If a patient sues a provider because information leaked somehow, and it is discovered that information was obtained through HIPAA negelgence, the doctor's next question will most certainly be "Would you like to make it a combo meal?"
As someone who works in the medical industry (a recent change of pace, I'll admit), let me say that if anyone in my company transmitted confidential information over a web mail service like Gmail or Yahoo!, they would be instantly terminated and possibly indited. Non-secure transmission of confidential patient information (even as simple as an insurance subscriber ID) is precisely the reason laws like the HIPAA protections exist. If these providers are your clients, it would be wise to make it very clear to them how illegal what they are doing really is, and how severe the repercussions are for their actions.
Think of it this way: Do you want Google indexing and/or caching your SSN, your policy number, or even your name as it relates to the results of your most recent colonoscopy? Didn't think so, and neither does anyone else in their right mind. I won't advise you to be a tattle-tale to any regulatory agency, but I'm surely tempted.
Let's not pretend that other concerts aren't just as full of retards doing just as dumb things. Simply because you never got anything out of it doesn't mean it sucks; I mean, plenty of people swear by vi, for Chrissake;-)
DISCLAIMER: I'm a raver and I write code.
That's the other thing I never understood. I've never seen a rave turn violent. You could just sent one or two cars and break it up. 5 officers, MAX. It's not like partykids carry guns!
Not sure how it is in the UK, but in the US it's not illegal to be under the influence unless you are disturbing the peace (unless this has changed without my knowledge. Haven't done anything like that since college). Possession and sale, however...
Instead of keeping people you know to possibly be intoxicated confined to an event all night where they can only do harm to themselves (if even), let's break these gatherings up so some of these people get intoxicated elsewhere, and have to drive home early.
...all I have to say is System Preferences->Software Update->Check Now, then File->Ignore Updates->iTunes. I'll stick with 8.2 until it works again. If it never works again then I sure hope there are no major vulnerabilities in iTunes 8.2.
Sad thing is, one of the reasons I went with the Pre over the iPhone 3GS is because I hate AT&T (from some crap they pulled when they where still Cingular).
This tears away the primary need for Flash or MS Flash (Silverlight), paving the way open for HTML 5 to push compliant browsers (FireFox, Opera, Safari, other WebKit browsers) into the forefront and leave a dwindling minority on IE 6/7/8 with Silverlight/Flash.
Streaming MPEG and HTML 5 don't play games, unless you can run a server farm and stream the game image, or you want to make something horribly convoluted and possibly unstable. Either way - Silverlight would have made a great grab at Macromedia's market share...which was what, 5 years ago?
People like you are why we have stupid laws prohibiting things that most of us can handle responsibly blocked or prohibited for the sake of the retarded few.
People like you are why stupid users cause problems so politicians think we need laws prohibiting things that most of us can handle responsibly. Solve it with tech - there can always be an option to turn the extra login notifications off if you really don't care.
But you make a good point. Amazon has to at least pretend they are making an effort to "protect" the content.. it doesn't really matter that its trivial to defeat, the publishers don't know the difference and the authors obviously don't either.
I'm sure they're all fully aware of the capabilities of the Kindle's DRM. Since the United States has the DMCA on the books, they can just lock up anyone who breaks it for "stealing".
You want to combat piracy? Make the game phone home to Battle.net before the LAN game, check the SN, and then let people connect locally. No net connection? 5 LAN games and then you have to check in. Hell, set up a phone line users can type a number into and get a response code to authorize more games with a legit SN, if you've got computers capable of playing Starcraft II, you can at least usually make a phone call.
It's still a slap in the face but at least it's not removing one the major features that draw people to your game COMPLETELY. You're going to learn a swift lesson from this, Blizzard. Mark our words.
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If a patient sues a provider because information leaked somehow, and it is discovered that information was obtained through HIPAA negelgence, the doctor's next question will most certainly be "Would you like to make it a combo meal?"
Seriously, the courts will strip him naked.
As someone who works in the medical industry (a recent change of pace, I'll admit), let me say that if anyone in my company transmitted confidential information over a web mail service like Gmail or Yahoo!, they would be instantly terminated and possibly indited. Non-secure transmission of confidential patient information (even as simple as an insurance subscriber ID) is precisely the reason laws like the HIPAA protections exist. If these providers are your clients, it would be wise to make it very clear to them how illegal what they are doing really is, and how severe the repercussions are for their actions.
