T9 went that far back, right? You press each letter-group ONCE and the more you typed the more the phone narrowed the possible letter-combinations down to real words from the dictionary. So long as you could customize the wordlist, and had an option to switch T9 off and go pure sequential input, you were golden.
I have a smartphone now with Google's Swype knockoff and I love it. But sometimes I wonder how fast I could type with T9 on a large screen...
I am very disappointed in myself that I can't remember the title. but it should be an Isaac Asimov short. Husband toils for years to build a teleporter/time machine. Constantly fails, perseveres, eventually it works - sort of. He breaks down to his wife that all that effort and expense was wasted on a machine that takes them ONLY 30 years in the past and ONLY to that same relative location in town.
His wife, ever the more practical, realizes they can use it to shop in the past at substantial discount. No indication if they took a sports almanac back with them to wager on...
Don't forget XPrivacy (requires root and the XPosed framework). This essentially replaces App Ops with the added functionality of providing fake info rather than straight blocking permissions. That is, if you block Contacts, apps can request a Contacts instance but it comes back with no records. Location can be spoofed at random or to a value of your choosing. Internet/Wifi access can be blocked but appear as "no signal" so the app will (hopefully) fail over to offline mode, while the rest of your phone continues online.
I've been using XPrivacy for about 2 years now and can't imagine an Android device without it. I also have a very minimal HOSTS file to block the worst pop-up offenders, but I've been thinking on and off about going the full iptables firewall route. I used to use ZoneAlarm on PC to see what programs were trying to connect *to*, as much as for blocking inbounds. I miss that on Android...
Is there a bot/script/site tool that spits this garbage out on demand? If I hadn't just eaten my lunch, I might be tempted to feed the troll for fun. But as it is, I'm late getting back...
Well, true. HIPAA itself doesn't really dictate technology, other than to say PHI / PII must be deidentified or encrypted if not transferred point-to-point.
My intent with my reply to AC was to illustrate that records-sharing doesn't necessarily violate HIPAA so long as qualified providers are doing direct care or TPO.
That said, what should be feasible at any hospital with HL7 or similar standards-based interfaces for existing vendors and/or a relatively modern EMR is that they can export the data and leave it to the NFL's team docs and IS people to import it into a human-readable form on their side.
*HIPAA (heathcare information portability and accountability act) shouldn't apply so long as the caregivers working on the players are legitimate. Treatment, payment and operations exemptions are in HIPAA to allow just this sort of thing. So long as Doc A is actively caring for the patient, he has clearance to see Doc B's records. Likewise, when the bills are processed, those directly involved with itemizing/coding charges and then collecting from insurance or other payers can access the info as well. But in all cases, only insofar as needed to do what they need to do and in such a way they don't leak info to uncovered third parties.
So... what happens if you need to see a doctor or visit a facility not part of a health system which already has your records? You consider it a good thing that you personally have to a) transfer the records, b) re-fill out histories, etc. and/or c) be subjected to tests/procedures you either already have on file or which would be done differently with available history?
I've worked in healthcare IT for two decades and the whole interop dream of HL7 / EDI standards is still something of an unrealized fantasy. And often for reasons cited above. But the care benefits of having easily accessed records should be evident and hopefully, achieved soon!
Even in space, it shouldn't be too hard to build something to stand 1 atmosphere.
obFuturama: SCENE - The Planet Express Ship is being dragged towards the bottom of the ocean by a colossal-mouth bass.
Leela: Depth at 45 hundred feet, 48 hundred, 50 hundred! 5000 feet!
Farnsworth: Dear Lord! That's over 150 atmospheres of pressure!
Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?
Farnsworth: Well, it's a space ship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one.
Wasn't this in an episode of The Simpsons? Homer realized he had an unexpanded "J" and traveled to places of his youth in search of answers, only to find out the full spelling was "Jaywalkers"?
I was gonna bust your chops over the extra apostrophes, but I decided not to. The mental image of a person, on whatever the near-future version of YouTube is, telling his boat to get a fish then watching it happen is just too amusing to me!
If I had a nickel for every time we ran out of something, then later went to Target (less than 10 minutes' drive and a regular "kill time" destination anyway), then came home only to hear my wife say, "I forgot to buy the thing I went to the store for!", I'd be eating like a king at Taco Bell.
Honestly, even/with/ a smartphone and sundries-managment apps, she can't be arsed to keep a list. These buttons would go a long way to making sure key items were easily replenished at the time awareness of need hits.
Also, also, didn't the article say the button could be relinked to another product if the default wasn't to one's liking?
It would be if I were deliberately eating more than a sane portion. I eat so many leftovers and such because I break up servings. Or when we cook at home I pack the leftovers up for myself and my wife and spread them out that way. My ideal is that we buy food / ingredients economically and use a high percentage of them, avoiding waste and reducing the number of purchased meals. Doesn't always work out but hey...
