Norman Spinrad - varied novels and intriguing people
Lloyd Biggle Jr Monument is one of my favorite novels.
Eric Frank Russell - Look for And then there were none James Hogan - Sometimes accused of telling the same libertarian story over and over. There might be some truth to that, but he does it so well.
Donald Kingsbury - The Moon Goddess and the Son and Psychohistorical Crisis were intriguing. Amazingly detailed new worlds.
Tim Powers - Perhaps drifting into fantasy but well crafted stories.
The Crosstime Engineers are strip mining this universe. It's close, from an energy consumption point of view and has no advanced civilization to get in the way. The testing phase is over and full scale exploitation will begin shortly.
he security ramifications of putting every last IV pump on the hospital network are simply too great to deal with, at least at present.
Well actually every last IV pump in our two hospitals, half dozen care centers and dozen medical offices are on a network. Medical devices connect to a wireless SSID with restricted network access. IV pumps shipping now a days record dose information, maintain libraries of drug/time protocols, and can issue a service me request.
As systems get more interconnected, time becomes important. In the last 5 years, NTP has become more and more important to keeping multiple systems running at the same time. I've had to teach vendors how to configure their systems. The Microsoft fan club is particularly bad since they expect system to just synch up with the standard MSFT time servers. Of course those ports are blocked, and those time servers are always off anyway.
Greg Costikyan - First Contract, a first contact novel showing profit behind exploiting backward worlds.
Robert Frezza - A Small Colonial War and the sequel, Fire in a Faraway Place future war
Harry Harrison - Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers, this would make fantastic action movie
Poul Anderson - High Crusade, Ens Flandry, Nick van R....
Lloyd Biggle, Jr - Monument was his peak, but anything he wrote is worthy of picking up
James Blish - Cities In Flight, short stories
James Hogan - enjoy
Donald Kingsbury - The Moon Goddess and the Son and Psychohistorical Crisis
John Myers Myers - Silverlock, a classic
Chris Moore - Hunter S. Thompson craziness in contemporary world. Find, read, laugh
Jerry Pournelle - tells a good yarn, A Spaceship for the King / King David's Spaceship
Tom Reamy - San Diego Lightfoot Sue, Blind Voices
Eric Frank Russell - everything,but And Then There Were None is a personal favorite
Fred Saberhagen - An Old Friend of the Family (and sequels) and Berserker stories
George R Stewart - Earth Abides, this novel defines the post apocalypse genre
Roger Zelazny - The first 3 Amber books, Jack of Shadows, Lord of Light
Old Friend of the family by Fred Saberhagen and it's Dracula told from the vampire's point of view. Seems the human records have it all wrong . . . Very much recommended.
If you have time to wait, see Republic Wireless. My Verizon contract has gone month to month and I'm just waiting for these guys to open enrollment again. For $19.99/month you get unlimited data and service, although RW does want you to use VOIP when possible.
>>> As a further note, right now there's no way to trace that serial number to me
Do you ever load a driver for that printer from media in the box or from the printer company web site? How about the Printer Control Applet that tells you when to buy cartridges adds duplex and custom paper options? Unless you're printing from from a system without a network connection, it's trivial to associate printer serial number with IP address.
Mod parent up. Once a medical device or application has passed FDA review and has a golden ticket, the vendor will plant their feet and avoid any changes. The bottom line drives this, it costs them to get FDA review and if they have an approved product, there's no reason to rock the boat.
The FDA does no review of the software at all, but their review of the hardware means that the manufacturer is completely immune to lawsuits if someone dies as a result of a bug in their software.
Once again, untrue. As a Software Quality Engineer for a major medical device manufacturer, I can tell you the FDA does review software and has regulations and guidance surrounding software development. In recent years the scrutiny of software based device has increased so much, that companies are having a difficult understanding exactly what the FDA excepts.
The FDA provides minimal guidance on software. I'm working with a Medical Application Vendor now who insists that we install MS SQL Server 2005 SP3 (which is out of support) for their new released product. This is what the FDA approved. The FDA also has guidelines for commercial off the shelf software that require vendor comply with security updates. That isn't really a priority once something is approved, you see. Strictly speaking, the FDA considers devices using commercial off the shelf software to be end of life when any software vendor ends support. Medical Application Vendor's take is they have FDA approval, don't worry. We'll wind up installing this, but with enough conference calls and meetings to point auditors and lawyers at the vendor.
