I used LineageOS on my Nexus 7- until it died. I currently use it on my Galaxy Note 3 - rooted, running Lineage 14.1, and working well on a Verizon MVNO. And, it still has one of the best screens out there. It has allowed me to use phones for years after they were made obsolete by the manufacturer. When the Note 3 dies, I’ll buy some other cheap 2-3 year old phone, throw on Lineage or some other ROM, slap in a prepaid SIM, and move on, spending a fraction of what others pay. (Currently on RedPocket @ $99.00 a year.)
I consider all phones potentially hacked, even stock. I do not do any banking or use any financial apps, like Fidelity, etc. There’s just no way I can audit the ROMs - and, for that matter, any of the apps on the phone. I only do any financial stuff on my desktop at home on a secure WiFi. Maybe, probably, that’s a leap of faith as well.
Of course, I'm sure multiple TLAs already have a copy of everything, particularly anything political, technical, blogs, etc, including the "dark web" and other encrypted sites. A leopard can't change his spots and I would predict the FBI has dossiers on most American citizens. It's in their DNA, dating from J. Edgar at their birth. Now the dossiers are electronic, searchable, and probably do include real DNA. They likely include info from the older paper files - like that record of the subscription I had to the People's Daily back in the 70s during my Maoist phase - now scanned and searchable too. With the exposure of all these hacking tools, perhaps there is even a backup of my old blog server which mysteriously crashed in 2007 wiping out years of pointless political fulminating read by one or two people. If it wasn't for these search engines ignoring robots.txt, I would have had no traffic at all.
Certain corporations also have essentially complete copies of the internet - like Google, Yahoo (Verizon), and Microsoft. If only we could search and browse them with a better interface than the Wayback Machine.
But many of Cronenberg's flics have sci-fi elements.
Also, They Live is a underrated gem, though, if only for Rowdy Roddy Piper's surprising acting skills. But then, what do you expect from a professional wrestler.
Over 50% of practices have moved to electronic medical records. Most doctors (all?) are woefully unprepared to administer their networks. Some run servers and host their own EMR; many are moving to hosted "cloud-based" EMRs. There are an increasing number of regulatory burdens such as HIPAA, meaningful use, etc. It's a growth industry.
There are quite a number of freelance consultants and IT providers. You can provide sales, installation, support at the local level or partner with a vendor. Or, work in a large hospital or clinic system.
Seriously. As a graduate student, I was responsible for managing and running a university-wide center for amino acid analysis and protein sequencing. As dedicated staff (namely me) used and maintained the equipment, it was not trashed by poorly-trained users. Proper protocols, sample preparation, calibration, and periodic assay of the standards were all assured.
Other solutions above will monitor access to the equipment, but that is a far cry from ensuring longevity of the equipment or accurate and reproducible results.
You will pay for the health care of illegal aliens - period.
Let me repeat that. Whether they come to the ER without coverage or are enrolled in a government subsidized insurance program, you will pay. At least, in the latter case, they will contribute something and, perhaps, get some earlier care that will avoid expensive hospitalizations.
The bone-headed reflexive anti-immigrant nonsense that passes for debate in the US just saddens me. We really need to upgrade our educational system.
There is an esophageal pill cam which takes images much faster and images the esophagus in the 5-120 seconds the camera is in transit. Check out Given Imaging's site.
My friend Bill and I made a serious study of this several years ago. We had a blinded pair-wise taste test of beers, which included all premium beers available in cans in Sna Antonio, some 16 brands at the time. These were poured by Bill's wife Linde into identical chilled mugs and the tasters were blinded.
In an attempt to assess the reliablility of the ranking and the reproduciblilty of the test (kappa statistic), many pairs were re-tested.
After over 400 pair-wise taste tests, the winner was, believe it or not, Schlitz Beer. I was stunned. I always viewed Schlitz as a rather low class piss, but was I wrong. Interestingly, Anheiser-Busch products occasionally scored well but exhibited marked variablility in quality, apparently from batch to batch.
