Thanks. I, too, I'm tired of the line about profit motivations being required by law. It's a bunch of malarkey designed to make greedy, selfish corporations feel justified in screwing over their employees, customers, and citizens of the countries they operate in.
I think you're assuming an awful lot saying that the source code is easier to decipher than the binaries. Considering the number of flaws that continually appear in their products, I think it's arguable that reading the binaries is just easier.
It also fails to take into account that the skills required for the jobs that disappear are entirely different than the skills required for the new jobs that replace them. This means you lose everything you've worked for, career-wise. I might have 30 years in as a buggy whip craftsman, but that doesn't mean I have the skill set required to assemble an automobile. It also means that the salary I've been building up disappears. Even if the jobs are equivalent pay ranges, a senior buggy whip architect probably makes a lot more than a junior steering column technician.
If I started at $40,000/yr 30 years ago and make $75,000/yr today and suddenly lose that because my entire industry has been obsoleted -- including my retirement possibly -- and can now only take a new job at $50,000/yr... I'm still screwed.
I'm not arguing we should stop inventing, but its hugely callous to ignore the difficulties inflicted on people when this kind of thing happens.
I work at a school district that has deployed iPads. This is exactly what we do. We use the same filter to filter content in computer labs, and to prevent staff members from accessing pornography. Can they get past it? I'm sure they probably can, but students caught doing so violate the acceptable use policy and their AD account is locked out for the duration of the loss of privilege. School administrators can enable and disable student access right from an internal website.
Before we deploy the iPads, we also make the students return a form signed by the parents that has some pretty specific usage restrictions. It's made clear that students violating the acceptable use policy forfeit access to the device entirely. Failure to turn in the device is treated just like failure to return a book: you get a fine and grades are withheld until the fine is paid or device returned.
I agree. That's why you do research. You need to bring to the table the best possible options. Users know what their job is, but they don't know how to tell a good system apart from a bad one. You don't pick for them, but you need to narrow it down to prevent the paradox of choice problem.
I think he was saying that the pharmacy is still a covered entity. So the DEA can ask, but the pharmacy can't disclose PHI without violating HIPAA. As far as I can tell, the pharmacy would be bound by 164.512(f).
I would say the Civil Rights movement in the US was a revolution.
I find it immensely depressing that the same generation that fought so hard and paid such a dear price for civil rights when they were young was the exact same generation to sell them back so cheaply when they were old.
Look you can't trust those database queries. The syntax is so simple you can't possibly be certain that it's not making a mistake without checking every possible row. It's not like there's any way to be sure the database doesn't have invalid data!
I recently looked at a stored proc used on our system. It uses nested cursors. And the cursors are all defined as "scrollable" meaning they take far more memory than normal, even though the procedure never does anything other than "fetch next". Oh, and the entire proc could be eliminated with two MERGE statements making the process nearly instantaneous instead of taking 20-30 minutes.
I worked in hospital IT several years back. Hospitals routinely schedule doctors and nurses for 12 hour shifts 3 days a week.
While I was there a report was released that said that after extensive study of doctor and nurse patient care habits throughout their work day, they determined that the quality of patient care dropped sharply after 8 hours. During hours 9-12 the risk of being misdiagnosed (incompletely or inaccurately), administer incorrect medications (patient allergies or medication contraindications), administer incorrect dosages of medications, etc. The risks were almost double compared to the previous 8 hours. After hour 12 the risks got even worse. The study estimated that preventable accidents would fall over 75% by changing to four 8 hour days.
Unfortunately, the attitudes of doctors and nurses were that the quality of their patient care was just fine, and nobody wanted to give up the schedules that they currently had. The medical field has a culture of overworking yourself and working while tired, so they are highly resistant to change even in the face of such profound data revealing how destructive their behavior was to patient well-being.
As an American, I am way less worried about foreigners hurting me than my government hurting me, either directly, indirectly by restricting people I'd like to do business with, or by simply confiscating part of my income as taxes to do silly things.
This is something I wish more Americans would remember. Our founding fathers didn't fear terrorism. They feared tyranny.
IANAL, but this is a court of appeals decision. It has very little to do with whether or not Google's actions in this particular case could have harmed someone or that someone could prove that damages were done. The decision is about forging case law that will show that anybody that does this sort of thing can be held liable for damages. That doesn't mean the plaintiff doesn't have to prove his or her case, merely that it's completely valid to bring such a case before the court.
