Interoperability and sharing are all kinds of nice for the interchange of information, but what happens when a third-party developer comes up with something that can also plug-in, so it gets access to the data, but has some kind of big open hole in other parts of its code, so everyone's records are available to anyone?
Without resorting to a paranoid rant about huge databases where authorized people have access to my personal data... what about the unauthorized?
For some reason, I don't see a security framework coming down the line that is *good*, consistent, and enforced by the system as a whole.
If they're buying transit from a telco, the line they buy has symmetricaly identical bandwidth... The only thing that would make upstream more expensive per byte is if they have caching proxy servers they feed you through, so you're getting stuff from their network rather than IP transport they're paying for from someone else.
The 33:1 contention ratio (I never see contention ratio advertised by US ISPs, I note) means that for every 8mbps they're piping to the DSLAM, there are 33 people who could be trying to use that at 8mbps, so if everyone's using it at the same time, you're likely to get ~250kbps. Not as attractive, is it?
One of the problems I see with high levels of security without a superuser-style account is the possibility of someone leaving, dying, or forgetting his password, and not being able to get to critical business data.
When forks are brought about by personality conflicts and useless cruft, they're destined for failure... when they're brought about because something is impeding the progress of a motivated group of coders, they succeed.
That said, I think this article certainly was rather meaningless, and not really "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
I'm interested in how we can measure the speed of things that far away at that level of precision. Any measurement would rely on light from those gas balls reaching us at different times -- and as such, how can we tell that nothing is interfering with the light between there and here?
When we were fighting the bad guys hiding out in the cemetary, would have been nice to send in robots who could negotiate between headstones and then get around and shoot or otherwise incapacitate the evildoers, rather than waiting for a head to pop out from behind a stone or go in with a person and risk getting shot.
I think this raises the kind of question like "should HIPAA systems be certified for use?"
Since you deal with it, perhaps you could illuminate the types of auditing that go on, and whether there's the possibility of using a software vendor which will indemnify against security design flaws.
I'm still unclear if one cable card per setup will be of any benefit...
If I put a card in my TV, my VCR, which comes before the TV, won't be able to tune the channels, will it?
Maybe picture-in-picture will work, but what about all the other circumstances where you have multiple tuners? Watching one channel while recording another, etc....
It looks like the UI on the touch screen could use some work. It looks too much like a typical computer GUI, and ripe for fat-fingering and just simply not being intuitively instrument-like.
They tout the power of it being based upon a computer, but I think it'll be a few more generations of this before it really makes an impact.
I'm just gonna make reservations at Milliways...
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When the universe explodes for my pleasure, I want to be downing Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters.
I'm assuming the reason that 20" LCDs seem to be so much more than their 19" counterparts is precisely *because* of the native resolution... I've been considering going to an LCD for my desktop to replace my 21" CRT, but I've found no 19" LCDs that can do 1600x1200.
I'm sure that people will scoff at me for "requiring" 1600x1200, but once you get used to it, 1280x1024 seems cramped.
If this were the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, and instead of Linux, it were Tide with Bleach Alternative, you wouldn't be up in arms about Good Housekeeping holding out for a lower percentage of phosphorous.
Let go of the baggage every once in a while. You'd be surprised at how much less stress you have when you stop going around being pissed off.
I think that the attorney in the article skipped around EULAs and this very valid point, to get to the terms of service part of the online service.
With the boxed game, you pay before you get to see the license.
If we ignore the fact that before you get to log on to the service, you've already paid for the game - at least with the online service, you get to see the agreement before you pay.
I think the article was quite lacking in dealing with the differences in those two cases.
Grugnog.com is some guy's page, and submitting anything in that search box just gives a 404. Is this the musing of a guy who posts stuff to slashdot that he doesn't even mention in his blog (on the root of the domain)?
My personal preference for charity is to help people I know who've fallen on hard times, take them in for a few months... I hear where you're coming from, preferring that she come to you for help...
Pride makes people suffer horribly, though. It's quite a shame.
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Interoperability and sharing are all kinds of nice for the interchange of information, but what happens when a third-party developer comes up with something that can also plug-in, so it gets access to the data, but has some kind of big open hole in other parts of its code, so everyone's records are available to anyone?
Without resorting to a paranoid rant about huge databases where authorized people have access to my personal data... what about the unauthorized?
For some reason, I don't see a security framework coming down the line that is *good*, consistent, and enforced by the system as a whole.
Or they could just stop licensing RC4 and use an unencumbered and respected standard, AES.
