Part of your health record is who accessed it. That's in important element in lawsuits for negligence in reading, say, mammograms. So, "all your health records" should include the all the accesses. Bet you the NSA isn't going to show up on anyone's records.
Bad example. The billboards along the highway are paid and the money goes into government revenue, which, among other things, helps to pay for the maintenance of those roads.
Also, the billboards are not stealing any of your time - it doesn't take you longer to get to your destination when there are billboards as compared to when there are not. Ditto when someone says "turn off at the exit with the foobar billboard".
Plus, you'll be darn happy to see a billboard advertising a place to sleep, grab a shower, and have breakfast on a long trip.
If you don't like them, don't read them. Then nobody is "stealing little bits of your life". Problem solved once again. If you have so little self-control that you have to read everything that is in front of you, the problem isn't the billboards - it's you. If you're so easily distracted, you shouldn't be driving in the first place.
Exactly. Sorry about your grandfather. Every procedure carries a risk. The infection rate is about 1 in 1,000. So, given 2 eyes, that brings it down to 1 in 500. 52 weeks a year, brings it down to more than 1 in 10 per year - or a 50% chance you'll get a serious infection within 5 years. And then there are all the other complications, such as cataract formation, other side effects of the drug, tear in the retina, detached retina, etc.
When I asked about using injections of AVGF (anti-venous growth factor) in the eyes, I was told that in my case even every month wouldn't be enough, and that I would be insane to take that risk.
They were right - it wouldn't have prevented this. (warning - needles in the eyeball).
There's a huge difference between "every 2-3 months for 2 years" and "every week forever".
I asked about the possibility of AVGF injections into my eyes to slow down the growth of blood vessels on the surface of the retina, and was told "that would be insane. You'd need them every month in both eyes, and even that wouldn't be enough. The risk is too high." I'll trust my retinal specialists over any "googling." And honestly, hospital visits for injections in both eyes every week for some sort of "pseudo-vision" that, with every injection, raises the chance that they'll have to take the whole eye out - no thanks.
I'd rather be blind until such time as they have something better to try out. At least that way, I preserve my option (and no, this is not just talk. I was warned almost 4 years ago that I will eventually go blind. I'm more or less ok with that - I'll take however much time I can still see, and if by then they don't have something better, I'll get a guide dog).
Imagine if it were YOU being tortured... having your eyes destroyed for an 'experiment'...
Oh, wait! I'm on Slashdot! Most people here are sociopaths, who can't feel the suffering of others... and have to spend their entire lives PRETENDING to give a toss about other human beings, let alone animals...
The dogs were already suffering from the same disease. No dogs eyes were "destroyed for an experiment." FTFA:
The dogs were chosen because they have inherited a genetic disease caused by the same gene defect as some people with retinitis pigmentosa. Several of them at PennVet were treated and are currently undergoing tests to determine what degree of light sensitivity they now have.
He notes that the therapy works only for about a week after a single “charging” with the photoswitch, because the protein and attached chemical get recycled by the cell. While the modified receptors are replaced continually, since the new gene remains forever in the DNA, the chemical photoswitch – maleimide-azobenzene-glutamate, or MAG – must be resupplied by injection into the eyeball. Right now this means injection every week or so, with the future development of a slow release formulation less often.
You can't do weekly injections into the human eyeball over for the rest of the patients' life.
FTL is a great game but I wouldn't call it a rougelike.
If you want to bend words you can call Minecraft for an FPS since it's in first person view and you actually can shoot. Saying that FTL is a rougelike is more of a stretch than that.
We need clear distinctions. I don't want third person shooters to be called FPS because I enjoy one but not the other. For a similar reason, calling FTL a rougelike is doing it a disservice. Just because someone violently hates rougelikes in general doesn't mean that they shouldn't check out FTL.
There's a big difference between "Going Rogue" and "Going Rouge", and yet I see this mistake a lot.
That's not true. You can request a copy of your records from any of those agencies, including your doctors. I've seen all my metal health professional's hand written notes and such in my files. I have copies of my brain scans from my MRI's. Including all the inaccuracies that I mentioned due to unclear and incomplete notes.
So what information can't you get that you need?
The audit trail for every agency that has consulted your file? That IS part of your medical records, right?
Sure you can. Neither of the things you listed are intellectual property. Not sure what point you were trying to make, but you sure didn't make it.
My point was simple - the consumables for creating intellectual property are taxed (wages, materials, etc.) and there's sales taxes when you sell it. To claim that intellectual property is not taxed is simply not true.
Regular property is taxed as soon as it exists.
