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  1. Re:Still A Good Idea on Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired · · Score: 1

    In other words, one now needs two doctors treating each patient, one that knows enough to "grade" the patient, and another one to do the actual treatment.

    Doctors already consult extensively with each other about their patients. They ask advice from their peers before doing risky things. This stuff is not free, it takes valuable time. So in effect what you are talking about is already happening.

  2. Re:Any system that can be gamed, will on Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired · · Score: 1

    not every system is worth the trouble to game

  3. Re:Better model? on Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired · · Score: 1

    Check out the airline industry. It works extremely well, and I'm underselling this.

    Did we not just see an incident where a pilot deliberately crashed the plane, killing all? Did we not hear story after story, about how so many people knew that something was terribly wrong, but nothing was done? This sounds like a badly broken system.

  4. Re:I propose grades to the lawyers. on Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired · · Score: 1

    Which Lawyer would your rather go to, given the following two metrics (No other information available, simplistic choice) ?

    We win 90% of our cases

    or

    We've won $900 Million dollars for our clients

    neither, you are better choosing randomly from the phone book than choosing between two charlatans

  5. Re:The answer is simple on FCC CIO: Consumers Need Privacy Controls In the Internet of Everything Era · · Score: 1

    You need to know that your info goes no farther that those with whom you wish to share.

    What a great way to keep people from snitching on your crimes: threaten them with copyright infringement if they go to the police.

  6. Re:Maybe I'm cynical but on FCC CIO: Consumers Need Privacy Controls In the Internet of Everything Era · · Score: 1

    So now we have hackers taking control of a Jeep going down the highway, yet we should embrace driverless vehicles?

    Human beings controlling automobiles cause 30,000 deaths every year. By all accounts driverless vehicles will cut that figure dramatically. Are you saying it's not worth it?

    We go to war when 5000 people die in one incident, what is the appropriate response when 30,000 people die every year?

  7. Re:The answer is simple on FCC CIO: Consumers Need Privacy Controls In the Internet of Everything Era · · Score: 1

    not everyone has heirs

  8. Raspberry Pi on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Open and Affordable IPCams? · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Build a Raspberry Pi Webcam Server in Minutes"

    http://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-webcam-server/

  9. Re:It's a larger problem on FCC CIO: Consumers Need Privacy Controls In the Internet of Everything Era · · Score: 1

    you could create APIs for managing those accounts, opening and shutting down accounts, viewing which private information is available in each account, and restricting/removing the private information as needed.

    you're dreaming if you think the average person who can't be bothered to run windows update is gonna put up with this

  10. Re:No government interest on FCC CIO: Consumers Need Privacy Controls In the Internet of Everything Era · · Score: 0

    Strange how some information generated about you by devices you own isn't available to *you*.

    Yeah, if I loan someone a pencil, it's strange that I can't magically detect everything that it writes.

  11. Re:The answer is simple on FCC CIO: Consumers Need Privacy Controls In the Internet of Everything Era · · Score: 1

    All personal data should be presumed copyrighted by the person it describes

    who gets the copyright after they die? it won't expire for many years

  12. Re:No problem! on FCC CIO: Consumers Need Privacy Controls In the Internet of Everything Era · · Score: 2

    With a suitably immutable GUID baked into every piece of hardware,

    the chinese are already way out in front of you here

  13. Re:Um, why do we need an IoT? on FCC CIO: Consumers Need Privacy Controls In the Internet of Everything Era · · Score: 2

    How else will the devices report back to google and amazon what your living habits are for advertising purposes, so you can buy more hot pockets when the freezer detects you are low?

    your watch will detect your blood sugar level and suggest various munchies

  14. Re:Fail2ban on Bug Exposes OpenSSH Servers To Brute-Force Password Guessing Attacks · · Score: 0

    I have no IPv6 - access and thus I have zero experience with that stuff.

    and yet you throw out networking advice as if you knew what you are talking about

  15. Re:A story of how women were on How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry · · Score: 1

    just about everyone in the system is upset by it even if it weeds-out the bad apples and makes it better for everyone else.

    just about everyone gets upset by a call to treat people equally and with compassion? really?

  16. Re:Pre-cambrian computing on How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry · · Score: 1

    In the 1980's Unix nearly DIED on the scattered hardware base. That was the biggest cause of all it's problems at the time.

    On the contrary, all of those ports are what made Unix a resilient portable operating system. Today we can easily port Unix to any new architecture, and that's because it enjoyed a period in the 80's (its codebase was much smaller and more pliable back then) when it was being ported left and right to every new computer.

    You've got it wrong. Sure most of those old Unix vendors went down in flames, but Unix emerged from the flames as a better product.

  17. Re:Pre-cambrian computing on How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry · · Score: 1

    your post illustrates exactly why POSIX certification is not relevant, it has no actual meaning in reality

  18. Re:A story of how women were on How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry · · Score: 0

    we who had nothing to do with the sins of the past,

    this is exactly what I'm talking about, ignorance of the sins of the present

  19. Re:Pre-cambrian computing on How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry · · Score: 1

    certified as Unix.

    this certification is obsolete, nobody cares about POSIX or Unix compatibility any more. All of the old Unixes have gone their own way, if you want to run well on them, you have to throw away your POSIX stuff and code directly to each platform.

  20. Re:A story of how women were on How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry · · Score: 0, Troll

    Feminist suffer from psychological projection.

    pot, kettle, black

  21. Re:A story of how women were on How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately just about everyone forgets to treat others as they themselves want to be treated

    This is 100% wrong, people treat others EXACTLY the way that they are expecting others to treat them. If they are mean and rude to other people it is because they are expecting other people to be mean and rude to them. If they are kind and understanding to others it is because they expect others to be kind and understanding.

  22. Re:A story of how women were on How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry · · Score: 0

    Men are more likely to find a light amount of hazing to be socially bonding.

    They are training each other on how to treat everyone else.

  23. Re:A story of how women were on How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry · · Score: 0

    Then again it seems to be a lot older. From the era of the Altair 8800 so its little wonder I never heard about it.

    Now I understand why most Americans can't come to grips with their slavery heritage. All they know is what they read on the internet.

  24. Re:Obligatory SJW propaganda on How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry · · Score: 1

    tipper gore made rap music popular

  25. Re:Pre-cambrian computing on How Two Bored 1970s Housewives Helped Create the PC Industry · · Score: 2

    As such it can run pretty much anywhere because it's designed to be source compatible with itself. All you have to do is port it to another platform.

    Utter hogwash!!!

    Linus Torvalds on Linux:

    It's mostly in C, but most people wouldn't call what I write C. It uses every conceivable feature of the 386 I could find, as it was also a project to teach me about the 386. As already mentioned, it uses a MMU, for both paging (not to disk yet) and segmentation. It's the segmentation that makes it REALLY 386 dependent (every task has a 64Mb segment for code & data - max 64 tasks in 4Gb. Anybody who needs more than 64Mb/task - tough cookies). [...] Some of my "C"-files (specifically mm.c) are almost as much assembler as C. [...] Unlike minix, I also happen to LIKE interrupts, so interrupts are handled without trying to hide the reason behind them.