Not all regulation is bad, particularly when it comes to toxic substances. Every bit of evidence points to this mostly being a needless handout to various industries (most notably coal) for financial gain of a few at the expense of the health and welfare of the many.
I work in IT for one of the most heavily over-regulated industries in this country, the medical laboratory. No one is giving our industry any easement of the regulation on us, and frankly we don't want it. We *thrive* on our regulation. It's good for us. There is almost no corner of our industry that doesn't have some regulation hanging over it, and even the industries we contract with to service our industry are also themselves heavily regulated. It gives a nice high cost threshold to any company trying to enter it. Sure, we could make barrels more cash without the regulation, but we'd also have a lot more competition.
We see our regulation as a challenge, not a burden. Why can't the coal industry?
Its amazing that I am seeing Skycraft mentioned here. That little store in Winter Park, Fl has been my go-to place for all sorts of projects since I was a little kid.
Same here, Dad loved to go out there not long after they opened, he always took me along.
One thing I've learned after all the years I've shopped there: if you see it and you have any interest in it, put it in your hands and buy it. If you hesitate, someone else will get it and it won't be there next time. Making you regret to the end of your days about your lost opportunity to have it. Bought an old ISA NIC with connectors for RJ-45, thinnet, *and* thicknet. Makes a great conversation piece mounted on the office wall.
I mean, when/. first started, it was all "embrace, extend, extinguish" with MS using a Borg Gates avatar. Is this the "embrace" part or the "extend" part of that whole process? Or can we really trust them?
Paradoxically, companies find free things scary. When a supplier charges for a product or service, companies feel the supplier has a greater contractual obligation to provide what was asked for.
My large national Fortune 500 company uses both RedHat and Microsoft contracted-service products at very high tiers. Guess which one we hardly ever need the service, yet they provide it in an instant to us? And guess which other usually can't be the least taxed with picking up our phone calls for support? RedHat has been a solid supporter of our IT operations.
Seriously, we want to add a -third- dimension to the driving experience?! Come to Orlando FL, my home town, where when there's not a cop around, traffic laws are just mere suggestions. And the cops don't bother following the same laws. The thought of adding a Z-axis to the average driver's motion range just scares the absolute dog-crap out of me.
Well, there's the problem right there. They're being paid by the contracting company, not FB, so their real beef is with their actual employer. FB doesn't employ them, FB employs the contracting company. FB is using the cheapest bid for food service they could get.
So how are actual FB employees faring at the company?
Or, for that matter, anything else that I value that some TSA loser might want to pawn.
Just get yourself a large enough lock box and a flare gun. You have to declare your "weapon" (and not even tell them what type of weapon it is), so pack up everything you don't want lost into the lock box, lock it with your own non-TSA locks, chain it to the frame of your luggage, and make your weapon declaration when you check in. You must be present if the TSA wants to open your luggage and the lock box. And your stuff is in a secure box and is unlikely to be damaged or stolen. This is all well within the TSA's own regulations, too. It's a real shame we have to protect ourselves against our own federal airport security just to fly, though.
Any way, for me it was just enough Basic to get to the C= monitor and have fun with 6502 assembly. Later it was 8086 assembly, then enough C on the old MSC compiler to get into a lot of trouble. The first language I sat down and really tried to learn was Modula-2, and later some Oberon.
Yes, in a theoretical (layman's definition) sense, that's true. Pathologists, the MD/DO educated physicians that run the medical laboratories producing lab tests, are responsible for the results which come from the labs they run. We medical laboratory technologists, along with other medical lab professionals like cytotechnologists, who do the actual manual labor of performing the tests, are the "hands" of the pathologists that would actually be running the tests if we weren't trained to work in their stead. At core, we lab techs all know and understand this, and the med lab field is an ancillary medical field. A lot of medical tech field operate the same same, being the laborers for the doctors for a particular field. Nuclear med techs and radiation dosologists are similar.
I don't know if this is possible yet, but how about when your car is charged your given a leeway time and then if you don't remove your car it starts DISCHARGING the BATTERY. An app could let you know when it's almost fully charged (the time preference would be yours) and then you would be ready to be there when your car is fully charged.
It seems a lot of the posters here really didn't read the article, and/or have no idea just exactly what got hacked.
Disclosure: I work with their major competitor. We have an online app almost exactly like Quest's, as do many of our competitors. Most of these online apps have about the same functionality, more or less, and work very similarly.
Care360 is Quest's online results delivery online app. The app itself belongs to Quest, and is run on hardware they own/lease. Provider offices ask for access to this app to receive their patient results. Typically this access is very restricted and narrow. The provider office only see the results they need to see. Some offices only see a couple new results a day (if any), other offices may see hundreds, even thousands of new results a day. An optional piece of software is an autoprint utility, which allows the office to get results automatically printed to some office printer, or even as PDF files on a receiving computer. Even another option is to have the results automatically received into the office management system with an electronic data interface.