Nope. It has to have an original owner for it to be taxed, and within a region (municipality, state, whatever) that has legal authority to tax it.
You could have searched it yourself, but here you go.
A Florida woman has gone head to head with a local judge who has declared her efforts to live off the grid illegal and in violation of local and international code ordinances.
Robin Speronis, a 54-year-old former real estate agent currently living in Cape Coral in a small duplex, has her own solar panels and collects rain water for her needs, She has even installed a simple outdoor shower in order to be independent from the municipal energy and water supply. The local power company and water supply surely have a hand in the Special Magistrate Harold S. Eskin’s ruling that, although the regulations for her city are redundant and unreasonable, she was in violation of city code as well as the International Property Maintenance Code.
Apparently generating your own power and using rainwater or other natural elements is not your sovereign right. Speronis using her own elbow grease to live more in balance with nature is now part of a heated debate.
" Among the many agencies that will be sharing records besides Health and Human Services are: Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Department of Justice and Bureau of Prison, Department of Labor, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Personnel Management, National Institute of Standards and Technology."
That's not the worst that can happen... When wages goes down, there will be a lot more projects that will suddenly be feasible to implement.
When wages go down, there will be a lot more crap projects that should never see the light of day that will suddenly be feasible to implement.
FTFY
Not to mention that the barriers to entry are already too low in many respects (just 'cuz you can cut-n-paste code doesn't make you a developer) and each "gold rush" phase is shorter than the previous one (look at how fast mobile development got unprofitable for 99.5% of all developers).
Well, there's sales taxes, there's taxes on profits, there's taxes on employees wages... it's not like you can claim that intellectual property isn't taxed.
And there are costs associated with generating those revenues (pun intended). Will it tip the utilities into loss? Certainly not to the extent the summary implies.
Many of the retirees were going to be obsolete anyways, since they were so busy working they hadn't kept up with technologies. This is still a problem... the treadmill is more like a hamster wheel - run faster just to stay in place. The more work you do, the greater the technical debt you build up.
Companies won't invest in keeping people up-to-date when they can hire someone else younger who is up to speed on the "latest and greatest" fad of the year. It's a poor long-term strategy, but if you don't survive the short term, who cares about the long term?
At 6:30 a.m. that Saturday, teleradiologist Edward Wong, M.D., opened Drumm's file. Dr. Wong's employer, Virtual Radiologic Consultants, was headquartered in Minnesota. Dr. Wong was licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania. But as he studied the images of Drumm's head, he was at his home in Hong Kong.
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Perhaps most troubling: How do you know who is reading your scans? Ideally, a qualified radiologist would see them, or at least a physician with extra training in the field. But doctors are expensive, and unethical companies can reap profits by having lower-paid, unqualified technicians read scans. Radiologists warn of the potential for "ghosting," an illegal practice whereby a doctor simply rubber-stamps the reading by a technician without giving it so much as a glance. Doctor's electronic "signatures" on radiology reports are digitized, too, so it can be easy for techs to forge them. "Most people assume that images are going to be read in the hospital," says Arl Van Moore, M.D., former president of the American College of Radiology (ACR) in Reston, Virginia. That's usually not the case, and "there is no way for the patient to know if someone putting his name on the report has actually read it."
You got in just after the turn of the century (my, how time flies), just after the whole y2k thing. A lot has changed in the last decade or so... we have an over-supply of workers (thanks, H1Bs), and more competition for each job nowadays.
What worked for you then won't necessarily work for him now. And he's going to have to get up to speed (which takes time and money), and by then, even more competition. At least an MBA doesn't tie him in to one sector of industry (or even one industry).
Automatically clicking on all of them means that the advertisers can't tell when a legitimate sucker clicks or when the program does. So click counts become worthless. Currently the ads work on some people and not on others, and they can tell which is which.
Actually, savvy advertisers (or ad networks that manage the ad serving process) can easily tell by sending you to a page that requires you to do something (for example, a dialog with an offer to subscribe, which you will click on to get rid of and expose the underlying content). How do you think they've been dealing with bots for the last couple of decades?
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Part of your health record is who accessed it. That's in important element in lawsuits for negligence in reading, say, mammograms. So, "all your health records" should include the all the accesses. Bet you the NSA isn't going to show up on anyone's records.
Bad example. The billboards along the highway are paid and the money goes into government revenue, which, among other things, helps to pay for the maintenance of those roads.
Also, the billboards are not stealing any of your time - it doesn't take you longer to get to your destination when there are billboards as compared to when there are not. Ditto when someone says "turn off at the exit with the foobar billboard".
