they were hooked to a network that was hooked to the internet.
So essentially they were on same switch network or segment medical hosts by vlan and probably ip packet filtering at the gateway. Sounds like a poor design and really poor security policy if Conficker can push NetBIOS propagation outgoing to medical hosts network regardless bridging network has access to internet or not.
The main point should be the fact that network design and security model is defected in this case, not what OS is running or software it's running on top of what OS. There is no foolproof OS known to mankind as of yet, and I highly doubt medical device manufactures can do any better at developing OS/software than software companies. And I hate when I have to defend Microsoft on this, but there is no proof that Windows OS is inherently unstable when it's in use by medical devices.
But what we have here is, many baskets but with only one egg, and the problem is to make sure the egg going into the right basket "AND" getting back out from that basket while number of baskets grows!
What it sounds to me is that Google intelligence is not redundancy but rather granular task assignment with each task in mind that level of fault tolerance in result should be greater than risk of failure in result as it grows/scales.
For example (simplistic), raid 10 vs. raid 6 comes to mind. Both tolerant to equal amount of failure, what scales better with same or better tolerance to data loss? Which one has better predictable outcome? Which one gives you more time to recover and bang for the buck?
Everyone most likely has different answer to that, and I believe, Google is no different.
single break-in can cost days (if not weeks) worth of business disruption/outage, or even secondary/failover site can add up to annual budget.
while cost of data can vary, breach in itself is very costly. in the article, user records cost/value seemed to be cost factor (emphasizing "per incident"), what about aftermath? i'm sure total cost is not as small as figure shown in the article, given that at least for proper preventive measure has been implemented after "first" incident.
"It (the first central commercial incandescent electric generating station) provided electricity to one square mile in New York City in 1882. The first day it operated only 52 customers wanted electricity."
Chinese telecom infrastructure and investment may not be up to scale of US pre-dotcom bubble era, but this bubble is just another repeat waiting to happen.
Calling in "Re-Run", 'cause it's gonna be DY-NO-MITE!
And what if the dissatisfied citizens of a particular regime call for international attention and help?
I haven't heard 1.3 billion people asking for help. Have you? You would think, 1.3 billion people would have louder voice... Don't you think?
So everyone has inherited right to protest anyone's perceived righteousness on any nation's soil? Is that your stance on what "right" is? So you are imposing protesting unjust laws that doesn't affect you, enforced by government you aren't part of, affecting lives in society you don't live in... That doesn't sound right to me.
And for your information, I don't support any citizens of any regime that themselves support the status quo, and ignoring the desires of the citizens who don't. I don't even know where you get that stuff from, but clearly you do not have understanding of my position. Look, if you want to talk to 1.3 billion people to change their government and change the way they are governed by, by all mean. But to impose your view and rights on others by means of international intervention and media whoring, it's self serving.
Shining a light on the side of a building is not infringing anyone's rights.
Are you sure about that? If I am showing you my penis everywhere you go, I'm not infringing your right to be straight, or am I? Shining lights on property is not a RIGHT nor infringing anyone's right. Embassy/Consulate is considered as a foreign country. If you are in Chinese embassy in New York City, US, you are in Chinese territory, not US. Your right stops at the sidewalk before entering Chinese embassy.
You may think you support freedom, but your stance is entirely authoritarian.
No, my stance is for republicanism, not authoritarian. Please stop throwing fancy words thinking your view is correct... because it is not.
You sound very passionate and intelligent, but you are very very misguided and misinformed.
Matter of fact, I do. Protest is to express one's dissatisfaction without violating or infringing rights of other people. Any numb skulls too thick to understand that, I have problem with.
I'm discussing the ethics of civil disobedience
No, you are not discussing the ethics of civil disobedience. You are advocating ignoring the sovereignty of nation. Protesting with flashy laser light is not some humanitarian effort such as the doctors without borders. Ethical civil disobedience implies that the civic duty of people who are disengaged and disenchanted by civil laws to do with a city or the people who live there. When foreigners protests against civil laws of unrelated country, it's no longer civil disobedience. It's foreign interventionism.
