New AVG Privacy Policy -- "We collect non-personal data to make money from our free offerings so we can keep them free, including: Advertising ID associated with your device; Browsing and search history, including meta data; Internet service provider or mobile network you use to connect to our products, and Information regarding other applications you may have on your device and how they are used."
It's not personal. We don't identify you by name, we just follow you around and record every single thing you do, when you do it, where you do it, and if you've a webcam attached, we'll film you while you do it, then sell it to any and everyone who pays.
In other words, we're providing you a "free", self-defending keylogger.
TL;DR: Think PASCAL for critical and wildly complex life-support systems; operating in the Internet age.
Having spent the last 10 years working in healthcare, I cannot overemphasize the ever growing cataclysm-to-be built upon MUMPS. One might then associate MUMPS the language with Mumps the disease (sans vaccine).
Worldwide, most major Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems are fundamentally based on MUMPS. Since the language largely predates all modern programming and system design principles like logic-data abstraction, imagine the mess created when various clinical applications (i.e. apps for pediatrics vs. oncology vs. pharmacy vs. radiology vs. geriatrics vs. etc.) are independently created and loosely cobbled together into a complex system - duplicative data representation and non-deterministic 'macro' processes/procedures are woefully common.
As cited in the Wikipedia MUMPS page, MUMPS is foundational to the largest EHRs (ref. Top 10 [US] EHR vendors by overall market share. In my opinion, this isn't so much because MUMPS is superior in anyway but because there really is 40+ years of codebase out there; much of it still in use today. Consider the US Indian Health Service (IHS) as example. For FY2014, IHS spent a total of $98M for IT. Although recognizing its own RPMS is hopelessly flawed, the agency estimates a capital investment >$150M and 15+ years to transition to newer technology. All the while, they must maintain and operate the current RPMS for ongoing healthcare delivery. Suffice to say and for the foreseeable future, IHS is hopelessly bound to the incumbent RPMS.
Meanwhile, "extensions" to MUMPS continue to proliferate. Since MUMPS heralds from the days of text-only dumb terminals, there is no in-language accommodation for graphical user interfaces and the common controls associated with event driven systems. This has led to many language extensions created for presentation 'wrapping' the underlying MUMPS output. And since MUMPS precedes modern design principles, newly minted programmers, admins and integrators must learn everything "from scratch" and, most often, in defiance/conflict of tenets they have been taught. Tenets and principles developed in response to hard lessons learned over the last 40 years of widespread IT experiences. These issues are exacerbated because those with the greatest experience are largely retired (or soon to be) and there are no significant opportunities for educating younger professionals except through other than "real life" - using live/production systems and actual persons' medical information.
Conspicuously, Kim Jong-un offers no claim on how his Snake Oil affects vascular diseases leading to stroke (Kim Il-sung's demise) or cardiac arrest (Kim Jong-il's killer). If North Koreans (and the world) are lucky, he won't find a cure for those ailments.
We all should know basic maths, but should developers be expected to know PKI? 10 or even 5 years ago, no. But today, Google and the like are pushing for the entire Interwebs to be secured; primarily with PKI and X.509 types certificates.
Pay a bit more, expect a but more. As demand grows, the 'general knowledge' will too.
While this may be an intellectually interesting story, I hardly think we need to consider a 100 year old defunct cartel. I'm far more worried about modern cartels, consider those in the title and there are many other besides - investment banks, teacher federations, De Beers...
We need only glance outside our own personal bubbles to recognize massive manipulation starting with advantageous legislation perpetuating inefficient business models and see consumers are exploited from all directions by cartels.
Actually, as the name implies, the Library of Congress (LoC) IS part of the legislative branch, and is responsible for granting and sustaining copyright - a body of law appropos for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to affect.
I see,/. executes... ARG!
I swear, my address bar says "slashdot.org" but my eyes read "digg.com". What should I believe, the address bar or my lying eyes???
A quick comparison shows similar subscription plans cost the same regardless of iPhone or similar capability Android is bought. If Apple charges such premium of the carriers, shouldn't the rest of us realize reduced subscription cost??? What IS the value-proposition the carriers add beyond "dumb pipes"?
Remember the market placement disaster of the Edsel?
No. Nor do I remember Woodstock, hoop skirts, the Kennedy assassinations or the moon shot. The implication being I grew up with computers after punch cards but before mice and once foreign cars became common. Maybe the downfall of Detroit could be traced back to the malformed son of Ford?