Coors scored poorly - next to last- which happened to confirm my opinion of the company and Mr. Coors' politics
P.S. I usually drink St. Pauli's at my house, but in the cooler on the boat, it's no longer blue runners but Schlitz.
There is a bug in the installer. Using the live disk (i386), the installer crashes if you try to install on an existing ext3 partition (overwriting an old install, for example). If you choose to format the partition first, the installation works.
One problem is that links often go dead. If you briefly quote a, say, NY Times article, a reader clicking the link two weeks later finds he can no longer view the original source without paying or suscribing. In other cases, the articles are taken down. After a while, you know these offenders. In these posts, I may use more extended quotes or even copy the entire article and host it on my own server.
There is a way to use e-mail as such a tool, which was the preferred method used by the Spanish Al-Queda cell:
1. Open e-mail account (on your own web mail server, preferably) and publish username/password to members of cell/department/workgroup.
2. Write e-mail detailing plan and save as "draft."
3. After connecting by SSL, other co-workers/conspirators view and edit draft or attach comments for all to browse and update.
4. If server is owned by group, files are as secure as the passwords and OS. If a public/commercial server is used, drafts and connection IPs may be discovered and will persist on backups and logs.
The problem that can occur with TCP is when a rogue client forges an IP packet with a bogus source address, then floods a server with TCP SYN packets. The server allocates resources for the connections upon receipt of the SYN, then under a flood of SYN packets, eventually runs out and is unable to service new requests. This is called a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.
SCTP protects against this type of attack through a four-way handshake and the introduction of a cookie. In SCTP, a client initiates a connection with an INIT packet. The server responds with an INIT-ACK, which includes the cookie (a unique context identifying this proposed connection).
It seems that that you could still have DOS attacks based on INIT floods. The client has to open a socket, generate a cookie (slight increase in computing overhead), and then listen. I see no intrinsic mechanism to eliminate these types of attacks. Technicaly, they would not be SYN floods, but INIT floods.
This is about as useful a distinction as Bush apologists denying he was warned that the levees would be breached because the tapes show him being warned that the levees would be overtopped.
Offtopic, I know, but this is a grammatical (mis)construction showing up more and more recently. I don't know about you but it grates on my ears, trained to hear "needing to be replaced."
I first heard this when I was visiting Indiana about 15 years ago and I wondered if it was a local dialect. Recently I've heard it here in Florida. "The dog needed walked" and "She wanted scheduled on Friday."
On the contrary, this "economic argument" actually favors development of exploits for *nix derived systems.
Yes, OS X, BSDs, and other *nix systems may be only ~5% of systems, but they are a greater proportion of servers (?70%) and are often deployed in corporations where there a major gains from owning the system (banks, brokers, etc.).
A hacker would get much more bang for his buck from owning a banking network than a bunch of individual Windows computer users and their overdrawn credit cards.
Juniper does not issue patches to JunOS, including ex-Netscreen ScreenOS. In order to get the latest firmware, you must have a support contract with Juniper at a cost of hundreds to thousands per year per device. If you have let your contract lapse, you need to pay the fee for every year since your last subscription up to the present year. They will not simply sell you the firmware, even if you have a legitimate licencse and registered device. If you use an EOL device, such as the common Netscreen 5XP, you are SOL.
And, unlike the private sector, there's really no accountability.
Actually, just the opposite. You have no ability to make a corporation remove or correct your information besides threat of a lawsuit. With governmental data, not only are lawsuits possible but there is a legal and regulatory framework. That is, in the US, you almost always have a means, specified in regulations, to make corrections or opt in/out of the system.
Now, whether these work ideally is another question. And, by the way, there is a third way to get satisfaction - political connections. Do not underestimate what a call to your Senator or Representative can accomplish. This route is more effective if you are politically active or a donor. That may strike some as "pay for play" but, after all, we all should be active. It's cheaper than a lawyer and lawsuit, in any case.
