So, I can speak from plenty of experience. I cross the US / Canadian boarder daily, as I work in the USA and live in Canada. They won't give you any issues with 'media' you have unless you make a point to show them there is something they might not like. Just make sure to have a declaration of all your goods you intend to bring into the country, especially expensive elctronics, serial numbers, model numbers and the like. Get greet card cards for them, if that's possible in Australia.
Also, a simply solution if you're paranoid like me? Encrypt your drives. It's your own personal data, nobody has the right or need to view the contents of your hard drives. People need to be reminded it's not the right of the government to be 'big brother', despite what the NSA is doing lately. All of my computing devices and date are encrypted (even my phone and tablet).
Before I begin let me preface this post by saying I work in a hospital in the IT Staff, and I have for the past 10 years now (as scary as that sounds to me typing it out). At any rate I can say that malware, spyware, virus' etc are a constant concern for the staff here. When I started working here it was the 'Wild West' for computing, people did what they wanted, when they wanted to on their computers, and we've slowly curbed that. Especially now that electronic medical records are being used.
The key we've found to keep malicious software off computers used for medical purposes, or with confidential data is actually three fold -- First segregate those devices with ePHI (electronic protected health information) off onto their own network, strip the computers of all but the most essential software, and the medical staff all have to sign agreements when they're hired that strictly prohibit them from using computers for personal tasks. Want to check your e-mail? Bring in your smart phone, or laptop etc, and do it with that device (we actually provide a wireless for the entire staff to use 'just' for that purpose). Nobody can keep 'on task' all day, so allowing them the outlet with some caveats has been a great success.
However, all machines that have access to the ePHI network are imaged once put into service, but we re-image the machines on a staggered schedule so every 6 months they're a fresh install. Virus software (AVG) is installed and on an automatic update / scan schedule as well -- with a central server that reports results to us. Also for security concerns every Laptop is encrypted (thank you Truecrypt), and every device that accesses ePHI comes through a VPN. If a Laptop get's stolen (and one has in the past), the VPN access for that device is revoked immediately. So between the VPN and Encryption, the odds of a 'break' in our security are astronomical.
Anyway all these procedures may seem a bit excessive, but we've yet to have a PC with ePHI or EMR softwaret be compromised where I work thanks to them. I sleep slightly better at night thanks to this system actually. I do know of several other hospitals / medical facilities that are far far less secure though, and frankly it scares the hell out of me how cavalier they are about the whole ordeal. One of our doctors is Per Diem and his home office supplied him with an unencrypt, unsecured, laptop with full admin rights, and their EMR software installed on said Laptop for his free use.
PS -- A tip to anyone working in a medical facility, one of the ways we had our providers (Doctors) agree to this stringent of a system was to point out that infractions where ePHI is compromised put their necks on the line, even more so then they do ours. So all this security is for their benefit as much as yours. Also, this goes double if you have a counseling staff because the rules around ePHI regarding counseling services are even more strict and crazy. Anyway hopefully that helps someone out.
Well, I won't comment on the rather slimy move by the gov't, and their clear lack of ability to stand up for the reasonable privacy of their people... wait I think I just did. However, there is a simple solution to all this -- don't use Facebook. I used to use the site, but deleted my account about 6 months ago (permanently deleted... not just suspended as they do by default), and I've never been happier. I found I didn't like the practices of the sites owners, and it was just a constant drain on my time. I have better things to do with my day then look in on the lives of distant friends / relatives I don't care about.
Anyone that I really consider a close friend doesn't need FB to see what I'm up to, nor do I need it to see what they're doing. If you don't have a FB account... certainly no employer can demand access to it If they ask you for your FB login information you can quite honestly and frankly tell them you don't use the service.
Still, I think that it's supremely slimy for an employer to want this information from you. Just another reason that if you use these social networking sites, you should never post anything of significance on them.
*facepalm* That would explain the black hole that just formed in my office and consumed my co-worker. Poor fool, that's what he gets for taking my seat!
The Blue Screen of Death will now cause the green cloud of radioactive fallout!
Gate's is simply looking to create a rainbow of diversity for the ways that he can cause pain and destruction. Though... I'm not sure leaping from electronic to biological desolation? Might their be some anti-trust issues here (again)? Billy when oh when will you learn?
This sort've thing drives me insane. DLC is a good idea in concept but in practice? You get results like this.
