The city of Amsterdam has a plant that imports garbage from other countries to create electricity also. Just to back up your point, Amsterdam is busy creating new canals for barge traffic to more efficiently feed the plant from abroad.
One of the officers attempted to talk to one of the two people who ran from police with the officer in pursuit.
While running, the suspect pulled a gun, later determined to be a TEC-9 pistol, and the officer ordered him to drop the weapon, Andraychak said.
Instead, the suspect turned toward the officer and began to raise the pistol. The officer feared for his life and shot at the suspect, Andraychak said.
Police said the suspect was hit twice and was then taken to San Francisco General Hospital where he is being treated for non life-threatening injuries.
A TEC-9? Seriously, the guy pulls out a loaded TEC-9 and points it, (at anyone?)? I think that is *two* lucky people who both still alive; especially the police officer who had to square off against that thing! Wikipedia it like I did; I'm not going to cite the link for it. Cheers for the cop who seems to have handled the situation well!
Perhaps my configuration is fortunate, but I enjoy really good SIP quality on the N900 calls using 12voip.com and my FreePBX/Asterisk server. I should probably test thoroughly before I write this, but I suspect the 3G SIP quality of the N900 is not as good as the 802.11g LAN quality ( I don't think I'm running it on 802.11n locally), but then this unit doesn't leave the house because it is so precious to me. I'm fairly certain, if memory serves well, what I've written is accurate. I really enjoy how Nokia bakes SIP into the OS, so battery life is very good, (as opposed to running something egregious like an additional 3rd-party Skype application on a lessor-OS). The N900 lately gets most-used for watching hulu.com and netflix.com. The N900 makes for a nice little streaming TV besides the PC while I'm trying to get work done; and I dig it when I'm watching the TV on it and an (IMAP) email notification arrives and pops-up onscreen. A sweet little personal PC and keyboard.
Jay Leno is known for having a museum's worth of classic cars that he really enjoys. He's a wealthy man, he works hard, and he can afford such pleasures.
I have a Nokia N95, N900, and N9 and feel the same way about these fine devices of mine, (and use each every day around the house for SIP calls, sync'd emails, calendars, alarms, BASH scripts over SSH, and RSS). I would like to thank you and your colleagues for your time, skill, and effort! To use a car analogy, I feel like I knew enough to buy that 1963 Corvette when it was new, and to take care of it as time passes. The bulletproof N9 is another Nokia linux classic worth taking care of. I'd still like to buy one for my mother if I can manage it.
Nokia is still limping along with Meego remnants, (and did that team kick-ass to deliver the N9 on-time, just before they were fired). There must still be some semblance of a paper trail left! Do not forget Meego! (the other OS).
Maybe Microsoft is more or less following the Steve Jobs business model, where Steve immediately got rid of all of the 3rd party hardware manfacturers holding licenses for Mac OS? This is why you don't run OSX on your PCs from Power Computing, Motorola, Radius, APS Technologies, DayStar Digital, UMAX, MaxxBoxx, or Tatung.
Following along those thoughts, why can't the %$#@! Nokia board replace Stephen Elop and his 'strategy' with some bright Nokian with a perspective and actual vision? Stephen Elop should go the way of Michael Spindler, and Gil Amelio (who are the CEOs that preceeded Steve Jobs return to Apple Corp.)?
I swear, Jolla will succeed (in China no less!) and depending on the balance of scales they'll either purchase the scraps of Nokia or get rich in the post-Elop era once Nokia gets their groove back.
Disclaimer: I shed no tears for Stephen Elop as he'll retire with his millions and millions no matter what. He never had anything to actually lose.
No, that would be to Phil Zimmerman's detriment. I think the take-home message here is Phil Zimmerman and Sheryl Crow are probably a hot item now, but let's get real. Phil is still Phil and she'll move on; these things cannot last forever.
Well yeah sure, given physical access. Physical access is a whole other ballgame as opposed to remotely hacking into that abacus and making it your own. Multi-user workgroups can get complicated though, while they do have advantages. So does cloud-computing from a distance.
yes, TFA mentions the regulatory costs for such updates. So there's the thing: you based your (hardware) product on Windows XP and now XP is end-of-lifed and either you support your hardware with software upgrades and get that approved, OR your hardware gets either end-of-lifed, or your (supported) patients might end-of-life prematurely themselves (so you also have the risk of malpractice costs to consider).