There are definitely times when I eat waaay too much, and I usually suffer for it. But I try not to by spreading a meal out or by snacking rather than eating another meal.
Occasionally take more than you want to eat and then THROW IT OUT
I... I cannot do this. I joke with my family that I have a food-waste neurosis. It is incredibly difficult for me to toss out viable food. I used "viable" specifically because I eat a lot of leftovers and will eat food that's bordering on expired rather than throw it out.
The upside is that for places that pack in two meals' worth in one order I get two meals out of it (usually dinner the day I ordered and lunch at work the next). I also have an amazingly-tolerant tummy in terms of food quality - I rarely get sick from eating whatever, whenever. I have some hardy flora in there. Maybe some fauna too.
The downside is that I have occasionally crossed the "expired" line and wind up with no lunch at all...
More context: I'm early 40s, cut out sugary sodas about 5 years ago and dropped about 45 pounds off that alone (I take about 5 sodas a day). Got to a good weight years ago and maintained it for a long time until this past November when I had some major life events stressing me out, which led to stress-eating and the gain of about one stone over 4 months. Got most of the stress sorted and am actively trying to regain control of my eating...
I know, right? I had this great idea for "Exploding Krytens" but it seems nobody much wants to see a droid blow up. And the hardlight projector was proving troublesome to produce in affordable numbers...
SO am I the only person who absolutely LOVES those table-tablets? I can't count the number of times a waitperson made us wait (ha!) to pay, even when all the food was eaten and the drinks were empty. I love good service, and don't mind recognizing it with a nice tip. But certain parts of the transaction don't really enhance either of our experiences.
That said, I'm looking forward to seeing what Taco Bell and McDonalds do with their web / app-based ordering and payment in advance systems...
Somehow, over a half-lifetime reading sci-fi and fantasy, I'm not sure I can say with conviction that I ever read *any* of Sir Pratchett's work. Now I feel bad. Aside from DiscWorld itself, any "essential Pratchett" I should educate myself with?
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T9 went that far back, right? You press each letter-group ONCE and the more you typed the more the phone narrowed the possible letter-combinations down to real words from the dictionary. So long as you could customize the wordlist, and had an option to switch T9 off and go pure sequential input, you were golden.
I have a smartphone now with Google's Swype knockoff and I love it. But sometimes I wonder how fast I could type with T9 on a large screen...
I am very disappointed in myself that I can't remember the title. but it should be an Isaac Asimov short. Husband toils for years to build a teleporter/time machine. Constantly fails, perseveres, eventually it works - sort of. He breaks down to his wife that all that effort and expense was wasted on a machine that takes them ONLY 30 years in the past and ONLY to that same relative location in town.
His wife, ever the more practical, realizes they can use it to shop in the past at substantial discount. No indication if they took a sports almanac back with them to wager on...
Don't forget XPrivacy (requires root and the XPosed framework). This essentially replaces App Ops with the added functionality of providing fake info rather than straight blocking permissions. That is, if you block Contacts, apps can request a Contacts instance but it comes back with no records. Location can be spoofed at random or to a value of your choosing. Internet/Wifi access can be blocked but appear as "no signal" so the app will (hopefully) fail over to offline mode, while the rest of your phone continues online.
I've been using XPrivacy for about 2 years now and can't imagine an Android device without it. I also have a very minimal HOSTS file to block the worst pop-up offenders, but I've been thinking on and off about going the full iptables firewall route. I used to use ZoneAlarm on PC to see what programs were trying to connect *to*, as much as for blocking inbounds. I miss that on Android...
Is there a bot/script/site tool that spits this garbage out on demand? If I hadn't just eaten my lunch, I might be tempted to feed the troll for fun. But as it is, I'm late getting back...
Little Mermaid, right? I'm supposed to sing that to the tune of "Kiss De Girl"?
Because I totally read that in Sebastian's voice!
Well, true. HIPAA itself doesn't really dictate technology, other than to say PHI / PII must be deidentified or encrypted if not transferred point-to-point.
My intent with my reply to AC was to illustrate that records-sharing doesn't necessarily violate HIPAA so long as qualified providers are doing direct care or TPO.
That said, what should be feasible at any hospital with HL7 or similar standards-based interfaces for existing vendors and/or a relatively modern EMR is that they can export the data and leave it to the NFL's team docs and IS people to import it into a human-readable form on their side.
*HIPAA (heathcare information portability and accountability act) shouldn't apply so long as the caregivers working on the players are legitimate. Treatment, payment and operations exemptions are in HIPAA to allow just this sort of thing. So long as Doc A is actively caring for the patient, he has clearance to see Doc B's records. Likewise, when the bills are processed, those directly involved with itemizing/coding charges and then collecting from insurance or other payers can access the info as well. But in all cases, only insofar as needed to do what they need to do and in such a way they don't leak info to uncovered third parties.