He's probably a new hire at t-mobile supporting Sidekick cloud storage. Or the last person quit after having his team rightsized down to a single person from a dozen.
Same situation, except it's from a Bunch of A**hats calling about a VISA card bill. Never heard of this guy, but I know his name, balance, last payment and previous address. I called the Privacy Compliance Office of BoA without resolving the calls. Since they managed assign my cell phone to Joe Deadbeat this was a a little annoying. Eventually, I filed a complaint with State Attorney General, Jerry Brown at the time, and the calls did stop.
I also got a letter on lawyer's letterhead denying that they ever called me, that personal information had been given out on phone calls which never happened, and that no record of inappropriate contact information existed.
Be well aware of what you don't know. There are good comments about security and reliability already. Outsource things such e-mail and web services to a reliable, willing to be audited vendor. Ensure DR plan and testing is included.
Now the big point. You have greater than 6 TB of storage. Is there a backup and recovery plan in place? RAID is not equal to backup. Is this information important to the business or is someone unwilling to learn "delete" options? Does the backup plan include off site media migration? That can be as expensive as Iron Mountain, a company safe deposit box or just someone takes a tape set home on Fridays. Test your recovery on bare metal. Cloud backups are one option, although you're now betting that another company will survive and maintain any privacy requirements you have. Warn the decision makers, ensure that the "when Drobo raid controller burps and scrambles all disks" there will be no recovery is a possible scenario. Granted that may or may not happen this year or next. It's more likely that Bart the intern will purge the Drobo so he can save DVDs he's ripping all afternoon. Now you have redundant movies.
Document the warnings and the decision to not spend money and accept the risk(s). As management amnesia sets in, this keeps you from holding the bag.
Jerry Pournelle, generally well known rocket scientist, technologist and big name writer was science adviser to Congressman G. Jerry writes about getting a call from somebody "calling from congress." Turned out to be Newt, having read A Step Further Out, personally calling to recruit. That led to a long term staff gig and ears to whisper in. I don't tend to agree with Newt's latest directions, but I'm willing to listen to anyone willing to to give Jerry Pournelle a microphone and input into space and science policy.
There are always options. One, scrounge available RAM from another unit. Two, spend the 20 or thirty dollars and add your own ram module. It's worth it in time, just make sure to have some sort of inventory control documentation. Three, take option two and turn in the reciept.
The 37 remaining Vista users were polled. Does the lack of IE 10 impact your use of the workstation?
6 are waiting to buy a new PC with Windows 7
12 need a vendor to certify the business critical application on Windows 7
2 installed Ubuntu
9 didn't understand the question
8 asked Cowboy Neil to take of their computer.
I used to work for a company that provided real estate database services. We were pulled into court by a patent troll claiming their mapping search patent was being infringed by our search applications. We had to pull together a PDP chassis and enough cards to boot, but we were able to read 15+ year old archive tapes. The prize, we offered mapping based searches in the 80's on dial up terminals. Source code, written in MACRO-11, PDP assembler, showing prior art. Historical contract files documented selling this feature to customers.
The moral, even when you retire a platform and application, holding backup tapes can have value. Second, keep some way to read the silly thing around.
Arizona has personal income tax. I used to to live there and filed every year.
States with no income tax are:
Alaska
Florida
Nevada
South Dakota
Texas
Washington
Wyoming
New Hampshire and Tennessee tax only dividend and interest income
>>>MLSs only track currently offered properties, and the records themselves belong to the person making the listing
MLS systems track currently offered properties and history for providing "comps" to current listings. Second class access is available for users like appraisers and title company agents with either off market or archive only access.
>>>records themselves belong to the person making the listing
The listing belongs to the Realtor Broker sponsoring the agent who signs the listing. Depending on the local MLS structure, the Broker is often a share owner of the MLS. The MLS provides the "trading floor" and advertising for agent to agent business. In a little town, a weekly tour bus can show off the latest listings. In a larger metro area, replacing the trading floor can have a major impact on sales.
>>>individual agents would just have to re-submit their listings
And how do you propose to recover the history, as well as the listings of the the guy who retired or landed in jail? It's not what's for sale, but what's for sale and what does the market history deem a reasonable price.
The interest of the database owner is to sell access. It's the business of the MLS to provide data, so anything that impacts access is a very big issue. Even so, some large MLS entities so understand the importance of off site backups and felt RAID will resolve any issues.