Looking at this lesson in security, if I was a manufacturer of MRI gear (or whatever) I'd get away from past decisions, and I'd base my engineering on a more open-OS with less vendor control.
Okay, this is a valid point, and people need to pay attention when they engineer, build, support, and actually use these things. Still, what is done is done and paid for, and I imagine hospitals retain some I.T. department services of some sort, and all this gear is networked behind a firewall or two.
New gear absolutely must take these concerns into consideration and address them long-term because the threat will not go away. But what is the current threat on the legacy devices? What can an attacker hope to accomplish? What would be the motivation of a hacker or two, to reverse-engineer the MRI scanner, oh and by the way where did these guys get a redundant MRI scanner (etc.) to reverse engineer for their evil motivations?
Oh wait, much of this gear is beased upon Windows XP and that is the vector. Uh huh. Well that sort of shelf-lifes the security on your hardware I suppose. It might be best to support a long-term and truly open-system like Linux or FreeBSD rather than base your product on what the Microsoft Corporation can deliver for your own business requirements.
Or, if Microsoft is so good for (medical equipment) developers to base products on, than why can't the software be upgraded to support Windows 7 or 8?
If nothing else, open-source code and watching how that movie director Robert Rodriguez successfully preaches low-budget artistic control vs. bigger-budget studio-control has taught me how raw talent, motivation, and perseverance can still succeed against 'the odds'. Oh, and fear helps a lot!
This knowledge I try to use for good given the gifts my life has given to me. Still, others will inherently do otherwise to the best of their abilities.
After all, it isn't what you have that matters, but what you do with what you have.
Have you heard about the Amazon Kindle? About the only thing you can compare it to in terms of actual units sold is the iPad, so Amazon is in Apple's league. Yes, seriously, Amazon is huge in 'readers' which is a variant of tablets, I suppose as I don't have much experience with them myself.
Just as Google developed the Chrome web browser so as to have direct influence over the presentation of the web, Amazon has created hardware readers to have direct influence over how electronic versions of its content are consumed.
Neither wants to be at the mercy of some vendor, (and I'm thinking about you Adobe and your Macromedia Flash).
A lot of places, Kobnhavn and Amsterdam for example, have an extremely high density of parked bicycles (and city-sponsored parking) so a cop walking by with a RFID reader isn't anything like the police having to take 'custody' of a suspected stolen bike first.
Now obviously the further you get from Centraal Station such bike density lessens, (as does bike theft), but you get the idea. A cop with a reader walking a beat can read a lot of RFID tags and possibly find a stolen bike or two.
That's interesting. I know the police where I live were somehow afixing RFIDs (or something) and I don't know how they did it exactly. I just assumed it was as I described, but as you point out so well, I don't really know the technique or application.
You don't need a locked down container for holding the GPS gear as you infer. Just make it sticky, remove the seat-post, push it to the bottom, and replace the seat-post. Even cheap embedded RFIDs passing near to readers can be useful, for tolls and the like. In places where bike theft is high, police are even tagging bikes with RFIDs as I have described, so if the bikes are stolen, a police officer walking past with a reader might find them.
Also facial-recognition is getting freakishly better all the time. Have you tried Picasa on your own computer, free from Google? But nevermind, what with this talk of killshots and all; but of course you jest. Disclaimer, I'm not old enough for a wheelchair myself and don't have such a license, nor own a gun license or gun.
Besides, women (...or to each their own) riding bicycles just look better, don't you think? Personally, I find two woman on a bike even nicer to see, and I don't necessarily view them as environmentalists when I do.
Yeah they busted Captain Waddle too, when his submarine destroyed a Japanese fishing vessel training high school students in the Pacific in 2001. Many were killed.
It must suck when out there in the entire Pacific Ocean you're minding your own business on a boring fishing boat when all of a sudden a US submarine decides to demo an emergency surfacing maneuver to civilians on-board the sub. What are the odds?
Maybe, like Elop, the board members also hold a lot of Microsoft shares they hoped would increase, or at least hedge against Nokia somewhat?
No matter what, it seems a matter of politics and greed vs. soundly running a business with engineers and manufacturing.
Don't forget: the carriers have always hated Nokia's support for VOIP, even before Microsoft bought Skype and who owns Skype. The carrier's that subsidize phones were not favorable to Nokia *before* Microsoft/Skype came along.