You shouldn't have to pay any gaming company for additional content they included on the disc, it's madness, taken to another high level. I get severly annoyed with these gaming companies that release DLC 5 days after the game's out,a nd change 15 USD for it. Or the ones that release DLC that actually just fixes bugs in their game whilst adding very very little to the experience.
Its one thing to add an expansion to your game, it's another thing to take content that should've been free that was already on the disc... and charge people to play it.
I don't say this often, but I hope the hacking community figures out a way to open up the extra content on the disc for free on the PC, because if I owned the game... I'd crack it.
Actually we've run into that. But That's a violation of HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act), and if you find your users doing something like that in a medical environment? It can mean very serious action is taken. We actually had one person refuse to 'not' use post-its.. and they where let go from the organization.
And I mean honestly in the grand scheme of things, you're adding one password to your daily computing life, that will ultimately save someones butt if their PC gets stolen. Where I work, most of the Doctors are grateful for that extra layer of security. They know that if patient data was leaked, on their watch? It would likely mean their jobs, a black mark on their names in the public, and a lot worse for the organization they work for. I'm sure its similar in other fields.
I really fail to see why so many of these companies fail to use common sense. The first thing we do as an IT staff in my organization with laptops is encrypt them. Use something like Truecrypt, enable full drive encryption and set a good password. Laptop gets stolen? You're out the cost of the physical hardware that was taken from you... but the data that was on the machine? You can rest easy that you took every precaution you could to keep it safe.
Of course, I work in the health care field so, any laptops, tablets, netbooks etc that have any ePHI (Electronic Protected Health Information), have to be secured. We just take our security practices a step further and do it to all of them. Which is worse? Having your users gripe a bit about an extra password? Or having data stolen? It's saved us once already as a laptop was stolen last year on a business trip.
I think that the biggest problem Linux has currently is its need completely redesign its applications so often. It's not that innovation isn't the answer. The problem I find is that all too often they throw the baby out with the bath water. In order to keep on the innovation band wagon I see far too many projects throw tried and tested functionality out saying 'we'll add that back into the new version later'. KDE4 is just the most visible culprit right now. Projects like Amarok 2 are guilty of it as well.
Don't get me wrong I love Linux. I use Linux in every place possible. FC10 is my Desktop at work. Ubuntu 9.04 runs on my Netbook (and runs well I might add). MythDora is my media center hub w/ Boxee integrated. My main desktop runs Arch Linux. But I digress.
Linux to me is the ultimate desktop for it's advanced and flexibility, nobody else can claim that. It's also the most stable platform to run a server on bar none.
However I think we like a lot of geeks suffer from the 'look before you leap' senario. We come up with an idea or see a new way of doing something and immediately rush it into the redesign of an application. Now for technically minded people that's not a big deal, we can work around a programs quirks and still enjoy it. But in order for Linux to be used by the public we need to have a more stable base line.
Microsoft wins the OS wars not because they're on the bleeding edge but because they're not. They wait and let everyone else try out new ideas... then they 'borrow' them. They're successful because there's always that common tie in in Windows. No matter what they do to that OS it still has the windows 'feel' so the average joe can navigate it. That's what we're missing.
To me this would be an ultimate chance for some humor on my application. I would start writing down random sex sites (nothing illegal) and perhaps a few online dating sites, then make up some fake profiles. Hopefully that would teach these folks not to be so damn nosy.
IT Departments rarely get any respect, we're firmly placed on the 'Rodney Dangerfield' rung of the office social ladder.
People seem to enjoy blaming IT for anything that goes wrong in their office. Microwave dies? IT should be fixing it (trust me, I've been ASKED to do that job... no joke).
I was in your situation a few years ago. I've been doing IT for 7 years now, at first I was a happy go-lucky fellow with patients to take on the world. But... that wears thin when your co-workers treat you like another machine to do their complex tasks (or some of them do).
Everyone expects technological miracle, and they expect them to cost their department $50. My advice to you is to get a good sense of humor and a thick skin, you'll need both. Make people laugh and you disarm them a bit. I always try to have some sort've amusing 1 liner to give my bosses when something is nearly an impossible task, and they get the picture.
Another important thing that I've seen mentioned here is documentation. You need to document everything and anything that goes on while you're at work. Keep a log of your daily work activities, the projects you've got going, any problems that occur during the day (and the steps you took to resolve them).
