No. But you want two things. One, you want the goverment/hospitals to hold onto your records for free and always have them availible. Two, you want to be the only one who can use them. That's asking for a lot and giving nothing. Either pay the goverment/hospitals to hold your information (or let them use it as payment), or keep it yourself.
I didn't ask them to hold or even collect my medical data. Because I was treated at St. Mary's doesn't mean I've become a slave to St. Mary's and they can do what they want with my records.
Actually it isn't the reason for *either*. It is merely the ability to ease what was done before, or to make other things feasible.
No, the reason is exactly that information can be fast and flowing. Companies can collect the information cheap and keep it up to date. If selling or sharing medical records without consent was legal this wouldn't be needed.
Privacy groups charge *themselves* with whatever the group itself decides to be. They are groups of citzens *just like you* who actually decide to make more noise then just a silly slashdot comment. If they fail, they *try harder*. They also do not (usually) make donations. Donations are usally made by companies, and used as a tax writeoff of some sort. If they were made by privacy groups, there would be a serious conflict of interest, and very surely charges would be raised.
Yes, they charge themselves with protecting privacy - but are almost never supported by companies. I've made donations to privacy groups [as well as other groups] - and they aren't funded by corporations. Tax right-offs can only go so high and it wouldn't outway the price of that information they seek. Privacy groups are made up of citizens, and yes they raise money from real citizens. They do what they can even if it's making a 'silly' slashdot comment [I thought that speaking up in anyway was supported in America? Slashdot comment or a flyer - it's the same message]
ME: Physicians don't want to loose patients because their disclosure policies and generally are against giving away information - basic ethics of working in a hospital is to keep your mouth shut.
YOU: What are you talking about? Physicians don't want to lose patients, because that is their source of income! Also, repeat reccomendations, and families. For a doctor to need new patients, would be forging new relationships, which is not productive to a healthy doctor-patient relationship.
That was my whole point. If they are loosing patients because of a law which shouldn't pass then they will lose money. You want to be able to see the doctor and tell them that you have a rash without the concern of how many people will find out before you leave.
What?!?! Insurers cannot drop you! That why it is *called* insurance. They insure you to be healthy. When you don't get sick too often, they make money both from you base premiums, and the payoff they get by investing your money. They only lose when someone gets really sick, or gets sick often. But that is part of the game. If anything, they want *previous* information, so they can say "had we known we never would have accepted you". And by law they *can* do that. Otherwise, everyone would wait until they became terribly sick, and only then pay the insurance companies to pay their bills!
You are right!, they are limited in being able to 'drop' you. But if they know up front that you are a risk you can be denied coverage. Previous information is what is needed. I did form my argument wrong considering that they know everything about you if they insure you. But you don't [obviously] have an illness which needs expensive or timely care. "Managed Care" is a for-profit business. Where this change in law scares me is who will sell-out my name or information. While blind stats in all reality sound good - it won't happen.
If a University wants to find out how many cases of Bell's Palsy there are they can call a hospital and get a tally of treatment. Numbers of drugs sold provide those numbers as well. If for some reason they want to go around and ask doctors about patient data we should be asked.
It's that simple... Bush wants to remove the opt-in ability of such research. You likely won't be able to opt-out.
I love that you end your article with the naive idea that a party or politician may benefit from passing a law is illegal and simply not done. I guess that is the root of the problem. Cash no, power maybe, used more to violate citizens - yes.
Simply: Companies now need the gov't to let them do things to dirty to get support from consumers. Now we look to make loopholes so that people can make more money.
It's my health, my life and it happens that someone keeps a copy of the records. But those records in all reality belong to me. I've even had problems getting copies of my own records because I didn't have an ID at the time -- good idea.
make it easier for researchers to gain access to patients' records
Sounds good but how deep? Is my name going to be used? People complain about your cable company knowing what you watch but medical release without consent is okay... no matter what situation?
The proposal, issued yesterday by U.S. health officials, represents President Bush's attempt to tailor a policy that has daunted presidents and lawmakers for years: how much control to give consumers over the proliferating access to medical records in an electronic age
I want total control over my records, is that hard to understand? The "Electronic Age" isn't the reason to release more records but to put up more safeguards.
The new version was largely criticized by privacy advocates, physicians and Democratic leaders on health care. It was hailed by representatives of insurers.
In all reality all the groups mentioned above have some personal interests. Privacy groups are charged with watching who is watching you. If they fail no more donations. Physicians don't want to loose patients because their disclosure policies and generally are against giving away information - basic ethics of working in a hospital is to keep your mouth shut. Insurers want that information because they want to drop you. People who represent those interests in Congress et. al. get cash for passing this through.
