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Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 197

Do you think any civil engineers with a degree can just walk to any construction site and get full compliance from the site people to give them anything they need to analyze whether their design, construction, etc. are safe?

Now open that up to let anyone walk in...

Comment Re:Obvious. (Score 1) 555

No, it's only too lax on the part about connecting a personal computer to their network. IMO, it should be prohibited even if you encrypt the whole hd.

For web email access requiring total hd encryption on the client machine; that's unreasonable. If they go through that step, mind as well disable web access altogether.

This seems like a brute force approach to encryption/patient privacy concerns. It has no affect on actual network security.

Robot Unravels the Mystery of Walking 134

manchineel writes with a link to a BBC article on the lessons learned from a project in locomotive robotics. 'Runbot', as it is known, is the result of a modern technology combined with a 1930s physiology study into human locomotion. The study found that walking is largely an automatic process; we only engage our brains when we have to navigate around an obstacle or deal with rough terrain. "The basic walking steps of Runbot, which has been built by scientists co-operating across Europe, are controlled by reflex information received by peripheral sensors on the joints and feet of the robot, as well as an accelerometer which monitors the pitch of the machine. These sensors pass data on to local neural loops - the equivalent of local circuits - which analyse the information and make adjustments to the gait of the robot in real time."
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Submission + - What happens at your job if you're hit by a bus?

Esther Schindler writes: ""Business continuity" sounds like a corporate buzzword until it's your own job on the line. One IT executive learned the lesson the hard way when his car was slammed by a drunk driver traveling the wrong way. In Smash-Up: How a Violent Car Crash Provided Lessons in Business Continuity and Succession Planning, Alan Boehme, CIO of Juniper Networks, talks about his two month battle to recover and what he learned about business continuity while his IT lieutenants discuss what went right—and what went wrong—during his absence.

What happens when a key player in a company goes down? Who takes over? What effect will replacing an individual have on operations? While most businesses have org charts that map out what to do after disruptions—whether they're caused by resignation, firing, retirement, sickness, injury or death—these are often crude in format and live in dusty filing cabinets in HR.


This article is written from the top manager's point of view, but you don't have to be a key decision maker for this to be relevant. What would happen to your job, your team, your project, if you were hit by a truck?"

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