We had one customer burn down and were able to move communications, fly out a replacement system and reload the system with transaction files to close of business on fire day within 36 hours. Another customer would ignore changing tapes until they lost three days of updates. They never missed a tape cycle after that.
In honor of the movie Dinner for Schmucks Is Slashdot holding a contest for stupid submissions? Come on, I have a device on the internet with the default password and someone changed it. Please thank the nice ISP and go back to watching reruns of Gilligan's Island on Hulu. Nothing to see here, move along.
Home mail delivery could be dropped on Tuesday and Thursday. Maintain Saturday, which allow you to get that Netflix fix for the weekend. Home service to 4 days a week shouldn't present an issue. Business and PO Box delivery can be maintained on a 6 day schedule. This gets rid of the home route delivery twice a week. If you really need that daily mail fix, rent a PO box or a private mailbox at a business.
I used to travel, frequently without much notice and have had a PO box for years. I check it 3 or 4 times a month. I know when bills come in, although that's generally internet based now. Any mail that comes to the house can be assumed to be junk mail, aside from Netflix. Does paper mail have time based significance any more?
People are getting upset that someone recorded wireless transmissions? Come on, it's radio, once you broadcast it's there for the whole world to pick up. Encryption can slow down someone reading your traffic, but that's only a speed bump. There is no expectation of privacy on a radio broadcast, if you think your wi-fi network is secure, you're only showing the world that you don't understand the technology.
Compare this to the Bush/Cheney Regime program to record network and phone traffic. Where's the outrage and investigation of King George? The current king has quietly continued this program. I have more trust in Google than I do the the United States government.
One more time, if you broadcast it, it's available for anyone to intercept.
A few years ago a group of local high school students in our nice suburban neighborhood started fishing mailboxes for those credit card offers. They signed and mailed back the offers and collected the new cards from the unlocked curb side mail box. Step two was to hit Amazon and some of the other online vendors shipping straight to the card holder's address. See UPS just drives by and drops packages at the door without even ringing the bell. They were eventually picked up and will probably have the records sealed as a juvenile offender.
I've been using a mail box for years, even before identity theft became popular. It doesn't matter if I only get mail once or twice a week. If it comes to the house, it's junk mail.
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Norman Spinrad - varied novels and intriguing people
Lloyd Biggle Jr Monument is one of my favorite novels.
Eric Frank Russell - Look for And then there were none
James Hogan - Sometimes accused of telling the same libertarian story over and over. There might be some truth to that, but he does it so well.
Donald Kingsbury - The Moon Goddess and the Son and Psychohistorical Crisis were intriguing. Amazingly detailed new worlds.
Tim Powers - Perhaps drifting into fantasy but well crafted stories.
The Crosstime Engineers are strip mining this universe. It's close, from an energy consumption point of view and has no advanced civilization to get in the way. The testing phase is over and full scale exploitation will begin shortly.
he security ramifications of putting every last IV pump on the hospital network are simply too great to deal with, at least at present.
Well actually every last IV pump in our two hospitals, half dozen care centers and dozen medical offices are on a network. Medical devices connect to a wireless SSID with restricted network access. IV pumps shipping now a days record dose information, maintain libraries of drug/time protocols, and can issue a service me request.
As systems get more interconnected, time becomes important. In the last 5 years, NTP has become more and more important to keeping multiple systems running at the same time. I've had to teach vendors how to configure their systems. The Microsoft fan club is particularly bad since they expect system to just synch up with the standard MSFT time servers. Of course those ports are blocked, and those time servers are always off anyway.
Greg Costikyan - First Contract, a first contact novel showing profit behind exploiting backward worlds.
Robert Frezza - A Small Colonial War and the sequel, Fire in a Faraway Place future war
Harry Harrison - Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers, this would make fantastic action movie
Poul Anderson - High Crusade, Ens Flandry, Nick van R.... ,but And Then There Were None is a personal favorite
Lloyd Biggle, Jr - Monument was his peak, but anything he wrote is worthy of picking up
James Blish - Cities In Flight, short stories
James Hogan - enjoy
Donald Kingsbury - The Moon Goddess and the Son and Psychohistorical Crisis
John Myers Myers - Silverlock, a classic
Chris Moore - Hunter S. Thompson craziness in contemporary world. Find, read, laugh
Jerry Pournelle - tells a good yarn, A Spaceship for the King / King David's Spaceship
Tom Reamy - San Diego Lightfoot Sue, Blind Voices
Eric Frank Russell - everything
Fred Saberhagen - An Old Friend of the Family (and sequels) and Berserker stories
George R Stewart - Earth Abides, this novel defines the post apocalypse genre
Roger Zelazny - The first 3 Amber books, Jack of Shadows, Lord of Light
Old Friend of the family by Fred Saberhagen and it's Dracula told from the vampire's point of view. Seems the human records have it all wrong . . . Very much recommended.