Plus, you'll be darn happy to see a billboard advertising a place to sleep, grab a shower, and have breakfast on a long trip.
If you don't like them, don't read them. Then nobody is "stealing little bits of your life". Problem solved once again. If you have so little self-control that you have to read everything that is in front of you, the problem isn't the billboards - it's you. If you're so easily distracted, you shouldn't be driving in the first place.
Exactly. Sorry about your grandfather. Every procedure carries a risk. The infection rate is about 1 in 1,000. So, given 2 eyes, that brings it down to 1 in 500. 52 weeks a year, brings it down to more than 1 in 10 per year - or a 50% chance you'll get a serious infection within 5 years. And then there are all the other complications, such as cataract formation, other side effects of the drug, tear in the retina, detached retina, etc.
When I asked about using injections of AVGF (anti-venous growth factor) in the eyes, I was told that in my case even every month wouldn't be enough, and that I would be insane to take that risk.
They were right - it wouldn't have prevented this. (warning - needles in the eyeball).
There's a huge difference between "every 2-3 months for 2 years" and "every week forever".
I asked about the possibility of AVGF injections into my eyes to slow down the growth of blood vessels on the surface of the retina, and was told "that would be insane. You'd need them every month in both eyes, and even that wouldn't be enough. The risk is too high." I'll trust my retinal specialists over any "googling." And honestly, hospital visits for injections in both eyes every week for some sort of "pseudo-vision" that, with every injection, raises the chance that they'll have to take the whole eye out - no thanks.
I'd rather be blind until such time as they have something better to try out. At least that way, I preserve my option (and no, this is not just talk. I was warned almost 4 years ago that I will eventually go blind. I'm more or less ok with that - I'll take however much time I can still see, and if by then they don't have something better, I'll get a guide dog).
Imagine if it were YOU being tortured... having your eyes destroyed for an 'experiment'... Oh, wait! I'm on Slashdot! Most people here are sociopaths, who can't feel the suffering of others... and have to spend their entire lives PRETENDING to give a toss about other human beings, let alone animals...
The dogs were already suffering from the same disease. No dogs eyes were "destroyed for an experiment." FTFA:
The dogs were chosen because they have inherited a genetic disease caused by the same gene defect as some people with retinitis pigmentosa. Several of them at PennVet were treated and are currently undergoing tests to determine what degree of light sensitivity they now have.
He notes that the therapy works only for about a week after a single “charging” with the photoswitch, because the protein and attached chemical get recycled by the cell. While the modified receptors are replaced continually, since the new gene remains forever in the DNA, the chemical photoswitch – maleimide-azobenzene-glutamate, or MAG – must be resupplied by injection into the eyeball. Right now this means injection every week or so, with the future development of a slow release formulation less often.
You can't do weekly injections into the human eyeball over for the rest of the patients' life.
FTL is a great game but I wouldn't call it a rougelike. If you want to bend words you can call Minecraft for an FPS since it's in first person view and you actually can shoot. Saying that FTL is a rougelike is more of a stretch than that. We need clear distinctions. I don't want third person shooters to be called FPS because I enjoy one but not the other. For a similar reason, calling FTL a rougelike is doing it a disservice. Just because someone violently hates rougelikes in general doesn't mean that they shouldn't check out FTL.
There's a big difference between "Going Rogue" and "Going Rouge", and yet I see this mistake a lot.
That's not true. You can request a copy of your records from any of those agencies, including your doctors. I've seen all my metal health professional's hand written notes and such in my files. I have copies of my brain scans from my MRI's. Including all the inaccuracies that I mentioned due to unclear and incomplete notes.
So what information can't you get that you need?
The audit trail for every agency that has consulted your file? That IS part of your medical records, right?
Good point. Great for those at the top of the pyramid, not so good for those at the bottom. Looks like nothing ever changes ...
Sure you can. Neither of the things you listed are intellectual property. Not sure what point you were trying to make, but you sure didn't make it.
My point was simple - the consumables for creating intellectual property are taxed (wages, materials, etc.) and there's sales taxes when you sell it. To claim that intellectual property is not taxed is simply not true.
Regular property is taxed as soon as it exists.
Nope. It has to have an original owner for it to be taxed, and within a region (municipality, state, whatever) that has legal authority to tax it.
A Florida woman has gone head to head with a local judge who has declared her efforts to live off the grid illegal and in violation of local and international code ordinances.
