"You don't think the iPad is 'magical', as the ads say? You don't GET it, then! For if you got it, you'd agree. It's simply incomprehensible that you've heard the message and just happen to disagree! Incomprehensible and inconceivable! So, nay, you must be an ignorant, an unwashed mass, and we pity you."
This is not an innocent request from somebody who wants to honestly return the phone.
That's one perspective. Another is that the Gizmodo editor is well aware of spin control, the RDF and whilst agreeing to return the phone, wants to ensure he is not thrown under the bus by Apple Legal and Marketing in a way that damages his business.
You heard him, all you millions of people who think you own an iPhone, or iPod, or Mac Book Pro... if it's got "a big fucking Apple logo on the back", it's reasonable to assume it belongs to Apple.
No joke. The constitutions and other founding legal documents of all modern governments should have included a clause stating that when any politician, law enforcement officer, or other government official breaks the law, they will be subject to three times the penalty (fines, duration of incarceration, or both) that an ordinary citizen would suffer had he or she done the same. The reasoning is that when they break the law, it represents a threat to the institution of law and the concept of the rule of law, both of which are fundamental and essential to the functioning of modern society.
How does that fit with another central tenet of justice, that she is blind, and/or "All are equal before the law"?
The way to punish those who make laws for breaking them is not to spank them three times as hard, it's to spank them. The problem is, most of the time we don't spank them at all.
Comprehension is not your strong point, is it? He said "is that it refuses to create strict rules and follow them". No-one said anything about an absence of rules. Indeed, there are legions of people whose sole contributions to Wikipedia are in the WP: namespace, rule-writing and wiki-lawyering...
... according to filesharers, who may just be biased, and may just have a vested interest in trying to minimize the perception or reality of a negative effect upon an industry from said filesharing, you mean?
Spin is awesome. "iPhone is great. Revolutionize. Take over the world. Twist and turn, say it is biggest seller in some kind of smartphone market segment."
Someone is selling more? "Oh, if we sell too much, it ruins our grand plan. Really!"
Ummm, who exactly do you think will be funding millions of dollar TV shows if everyone is torrenting stuff for their MythTV box, just out of curiosity?
One thing this graph shows for certain is that the iPad is undeniably having a negative impact on the netbook.
Ahh, no, one thing that graph certainly does not show for certain is that the iPod is having any effect on the netbook (though I am sure it is having some).
[tongue in cheek]Cisco firmware is free. You're free to download any Cisco firmware you like, even for devices you don't have... you just have to have a support login...[/tongue in cheek]
VMWare Fusion to replace aging PC servers. They do this for services that can't be moved to OS X like Active Directory and Exchange. This is a completely supported way to run production systems
Cite please. Really? Microsoft complete supports running EXCHANGE, and DOMAIN CONTROLLERS, on a virtual machine (I know they 'allow' some virtualization, through their VPC solution only, and with the caveat that 'in some cases we may not be able to support you if the problem cannot be tested on bare hardware'), on OS X?!?
No, really, it's not completely supported. Not at all.
Why do they say to use Xcode for iPhone development? They say it is "to improve the experience". It may. But there are other tools out there quite capable of generating iPhone-compatible code. This just ever-so-handily happens to mean that for the most part, if you want your application to run on multiple platforms, well, shit, you have to write an iPhone version, AND another, because well, Jobs feels that although it is absolutely possible, it wouldn't be the same "experience", because it might take other development platforms a little longer to make iPhone-specific functionality available (it might not, too, but hey, we can't be too careful!)...
It's funny, when its in their favor, Apple fanboys here talk about the iPhone outselling every other phone (though it's not)... they talk about it being so amazingly popular in the market, and of the huge demand...
When it's not, they say "Look around, we're just a little fish in a big pond!"...
You don't recall correctly. The story was that someone who used to work at Google, and who now works for the administration, had according to his Google Buzz, several senior Google people as some of his most frequent contacts. And was complaining, publicly, about the privacy implications of Buzz.
Also say you are growing pot in your basement. If a public utility worker enters to read your water meter and sees your purple haze operation, and reports it, police cannot use that as evidence because the public utility worker is considered an agent of the state.
Perhaps you are unaware, but a large number of pot busts happen precisely because the utility, water or electricity, notices way higher (or lower) utility usage than would normally be expected for that residence.
I can tell you that in Washington state, at least one group of hospitals has the closest thing to an EMR system that works that I've seen.
