Make the manufacturer (not seller) of an IoT device liable for any actual damages that are caused by their IoT device getting hacked....
What this would do is change the perverse incentives that currently exist to the correct incentives. Suddenly manufacturers would be all about security! It would be Job #1. Manufacturers might standardize and cooperate on secure Linux distributions upon which they base their products. They might cooperate to improve everyone's security.
Might do some good in some businesses that would be doing the proper thing anyway, but more than likely you'd just see something similar that you see in movie industry or home contractors. You buy Company X but when things go wrong, they're just the brander and seller and the liable company is Company Y. Company Y went out of business pretty much before the product hit the market because they went bankrupt because they licensed from Company Z who owns Company X and the licensing killed them. Meanwhile, there is now Company YY who is making the new model for Company X.
Let's not forget the RIS and HIS coming from the other direction. You really don't want techs having to wait till they finish manually entering in all the patient and exam data before they can start some exam, and then hoping nothing is wrong.
Yes, those machines should be on an air-gapped network shared only with the workstations used to control and operate them.
Sure. Let's forget the PACS systems, the Radiologists's workstations, the research workstations, the various long term storages, medical records, the file room, transfer systems to other hospitals, etc. The size of radiological files for things like CTs and MRIs is too large to deal with sneakernet in the normal workflow. Nevermind who knows how many corner cases such as downtime workflows. Even CR and DR are a pain in the ass these days and being phased out for wireless transfer and those are just plain films. YOu might as well talk about air gapping the different nodes of your Beowulf cluster from each other.
Part of me wonders if this was planned all along (and by all along I mean the last few days) as a way to get rid of Preibus. Trump obviously isn't happy with the GOP and getting rid of Priebus was a good way to put a shot over the GOP's bow. So, bring in Mooch, have him get into a pissing match with Priebus, use that as an excuse to get rid of Priebus, and bring in Kelly who might be more loyal to Trump. Then, when Mooch has done his job, cut him loose. Trump gets to get rid of poor Spicey, gets to rebuke the GOP over their failed repeal of Obamacare, and gets a new Chief of Staff and (eventually) a new Communications Director.
If Trump was capable of such planning and schemes to begin with, he would have never needed this planning and schemes.
Seriously, what did Obama do that was so terrible?
Besides the contingent where race is an issue, and they do exist in sizable populations, at least in the South, it's pretty much just a case of him being the 'wrong lizard'.
Apple already addressed the holding problem in iOS 11. Jobs may be dead, but that doesn't mean all the engineers and designers are drooling idiots. That's reserved for slashdot.
Ya, but essentially, Jobs was the QA guy who had the power to tell the engineers and designers that something didn't ship till every little thing was fixed. I doubt their current QA manager has that power.
How so? Besides their commercial customers NASA hires SpaceX for various launch services (ISS cargo, ISS crew transport is coming, etc). The only "money war" that I can see is between SpaceX and the defense contractors (Lockheed, Boeing, Orbital ATK).
Right now it looks like it will be between SpaceX and the ULA/Blue Origin rockets. Defense have their own rockets and such but have already switched over and done at least one launch with SpaceX. ULA is trying to cate up with Blue Origin's, as yet unfinished, BE-4 engine to do the same first stage landing and re-use. If SpaceX fails, and the only way I can see that they will is if re-use doesn't cut the cost of launches as much as SpaceX thinks, they'll probably still continue on this route. If SpaceX Succeeds, they will probably push even harder to get this bird in teh sky and flying missions so they don't concede space launches as then Defense and others will be switching to re-usable 1st stages. Then we'll have at least two competitors until other nations such as the EU and China get their own programs up to speed.
Nope, only a psychopath would think high job turnover is desirable.
I have unfortunately worked for several of those psychopaths in several industries. I worked for one that actually took pride that they had to hire and train ten new people a week so that the few that were still there at the end of that week could replace the others that had left that week. This in a business with maybe 100 employees total, and the main reason people left was the abuse from the employer. Others were just bad managers and trying to self delude themselves that their current position was desirable.
If fusion were to be able to be done, it would fundamentally change every aspect of our society.
I will propose an assertion: Energy = wealth.
