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Re: A seattle event

ljbuesch — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 02:16:16 -0000

Hoo ra! This was one sweet event :D

Check out these awesome pics I took!

Re: Rock n Roll Seattle Marathon & Half Marathon benefiting the American Cancer Society

ljbuesch — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 02:08:20 -0000

Check out this awesome photo!

Re: Google Health Can Fix U.S. Healthcare

ljbuesch — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:29:36 -0000

I agree with some, but disagree with most. When I visit a doctor, I make a personal relationship with that doctor and the entire staff. Sure there is a paper trail, but honestly I would trust the nurse over some IT guy at Google.

And could you elaborate more on how the fact that someone that pays for your medical bills but cant see the exact itemized bills made the costs soar? I contribute it to the fact that medical companies spend billions of dollars and many years on R&D of a pill, then only get 20 years to sell it before patient expires and generics can make money. Not only that, but rule #1 of setting the price of a good is not how much it took to make it, but rather how much benefit the consumer will get. How much is good health worth to you?

Saying that Google knows everything about us and that we should just trust them because there are laws is bad. So far they have an excellent record of keeping things private, but just because it's been their track record doesn't mean that we should blindly trust them in the future. People had no reason to distrust Enron when they were pouring their life savings into their stocks...

As far as where a patient goes, I would assume most people would go to where their doctor tells them to go. If a person can't trust their doctor for at least that much information, they need a new doctor.

With banks, there is still a ton of paperwork that is created and dealt with, they have the same problems as every other industry. Saying it's all online is a myth (and maybe you didn't mean to say bank's had it made)

Re: Adobe Air on Linux - A Security Nightmare

ljbuesch — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:15:55 -0000

If you are interested, I found a way to bypass the installer, but it requires the download of their SDK (which is just a tbz2 archive). http://agoln.net/archives/106

Re: Adobe Air on Linux - A Security Nightmare

ljbuesch — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:23:07 -0000

Andi, I suppose I can understand a bit more of the gripe about the individual applications. I'm not quite sure what AIR needs your root account for, but I doubt a user program is granted full root privileges (yes, I understand a security hole could elevate what a normal developer *should* be able to do).

I am going to stand firm about saying requiring root for installing AIR itself though is something that is mostly a non-issue. Although yes, you can open a .deb archive, look through the source and decipher what's going on, does anybody actually do that? I guess it's nice to know one has the ability to do it, I doubt anyone actually takes advantage of it. It seems like it would be a lot less trouble to set up a virtual machine (or old computer lying around), install the software there, and see what it does.

Re: Adobe Air on Linux - A Security Nightmare

ljbuesch — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:17:48 -0000

I don't understand how this is a huge security issue. Sure, it is a proprietary installer and you don't get to do all the special magic of compiling it yourself, but you would mostly likely be using apt to get the package anyways (as you said you wanted in the first place). Guess what... apt asks you for your root password.

When installing an application that uses air, it isn't all that out of line for it to ask you for your root password. Once again, how would you like to install it? Through apt? Once again, apt asks you for your root password.

Overall, your issues you bring up are not a "Security Nightmare", albeit maybe a bit excessive to _require_ a root password, this day and age it's not out of the ordinary to ask for it even on Linux.

Re: LINQ for PHP (Language Integrated Query for PHP)

ljbuesch — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:13:00 -0000

Wow! Very interesting stuff happening here. I had used a little bit of LINQ late last year and really, really enjoyed it, and I'm really glad to see it on PHP. I will have to use this and see how it works in my own applications.

Re: “Purdue Emergency Notification” Loophole

ljbuesch — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:47:33 -0000

If you look at the new message, they have just updated the message to include the link to the post. Good catch Luke!

<quote>
...changes in university operations will be posted online at www.purdue.edu and with the university's Emergency Notification group on Facebook at http://purdue.facebook.com/...
</quote>

Re: Apple, GCC, & Two-Finger Scrolling

ljbuesch — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:04:15 -0000

Just an FYI: MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/) is a package repository for Mac's. It has a _lot_ of work to do install your setup (think cygwin), but so far it seems easy enough:

sudo port install gnucash

Re: Apple, GCC, & Two-Finger Scrolling

ljbuesch — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:41:41 -0000

I have actually found it quite easy to do some development on my Mac. My only gripes are because how PHP is bundled with Leopard, I cannot use 3rd party extensions, so I would have to compile my own PHP installation. Alo, Java 6 is not _really_ available. They have a developer preview, but it's a hassle to run any java program with it.

Re: Facebook Needs to Internationalize

ljbuesch — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:15:16 -0000

One thing about internationalization - it's a pain with PHP. Unicode support is non-existent at the moment. It's going to arrive in PHP 6, but who knows when that's going to come out. They've already decided that namespaces are easier / quicker to implement than Unicode, as they have pushed namespace support to 5.3 instead of 6.0.

(And from looking at their leaked source, I'd think they aren't even running 5).

Re: Web History Graph

ljbuesch — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:01:58 -0000

That sounds like a _really_ fun project. If you ever start to go down the path, let me know... I'd be really interested to help out.