Yes, the raw helium may only cost $1k but the cost of ramping a magnet up/down is a lot more. In case of Siemens MRI, they have to fly in special equipment from Germany overnight (a few pallets of basically giant transformers and BeCu tools, shims etc), the repairs associated with a magnet quench are a few thousand (usually you have to outright replace the valves and various other parts that froze) and then it takes a few hours of carefully charging the magnet and monitoring while the helium is slowly being filled. Hopefully you only have to do this once as it is possible that other issues or leaks are found and the helium you just filled boils off. All the while you are paying for at least 3 engineers and the helium delivery guy.
I've been involved with MRI magnet quenches, they're not pretty or cheap. The helium is practically worthless, I've heard of some sites that rather let helium boil off at a certain rate than get a repair done.
That's what I was thinking too, Helium is naturally occuring in the air in various concentrations for various reasons. To penetrate a sufficient percentage (even if we want ~1% of the air to be Helium) across an ENTIRE hospital into people's pockets, into the devices itself into sealed chips, you have to practically circulate the helium throughout the entire building and swap out all the air for the entire building with 1% Helium air.
And on the other hand, Helium is non-reactive, the same size as Hydrogen and a smaller atom than both Oxygen and Nitrogen so why are O/N/H atoms not getting 'stuck'?
I'm sure at $120k/fill they would love to do this. The problem is how. This is many liters of highly compressed helium that has to escape somewhere in very short time in order to demagnetize the room in case of emergency.
In most cases (as in this), the valve/pipe to the outside simply freezes and the helium dumps through the room via other ways.
Yes, I agree, you can "stumble across" something but you can't go out and hunt for evidence. If your company is truly worried but has no sufficient proof, get a professional third party forensic investigator (and an attorney to give you advice). Otherwise it's just a suspicion/allegation/gut feeling but in many cases you can't just go out and look for something you suspect.
I had something similar fairly recently (allegations of sexual harassment with HR-goons subsequently botching the thing) and the CIO simply searched employee email to "resolve" the issue. A civil case ensued and the judge ruled that the company didn't have a clear enough policy on searching email (which just stated "we can search your email" somewhere deep in a trail of related IT policies) and violated the expectation of privacy of those involved.
Old IT admin here but also knowledgeable about legal frameworks. You shouldn't be investigating anyone for anything illegal, you don't have the knowledge, legal standing or tools for proper forensic examination. If you did find something, the evidence would be declared botched by any first year attorney and a mistrial would be declared, you may even become liable yourself.
If your employer wants to know if your employee did something illegal, get the right people involved to do the right kind of investigation. That means third party or police/government agency.
The Android seems to have been a carrier of the data. Not how the Windows host got infected, as far as I know there isn't any malware that infects both Android and Windows
You can get a managed 24 port 10G switch sub-$8000. Unmanaged 4 ports are ~$500. If you want to go cheaper, Huawei has some decent gear for less than Netgear.
The whole op-ed seems contradictory in what Foxconn is saying it is doing and what the writer speculates is happening (without hard proof or facts to back it up).
Foxconn promised this factory but then a supplier company wanted subsidies too so they decided to go with another model - what a failure Foxconn promised 13,000 blue collar factory jobs but now is saying that they will hire 90% higher paid knowledge jobs and 10% blue collar - what a failure Foxconn is buying land all across the state close to Universities - oh noes, those Universities aren't as good as other ones, that is bad Foxconn is still saying it will pay back all the subsidies - well I think they won't, at least not in the next few years, what a failure
It seems Foxconn has to adjust over the years to new markets and different supply/demand curves here in the US compared to China but so far it doesn't seem like Foxconn is packing up its bags any time soon.
The trials really aren't that expensive. It costs you $0 to file a complaint, especially if it's credible. You are not REQUIRED to have a lawyer present and if you are going after some big guy with credible evidence, you can get a lawyer or victim group to pro-bono or work on a percentage of the restitution.
It was only a few months ago that a left wing Bernie Sanders nutter shot up some other place and advertised his views through FACEBOOK. I didn't see any tech company boycott Facebook at any point.
This shooting is just an excuse to censor anything that's not far-left. If you're not realizing the fact, then you are, like the Germans in 1935 or the Dixiecrats, just a member of the oppressing party in history.
The Democrats with Sanders and Clinton right now are going through the same process the Dixiecrats did in the 40's. Within 10-20y and perhaps even a civil war later, nothing will be left of these positions.
Fedora is fully owned by Red Hat and CentOS requires the availability of the Red Hat repositories which they aren't obliged to make public to non-customers..
And the White House doesn't have radio detection systems? Anyone can set up a fake cell tower, I would think that trying to approach the White House with a few kW of radio equipment would be noticed, a simple detection van would suffice to find the perpetrators.