If Steve Job was in the same position as Elop at the time Elop wrote the burning platform memo, well not only would Steve not have written such a memo, but Steve would have been hawking the glories of the in-house OS N9 for all they're worth, meanwhile he'd quietly be developing the next big thing without killing off his revenue (and dare I say his relationship with Intel also). When the N9 team delivered a Seriously Quality Product a few months later they proved what a fraud Elop and his timely burning platform memo is, as well as his decision to relegate the Meego N9 device to a few regional markets of minor signifigance. Also we know very well about the never-made-available-for-sale-anywhere N950 from the chosen few (developer) owners. Those products and their successors would have generated plenty of revenue so Elop could have kept his job. What an idiot Elop is.
Just to point out how The Netherlands manages another similar need vs. right, everyone is required to buy medical insurance from a regulated insurance company. People can buy it from a regulated insurance company of their choice, but everyone has to buy it from some company, and those companies must compete for the available market, which is as stable ast the population.
From what I can tell, such managed regulation without the peoples' government catering to unregulated special interest groups has kept medical quality high and prices low. The Netherlands is an advanced society the United States would do well to emulate in many aspects. Unless one takes the 'well I prefer to be free to live life without paying for medical insurance, or the govt. forcing me to do anything dammit'. Case in point, Arizona let's motorcycyclists ride their Harley's without helmets, although wearing sidearms while riding said Harley is legal as can be. Meanwhile who pays the dollars for when-things-go-wrong? Like I said, The Netherlands is an advanced society we could learn from.
That is pretty neat. My favorite take-home feature from that particular video is the command-line driven screen shot tool. Just give it an HTML ID and voila! (even if that html element extends offscreen, I get a 'perfectly cropped' image of the element. Noted for future reference. Thanks!
Hmmm, and scripting that. oh my, the mind wanders. (BTW I've tried my darndest to use Selenium but Selenium never worked out given my feeble brain, but maybe I could have tried harder with more time commited).
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The city of Amsterdam has a plant that imports garbage from other countries to create electricity also. Just to back up your point, Amsterdam is busy creating new canals for barge traffic to more efficiently feed the plant from abroad.
http://www.amsterdam.nl/aeb/english
Seems like a growth industry fueled not by the private sector and the special interest groups, but by governments with an eye on the ball.
A TEC-9? Seriously, the guy pulls out a loaded TEC-9 and points it, (at anyone?)? I think that is *two* lucky people who both still alive; especially the police officer who had to square off against that thing! Wikipedia it like I did; I'm not going to cite the link for it. Cheers for the cop who seems to have handled the situation well!
Perhaps my configuration is fortunate, but I enjoy really good SIP quality on the N900 calls using 12voip.com and my FreePBX/Asterisk server. I should probably test thoroughly before I write this, but I suspect the 3G SIP quality of the N900 is not as good as the 802.11g LAN quality ( I don't think I'm running it on 802.11n locally), but then this unit doesn't leave the house because it is so precious to me. I'm fairly certain, if memory serves well, what I've written is accurate. I really enjoy how Nokia bakes SIP into the OS, so battery life is very good, (as opposed to running something egregious like an additional 3rd-party Skype application on a lessor-OS).
The N900 lately gets most-used for watching hulu.com and netflix.com. The N900 makes for a nice little streaming TV besides the PC while I'm trying to get work done; and I dig it when I'm watching the TV on it and an (IMAP) email notification arrives and pops-up onscreen. A sweet little personal PC and keyboard.
Jay Leno is known for having a museum's worth of classic cars that he really enjoys. He's a wealthy man, he works hard, and he can afford such pleasures.
I have a Nokia N95, N900, and N9 and feel the same way about these fine devices of mine, (and use each every day around the house for SIP calls, sync'd emails, calendars, alarms, BASH scripts over SSH, and RSS). I would like to thank you and your colleagues for your time, skill, and effort! To use a car analogy, I feel like I knew enough to buy that 1963 Corvette when it was new, and to take care of it as time passes. The bulletproof N9 is another Nokia linux classic worth taking care of. I'd still like to buy one for my mother if I can manage it.
Nokia is still limping along with Meego remnants, (and did that team kick-ass to deliver the N9 on-time, just before they were fired). There must still be some semblance of a paper trail left! Do not forget Meego! (the other OS).
Godspeed Jolla!