It took even longer than that. Rokitansky first described "spiral bacilli" in the stomach in the 1870's - a finding that was ignored and forgotten for 100 years. If you've ever heard Dr. Marshall talk, he relates this as an example of how few discoveries are actually new.
.. or whatever the buzzword is today. It's mostly freelance or contract systems administration for small shops (<10 servers, <50 workstations), mostly Windows 2000 or 2003 server based. Some of it is emergency care (viruses, poor backup protocols, etc.), some is training, some is customization - writing scripts for applications (which are all basically database front-ends) and templates for data entry. There is very little coding per se, but if you're familiar with SQL or VISTA (Google it), this is a growth industry for the future. My current income: >$200,000.00 per year.
CMS is open-sourcing VISTA (the electronic medical record system developed by the VA) and offering it free to medical practices. So far, the startup costs and lack of technical skills have been the roadblocks to large-scale adoption of EMRs by individual medical practices, but this will change. A bill recently introduced into the Senate will link use of a electronic records to better Medicare reimbursements. Just like electronic claim submission, which went from recommended to financially encouraged to mandatory in 10 years, I predict EMR wil be mandatory in a decade. Although VISTA may not be the actual system used, the systems used at that time will all be VISTA interoperable.
Jump on in, the water's fine. In South Florida, there's more business than I can shake a stick at.
There are two extremes. First is that the stattion pays ASCAP, BMI, or other services for the right to play the music. A playlist is generated and used to determine to payments.
The other extreme is payola. Here, the record companies pay the station to paly their prodcut.
In the current US market, there is a mix of the two models. Some large corporate radio networks (whose initials are Clear Channel) may negotiate deals with RIAA member record companies who want their product played on the large number of stations. These deals may range from the record company paying CC, the record comapny paying toe fees to ASCAP, etc. (essentially providing the music free to CC), or subsidizing CC's costs to a variable degree. Pop music station playing the latest boy band/girl star actually rarely pay for the music. It is comped or even played for profit.
But, seriously, to lump all high schools as failed is just like, say, lumping all Microsoft software as insecure, bloated, unstable, etc, etc. Truth is not an average or aggregate value. Some Microsoft products are good (coming from a Mac and Linux user). Some high schools are good.
Like Mr. Gates, I didn't go to some 5000 student county high school. I still remember some of my education and, because of that education and AP testing, I was able to graduate from college in three years - a substantial savings of money. Mr. Gates also did well with his high school education.
Gates' proposals are not very specific and, at least in the article, are a rehash of old ideas (smaller class size, emphasis of the "basics" - whatever those are). Perhaps we need to go to a British system (with placement exams to determine whether you go to "public" (=private) high level schools or to vocational school. I am actually in favor of resegregating high school by sex - separate schools for men and women. My high school admitted women the year I was in 4th form (=10th grade) and I think it changed the whole school for the worse.
Many posters here comment of the content of high school. Most teenagers don't have a clue what they like or have an aptitude for. It's very important to expose them to a wide variety of information and academic disciplines. Specialization can come later.
But, seriously, to lump all high schools as failed is just like, say, lumping all Microsoft software as insecure, bloated, unstable, etc, etc. Truth is not an average or aggregate value. Some Microsoft products are good (coming from a Mac and Linux user). Some high schools are good.
Like Mr. Gates, I didn't go to some 5000 student county high school. I still remember some of my education and, because of that education and AP testing, I was able to graduate from college in three years - a substantial savings of money. Mr. Gates also did well with his high school education.
Gates' proposals are not very specific and, at least in the article, are a rehash of old ideas (smaller class size, emphasis of the "basics" - whatever those are). Perhaps we need to go to a British system (with placement exams to determine whether you go to "public" (=private) high level schools or to vocational school. I am actually in favor of resegregating high school by sex - separate schools for men and women. My high school admitted women the year I was in 4th form (=10th grade) and I think it changed the whole school for the worse.