If you even plan to release one piece of information on me I think we will have to meet in the streets.
I don't care if it's some sort of aggregate data or marketing data. Whether they contact me or not I am against it. If you have an illness you may not want anyone to know for any reason. I've got to question any 'security' that would be taken after a right is taken away.
If you want any records released, at least in my state, you need to sign and have a witness sign that form [could even be a doctor]. If the government wants to retrieve your records you must sign. They are encouraged [and this is practiced at several county based offices] to keep medical information in one room with a number and keep the number list somewhere else. Obscurity but imagine those guys in silos.
As someone who thinks the key to space exploration is stepping into space and building a number of craft for a number of things this could have been avoided.
There would be errors with satellites and maybe even the ISS, but shouldn't there be other craft with available resources?
Colonize space, don't just send up a few metal boxes.
As humans we can be disciplined to a certain point of extra-sensory perception.
Have you ever seen a movie where a kung fu master [which would really need to be trained in the ways of Buddha, not just a fighting style of course] gets up and somehow knows that someone is coming to the door.
It's not that he's only enhanced his hearing, this would be impossible. You couldn't understand the things he is thinking about... subconsciously of course. He has quieted his mind and doesn't instantly confirm and deny - he is subconscious. Movements in wind, a rattle of the floor or earth also provide a gentle push needed to see what others can't.
Consiously he set out to do these things, but if he is a good student he will let his body open up to the world around him and absorb the things you speak of.
But what you are speaking of is more on the topic of what may already be in our DNA. We know that chickens see a silhouette of a hawk and react. Our upper brains [and maybe their lower] have put together that feeling of wetness and the such. Though not consiously, but maybe through our evolutionary ancestors. Our senses are growing and what is to say that another will not?
Although this type of idea is good for people who are currently sick, where does it leave us in the evolutionary ladder if certain genetic traits aren't selected for?
Ending suffering is good, but somewhere I want to see a balance where the strong will survive. I know that it's a grave thing I mention.
I myself someone who suffers from a, believed, genetic mental disease. If is likely in my DNA where this started and I in no way want to be selected against as do many others. We as humans enjoy the right to repair and procreate although we may be in a sad way disadvantaged.
Will we turn into a species which is deformed and dependant on machine to survive? Will computers or wiring be required to survive? Who will have won?
If your provider [twc] is Time Warner Cable they might.
In my area they went to work faster than a lot of cities. Now they dominate the market and we are the second city to get HBO on demand and we also have another video on demand library.
They own all that content that I er you want to steal so they might actually be interested.
Nice try... but if you wanted to shoot down the practical side you should have pointed out that your computer isn't going to like all that data so fast.
....some people in the Mandrake club don't want to pay up, that's fine. I don't mean pay up for stuff that is free as in beer you know... they didn't want to pay for stuff that costs everyone cash.
If some people leave the Mandrake user-base then hopefully they will move onto other places in the linux world. Hopefully [for many in the community] Mandrake will make some money not for selling linux but a good linux app.
Hell, star office is nice on my XP machine. I run it at home where I can't afford a $400 piece of software.
FTP sites should hold some ISO's and I expect colleges to host some distro's so I can install from a floppy if I'm in a pinch. Hell, starting today I'm hosting different completely free linux iso's on gnutella.....
... but the end point is we want linux boxes on store shelves. I'm not a developer but I like linux and I hope it gets a good sized [35% total?] user base all around.
Linux must make it somewhere on someone's desktop because not only do some people feel like they have to pay cash - but some people need funding for development.
Wouldn't this idea be somewhat like a redirector scheme where the clients would just take places of the traditional 'reflectors'. The problem is you need a client to get a whole new viewer - or have them install some sort of system service. This would then again make your servers/reflectors either donated or expensive machines scattered about.
Currently there are some icecast and shoutcast servers which will simply provide you with a playlist of several servers. You start at the top and when capacity is full on that server you are `booted` to the next.
One way could be to stream mp3's [or later video?] throught advanced shoutcast/icecast servers. I believe they both have the ability to log into another server and re-broadcast. Adding media player plug-ins [or whole p2p software if you want to piss us all off] can then link up to a server and help.
Somehow the list is updated either by the master server (central=1 as defined in the settings?) or by the P2P network. Search a genre, song, album whatever and you can get onto that broadcast. Some users can re-broadcast.
