We do the same thing with these little lenovo machines. They charge through the nose for SSD still so we manually install them at a fraction of the cost. With most applications these days being SaaS, there's very little local storage required (although SSDs are getting very inexpensive).
Buying a $100 safe is massive overkill? This whole process took three people about 5 minutes and we've never needed to touch it since. You just each type in half the password, write down your half, place it in the safe.
We established policies to address these decades ago. Root passwords are created by multiple people, each who knows part of it. They write down the passwords and store them together in a safe that requires 2+ people to open (each has part of the combination). That's how we do it anyway.
Group passwords for VPN are shared among multiple people/systems and are only one part of authentication. So it doesn't matter if multiple people know them. They still have to authenticate using some other method on top of that.
Saying SA/root/admin/etc is just trying to make this seem more complicated than it actually is. It's the same process for all of them.
It has a 360 degree camera so it will capture the image at some point as you approach. You're better off just wearing a mask. If you hang a blanket on it all they have to do is have it set of its alarm if its vision is obscured or it detects something hanging in front of, or over, the camera.
So you don't understand anything about building cellular networks, no country has ever built up a cellular network at the scale of the United States to those specifications but somehow you think you can scale up a network at 25x the size of a tiny country and deliver the same service and cost?
Look no offense, but you don't know what you're talking about.
Point is: neither do I need a interconnected cellular network to connect it to "the internet"
I don't know what you're trying to say here. You don't think that the cellular network has to be connected to the Internet? Why is "the internet" in quotes?
In your country it is simply not done as you have brain dead legislations.
In my country every major telecom operator is mandated by law to connect even the remotest areas. And surprisingly that works in countries like Finland or Norway: without a damn need for a law.
You're comparing a country with 320 million people to a country with 5 million homogeneous people and you can't figure out why we don't all agree on something?
Do you really believe that you could manage a country that is 64x the size of Norway and provide exactly the same services and have the same unified political will?
You really need to compare all of the EU to the US to really understand the political situation. We have people who live thousands of miles from one another who are all governed by the same federal legislation. It's nearly impossible to get everyone to agree on anything. You couldn't even keep the UK from leaving the EU for goodness sake.
iPads are phenomenal devices for healthcare. It's like being able to hold every paper chart in the building in your hand.
There's also the whole screenshot problem, where iOS presents an old screenshot of an application on launch to hide the true application start time; this means that there could be a MR in the screenshot cache even though policy dictates there shouldn't be any medical records stored locally.
iOS devices are all encrypted with AES256 and we require them to have passcodes. As soon as the device is lost we remotely wipe it via MDM.
Every iOS device has a dedicated AES 256 crypto engine built into the DMA path
between the flash storage and main system memory, making file encryption
highly efficient.
There's not a nice way to say this: you have no idea what you're talking about and clearly do not work in healthcare or know anything about the management of iOS devices, especially in the enterprise.
You overlook that the coverage outside the metro areas is far, far better in Scandinavia than the US
That's because, quite honestly, no one in the US cares about coverage in rural areas. We don't have any interest in investing money into cellular service to cover mountain ranges and cow pastures.
The population density of the Northern Norway is approximately 1.66 people per mi^2. And an area that's 51,902 mi^2.
That's a population density far lower than all the 48 contiguous states.
You'd have to compare that to a rural part of a single state in the US. You're taking a part of Norway versus entire state averages, many of which are as large as Norway. ALL of Montana is 7/mi^2. That includes cities like Billings with a population density of over 2,000/mi^2.
But the biggest problem is assuming that you can scale up a system for a tiny little country like Norway to something the size of the USA. It doesn't work like that, in anything. It's much more difficult to manage at real scale. Meanwhile no single country on earth has ever done it, so I don't know what you base that assumption on.
You are clearly one who does not understand the word 'bandwidth'.
You clearly don't understand how cellular networks are built. If you have a town of 1,000 people spread out over 1,000 miles^2 you have to cover it with radios and provide backhaul to each one. Good luck running DSL with a population density of 1 person per mile. Do you know what a DSLAM is? Do you understand the distance limitations of DSL? Do you understand the range of a radio antenna?
Connecting a remote area wireless to the internet: is dirt cheap But there are not many paying customers.
Connecting a single area with a single radio is, assuming you already have connectivity to an upstream provider. Running backhaul all over the country is not cheap. At all. Do you not understand that extremely rural places don't have DSL or have extremely low speed DSL?