If China AND Russia are listening to ALL calls that Trump makes on a private cell phone, that means that we are freely giving all domestic and international call streams to China AND Russia, we KNOW about it and we DON'T DO ANYTHING about it.
Startup developers get free Windows licenses (Desktop, Server etc) and even Azure time.
Startups rarely develop native Windows clients these days, Windows is indeed an expensive platform to develop against (Microsoft's C compiler - Visual Studio - can cost upwards of $2000 for a team), hence most new apps being web apps and even many desktop apps are simply HTML/JS compiled against all platforms simultaneously.
It's a per-app setting. It's basically revoking access for a particular app to talk to Apple (which then communicates with the app creator) about your device.
On iOS you can always disable push notifications. Now whether that (lack of) functionality is acceptable to you is another thing but people will always be able to glean data when you use an online thingymajigger.
Off course it comes from Buzzfeed, the left's Breitbart but just because someone has a platform you do not agree with or understand, does not make it bad, fake, non-existent.
Going through YouTube and similar platforms is just the modern equivalent of sending out flyers in your mailbox and placards in your yard.
Not sure what this guy's message is per se, but the left's lunatic identity politics is turning off young men and working people across the world. You can't just re-categorize an entire population of people with mental disorders as "freedom fighters" and hope that it works.
But they're neither refurbished or recycled Apple pieces. I've looked at him in the past too for repairs and using weasel words like refurbished/recycled when you're just selling third party Chinese parts is lying.
You CAN buy refurbished Apple parts, you CAN buy refurbished Apple batteries and all the Apple parts he says he has on his website, Apple has a webstore with those parts. You can go to an Apple Store and get a price list. This guy ISN'T doing that, he's selling third party, Apple-branded parts which is what got him in trouble.
Both Perl and Ruby have implemented injection-proofing with a thing called tainted variables. You can't fix stupid but in many cases you can make old applications injection proof by simply cleaning the $_REQUEST array at the very beginning of your script.
Sure it isn't clean but it's cheaper than rewriting hundreds of lines of code and introducing weird bugs or having to write tests for an application that doesn't have them.
The PHP way of requiring spaghetti-code (OOM) in the middle of what's basically a scripting (procedural) language is equally bad.
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Yes, the raw helium may only cost $1k but the cost of ramping a magnet up/down is a lot more. In case of Siemens MRI, they have to fly in special equipment from Germany overnight (a few pallets of basically giant transformers and BeCu tools, shims etc), the repairs associated with a magnet quench are a few thousand (usually you have to outright replace the valves and various other parts that froze) and then it takes a few hours of carefully charging the magnet and monitoring while the helium is slowly being filled. Hopefully you only have to do this once as it is possible that other issues or leaks are found and the helium you just filled boils off. All the while you are paying for at least 3 engineers and the helium delivery guy.
I've been involved with MRI magnet quenches, they're not pretty or cheap. The helium is practically worthless, I've heard of some sites that rather let helium boil off at a certain rate than get a repair done.
Perhaps we should fill them with hydrogen :D
If that were the case, oxygen would also affect the devices given those atoms are slightly bigger, highly reactive and much more present in the air.
That's what I was thinking too, Helium is naturally occuring in the air in various concentrations for various reasons. To penetrate a sufficient percentage (even if we want ~1% of the air to be Helium) across an ENTIRE hospital into people's pockets, into the devices itself into sealed chips, you have to practically circulate the helium throughout the entire building and swap out all the air for the entire building with 1% Helium air.
And on the other hand, Helium is non-reactive, the same size as Hydrogen and a smaller atom than both Oxygen and Nitrogen so why are O/N/H atoms not getting 'stuck'?
I'm sure at $120k/fill they would love to do this. The problem is how. This is many liters of highly compressed helium that has to escape somewhere in very short time in order to demagnetize the room in case of emergency.
In most cases (as in this), the valve/pipe to the outside simply freezes and the helium dumps through the room via other ways.
Yes, I agree, you can "stumble across" something but you can't go out and hunt for evidence. If your company is truly worried but has no sufficient proof, get a professional third party forensic investigator (and an attorney to give you advice). Otherwise it's just a suspicion/allegation/gut feeling but in many cases you can't just go out and look for something you suspect.
I had something similar fairly recently (allegations of sexual harassment with HR-goons subsequently botching the thing) and the CIO simply searched employee email to "resolve" the issue. A civil case ensued and the judge ruled that the company didn't have a clear enough policy on searching email (which just stated "we can search your email" somewhere deep in a trail of related IT policies) and violated the expectation of privacy of those involved.
Old IT admin here but also knowledgeable about legal frameworks. You shouldn't be investigating anyone for anything illegal, you don't have the knowledge, legal standing or tools for proper forensic examination. If you did find something, the evidence would be declared botched by any first year attorney and a mistrial would be declared, you may even become liable yourself.