Actually as I think of it the idea is kind of similar to the 'leaf-node' idea proposed by LimeWire in their UltraPeers. I say the P2P software is somewhat web based and keeps databases of the servers. Basically - icecast/shoutcast could work for now but as you log into the show you are helping your corner of the world get it too.
I just hope the end idea doesn't go around pinging their servers to death while trying to listen and broadcast.
Echolocation has been credited as being a sixth sense by many biologists.
The reason is that there is ping sent to get the pong. Seen by many as a use of two senses evolving into another extra sense.
If I'm a human who uses his 5 senses together in a new way [Zen students have done this for years] some may also argue that I've created a sixth sense. The trick isn't using thought or conscious behavior, the trick is having that sense go on it's own. [like bats... the bat isn't thinking: "ill send the ping and the pong blah blah..." He just does it]
So you are right, but Carl Sagan himself [Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors] said that echolocation is another sense.
The use of free software such as Windows Media Player and such makes it funny because what is Microsoft's defense?
Do they say to use their free Windows software such as WMP you need Windows? I've been trying to make this point since the trial started. The OS is the bundleware stupid! It's that tax you pay to stay under the MS umbrella of products.
Slashdot Mirror
No. But you want two things. One, you want the goverment/hospitals to hold onto your records for free and always have them availible. Two, you want to be the only one who can use them. That's asking for a lot and giving nothing. Either pay the goverment/hospitals to hold your information (or let them use it as payment), or keep it yourself.
I didn't ask them to hold or even collect my medical data. Because I was treated at St. Mary's doesn't mean I've become a slave to St. Mary's and they can do what they want with my records.
Actually it isn't the reason for *either*. It is merely the ability to ease what was done before, or to make other things feasible.
No, the reason is exactly that information can be fast and flowing. Companies can collect the information cheap and keep it up to date. If selling or sharing medical records without consent was legal this wouldn't be needed.
Privacy groups charge *themselves* with whatever the group itself decides to be. They are groups of citzens *just like you* who actually decide to make more noise then just a silly slashdot comment. If they fail, they *try harder*.
They also do not (usually) make donations. Donations are usally made by companies, and used as a tax writeoff of some sort. If they were made by privacy groups, there would be a serious conflict of interest, and very surely charges would be raised.
Yes, they charge themselves with protecting privacy - but are almost never supported by companies. I've made donations to privacy groups [as well as other groups] - and they aren't funded by corporations. Tax right-offs can only go so high and it wouldn't outway the price of that information they seek. Privacy groups are made up of citizens, and yes they raise money from real citizens. They do what they can even if it's making a 'silly' slashdot comment [I thought that speaking up in anyway was supported in America? Slashdot comment or a flyer - it's the same message]
ME: Physicians don't want to loose patients because their disclosure policies and generally are against giving away information - basic ethics of working in a hospital is to keep your mouth shut.
YOU: What are you talking about? Physicians don't want to lose patients, because that is their source of income! Also, repeat reccomendations, and families. For a doctor to need new patients, would be forging new relationships, which is not productive to a healthy doctor-patient relationship.
That was my whole point. If they are loosing patients because of a law which shouldn't pass then they will lose money. You want to be able to see the doctor and tell them that you have a rash without the concern of how many people will find out before you leave.
What?!?! Insurers cannot drop you! That why it is *called* insurance. They insure you to be healthy. When you don't get sick too often, they make money both from you base premiums, and the payoff they get by investing your money. They only lose when someone gets really sick, or gets sick often. But that is part of the game. If anything, they want *previous* information, so they can say "had we known we never would have accepted you". And by law they *can* do that. Otherwise, everyone would wait until they became terribly sick, and only then pay the insurance companies to pay their bills!
You are right!, they are limited in being able to 'drop' you. But if they know up front that you are a risk you can be denied coverage. Previous information is what is needed. I did form my argument wrong considering that they know everything about you if they insure you. But you don't [obviously] have an illness which needs expensive or timely care. "Managed Care" is a for-profit business. Where this change in law scares me is who will sell-out my name or information. While blind stats in all reality sound good - it won't happen.
If a University wants to find out how many cases of Bell's Palsy there are they can call a hospital and get a tally of treatment. Numbers of drugs sold provide those numbers as well. If for some reason they want to go around and ask doctors about patient data we should be asked.
It's that simple... Bush wants to remove the opt-in ability of such research. You likely won't be able to opt-out.
I love that you end your article with the naive idea that a party or politician may benefit from passing a law is illegal and simply not done. I guess that is the root of the problem. Cash no, power maybe, used more to violate citizens - yes.
