Actually I think it's illegal in all States to release personal documents of that kind.
At least in MA all vital records (birth, death, marriage, divorce) are public and you can get a certified copy of any of them for $18 as long as you know the approximate date and name of the party or parties. For $9/hr you can enter their archives and conduct your own searches. The only exceptions are the birth and marriage records for persons born out of wedlock.
How are you going to get prostitutes to pay taxes? They deal in cash and there's no paper trail. Should the ladies of the night of the world start giving receipts for their services?
So do car services, couriers, waiters, bartenders, various street vendors, and many small contractors. They pay taxes (if they pay taxes) like any self-employed person: they file a 1099 or their employer pays them a nominal salary that they largely withhold to pay taxes on tips.
There are no independently operated Starbucks stores.
There is one right next to me in the Marriot Hotel in Boston. It's run by the hotel, not Starbucks corporate. It's a pain too, because they don't participate in a lot of the promotions, so you always get people in front of you in line arguing about some buy X get 1 free that the hotel franchise isn't honoring.
Preventing unauthorised reproductions is the mechanism by which the public domain is enhanced. Without control over reproduction (be it legal or technical) copyright doesn't provide any incentive to create.
The public domain is dead and has been for the last 80 years or so. It will remain dead as long as congress perpetually extends copyright terms when the oldest copyrights are about to expire. Copyright duration is already longer than the lifetime of a lot of media that the works are stored on.
Even if that weren't true, DRM would kill the public domain anyway. Assuming that you could create an uncrackable DRM scheme, then what's to say in 120 years or whenever when the copyright expires that anyone still has the key to unlock the now public domain work? Unless the work happens to be in the top 1% or so of properties that are still profitable to keep in circulation over a century after its initial publication, it will be gone for good.
While admirable my own limited experience suggests that prosecuting every act of perjury would be impractical. I've sat on two juries at criminal trials, the second of which was actually a perjury trial. In both trials, a plurality of the eye witnesses called had to be, let's say, "mistaken". That means even a simple trial with say 7 to 10 witnesses total would generate 3 or 4 potential perjury trials.
The perjury trial I sat on was in relation to a homicide, and they basically retried the entire murder all over again in order to show how the original statement might have been false and to show how it was materiel to the investigation. It took four days, and they called all the same witnesses and had them restate their testimony. This was complicated by the fact that the perjury trial took place 2 years after the fact and some witnesses had clearly forgotten things, while others where clearly lying to protect the defendant (more perjury). My guess is that the only reason they were going after the guy for perjury was that they weren't able to prosecute him as an accomplice.
So anyway, yeah, I think that like drugs and speed limits, indiscriminate enforcement of perjury laws would cause the legal system to choke to death.
how would verizon change what the hardware/firmware support. apart from getting moded informative for being a shot at verizon i doubt a network could change how the phone behaves when plugged into your pc.
Verizon overwrites the manufacturer's firmware with it's own crippled firmware. They do this to prevent you from putting your own multimedia and apps on their phones and instead force you to go through their store.
No, the parent got it right. The topic is the chance of *at* *least* one card failing, not any individual card. The chance of an independent event with probability p occurring at least once over n trials is 1 - (1 - p)^n
The individual events are still independent, but the aggregate outcome is not.
Stored value cards are foolish. They should only ever be used for identification and authentication. The value being managed must always be stored and administered on the billing system itself.
A system that must communicate with a central database isn't very useful for:
* buses
* trolleys
* the commuter rail
Where a network connection isn't necessarily available as the reader must reside on the vehicle itself.
I'd be interested to hear how the other cities who don't use stored value cards solve this problem.
I'm 30 and I heard that loud and clear, and I have been to many, many extremely loud hardcore shows in small clubs with now ear protection. (In my youth of course, I'm a little more careful with my ears these days).
How about not formulating the teaching style based on what's between someone's legs and instead teaching to the individual. Splitting up kids and teaching boys and girls differently is just going reinforce the same cultural stereotypes that created the disparity in the first place. Aggressive girls and passive boys who don't live up to western heteronormative ideals are going to feel even more singled out.