That is to say, this ruling affirms civil court jurisdiction, and affirms operators of unencrypted Wi-Fi can show standing for damages in such a court.
Fundamentally: it no longer matters if someone intercepts another's Wi-Fi communication with an intent to profit from it or to damage another. Provided the plaintiff can show standing, the defendant is liable for the damages. The defendant's intent is not relevant.
I wouldn't use git. Git requires you to always clone the entire repository. That's fine if the repository is just source code and text files, but the more binary files you have the less attractive this can be.
I still favor svn over git myself, but it just suits my workflow better than git.
The Potter movies are about the same: Lots of stuff left out to make the movie fit in under two hours.
That's kind of true, but the last book was extremely light on action. 80% of it was Harry wandering around doing nothing in particular while he heard news about what other characters were doing. It's literally a book about the main character hearing other people's stories while he cowers in fear. (Quite a hero!) Then in the last bit all the action finally moves on stage and everything rushes to an abrupt conclusion. Honestly the last book was very poorly done.
How they managed to split it into two movies is beyond me. I was so disappointed with the last book I didn't bother watching the movies from Order of the Phoenix onwards.
1-owner offers to license for $x 2-potential licensee offers to pay $y 3-owner offers to license for $x 4-potential licensee raises offer 5-owner offers to license for $x 6-potential licensee states why $x is wholly unreasonable 7-owner offers to license for $x
If Motorola failed to make a reasonable offer -- which, by the way, is what a jury agreed they did -- then what they did was against fair and reasonable licensing requirements of the 802.11 standard their patented product was a component of. Moreover, they apparently signed a contract at some point stating that their license costs would be fair and reasonable.
No. One does not encourage a change in behavior by openly mocking the behavior of others. That method only works if the others respect the opinion of the one doing the mocking. If my friends or family make fun of me for doing something, I feel shame because I care about and respect what they think. If some stranger does it, I just think he's an asshole. If I don't respect what a stranger thinks, it merely serves to encourage division if he makes fun of me.
More to the point, the offensive and destructive portions of religion have very little to do with whether or not they wear the right clothes or observe the right holidays. Not only is this man doing the wrong thing, he's targeting the wrong behavior!
Atheists that partake in this mud-slinging contest with FSM and invisible unicorns and derisive terms like "sky fairies" represent the greatest threat to the Atheist movement because they mirror all the behaviors most non-religious people hate about the religious ones. You're not George Carlin. You're not clever enough or charismatic enough or funny enough to pull off being an asshole and still have people listen to your point of view. Not even Richard Dawkins can do it. He's still just an asshole to most people in the same way that Michael Moore is just an asshole. Being right isn't an excuse for being an asshole.
No, they don't. Apple killed Hypercard. They sold the tool to Claris but kept the devs at Apple. Then they decided Mac OS would ship with a Hypercard player, but you had to play Claris to be able to develop on it. When they bought Claris back, they tried to make it a QuickTime extension. Then they just stopped developing it. Not because they didn't think it was good; they just didn't know how to market it so they killed it.
I don't think ports are a limitation. As is common with IPv6, I don't think people appreciate the difference in scale.
The header alone for IPv6 is 40 bytes. IPv6 is 2^128 addresses. 40 * 2^128 / 2^80 = 40 * 2^48 = 11,258,999,068,426,240 YiB (Yobibytes). Just for header data. Even if you use some kind of magic multicasting magic to send the packets, you've still got to get that much header data back. At a transfer speed of 1 Yibps (yebibit per second), it would take 2.8 billion years to transfer all those packets. Then you have to store that data. Just storing every possible IPv6 address as a 128 bit number would take at least 4,503,599,627,370,496 YiB.
Nobody has pipes that fat. Nobody has disks that big.
Compare that to IPv4: The header is 20-24 bytes. IPv4 is 2^32 addresses. 20 * 2^32 / 2^30 = 80 GiB. That's a completely reasonable amount of data to push in 45 minutes or to store on disk.
Nonsense. The wrench cost $5. The Federal Government was billed $5000. Of the rest, $2000 went to election contributions, $400 went to the defense contractor, $2400 went to hidden defense slush funds, and the remaining $95 was spent on the bureaucracy required to keep such a maladaptive system in place.
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Titanium Carbide.
AMD is going to be just fine. Remember, both the PS4 and XBone are AMD.