Another part of these systems allows the client to make a test requisition that can either be given to the patient, put into a system that the blood draw centers can receive, or go along with the specimens the office draws themselves. This is what I think got hacked. This requisition making system has all the patient demographics needed to process and bill the patient's lab work, including their address info, responsible party info, and insurance subscriber info including any needed billing info. It is everything the lab needs to know to bill, and in most cases also includes diagnosis codes. It is quite a lot of info for each patient, and has to be current for a successful billing.
you go to the embassy to get a replacement.. not a big deal?
Well, you still have to get to your embassy or consulate. Oh, wait, that's in a city the other side of the country, a nice long trip. You have to travel to that office. If you can get past the armed guards whose primary job is not to let you leave the compound. And replacements cost money. Money that is being withheld from you until you pay certain job "fees" that just never seem to get paid. And you need to show proof of citizenship. Fun thing when you only have the clothes on your back.
Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."
I got a 3B2/600 server that's older than my two co-workers. Use to be the main Usenet server for Florida and some of the rest of the southeast US. And yea, somewhere I have the tape archive of all those old posts.
I'm 55, only have a Facebook account to keep up with a few family members. Easy to share a photo or a dumb memory that way. Otherwise, Twitter and all the rest of that crap garner not a hint of interest to me. A limit of 140 characters?! And we bemoan the inability of so many millennials from being able to express themselves fully. I just really have no desire to get and keep up with a half dozen or so different such accounts, when I have a bunch of old personal and business accounts I hardly use much, any way.
Why use a opossum as a size indicator? They are a marsupial, not a mammal like ourselves. An opossum is about the same size as a standard house cat, and a cat is a mammal, same as a human. And very possibly more familiar to folks outside North America.
Only thing I can think is it gives some credence to that link, showing that the opossum's existence is due to the same event that lead to the proto-mammal that later split into simians and felids. Still would have made more sense to a banana.
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Not all regulation is bad, particularly when it comes to toxic substances. Every bit of evidence points to this mostly being a needless handout to various industries (most notably coal) for financial gain of a few at the expense of the health and welfare of the many.
I work in IT for one of the most heavily over-regulated industries in this country, the medical laboratory. No one is giving our industry any easement of the regulation on us, and frankly we don't want it. We *thrive* on our regulation. It's good for us. There is almost no corner of our industry that doesn't have some regulation hanging over it, and even the industries we contract with to service our industry are also themselves heavily regulated. It gives a nice high cost threshold to any company trying to enter it. Sure, we could make barrels more cash without the regulation, but we'd also have a lot more competition.
We see our regulation as a challenge, not a burden. Why can't the coal industry?
Yea, sure, Don Draper...
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"And then all hell broke loose."
O.M.G. Literally tens of, even a few dozen, people were up in arms over such a scurrilous idea! OH, The Horror!
Its amazing that I am seeing Skycraft mentioned here. That little store in Winter Park, Fl has been my go-to place for all sorts of projects since I was a little kid.
Same here, Dad loved to go out there not long after they opened, he always took me along.
One thing I've learned after all the years I've shopped there: if you see it and you have any interest in it, put it in your hands and buy it. If you hesitate, someone else will get it and it won't be there next time. Making you regret to the end of your days about your lost opportunity to have it.
Bought an old ISA NIC with connectors for RJ-45, thinnet, *and* thicknet. Makes a great conversation piece mounted on the office wall.
I mean, when /. first started, it was all "embrace, extend, extinguish" with MS using a Borg Gates avatar.
Is this the "embrace" part or the "extend" part of that whole process? Or can we really trust them?
He ... HE ... her ... she ... she was fired.
And your manager managed to get a sex-change in the middle of all that?
Paradoxically, companies find free things scary. When a supplier charges for a product or service, companies feel the supplier has a greater contractual obligation to provide what was asked for.
My large national Fortune 500 company uses both RedHat and Microsoft contracted-service products at very high tiers. Guess which one we hardly ever need the service, yet they provide it in an instant to us? And guess which other usually can't be the least taxed with picking up our phone calls for support? RedHat has been a solid supporter of our IT operations.
Seriously, we want to add a -third- dimension to the driving experience?! Come to Orlando FL, my home town, where when there's not a cop around, traffic laws are just mere suggestions. And the cops don't bother following the same laws. The thought of adding a Z-axis to the average driver's motion range just scares the absolute dog-crap out of me.
Well, there's the problem right there. They're being paid by the contracting company, not FB, so their real beef is with their actual employer. FB doesn't employ them, FB employs the contracting company. FB is using the cheapest bid for food service they could get.
So how are actual FB employees faring at the company?
Or, for that matter, anything else that I value that some TSA loser might want to pawn.