... what makes you think your edata isn't floating out in the ether for anyone to see anyway? Do you use a debit/credit card? Do you sign up for "rewards" cards? Have you ever submitted a rebate form? Have you attended University? Have you applied for or taken a job anywhere? Do you have an SSN? What about filing a tax return -- did you do that on paper, by hand, or use some piece of 'tax software'? Do you use anything produced by M$ -- read any of their EULAs???
While I worry tremendously about Big Brother Gov't, I'm most anxious about YOU and YOU and YOU, my brothers and sisters with whom I, knowingly or not, deal everyday.
Welcome to "civilization", isn't it grand?
Well, I wrote this from an undisclosed location under a pseudonym so I *KNOW* my info is totally secret and controlled only by me.
This post reminds me of: "All your base are belong to us!"
This is a true solution. It comes from photography lore as a means of repairing scratches on photo negatives before developing a print.
It's important to note nose grease, like tears, doesn't seem replicable in the lab -- so I'm not aware of commercially viable alternatives to the nose grease.
Also, since we're in DIY mode, make sure any rubbing you do (by hand) on optical disks should be in a radial motion versus a circular/tangential one. The reason is because of how the discs are read and the player's own error correction. Often, an "artifact" on the surface will be ignored if the information relative to the bad spot is intact; the player might be able to correct for the problem. If the "artifacts" are parallel to the reading of the surface, the player can't recover.
So, radial scratches == maybe not so bad; concentric scratches == VERY bad.
To use the nose grease, just make sure the surface to take the grease is clean (or it won't hold nor laminate well to the surface). You can rub the disc to your face as mentioned above OR you can just use clean fingers to apply. It's not an exact science, so if it doesn't work the first time, dollop some more and rub it in. It will not damage the disc (or negative) in any way.
Always.odt/.odf If the customer requires M$ formats, I charge an additional document handling fee... If M$ can make $$$ with Office, I can too! I adopted the idea from the Real Estate industry.
Exactly the comment I was going to make. But in addition to the batteries aka small nuke generators, those satellites, loaded with semiconductors, are CONSTANTLY BOMBARDED by solar and cosmic radiation, yet miraculously they still work... Must be black magic.
On another note, the original article was the viability of the battery/generator itself, NOT how stupid user would take care of it or dispose of it. I wish the comments would stay on topic, the first bullet from the
Important Stuff when posting a comments.
While the benefits are great (tuition, lots of paid time off+all paid holidays, access/discounts on all other University offerings), the politics can be treacherous. As the College/School (some dept. within a University) IT Director, I found out the hard way that politics trump all. With tenure being a mainstay at the University of New Mexico, faculty ruled all. Even University administration was pretty impotent. The best anology is the Feudal system: A king/queen being the President/Provost/Chancellor, mostly for show, while all the colleges and departments are like fiefs ruled by lesser yet more secure/entrenched faculty, each having their own court. The pecking order goes: tenured faculty, administration, associate faculty, staff, bottoming out on students. Various faculty would set out to sabotage each other because of some ancient, petty slight for which they were still upset. Even when the faculty seem to be getting along, getting them going in the same direction is like herding cats.
Another problem is, like all government jobs, the "can't make me work, can't fire me" attitude exhibited at many levels. There were employees of many years who are dead weight, in fact some who are illiterate, but since they made it past their probationary period, they were never fired/let go. Couple them with the tenured professors who are just drawing a paycheck, but really have no business being there anymore (too old, lost motivation, etc.) and it begins to grind on you. Don't get me wrong, there are many wonderful, inspirational, productive people there, but there are also many, many bureaucrats. I will never accuse UNM of efficiency.
The last thing I will mention here is: If it is a state run institution, productivity is not really a priority. Like you, coming from the private sector and wanting a decent job while I continued my education, I was appalled because there was no sense of urgency or competitiveness. Every year, there was going to be a slightly larger budget, no matter what the performance. So, absent a profit incentive all of the above issues were allowed to fester. If a private company becomes so disfunctional, it goes out of business and everyone loses, top to bottom. But a state funded University is a machine that only gets bigger. There is no real oversight. No independent auditors. That would "threaten academic freedom". Bullshit! It's the taxpayers' money, the students' tuition and societies' needs from and for which these institutions exist. They should produce capable, informed students and truly innovative, pertinent research. The more familiar with the "system" I became, the more I wanted out of it. Don't get me wrong, much good still comes out of such places, but they could be much better.
In summary: If you are a goal oriented, team player who values efficiency and progress, then Universities are not necessarily the place to have a carreer without a Ph.D. If you are looking to pigeon-hole yourself where the barest minimum is required; where security is almost guaranteed, all while your focus is acheiving many personal goals outside the institution, then you will find the University a perfect environment to exploit. It is, afterall, a feudal system. Be a favorite of the royals and you will have a good life, otherwise you're just a serf.