Thanks. I, too, I'm tired of the line about profit motivations being required by law. It's a bunch of malarkey designed to make greedy, selfish corporations feel justified in screwing over their employees, customers, and citizens of the countries they operate in.
I think you're assuming an awful lot saying that the source code is easier to decipher than the binaries. Considering the number of flaws that continually appear in their products, I think it's arguable that reading the binaries is just easier.
It also fails to take into account that the skills required for the jobs that disappear are entirely different than the skills required for the new jobs that replace them. This means you lose everything you've worked for, career-wise. I might have 30 years in as a buggy whip craftsman, but that doesn't mean I have the skill set required to assemble an automobile. It also means that the salary I've been building up disappears. Even if the jobs are equivalent pay ranges, a senior buggy whip architect probably makes a lot more than a junior steering column technician.
If I started at $40,000/yr 30 years ago and make $75,000/yr today and suddenly lose that because my entire industry has been obsoleted -- including my retirement possibly -- and can now only take a new job at $50,000/yr... I'm still screwed.
I'm not arguing we should stop inventing, but its hugely callous to ignore the difficulties inflicted on people when this kind of thing happens.
The article, if you scroll to the bottom, originates from wired.co.uk. The author chose to localize the currency, which is fairly standard practice.
I work at a school district that has deployed iPads. This is exactly what we do. We use the same filter to filter content in computer labs, and to prevent staff members from accessing pornography. Can they get past it? I'm sure they probably can, but students caught doing so violate the acceptable use policy and their AD account is locked out for the duration of the loss of privilege. School administrators can enable and disable student access right from an internal website.
Before we deploy the iPads, we also make the students return a form signed by the parents that has some pretty specific usage restrictions. It's made clear that students violating the acceptable use policy forfeit access to the device entirely. Failure to turn in the device is treated just like failure to return a book: you get a fine and grades are withheld until the fine is paid or device returned.
Safety regulations make cars very expensive to engineer and test. $5,000 for the car. $8,000 to make it safe.
However, it does mean that that tin can is probably far more survivable than most cars prior to 1965.
I agree. That's why you do research. You need to bring to the table the best possible options. Users know what their job is, but they don't know how to tell a good system apart from a bad one. You don't pick for them, but you need to narrow it down to prevent the paradox of choice problem.
I think he was saying that the pharmacy is still a covered entity. So the DEA can ask, but the pharmacy can't disclose PHI without violating HIPAA. As far as I can tell, the pharmacy would be bound by 164.512(f).
I find it immensely depressing that the same generation that fought so hard and paid such a dear price for civil rights when they were young was the exact same generation to sell them back so cheaply when they were old.
Look you can't trust those database queries. The syntax is so simple you can't possibly be certain that it's not making a mistake without checking every possible row. It's not like there's any way to be sure the database doesn't have invalid data!
I recently looked at a stored proc used on our system. It uses nested cursors. And the cursors are all defined as "scrollable" meaning they take far more memory than normal, even though the procedure never does anything other than "fetch next". Oh, and the entire proc could be eliminated with two MERGE statements making the process nearly instantaneous instead of taking 20-30 minutes.
I'm tempted to submit it as a bug report.
Isn't that lead?
No, they're archiving everything ever used by the citizens. They don't care about documenting the government.
I worked in hospital IT several years back. Hospitals routinely schedule doctors and nurses for 12 hour shifts 3 days a week.
While I was there a report was released that said that after extensive study of doctor and nurse patient care habits throughout their work day, they determined that the quality of patient care dropped sharply after 8 hours. During hours 9-12 the risk of being misdiagnosed (incompletely or inaccurately), administer incorrect medications (patient allergies or medication contraindications), administer incorrect dosages of medications, etc. The risks were almost double compared to the previous 8 hours. After hour 12 the risks got even worse. The study estimated that preventable accidents would fall over 75% by changing to four 8 hour days.
Unfortunately, the attitudes of doctors and nurses were that the quality of their patient care was just fine, and nobody wanted to give up the schedules that they currently had. The medical field has a culture of overworking yourself and working while tired, so they are highly resistant to change even in the face of such profound data revealing how destructive their behavior was to patient well-being.
This is something I wish more Americans would remember. Our founding fathers didn't fear terrorism. They feared tyranny.
The private sector only does better under the pressures of fair competition. Otherwise they're more of a leech than the public sector is.