You mean Blinky?
http://www.redbubble.com/people/tioem/works/7599891-blinky
Maybe Microsoft is more or less following the Steve Jobs business model, where Steve immediately got rid of all of the 3rd party hardware manfacturers holding licenses for Mac OS? This is why you don't run OSX on your PCs from Power Computing, Motorola, Radius, APS Technologies, DayStar Digital, UMAX, MaxxBoxx, or Tatung.
Following along those thoughts, why can't the %$#@! Nokia board replace Stephen Elop and his 'strategy' with some bright Nokian with a perspective and actual vision? Stephen Elop should go the way of Michael Spindler, and Gil Amelio (who are the CEOs that preceeded Steve Jobs return to Apple Corp.)?
I swear, Jolla will succeed (in China no less!) and depending on the balance of scales they'll either purchase the scraps of Nokia or get rich in the post-Elop era once Nokia gets their groove back.
Disclaimer: I shed no tears for Stephen Elop as he'll retire with his millions and millions no matter what. He never had anything to actually lose.
And open-source is where business wants to invest, (even though business still wants to buy Real support).
Migrating away from Oracle to something like PostgreSQL is just being prudent while mitigating costs (and strategic risks).
Zimmerman and SilentCircle are now providing a paid service. But there is nothing stopping you from rolling your own.
FWIW, the 'Z' in zrtp stands for Zimmerman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZRTP
No, that would be to Phil Zimmerman's detriment. I think the take-home message here is Phil Zimmerman and Sheryl Crow are probably a hot item now, but let's get real. Phil is still Phil and she'll move on; these things cannot last forever.
Well yeah sure, given physical access. Physical access is a whole other ballgame as opposed to remotely hacking into that abacus and making it your own. Multi-user workgroups can get complicated though, while they do have advantages. So does cloud-computing from a distance.
Get real.
The Economist? http://economist.com/ I like it too.
yes, TFA mentions the regulatory costs for such updates. So there's the thing: you based your (hardware) product on Windows XP and now XP is end-of-lifed and either you support your hardware with software upgrades and get that approved, OR your hardware gets either end-of-lifed, or your (supported) patients might end-of-life prematurely themselves (so you also have the risk of malpractice costs to consider).
Looking at this lesson in security, if I was a manufacturer of MRI gear (or whatever) I'd get away from past decisions, and I'd base my engineering on a more open-OS with less vendor control.
Okay, this is a valid point, and people need to pay attention when they engineer, build, support, and actually use these things. Still, what is done is done and paid for, and I imagine hospitals retain some I.T. department services of some sort, and all this gear is networked behind a firewall or two.
New gear absolutely must take these concerns into consideration and address them long-term because the threat will not go away. But what is the current threat on the legacy devices? What can an attacker hope to accomplish? What would be the motivation of a hacker or two, to reverse-engineer the MRI scanner, oh and by the way where did these guys get a redundant MRI scanner (etc.) to reverse engineer for their evil motivations?
Oh wait, much of this gear is beased upon Windows XP and that is the vector. Uh huh. Well that sort of shelf-lifes the security on your hardware I suppose. It might be best to support a long-term and truly open-system like Linux or FreeBSD rather than base your product on what the Microsoft Corporation can deliver for your own business requirements.
Or, if Microsoft is so good for (medical equipment) developers to base products on, than why can't the software be upgraded to support Windows 7 or 8?
Meego now!
If nothing else, open-source code and watching how that movie director Robert Rodriguez successfully preaches low-budget artistic control vs. bigger-budget studio-control has taught me how raw talent, motivation, and perseverance can still succeed against 'the odds'. Oh, and fear helps a lot!
This knowledge I try to use for good given the gifts my life has given to me. Still, others will inherently do otherwise to the best of their abilities.
After all, it isn't what you have that matters, but what you do with what you have.
Have you heard about the Amazon Kindle? About the only thing you can compare it to in terms of actual units sold is the iPad, so Amazon is in Apple's league. Yes, seriously, Amazon is huge in 'readers' which is a variant of tablets, I suppose as I don't have much experience with them myself.
Just as Google developed the Chrome web browser so as to have direct influence over the presentation of the web, Amazon has created hardware readers to have direct influence over how electronic versions of its content are consumed.
Neither wants to be at the mercy of some vendor, (and I'm thinking about you Adobe and your Macromedia Flash).
A lot of places, Kobnhavn and Amsterdam for example, have an extremely high density of parked bicycles (and city-sponsored parking) so a cop walking by with a RFID reader isn't anything like the police having to take 'custody' of a suspected stolen bike first.