Simply: Companies now need the gov't to let them do things to dirty to get support from consumers. Now we look to make loopholes so that people can make more money.
It's my health, my life and it happens that someone keeps a copy of the records. But those records in all reality belong to me. I've even had problems getting copies of my own records because I didn't have an ID at the time -- good idea.
make it easier for researchers to gain access to patients' records
Sounds good but how deep? Is my name going to be used? People complain about your cable company knowing what you watch but medical release without consent is okay... no matter what situation?
The proposal, issued yesterday by U.S. health officials, represents President Bush's attempt to tailor a policy that has daunted presidents and lawmakers for years: how much control to give consumers over the proliferating access to medical records in an electronic age
I want total control over my records, is that hard to understand? The "Electronic Age" isn't the reason to release more records but to put up more safeguards.
The new version was largely criticized by privacy advocates, physicians and Democratic leaders on health care. It was hailed by representatives of insurers.
In all reality all the groups mentioned above have some personal interests. Privacy groups are charged with watching who is watching you. If they fail no more donations. Physicians don't want to loose patients because their disclosure policies and generally are against giving away information - basic ethics of working in a hospital is to keep your mouth shut. Insurers want that information because they want to drop you. People who represent those interests in Congress et. al. get cash for passing this through.
-1 redundant yet I was the first to post this, odd.
I've seen this story of before
The proposal is horrible.
If you even plan to release one piece of information on me I think we will have to meet in the streets.
I don't care if it's some sort of aggregate data or marketing data. Whether they contact me or not I am against it. If you have an illness you may not want anyone to know for any reason. I've got to question any 'security' that would be taken after a right is taken away.
If you want any records released, at least in my state, you need to sign and have a witness sign that form [could even be a doctor]. If the government wants to retrieve your records you must sign. They are encouraged [and this is practiced at several county based offices] to keep medical information in one room with a number and keep the number list somewhere else. Obscurity but imagine those guys in silos.
Revolution
In a way I see my $45 for access every month is going into the same pockets as the money for CD's and movies.
Sure there in bandwidth on one hand, but there are marketing, shelve locations, packaging, shipping and so much more.
AOL et. al. is in the position to make a lot of money providing P2P. I think they will someday.
They have Nullsoft in the pocket and provide plenty of "On Demand" cable services - they look to be a company poised to jump.
Considering they've got a lot of wire out there and they also have the content - they aren't buying it! - they could make a sweet penny.
If I was a shareholder I would write to them. Be smart fucko's
...now that is 1 degree of seperation.
Fake.
As someone who thinks the key to space exploration is stepping into space and building a number of craft for a number of things this could have been avoided.
There would be errors with satellites and maybe even the ISS, but shouldn't there be other craft with available resources?
Colonize space, don't just send up a few metal boxes.
As humans we can be disciplined to a certain point of extra-sensory perception.
Have you ever seen a movie where a kung fu master [which would really need to be trained in the ways of Buddha, not just a fighting style of course] gets up and somehow knows that someone is coming to the door.
It's not that he's only enhanced his hearing, this would be impossible. You couldn't understand the things he is thinking about... subconsciously of course. He has quieted his mind and doesn't instantly confirm and deny - he is subconscious. Movements in wind, a rattle of the floor or earth also provide a gentle push needed to see what others can't.
Consiously he set out to do these things, but if he is a good student he will let his body open up to the world around him and absorb the things you speak of.
But what you are speaking of is more on the topic of what may already be in our DNA. We know that chickens see a silhouette of a hawk and react. Our upper brains [and maybe their lower] have put together that feeling of wetness and the such. Though not consiously, but maybe through our evolutionary ancestors. Our senses are growing and what is to say that another will not?
Although this type of idea is good for people who are currently sick, where does it leave us in the evolutionary ladder if certain genetic traits aren't selected for?
Ending suffering is good, but somewhere I want to see a balance where the strong will survive. I know that it's a grave thing I mention.
I myself someone who suffers from a, believed, genetic mental disease. If is likely in my DNA where this started and I in no way want to be selected against as do many others. We as humans enjoy the right to repair and procreate although we may be in a sad way disadvantaged.
Will we turn into a species which is deformed and dependant on machine to survive? Will computers or wiring be required to survive? Who will have won?
If your provider [twc] is Time Warner Cable they might.
In my area they went to work faster than a lot of cities. Now they dominate the market and we are the second city to get HBO on demand and we also have another video on demand library.
They own all that content that I er you want to steal so they might actually be interested.