If you have time to wait, see Republic Wireless. My Verizon contract has gone month to month and I'm just waiting for these guys to open enrollment again. For $19.99/month you get unlimited data and service, although RW does want you to use VOIP when possible.
>>> As a further note, right now there's no way to trace that serial number to me
Do you ever load a driver for that printer from media in the box or from the printer company web site? How about the Printer Control Applet that tells you when to buy cartridges adds duplex and custom paper options? Unless you're printing from from a system without a network connection, it's trivial to associate printer serial number with IP address.
Mod parent up. Once a medical device or application has passed FDA review and has a golden ticket, the vendor will plant their feet and avoid any changes. The bottom line drives this, it costs them to get FDA review and if they have an approved product, there's no reason to rock the boat.
The FDA does no review of the software at all, but their review of the hardware means that the manufacturer is completely immune to lawsuits if someone dies as a result of a bug in their software.
Once again, untrue. As a Software Quality Engineer for a major medical device manufacturer, I can tell you the FDA does review software and has regulations and guidance surrounding software development. In recent years the scrutiny of software based device has increased so much, that companies are having a difficult understanding exactly what the FDA excepts.
The FDA provides minimal guidance on software. I'm working with a Medical Application Vendor now who insists that we install MS SQL Server 2005 SP3 (which is out of support) for their new released product. This is what the FDA approved. The FDA also has guidelines for commercial off the shelf software that require vendor comply with security updates. That isn't really a priority once something is approved, you see. Strictly speaking, the FDA considers devices using commercial off the shelf software to be end of life when any software vendor ends support. Medical Application Vendor's take is they have FDA approval, don't worry. We'll wind up installing this, but with enough conference calls and meetings to point auditors and lawyers at the vendor.
'We should not expect something to work just because it is declared supported, . . ."
Why should IPv6 be different than any other feature a vendor documents?
He's probably a new hire at t-mobile supporting Sidekick cloud storage. Or the last person quit after having his team rightsized down to a single person from a dozen.
aka Maureen Smith
Same situation, except it's from a Bunch of A**hats calling about a VISA card bill. Never heard of this guy, but I know his name, balance, last payment and previous address. I called the Privacy Compliance Office of BoA without resolving the calls. Since they managed assign my cell phone to Joe Deadbeat this was a a little annoying. Eventually, I filed a complaint with State Attorney General, Jerry Brown at the time, and the calls did stop.
I also got a letter on lawyer's letterhead denying that they ever called me, that personal information had been given out on phone calls which never happened, and that no record of inappropriate contact information existed.
Be well aware of what you don't know. There are good comments about security and reliability already. Outsource things such e-mail and web services to a reliable, willing to be audited vendor. Ensure DR plan and testing is included.
Now the big point. You have greater than 6 TB of storage. Is there a backup and recovery plan in place? RAID is not equal to backup. Is this information important to the business or is someone unwilling to learn "delete" options? Does the backup plan include off site media migration? That can be as expensive as Iron Mountain, a company safe deposit box or just someone takes a tape set home on Fridays. Test your recovery on bare metal. Cloud backups are one option, although you're now betting that another company will survive and maintain any privacy requirements you have. Warn the decision makers, ensure that the "when Drobo raid controller burps and scrambles all disks" there will be no recovery is a possible scenario. Granted that may or may not happen this year or next. It's more likely that Bart the intern will purge the Drobo so he can save DVDs he's ripping all afternoon. Now you have redundant movies.
Document the warnings and the decision to not spend money and accept the risk(s). As management amnesia sets in, this keeps you from holding the bag.
Jerry Pournelle, generally well known rocket scientist, technologist and big name writer was science adviser to Congressman G. Jerry writes about getting a call from somebody "calling from congress." Turned out to be Newt, having read A Step Further Out, personally calling to recruit. That led to a long term staff gig and ears to whisper in. I don't tend to agree with Newt's latest directions, but I'm willing to listen to anyone willing to to give Jerry Pournelle a microphone and input into space and science policy.
