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> as long as the ransom costs per year is lower than the cost to replace their Cerner systems, it makes sense to simply see it as the cost of operations I guess?

Sort of. Unless the cost and frequency of ransomware incidents are absurdly low, it makes sense to borrow to upgrade. Putting aside the moral hazard of being a compliant mark, there is the risk that the next attack won't be as cheap.

Their vendor ought to figure out the hospital's mean annual ransom payment, and come up with financing for an upgraded system that comes out to that amount. Now the cost is locked in, while the variance is sharply reduced. (No risk ever goes to zero.)
If only the problem would stop at gas pumps. Many POS devices that have old cc tech are vulnerable for this type of hack.
We have given companies the freedom to LIE.

Hello, ad industry at large....

We're neck deep in it. Of course no one recognizes it.
I'm hardly railing. In response to your question, they aren't a steady source of income for drug dealers, and drug dealers aren't just wandering the streets trying to sell drugs to people with no money. They stay on their turf and sell to people who come to them. And "related criminal activity"? Homeless people aren't criminal masterminds who collect all the city's neer-do-wells. They're just broken down people who need a place to lie down.
I've been sitting at the door expecting a delivery that I paid to have delivered by 10am and saw a UPS driver run up to my door and put a note saying he missed me then running away. I opened the door and made him actually attempt to deliver. He didn't even ring the doorbell.
This is all well and good and all.

I always see these ingenious developments with IPv6. But we kind of forget that deployment is a nightmare.

I think we need forget that we're putting the cart before the horse.

I don't see a future for IPv6 while there's no officially endorsed transition plan that has an actual incentive.

IPv6 only makes sense for mobile since carriers use it to shed load off CGNAT. In turn this incentivises large traffic sites that cater to mobile (e.g. Youtube, Google, etc.) to also help out by operating over IPv6. The only reason carriers can do this is because they usually have full control to configure the IP stack connecting to the network.

Penetrating the residential is a pipe dream.

Let's not forget in the early to mid 90s IPv6 was decided on to mitigate the address exhaustion issue. Its use has basically made a scratch.

So many other technologies have come and gone and a few paradigm shifts (e.g. cloud everything).

And IPv6 continue to sits idle.
There was a couple I had heard about who bought an electric car. They took their electric car to a shop that promised more millage (or faster charging, I can't remember which). As it turns out this custom modification killed the battery in a few short years, when it was supposed to last much longer. The couple was not happy with their purchase, and they never connected that the work they had done was related to their vehicles shortcomings.

If we are charitable in our interpretation of manufacturers positions, keeping customers from "tinkering" with devices maintains the brand's image and prevents unexpected product failure or safety misshaps.
>learn something new every day

Do you apply everything you learn regularly or something? I like learning new things (by watching nature docs or the like) but it feels like I am unable to recall what I learned a few weeks to a month down the road.
COBOL -- COmmon Business-Oriented Language

:P
To underscore how challenging magnetic fusion is, here is a thought experiment: imagine you have a ring collider system that collides d with t at the energy which maximizes the probability of fusion. Assume the ions circulate with 0 energy loss except by colliding with the other species of ions. When an ion loses energy in this way, assume its kinetic energy is immediately restored with perfect efficiency. Assume fusion energy is recovered with 100% efficiency. Even with this super idealized head-on collision setup you wouldn't recover enough fusion energy to power the accelerator.
> why the hell didn't the FBI task someone

Probably they were using Scrum.
> Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

I guess this isn't their motto anymore, because I've had similar experiences.
you're trusting the operator to return the right ip address, and not returning something nefarious. it's definitely not as secure as using the raw address, for example.
I wish they had NFC so I could use Apple Pay. I hate inserting cards into the pumps even though I always check for skimmers. I'm pretty sure the past two (read: only) times my card got stolen it was through gas stations.
This is a press release by the university. They're trying to save their ass from this scandal, where:

- They pay some white supremacist group $2.5 million and pretend that that group has some sort legal claim to the statue

- Then sent a fraudulent DMCA takedown notice when third party shared the group leader's triumphant e-mail detailing how they pulled this off, and how nice their new aryan headquarters are going to be.