IANAL, but this is a court of appeals decision. It has very little to do with whether or not Google's actions in this particular case could have harmed someone or that someone could prove that damages were done. The decision is about forging case law that will show that anybody that does this sort of thing can be held liable for damages. That doesn't mean the plaintiff doesn't have to prove his or her case, merely that it's completely valid to bring such a case before the court.
That is to say, this ruling affirms civil court jurisdiction, and affirms operators of unencrypted Wi-Fi can show standing for damages in such a court.
Fundamentally: it no longer matters if someone intercepts another's Wi-Fi communication with an intent to profit from it or to damage another. Provided the plaintiff can show standing, the defendant is liable for the damages. The defendant's intent is not relevant.
I wouldn't use git. Git requires you to always clone the entire repository. That's fine if the repository is just source code and text files, but the more binary files you have the less attractive this can be.
I still favor svn over git myself, but it just suits my workflow better than git.
That's kind of true, but the last book was extremely light on action. 80% of it was Harry wandering around doing nothing in particular while he heard news about what other characters were doing. It's literally a book about the main character hearing other people's stories while he cowers in fear. (Quite a hero!) Then in the last bit all the action finally moves on stage and everything rushes to an abrupt conclusion. Honestly the last book was very poorly done.
How they managed to split it into two movies is beyond me. I was so disappointed with the last book I didn't bother watching the movies from Order of the Phoenix onwards.
How do you know it didn't go like this:
1-owner offers to license for $x
2-potential licensee offers to pay $y
3-owner offers to license for $x
4-potential licensee raises offer
5-owner offers to license for $x
6-potential licensee states why $x is wholly unreasonable
7-owner offers to license for $x
If Motorola failed to make a reasonable offer -- which, by the way, is what a jury agreed they did -- then what they did was against fair and reasonable licensing requirements of the 802.11 standard their patented product was a component of. Moreover, they apparently signed a contract at some point stating that their license costs would be fair and reasonable.
No. One does not encourage a change in behavior by openly mocking the behavior of others. That method only works if the others respect the opinion of the one doing the mocking. If my friends or family make fun of me for doing something, I feel shame because I care about and respect what they think. If some stranger does it, I just think he's an asshole. If I don't respect what a stranger thinks, it merely serves to encourage division if he makes fun of me.
More to the point, the offensive and destructive portions of religion have very little to do with whether or not they wear the right clothes or observe the right holidays. Not only is this man doing the wrong thing, he's targeting the wrong behavior!
Atheists that partake in this mud-slinging contest with FSM and invisible unicorns and derisive terms like "sky fairies" represent the greatest threat to the Atheist movement because they mirror all the behaviors most non-religious people hate about the religious ones. You're not George Carlin. You're not clever enough or charismatic enough or funny enough to pull off being an asshole and still have people listen to your point of view. Not even Richard Dawkins can do it. He's still just an asshole to most people in the same way that Michael Moore is just an asshole. Being right isn't an excuse for being an asshole.
No, they don't. Apple killed Hypercard. They sold the tool to Claris but kept the devs at Apple. Then they decided Mac OS would ship with a Hypercard player, but you had to play Claris to be able to develop on it. When they bought Claris back, they tried to make it a QuickTime extension. Then they just stopped developing it. Not because they didn't think it was good; they just didn't know how to market it so they killed it.
I don't think ports are a limitation. As is common with IPv6, I don't think people appreciate the difference in scale.
The header alone for IPv6 is 40 bytes. IPv6 is 2^128 addresses. 40 * 2^128 / 2^80 = 40 * 2^48 = 11,258,999,068,426,240 YiB (Yobibytes). Just for header data. Even if you use some kind of magic multicasting magic to send the packets, you've still got to get that much header data back. At a transfer speed of 1 Yibps (yebibit per second), it would take 2.8 billion years to transfer all those packets. Then you have to store that data. Just storing every possible IPv6 address as a 128 bit number would take at least 4,503,599,627,370,496 YiB.
Nobody has pipes that fat. Nobody has disks that big.
Compare that to IPv4:
The header is 20-24 bytes. IPv4 is 2^32 addresses. 20 * 2^32 / 2^30 = 80 GiB. That's a completely reasonable amount of data to push in 45 minutes or to store on disk.
Nonsense. The wrench cost $5. The Federal Government was billed $5000. Of the rest, $2000 went to election contributions, $400 went to the defense contractor, $2400 went to hidden defense slush funds, and the remaining $95 was spent on the bureaucracy required to keep such a maladaptive system in place.