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I used LineageOS on my Nexus 7- until it died. I currently use it on my Galaxy Note 3 - rooted, running Lineage 14.1, and working well on a Verizon MVNO. And, it still has one of the best screens out there. It has allowed me to use phones for years after they were made obsolete by the manufacturer. When the Note 3 dies, I’ll buy some other cheap 2-3 year old phone, throw on Lineage or some other ROM, slap in a prepaid SIM, and move on, spending a fraction of what others pay. (Currently on RedPocket @ $99.00 a year.)
I consider all phones potentially hacked, even stock. I do not do any banking or use any financial apps, like Fidelity, etc. There’s just no way I can audit the ROMs - and, for that matter, any of the apps on the phone. I only do any financial stuff on my desktop at home on a secure WiFi. Maybe, probably, that’s a leap of faith as well.
Of course, I'm sure multiple TLAs already have a copy of everything, particularly anything political, technical, blogs, etc, including the "dark web" and other encrypted sites. A leopard can't change his spots and I would predict the FBI has dossiers on most American citizens. It's in their DNA, dating from J. Edgar at their birth. Now the dossiers are electronic, searchable, and probably do include real DNA. They likely include info from the older paper files - like that record of the subscription I had to the People's Daily back in the 70s during my Maoist phase - now scanned and searchable too. With the exposure of all these hacking tools, perhaps there is even a backup of my old blog server which mysteriously crashed in 2007 wiping out years of pointless political fulminating read by one or two people. If it wasn't for these search engines ignoring robots.txt, I would have had no traffic at all. Certain corporations also have essentially complete copies of the internet - like Google, Yahoo (Verizon), and Microsoft. If only we could search and browse them with a better interface than the Wayback Machine.
But many of Cronenberg's flics have sci-fi elements. Also, They Live is a underrated gem, though, if only for Rowdy Roddy Piper's surprising acting skills. But then, what do you expect from a professional wrestler.
Privacy? How quaint.
Misdirection. Legerdemain. The "backdoors" are already there. The encryption is already broken. The network is already hacked.
Over 50% of practices have moved to electronic medical records. Most doctors (all?) are woefully unprepared to administer their networks. Some run servers and host their own EMR; many are moving to hosted "cloud-based" EMRs. There are an increasing number of regulatory burdens such as HIPAA, meaningful use, etc. It's a growth industry.
There are quite a number of freelance consultants and IT providers. You can provide sales, installation, support at the local level or partner with a vendor. Or, work in a large hospital or clinic system.
Cheap, available, and renewable.
Seriously. As a graduate student, I was responsible for managing and running a university-wide center for amino acid analysis and protein sequencing. As dedicated staff (namely me) used and maintained the equipment, it was not trashed by poorly-trained users. Proper protocols, sample preparation, calibration, and periodic assay of the standards were all assured.
Other solutions above will monitor access to the equipment, but that is a far cry from ensuring longevity of the equipment or accurate and reproducible results.
You will pay for the health care of illegal aliens - period.
Let me repeat that. Whether they come to the ER without coverage or are enrolled in a government subsidized insurance program, you will pay. At least, in the latter case, they will contribute something and, perhaps, get some earlier care that will avoid expensive hospitalizations.
The bone-headed reflexive anti-immigrant nonsense that passes for debate in the US just saddens me. We really need to upgrade our educational system.
There is an esophageal pill cam which takes images much faster and images the esophagus in the 5-120 seconds the camera is in transit. Check out Given Imaging's site.
My friend Bill and I made a serious study of this several years ago. We had a blinded pair-wise taste test of beers, which included all premium beers available in cans in Sna Antonio, some 16 brands at the time. These were poured by Bill's wife Linde into identical chilled mugs and the tasters were blinded.
In an attempt to assess the reliablility of the ranking and the reproduciblilty of the test (kappa statistic), many pairs were re-tested.
