge, that BlockBuster app that comes pre-loaded with the Verizon Droid2 was never part of the linux platform. Unless of course, all you Linux junkies have a fetish for BlockBuster that I don't know about.
In all seriousness, imagine if Dell pulled a stunt like this in that all that crap-ware couldn't be removed. If you attempted to load your own OS and not the Dell OEM factory image, you would be left in the cold without warranty support. That's exactly what the cell carriers are doing. Punks!
Perhaps. But I'm just so tired of people on Slashdot bashing Republicans (and they deserve it for sure) while making the Democrats to be less of a problem. All the while they show just how incompetent they can be. Republicans need to stay the hell away from our bedrooms while Democrats need to stay the hell away from anything financial. But the double standards I see scream intellectual dishonesty. It's precisely this behavior as to why we have douche-bags in office! God damn! I wish people would be more intelligent when they vote. I wish people would learn to pay attention while driving. That at least would be a start.
I'd be better off asking for a pony that would shit gold and diamonds. Odds are better.
You know what. Fuck you! I would rather the Republican destroy America and rebuild it back to it's former glory and the hand over our nation to a bunch of Democrat filled narcissistic psychopaths whom would rather boil us like frogs. The later is far far far worse!
No. It means they will now be banned along with model rockets. With technology and material so damn cheap, I whole wholeheartedly expect the federal gov to drop the ban-hammer all sorts of potential equipment used for this kind of warfare. At the very least, there will be official purchase registries combined with fuzzy logic used to tip off the FBI.
In principle don't have a problem with that. However, that might pose a problem for businesses with international branch offices. At that point, you would have to rely on DNS requests tunneled through a pinned up VPN and/or local host files. PITA is what that would be.
I could see that happening in Austin, TX of all places. It's next to fucking impossible to find a parking spot anywhere. In fact, the city has grown in population beyond intended scope. Too crowded for the motorist, and to a lesser extent, cyclists too.
Actually it was about preventing future acts of terrorism. Saddam never took sides accept his own. But that's not to say he wouldn't have had supported one group over another if he personally had something to gain from it. Let's not forget what kind of man he was. Legally, it was about WMDs spearheaded with a testimony given by Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi. AKA "Curveball". So not only were the facts BS, but many UN members were already knee shit in corruption (Oil for Food for example). These members had a benefit to keeping that dictator in power to act as their proxy agent and pimp. As for the Iraqi's themselves? No one ever cared for their well being. Not before, and certainly not after. Those clamoring for support only do so to get back at Bush.
Well, politics always dictate the solution. So yes, technically it would be a clusterfuck from there. But in theory, I could see each nation running their own set of root servers with trust relationships between. That's not to say however that your primary nation of residence will not override those records legally belonging to another nation.
The world will be made up of Internets.
Perhaps it can be traced back further, but I've always had the impression that Western fantasy RPG character sets can be traced back to J. R. R. Tolkien's work. Talk about being stuck in a time warp.
You want to know why basic hearing aids are so damn expensive? Because they're FDA approved. Thus, they can lock-in the price the market will bare. Given how the average citizen is abstracted from the true cost of medical care thanks to medical insurance, the profit margins are astronomical. The supply/demand ratio is way out of tune with normal market forces. Getting a game FDA approved is pure genius. Games are a dime-a-dozen these days. But, get the insurance to cover the expense and you can charge pretty much what you can get away with.
If looking at the past is any indication, predicting the future can be easy. Especially with regards to basic human behavior.
Up until the machines become intelligent (perhaps self-ware too) to the point of re-writing and optimizing their own AI. Basically they become self-sufficent and thus direct competitors to all but those that own the rights to its intellectual property and royalties. Basically you now have government sponsored lordships of the machines reaping oodles wealth they create. There will be no middle class left. Just a few uber wealthy with the rest of society very very poor. Now while even the poor would live a rich material lifestyle thanks to the tireless working machines, we would have very little political rights and privileges over the wealthy elite.