That mechanism seems to have been a fake lawsuit, with the $2.5 million settlement filed a total of 7 minutes after the lawsuit, and approved by a judge who also happens to have a personal connection to the case.

Sorry for not providing links (on mobile), but I've been following this on Twitter for the last few days.
It changes how nice the depth perceptions works, reduces nausea if set properly.
//little tiny online bookstore//

Well, it at least called itself "Earth's Biggest Bookstore" at that time.
The question is whether or not $9M annually would be better off making more useful transit. As it stands, very little of KC is covered by frequent transit throughout the day, and in fact much of it is covered by services that don't run the entire day. https://ridekc.org/assets/uploads/route-maps/SystemMap.pdf

A free bus that runs every hour is still going to screw you over if you mistime your walk to the bus stop and it leaves without you. The bus not being available at noon is not made better because it is free, because there's still no bus to take.
Similar for me with an Oculus Quest. Maybe if I left the adjustment at one or the other extreme for an extended session, I'd notice something, but for my usual 30 minutes or so, I haven't seen any difference between settings.
Aren't gas station supposed to be all on a chip system this time next year anyway?
I had an urgent Amazon order for a replacement laptop for which delivery was promised by December 11th. They claimed it was delivered and signed for after 10PM, when the entire building was closed, unattended, and inaccessible.

That was December 11 2017. It never did arrive.
The stereo realsense cameras like D415 support overlapping FOV. They also have a way to use a sync cable to sync the shutters.
The statue originally cost $193,500, adjusted for inflation. UNC just spent $2.5 million to get rid of it. Plus, they've spent a lot repairing it and on security over the years ($390,000 between July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2018 alone.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Sam
"Free" is an incentive to use it: cities outside of the US have had great results by making public transit free.

Also, you misread the statistic. That's commute to work, and only people who are 16 and up. Work is not the only thing public transportation is useful for.
No, I don't do those things. Sharing a computer is a fairly uncommon activity for me and most people I know. And even if it is something you need to do every now and then it is always possible to add an extra layer to your kb config which is the standard layout so other people can use it.
I've been using Thunderbird fine with App Specific Passwords. Despite the name, these are just revocable passwords.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en
That makes me wonder whether the usual malware came from phishing or vulnerabilities.

If it's phishing, typical staff clicking suspicious emails and opening URLs and attachments, there isn't a lot the hospital can do to stop it. A bit of blocking around external emails and shady attachments will help, but people will still fall for it quite often.

If it's remote vulnerabilities, probably some unpatched systems, it's risky because that could parallelize the whole hospital anytime, but as long as the vulnerability is patched by the ransomware it's still cheaper than doing the maintenance.
> Everyone kicks and screams about transit systems "paying for themselves"

If you mean paying for themselves with fares, then no, as most public transportation does not cover the costs with just fares [0]. For example, I'm in Seattle currently and the fares only cover 20-40% of costs [1]. Not that I am complaining as I take the bus to work everyday, but it's not a slam dunk case of invest more because it has a positive return on investment.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio

[1]: https://www.soundtransit.org/sites/default/files/fare-revenu...
I'd buy more if it meant USPS never handled another amazon package again in my lifetime.
Most languages have some kind of derivational morphology that gives you variants "for free". The Wikipedia article on morphological derivation gives some examples for English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphological_derivation

I don't doubt that pre-existing knowledge of Esperanto helps with learning French due to the large number of cognates, but it's implausible it helps so much that you get "faster French acquisition after first learning Esperanto than learning French the whole time". Cognates would at best allow you to learn Esperanto + French in the same time it takes to learn French alone, but Esperanto isn't 100% Romance-based, so even that is unlikely.
- I go to my barber and never wait if I have an appointment. That is the meaning of "appointment".