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/fmzs/3911308473/
Now obviously the further you get from Centraal Station such bike density lessens, (as does bike theft), but you get the idea. A cop with a reader walking a beat can read a lot of RFID tags and possibly find a stolen bike or two.
Here's a Slashdot citation to support you: http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/09/23/0518247/scientists-speak-out-against-wasting-helium-in-balloons
That's interesting. I know the police where I live were somehow afixing RFIDs (or something) and I don't know how they did it exactly. I just assumed it was as I described, but as you point out so well, I don't really know the technique or application.
Still, just now a search engine took me to this which looks like like the same idea: http://www.immobitag.com/uk/how_does_ImmobiTag_work.html
I should look into this more closely in my area actually, to see what the police are actually using. That link is for the UK.
You don't need a locked down container for holding the GPS gear as you infer. Just make it sticky, remove the seat-post, push it to the bottom, and replace the seat-post. Even cheap embedded RFIDs passing near to readers can be useful, for tolls and the like. In places where bike theft is high, police are even tagging bikes with RFIDs as I have described, so if the bikes are stolen, a police officer walking past with a reader might find them.
Also facial-recognition is getting freakishly better all the time. Have you tried Picasa on your own computer, free from Google? But nevermind, what with this talk of killshots and all; but of course you jest. Disclaimer, I'm not old enough for a wheelchair myself and don't have such a license, nor own a gun license or gun.
Besides, women (...or to each their own) riding bicycles just look better, don't you think? Personally, I find two woman on a bike even nicer to see, and I don't necessarily view them as environmentalists when I do.
Yeah they busted Captain Waddle too, when his submarine destroyed a Japanese fishing vessel training high school students in the Pacific in 2001. Many were killed.
It must suck when out there in the entire Pacific Ocean you're minding your own business on a boring fishing boat when all of a sudden a US submarine decides to demo an emergency surfacing maneuver to civilians on-board the sub. What are the odds?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision#Findings_of_the_court
Maybe, like Elop, the board members also hold a lot of Microsoft shares they hoped would increase, or at least hedge against Nokia somewhat?
No matter what, it seems a matter of politics and greed vs. soundly running a business with engineers and manufacturing.
Don't forget: the carriers have always hated Nokia's support for VOIP, even before Microsoft bought Skype and who owns Skype. The carrier's that subsidize phones were not favorable to Nokia *before* Microsoft/Skype came along.
If Steve Job was in the same position as Elop at the time Elop wrote the burning platform memo, well not only would Steve not have written such a memo, but Steve would have been hawking the glories of the in-house OS N9 for all they're worth, meanwhile he'd quietly be developing the next big thing without killing off his revenue (and dare I say his relationship with Intel also). When the N9 team delivered a Seriously Quality Product a few months later they proved what a fraud Elop and his timely burning platform memo is, as well as his decision to relegate the Meego N9 device to a few regional markets of minor signifigance. Also we know very well about the never-made-available-for-sale-anywhere N950 from the chosen few (developer) owners. Those products and their successors would have generated plenty of revenue so Elop could have kept his job. What an idiot Elop is.
Just to point out how The Netherlands manages another similar need vs. right, everyone is required to buy medical insurance from a regulated insurance company. People can buy it from a regulated insurance company of their choice, but everyone has to buy it from some company, and those companies must compete for the available market, which is as stable ast the population.
From what I can tell, such managed regulation without the peoples' government catering to unregulated special interest groups has kept medical quality high and prices low. The Netherlands is an advanced society the United States would do well to emulate in many aspects. Unless one takes the 'well I prefer to be free to live life without paying for medical insurance, or the govt. forcing me to do anything dammit'. Case in point, Arizona let's motorcycyclists ride their Harley's without helmets, although wearing sidearms while riding said Harley is legal as can be. Meanwhile who pays the dollars for when-things-go-wrong? Like I said, The Netherlands is an advanced society we could learn from.
That is pretty neat. My favorite take-home feature from that particular video is the command-line driven screen shot tool. Just give it an HTML ID and voila! (even if that html element extends offscreen, I get a 'perfectly cropped' image of the element. Noted for future reference. Thanks!
Hmmm, and scripting that. oh my, the mind wanders. (BTW I've tried my darndest to use Selenium but Selenium never worked out given my feeble brain, but maybe I could have tried harder with more time commited).