The site key is how you know you are on the BoA and not some phishing site. It is something only BoA knows about you, since you chose it when you setup your online account. So if the sitekey is incorrect you are not on the BoA website and should not log in.
Mandatory minimum sentences and "three strikes" laws means it doesn't matter how good the judge is, you're still screwed because the judge has very little leeway. Once you're arrested it's basically in the hands of the prosecutor based on what they charge you with.
Ah, but how does one discover that they've been the subject of a secret warrantless wiretap, especially if it was issued with a national security letter gag order? There's no way to prove standing to bring a suit. Even if you could, you'd have to be independently wealthy to have the leisure and funds to pursue the case to the Supreme Court.
I agree that the accusation of treason is spurious, but voting for this kind of malignant legislation shows such casual contempt for the constitution and the American people that it should, at the minimum, put you in line for a severe beating.
Out of legitimate curiosity, why do many Slashdotters think that Microsoft sees Firefox as a threat?
Microsoft is terrified of the web becoming everybody's primary application platform, rendering the OS irrelevant. That's why they started giving IE away with Windows in the first place: they wanted to crush Netscape. There was a little antitrust suit about all this a little while back.
CMD+Option + on the mac gives that to you on the system level and virtual resolutions does the same under X windows. I guess it's useful under MS Windows though. I've found that Firefox will usually respond to Ctrl++ if you hit it enough times though, so I've never really found myself missing zoom on WinNT.
Enter CheckStyle. CheckStyle immediately issues a warning because the ternary operator is evil and always has to be replaced with an if. Period. Of course that means that the constant (which everyone expects to be there so I can't easily get rid of it) is initialized after declaration, which means it can't be final.
While I agree that banning the ternary operator out of hand is stupid, the cleanest way to handle conditional initialization of a final constant is to use a static initialization block. What are you going to do if the variable can take on more than two possible values? Nested ternary operators? Ick.
Example:
public static final CONF_PATH; static {
String os = System.getProperty( "os.name" );
String tmp_path = "my-file.conf";
if( os == null ) { os == ""; }
os = os.toLowerCase();
if( os.indexOf( "windows" ) > -1 )
{ //IRL you would get %APPDATA% from environment, if possible.
tmp_path = "D:\\Documents and Settings\\my-file.conf";
}
else if( os.indexOf( "mac os x" ) > -1 )
{
tmp_path = "~/Library/Application Support/my application/my-file.conf";
}
else if( os.indexOf( "unix" ) > -1 )
{
tmp_path = "~/.my-file.conf";
} //other os cases....
Courts are not HIPAA covered entities. Only health care providers, health care clearinghouses, and health plans are covered. Before you ask, a court doesn't count as a clearinghouse. In over simplified terms, a clearinghouse is a covered entity that processes information on the behalf of another covered entity.
How is sheets of paper being faxed/mailed between docs the best possible standard? The whole system is jive, adding storing it with Google might make it slightly less jive, actually fixing it would, well, fix it.
Another group called IHE has defined standards for sharing electronic documents called Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS). The preferred format for XDS documents is CDA.
The healthcare industry is understandably pretty conservative and implementation is still in its infancy.
Give people their medical records. Digitally signed by the docs that made them so they're authentic if the medical system must.
The specs exist for digitally signed medical documents (see the digital signature supplement to XDS documents), but there isn't a widespread PKI to support it. Even if there was, not many EMR platforms know how to sign their output. Also, many organizations use their own internal coding systems for things like diagnoses, lab results, medications, etc. These would have to get converted over to standard coding systems such as ICD9 and LOINC before being handed over to the patient. And once they are converted, is the signature still valid? Should it be? What if there is a translation error?
I guess what I'm trying to say is baby steps. It took the better part of a decade after HIPAA was passed to get on a standard electronic billing system and financial data is a cake walk compared to clinical. We're just starting to implement shared EHRs at a time when some practices still don't have any electronic medical records at all. It will probably be 5 years or more before patient-accessible public EHRs are the norm.