Without the international media, we wouldn't be hearing any of it at all.
Huh? WTF are you talking about. There were more media attention on China's human right violation before the Olympics. Human trafficking has been haunting China for decades.
It's been always there. Cluster fuck minds have only 5 minute tension span, that's all.
Bringing ideas to the fore without some kind of action attached to it isn't a crime.
Evidently it is a crime in CHINA. Yeah, CHINA.
they are doing something.
Since when doing something is better than doing nothing? After all, aren't we talking about "DOING THE RIGHT THING"? oh yeah... cliche~
Two wrongs do not make it right. Just because you flash a light with provocative text, does not make it better nor signify or somehow make the cause more legitimate.
You just flashed some fucking light. That's it. Call it something else, it makes all the sacrifices made by Tibetan monks a FUCKING JOKE.
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But we are already doing that. US/Russia unilateral surveillance system has been running since the age of internet meme.
http://englishrussia.com/?p=2449
I mean, talk about up and close surveillance!
So you are saying, by legalizing oil, Iraq won't have any more US casualties?
How many of those killed in 2008 due to "gun" rather than "drug"?
So won't illegalizing "gun" be more effective?
Hear Hear!
Those god damn pilgrims!
How about people walking with huge umbrella?
That shit should be illegalized.
Or toes, yeah, the stinkier the better! yeah! toes... mmm
err, what...! i'm just saying.
after all, it only requires energy equivalent of exploding star.
in a way, stars are like the next fossil fuel.
http://www.sco.com/successes/
How true indeed...
they were hooked to a network that was hooked to the internet.
So essentially they were on same switch network or segment medical hosts by vlan and probably ip packet filtering at the gateway. Sounds like a poor design and really poor security policy if Conficker can push NetBIOS propagation outgoing to medical hosts network regardless bridging network has access to internet or not.
The main point should be the fact that network design and security model is defected in this case, not what OS is running or software it's running on top of what OS. There is no foolproof OS known to mankind as of yet, and I highly doubt medical device manufactures can do any better at developing OS/software than software companies. And I hate when I have to defend Microsoft on this, but there is no proof that Windows OS is inherently unstable when it's in use by medical devices.
Lessig then continued to ramble on and the supremes continued to roll their eyes and wonder what the hell he was on about.
then the supremes said; "Stop! In the name of love, before you break my heart. Think it over."
I believe that part was removed from the official dialogue on the record.
But what we have here is, many baskets but with only one egg, and the problem is to make sure the egg going into the right basket "AND" getting back out from that basket while number of baskets grows!
What it sounds to me is that Google intelligence is not redundancy but rather granular task assignment with each task in mind that level of fault tolerance in result should be greater than risk of failure in result as it grows/scales.
For example (simplistic), raid 10 vs. raid 6 comes to mind. Both tolerant to equal amount of failure, what scales better with same or better tolerance to data loss? Which one has better predictable outcome? Which one gives you more time to recover and bang for the buck?
Everyone most likely has different answer to that, and I believe, Google is no different.
single break-in can cost days (if not weeks) worth of business disruption/outage, or even secondary/failover site can add up to annual budget.
while cost of data can vary, breach in itself is very costly. in the article, user records cost/value seemed to be cost factor (emphasizing "per incident"), what about aftermath? i'm sure total cost is not as small as figure shown in the article, given that at least for proper preventive measure has been implemented after "first" incident.
"It (the first central commercial incandescent electric generating station) provided electricity to one square mile in New York City in 1882. The first day it operated only 52 customers wanted electricity."
ref: http://library.thinkquest.org/6064/history.html
convincing vast majority about useful utility for higher quality of life is not alway about supply and demand or availability of technology.
Microsoft itself claimed it will keep costs per unit down by hosting a lot of the educational software in the cloud
"We'll have software that runs on the device but also leverage Live Services and other applications that run in the cloud."
LITERALLY.
Microsoft 1 :: Children 0
At Redmond, WA, life is good...