Nursing staff in ER can monitor ECG and vitals from their station, printouts to any printer, page a doctor. Blood draw? EMR system fires off a barcoded label, blood gets put in a tube and sent to lab. Lab results become available on same system as soon as they are ready with a little annotation next to the patient. Digital xrays, MRIs and other diagnostics are also available the same way without any extra effort. Little icon "lights up", and they can be reviewed as well on a nurses station as at the diagnostics lab.
That being said, many aspects are a complete clusterfuck. And the salesman are almost as bad as used car guys.
Random pedantry, HIPAA, not HIPPA. That being said, two thumbs up. I'm amazed that anyone's allowed to connect their personal equipment to the network, as someone who writes medical software.
You may not be a CCIE, but one of the jurors is, and the city had to work with Cisco to try to figure out methods. On IOS versions where he could not disable password reset, the process he used on boot was delete the saved config, and only allow the device to use RAM config. On power loss, he'd dial in via his modem, upload the config by serial console, and return to the RAM-only state.
Of course, he wasn't willing to provide configs, either, and I'm going to take a wild guess at attempting to reconfig a citywide WAN from scratch != a trivial undertaking.
From this guy's discussion it sure sounds like the jury convicted Childs for literally doing nothing - as in not revealing the password when asked.
Actually, he refused. AND he went out, and further set up more barriers, physical and software to make it even more difficult for people AUTHORIZED to get access, knowing all this.
Bad analogy. The holdout in 12 Angry Men put forth arguments as to his perspective, and won the others over. According to the juror (and we'll never know more, most likely), the one removed from the jury wanted to go home, was unwilling to voice his opinions or reasoning for his decisions, and was explicitly uninterested in discussing with the other jurors.
THAT flies in the face of the juror system. There's a reason they're called DELIBERATIONS, where you discuss these facts, and a reason why 12 people aren't shuffled into twelve booths to cast their vote for the verdict alone and in secret.
Yes, yes you can. And he specifically took pains, AFTER BEING TOLD, to make sure that if you reset the password, you may as well have thrown things away - they were configured to wipe the entire configuration of the device. Where were the backup configurations, you ask? On an encrypted DVD that he kept with his personal laptop, that required files on his laptop in order to be decrypted.
Quite seriously, I would call a city-wide WAN (particularly on the scale of SF) considerably more complex than flying the space shuttle. Even a highly competent network engineer might take months to map the whole thing out starting with nothing but a handful of router passwords.
Actually, it was even worse than that, since he'd actively set the system up so that in order to reset passwords, you had to trash the entire configuration. A configuration that only he had. So you wouldn't be re-mapping the network, you'd be rebuilding it from scratch, all the ACLs, routing tables, access, etc.
On the devices he couldn't do that on, he'd set them up so they didn't store any config, that they lost config on power loss, and that you had to dial back in by modem to reload config, and you could only do that from his personal laptop.
This doesn't even begin to factor in the system log server, stored in a black metal box with two holes drilled in it, for ethernet and power, and padlocked, twice. Padlocks purchased by Childs personally, and which no-one else in the city had a key for.
This guy was out of control, and saw things as his. He thought he could get away with it because of this. The whole "only the mayor" was blown up by many on Slashdot, as an offer made by him, AFTER arrest.
Here's a question, when he started on the job, did the mayor personally give him the admin passwords? No, well, either the person who did was unauthorized, or guess what, that whole line was specious and facile.
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Ahh, the enlightened way of the Fanboy.
"You don't think the iPad is 'magical', as the ads say? You don't GET it, then! For if you got it, you'd agree. It's simply incomprehensible that you've heard the message and just happen to disagree! Incomprehensible and inconceivable! So, nay, you must be an ignorant, an unwashed mass, and we pity you."
That's one perspective. Another is that the Gizmodo editor is well aware of spin control, the RDF and whilst agreeing to return the phone, wants to ensure he is not thrown under the bus by Apple Legal and Marketing in a way that damages his business.
Oh, well, if there was an Apple logo on the back!
You heard him, all you millions of people who think you own an iPhone, or iPod, or Mac Book Pro... if it's got "a big fucking Apple logo on the back", it's reasonable to assume it belongs to Apple.
How does that fit with another central tenet of justice, that she is blind, and/or "All are equal before the law"?
The way to punish those who make laws for breaking them is not to spank them three times as hard, it's to spank them. The problem is, most of the time we don't spank them at all.
Comprehension is not your strong point, is it? He said "is that it refuses to create strict rules and follow them". No-one said anything about an absence of rules. Indeed, there are legions of people whose sole contributions to Wikipedia are in the WP: namespace, rule-writing and wiki-lawyering...