Just get yourself a large enough lock box and a flare gun. You have to declare your "weapon" (and not even tell them what type of weapon it is), so pack up everything you don't want lost into the lock box, lock it with your own non-TSA locks, chain it to the frame of your luggage, and make your weapon declaration when you check in. You must be present if the TSA wants to open your luggage and the lock box. And your stuff is in a secure box and is unlikely to be damaged or stolen. This is all well within the TSA's own regulations, too. It's a real shame we have to protect ourselves against our own federal airport security just to fly, though.
My little 7" color Nook I rooted? That has *all* my reading material.
If disallowed, it's just one more reason not to fly. And I have zero reasons now.
Nice to see all the old /. greybeards posting!
Any way, for me it was just enough Basic to get to the C= monitor and have fun with 6502 assembly. Later it was 8086 assembly, then enough C on the old MSC compiler to get into a lot of trouble. The first language I sat down and really tried to learn was Modula-2, and later some Oberon.
So /. is now getting article submissions off of Reddit these days? Sad...
"Medical doctors" perform lab tests?
Yes, in a theoretical (layman's definition) sense, that's true. Pathologists, the MD/DO educated physicians that run the medical laboratories producing lab tests, are responsible for the results which come from the labs they run. We medical laboratory technologists, along with other medical lab professionals like cytotechnologists, who do the actual manual labor of performing the tests, are the "hands" of the pathologists that would actually be running the tests if we weren't trained to work in their stead. At core, we lab techs all know and understand this, and the med lab field is an ancillary medical field. A lot of medical tech field operate the same same, being the laborers for the doctors for a particular field. Nuclear med techs and radiation dosologists are similar.
I don't know if this is possible yet, but how about when your car is charged your given a leeway time and then if you don't remove your car it starts DISCHARGING the BATTERY. An app could let you know when it's almost fully charged (the time preference would be yours) and then you would be ready to be there when your car is fully charged.
It seems a lot of the posters here really didn't read the article, and/or have no idea just exactly what got hacked.
Disclosure: I work with their major competitor. We have an online app almost exactly like Quest's, as do many of our competitors. Most of these online apps have about the same functionality, more or less, and work very similarly.
Care360 is Quest's online results delivery online app. The app itself belongs to Quest, and is run on hardware they own/lease. Provider offices ask for access to this app to receive their patient results. Typically this access is very restricted and narrow. The provider office only see the results they need to see. Some offices only see a couple new results a day (if any), other offices may see hundreds, even thousands of new results a day. An optional piece of software is an autoprint utility, which allows the office to get results automatically printed to some office printer, or even as PDF files on a receiving computer. Even another option is to have the results automatically received into the office management system with an electronic data interface.
Another part of these systems allows the client to make a test requisition that can either be given to the patient, put into a system that the blood draw centers can receive, or go along with the specimens the office draws themselves. This is what I think got hacked. This requisition making system has all the patient demographics needed to process and bill the patient's lab work, including their address info, responsible party info, and insurance subscriber info including any needed billing info. It is everything the lab needs to know to bill, and in most cases also includes diagnosis codes. It is quite a lot of info for each patient, and has to be current for a successful billing.
you go to the embassy to get a replacement.. not a big deal?
Well, you still have to get to your embassy or consulate. Oh, wait, that's in a city the other side of the country, a nice long trip. You have to travel to that office. If you can get past the armed guards whose primary job is not to let you leave the compound. And replacements cost money. Money that is being withheld from you until you pay certain job "fees" that just never seem to get paid. And you need to show proof of citizenship. Fun thing when you only have the clothes on your back.
Yea, not a big deal...
, buddy, just ...
Damn, the "swoosh!"es just disappeared. :\
, buddy, just ...
Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, "Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals ... Now did the Lord say, "First thou pullest the Holy Pin. Then thou must count to three. Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither shalt thou count two, excepting that thou then proceedeth to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the number of the counting, be reached, then lobbest thou the Holy Hand Grenade in the direction of thine foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it."
I got a 3B2/600 server that's older than my two co-workers. Use to be the main Usenet server for Florida and some of the rest of the southeast US. And yea, somewhere I have the tape archive of all those old posts.
I'm 55, only have a Facebook account to keep up with a few family members. Easy to share a photo or a dumb memory that way. Otherwise, Twitter and all the rest of that crap garner not a hint of interest to me. A limit of 140 characters?! And we bemoan the inability of so many millennials from being able to express themselves fully. I just really have no desire to get and keep up with a half dozen or so different such accounts, when I have a bunch of old personal and business accounts I hardly use much, any way.
Why use a opossum as a size indicator? They are a marsupial, not a mammal like ourselves. An opossum is about the same size as a standard house cat, and a cat is a mammal, same as a human. And very possibly more familiar to folks outside North America.
Only thing I can think is it gives some credence to that link, showing that the opossum's existence is due to the same event that lead to the proto-mammal that later split into simians and felids. Still would have made more sense to a banana.
10. You'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off."
Actually you already do that with a Prius. Push button to start, push same button to shut off.