Today, I bow to dedicate my entire week's worth of beer fund to creating scorp1us foundation for cure to this despicable disease.
Join me, fellow slashdoters, to bring some gleam of hope and cure for this poor little sap.
Chinese telecom infrastructure and investment may not be up to scale of US pre-dotcom bubble era, but this bubble is just another repeat waiting to happen.
Calling in "Re-Run", 'cause it's gonna be DY-NO-MITE!
No, that would be me, Comcast.
"It slows down your browsing. It makes some Web sites inaccessible for no discernible reason."
heh, I thought, Comcast was only in Americas.
Wrong title, wrong article, wrong on just about every level of troubleshooting application performance benchmark.
It only affects x64_86 branch on old 5.8.8 perl package, not just Red Hat.
And what if the dissatisfied citizens of a particular regime call for international attention and help?
I haven't heard 1.3 billion people asking for help. Have you? You would think, 1.3 billion people would have louder voice... Don't you think?
So everyone has inherited right to protest anyone's perceived righteousness on any nation's soil? Is that your stance on what "right" is? So you are imposing protesting unjust laws that doesn't affect you, enforced by government you aren't part of, affecting lives in society you don't live in... That doesn't sound right to me.
And for your information, I don't support any citizens of any regime that themselves support the status quo, and ignoring the desires of the citizens who don't. I don't even know where you get that stuff from, but clearly you do not have understanding of my position. Look, if you want to talk to 1.3 billion people to change their government and change the way they are governed by, by all mean. But to impose your view and rights on others by means of international intervention and media whoring, it's self serving.
Shining a light on the side of a building is not infringing anyone's rights.
Are you sure about that? If I am showing you my penis everywhere you go, I'm not infringing your right to be straight, or am I? Shining lights on property is not a RIGHT nor infringing anyone's right. Embassy/Consulate is considered as a foreign country. If you are in Chinese embassy in New York City, US, you are in Chinese territory, not US. Your right stops at the sidewalk before entering Chinese embassy.
You may think you support freedom, but your stance is entirely authoritarian.
No, my stance is for republicanism, not authoritarian. Please stop throwing fancy words thinking your view is correct... because it is not.
You sound very passionate and intelligent, but you are very very misguided and misinformed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asE7CdX1t6c
Once again, your claim just got debunked... once more.
FYI, I never argued against the point of foreigners disappearing quietly. That would be idiotic knowing I just posted a YouTube video of it.
You have a thing against protesters, don't you?
Matter of fact, I do. Protest is to express one's dissatisfaction without violating or infringing rights of other people. Any numb skulls too thick to understand that, I have problem with.
I'm discussing the ethics of civil disobedience
No, you are not discussing the ethics of civil disobedience. You are advocating ignoring the sovereignty of nation. Protesting with flashy laser light is not some humanitarian effort such as the doctors without borders. Ethical civil disobedience implies that the civic duty of people who are disengaged and disenchanted by civil laws to do with a city or the people who live there. When foreigners protests against civil laws of unrelated country, it's no longer civil disobedience. It's foreign interventionism.
Without the international media, we wouldn't be hearing any of it at all.
Huh? WTF are you talking about. There were more media attention on China's human right violation before the Olympics. Human trafficking has been haunting China for decades.
It's been always there. Cluster fuck minds have only 5 minute tension span, that's all.
Bringing ideas to the fore without some kind of action attached to it isn't a crime.
Evidently it is a crime in CHINA. Yeah, CHINA.
they are doing something.
Since when doing something is better than doing nothing? After all, aren't we talking about "DOING THE RIGHT THING"? oh yeah... cliche~
Two wrongs do not make it right. Just because you flash a light with provocative text, does not make it better nor signify or somehow make the cause more legitimate.
You just flashed some fucking light. That's it. Call it something else, it makes all the sacrifices made by Tibetan monks a FUCKING JOKE.
they never were and never will be Indians.
So I will get my job back soon? :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XCZJD3qeUI
Oh yeah, your claim just got debunked.