Since health insurance can no longer be denied based on pre-existing conditions, why should I care if my health records are compromised? What do I have to lose?
It does not matter of you care because it was never about you, nor about me.
The whole patient privacy thing grew out of what happened in some political campaigns back in the 1970's, perhaps even before. It seemed like the medical history of numerous candidates was being revealed during the election, so you learned the congressman Bob took Valium a few years ago. Do you want to vote for the mentally unstable Bob? And senator Joe was in the hospital for a treadmill test. How can the country depend upon Joe in these dangerous times when he's obviously going to drop dead of a heart attack when a crisis hits? So, the powers that be instantly discovered the need for "patient privacy" and wrote laws to fix that problem.
Nobody that matters ever gave a hoot about my medical record, nor yours.
Just who in the hell do you think ran ahead of the bomb trucks and took out all the SAM emplacements?
F117s. Yes an apache flight took some I that famous vid, clearing a path for the tank rush and its CAS, but the majority, especially around Bagdad, were taken out by the F117.
Then we got a repeat of that during the 2nd Gulf War when, once again when taking Bagdad, stealths flew in ahead and once again took out the SAMs and other defenses ahead of the main push, this time being done by the B2.
While we're on the topic of old-timers that refuse to die, don't forget to mention the Phantom F4-G SEAD missions in the first Gulf war. It took out about 3/4 of the radar sites destroyed. http://www.defensemedianetwork...
IT work isn't unskilled labor, your supposed to know better than to do stuff like this, even if your just working with a company to host some data online. I suspect they were all getting paid well enough that there is no excuse for being so sloppy and oblivious.
They were right to fire him, but not for what he did, but what he did not do. The data was exposed for 10 days, and he fixed that the instant he discovered the exposure.
What he did not do was tell his boss about it.
His boss was put into the position of walking into a meeting with his dick hanging out, and he could have known, but the one guy who did know " thought it was ok"
Of all the sins an employee can make, it is a thousand times worse if the boss finds out about a screwup in his department from guy at the top, or worse, the newspaper, or worse yet, the lawyers.
Isn't sodium really toxic (not good when exposed to air) and explodes on contact with water (youtube.com has plenty of examples of this)? I wonder how long it would be before a lawyer sues the battery makers after someone opens a battery somewhere near water? Maybe they have taken this into account with the battery design?
Does not matter because they aren't using sodium metal, they're using a sodium compound.
Interesting that the summary explains what a lithium-ion battery is but assumes I know what a charge ferrying redox mediator is. I'm obviously a bit out of touch.
They chose one of the more expensive commercially available battery technologies for their flow battery?
No. It is not more expensive, it is cheaper. Most existing flow batteries are vanadium redox. Vanadium is about $40/kg. Lithium costs about double that, but it has much higher energy density, so it is cheaper per unit of energy stored.
Yep, and that is because what you are interested in for a flow battery is the number of $/mole, not the $/kg. This is roughly proportional (by Avogadro's number) to $/electron Vanadium atomic mass ~ 51. A kg would be about 20 moles, so at $40/kg the price is $2/mole Lithium atomic mass ~ 7. A kg would be about 143 moles, so at $80/kg Lithium is $0.56/mole
Regarding infectious disease vs chronic diseases. This is largely a case of truly innocent vs people who are causing their own problems.
As for chronic diseases, "obesity, cancer and heart disease epidemics in poor nations", umm, poor nations rates of those are less than affluent nations. Is Gates supposed to drop helping the truly innocent and poor people and instead focus on diseases of the affluent?
Obesity isn't a disease. It is a life-style choice and the causes and cures are well known. No amount of Gates money can solve that problem.
Premature heart disease is also largely due to life-style choices, is well understood, and the methods to prevent are well known. What is Gates supposed to do about cigarette smokers? What about people who refuse to exercise? Fund involuntary work camps in China? That one was already handled by Steve Jobs.
Cancer? The disease also known as "the disease of affluence"? http://visual.ly/cancers-globa... Many people believe the rising rates of those diseases are solely due to increases in longevity. Does the author have some suggestion for reducing longevity? Oh, well, yes - stop vaccination programs.Two birds with one stone, eh? Also, the increase in certain rare 3rd world cancers are due to cancers resulting from infectious agents - a problem the affluent don't have so much.
Is the author seriously suggesting Gates drop funding that saves millions of lives in third world countries in order to put more money into the already highly funded cancer research?
LSD doses at tripping strength are tiny by measurement standards. How are they cutting something measured in such tiny amounts with any accuracy? And how do they know the strength of their sources?
This, and also, we know how people are. If they don't get that creative flash with 10 micrograms, they'll keep taking more throughout the day. And then he's going to try to drive home.
Here's is someone who got the disk, copied it, and is not mentioned in the list of twelve. But the state knew about them. How many were actually sent out?