Many larger/more sophisticated printers these days have a "print to mailbox" option that causes the document to remain spooled on the printer indefinitely instead of immediately printed. You have to be physically at the printer and enter your user ID and PIN to start your print job. So that mitigates the hanging around the printer attack, still doesn't help if the printer gets r00ted though.
Can't see google doing it - they have their own system across all the sites that they own. Wasn't too happy with that either (my google account isn't my blogger account FFS!) but had to live with it.
I don't use Blogger, but when I went to their join page, it let me sign in with my Google account, so for new accounts anyway, it seems they are the same.
So Google has in effect already done it, you just have to go through the hassle of creating a Blogger blog using your Google id and enable OpenID in your Blogger preferences. At that point, you should be able to use your Google account as an OpenID with Blogger as the ID provider.
People think that the brain is solely the repository of who they are, but the body is an integrated unit. A computer with just a copy of the state of the neurons *might* be intelligent, but it wouldn't be human any longer, and wouldn't respond as a human does.
There was a radio lab about something similar a little while ago. Apparently, there was a psychologist who became a paraplegic and noticed that he felt emotions at less intensity that he used to. This led him to survey the community of people who have lost touch with part or all of their bodies and he found that the phenomenon was fairly common. Sorry to be so vague, heard the show a while ago, but I believe it was this one.
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At least in MA all vital records (birth, death, marriage, divorce) are public and you can get a certified copy of any of them for $18 as long as you know the approximate date and name of the party or parties. For $9/hr you can enter their archives and conduct your own searches. The only exceptions are the birth and marriage records for persons born out of wedlock.
So do car services, couriers, waiters, bartenders, various street vendors, and many small contractors. They pay taxes (if they pay taxes) like any self-employed person: they file a 1099 or their employer pays them a nominal salary that they largely withhold to pay taxes on tips.
There is one right next to me in the Marriot Hotel in Boston. It's run by the hotel, not Starbucks corporate. It's a pain too, because they don't participate in a lot of the promotions, so you always get people in front of you in line arguing about some buy X get 1 free that the hotel franchise isn't honoring.
The public domain is dead and has been for the last 80 years or so. It will remain dead as long as congress perpetually extends copyright terms when the oldest copyrights are about to expire. Copyright duration is already longer than the lifetime of a lot of media that the works are stored on.
Even if that weren't true, DRM would kill the public domain anyway. Assuming that you could create an uncrackable DRM scheme, then what's to say in 120 years or whenever when the copyright expires that anyone still has the key to unlock the now public domain work? Unless the work happens to be in the top 1% or so of properties that are still profitable to keep in circulation over a century after its initial publication, it will be gone for good.
While admirable my own limited experience suggests that prosecuting every act of perjury would be impractical. I've sat on two juries at criminal trials, the second of which was actually a perjury trial. In both trials, a plurality of the eye witnesses called had to be, let's say, "mistaken". That means even a simple trial with say 7 to 10 witnesses total would generate 3 or 4 potential perjury trials.
The perjury trial I sat on was in relation to a homicide, and they basically retried the entire murder all over again in order to show how the original statement might have been false and to show how it was materiel to the investigation. It took four days, and they called all the same witnesses and had them restate their testimony. This was complicated by the fact that the perjury trial took place 2 years after the fact and some witnesses had clearly forgotten things, while others where clearly lying to protect the defendant (more perjury). My guess is that the only reason they were going after the guy for perjury was that they weren't able to prosecute him as an accomplice.
So anyway, yeah, I think that like drugs and speed limits, indiscriminate enforcement of perjury laws would cause the legal system to choke to death.
Verizon overwrites the manufacturer's firmware with it's own crippled firmware. They do this to prevent you from putting your own multimedia and apps on their phones and instead force you to go through their store.
No, the parent got it right. The topic is the chance of *at* *least* one card failing, not any individual card. The chance of an independent event with probability p occurring at least once over n trials is 1 - (1 - p)^n
The individual events are still independent, but the aggregate outcome is not.
