If the hospital is sufficiently worried about medical errors (and lawsuits), its managers ought to be paying attention to issues like fatigue.
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I also see XP running widely in retail and hospitality settings. Given the current data breach climate for retail, this seems extra worrisome.
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This story oofers a good example of how a transformational technology move that saves the Army money, makes great management and security sense, can still get caught in limbo because of budget constraints. It also...
In reply to: Why budgets matter
@Whoopty, This particular column was about using wearables to track the hospital workforce, not the patients, although any system that tracked factors like fatigue would by definition be recording some health relevant data...
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Is the big-picture that you store your cryptocurrency offline, then when you want to spend some, you move it into a "DMZ" or airlock en route to the payee? Only a small amount is vulnerable, and only for a short period of...
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"In particular, the report accused the nine data brokers under investigation -- including Experian -- of operating 'behind a veil of secrecy.'" No kidding. I wouldn't be a fan of Experian even if this breach hadn't occurred....
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Most ATMs do run Windows XP. It's the version for embedded devices which has far fewer security holes to begin with, but that is the predominant operating system. At some point, they will have to be replaced. I don't envy...
In reply to: Re: Healthcare scare?
Currently all the furor over Bitcoins assumes it will the top player in the growing field. But anyone can create another Bitcoin protocol, each upgrading either the protocol's flaws or flaws in the human component:...
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I'm going to print up a T-shirt for my mother: One Of The Proud 13%
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"The Web" didn't just suddenly happen in 1989 (nor was it "invented" by Al Gore). What happened then is that a structure and a name was given to what was already in existance (highly-interconnected infrastructure,...
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The deal is set to be finalized later this year. It will be interesting to see if anything does stall or prevent it.
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gmail addresses are more valuable than facebook email addresses. Your suggestion that one try all login methods and then guess what data is being mined from each one is just playing paper scissors rock. There is no valid...
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The White House President's Council of Economic Advisers recently released a report that, while no doubt self serving, nevertheless pulls together some useful and telling information about the impact of patent trolls. It's...
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Whether it is in the military or otherwise, virtual desktops are the future. The problem is that we have continued to hear about it, yet nothing has been done. Now, the Army is doing it. That's because they realize the risks...
In reply to: Necessary
I like the idea of CarPlay. It's an interesting way for Apple to get in the driver's seat. Microsoft, for example, has gone a different route by providing an OS for cars. Apple takes its consumer cachet and slides right...
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No question, Tim Berners-Lee's work launched the Web as we've come to know it -- but as many will add, what he created stands on the shoulders of those who helped create the Arpanet. I've had the good fortune to spend time...
In reply to: TCP and the Internet
This is interesting. VMware is essentially going otuside of server infrastructure VMs and moving further into more appliance-like hardware. It makes sense. But it does make one wonder what other hardware appliances...
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I will be glad to see this OS fade from relevance. But it is true, many ATMs and security devices still use Windows XP. That's scary these devices have not innovated on the level that needs to be done. My thinking...
In reply to: Re: Healthcare scare?
Using the "web" in 1970 would quite a trick, since it wasn't invented until 1989. I think you meant you were using the Internet in 1970. Commonly confused, the Web and Internet are not the same.
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And another thing. When I asked whose server hardware supports Virtual SAN, I heard Cisco, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu but did not hear HP mentioned, which made me suspicious, needlessly so. HP is on the list of hardware suppliers...
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