It is possible that the list of twelve released has typos in it and that only twelve disks went out. I doubt that "Georgia GunOwners magazine"asked for or got the list, but rather the PAC "Georgia Gunowners" which has a web site "georgiagunowners.org" Likewise, the disk sent to actually sent to Peach Pundit was perhaps listed as "Georgia Pundit"
Most of the CD's have been returned. For some reason the Libertarian party is being a jerk about it and is dawdling. What I can't find out is which of the others still have their copy, or worse yet, are making copies.
all the big hacks have been around money. stealing CC cards to buy stuff or wiring money right out of a bank account. what do i get out of hacking medical devices except a free and painful medical experience along with being forced to eat hospital food?
It's a way to get medical records. Once you have a medical record, then you can bill medicare and insurance companies for tens of thousands of dollars through your phony company. You need the medical record not only for the patient name, address, SS #, but also because the fraudulent billings need to be consistent with existing medical conditions.
Credit card theft is petty cash compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars fraudulent medical billing brings in.
It still does. That's why it orbits instead of just floating in one spot.
sorta. It weighs a little less due than its weight at earth's surface due to being Earth's radius plus 400kM from Earth's center of mass. About 96%, I think. But, if it had zero weight, it would not hover but rather continue in a straight line in the original direction of launch, or in whatever direction it was headed when weight went to zero. And it certainly would not orbit, as spauldo pointed out.
The media has long been saying it wrong. Objects in orbit are not in zero gravity, they're in freefall. If you doubt what I say, then check the time dilation relative to Earth's surface, and you'll see the difference is due to being 400kM farther from Earth's center of mass, but it isn't a as much as it would be if you were in zero gravity relative to earth.
The media ges it wrong. Zero gravity is not the same as zero g.
The only reliable way to protect your data from government thugs is to change the government such that there are no government thugs wanting your data.
Anything else is a band-aid and temporary at best.
Strat.
That is the final step in the process. Step one is getting people to realize there's a problem. And that's why journalists need to have their information protected, and that's why the goons want to get their hands on it.
They're not holograms, and this has been discussed before and here. Slashdot is supposed to be a tech site. For actual article to be so misinformed about such a basic technology as holography (that has been around for over a half century) is saddening.
Well, that really does look cool, and one can see how it could be expanded to monitor other things. Their solution to power and networking also could be used for something like a webcam for increased flexibility. However, it looks like a variation of the "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" thought-process.
If I were in the position of these farmers, I would prefer a drone to inspect the fields. With a human eyeball, you can spot the things that no one had thought would happen. A failed drone can be easily fixed by ordering another one, or you can two on hand.
Lee pled down to fairly light charges, with 50 or so completely dismissed. Lee was awarded a $1.6 million settlement from the U.S. federal government and several news organizations for privacy violations. I guess the government just passes out money to suspected Chinese spies?
It wasn't so much the government that settled as it was the four news organizations.
It appears to me that the lawsuit the Wen Ho Lee brought was a revenge suit to try to find out who had ratted him out by giving his name to the press. The people at LANL closed ranks and refused to tell. After all, they had been filing complaints about his violating security measures long before the FBI was investigating Lee. So Lee sues the news organizations to make them reveal the sources. Historically, the media would have an easy win on First Amendment rights and centuries of case law. The judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson, ignores all this and finds the reporters in contempt and gives them a $500 a day fine. If you remember the DOJ vs Microsoft case, you'll know why Judge Jackson has a grudge against the media.
The settlement is really bad news for the rest of us. It's going to make it easy for politicians to shut up the press when something they don't like is reported. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...
Also, note that the government's condition was that Wen Ho Lee gets none of the government's money - it goes only to pay lawyer's expenses. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06...
Whether or not he was actively spying, I can't say. I find it very difficult to think that a Taiwanese would do anything to help China. But I'm real sure he was up to no good.
If nothing else, he should have been imprisoned for this felony: "They did discover that Dr. Lee had given his password to his children so they could connect to the Internet and play computer games through his Los Alamos computer while they were at college. "
Of course the main reason for dropping the charges was that they had no smoking gun. That is, Lee copied all these documents, but they didn't catch him transferring them. The tapes just disappeared. Part of the settlement was that Lee would reveal the location of the missing tapes, and the big reveal was "I threw them in the trash". That in itself is a felony.
Also the government settled for a plea bargain in the original spy case was to a large extent due to the defense lawyers filing to get security clearance to get access to the 400,000 documents Lee downloaded, and secondly to put them into the court records.
Once again, I maintain that the Wen Ho Lee case is nothing like the Xi Xiaoxing case.
They really do *not* like physicists at the FBI, do they?
No, I would not say those two cases are similar. Xi Xiaoxing was persecuted for what would have been a trivial accusation even if were true.
Wen Ho Lee was working on nuclear weapons at LANL. An agent of ours in China found our weapons designs in China. That is a really big deal, and not something you should brush off because you don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
Wen Ho Lee had a long history of suspicious behavior. He did everything he could to look like a spy, including travel to China. Lee had a history of using secure system to copy data that he then moved to unsecured systems to make tapes, and he took those tapes out of the facility. His co-workers had filed complaints about his actions over the years, and it was LANL that turned Wen Ho Lee into the FBI. Lee met with Hu Side in a hotel room. Hu Side is head of China's nuclear weapons program. lee says Side asked him to spy, but he declined. The problem is, if you work in a facility like LANL, you are required to report things like this. Lee didn't; he got caught.