If fusion becomes inexpensive and commercially available, perhaps along the "too cheap to meter" line, there would be a lot of things that are doable, which we could do, which we couldn't before:
OK, but energy will never be "too cheap to meter" unless we develop Tesla (the original guy) wireless energy transfer as the main cost of energy is not the fuel but the lines and infrastructure needed to move the electricity around. My state is almost completely hydro and has no fuel cost and energy to ship elsewhere, but still needed to be metered. Plus fusion has many of the issues that fission has. Fusion plants will also have issues with radioactivity and disposal as we can't really stop neutrons which will be colliding with the rest of the plant.
Do you remember Obama constantly acting like a vindictive child?
Me neither.
Well, coming from Trump country, I can tell you that the people there think that is because Obama was just putting up a fake front of a con man. Trump however is just telling it how it is because that's what they would want to say. Read into that what you will.
Even tech people require housing. The smart investment money should be OUTSIDE of the hubs, which have become overpriced.
Current businesses and high tech industry require large pools of trained possible employees. Those just don't exist outside the hubs unless you want to hire and train people which businesses don't want to do because they'll just leave for a better job. They can't attract people outside of the hubs in sufficient numbers because typically, those people living in the hubs like it there and moved there before looking for a job. Currently, they (businesses or the empolyees) don't even seem to be moving to places like Tacoma which is a sizable city thirty miles away with rents one quarter what they are in Seattle. I don't see them moving to Nashville or Buffalo anytime soon.
I've lived in both Palo Alto and currently Seattle. I've yet to feel a single earthquake in my 10 years here...
Last one in Seattle was in 2001 and it effectively shut down the city for the day as everybody had to go home to check their gas lines and some buildings had to be condemed. There were at least three more in the six years before that that were easily noticed by people as everything in the building they were in started to shake. That we haven't had oen in 16 years is making me nervous.
Mt. St. Helens is a long way off, and nothing near Seattle has gone off in what, 10,000+ years?
Rainier goes off once every 300 years or so. Last one was in recorded history by European explorers. About due for another one. Others in the area go off every 500 years or so, and again, could be about that time.
California has earthquakes, but Seattle has earthquakes PLUS volcanoes. Seattle is in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which makes the San Andreas fault look weak and puny. So yeah, your chance of dying in a natural disaster just quintupled by moving from Palo Alto to Seattle.
Yep. Horrible here! Do not come! Too many people, too dangerous. If more people move here it might set off the eathquakes which will set off the volcano. Stay in CA.
I have Photoshop. I still use MS Paint for screenshots. Low bloat and launches instantly.
Why? Windows comes with "Snipping Tool" specifically for this. Why use a full on MS Paint or Photoshop to do it?
Because 9 times out of 10, the next step would be to open up the screenshot in MS Paint or Photoshop to do the thing that you needed the screenshot for, adding arrows, putting in commentary, circling important features, etc.
"[I]t would be virtually impossible to stop using existing missile defenses." I thought I read recently that the U.S. just deployed a new laser weapon that could shoot down missiles.
1. Would this be a defense against hypersonic missiles?
2. Does anybody know if it was developed as a defense against hypersonic missiles?
The big issue is probably more that there are currently no hypersonic missiles in service, so nobody has bothered to build a system to defend against them. Once they actually exist, then defenses will start being built. This is why many of these tests are secret, to give the offense a head start on the defense at the very least. Still, I wonder if the developers of the our missiles are also trying to come up with defenses?
Oh come on, what qualified individual wouldn't jump at the chance to work for someone who is impossible to please and will blame you (in public, shouting to basically the entire English-speaking world and reaching well beyond that) for failing to do the impossible?
The pay must be great.
Well, Trump did say he was going to run the country like a business. Is he giving out golden handshakes and parachutes? Big enough signing bonus, and I'll be the next Press Secretary.
Until Trump gets impeached and Sessions carries out whatever role he is supposed to play in the process, I'm going to remain convinced this whole "Trump and sessions breakup!?!?" is just another plan to distract attention from Russia, tax cuts for the wealthy, and the health care repeal.
Maybe if it was the plan of Sessions or Pence, but I feel if Trump was capable of coming up with, putting into action, or even just not blowing the cover on such a plan, he wouldn't be in half the trouble he is now.
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Make the manufacturer (not seller) of an IoT device liable for any actual damages that are caused by their IoT device getting hacked. ...
What this would do is change the perverse incentives that currently exist to the correct incentives. Suddenly manufacturers would be all about security! It would be Job #1. Manufacturers might standardize and cooperate on secure Linux distributions upon which they base their products. They might cooperate to improve everyone's security.