After over 400 pair-wise taste tests, the winner was, believe it or not, Schlitz Beer. I was stunned. I always viewed Schlitz as a rather low class piss, but was I wrong. Interestingly, Anheiser-Busch products occasionally scored well but exhibited marked variablility in quality, apparently from batch to batch.
Coors scored poorly - next to last- which happened to confirm my opinion of the company and Mr. Coors' politics
P.S. I usually drink St. Pauli's at my house, but in the cooler on the boat, it's no longer blue runners but Schlitz.
There is a bug in the installer. Using the live disk (i386), the installer crashes if you try to install on an existing ext3 partition (overwriting an old install, for example). If you choose to format the partition first, the installation works.
One problem is that links often go dead. If you briefly quote a, say, NY Times article, a reader clicking the link two weeks later finds he can no longer view the original source without paying or suscribing. In other cases, the articles are taken down. After a while, you know these offenders. In these posts, I may use more extended quotes or even copy the entire article and host it on my own server.
There is a way to use e-mail as such a tool, which was the preferred method used by the Spanish Al-Queda cell:
1. Open e-mail account (on your own web mail server, preferably) and publish username/password to members of cell/department/workgroup.
2. Write e-mail detailing plan and save as "draft."
3. After connecting by SSL, other co-workers/conspirators view and edit draft or attach comments for all to browse and update.
4. If server is owned by group, files are as secure as the passwords and OS. If a public/commercial server is used, drafts and connection IPs may be discovered and will persist on backups and logs.
From the article:
It seems that that you could still have DOS attacks based on INIT floods. The client has to open a socket, generate a cookie (slight increase in computing overhead), and then listen. I see no intrinsic mechanism to eliminate these types of attacks. Technicaly, they would not be SYN floods, but INIT floods.
This is about as useful a distinction as Bush apologists denying he was warned that the levees would be breached because the tapes show him being warned that the levees would be overtopped.
Offtopic, I know, but this is a grammatical (mis)construction showing up more and more recently. I don't know about you but it grates on my ears, trained to hear "needing to be replaced."
I first heard this when I was visiting Indiana about 15 years ago and I wondered if it was a local dialect. Recently I've heard it here in Florida. "The dog needed walked" and "She wanted scheduled on Friday."
Please, you all, don't forget the infinitive.
On the contrary, this "economic argument" actually favors development of exploits for *nix derived systems.
Yes, OS X, BSDs, and other *nix systems may be only ~5% of systems, but they are a greater proportion of servers (?70%) and are often deployed in corporations where there a major gains from owning the system (banks, brokers, etc.).
A hacker would get much more bang for his buck from owning a banking network than a bunch of individual Windows computer users and their overdrawn credit cards.
Juniper does not issue patches to JunOS, including ex-Netscreen ScreenOS. In order to get the latest firmware, you must have a support contract with Juniper at a cost of hundreds to thousands per year per device. If you have let your contract lapse, you need to pay the fee for every year since your last subscription up to the present year. They will not simply sell you the firmware, even if you have a legitimate licencse and registered device. If you use an EOL device, such as the common Netscreen 5XP, you are SOL.
Actually, just the opposite. You have no ability to make a corporation remove or correct your information besides threat of a lawsuit. With governmental data, not only are lawsuits possible but there is a legal and regulatory framework. That is, in the US, you almost always have a means, specified in regulations, to make corrections or opt in/out of the system.
Now, whether these work ideally is another question. And, by the way, there is a third way to get satisfaction - political connections. Do not underestimate what a call to your Senator or Representative can accomplish. This route is more effective if you are politically active or a donor. That may strike some as "pay for play" but, after all, we all should be active. It's cheaper than a lawyer and lawsuit, in any case.
It took even longer than that. Rokitansky first described "spiral bacilli" in the stomach in the 1870's - a finding that was ignored and forgotten for 100 years. If you've ever heard Dr. Marshall talk, he relates this as an example of how few discoveries are actually new.