The most important thing to document is altercations with people that you have, and they will happen. Remember first off if someone is being beligerant towards you, keep your calm. Yelling back at them will only escalate things and get you involved in any of the negative effects. Also any witnesses available get them to write out what they saw from their perspective and sign off / date it ASAP. This is annoying, but it's saved my hide time and time again. If you've got 3 people agreeing with your side of the story, the other individual generally doesn't garner any sympathy.
Lastly if all else fails? Violent video games... just don't start picturing peoples heads on your enemies and you're golden.
Hope that helps
-K
Perhaps this is one of the first steps in this new transparent gov't we where told to expect? Next maybe Biden will accidentally bring us alien autopsy footage while commenting on the terrible interior design of Area 51.
I find that Global Warming has become less of a science and more of a religious movement. There are people whom I work with who actually have lost sleep, and become ill from worrying about it. Oddly enough these are the same people who become verbally abusive to anyone that disagrees with them.
I thought the whole point of the scientific method was to create 'theories', even Gravity is a theory in scientific terms, not a fact. When you attempt to silence the scientific debate in a venue such as this, it reminds me of something from WWII. People always seek to shout down oposition rather than listening to what it has to say.
I almost akin this whole situation to a new rendition of the Crusades. Don't agree with Global Warming? Well you're cast out from society in a social sense. I actually have friends who refuse to speak to me now because of my opinions on this subject. To me? That's just sad.
I'm all for renewable energy sources, don't get me wrong. But do it when it makes economic sense, when the cost of the technology to produce per watt becomes comparable to our current methods, not before. If you suddenly take that competition out of this, I believe you'll find innovation in renewable energy go to the wayside. Why work to improve a technology if it's simply going to be imposed on the public anyway right?
"Contact Canadian Medicare"
WFT?
You do to your doctor.
You know nothing about the Canadian medical system.
That's the problem, due to the inadiquacies/of/ the Canadian health system I have no regular doctor on the Canadian side. I haven't for several years since my previous one retired. Even then, that doctor was an hour and fifteen minutes away.
As for your generalization about not knowing anything about Canadian Health Care.... a simple slip of terminology and you jump all over me hrmm? I know enough about it, I LIVED with it (apparently just like you). I got OUT of it's grasp as soon as humanly possible, and I am the better for it.
My question is how can you berate what's on the other side of the fence if you've never been on it yourself? Perhaps you should learn to not judge people but question them.
Everyone seems to forget why the Canadian health care system is in such a sad state of repair. Long story short, the liberals had to cut tons of spending in order to pay back some of the massive debt inherited from the conservatives. Health care was one of the biggest casualties. Many small communities lost their services. It wasn't a failure of socialized medicine, it was the result of overspending by the PC's and underspending by the Liberals.
It wasn't a failure of socialized medicine, it was the result of overspending by the PC's and underspending by the Liberals.
You pretty much nailed it on the head. It was the failure of Politics that caused the failure of Socialized Medicine. But that's the problem... Government is always a Political entity. Everyone's always on the look out for number one. How can they score points for themselves and their party. Neither side is really interested in helping the people they represent as much as helping their party. It should be country first and party second... they forget that.
In a perfect world, Socialized Medicine would be a ideal system. You find me a perfect world to deploy this system in. Until then? Privatization, or a two tier system will at least provide a better solution.
Actually it's funny you should mention that. See, I work for a Company known as 'Maine Telemedicine Services' We deploy teleconferencing equipment all over the state of Maine for the purposes of counseling and medical uses over great distances. Maine's a big place as well.
We'd talked to different Canadian hospitals in New Brunswick on occasion to demonstrate this equipment, in the past. They had no interest our services. They're simply too under funded to afford any of it. It's really a shame, the equipment works amazing well all over Maine. I've actually had a couple of my consults with my Cardiologist over a couple of Polycom units, utilizing ISDN lines.
Now the stuff isn't without it's issues... but it's an excellent cost saving, and productivity increasing technology. You'd thing that the Government would be interested in that eh?
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So, I can speak from plenty of experience. I cross the US / Canadian boarder daily, as I work in the USA and live in Canada. They won't give you any issues with 'media' you have unless you make a point to show them there is something they might not like. Just make sure to have a declaration of all your goods you intend to bring into the country, especially expensive elctronics, serial numbers, model numbers and the like. Get greet card cards for them, if that's possible in Australia. Also, a simply solution if you're paranoid like me? Encrypt your drives. It's your own personal data, nobody has the right or need to view the contents of your hard drives. People need to be reminded it's not the right of the government to be 'big brother', despite what the NSA is doing lately. All of my computing devices and date are encrypted (even my phone and tablet).