- Depends on your style. I go with #2 on the sides, leave 1-1.5 inch on the top, scissor cut. Anyone can do that haircut, and I frequently rotate barbers at the same shop I've been going to for 4 years, based on time slots.

- $50 is absurd for anything except a luxury/specialty haircut. I would never pay more than $20.
I go to a supercuts and pay $35 with tip, so $50 in the bay area seems pretty good.

When I used to go to a barber in NYC, it was $50 + tip for a cut and shave, which I feel was a better deal than the supercuts haircut I get now.
Web:

If I'm paying: Wordpress, LAMP, vanilla JS, MySQL, and PHP

If I'm maintaining: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, JQuery, ReactJS

If I'm building a resume: Either C# or Python, SQL, and Javascript, hosted on either AWS or Azure.

Mobile: Swift/iOS and Java/Android both.
I'd like to use BCHS[1] next time around.

https://learnbchs.org/

I want something that's simple, and reasonably secure by default so that if the crap I build turns out to be insecure, it's my own damn fault.
It's not just the availability that's the problem. Generic antibiotics sold in markets with little to no effective government oversight are often highly defective, with incredible variance between the active ingredient dosage listed on the label versus what's actually in the product itself. In most cases, the active ingredient contents are much lower than the label indicates, meaning that patients don't actually receive a therapeutically effective treatment unless they gamble on taking larger or more frequent doses than are indicated. Under-dosing in this manner creates excellent conditions for breeding resistant strains of bacteria.
Well, this is going to get flagged pretty quickly since this orange site will suppress all debate due to it being 'off topic' and would most certainly keep the echo-chamber quiet of having an opinion.

In terms of this baseless claim from the New York Times about possible distortion in the election due to first past the post, there was a reason people were told to vote tactically to stop the one from getting a majority and the result was made clear regardless of that. Proportional Representation (PR) would still result in the Brexit Party winning anyway. So would that be a 'distortion' even under a different system?

Do they believe that the previous elections were also distorted, given that they were under FPTP? I can sense that this was written by those who cannot accept the result of a democratic process.
Yep, at my apartment complex USPS and Fedex will often leave my packages in the completely wrong place (by one of the many entrances, sometimes outside of it). One time while I was exercising I saw the USPS guy spend 20 minutes trying to find the entrance to the post boxes. We have an Amazon Hub and amazon deliveries never have these kinds of problem.
Lifecycle costs of machinery are pretty standard (especially after whatever warranty expires). And, of course, the farmer can avoid the risks of these costs by simply extending the warranty - then all the risk is on the warranty provider.

But the homework the farmer (or any purchaser - this same issue arises for medical imaging equipment, cars, busses, etc) should do is what will the service market looklike for his or her equipment after warranty. It's not easy to do this research - but the flip side is this: if the manufacturers have to sell unlocked service, they will charge more for the original sale. Economically speaking that may be better because the costs will be clearer.
What dentist wouldn't tell you to stop eating sweets? Have you ever been to a dentist?
I saw this just now on Twitter (performance/cost building FreeBSD): https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1206688489518985216
That is never gonna work. Seriously. Cutting hair is a highly manual job, requiring precision use of a number of different tools- some pretty dangerous- on an irregular, soft and constantly moving surface. Covered in, well, long, irregularly shaped hair. The idea of a hair cutting robot is fun, but it's decades or more ahead of what we can do.
There are two types of people, those who don't erase history, and those who .. what ... oh, look, shiny!

(Yeah, because all the previous attempts at blank-slating worked so well ... oh, sorry you don't know what those were ...)
It’s pretty heavily reported my dude. You see articles about it as well as photos showing Amazon logistics planes all the time.