.. or whatever the buzzword is today. It's mostly freelance or contract systems administration for small shops (<10 servers, <50 workstations), mostly Windows 2000 or 2003 server based. Some of it is emergency care (viruses, poor backup protocols, etc.), some is training, some is customization - writing scripts for applications (which are all basically database front-ends) and templates for data entry. There is very little coding per se, but if you're familiar with SQL or VISTA (Google it), this is a growth industry for the future. My current income: >$200,000.00 per year.
CMS is open-sourcing VISTA (the electronic medical record system developed by the VA) and offering it free to medical practices. So far, the startup costs and lack of technical skills have been the roadblocks to large-scale adoption of EMRs by individual medical practices, but this will change. A bill recently introduced into the Senate will link use of a electronic records to better Medicare reimbursements. Just like electronic claim submission, which went from recommended to financially encouraged to mandatory in 10 years, I predict EMR wil be mandatory in a decade. Although VISTA may not be the actual system used, the systems used at that time will all be VISTA interoperable.
Jump on in, the water's fine. In South Florida, there's more business than I can shake a stick at.
.. under force of law.
Maybe.
There are two extremes. First is that the stattion pays ASCAP, BMI, or other services for the right to play the music. A playlist is generated and used to determine to payments.
The other extreme is payola. Here, the record companies pay the station to paly their prodcut.
In the current US market, there is a mix of the two models. Some large corporate radio networks (whose initials are Clear Channel) may negotiate deals with RIAA member record companies who want their product played on the large number of stations. These deals may range from the record company paying CC, the record comapny paying toe fees to ASCAP, etc. (essentially providing the music free to CC), or subsidizing CC's costs to a variable degree. Pop music station playing the latest boy band/girl star actually rarely pay for the music. It is comped or even played for profit.
Knob, indeed.
Of course, he graduated from high school also.
But, seriously, to lump all high schools as failed is just like, say, lumping all Microsoft software as insecure, bloated, unstable, etc, etc. Truth is not an average or aggregate value. Some Microsoft products are good (coming from a Mac and Linux user). Some high schools are good.
Like Mr. Gates, I didn't go to some 5000 student county high school. I still remember some of my education and, because of that education and AP testing, I was able to graduate from college in three years - a substantial savings of money. Mr. Gates also did well with his high school education.
Gates' proposals are not very specific and, at least in the article, are a rehash of old ideas (smaller class size, emphasis of the "basics" - whatever those are). Perhaps we need to go to a British system (with placement exams to determine whether you go to "public" (=private) high level schools or to vocational school. I am actually in favor of resegregating high school by sex - separate schools for men and women. My high school admitted women the year I was in 4th form (=10th grade) and I think it changed the whole school for the worse.
Many posters here comment of the content of high school. Most teenagers don't have a clue what they like or have an aptitude for. It's very important to expose them to a wide variety of information and academic disciplines. Specialization can come later.
Of course, he graduated from high school also.
But, seriously, to lump all high schools as failed is just like, say, lumping all Microsoft software as insecure, bloated, unstable, etc, etc. Truth is not an average or aggregate value. Some Microsoft products are good (coming from a Mac and Linux user). Some high schools are good.
Like Mr. Gates, I didn't go to some 5000 student county high school. I still remember some of my education and, because of that education and AP testing, I was able to graduate from college in three years - a substantial savings of money. Mr. Gates also did well with his high school education.
Gates' proposals are not very specific and, at least in the article, are a rehash of old ideas (smaller class size, emphasis of the "basics" - whatever those are). Perhaps we need to go to a British system (with placement exams to determine whether you go to "public" (=private) high level schools or to vocational school. I am actually in favor of resegregating high school by sex - separate schools for men and women. My high school admitted women the year I was in 4th form (=10th grade) and I think it changed the whole school for the worse.