On the opposite end, in very dense areas, you run into a completely different problem. And that's limited spectrum availability due to obstructions and user density.
Am I the only one here who's able to plug in his phone every night?
Or who is able to use his laptop if his phone is dead?
Or has spilled a cup of coffee on a notepad and lost it forever.
It's kind of funny watching all the luddites on slashdot dismissing technology used by millions of people (Evernote, OneNote, etc) every day as some horrible failure.
If John in IT says no you cant have your ipad on the network then its FUCKING NO!
No iPads but plenty of Microsoft Windows workstations? In a post about ransomware? That's the worst example in history. I wish I could replace every single Windows PC with an iPad. We'd never have another malware infection again.
What is needed is HIPPA regs appended so that the guys in charge of the hospital making the most money are PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE for any data breaches or attacks. If this is done suddenly IT will be allowed to do their job and isolate critical systems from easy attack vectors.
Won't stop a nurse from giving her password to someone else. What you do is hold the clinician accountable, which is exactly what HITECH does.
So the USA is >25x larger than Norway and Finland. You're also looking at aggregate population density. In the USA you have to average in the extremely rural areas with little to no coverage, like Montana and Wyoming which have 1/3 the population density of Norway. Or how about Alaska? Norway has 35x the population density. There will always be large areas in the US with little to no wireless coverage bringing down the average.
I'm not saying that the USA has better broadband coverage but no one with any concept of delivering wireless service would try and compare these deployments. You have to provide wireline backhaul to all of these towers. It's not realistic to run fiber to ever rural place in the US. Personally I don't want to force wireless providers to provide service to the middle of nowhere at the same speeds as dense, urban centers. It's a waste of resources.
I absolutely believe that we should be doing a better job but using Norway and Finland as a metric is absurd.
That's kind of a false dichotomy. I'm not saying that given the choice 20 years ago VBScript vs Javascript that I wouldn't have chosen Javascript, the question is since then why haven't we seen anything else? I'm still holding out hope for Python in the browser.
Cisco was in a tough spot once we got really full featured merchant silicon from Broadcom. Cisco traditional built it's own ASICs and the availabiltiy of cheap, fully featured merchant ASICs from broadcom opened up a massive amount of competition from companies like Arista, but also created the market for ODMs (ie Quanta) who could bundle FASTPATH or now more full featured and supported options like Cumulus. Cisco acknowledged this when they released their 10Gb Nexus 6K switches, built on merchant silicon, which are extremely inexpensive compared to their existing 10Gb datacenter switching products (ie Nexus 9k). The 6K is price competitive with Arista (ignore list price, no one pays list, especially after you mention Arista) and is backed by Cisco support. Which, as much as you may hate Cisco, their support is still the best in the industry.
Arista, which designs and sells multilayer network switches to deliver software-defined networking solutions, was formed by former Cisco employees.
More specifically, Arista was started by Andy Bechtolsheim who co-founded Sun. He went on to form a little company called Granite which was acquired by Cisco and formed the basis for their gigabit switching line (we all know it as the juggernaut called "Catalyst" switches). Many years after selling their 1Gb business to Cisco he went on to form Arista which, at it's core, is a 10Gb multilayer switch built on the "spline-leaf" concept (contrasted with the more traditional multi-tiered campus model of Core/Distribution/Access that we've been building for a decade or two).
This isn't an IT problem it's a federal regulation problem. Take it up with congress. HIPAA mandates unique user IDs and passwords so that access to ePHI can tied back to a human being. Sharing passwords makes it next to impossible to guarantee you know who accessed a medical record.
Most of us are too busy with important things to be using Facebook or Twitter or WhatsApp or whatever all day.
Usage statistics show this to be factually incorrect. Most of us are not too busy to communicate with friends and family using social networks. I'm in the small minority who doesn't use social networks.
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Sure.
We do the same thing with these little lenovo machines. They charge through the nose for SSD still so we manually install them at a fraction of the cost. With most applications these days being SaaS, there's very little local storage required (although SSDs are getting very inexpensive).
Buying a $100 safe is massive overkill? This whole process took three people about 5 minutes and we've never needed to touch it since. You just each type in half the password, write down your half, place it in the safe.
We established policies to address these decades ago. Root passwords are created by multiple people, each who knows part of it. They write down the passwords and store them together in a safe that requires 2+ people to open (each has part of the combination). That's how we do it anyway.
