Good. Apparently your superiors are considerably more professional than you are. Any environment can be made secure with enough effort, any any environment can be made insecure with insufficient effort (just look at the number of compromised Linux servers on the internet)
That means the hospital you went to was incompetent. Our publically available wifi is VLANed away from the corporate network, and accesses only the internet, via a gateway proxy server (we use TMG, but you could easily use Squid too) at the edge of the network. No way would you be able to access any of the internal computers and servers.
A unilateral violation of the Berne Convention, UCC, TRIPS, and a swathe of other treaties? That sounds like a brilliant idea that would have absolutely no consequences at all!
If it's Managed Hosting, then yes they do have local access to the server. And if EduBlogs is paying $70k/yr like I've seen bandied about, I'd assume that's managed.
You are making the mistake of conflating legitimacy and morality. The laws are not illegitimate - they are passed by the elected representatives, through the functioning legislative framework, making them perfectly legitimate. That does not, however, automatically make them moral. You can't declare them illegitimate because you don't like them - legitimacy isn't subjective. However you can declare them immoral (or more likely amoral).
I'm confused. If I search for "Web Search" on Google, Google Search is result number 6 or so, after Yahoo, MyWebSearch, and frakking Dogpile. If I search for Webmail, Gmail isn't even on page one (though if I search for Email, Gmail is #1 followed by Outlook.com). News? Google is #2. Shopping, ok, Google is #1 there too. Ditto for Maps. Online Advertising? Not even page 1, though they do have an AdWords sponsored link.
Basically, Google doesn't seem to be going to very much effort to push their items to the top. In many cases, they haven't even done any SEO and their result description is virtually nonexistent.
The optimism for Windows Phone in the press really does surprise me. Windows Phone 7 was really feature incomplete at launch but people made the excuse that it was their first Version. Ahhh No it was not, Microsoft had been making mobile OSs for a long time and Windows Phone 7 was Major version 7 and used the same kernel as Windows Mobile.
No, no it did not. Windows Mobile/Windows CE was a very different (and much shittier) beast. Windows Phone was closer to the FrankeNT kernel (bastardised NT like the Xbox runs).
I've used 'em all, but my least favourite is Android. This experience may be somewhat coloured by the fact that OEMs ship it on crappy hardware that makes it seem sluggish, bloated and just all around unpleasant to use, but neither Apple nor Microsoft allow this so from my experience they beat Android hands down.
On another note why is the clown writing the original article now and not in a month when he could have some numbers on win 8 success.
Because he doesn't want numbers on Win8 success, he wants numbers on Win7 failure, to support his anti-Nokia view and make him sound credible. Frankly, he's just another zealous douchebag, like half the posters on this site (in this very article) who wont be happy until Nokia files annual reports stating they're closing the doors and selling all the office equipment.
Perhaps read the story? Amazon isn't the defendant in the case, and Amazon isn't actually giving out any money. They're simply disbursing funds on behalf of the real defendants, Harper Collins, Hachette, and Simon and Schuster.
The real story though, is that they've finally destroyed the Agency Model that Apple introduced to force Amazon to charge whatever the publishers decided they wanted to charge, which means Amazon will finally be able to reduce the price of eBooks to historic levels.
Easier to get something through security? Don't make me laugh. Open Source tools are some of the hardest tools to get approved for use in the environment, because they still need to go through the procurement process (and if you don't, expect yourself to be going through the disciplinary process) and you don't have an answer to several critical questions, such as "who is the vendor? What is their support policy?".
Disagree completely. I've used Eclipse, NetBeans, Xcode, Delphi, Visual Studio and AppCode (IDEA) and out of all of them the favourites would have to be Visual Studio and IDEA, closely followed by Delphi. Xcode, NetBeans and Eclipse are steaming piles of shit.
As a general rule, it starts from the point where the company knew it was insolvent, but offhand I believe any transaction performed in bad faith is a target (i.e. they would clawback the ownership transfer of the computer because it was bad faith. Funny how bad faith only applies where it benefits the larger entity isn't it?).
No it wouldn't. The DMCA contains several provisions which actually benefit content hosts as well. It's just that everyone focuses (wrongly) on the TPM and notice-and-takedown provisions as if they were the entire document. For example, safe harbour protections didn't exist previously - if you hosted pirated content you were immediately liable. Under the DMCA you are not, provided you didn't know about it and do not exercise editorial control.
Legally, you can't. That's the problem - if you ignore a single notice, and it turns out to be valid, then you just waived immunity and can be held liable for contributory infringement.
Well not really. Since during a bankruptcy proceeding, the court can actually essentially roll back payments and asset transfers made over a period of time prior to the proceedings to prevent exactly what you describe.
Need I draw your attention to the Diablo III hacks, widely understood to be the result of information leakage from the clients in an open game and the server's failure to verify that the session ID provided by a client was actually issued to that client in the first place?
You could extrapolate that from context. But not knowing what an "NPC" is on a site subtitled "News for nerds" (exactly the type of person who would play an RPG) is kind of inexcusable.
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but my superiors will not allow me to do so.
Good. Apparently your superiors are considerably more professional than you are. Any environment can be made secure with enough effort, any any environment can be made insecure with insufficient effort (just look at the number of compromised Linux servers on the internet)
Where did he say "in the US"? You can't violate HIPAA if you aren't American.
