The big issues involve licensing for eBooks and the fact that publishers seem to engage in punitive pricing with Libraries. Example: One publisher declares that an ebook can only be checked out 27 times, then the license for that expires. Multiple publishers REFUSE to sell ebooks for Library use. Libraries are treated like pirates by many publishers.
This. It's all about this.
Dead-tree book publishers are this century's buggy whip manufacturers. They realize that their business model is dead, and are trying to prop it up by applying pricing/licensing schemes that make no sense in the digital world. Their death throes will be interesting.
not buy it.
The good ideas/products will stay, the bad ones will die away. That's how evolution works.
Spoken like a true "free market" fan-boy. Alas, the real world does not work the way it does in the fictional novels of Rand et al. A truly free market requires fully informed consumers. If you believe that the average iPhone user is fully informed about all the issues arising from his/her use of that particular technology, you are truly a fool. As TFA points out, the market is about to explode with this kind of complex technology which contains features and functionality that are deliberately hidden from the consumer. Consumers will, in blissful ignorance, buy this shit, not understanding how their privacy has been sold. I don't give a damn about analogues of Clippy on my refrigerator's GUI, but I damn well want to be able to muzzle his ass when he tries to phone home about what I'm eating. No, I want him muzzled by default unless/until I choose to let him phone home to Kroger/Safeway/Albertson's or whichever giant grocer has paid to have him keep tabs on my pickle supply.
25 LY isn't far. We can send all the ignorant, racist dumb-fucks, and other undesirables to this planet. Imagine how much better off the rest of us will be. Good riddance!
I'm sure if he re-reads your internal design specifications, coding standards, and comments in the code he will understand your design.
What's the giant whooshing sound? It's as if thousands of blissfully ignorant "senior" coders suddenly missed your sarcasm, all at once. Well done, sir.
Texas, where teaching lies to children is a matter of state school board policy, is worried about those same children being chipped, ok... badged. It's a step in the right direction, I guess, but I do wish that it was for the right reasons, instead of some ignorant, red-neck paranoia.
Question; is there a differance between 'effective' encryption, and 'HIPAA Approved' encryption?
From a legal standpoint, would cheap/free encryption like Truecrypt/PGP be acceptable, or do you need HIPAA certified encryption with enterprise key management, etc. for $1000 a seat?
What stops your medical records being 'encrypted' with ROT13?
TrueCrypt would indeed have allowed the hospice to invoke "safe harbor" by pointing out the loss of an encrypted drive does not constitute a "release" of EPHI.
Serves Obama right For not putting any of the criminals responsible for the financial collpase in prison where they belong. Now those same criminals are suing the government.
Exactly - the same corporate psychopaths that caused the collapse of AIG, are the ones organizing this class action suit. Why? Because psychopaths have no shame, no remorse and no conscience.
You are both wrong. If we're talking about people, terms like "psycopath", "no remorse and no conscience" would make sense, and I'll grant you that the line is blurry since the "Citizens United" decision, but we are talking about corporations. Corporations have one ethical and legal imperative - create profit for the shareholders. That imperative trumps all others. Indeed, it is an actionable offense for the corporation's leadership to not pursue profit at every turn. If you want corporations to do "the right thing", you will first need to recognize that they won't, ever, unless it costs them money. Then you need to decide if you want to compel them via regulation or after the fact, via tort. There is no other way.
Because the notion that some system is making note of your every move during your entire visit, with the express aim of manipulating your behavior (buying more shit) is nothing if not creepy.
The option would be to have a US company build them for 10X the cost plus the usual 1000% kickback./s
[citation needed]
...crickets...
The reality, of course, is nowhere near the numbers you suggest, but hey, who's counting. This is/. and hyperbole is the order of the day. Rational discussions? Supported by actual facts? Pffffff....
...that a documentary on ancient metal working is "stuff that matters"? Sure, it's interesting, but is the/. crowd that isolated that they've never heard of forge welding?
Well..., no, because the problem isn't books, or games. The problem is bad parenting. Period. A violent book, or video game, by itself isn't the problem. The problem is the absence of a parent or other guiding influence to provide perspective and help the child understand the difference between books, games, movies, etc. and real life. I shit you not - I know of one case where a young man nearly cost his friend his life. They had a disagreement of some kind and the solution was to "Just shoot him a little." If your child has learned that shooting is a valid conflict resolution tool to use with peers, you have failed to raise a well-adjusted child. And yet, in certain communities, that is the cultural norm for a large proportion of that community's young men. Notice that I've said nothing about race, which has nothing to do with this. It's about culture and what children are taught, or more importantly perhaps, not taught.
Digital trails are easy to destroy. Paper trails are much harder to destroy. They can be your enemy or your ally. Having paper reports is always the ally of an ethical business.
