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  1. But there is no wall and Mexico has made it quite plain that they will NOT pay for one.

  2. Re:And I thought Obamacare FIXED healthcare?!?!? on In These Eight Midterms Races, Health and Medicine Are Front and Center (statnews.com) · · Score: 0

    It certainly fixed some of the problems. You may not have noticed that the GOP has been working hard to break what was fixed and make sure what wasn't fixed stays broken.

    For example, why would anyone in their right mind want to go back to the era where we had insurance pariahs who were chained to their employer because they couldn't afford to change insurance?

  3. Re:Reality Check on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    So, it's OK if the doctor, several nurses and interns, the office manager, and the receptionist know, but not the scribe?

    I'm sure for sensitive things like a prostate exam, the scribe could sit behind a curtain.

  4. Re:Reality Check on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com) · · Score: 2

    Or the scribe sits at a terminal entering the information while the doctor is seeing the patient.

    When the doctor is deciding which of several risky medications will have the least bad interactions with your existing medication, do you want him being nagged by software or would you like for it to be the scribe's problem?

  5. Re:Reality Check on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    I would presume a medical scribe would have field specific training and the doctor would at least look over the notes at some point. The other alternative is a doctor ready to pencil whip the forms just enough to get the software to quit complaining and move on who may have no idea how to enter useful observations so that they show up later when needed (worse, the Dr. might enter those observations incorrectly so that the notes disappear forever)..

  6. Re:Reality Check on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But should it be their job? Might it be better if the doctor focuses on the patient and a scribe focuses on the data entry? We keep hearing about a shortage of doctors and it's easier and cheaper to train a new scribe than a new doctor.

    As for the billing bureaucracy, perhaps an anal stickectomy is in order.

  7. Re:Nobody smart trusts these anyways on Flaws in Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Bypass Disk Encryption (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Stupid is as stupid does.

    TFA presents us with exhibit A.

    The alternative is that they're all in Big Brother's back pocket.

  8. Re:and ... and ... on Childhood Obesity Linked To Air Pollution From Vehicles (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Meanwhile there's all those people getting the flu because they breath too much.

    If they'd just man up and hold their breath when they're in public they wouldn't get sick.

  9. Re:I can actually hear him gritting his teeth on How New, Polite Linus Torvalds Points Out Bad Kernel Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Criminal offense is merely a differentiation from civil...

    ...offense. In any event, the law hasn't TAKEN offense, you have given offense.

    Regional or not, it is still an example of giving offense. It may even mitigate or nullify charges of battery for the person offense was given to should they respond physically. Even more jurisdictions will consider such given offense in a civil suit.

    Offense may indeed be given. Some equate it with assault. Others do not. Offense may also be taken even when none is offered. That is another matter. Some even consider taking offense when none is offered to be giving offense in itself.

    Also a regional thing, sometimes it's handled more informally. If the local cops know you were giving offense when someone flattened your nose, they won't take your report very seriously and other patrons in the bar will just happen to have seen nothing.

  10. Re:Some python code? on Tiny Twitter Thumbnail Tweaked To Transport Different File Types (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No, cat is not good enough. This is a more thorough embedding that survives some post processing that a simple concatenation will not.

  11. Re:Keep it on daylight saving forever please. on America Braces For Daylight Saving Time - And Missing Medical Records (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice when you can get it. Many cannot.

  12. Thousands of those PINS were recently leaked into the wild along with associated name and address.

    I'll put the popcorn on.

  13. Re:Freeze your credit... it's free in USA on Equifax Extends Free Credit Monitoring -- But Outsources It To Experian (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Of course, a few weeks ago, here on /. we saw an article that thousands of PINs needed to unfreeze credit were leaked.

  14. Re:Keep it on daylight saving forever please. on America Braces For Daylight Saving Time - And Missing Medical Records (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Either you haven't yet had your first job , you're a trust fund baby, or you're being obtuse.. Much of the workforce must either show up when scheduled and work the full time they are scheduled or they will be terminated. Even people free to choose their own hours have to work within "normal business hours" more or less so they can interact with others.

    Sure, starting work early is often seen favorably, but leaving work early often "isn't promotion material".

  15. Re:Keep it on daylight saving forever please. on America Braces For Daylight Saving Time - And Missing Medical Records (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    OK, so you get up an hour early, go to work an hour early, and find the door locked. Then you finally get in, get ready to leave an hour early, and for some reason the PHB objects, so POOF, there goes your sunset, you'll be driving home well into twilight.

  16. Re:I can actually hear him gritting his teeth on How New, Polite Linus Torvalds Points Out Bad Kernel Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    It's the actual derivation of the term.

    If it wasn't possible to give offense, we wouldn't use the term "criminal offense". No sophistry involved.

    See also "fighting words".

    I suspect that most people who claim it is impossible to give offense are just looking for a license to be an asshole.

  17. Re: I can actually hear him gritting his teeth on How New, Polite Linus Torvalds Points Out Bad Kernel Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be so sure. He might not overreact, but the offense will be there.

  18. Re:I can actually hear him gritting his teeth on How New, Polite Linus Torvalds Points Out Bad Kernel Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just an offense that rises to the level of a crime. That is, a criminal OFFENSE. There's a reason we call that an offense.

  19. Re:I can actually hear him gritting his teeth on How New, Polite Linus Torvalds Points Out Bad Kernel Code (phoronix.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually, it can be given. For example, if I were to pee on you while you're sitting on a bench minding your own business, most people would reasonably say I gave offense.

  20. Re:The ability to load unsigned firmware images is on Bleedingbit Zero-Day Chip Flaws May Expose Majority of Enterprises To Remote Code Execution Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    That would be up to the manufacturer that incorporates the BLE module into the product.

  21. Re:The ability to load unsigned firmware images is on Bleedingbit Zero-Day Chip Flaws May Expose Majority of Enterprises To Remote Code Execution Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I said SHOULD, not DOES.

  22. Cortex A runs linux, but cortex M used in bluetooth devices cannot.

  23. Re:The ability to load unsigned firmware images is on Bleedingbit Zero-Day Chip Flaws May Expose Majority of Enterprises To Remote Code Execution Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Some devices have their own onboard flash and bootloader. Others have no internal flash and they are initialized by the main CPU and run out of the main device flash.

  24. Re:The ability to load unsigned firmware images is on Bleedingbit Zero-Day Chip Flaws May Expose Majority of Enterprises To Remote Code Execution Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    True, some don't, but the TI devices do have their own flash for firmware.

  25. Re:The ability to load unsigned firmware images is on Bleedingbit Zero-Day Chip Flaws May Expose Majority of Enterprises To Remote Code Execution Attacks (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's up to you, you can balance the risk/reward as you see fit.

    For example, you might prefer to change the bootloader so it will flash an image you signed without the jumper, but require the jumper to change the signing key.

    Or, since the firmware I'm referring to is for the BLE module, (not the entire AP), you could just leave it as is with the jumper off..