Think of it this way: Do you want Google indexing and/or caching your SSN, your policy number, or even your name as it relates to the results of your most recent colonoscopy? Didn't think so, and neither does anyone else in their right mind. I won't advise you to be a tattle-tale to any regulatory agency, but I'm surely tempted.
Ironically, what you've ended up saying here is pretty much "Fuck the children". I guess those laws are pretty bad ;-)
They had that already, but no one uses MySpace anymore...
Now if they could just be bothered to make the PPC version get more than 2 frames per second I'd be grateful...
You insensitive clod!
Or enough XBox 360s so that each one only had to compile 5-6 lines each.
I keep getting those, too, with the subject line "Great new software tech I read about we should be utilizing"
Let's not pretend that other concerts aren't just as full of retards doing just as dumb things. Simply because you never got anything out of it doesn't mean it sucks; I mean, plenty of people swear by vi, for Chrissake ;-)
DISCLAIMER: I'm a raver and I write code.
That's the other thing I never understood. I've never seen a rave turn violent. You could just sent one or two cars and break it up. 5 officers, MAX. It's not like partykids carry guns!
Not sure how it is in the UK, but in the US it's not illegal to be under the influence unless you are disturbing the peace (unless this has changed without my knowledge. Haven't done anything like that since college). Possession and sale, however...
I, for one, will be tagging every Facebook event I list from now on as an all-night party in Sowton, Devon, UK. I encourage you to do the same.
Instead of keeping people you know to possibly be intoxicated confined to an event all night where they can only do harm to themselves (if even), let's break these gatherings up so some of these people get intoxicated elsewhere, and have to drive home early.
Raving is not a crime.
...all I have to say is System Preferences->Software Update->Check Now, then File->Ignore Updates->iTunes. I'll stick with 8.2 until it works again. If it never works again then I sure hope there are no major vulnerabilities in iTunes 8.2.
Sad thing is, one of the reasons I went with the Pre over the iPhone 3GS is because I hate AT&T (from some crap they pulled when they where still Cingular).
Microsoft discontinued MSIE for Mac 6 years ago. No, we do not have IE on the Mac.
I've never heard of any exploits targeting DirectX or someone breaking in via GPU.
Apparently you didn't come to this site in the last day or two.
This tears away the primary need for Flash or MS Flash (Silverlight), paving the way open for HTML 5 to push compliant browsers (FireFox, Opera, Safari, other WebKit browsers) into the forefront and leave a dwindling minority on IE 6/7/8 with Silverlight/Flash.
Streaming MPEG and HTML 5 don't play games, unless you can run a server farm and stream the game image, or you want to make something horribly convoluted and possibly unstable. Either way - Silverlight would have made a great grab at Macromedia's market share...which was what, 5 years ago?
#1 - When the call comes in, set a pin, or opt out of having voicemail. If you can be bothered to activate a phone you can be bothered to secure it.
People like you are why we have stupid laws prohibiting things that most of us can handle responsibly blocked or prohibited for the sake of the retarded few.
People like you are why stupid users cause problems so politicians think we need laws prohibiting things that most of us can handle responsibly. Solve it with tech - there can always be an option to turn the extra login notifications off if you really don't care.
"The Chrome OS will run on both x86 and ARM architectures, uses a Linux kernel with a new windowing system."
This has been done before with BSD.
But you make a good point. Amazon has to at least pretend they are making an effort to "protect" the content.. it doesn't really matter that its trivial to defeat, the publishers don't know the difference and the authors obviously don't either.
I'm sure they're all fully aware of the capabilities of the Kindle's DRM. Since the United States has the DMCA on the books, they can just lock up anyone who breaks it for "stealing".
We'll do it live! Fuck it!
Yo dawg! I heard you like Linux, so we put Linux in your Linux so you can use Linux while you use Linux!
You want to combat piracy? Make the game phone home to Battle.net before the LAN game, check the SN, and then let people connect locally. No net connection? 5 LAN games and then you have to check in. Hell, set up a phone line users can type a number into and get a response code to authorize more games with a legit SN, if you've got computers capable of playing Starcraft II, you can at least usually make a phone call.
It's still a slap in the face but at least it's not removing one the major features that draw people to your game COMPLETELY. You're going to learn a swift lesson from this, Blizzard. Mark our words.