Well it must be good science since its written/published by a Senator, a former transportation Secretary and the UN... Now we just need the Pope to weigh in and say its the commencement of Judgement Day. I wonder how many of these authors have observed major climate shifts before.
Its not the sky falling Chicken Little, its the oceans rising!
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New AVG Privacy Policy -- "We collect non-personal data to make money from our free offerings so we can keep them free, including: Advertising ID associated with your device; Browsing and search history, including meta data; Internet service provider or mobile network you use to connect to our products, and Information regarding other applications you may have on your device and how they are used."
It's not personal. We don't identify you by name, we just follow you around and record every single thing you do, when you do it, where you do it, and if you've a webcam attached, we'll film you while you do it, then sell it to any and everyone who pays.
In other words, we're providing you a "free", self-defending keylogger.
TL;DR: Think PASCAL for critical and wildly complex life-support systems; operating in the Internet age.
Having spent the last 10 years working in healthcare, I cannot overemphasize the ever growing cataclysm-to-be built upon MUMPS. One might then associate MUMPS the language with Mumps the disease (sans vaccine).
Worldwide, most major Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems are fundamentally based on MUMPS. Since the language largely predates all modern programming and system design principles like logic-data abstraction, imagine the mess created when various clinical applications (i.e. apps for pediatrics vs. oncology vs. pharmacy vs. radiology vs. geriatrics vs. etc.) are independently created and loosely cobbled together into a complex system - duplicative data representation and non-deterministic 'macro' processes/procedures are woefully common.
As cited in the Wikipedia MUMPS page, MUMPS is foundational to the largest EHRs (ref. Top 10 [US] EHR vendors by overall market share. In my opinion, this isn't so much because MUMPS is superior in anyway but because there really is 40+ years of codebase out there; much of it still in use today. Consider the US Indian Health Service (IHS) as example. For FY2014, IHS spent a total of $98M for IT. Although recognizing its own RPMS is hopelessly flawed, the agency estimates a capital investment >$150M and 15+ years to transition to newer technology. All the while, they must maintain and operate the current RPMS for ongoing healthcare delivery. Suffice to say and for the foreseeable future, IHS is hopelessly bound to the incumbent RPMS.
Meanwhile, "extensions" to MUMPS continue to proliferate. Since MUMPS heralds from the days of text-only dumb terminals, there is no in-language accommodation for graphical user interfaces and the common controls associated with event driven systems. This has led to many language extensions created for presentation 'wrapping' the underlying MUMPS output. And since MUMPS precedes modern design principles, newly minted programmers, admins and integrators must learn everything "from scratch" and, most often, in defiance/conflict of tenets they have been taught. Tenets and principles developed in response to hard lessons learned over the last 40 years of widespread IT experiences. These issues are exacerbated because those with the greatest experience are largely retired (or soon to be) and there are no significant opportunities for educating younger professionals except through other than "real life" - using live/production systems and actual persons' medical information.
Conspicuously, Kim Jong-un offers no claim on how his Snake Oil affects vascular diseases leading to stroke (Kim Il-sung's demise) or cardiac arrest (Kim Jong-il's killer). If North Koreans (and the world) are lucky, he won't find a cure for those ailments.
And do they go well with my tin-foil hat?
Wow... Posted from mobile. Thumbs are poor typing instruments.
We all should know basic maths, but should developers be expected to know PKI? 10 or even 5 years ago, no. But today, Google and the like are pushing for the entire Interwebs to be secured; primarily with PKI and X.509 types certificates. Pay a bit more, expect a but more. As demand grows, the 'general knowledge' will too.
While this may be an intellectually interesting story, I hardly think we need to consider a 100 year old defunct cartel. I'm far more worried about modern cartels, consider those in the title and there are many other besides - investment banks, teacher federations, De Beers... We need only glance outside our own personal bubbles to recognize massive manipulation starting with advantageous legislation perpetuating inefficient business models and see consumers are exploited from all directions by cartels.
Actually, as the name implies, the Library of Congress (LoC) IS part of the legislative branch, and is responsible for granting and sustaining copyright - a body of law appropos for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to affect.
I see, /. executes... ARG!
I swear, my address bar says "slashdot.org" but my eyes read "digg.com". What should I believe, the address bar or my lying eyes???
A quick comparison shows similar subscription plans cost the same regardless of iPhone or similar capability Android is bought. If Apple charges such premium of the carriers, shouldn't the rest of us realize reduced subscription cost??? What IS the value-proposition the carriers add beyond "dumb pipes"?