Plus, you see the Amazon trucks all the time now. At least I do. What’s to report?
"Ambition" rather than 'They are just killing off UPS and FedEx' Its a huge billion dollar story that's been incredibly soft, just look at UPS's stock, this will result in them losing their largest partner, no movement at all.
I wonder if Ransomware insurance will be offered by the same companies that do personnel ransom insurance.
>If it's phishing, typical staff clicking every suspicious email uncarefully opening URLs and attachments, there isn't a lot the hospital can do.

Not give typical staff the user permissions required to encrypt all the databases and delete the backups? Too bad info sec is so full of snake oil salesmen, obvious practical solutions exist for these type of problems they just generally don't involve spending six figures on a product so nobody is interested in them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK7_VSpTyVY

Just saying
If public transportation is going to make any impact on the lives of Kansas City residents, it first has to be providing a useful service to them.

Why does that have to be "first?"

Why not make it free, and also make it useful?

If the goal is to increase ridership, making the rides free lowers the barrier for people in transit-served areas. Then you can subsequently or simultaneously expand it.

It makes no sense to keep charging during the expansion to some mythical point in the future where it will suddenly become free because it's reached a certain number of users.
Wow, that is high praise. Can you explain in more detail what's unique and special?
I'd rather see nothing being subsidized.

If you want to help the poor afford public transit, lower their taxes. Maybe not taking a substantial their working capital and giving it back to them when their old isn't such a bright idea either.
It was demonstrated pretty convincingly over a decade ago that variations in atmospheric pressure can increase fault activity.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08042
Uhhh, I am really glad they don’t share it with me or anyone else... if they did, then any other customer of AWS could impersonate me.
I am able to download packages even now. Greater NYC
127 studies and you don't link to one of them?
The liability shift happens for them in October 2020, but I suspect a lot will miss it.
> That is the meaning of "appointment".

https://tenor.com/view/seinfeld-reservation-rent-car-gif-126...
Typically it's pretty easy to get an ISP to cough up a /48 if you ask.
Obviously I couldn't resist and googled to check what's out there. My eyes are melting...
I am just amazed they determined buying the thousands, if not tens of thousands of trucks, recruiting and training drivers, and the logistics of it all, was better for them than what they could negotiate from the delivery giants and USPS.

I would assume they considered shipping items for others including pickup and delivery from customer homes. I just cannot believe it is only for delivery of their own goods
when your ipd is off its roughly the same thing as being slightly cross-eyed or slightly wall-eyed. if its small enough and the game is low-res enough it can not matter, but if you feel "eye strain" or a sortof between-the-eyes headache after playing for 20 minutes thats where it comes from. its subtle so it really gets you over time, not at any one moment.

here's a good howto on measuring your ipd to get it right: http://doc-ok.org/?p=898
> but nobody asks the same of huge highways in the middle of nowhere.

Building roads should move from government to fully private entities for the same reason. California has built roads from nowhere to nowhere for no reason other than local assemblyman was focused on getting them done. On other hand critical roads that would have helped commute distance, improved public transporation systems are in a bad state.
Why is accelerated networking opt in? It seems like making it default would improve these comparisons a lot and would help a lot of your customers who likely haven't found this setting either.
> The problem is, many such businesses have very old technology and must replace the entire pump at an estimated cost of up to $250,000 per station

This feels like a business opportunity. Surely there must be a way to build an adaptor?
I am trying to formulate a theory of wealth in modern society - I think that the vast vast majority of wealth resides in, or useless without, huge reservoirs of public wealth - from aqueducts still supplying Rome after 2000 years to public roads and rail.

The active capitalist stuff going on, is mostly the frothy but as water fills up the reservoir - it the deep water is public, social wealth.

It's a bit nebulous but I think it is worth us asking when is the right time to stop treating something as "frothy capitalism" and needs to be left of the free market and when it is deep water and needs to be just free to all.
Mobile networks typically use 464XLAT. Deployment is not hard. The main hold up for resi networks is CPE vendors don't typically support CLAT, but most established players can do dual stack for now.