There are always options. One, scrounge available RAM from another unit. Two, spend the 20 or thirty dollars and add your own ram module. It's worth it in time, just make sure to have some sort of inventory control documentation. Three, take option two and turn in the reciept.
The 37 remaining Vista users were polled. Does the lack of IE 10 impact your use of the workstation?
6 are waiting to buy a new PC with Windows 7
12 need a vendor to certify the business critical application on Windows 7
2 installed Ubuntu
9 didn't understand the question
8 asked Cowboy Neil to take of their computer.
I used to work for a company that provided real estate database services. We were pulled into court by a patent troll claiming their mapping search patent was being infringed by our search applications. We had to pull together a PDP chassis and enough cards to boot, but we were able to read 15+ year old archive tapes. The prize, we offered mapping based searches in the 80's on dial up terminals. Source code, written in MACRO-11, PDP assembler, showing prior art. Historical contract files documented selling this feature to customers.
The moral, even when you retire a platform and application, holding backup tapes can have value. Second, keep some way to read the silly thing around.
Coincidentally they (Arizona) have no income tax.
Arizona has personal income tax. I used to to live there and filed every year. States with no income tax are:
Alaska
Florida
Nevada
South Dakota
Texas
Washington
Wyoming
New Hampshire and Tennessee tax only dividend and interest income
>>>MLSs only track currently offered properties, and the records themselves belong to the person making the listing
MLS systems track currently offered properties and history for providing "comps" to current listings. Second class access is available for users like appraisers and title company agents with either off market or archive only access.
>>>records themselves belong to the person making the listing
The listing belongs to the Realtor Broker sponsoring the agent who signs the listing. Depending on the local MLS structure, the Broker is often a share owner of the MLS. The MLS provides the "trading floor" and advertising for agent to agent business. In a little town, a weekly tour bus can show off the latest listings. In a larger metro area, replacing the trading floor can have a major impact on sales.
>>>individual agents would just have to re-submit their listings
And how do you propose to recover the history, as well as the listings of the the guy who retired or landed in jail? It's not what's for sale, but what's for sale and what does the market history deem a reasonable price.
The interest of the database owner is to sell access. It's the business of the MLS to provide data, so anything that impacts access is a very big issue. Even so, some large MLS entities so understand the importance of off site backups and felt RAID will resolve any issues.
We had one customer burn down and were able to move communications, fly out a replacement system and reload the system with transaction files to close of business on fire day within 36 hours. Another customer would ignore changing tapes until they lost three days of updates. They never missed a tape cycle after that.
In honor of the movie Dinner for Schmucks Is Slashdot holding a contest for stupid submissions? Come on, I have a device on the internet with the default password and someone changed it. Please thank the nice ISP and go back to watching reruns of Gilligan's Island on Hulu. Nothing to see here, move along.
Home mail delivery could be dropped on Tuesday and Thursday. Maintain Saturday, which allow you to get that Netflix fix for the weekend. Home service to 4 days a week shouldn't present an issue. Business and PO Box delivery can be maintained on a 6 day schedule. This gets rid of the home route delivery twice a week. If you really need that daily mail fix, rent a PO box or a private mailbox at a business.
I used to travel, frequently without much notice and have had a PO box for years. I check it 3 or 4 times a month. I know when bills come in, although that's generally internet based now. Any mail that comes to the house can be assumed to be junk mail, aside from Netflix. Does paper mail have time based significance any more?
People are getting upset that someone recorded wireless transmissions? Come on, it's radio, once you broadcast it's there for the whole world to pick up. Encryption can slow down someone reading your traffic, but that's only a speed bump. There is no expectation of privacy on a radio broadcast, if you think your wi-fi network is secure, you're only showing the world that you don't understand the technology.
Compare this to the Bush/Cheney Regime program to record network and phone traffic. Where's the outrage and investigation of King George? The current king has quietly continued this program. I have more trust in Google than I do the the United States government.
One more time, if you broadcast it, it's available for anyone to intercept.
A few years ago a group of local high school students in our nice suburban neighborhood started fishing mailboxes for those credit card offers. They signed and mailed back the offers and collected the new cards from the unlocked curb side mail box. Step two was to hit Amazon and some of the other online vendors shipping straight to the card holder's address. See UPS just drives by and drops packages at the door without even ringing the bell. They were eventually picked up and will probably have the records sealed as a juvenile offender.
I've been using a mail box for years, even before identity theft became popular. It doesn't matter if I only get mail once or twice a week. If it comes to the house, it's junk mail.