So... what happens if you need to see a doctor or visit a facility not part of a health system which already has your records? You consider it a good thing that you personally have to a) transfer the records, b) re-fill out histories, etc. and/or c) be subjected to tests/procedures you either already have on file or which would be done differently with available history?
I've worked in healthcare IT for two decades and the whole interop dream of HL7 / EDI standards is still something of an unrealized fantasy. And often for reasons cited above. But the care benefits of having easily accessed records should be evident and hopefully, achieved soon!
obFuturama: SCENE - The Planet Express Ship is being dragged towards the bottom of the ocean by a colossal-mouth bass.
Leela: Depth at 45 hundred feet, 48 hundred, 50 hundred! 5000 feet!
Farnsworth: Dear Lord! That's over 150 atmospheres of pressure!
Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?
Farnsworth: Well, it's a space ship, so I'd say anywhere between zero and one.
You. I like you.
Wasn't this in an episode of The Simpsons? Homer realized he had an unexpanded "J" and traveled to places of his youth in search of answers, only to find out the full spelling was "Jaywalkers"?
I was gonna bust your chops over the extra apostrophes, but I decided not to. The mental image of a person, on whatever the near-future version of YouTube is, telling his boat to get a fish then watching it happen is just too amusing to me!
If I had a nickel for every time we ran out of something, then later went to Target (less than 10 minutes' drive and a regular "kill time" destination anyway), then came home only to hear my wife say, "I forgot to buy the thing I went to the store for!", I'd be eating like a king at Taco Bell.
/with/ a smartphone and sundries-managment apps, she can't be arsed to keep a list. These buttons would go a long way to making sure key items were easily replenished at the time awareness of need hits.
Honestly, even
Also, also, didn't the article say the button could be relinked to another product if the default wasn't to one's liking?
Did you? What kind of car is it?
I laughed, I cried, I remembered what day it was, I sighed.
/Thank/ you! Somebody gets it! Well, you and sconeu below ^^
More insight from Independence Day, the film that taught me about plausible deniability.
It would be if I were deliberately eating more than a sane portion. I eat so many leftovers and such because I break up servings. Or when we cook at home I pack the leftovers up for myself and my wife and spread them out that way. My ideal is that we buy food / ingredients economically and use a high percentage of them, avoiding waste and reducing the number of purchased meals. Doesn't always work out but hey...
There are definitely times when I eat waaay too much, and I usually suffer for it. But I try not to by spreading a meal out or by snacking rather than eating another meal.
I... I cannot do this. I joke with my family that I have a food-waste neurosis. It is incredibly difficult for me to toss out viable food. I used "viable" specifically because I eat a lot of leftovers and will eat food that's bordering on expired rather than throw it out.
The upside is that for places that pack in two meals' worth in one order I get two meals out of it (usually dinner the day I ordered and lunch at work the next). I also have an amazingly-tolerant tummy in terms of food quality - I rarely get sick from eating whatever, whenever. I have some hardy flora in there. Maybe some fauna too.
The downside is that I have occasionally crossed the "expired" line and wind up with no lunch at all...
More context: I'm early 40s, cut out sugary sodas about 5 years ago and dropped about 45 pounds off that alone (I take about 5 sodas a day). Got to a good weight years ago and maintained it for a long time until this past November when I had some major life events stressing me out, which led to stress-eating and the gain of about one stone over 4 months. Got most of the stress sorted and am actively trying to regain control of my eating...
I detest M&M Mini's for this exact reason! The candy shell overpowers the chocolate inside at that scale.
I know, right? I had this great idea for "Exploding Krytens" but it seems nobody much wants to see a droid blow up. And the hardlight projector was proving troublesome to produce in affordable numbers...
SO am I the only person who absolutely LOVES those table-tablets? I can't count the number of times a waitperson made us wait (ha!) to pay, even when all the food was eaten and the drinks were empty. I love good service, and don't mind recognizing it with a nice tip. But certain parts of the transaction don't really enhance either of our experiences.
That said, I'm looking forward to seeing what Taco Bell and McDonalds do with their web / app-based ordering and payment in advance systems...
Somehow, over a half-lifetime reading sci-fi and fantasy, I'm not sure I can say with conviction that I ever read *any* of Sir Pratchett's work. Now I feel bad. Aside from DiscWorld itself, any "essential Pratchett" I should educate myself with?
Once they hire Billywitchdoctor.com, they'll be ready to roll!
If he discovers the "Face on Mars" structure using the feed, he'll use the control room within to pilot Mars to Earth and CRUSH US ALLLLLL!