In other news the CEO of Verticon Industries, Dr Evil assures us there's nothing to worry about.
In other news? Mel Brooks assures everyone that there is absolutely no air shortage what-so-ever.
Private hospital, but most of the patients are on gov't subsidized health plans, so.... ^/~
Before I begin let me preface this post by saying I work in a hospital in the IT Staff, and I have for the past 10 years now (as scary as that sounds to me typing it out). At any rate I can say that malware, spyware, virus' etc are a constant concern for the staff here. When I started working here it was the 'Wild West' for computing, people did what they wanted, when they wanted to on their computers, and we've slowly curbed that. Especially now that electronic medical records are being used. The key we've found to keep malicious software off computers used for medical purposes, or with confidential data is actually three fold -- First segregate those devices with ePHI (electronic protected health information) off onto their own network, strip the computers of all but the most essential software, and the medical staff all have to sign agreements when they're hired that strictly prohibit them from using computers for personal tasks. Want to check your e-mail? Bring in your smart phone, or laptop etc, and do it with that device (we actually provide a wireless for the entire staff to use 'just' for that purpose). Nobody can keep 'on task' all day, so allowing them the outlet with some caveats has been a great success. However, all machines that have access to the ePHI network are imaged once put into service, but we re-image the machines on a staggered schedule so every 6 months they're a fresh install. Virus software (AVG) is installed and on an automatic update / scan schedule as well -- with a central server that reports results to us. Also for security concerns every Laptop is encrypted (thank you Truecrypt), and every device that accesses ePHI comes through a VPN. If a Laptop get's stolen (and one has in the past), the VPN access for that device is revoked immediately. So between the VPN and Encryption, the odds of a 'break' in our security are astronomical. Anyway all these procedures may seem a bit excessive, but we've yet to have a PC with ePHI or EMR softwaret be compromised where I work thanks to them. I sleep slightly better at night thanks to this system actually. I do know of several other hospitals / medical facilities that are far far less secure though, and frankly it scares the hell out of me how cavalier they are about the whole ordeal. One of our doctors is Per Diem and his home office supplied him with an unencrypt, unsecured, laptop with full admin rights, and their EMR software installed on said Laptop for his free use. PS -- A tip to anyone working in a medical facility, one of the ways we had our providers (Doctors) agree to this stringent of a system was to point out that infractions where ePHI is compromised put their necks on the line, even more so then they do ours. So all this security is for their benefit as much as yours. Also, this goes double if you have a counseling staff because the rules around ePHI regarding counseling services are even more strict and crazy. Anyway hopefully that helps someone out.
And thus the end of Apple's 'security via obscurity' is coming to a close. It was nice while it lasted, but it's time to move on
Well, I won't comment on the rather slimy move by the gov't, and their clear lack of ability to stand up for the reasonable privacy of their people... wait I think I just did. However, there is a simple solution to all this -- don't use Facebook. I used to use the site, but deleted my account about 6 months ago (permanently deleted... not just suspended as they do by default), and I've never been happier. I found I didn't like the practices of the sites owners, and it was just a constant drain on my time. I have better things to do with my day then look in on the lives of distant friends / relatives I don't care about. Anyone that I really consider a close friend doesn't need FB to see what I'm up to, nor do I need it to see what they're doing. If you don't have a FB account... certainly no employer can demand access to it If they ask you for your FB login information you can quite honestly and frankly tell them you don't use the service. Still, I think that it's supremely slimy for an employer to want this information from you. Just another reason that if you use these social networking sites, you should never post anything of significance on them.
We all know this is how SkyNet started this way.... I guess 2012 really /is/ the end of the world!
So.... I can develop for Android ICS. Now! Just to learn Java! *coughs*
Eat a taco, recharge your smart phone from the caloric content.... sound's like a win win to me (jk)
*facepalm* That would explain the black hole that just formed in my office and consumed my co-worker. Poor fool, that's what he gets for taking my seat!
Well, we can clearly see that it's not an iPhone 4, else holding it with her left hand would kill the signal.