Nice try... but if you wanted to shoot down the practical side you should have pointed out that your computer isn't going to like all that data so fast.
Streaming mp3s, every song... ever!
....some people in the Mandrake club don't want to pay up, that's fine. I don't mean pay up for stuff that is free as in beer you know... they didn't want to pay for stuff that costs everyone cash.
If some people leave the Mandrake user-base then hopefully they will move onto other places in the linux world. Hopefully [for many in the community] Mandrake will make some money not for selling linux but a good linux app.
Hell, star office is nice on my XP machine. I run it at home where I can't afford a $400 piece of software.
FTP sites should hold some ISO's and I expect colleges to host some distro's so I can install from a floppy if I'm in a pinch. Hell, starting today I'm hosting different completely free linux iso's on gnutella.....
... but the end point is we want linux boxes on store shelves. I'm not a developer but I like linux and I hope it gets a good sized [35% total?] user base all around.
Linux must make it somewhere on someone's desktop because not only do some people feel like they have to pay cash - but some people need funding for development.
Wouldn't this idea be somewhat like a redirector scheme where the clients would just take places of the traditional 'reflectors'. The problem is you need a client to get a whole new viewer - or have them install some sort of system service. This would then again make your servers/reflectors either donated or expensive machines scattered about.
Currently there are some icecast and shoutcast servers which will simply provide you with a playlist of several servers. You start at the top and when capacity is full on that server you are `booted` to the next.
One way could be to stream mp3's [or later video?] throught advanced shoutcast/icecast servers. I believe they both have the ability to log into another server and re-broadcast. Adding media player plug-ins [or whole p2p software if you want to piss us all off] can then link up to a server and help.
Somehow the list is updated either by the master server (central=1 as defined in the settings?) or by the P2P network. Search a genre, song, album whatever and you can get onto that broadcast. Some users can re-broadcast.
Actually as I think of it the idea is kind of similar to the 'leaf-node' idea proposed by LimeWire in their UltraPeers. I say the P2P software is somewhat web based and keeps databases of the servers. Basically - icecast/shoutcast could work for now but as you log into the show you are helping your corner of the world get it too.
I just hope the end idea doesn't go around pinging their servers to death while trying to listen and broadcast.
Actually, we've been working on such an idea and the picture is linked below.
HERE
Anyways.. where did this picture originate? I can't find any info on it.
would YOU want a computer to always know what your wrists where doing? Didn't think so =)
I'm sure it already does... with all the pr0n cd's I've burnt over the years I'm sure many P2P systems, cdr proggies and media players know.
Echolocation has been credited as being a sixth sense by many biologists.
The reason is that there is ping sent to get the pong. Seen by many as a use of two senses evolving into another extra sense.
If I'm a human who uses his 5 senses together in a new way [Zen students have done this for years] some may also argue that I've created a sixth sense. The trick isn't using thought or conscious behavior, the trick is having that sense go on it's own. [like bats... the bat isn't thinking: "ill send the ping and the pong blah blah..." He just does it]
So you are right, but Carl Sagan himself [Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors] said that echolocation is another sense.
...does Microsoft board members get to "Ask Slashdot"?
lol.... IDE's
but not free as in you can do what you want with it!
I [heart] you buddy!
Better yet,.... send me where in the source code the spyware is.
... I know that this may scare some people in "today's world" but this is the sort of thing that we need to take action about.
No one needs to die, but if it means taking google.com down because we are searching "DMCA", "XENU.NET" and "FREEDOM" so be it.
Of course google is innocent so direct your other DDoS attacks where you think they count.
In this "new world" where everyone is so scared why hasn't anyone stood up and done something to stop DMCA et. al.
You forget to mention they like to MURDER people.
Time to post as an AC? Sure... but CmdrTaco could be one and then it won't matter.
What scares me is that they are more powerful than the gov't and have better tactics.
Adding stationary objects would actually help the marine system ideally.
You begin to give habitat where there was none like an artificial reef system.
Trust me, fish lovers will get with the rest and make sure the plan works.
I love this idea.
The use of free software such as Windows Media Player and such makes it funny because what is Microsoft's defense?
Do they say to use their free Windows software such as WMP you need Windows? I've been trying to make this point since the trial started. The OS is the bundleware stupid! It's that tax you pay to stay under the MS umbrella of products.
You're right.
Only if we could use those two extra buttons under linux.
I hoped the Morpheus name would help gnutella network along but maybe not...
... although I have installed this "Preview Edition" I ran a piece of software and could find no BHO files other than Norton's and Adobe's.
So... my question is where is the spyware?