This has nothing to do with terrorism and just a small bit with security. I'm a Firefighter/Paramedic in Northern Florida. Most large incidents are picked up by local news agencies within hours and the information widely broadcast.
Publically disseminating private emergency call information in realtime can compromise a fire scene investigation and open medical responders up to HIPAA http://http//www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/ violation lawsuits. A patient's PHI (Personal/Private Health Information) includes anything that connects their name/address/whatever to their medical condition. This is also the reason EMTs and Paramedics in our EMS company are not allowed to take photos of motor vehicle crashes because that photo then becomes part of the patients medical record and must be protected under HIPAA regulation. We know that anyone with a radio scanner can listen to live dispatches and that's why we never give names over the radio. Briefly looking at Seattles dispatch page I don't see any PHI.
My opinion is that Seattle is overreacting a bit.
Florida Highway Patrol put incidents up on their website with a delay...http://www.1stresponder.com/First Responder News delays their "live" dispatch stories about 30 minutes. As long as no personal information is given the public has a right to know what emergencies are going on in their neighborhood. Many fire departments and EMS services are struggling to keep up with these information issues but it ultimately comes down to patient privacy. Would you want the world to know that you called an ambulance because you tripped over a garden hose and did a face-plant on your patio?
Being aggressive is one thing, being stubborn is another. While it's nice to see success stories like that, not everyone knows what they'd be happy doing for the rest of their life by the time they graduate college.
While I was in college getting a degree is music I had the goal of owning my own recording studio one day. By the time I graduated that had changed to computer systems design and programming. Recent events have led me in yet another direction...but this time I can finally imagine myself doing this for the next 30 years.
Next week I'll begin classes to get an Emergency Medical Services degree and national certification as a Paramedic.
It's an old cliche, but if you do what you love you'll never have to work a day in your life!
Intl. Fire Rescue and EMS News: http://www.firehouse.com
The last laptop I had with a trackball (I use an optical trackball on my desktop now) was in an AT&T Globalyst 250P. It still runs all my DOS games perfectly.
If it's water, that means the stuff shooting out of that star is between 0 and 100 degrees celcius. Last time I checked, ambient space was well below 0 and most stars are more than a little above 100.
"Water jets" are what I got in my jacuzzi...now if they had said water vapor...
A fast CPU is nice, but how about upgrading the rest of the standard PC architecture and peripherals to the same level?
Weren't we all suppose to be using high-speed serial connections by now instead of a cocktail of SCSI (1/2/3, wide, fast, hold the mayo), IDE (ATA-33/66/100), parallel, 8 bit serial, USB, Firewire, PS/2, PCI, ISA (which is finally disappearing), etc. Heck, I'd be happy if the motherboard ran at even half to a third the speed of the cpu.:P
Using a 20 year old peripheral port on last weeks multi-gig cpu is like sucking a McDonalds shake through a coffee stirrer!
Zip it, tar it, bzip it, encrypt it...the fact that a plain text script crashed thousands of computers says volumes about Microsoft's "commitment to innovation":P
Or better yet...use FTP for file transfers and email for email!!
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This has nothing to do with terrorism and just a small bit with security. I'm a Firefighter/Paramedic in Northern Florida. Most large incidents are picked up by local news agencies within hours and the information widely broadcast.
Publically disseminating private emergency call information in realtime can compromise a fire scene investigation and open medical responders up to HIPAA http://http//www.hhs.gov/ocr/hipaa/ violation lawsuits. A patient's PHI (Personal/Private Health Information) includes anything that connects their name/address/whatever to their medical condition. This is also the reason EMTs and Paramedics in our EMS company are not allowed to take photos of motor vehicle crashes because that photo then becomes part of the patients medical record and must be protected under HIPAA regulation. We know that anyone with a radio scanner can listen to live dispatches and that's why we never give names over the radio. Briefly looking at Seattles dispatch page I don't see any PHI.
My opinion is that Seattle is overreacting a bit.
Florida Highway Patrol put incidents up on their website with a delay...http://www.1stresponder.com/First Responder News delays their "live" dispatch stories about 30 minutes. As long as no personal information is given the public has a right to know what emergencies are going on in their neighborhood. Many fire departments and EMS services are struggling to keep up with these information issues but it ultimately comes down to patient privacy. Would you want the world to know that you called an ambulance because you tripped over a garden hose and did a face-plant on your patio?
Being aggressive is one thing, being stubborn is another. While it's nice to see success stories like that, not everyone knows what they'd be happy doing for the rest of their life by the time they graduate college.
While I was in college getting a degree is music I had the goal of owning my own recording studio one day. By the time I graduated that had changed to computer systems design and programming. Recent events have led me in yet another direction...but this time I can finally imagine myself doing this for the next 30 years.
Next week I'll begin classes to get an Emergency Medical Services degree and national certification as a Paramedic.
It's an old cliche, but if you do what you love you'll never have to work a day in your life!
Intl. Fire Rescue and EMS News: http://www.firehouse.com
The last laptop I had with a trackball (I use an optical trackball on my desktop now) was in an AT&T Globalyst 250P. It still runs all my DOS games perfectly.
a board with serial ATA....guess it's time to replace the 'ole AMD 450.
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Here's some close-ups:
http://www.ocworkbench.com/2002/asus/p4s8x/p4s8xg
If it's water, that means the stuff shooting out of that star is between 0 and 100 degrees celcius. Last time I checked, ambient space was well below 0 and most stars are more than a little above 100.
"Water jets" are what I got in my jacuzzi...now if they had said water vapor...
..manage to mirror it before it went kaput?
Just get Crossover. :)
A fast CPU is nice, but how about upgrading the rest of the standard PC architecture and peripherals to the same level?
:P
Weren't we all suppose to be using high-speed serial connections by now instead of a cocktail of SCSI (1/2/3, wide, fast, hold the mayo), IDE (ATA-33/66/100), parallel, 8 bit serial, USB, Firewire, PS/2, PCI, ISA (which is finally disappearing), etc. Heck, I'd be happy if the motherboard ran at even half to a third the speed of the cpu.
Using a 20 year old peripheral port on last weeks multi-gig cpu is like sucking a McDonalds shake through a coffee stirrer!
Zip it, tar it, bzip it, encrypt it...the fact that a plain text script crashed thousands of computers says volumes about Microsoft's "commitment to innovation" :P
Or better yet...use FTP for file transfers and email for email!!