The Blue Screen of Death will now cause the green cloud of radioactive fallout! Gate's is simply looking to create a rainbow of diversity for the ways that he can cause pain and destruction. Though... I'm not sure leaping from electronic to biological desolation? Might their be some anti-trust issues here (again)? Billy when oh when will you learn?
This sort've thing drives me insane. DLC is a good idea in concept but in practice? You get results like this. You shouldn't have to pay any gaming company for additional content they included on the disc, it's madness, taken to another high level. I get severly annoyed with these gaming companies that release DLC 5 days after the game's out,a nd change 15 USD for it. Or the ones that release DLC that actually just fixes bugs in their game whilst adding very very little to the experience. Its one thing to add an expansion to your game, it's another thing to take content that should've been free that was already on the disc... and charge people to play it. I don't say this often, but I hope the hacking community figures out a way to open up the extra content on the disc for free on the PC, because if I owned the game... I'd crack it.
Actually we've run into that. But That's a violation of HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act), and if you find your users doing something like that in a medical environment? It can mean very serious action is taken. We actually had one person refuse to 'not' use post-its.. and they where let go from the organization. And I mean honestly in the grand scheme of things, you're adding one password to your daily computing life, that will ultimately save someones butt if their PC gets stolen. Where I work, most of the Doctors are grateful for that extra layer of security. They know that if patient data was leaked, on their watch? It would likely mean their jobs, a black mark on their names in the public, and a lot worse for the organization they work for. I'm sure its similar in other fields.
I really fail to see why so many of these companies fail to use common sense. The first thing we do as an IT staff in my organization with laptops is encrypt them. Use something like Truecrypt, enable full drive encryption and set a good password. Laptop gets stolen? You're out the cost of the physical hardware that was taken from you... but the data that was on the machine? You can rest easy that you took every precaution you could to keep it safe. Of course, I work in the health care field so, any laptops, tablets, netbooks etc that have any ePHI (Electronic Protected Health Information), have to be secured. We just take our security practices a step further and do it to all of them. Which is worse? Having your users gripe a bit about an extra password? Or having data stolen? It's saved us once already as a laptop was stolen last year on a business trip.
I think that the biggest problem Linux has currently is its need completely redesign its applications so often. It's not that innovation isn't the answer. The problem I find is that all too often they throw the baby out with the bath water. In order to keep on the innovation band wagon I see far too many projects throw tried and tested functionality out saying 'we'll add that back into the new version later'. KDE4 is just the most visible culprit right now. Projects like Amarok 2 are guilty of it as well. Don't get me wrong I love Linux. I use Linux in every place possible. FC10 is my Desktop at work. Ubuntu 9.04 runs on my Netbook (and runs well I might add). MythDora is my media center hub w/ Boxee integrated. My main desktop runs Arch Linux. But I digress. Linux to me is the ultimate desktop for it's advanced and flexibility, nobody else can claim that. It's also the most stable platform to run a server on bar none. However I think we like a lot of geeks suffer from the 'look before you leap' senario. We come up with an idea or see a new way of doing something and immediately rush it into the redesign of an application. Now for technically minded people that's not a big deal, we can work around a programs quirks and still enjoy it. But in order for Linux to be used by the public we need to have a more stable base line. Microsoft wins the OS wars not because they're on the bleeding edge but because they're not. They wait and let everyone else try out new ideas... then they 'borrow' them. They're successful because there's always that common tie in in Windows. No matter what they do to that OS it still has the windows 'feel' so the average joe can navigate it. That's what we're missing.
To me this would be an ultimate chance for some humor on my application. I would start writing down random sex sites (nothing illegal) and perhaps a few online dating sites, then make up some fake profiles. Hopefully that would teach these folks not to be so damn nosy.