Group passwords for VPN are shared among multiple people/systems and are only one part of authentication. So it doesn't matter if multiple people know them. They still have to authenticate using some other method on top of that.
Saying SA/root/admin/etc is just trying to make this seem more complicated than it actually is. It's the same process for all of them.
It has a 360 degree camera so it will capture the image at some point as you approach. You're better off just wearing a mask. If you hang a blanket on it all they have to do is have it set of its alarm if its vision is obscured or it detects something hanging in front of, or over, the camera.
Maybe they could be, but do we need to waste so much resources on this kind of legal witch hunt? The Iraq war has caused over 1 million deaths.
"Why are you stopping me for speeding? There's murderers out there!"
What do you think would happen if you had a secret or top secret clearance and emailed 110 confidential emails to people using unsecured email?
. Collin Powell and Condoleezza Rice used private accounts for classified emails. Did they suffer, in any way, for using private, hackable email?
If that's true then THEY SHOULD BE ARRESTED TOO!
However, it can't be so hard to build one.
So you don't understand anything about building cellular networks, no country has ever built up a cellular network at the scale of the United States to those specifications but somehow you think you can scale up a network at 25x the size of a tiny country and deliver the same service and cost?
Look no offense, but you don't know what you're talking about.
Point is: neither do I need a interconnected cellular network to connect it to "the internet"
I don't know what you're trying to say here. You don't think that the cellular network has to be connected to the Internet? Why is "the internet" in quotes?
In your country it is simply not done as you have brain dead legislations. In my country every major telecom operator is mandated by law to connect even the remotest areas. And surprisingly that works in countries like Finland or Norway: without a damn need for a law.
You're comparing a country with 320 million people to a country with 5 million homogeneous people and you can't figure out why we don't all agree on something?
Do you really believe that you could manage a country that is 64x the size of Norway and provide exactly the same services and have the same unified political will?
You really need to compare all of the EU to the US to really understand the political situation. We have people who live thousands of miles from one another who are all governed by the same federal legislation. It's nearly impossible to get everyone to agree on anything. You couldn't even keep the UK from leaving the EU for goodness sake.
There's also the whole screenshot problem, where iOS presents an old screenshot of an application on launch to hide the true application start time; this means that there could be a MR in the screenshot cache even though policy dictates there shouldn't be any medical records stored locally.
iOS devices are all encrypted with AES256 and we require them to have passcodes. As soon as the device is lost we remotely wipe it via MDM.
https://www.apple.com/business...
Every iOS device has a dedicated AES 256 crypto engine built into the DMA path between the flash storage and main system memory, making file encryption highly efficient.
There's not a nice way to say this: you have no idea what you're talking about and clearly do not work in healthcare or know anything about the management of iOS devices, especially in the enterprise.
You overlook that the coverage outside the metro areas is far, far better in Scandinavia than the US
That's because, quite honestly, no one in the US cares about coverage in rural areas. We don't have any interest in investing money into cellular service to cover mountain ranges and cow pastures.
The population density of the Northern Norway is approximately 1.66 people per mi^2. And an area that's 51,902 mi^2. That's a population density far lower than all the 48 contiguous states.
You'd have to compare that to a rural part of a single state in the US. You're taking a part of Norway versus entire state averages, many of which are as large as Norway. ALL of Montana is 7/mi^2. That includes cities like Billings with a population density of over 2,000/mi^2.
But the biggest problem is assuming that you can scale up a system for a tiny little country like Norway to something the size of the USA. It doesn't work like that, in anything. It's much more difficult to manage at real scale. Meanwhile no single country on earth has ever done it, so I don't know what you base that assumption on.
You are clearly one who does not understand the word 'bandwidth'.
You clearly don't understand how cellular networks are built. If you have a town of 1,000 people spread out over 1,000 miles^2 you have to cover it with radios and provide backhaul to each one. Good luck running DSL with a population density of 1 person per mile. Do you know what a DSLAM is? Do you understand the distance limitations of DSL? Do you understand the range of a radio antenna?
Connecting a remote area wireless to the internet: is dirt cheap But there are not many paying customers.
Connecting a single area with a single radio is, assuming you already have connectivity to an upstream provider. Running backhaul all over the country is not cheap. At all. Do you not understand that extremely rural places don't have DSL or have extremely low speed DSL?
On the opposite end, in very dense areas, you run into a completely different problem. And that's limited spectrum availability due to obstructions and user density.
