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Comment Re:Insecure by design (Score 1) 242

Any process running under privileges accessible to you can be cracked (albeit sand-boxing, in which case you need system privileges) and it can't hide data from end-user / other processes in same privilege space (albeit sand-boxing....). They can make it more difficult though (extracting Bluray key from windows media player will take anyone at least a few days)

Correct. However, how is that a problem for Dropbox or Dropbox users? It would provide access to files that are already stored _decrypted_ on the machine. Please explain, cause I would love to know. Seriously.

Comment It's all economics (Score 1) 398

IT will only save you money if you can do the same work faster and/or more cheaply than the competition. If all hospitals implement similar systems, that is now the new standard and you don't have a competitive edge that allows you to lower your operating expenses as compared to other hospitals. This is basically one of Parkinson's laws, as mentioned below.

Of course there may be problems with the IT systems in hospitals. So at some point in the future, one company will make a product that works really well and solves these problems. The first hospital to acquire the system will lower operating expenses, increase their efficiency. They can then attract more 'business' by lowering their price. Then the same company sells the system to all the other hospitals, and all their operating expenses will be reduced, efficiencies increased. Prices drop, new baseline reached. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Comment Dear David (Score 2) 217

Thank you very much for a Pegasus Mail, so solid, so powerful, and my email program exclusively from 1992 to 2005, when I finally completely ditched my windows partition in favor of running Ubuntu exclusively. I had been running Pmail under wine from 2003. I really loved the filtering system, it was wonderful!

I am sorry to see you won't be continuing the program. Open sourcing is a nice idea, but my guess is it will then become a weak Eudora or Thunderbird copy.

I wish you all the best in your future. So long, and thanks for all the fish!

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