IT Departments rarely get any respect, we're firmly placed on the 'Rodney Dangerfield' rung of the office social ladder. People seem to enjoy blaming IT for anything that goes wrong in their office. Microwave dies? IT should be fixing it (trust me, I've been ASKED to do that job... no joke). I was in your situation a few years ago. I've been doing IT for 7 years now, at first I was a happy go-lucky fellow with patients to take on the world. But... that wears thin when your co-workers treat you like another machine to do their complex tasks (or some of them do). Everyone expects technological miracle, and they expect them to cost their department $50. My advice to you is to get a good sense of humor and a thick skin, you'll need both. Make people laugh and you disarm them a bit. I always try to have some sort've amusing 1 liner to give my bosses when something is nearly an impossible task, and they get the picture. Another important thing that I've seen mentioned here is documentation. You need to document everything and anything that goes on while you're at work. Keep a log of your daily work activities, the projects you've got going, any problems that occur during the day (and the steps you took to resolve them). The most important thing to document is altercations with people that you have, and they will happen. Remember first off if someone is being beligerant towards you, keep your calm. Yelling back at them will only escalate things and get you involved in any of the negative effects. Also any witnesses available get them to write out what they saw from their perspective and sign off / date it ASAP. This is annoying, but it's saved my hide time and time again. If you've got 3 people agreeing with your side of the story, the other individual generally doesn't garner any sympathy. Lastly if all else fails? Violent video games... just don't start picturing peoples heads on your enemies and you're golden. Hope that helps -K
Perhaps this is one of the first steps in this new transparent gov't we where told to expect? Next maybe Biden will accidentally bring us alien autopsy footage while commenting on the terrible interior design of Area 51.
Absolute Power, Corrupts Absolutely.
I find that Global Warming has become less of a science and more of a religious movement. There are people whom I work with who actually have lost sleep, and become ill from worrying about it. Oddly enough these are the same people who become verbally abusive to anyone that disagrees with them. I thought the whole point of the scientific method was to create 'theories', even Gravity is a theory in scientific terms, not a fact. When you attempt to silence the scientific debate in a venue such as this, it reminds me of something from WWII. People always seek to shout down oposition rather than listening to what it has to say. I almost akin this whole situation to a new rendition of the Crusades. Don't agree with Global Warming? Well you're cast out from society in a social sense. I actually have friends who refuse to speak to me now because of my opinions on this subject. To me? That's just sad. I'm all for renewable energy sources, don't get me wrong. But do it when it makes economic sense, when the cost of the technology to produce per watt becomes comparable to our current methods, not before. If you suddenly take that competition out of this, I believe you'll find innovation in renewable energy go to the wayside. Why work to improve a technology if it's simply going to be imposed on the public anyway right?
"Contact Canadian Medicare" WFT? You do to your doctor. You know nothing about the Canadian medical system.
That's the problem, due to the inadiquacies /of/ the Canadian health system I have no regular doctor on the Canadian side. I haven't for several years since my previous one retired. Even then, that doctor was an hour and fifteen minutes away.
As for your generalization about not knowing anything about Canadian Health Care.... a simple slip of terminology and you jump all over me hrmm? I know enough about it, I LIVED with it (apparently just like you). I got OUT of it's grasp as soon as humanly possible, and I am the better for it.
My question is how can you berate what's on the other side of the fence if you've never been on it yourself? Perhaps you should learn to not judge people but question them.
Everyone seems to forget why the Canadian health care system is in such a sad state of repair. Long story short, the liberals had to cut tons of spending in order to pay back some of the massive debt inherited from the conservatives. Health care was one of the biggest casualties. Many small communities lost their services. It wasn't a failure of socialized medicine, it was the result of overspending by the PC's and underspending by the Liberals.
It wasn't a failure of socialized medicine, it was the result of overspending by the PC's and underspending by the Liberals.
You pretty much nailed it on the head. It was the failure of Politics that caused the failure of Socialized Medicine. But that's the problem... Government is always a Political entity. Everyone's always on the look out for number one. How can they score points for themselves and their party. Neither side is really interested in helping the people they represent as much as helping their party. It should be country first and party second... they forget that. In a perfect world, Socialized Medicine would be a ideal system. You find me a perfect world to deploy this system in. Until then? Privatization, or a two tier system will at least provide a better solution.
Actually it's funny you should mention that. See, I work for a Company known as 'Maine Telemedicine Services' We deploy teleconferencing equipment all over the state of Maine for the purposes of counseling and medical uses over great distances. Maine's a big place as well. We'd talked to different Canadian hospitals in New Brunswick on occasion to demonstrate this equipment, in the past. They had no interest our services. They're simply too under funded to afford any of it. It's really a shame, the equipment works amazing well all over Maine. I've actually had a couple of my consults with my Cardiologist over a couple of Polycom units, utilizing ISDN lines. Now the stuff isn't without it's issues... but it's an excellent cost saving, and productivity increasing technology. You'd thing that the Government would be interested in that eh?