If your employer wants to know if your employee did something illegal, get the right people involved to do the right kind of investigation. That means third party or police/government agency.
The Android seems to have been a carrier of the data. Not how the Windows host got infected, as far as I know there isn't any malware that infects both Android and Windows
You can get a managed 24 port 10G switch sub-$8000. Unmanaged 4 ports are ~$500. If you want to go cheaper, Huawei has some decent gear for less than Netgear.
Wanna bet it was Windows based?
The whole op-ed seems contradictory in what Foxconn is saying it is doing and what the writer speculates is happening (without hard proof or facts to back it up).
Foxconn promised this factory but then a supplier company wanted subsidies too so they decided to go with another model - what a failure
Foxconn promised 13,000 blue collar factory jobs but now is saying that they will hire 90% higher paid knowledge jobs and 10% blue collar - what a failure
Foxconn is buying land all across the state close to Universities - oh noes, those Universities aren't as good as other ones, that is bad
Foxconn is still saying it will pay back all the subsidies - well I think they won't, at least not in the next few years, what a failure
It seems Foxconn has to adjust over the years to new markets and different supply/demand curves here in the US compared to China but so far it doesn't seem like Foxconn is packing up its bags any time soon.
The trials really aren't that expensive. It costs you $0 to file a complaint, especially if it's credible. You are not REQUIRED to have a lawyer present and if you are going after some big guy with credible evidence, you can get a lawyer or victim group to pro-bono or work on a percentage of the restitution.
It was only a few months ago that a left wing Bernie Sanders nutter shot up some other place and advertised his views through FACEBOOK. I didn't see any tech company boycott Facebook at any point.
This shooting is just an excuse to censor anything that's not far-left. If you're not realizing the fact, then you are, like the Germans in 1935 or the Dixiecrats, just a member of the oppressing party in history.
The Democrats with Sanders and Clinton right now are going through the same process the Dixiecrats did in the 40's. Within 10-20y and perhaps even a civil war later, nothing will be left of these positions.
Fedora is fully owned by Red Hat and CentOS requires the availability of the Red Hat repositories which they aren't obliged to make public to non-customers..
And the White House doesn't have radio detection systems? Anyone can set up a fake cell tower, I would think that trying to approach the White House with a few kW of radio equipment would be noticed, a simple detection van would suffice to find the perpetrators.
If China AND Russia are listening to ALL calls that Trump makes on a private cell phone, that means that we are freely giving all domestic and international call streams to China AND Russia, we KNOW about it and we DON'T DO ANYTHING about it.
This doesn't pass the sniff test.
Startup developers get free Windows licenses (Desktop, Server etc) and even Azure time.
Startups rarely develop native Windows clients these days, Windows is indeed an expensive platform to develop against (Microsoft's C compiler - Visual Studio - can cost upwards of $2000 for a team), hence most new apps being web apps and even many desktop apps are simply HTML/JS compiled against all platforms simultaneously.
That you couldn't even pay people to use an Android/Samsung phone.
VM? Who still develops pure Windows applications? Even Microsoft is releasing their tools on Mac and Linux nowadays.
On the other hand, if companies insist on using Windows even though you're a developer, I'm sure you wouldn't want to work there either.
It's a per-app setting. It's basically revoking access for a particular app to talk to Apple (which then communicates with the app creator) about your device.
On iOS you can always disable push notifications. Now whether that (lack of) functionality is acceptable to you is another thing but people will always be able to glean data when you use an online thingymajigger.
Off course it comes from Buzzfeed, the left's Breitbart but just because someone has a platform you do not agree with or understand, does not make it bad, fake, non-existent.
Going through YouTube and similar platforms is just the modern equivalent of sending out flyers in your mailbox and placards in your yard.
Not sure what this guy's message is per se, but the left's lunatic identity politics is turning off young men and working people across the world. You can't just re-categorize an entire population of people with mental disorders as "freedom fighters" and hope that it works.
But they're neither refurbished or recycled Apple pieces. I've looked at him in the past too for repairs and using weasel words like refurbished/recycled when you're just selling third party Chinese parts is lying.
You CAN buy refurbished Apple parts, you CAN buy refurbished Apple batteries and all the Apple parts he says he has on his website, Apple has a webstore with those parts. You can go to an Apple Store and get a price list. This guy ISN'T doing that, he's selling third party, Apple-branded parts which is what got him in trouble.
Both Perl and Ruby have implemented injection-proofing with a thing called tainted variables. You can't fix stupid but in many cases you can make old applications injection proof by simply cleaning the $_REQUEST array at the very beginning of your script.
Sure it isn't clean but it's cheaper than rewriting hundreds of lines of code and introducing weird bugs or having to write tests for an application that doesn't have them.
The PHP way of requiring spaghetti-code (OOM) in the middle of what's basically a scripting (procedural) language is equally bad.