Were they mission critical systems for operating the plant, or the "corporate LAN" where people get their e-mail and such for corporate functions?
If they're buying transit from a telco, the line they buy has symmetricaly identical bandwidth... The only thing that would make upstream more expensive per byte is if they have caching proxy servers they feed you through, so you're getting stuff from their network rather than IP transport they're paying for from someone else.
The 33:1 contention ratio (I never see contention ratio advertised by US ISPs, I note) means that for every 8mbps they're piping to the DSLAM, there are 33 people who could be trying to use that at 8mbps, so if everyone's using it at the same time, you're likely to get ~250kbps. Not as attractive, is it?
I never said that Linux doesn't belong on production servers.
What's up with being so rabid?
One of the problems I see with high levels of security without a superuser-style account is the possibility of someone leaving, dying, or forgetting his password, and not being able to get to critical business data.
How is this resolved without a superuser?
When forks are brought about by personality conflicts and useless cruft, they're destined for failure... when they're brought about because something is impeding the progress of a motivated group of coders, they succeed.
That said, I think this article certainly was rather meaningless, and not really "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."
I don't think anyone can be seriously worried about him pulling this off
I hesitate to ask, but what would there be to be worried about?
Gentoo's not the kind of thing you run on production servers, Solaris is. They're not really in the same "space", as the marketdroids would say.
If you're asking, "Why would I switch from Gentoo to Solaris?" then you probably wouldn't benefit.
(and for the record, I don't see portage as being a large benefit to Solaris over pkgadd for the typical server, either)
Yeah, why the fuck *does* paper beat rock, anyway?
Yeah, but just think of how hard it will be to find a name that's not taken already! ;)
for penis growth through stem cell implantation.
Since the player piano was invented in 1863, it's curious to be so interested in a robotic guitar in 2005. :)
I'm interested in how we can measure the speed of things that far away at that level of precision. Any measurement would rely on light from those gas balls reaching us at different times -- and as such, how can we tell that nothing is interfering with the light between there and here?
When we were fighting the bad guys hiding out in the cemetary, would have been nice to send in robots who could negotiate between headstones and then get around and shoot or otherwise incapacitate the evildoers, rather than waiting for a head to pop out from behind a stone or go in with a person and risk getting shot.
I think this raises the kind of question like "should HIPAA systems be certified for use?"
Since you deal with it, perhaps you could illuminate the types of auditing that go on, and whether there's the possibility of using a software vendor which will indemnify against security design flaws.
I'm still unclear if one cable card per setup will be of any benefit...
If I put a card in my TV, my VCR, which comes before the TV, won't be able to tune the channels, will it?
Maybe picture-in-picture will work, but what about all the other circumstances where you have multiple tuners? Watching one channel while recording another, etc....
It looks like the UI on the touch screen could use some work. It looks too much like a typical computer GUI, and ripe for fat-fingering and just simply not being intuitively instrument-like.
They tout the power of it being based upon a computer, but I think it'll be a few more generations of this before it really makes an impact.
When the universe explodes for my pleasure, I want to be downing Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters.
I'm assuming the reason that 20" LCDs seem to be so much more than their 19" counterparts is precisely *because* of the native resolution... I've been considering going to an LCD for my desktop to replace my 21" CRT, but I've found no 19" LCDs that can do 1600x1200.
I'm sure that people will scoff at me for "requiring" 1600x1200, but once you get used to it, 1280x1024 seems cramped.
If this were the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, and instead of Linux, it were Tide with Bleach Alternative, you wouldn't be up in arms about Good Housekeeping holding out for a lower percentage of phosphorous.
Let go of the baggage every once in a while. You'd be surprised at how much less stress you have when you stop going around being pissed off.
I think that the attorney in the article skipped around EULAs and this very valid point, to get to the terms of service part of the online service.
With the boxed game, you pay before you get to see the license.
If we ignore the fact that before you get to log on to the service, you've already paid for the game - at least with the online service, you get to see the agreement before you pay.
I think the article was quite lacking in dealing with the differences in those two cases.
Grugnog.com is some guy's page, and submitting anything in that search box just gives a 404. Is this the musing of a guy who posts stuff to slashdot that he doesn't even mention in his blog (on the root of the domain)?
My personal preference for charity is to help people I know who've fallen on hard times, take them in for a few months... I hear where you're coming from, preferring that she come to you for help...
Pride makes people suffer horribly, though. It's quite a shame.