IPv6 is at about 30% of traffic now.
There are limitations on free speech, particularly speech that directly harms people - thus no shouting fire in a crowded theater.

That's if you even consider this speech, which seems iffy at best.
This is why I've got live messages from my bank for all transactions possible. Makes for a good deal of noise on my phone but it's caught stolen cards twice for me so far.
I run LineageOS on my phone. I specifically bought the phone to run LineageOS on it. It's only a pipe dream if you want to take any random phone and change the operating system.
Fedex has gotten to the point that if I see a merchant that has an exclusive arrangement with them (mainly suppliers for material I need to buy for work) I try somewhere else.

Whenever I don't have a choice, they disappoint me.

Just last week, I had a Fedex shipment that was late. One of the reasons it was late was that it passed through almost two dozen Fedex locations.

Seven in three days.

My package spent three days traveling from Coal City, IL (9:11am 11-Dec) to Swatara Township, PA, (10:59pm 13-Dec) a distance of 741 miles, on an EPIC UNFORGETTABLE 12-day adventure on its route from California to Maryland.

61.75 hours to travel 741 miles is an average speed of 12 mph.

Just a taste of the epic journey: https://i.imgur.com/C0NlH9K.png

Anecdotes are nice but this happens so frequently I've given up on Fedex and will only use them as a last resort.

I live in an area where Amazon Prime delivery is so fast that I swear that sometimes they deliver the damned thing I order before I actually order it.
Ugh I hate when reports are published but lack basic information like malware family and indicators of compromise. The FBI FLASH reports are the worst offenders. I suspect in this case the hospital did not share maybe due to legal reasons?
Same think with UPS, they marked a package's address as 'incorrect'. Then 3 days latter had it 'out for delivery' a second time but by the end of the day the tracking info reverted to just simply 'In Transit'.

I'm sure it's some dark pattern thing so that their employees have to mark everything as something other than late, damaged, or lost since otherwise it eats into their profits.
>I don't think the goal of the textual medium should be to disorient the reader

"Now, from what you write about my language, to be honest, I find it very difficult to imagine that you mean it seriously. Your argumentation shows a true obsession with the thought of the reader. With my stuff you obviously didn't even come up with the idea that I'm not interested in him, neither in catching him, nor in snubbing him, but only in the most adequate and rigorous presentation of the matter possible. That is probably the only linguistic thing that can be done seriously against the cultural industry." -- Adorno

>I trusted that account and once deciphered, the book is just a re-hash of some marxism and some vague criticism of the dynamics of mass-media and consumerism of leisure time.

This is awfully reductionist; it is as ridiculous as saying that after Capital has been deciphered it's just a re-hash of some socialism. Not to mention, the book isn't really about mass-media and consumerism (though those do factor into it); you only have to read the quote at the beginning from Feuerbach in 1841 to know there's more to it than that. Yes, you can express any complex idea as a "re-hash" of something. Yes, you need to do background reading to understand literature that builds upon two centuries of philosophy.

>and he dives in, never explaining first what he means by "spectacle"

The endless quest for definitions laid out clear as day is fruitless, and not a mark of good philosophy. Marx never laid out all the dimensions of what he means by "capital", he never even defined "class". I don't consider that to be a fault of the work.

> but it is as much philosophy as Lady Gaga's meat dress is haute cuisine.

It should be first considered a work of critical theory before philosophy. Besides that, professional philosophers of all stripes would disagree - after all, philosophers study Debord, not Lady Gaga's meat dress. A great many works have been inspired and built on top of Debord's larger project, and Society of the Spectacle in particular.
15 minutes ago an Amazon driver left my package on the street in front of my building (in urban San Francisco) and marked it as "handed directly to a resident" in the system.

Amazon doesn't provide any discoverable way to complain about this either so I'm sure their internal metrics look great.