Robin Speronis, a 54-year-old former real estate agent currently living in Cape Coral in a small duplex, has her own solar panels and collects rain water for her needs, She has even installed a simple outdoor shower in order to be independent from the municipal energy and water supply. The local power company and water supply surely have a hand in the Special Magistrate Harold S. Eskin’s ruling that, although the regulations for her city are redundant and unreasonable, she was in violation of city code as well as the International Property Maintenance Code.
Apparently generating your own power and using rainwater or other natural elements is not your sovereign right. Speronis using her own elbow grease to live more in balance with nature is now part of a heated debate.
" Among the many agencies that will be sharing records besides Health and Human Services are: Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Department of Justice and Bureau of Prison, Department of Labor, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Personnel Management, National Institute of Standards and Technology."
In other words, almost everyone except YOU!
Thanks. I was going to do the whole soliloquy, but I suspect that slashdot would have given a "too few words per line" error.
Of course, these guys won't be happy, but hey, you can't please everyone all the time.
Nobody is forcing you to be part of the audience. You can just not watch the movie, ads and all.
Some cities have already passed bylaws requiring you to be connected to the grid. With enough lobbyists, you can "fix" any problem.
and teach the kids good copyright, software and business ethics.
RMS ... in K-12 schools ... OMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
Why not use modern tech to just learn from RMS how to eat their own foot cheese.
That's not the worst that can happen... When wages goes down, there will be a lot more projects that will suddenly be feasible to implement.
When wages go down, there will be a lot more crap projects that should never see the light of day that will suddenly be feasible to implement.
FTFY
Not to mention that the barriers to entry are already too low in many respects (just 'cuz you can cut-n-paste code doesn't make you a developer) and each "gold rush" phase is shorter than the previous one (look at how fast mobile development got unprofitable for 99.5% of all developers).
That's why most utility bills have a "minimum charge for being connected to the grid", and then a consumption component.
Well, there's sales taxes, there's taxes on profits, there's taxes on employees wages ... it's not like you can claim that intellectual property isn't taxed.
reduce revenues to grid utilities
And there are costs associated with generating those revenues (pun intended). Will it tip the utilities into loss? Certainly not to the extent the summary implies.
Many of the retirees were going to be obsolete anyways, since they were so busy working they hadn't kept up with technologies. This is still a problem ... the treadmill is more like a hamster wheel - run faster just to stay in place. The more work you do, the greater the technical debt you build up.
Companies won't invest in keeping people up-to-date when they can hire someone else younger who is up to speed on the "latest and greatest" fad of the year. It's a poor long-term strategy, but if you don't survive the short term, who cares about the long term?
As for workers in the rest of the world, they're not going away in 10 years, or 20. The barriers of entry are simply too low. We're even exporting the reading of xrays to workers in other countries
At 6:30 a.m. that Saturday, teleradiologist Edward Wong, M.D., opened Drumm's file. Dr. Wong's employer, Virtual Radiologic Consultants, was headquartered in Minnesota. Dr. Wong was licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania. But as he studied the images of Drumm's head, he was at his home in Hong Kong.
Perhaps most troubling: How do you know who is reading your scans? Ideally, a qualified radiologist would see them, or at least a physician with extra training in the field. But doctors are expensive, and unethical companies can reap profits by having lower-paid, unqualified technicians read scans. Radiologists warn of the potential for "ghosting," an illegal practice whereby a doctor simply rubber-stamps the reading by a technician without giving it so much as a glance. Doctor's electronic "signatures" on radiology reports are digitized, too, so it can be easy for techs to forge them. "Most people assume that images are going to be read in the hospital," says Arl Van Moore, M.D., former president of the American College of Radiology (ACR) in Reston, Virginia. That's usually not the case, and "there is no way for the patient to know if someone putting his name on the report has actually read it."
Expect more jobs to be offshored in the future.
Nah, the swedes just wanted to get the rip of "50 Shades of Gray" before the official release.
You got in just after the turn of the century (my, how time flies), just after the whole y2k thing. A lot has changed in the last decade or so ... we have an over-supply of workers (thanks, H1Bs), and more competition for each job nowadays.
What worked for you then won't necessarily work for him now. And he's going to have to get up to speed (which takes time and money), and by then, even more competition. At least an MBA doesn't tie him in to one sector of industry (or even one industry).
Automatically clicking on all of them means that the advertisers can't tell when a legitimate sucker clicks or when the program does. So click counts become worthless. Currently the ads work on some people and not on others, and they can tell which is which.
Actually, savvy advertisers (or ad networks that manage the ad serving process) can easily tell by sending you to a page that requires you to do something (for example, a dialog with an offer to subscribe, which you will click on to get rid of and expose the underlying content). How do you think they've been dealing with bots for the last couple of decades?