Might do some good in some businesses that would be doing the proper thing anyway, but more than likely you'd just see something similar that you see in movie industry or home contractors. You buy Company X but when things go wrong, they're just the brander and seller and the liable company is Company Y. Company Y went out of business pretty much before the product hit the market because they went bankrupt because they licensed from Company Z who owns Company X and the licensing killed them. Meanwhile, there is now Company YY who is making the new model for Company X.
Let's not forget the RIS and HIS coming from the other direction. You really don't want techs having to wait till they finish manually entering in all the patient and exam data before they can start some exam, and then hoping nothing is wrong.
Yes, those machines should be on an air-gapped network shared only with the workstations used to control and operate them.
Sure. Let's forget the PACS systems, the Radiologists's workstations, the research workstations, the various long term storages, medical records, the file room, transfer systems to other hospitals, etc. The size of radiological files for things like CTs and MRIs is too large to deal with sneakernet in the normal workflow. Nevermind who knows how many corner cases such as downtime workflows. Even CR and DR are a pain in the ass these days and being phased out for wireless transfer and those are just plain films. YOu might as well talk about air gapping the different nodes of your Beowulf cluster from each other.
In the future, everybody will be a member of Trump's cabinet for 15 minutes.
It's Trump's job program.
Part of me wonders if this was planned all along (and by all along I mean the last few days) as a way to get rid of Preibus. Trump obviously isn't happy with the GOP and getting rid of Priebus was a good way to put a shot over the GOP's bow. So, bring in Mooch, have him get into a pissing match with Priebus, use that as an excuse to get rid of Priebus, and bring in Kelly who might be more loyal to Trump. Then, when Mooch has done his job, cut him loose. Trump gets to get rid of poor Spicey, gets to rebuke the GOP over their failed repeal of Obamacare, and gets a new Chief of Staff and (eventually) a new Communications Director.
If Trump was capable of such planning and schemes to begin with, he would have never needed this planning and schemes.
Seriously, what did Obama do that was so terrible?
Besides the contingent where race is an issue, and they do exist in sizable populations, at least in the South, it's pretty much just a case of him being the 'wrong lizard'.
Apple already addressed the holding problem in iOS 11. Jobs may be dead, but that doesn't mean all the engineers and designers are drooling idiots. That's reserved for slashdot.
Ya, but essentially, Jobs was the QA guy who had the power to tell the engineers and designers that something didn't ship till every little thing was fixed. I doubt their current QA manager has that power.
How so? Besides their commercial customers NASA hires SpaceX for various launch services (ISS cargo, ISS crew transport is coming, etc). The only "money war" that I can see is between SpaceX and the defense contractors (Lockheed, Boeing, Orbital ATK).
Right now it looks like it will be between SpaceX and the ULA/Blue Origin rockets. Defense have their own rockets and such but have already switched over and done at least one launch with SpaceX. ULA is trying to cate up with Blue Origin's, as yet unfinished, BE-4 engine to do the same first stage landing and re-use. If SpaceX fails, and the only way I can see that they will is if re-use doesn't cut the cost of launches as much as SpaceX thinks, they'll probably still continue on this route. If SpaceX Succeeds, they will probably push even harder to get this bird in teh sky and flying missions so they don't concede space launches as then Defense and others will be switching to re-usable 1st stages. Then we'll have at least two competitors until other nations such as the EU and China get their own programs up to speed.
Currently, users understand web sites as ephemeral, as any services they provide can disappear at any time...
Bless your dear sweet little heart.
Nope, only a psychopath would think high job turnover is desirable.
I have unfortunately worked for several of those psychopaths in several industries. I worked for one that actually took pride that they had to hire and train ten new people a week so that the few that were still there at the end of that week could replace the others that had left that week. This in a business with maybe 100 employees total, and the main reason people left was the abuse from the employer. Others were just bad managers and trying to self delude themselves that their current position was desirable.
You don't need distribution infrastructure once it becomes possible to shrink production systems enough.
Thank your for your input Ray Palmer.
If fusion were to be able to be done, it would fundamentally change every aspect of our society.
I will propose an assertion: Energy = wealth.
If fusion becomes inexpensive and commercially available, perhaps along the "too cheap to meter" line, there would be a lot of things that are doable, which we could do, which we couldn't before:
OK, but energy will never be "too cheap to meter" unless we develop Tesla (the original guy) wireless energy transfer as the main cost of energy is not the fuel but the lines and infrastructure needed to move the electricity around. My state is almost completely hydro and has no fuel cost and energy to ship elsewhere, but still needed to be metered. Plus fusion has many of the issues that fission has. Fusion plants will also have issues with radioactivity and disposal as we can't really stop neutrons which will be colliding with the rest of the plant.