Number Of .64 .32 .04
Failures Probability
0
1
2
A system that must communicate with a central database isn't very useful for:
* buses
* trolleys
* the commuter rail
Where a network connection isn't necessarily available as the reader must reside on the vehicle itself.
I'd be interested to hear how the other cities who don't use stored value cards solve this problem.
I hope CERN has done the responsible thing and notified the International Earth-Destruction Advisory Board of an upcoming possible Earth-destroying event.
I'm 30 and I heard that loud and clear, and I have been to many, many extremely loud hardcore shows in small clubs with now ear protection. (In my youth of course, I'm a little more careful with my ears these days).
How about not formulating the teaching style based on what's between someone's legs and instead teaching to the individual. Splitting up kids and teaching boys and girls differently is just going reinforce the same cultural stereotypes that created the disparity in the first place. Aggressive girls and passive boys who don't live up to western heteronormative ideals are going to feel even more singled out.
The site key is how you know you are on the BoA and not some phishing site. It is something only BoA knows about you, since you chose it when you setup your online account. So if the sitekey is incorrect you are not on the BoA website and should not log in.
Actually, I think we're Venusiaforming the Terran atmosphere.
Mandatory minimum sentences and "three strikes" laws means it doesn't matter how good the judge is, you're still screwed because the judge has very little leeway. Once you're arrested it's basically in the hands of the prosecutor based on what they charge you with.
Ah, but how does one discover that they've been the subject of a secret warrantless wiretap, especially if it was issued with a national security letter gag order? There's no way to prove standing to bring a suit. Even if you could, you'd have to be independently wealthy to have the leisure and funds to pursue the case to the Supreme Court.
I agree that the accusation of treason is spurious, but voting for this kind of malignant legislation shows such casual contempt for the constitution and the American people that it should, at the minimum, put you in line for a severe beating.
CMD+Option + on the mac gives that to you on the system level and virtual resolutions does the same under X windows. I guess it's useful under MS Windows though. I've found that Firefox will usually respond to Ctrl++ if you hit it enough times though, so I've never really found myself missing zoom on WinNT.
Example:
Courts are not HIPAA covered entities. Only health care providers, health care clearinghouses, and health plans are covered. Before you ask, a court doesn't count as a clearinghouse. In over simplified terms, a clearinghouse is a covered entity that processes information on the behalf of another covered entity.
Thanks for trying to effect this change in verbiage. I hope you don't find my affect too patronizing. ;)
Another group called IHE has defined standards for sharing electronic documents called Cross-Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS). The preferred format for XDS documents is CDA.
The healthcare industry is understandably pretty conservative and implementation is still in its infancy.The specs exist for digitally signed medical documents (see the digital signature supplement to XDS documents), but there isn't a widespread PKI to support it. Even if there was, not many EMR platforms know how to sign their output. Also, many organizations use their own internal coding systems for things like diagnoses, lab results, medications, etc. These would have to get converted over to standard coding systems such as ICD9 and LOINC before being handed over to the patient. And once they are converted, is the signature still valid? Should it be? What if there is a translation error?
I guess what I'm trying to say is baby steps. It took the better part of a decade after HIPAA was passed to get on a standard electronic billing system and financial data is a cake walk compared to clinical. We're just starting to implement shared EHRs at a time when some practices still don't have any electronic medical records at all. It will probably be 5 years or more before patient-accessible public EHRs are the norm.
Many larger/more sophisticated printers these days have a "print to mailbox" option that causes the document to remain spooled on the printer indefinitely instead of immediately printed. You have to be physically at the printer and enter your user ID and PIN to start your print job. So that mitigates the hanging around the printer attack, still doesn't help if the printer gets r00ted though.
Also, as of January, Blogger is an OpenID provider.
So Google has in effect already done it, you just have to go through the hassle of creating a Blogger blog using your Google id and enable OpenID in your Blogger preferences. At that point, you should be able to use your Google account as an OpenID with Blogger as the ID provider.