So the question to be asked is this scenario. Will material distraction be enough to keep people from focusing on self determination and intellectual freedoms?
So, what, everyone, being unemployed, just sits in the dark and starves ?
I think that would be one of the best times to scrap our money-driven society.
Oh boy! Where to begin... I'll try and keep it simple. Look, 'money' is nothing more than a social construct among people. Think of money as a universal IOU that can be traded beyond two people. I suppose you can look from a monkey's point of view. Monkey-A scratches the back of Monkey-B. But rather than Monkey-B returning the favor to Monkey-A, he spends the return favor on Monkey-C whom has never met Monkey-A. That's all money really is. A way to make IOUs of labor portable and fluid. No matter how technology changes society, human beings will always want to assign worth to something. A social apparatus to assess where we stand on the pecking order of self-worth. If you study why members of the Media (news, Hollywood, music industry...etc) and the white collar social scene (legal profession and politicians) become so wealthy, it all makes perfect sense. You will never get rid of either a monetary system or even a basic concept of bartering.
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/disk-drives/f/3534/t/19310219.aspx Good luck!
How about by not being such a promiscuous slut / manwhore? Being in an honest and monogamous relationship does wonders at stopping the spread of STDs. Instead, we're focusing on drugs and condoms so humanity can continue on with its wonton fuckfest.
If you're purchasing a Dell, stay away from the Samsung SSD option as they're OEM. The drives are absolute shit. Most likely a firmware issue, often Windows will just freeze because writes cannot be further committed. I've been through two different Dell laptops models and they experienced the same issue using this same drive. Only when we swapped drives did the issue go away. And that was after Dell decided to swap the motherboard, ram, CPU, and video card. Nice.
Your tax dollars at work baby!
Soon, every adult will have to be paired up with a police officer. Even police officers will have to be paired up too. The rotation is random each day so as to not to form close relationships. We're all watchmen to ensure we become the perfect citizen. All actions are to be time and performed flawlessly. Robots, born and raised in the flesh. A handicap that will eventually need to be addressed.
ISPs do filter port 25 going outside their network for customers using heuristic behavior monitoring. In some cases, out-right block it all together. If I had to guess, all outbound port 25 traffic gets routed to an entire management firewall device to perform this CPU intensive task. Take ATT for example. Many of my clients here in Houston, TX can send out e-mail to a 3rd party POP server. But send more than 5 or 10 within a small window of time, and the entire port gets clamped down. I've personally confirmed this using Telnet commands. Again, not normal behavior. Definitely some activity management going on at the ISP level they're not owning up to.
Not sure I'm feeling the love for this concept. On the reads, sure. Nice idea. Writes however, not feeling the love. For whatever the reasons, PC hardware can lock up (CPU, video, motherboard, RAM etc) or because of buggy device drivers on the OS. In any event, how well can this device recover from a dirty-cache shutdown? What happens if the device just dies? Will I still be able to mount the HDD and recover data? It would be interesting to see how a journaling file system handles the abstraction of one volume read/written between two different drives. Were not talking about RAID5 here where you at least have parity data to recover from.
The 90-day requirement seems aimed at a demographic that doesn't already have internet access. If you're poor and already have internet access, Comcast will assume you'll still pay the current rate and/or you've already budgeted your finances around it. No point it reducing profit margins in their eyes. The rest of the requirements definitely fits the profile of low-income too. Specifically in the area of reducing risk as they disproportionately laps in on-time bill payment. Sometimes going over 60 days and approaching 90 days prior to making minimum payment. Comcast (like any other business) doesn't want to be left holding the bag on unpaid services and equipment.
Before any of you jump all over me, I want you to think about this for a moment (and I'm being sincere). Most likely, this program is aimed at latino and black communities. Historically they rank the highest group of unemployed and last to actually depend on Internet based technologies and services. If anything, this low priced service offering has the potential to bridge the "digital divide". But that's more of a cultural preference than one strictly of cost within that demographic, so I'm not entirely convinced it was ever a vocal problem except for what the politicians are saying.