Do you remember Obama constantly acting like a vindictive child?
Me neither.
Well, coming from Trump country, I can tell you that the people there think that is because Obama was just putting up a fake front of a con man. Trump however is just telling it how it is because that's what they would want to say. Read into that what you will.
Even tech people require housing. The smart investment money should be OUTSIDE of the hubs, which have become overpriced.
Current businesses and high tech industry require large pools of trained possible employees. Those just don't exist outside the hubs unless you want to hire and train people which businesses don't want to do because they'll just leave for a better job. They can't attract people outside of the hubs in sufficient numbers because typically, those people living in the hubs like it there and moved there before looking for a job. Currently, they (businesses or the empolyees) don't even seem to be moving to places like Tacoma which is a sizable city thirty miles away with rents one quarter what they are in Seattle. I don't see them moving to Nashville or Buffalo anytime soon.
I've lived in both Palo Alto and currently Seattle. I've yet to feel a single earthquake in my 10 years here...
Last one in Seattle was in 2001 and it effectively shut down the city for the day as everybody had to go home to check their gas lines and some buildings had to be condemed. There were at least three more in the six years before that that were easily noticed by people as everything in the building they were in started to shake. That we haven't had oen in 16 years is making me nervous.
Mt. St. Helens is a long way off, and nothing near Seattle has gone off in what, 10,000+ years?
Rainier goes off once every 300 years or so. Last one was in recorded history by European explorers. About due for another one. Others in the area go off every 500 years or so, and again, could be about that time.
California has earthquakes, but Seattle has earthquakes PLUS volcanoes. Seattle is in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which makes the San Andreas fault look weak and puny. So yeah, your chance of dying in a natural disaster just quintupled by moving from Palo Alto to Seattle.
Yep. Horrible here! Do not come! Too many people, too dangerous. If more people move here it might set off the eathquakes which will set off the volcano. Stay in CA.
Well, gun laws are pretty lax up here, the only thing you can't get are fully automatic weapons.
You have to go to Oregon for those. It's why all the blank fire WW2 re-enactments happen there. Guys get to bring out their Brens and MG43s.
Replying to remove mod. Didn't see the sarcastic post title. Carry on...
It's really getting hard to tell these days.
Progs?
Already in use for a 'block of programming' in video, radio, or serialized printed media. Although it is probably more of a British term and American.
I have Photoshop. I still use MS Paint for screenshots. Low bloat and launches instantly.
Why? Windows comes with "Snipping Tool" specifically for this. Why use a full on MS Paint or Photoshop to do it?
Because 9 times out of 10, the next step would be to open up the screenshot in MS Paint or Photoshop to do the thing that you needed the screenshot for, adding arrows, putting in commentary, circling important features, etc.
"[I]t would be virtually impossible to stop using existing missile defenses." I thought I read recently that the U.S. just deployed a new laser weapon that could shoot down missiles.
1. Would this be a defense against hypersonic missiles? 2. Does anybody know if it was developed as a defense against hypersonic missiles?
The big issue is probably more that there are currently no hypersonic missiles in service, so nobody has bothered to build a system to defend against them. Once they actually exist, then defenses will start being built. This is why many of these tests are secret, to give the offense a head start on the defense at the very least. Still, I wonder if the developers of the our missiles are also trying to come up with defenses?
Oh come on, what qualified individual wouldn't jump at the chance to work for someone who is impossible to please and will blame you (in public, shouting to basically the entire English-speaking world and reaching well beyond that) for failing to do the impossible?
The pay must be great.
Well, Trump did say he was going to run the country like a business. Is he giving out golden handshakes and parachutes? Big enough signing bonus, and I'll be the next Press Secretary.
Until Trump gets impeached and Sessions carries out whatever role he is supposed to play in the process, I'm going to remain convinced this whole "Trump and sessions breakup!?!?" is just another plan to distract attention from Russia, tax cuts for the wealthy, and the health care repeal.
Maybe if it was the plan of Sessions or Pence, but I feel if Trump was capable of coming up with, putting into action, or even just not blowing the cover on such a plan, he wouldn't be in half the trouble he is now.
Does anyone actually believe he runs his companies?
I bet he does.