Properly constructed digital trails are next to impossible to destroy.
For the first time, it's easy to sign, fax, and store documents...
Seriously?
The fax is the single biggest consumer of paper our business has. Yep, you guessed right. People will print things out, just so they can stuff them in a fax machine and send them between offices, or down the hall, or (I swear to gawd) straight back into the document management system they came from. And before you suggest scanners and other "modern" tools, know that the tools for avoiding the dead tree loop are already there. There are few things as set in their ways as clerical staff who has "done it this way for years".
Something needs to be done about these Governments. It seems that these religiously motivated governments are rampaging badly out of control. There needs to be a way to prevent this, and undermine the legitimacy of these governments. I don't know what to do, but this can't go on. The Internet is about the free exchange of ideas. Islamic governments around the world are like this.
Surely you aren't suggesting that Islam is the only religion that exerts an undesirable influence on government? Surely you grasp the fact that invoking any religion as the authority in law and government is, well..., stupid. Right?
That's bullshit. Only the people that voted for Romney voted for Romney. People who voted for Ron Paul voted for Ron Paul. Don't try to lay the guilt trip on those who didn't vote for your favorite candidate.
To believe this is to ignore reality, that reality being that Ron Paul never had a chance at being elected. You may honestly say that, on principle, you deliberately threw away your vote, but you may not ignore the fact that such an act didn't have at least the potential to affect the outcome between the two viable candidates.
You're already at 5, or I'd spend a point on this. Alas, our Puritan heritage still pervades our national psyche and renders pretty much anything other than heterosexual, missionary position coitus, between to people of the same race, with the intent of making a baby, as dirty and sinful. Not dirty and sinful enough to not do, mind you, but definitely dirty and sinful enough to fell guilty about, and to publicly decry those who admit to other acts as "perverts", of course. But movies and video games that show, in full HD detail, the violent destruction of human bodies, naughty parts and all, that's not a problem. I will never understand it, but there it is.
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The big issues involve licensing for eBooks and the fact that publishers seem to engage in punitive pricing with Libraries. Example: One publisher declares that an ebook can only be checked out 27 times, then the license for that expires. Multiple publishers REFUSE to sell ebooks for Library use. Libraries are treated like pirates by many publishers.
This. It's all about this.
Dead-tree book publishers are this century's buggy whip manufacturers. They realize that their business model is dead, and are trying to prop it up by applying pricing/licensing schemes that make no sense in the digital world. Their death throes will be interesting.
...that biblioteque means "library"... in French!
...failure to follow simple best practices. Nothing new here. Move along... move along.
not buy it. The good ideas/products will stay, the bad ones will die away. That's how evolution works.
Spoken like a true "free market" fan-boy. Alas, the real world does not work the way it does in the fictional novels of Rand et al. A truly free market requires fully informed consumers. If you believe that the average iPhone user is fully informed about all the issues arising from his/her use of that particular technology, you are truly a fool. As TFA points out, the market is about to explode with this kind of complex technology which contains features and functionality that are deliberately hidden from the consumer. Consumers will, in blissful ignorance, buy this shit, not understanding how their privacy has been sold. I don't give a damn about analogues of Clippy on my refrigerator's GUI, but I damn well want to be able to muzzle his ass when he tries to phone home about what I'm eating. No, I want him muzzled by default unless/until I choose to let him phone home to Kroger/Safeway/Albertson's or whichever giant grocer has paid to have him keep tabs on my pickle supply.
So where do they get the air to inflate it?
If the answers to this question is not patently obvious to you, turn in your geek card and hang your head in shame.
25 LY isn't far. We can send all the ignorant, racist dumb-fucks, and other undesirables to this planet. Imagine how much better off the rest of us will be. Good riddance!
TFTFY.
Good riddance indeed.
And this is news, why?
I'm sure if he re-reads your internal design specifications, coding standards, and comments in the code he will understand your design.
What's the giant whooshing sound? It's as if thousands of blissfully ignorant "senior" coders suddenly missed your sarcasm, all at once. Well done, sir.
Texas, where teaching lies to children is a matter of state school board policy, is worried about those same children being chipped, ok... badged. It's a step in the right direction, I guess, but I do wish that it was for the right reasons, instead of some ignorant, red-neck paranoia.
Question; is there a differance between 'effective' encryption, and 'HIPAA Approved' encryption?
Yes, HIPAA stipulates that it must be FIPS-accredited..
[citation needed]
HIPAA regulations do not specify what is or is not "approved". They provide guidelines, among those is an obtuse reference to NIST.
Question; is there a differance between 'effective' encryption, and 'HIPAA Approved' encryption?
From a legal standpoint, would cheap/free encryption like Truecrypt/PGP be acceptable, or do you need HIPAA certified encryption with enterprise key management, etc. for $1000 a seat?