You mean that Arista pretty much pioneered over the last decade. Arista was founded in 2004.
If you want to share them or save them for later why not just use your text editor with the [insert provider, dropbox/box/gdrive/etc] sync client?
Am I the only one here who's able to plug in his phone every night?
Or who is able to use his laptop if his phone is dead?
Or has spilled a cup of coffee on a notepad and lost it forever.
It's kind of funny watching all the luddites on slashdot dismissing technology used by millions of people (Evernote, OneNote, etc) every day as some horrible failure.
Calling them "Itanics" has been a long running joke.
It's always been a thing [bizarre, vague, fictional scenario]
No it hasn't.
Anyone have a source for this? I find this very surprising.
If John in IT says no you cant have your ipad on the network then its FUCKING NO!
No iPads but plenty of Microsoft Windows workstations? In a post about ransomware? That's the worst example in history. I wish I could replace every single Windows PC with an iPad. We'd never have another malware infection again.
What is needed is HIPPA regs appended so that the guys in charge of the hospital making the most money are PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE for any data breaches or attacks. If this is done suddenly IT will be allowed to do their job and isolate critical systems from easy attack vectors.
Won't stop a nurse from giving her password to someone else. What you do is hold the clinician accountable, which is exactly what HITECH does.
USA: 9,833,517 km^2
Norway: 385,178 km^2
Finland: 338,424 km^2
So the USA is >25x larger than Norway and Finland. You're also looking at aggregate population density. In the USA you have to average in the extremely rural areas with little to no coverage, like Montana and Wyoming which have 1/3 the population density of Norway. Or how about Alaska? Norway has 35x the population density. There will always be large areas in the US with little to no wireless coverage bringing down the average.
I'm not saying that the USA has better broadband coverage but no one with any concept of delivering wireless service would try and compare these deployments. You have to provide wireline backhaul to all of these towers. It's not realistic to run fiber to ever rural place in the US. Personally I don't want to force wireless providers to provide service to the middle of nowhere at the same speeds as dense, urban centers. It's a waste of resources.
I absolutely believe that we should be doing a better job but using Norway and Finland as a metric is absurd.
That's kind of a false dichotomy. I'm not saying that given the choice 20 years ago VBScript vs Javascript that I wouldn't have chosen Javascript, the question is since then why haven't we seen anything else? I'm still holding out hope for Python in the browser.
Cisco was in a tough spot once we got really full featured merchant silicon from Broadcom. Cisco traditional built it's own ASICs and the availabiltiy of cheap, fully featured merchant ASICs from broadcom opened up a massive amount of competition from companies like Arista, but also created the market for ODMs (ie Quanta) who could bundle FASTPATH or now more full featured and supported options like Cumulus. Cisco acknowledged this when they released their 10Gb Nexus 6K switches, built on merchant silicon, which are extremely inexpensive compared to their existing 10Gb datacenter switching products (ie Nexus 9k). The 6K is price competitive with Arista (ignore list price, no one pays list, especially after you mention Arista) and is backed by Cisco support. Which, as much as you may hate Cisco, their support is still the best in the industry.
Arista, which designs and sells multilayer network switches to deliver software-defined networking solutions, was formed by former Cisco employees.
More specifically, Arista was started by Andy Bechtolsheim who co-founded Sun. He went on to form a little company called Granite which was acquired by Cisco and formed the basis for their gigabit switching line (we all know it as the juggernaut called "Catalyst" switches). Many years after selling their 1Gb business to Cisco he went on to form Arista which, at it's core, is a 10Gb multilayer switch built on the "spline-leaf" concept (contrasted with the more traditional multi-tiered campus model of Core/Distribution/Access that we've been building for a decade or two).
We all agree we hate Javascript. So why aren't there any alternative scripting languages in the browser yet?
This isn't an IT problem it's a federal regulation problem. Take it up with congress. HIPAA mandates unique user IDs and passwords so that access to ePHI can tied back to a human being. Sharing passwords makes it next to impossible to guarantee you know who accessed a medical record.
Most of us are too busy with important things to be using Facebook or Twitter or WhatsApp or whatever all day.
Usage statistics show this to be factually incorrect. Most of us are not too busy to communicate with friends and family using social networks. I'm in the small minority who doesn't use social networks.
I do so miss SCSI connectors - connectivity and personal defense in one somewhat unwieldy package.
Reminds me of those phones with built in crime deterrent.