... according to filesharers, who may just be biased, and may just have a vested interest in trying to minimize the perception or reality of a negative effect upon an industry from said filesharing, you mean?
Someone is selling more? "Oh, if we sell too much, it ruins our grand plan. Really!"
Ummm, who exactly do you think will be funding millions of dollar TV shows if everyone is torrenting stuff for their MythTV box, just out of curiosity?
Oops. Math sans coffee fail. Or comprehension, for some reason I multiplied by 2,000, so must have assumed he meant /hr, not /day.
What's that smell?
Ahh, no, one thing that graph certainly does not show for certain is that the iPod is having any effect on the netbook (though I am sure it is having some).
Repeat, out loud, one hundred times:
Correlation is NOT causation.
Correlation is NOT causation.
[tongue in cheek]Cisco firmware is free. You're free to download any Cisco firmware you like, even for devices you don't have... you just have to have a support login...[/tongue in cheek]
Cite please. Really? Microsoft complete supports running EXCHANGE, and DOMAIN CONTROLLERS, on a virtual machine (I know they 'allow' some virtualization, through their VPC solution only, and with the caveat that 'in some cases we may not be able to support you if the problem cannot be tested on bare hardware'), on OS X?!?
No, really, it's not completely supported. Not at all.
Not sure the point you're trying to make ...
Why do they say to use Xcode for iPhone development? They say it is "to improve the experience". It may. But there are other tools out there quite capable of generating iPhone-compatible code. This just ever-so-handily happens to mean that for the most part, if you want your application to run on multiple platforms, well, shit, you have to write an iPhone version, AND another, because well, Jobs feels that although it is absolutely possible, it wouldn't be the same "experience", because it might take other development platforms a little longer to make iPhone-specific functionality available (it might not, too, but hey, we can't be too careful!)...
When it's not, they say "Look around, we're just a little fish in a big pond!"...
Smoke, maybe, not fire.
Perhaps you are unaware, but a large number of pot busts happen precisely because the utility, water or electricity, notices way higher (or lower) utility usage than would normally be expected for that residence.
Nursing staff in ER can monitor ECG and vitals from their station, printouts to any printer, page a doctor. Blood draw? EMR system fires off a barcoded label, blood gets put in a tube and sent to lab. Lab results become available on same system as soon as they are ready with a little annotation next to the patient. Digital xrays, MRIs and other diagnostics are also available the same way without any extra effort. Little icon "lights up", and they can be reviewed as well on a nurses station as at the diagnostics lab.
That being said, many aspects are a complete clusterfuck. And the salesman are almost as bad as used car guys.
Random pedantry, HIPAA, not HIPPA. That being said, two thumbs up. I'm amazed that anyone's allowed to connect their personal equipment to the network, as someone who writes medical software.
Of course, he wasn't willing to provide configs, either, and I'm going to take a wild guess at attempting to reconfig a citywide WAN from scratch != a trivial undertaking.
Actually, he refused. AND he went out, and further set up more barriers, physical and software to make it even more difficult for people AUTHORIZED to get access, knowing all this.
THAT flies in the face of the juror system. There's a reason they're called DELIBERATIONS, where you discuss these facts, and a reason why 12 people aren't shuffled into twelve booths to cast their vote for the verdict alone and in secret.
Yes, yes you can. And he specifically took pains, AFTER BEING TOLD, to make sure that if you reset the password, you may as well have thrown things away - they were configured to wipe the entire configuration of the device. Where were the backup configurations, you ask? On an encrypted DVD that he kept with his personal laptop, that required files on his laptop in order to be decrypted.
Actually, it was even worse than that, since he'd actively set the system up so that in order to reset passwords, you had to trash the entire configuration. A configuration that only he had. So you wouldn't be re-mapping the network, you'd be rebuilding it from scratch, all the ACLs, routing tables, access, etc.
On the devices he couldn't do that on, he'd set them up so they didn't store any config, that they lost config on power loss, and that you had to dial back in by modem to reload config, and you could only do that from his personal laptop.
This doesn't even begin to factor in the system log server, stored in a black metal box with two holes drilled in it, for ethernet and power, and padlocked, twice. Padlocks purchased by Childs personally, and which no-one else in the city had a key for.
This guy was out of control, and saw things as his. He thought he could get away with it because of this. The whole "only the mayor" was blown up by many on Slashdot, as an offer made by him, AFTER arrest.
Here's a question, when he started on the job, did the mayor personally give him the admin passwords? No, well, either the person who did was unauthorized, or guess what, that whole line was specious and facile.