(We have this same problem too. But those systems are embedded analyzer devices so we aren't interested in managing 'em anyway).
That means the hospital you went to was incompetent. Our publically available wifi is VLANed away from the corporate network, and accesses only the internet, via a gateway proxy server (we use TMG, but you could easily use Squid too) at the edge of the network. No way would you be able to access any of the internal computers and servers.
Really? He's licensed it to Apple, and sued Barnes and Noble over it. Definitely working as he intended.
A unilateral violation of the Berne Convention, UCC, TRIPS, and a swathe of other treaties? That sounds like a brilliant idea that would have absolutely no consequences at all!
You're right. Page Not Found is pretty lopsided - did the UK extradite it?
Perhaps New Zealand might grow a backbone with respect to extradition to the US now.
If it's Managed Hosting, then yes they do have local access to the server. And if EduBlogs is paying $70k/yr like I've seen bandied about, I'd assume that's managed.
You are making the mistake of conflating legitimacy and morality. The laws are not illegitimate - they are passed by the elected representatives, through the functioning legislative framework, making them perfectly legitimate. That does not, however, automatically make them moral. You can't declare them illegitimate because you don't like them - legitimacy isn't subjective. However you can declare them immoral (or more likely amoral).
I'm confused. If I search for "Web Search" on Google, Google Search is result number 6 or so, after Yahoo, MyWebSearch, and frakking Dogpile. If I search for Webmail, Gmail isn't even on page one (though if I search for Email, Gmail is #1 followed by Outlook.com). News? Google is #2. Shopping, ok, Google is #1 there too. Ditto for Maps. Online Advertising? Not even page 1, though they do have an AdWords sponsored link.
Basically, Google doesn't seem to be going to very much effort to push their items to the top. In many cases, they haven't even done any SEO and their result description is virtually nonexistent.
No, it can't. Explorer will simply launch the default browser because it's not capable of displaying web pages.
The optimism for Windows Phone in the press really does surprise me. Windows Phone 7 was really feature incomplete at launch but people made the excuse that it was their first Version. Ahhh No it was not, Microsoft had been making mobile OSs for a long time and Windows Phone 7 was Major version 7 and used the same kernel as Windows Mobile.
No, no it did not. Windows Mobile/Windows CE was a very different (and much shittier) beast. Windows Phone was closer to the FrankeNT kernel (bastardised NT like the Xbox runs).
I've used 'em all, but my least favourite is Android. This experience may be somewhat coloured by the fact that OEMs ship it on crappy hardware that makes it seem sluggish, bloated and just all around unpleasant to use, but neither Apple nor Microsoft allow this so from my experience they beat Android hands down.
On another note why is the clown writing the original article now and not in a month when he could have some numbers on win 8 success.
Because he doesn't want numbers on Win8 success, he wants numbers on Win7 failure, to support his anti-Nokia view and make him sound credible. Frankly, he's just another zealous douchebag, like half the posters on this site (in this very article) who wont be happy until Nokia files annual reports stating they're closing the doors and selling all the office equipment.
Perhaps read the story? Amazon isn't the defendant in the case, and Amazon isn't actually giving out any money. They're simply disbursing funds on behalf of the real defendants, Harper Collins, Hachette, and Simon and Schuster.
The real story though, is that they've finally destroyed the Agency Model that Apple introduced to force Amazon to charge whatever the publishers decided they wanted to charge, which means Amazon will finally be able to reduce the price of eBooks to historic levels.
Unless you're an Australian or New Zealand subscriber, in which case it's RIANZ that sets the prices.
Easier to get something through security? Don't make me laugh. Open Source tools are some of the hardest tools to get approved for use in the environment, because they still need to go through the procurement process (and if you don't, expect yourself to be going through the disciplinary process) and you don't have an answer to several critical questions, such as "who is the vendor? What is their support policy?".
Disagree completely. I've used Eclipse, NetBeans, Xcode, Delphi, Visual Studio and AppCode (IDEA) and out of all of them the favourites would have to be Visual Studio and IDEA, closely followed by Delphi. Xcode, NetBeans and Eclipse are steaming piles of shit.
As a general rule, it starts from the point where the company knew it was insolvent, but offhand I believe any transaction performed in bad faith is a target (i.e. they would clawback the ownership transfer of the computer because it was bad faith. Funny how bad faith only applies where it benefits the larger entity isn't it?).
Don't you guys have several states where nuking them would be an improvement?
No it wouldn't. The DMCA contains several provisions which actually benefit content hosts as well. It's just that everyone focuses (wrongly) on the TPM and notice-and-takedown provisions as if they were the entire document. For example, safe harbour protections didn't exist previously - if you hosted pirated content you were immediately liable. Under the DMCA you are not, provided you didn't know about it and do not exercise editorial control.
Legally, you can't. That's the problem - if you ignore a single notice, and it turns out to be valid, then you just waived immunity and can be held liable for contributory infringement.
Well not really. Since during a bankruptcy proceeding, the court can actually essentially roll back payments and asset transfers made over a period of time prior to the proceedings to prevent exactly what you describe.
Need I draw your attention to the Diablo III hacks, widely understood to be the result of information leakage from the clients in an open game and the server's failure to verify that the session ID provided by a client was actually issued to that client in the first place?
You could extrapolate that from context. But not knowing what an "NPC" is on a site subtitled "News for nerds" (exactly the type of person who would play an RPG) is kind of inexcusable.