Remember the market placement disaster of the Edsel?
No. Nor do I remember Woodstock, hoop skirts, the Kennedy assassinations or the moon shot. The implication being I grew up with computers after punch cards but before mice and once foreign cars became common. Maybe the downfall of Detroit could be traced back to the malformed son of Ford?
While I worry tremendously about Big Brother Gov't, I'm most anxious about YOU and YOU and YOU, my brothers and sisters with whom I, knowingly or not, deal everyday.
Welcome to "civilization", isn't it grand?
Well, I wrote this from an undisclosed location under a pseudonym so I *KNOW* my info is totally secret and controlled only by me.
This post reminds me of: "All your base are belong to us!"
This is a true solution. It comes from photography lore as a means of repairing scratches on photo negatives before developing a print.
It's important to note nose grease, like tears, doesn't seem replicable in the lab -- so I'm not aware of commercially viable alternatives to the nose grease.
Also, since we're in DIY mode, make sure any rubbing you do (by hand) on optical disks should be in a radial motion versus a circular/tangential one. The reason is because of how the discs are read and the player's own error correction. Often, an "artifact" on the surface will be ignored if the information relative to the bad spot is intact; the player might be able to correct for the problem. If the "artifacts" are parallel to the reading of the surface, the player can't recover.
So, radial scratches == maybe not so bad;
concentric scratches == VERY bad.
To use the nose grease, just make sure the surface to take the grease is clean (or it won't hold nor laminate well to the surface). You can rub the disc to your face as mentioned above OR you can just use clean fingers to apply. It's not an exact science, so if it doesn't work the first time, dollop some more and rub it in. It will not damage the disc (or negative) in any way.
Always .odt/.odf If the customer requires M$ formats, I charge an additional document handling fee... If M$ can make $$$ with Office, I can too! I adopted the idea from the Real Estate industry.
While the benefits are great (tuition, lots of paid time off+all paid holidays, access/discounts on all other University offerings), the politics can be treacherous. As the College/School (some dept. within a University) IT Director, I found out the hard way that politics trump all. With tenure being a mainstay at the University of New Mexico, faculty ruled all. Even University administration was pretty impotent. The best anology is the Feudal system: A king/queen being the President/Provost/Chancellor, mostly for show, while all the colleges and departments are like fiefs ruled by lesser yet more secure/entrenched faculty, each having their own court. The pecking order goes: tenured faculty, administration, associate faculty, staff, bottoming out on students. Various faculty would set out to sabotage each other because of some ancient, petty slight for which they were still upset. Even when the faculty seem to be getting along, getting them going in the same direction is like herding cats.
Another problem is, like all government jobs, the "can't make me work, can't fire me" attitude exhibited at many levels. There were employees of many years who are dead weight, in fact some who are illiterate, but since they made it past their probationary period, they were never fired/let go. Couple them with the tenured professors who are just drawing a paycheck, but really have no business being there anymore (too old, lost motivation, etc.) and it begins to grind on you. Don't get me wrong, there are many wonderful, inspirational, productive people there, but there are also many, many bureaucrats. I will never accuse UNM of efficiency.
The last thing I will mention here is: If it is a state run institution, productivity is not really a priority. Like you, coming from the private sector and wanting a decent job while I continued my education, I was appalled because there was no sense of urgency or competitiveness. Every year, there was going to be a slightly larger budget, no matter what the performance. So, absent a profit incentive all of the above issues were allowed to fester. If a private company becomes so disfunctional, it goes out of business and everyone loses, top to bottom. But a state funded University is a machine that only gets bigger. There is no real oversight. No independent auditors. That would "threaten academic freedom". Bullshit! It's the taxpayers' money, the students' tuition and societies' needs from and for which these institutions exist. They should produce capable, informed students and truly innovative, pertinent research. The more familiar with the "system" I became, the more I wanted out of it. Don't get me wrong, much good still comes out of such places, but they could be much better.
In summary: If you are a goal oriented, team player who values efficiency and progress, then Universities are not necessarily the place to have a carreer without a Ph.D. If you are looking to pigeon-hole yourself where the barest minimum is required; where security is almost guaranteed, all while your focus is acheiving many personal goals outside the institution, then you will find the University a perfect environment to exploit. It is, afterall, a feudal system. Be a favorite of the royals and you will have a good life, otherwise you're just a serf.
Too bad this kind of analysis didn't make it into the anti-trust cases....
Its not the sky falling Chicken Little, its the oceans rising!