What stops your medical records being 'encrypted' with ROT13?
TrueCrypt would indeed have allowed the hospice to invoke "safe harbor" by pointing out the loss of an encrypted drive does not constitute a "release" of EPHI.
Serves Obama right For not putting any of the criminals responsible for the financial collpase in prison where they belong. Now those same criminals are suing the government.
Exactly - the same corporate psychopaths that caused the collapse of AIG, are the ones organizing this class action suit. Why? Because psychopaths have no shame, no remorse and no conscience.
You are both wrong. If we're talking about people, terms like "psycopath", "no remorse and no conscience" would make sense, and I'll grant you that the line is blurry since the "Citizens United" decision, but we are talking about corporations. Corporations have one ethical and legal imperative - create profit for the shareholders. That imperative trumps all others. Indeed, it is an actionable offense for the corporation's leadership to not pursue profit at every turn. If you want corporations to do "the right thing", you will first need to recognize that they won't, ever, unless it costs them money. Then you need to decide if you want to compel them via regulation or after the fact, via tort. There is no other way.
Because the notion that some system is making note of your every move during your entire visit, with the express aim of manipulating your behavior (buying more shit) is nothing if not creepy.
Nice recursion there, AC. Namecalling... seriously?
The option would be to have a US company build them for 10X the cost plus the usual 1000% kickback. /s
[citation needed]
/. and hyperbole is the order of the day. Rational discussions? Supported by actual facts? Pffffff....
...crickets...
The reality, of course, is nowhere near the numbers you suggest, but hey, who's counting. This is
That's called socialism. Good luck getting more than handful of politicians to even go near it. Not saying it doesn't make sense, but...
...that a documentary on ancient metal working is "stuff that matters"? Sure, it's interesting, but is the /. crowd that isolated that they've never heard of forge welding?
Will they accept my copy of the Bible?
Touche', sir. Well played. Very well played.
Well..., no, because the problem isn't books, or games. The problem is bad parenting. Period. A violent book, or video game, by itself isn't the problem. The problem is the absence of a parent or other guiding influence to provide perspective and help the child understand the difference between books, games, movies, etc. and real life. I shit you not - I know of one case where a young man nearly cost his friend his life. They had a disagreement of some kind and the solution was to "Just shoot him a little." If your child has learned that shooting is a valid conflict resolution tool to use with peers, you have failed to raise a well-adjusted child. And yet, in certain communities, that is the cultural norm for a large proportion of that community's young men. Notice that I've said nothing about race, which has nothing to do with this. It's about culture and what children are taught, or more importantly perhaps, not taught.
How can this be? Ruby on Rails is all magical goodness, right?
Digital trails are easy to destroy. Paper trails are much harder to destroy. They can be your enemy or your ally. Having paper reports is always the ally of an ethical business.
Properly constructed digital trails are next to impossible to destroy.
For the first time, it's easy to sign, fax, and store documents...
Seriously?
The fax is the single biggest consumer of paper our business has. Yep, you guessed right. People will print things out, just so they can stuff them in a fax machine and send them between offices, or down the hall, or (I swear to gawd) straight back into the document management system they came from. And before you suggest scanners and other "modern" tools, know that the tools for avoiding the dead tree loop are already there. There are few things as set in their ways as clerical staff who has "done it this way for years".
Something needs to be done about these Governments. It seems that these religiously motivated governments are rampaging badly out of control. There needs to be a way to prevent this, and undermine the legitimacy of these governments. I don't know what to do, but this can't go on. The Internet is about the free exchange of ideas. Islamic governments around the world are like this.
Surely you aren't suggesting that Islam is the only religion that exerts an undesirable influence on government? Surely you grasp the fact that invoking any religion as the authority in law and government is, well..., stupid. Right?
That's bullshit. Only the people that voted for Romney voted for Romney. People who voted for Ron Paul voted for Ron Paul. Don't try to lay the guilt trip on those who didn't vote for your favorite candidate.
To believe this is to ignore reality, that reality being that Ron Paul never had a chance at being elected. You may honestly say that, on principle, you deliberately threw away your vote, but you may not ignore the fact that such an act didn't have at least the potential to affect the outcome between the two viable candidates.
You're already at 5, or I'd spend a point on this. Alas, our Puritan heritage still pervades our national psyche and renders pretty much anything other than heterosexual, missionary position coitus, between to people of the same race, with the intent of making a baby, as dirty and sinful. Not dirty and sinful enough to not do, mind you, but definitely dirty and sinful enough to fell guilty about, and to publicly decry those who admit to other acts as "perverts", of course. But movies and video games that show, in full HD detail, the violent destruction of human bodies, naughty parts and all, that's not a problem. I will never understand it, but there it is.