Even after his access was revoked, he borrowed a co-workers computer to move data across three levels of secured system to copy out more data to remove.
Ultimately, it was decided that the weapons designs found in China's hands did not come from the level that Wen Ho Lee had access to. Lee refused to disclose the locations of those nuclear weapons secrets tapes he had taken out of the facility until he got a plea bargain.
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Maybe, but you also have to take into account the amazon women.
I bet they speak the universal language!
Since health insurance can no longer be denied based on pre-existing conditions, why should I care if my health records are compromised? What do I have to lose?
It does not matter of you care because it was never about you, nor about me.
The whole patient privacy thing grew out of what happened in some political campaigns back in the 1970's, perhaps even before.
It seemed like the medical history of numerous candidates was being revealed during the election, so you learned the congressman Bob took Valium a few years ago. Do you want to vote for the mentally unstable Bob?
And senator Joe was in the hospital for a treadmill test. How can the country depend upon Joe in these dangerous times when he's obviously going to drop dead of a heart attack when a crisis hits?
So, the powers that be instantly discovered the need for "patient privacy" and wrote laws to fix that problem.
Nobody that matters ever gave a hoot about my medical record, nor yours.
Just who in the hell do you think ran ahead of the bomb trucks and took out all the SAM emplacements?
F117s. Yes an apache flight took some I that famous vid, clearing a path for the tank rush and its CAS, but the majority, especially around Bagdad, were taken out by the F117.
Then we got a repeat of that during the 2nd Gulf War when, once again when taking Bagdad, stealths flew in ahead and once again took out the SAMs and other defenses ahead of the main push, this time being done by the B2.
While we're on the topic of old-timers that refuse to die, don't forget to mention the Phantom F4-G SEAD missions in the first Gulf war.
It took out about 3/4 of the radar sites destroyed.
http://www.defensemedianetwork...
IT work isn't unskilled labor, your supposed to know better than to do stuff like this, even if your just working with a company to host some data online. I suspect they were all getting paid well enough that there is no excuse for being so sloppy and oblivious.
This^
Thanks, you said it better than I did.
They were right to fire him, but not for what he did, but what he did not do.
The data was exposed for 10 days, and he fixed that the instant he discovered the exposure.
What he did not do was tell his boss about it.
His boss was put into the position of walking into a meeting with his dick hanging out, and he could have known, but the one guy who did know " thought it was ok"
Of all the sins an employee can make, it is a thousand times worse if the boss finds out about a screwup in his department from guy at the top, or worse, the newspaper, or worse yet, the lawyers.
Isn't sodium really toxic (not good when exposed to air) and explodes on contact with water (youtube.com has plenty of examples of this)? I wonder how long it would be before a lawyer sues the battery makers after someone opens a battery somewhere near water? Maybe they have taken this into account with the battery design?
Does not matter because they aren't using sodium metal, they're using a sodium compound.
Interesting that the summary explains what a lithium-ion battery is but assumes I know what a charge ferrying redox mediator is. I'm obviously a bit out of touch.
It's a pleonasm if you ask me.
BTW, here's the actual article.
http://advances.sciencemag.org...
They chose one of the more expensive commercially available battery technologies for their flow battery?
No. It is not more expensive, it is cheaper. Most existing flow batteries are vanadium redox. Vanadium is about $40/kg. Lithium costs about double that, but it has much higher energy density, so it is cheaper per unit of energy stored.
Yep, and that is because what you are interested in for a flow battery is the number of $/mole, not the $/kg.
This is roughly proportional (by Avogadro's number) to $/electron
Vanadium atomic mass ~ 51. A kg would be about 20 moles, so at $40/kg the price is $2/mole
Lithium atomic mass ~ 7. A kg would be about 143 moles, so at $80/kg Lithium is $0.56/mole
Agreed.
And I want to pile on with my rant.
Regarding infectious disease vs chronic diseases.
This is largely a case of truly innocent vs people who are causing their own problems.
As for chronic diseases, "obesity, cancer and heart disease epidemics in poor nations", umm, poor nations rates of those are less than affluent nations.
Is Gates supposed to drop helping the truly innocent and poor people and instead focus on diseases of the affluent?
Obesity isn't a disease. It is a life-style choice and the causes and cures are well known. No amount of Gates money can solve that problem.
Premature heart disease is also largely due to life-style choices, is well understood, and the methods to prevent are well known. What is Gates supposed to do about cigarette smokers? What about people who refuse to exercise? Fund involuntary work camps in China? That one was already handled by Steve Jobs.
Cancer? The disease also known as "the disease of affluence"?
http://visual.ly/cancers-globa...
Many people believe the rising rates of those diseases are solely due to increases in longevity.
Does the author have some suggestion for reducing longevity? Oh, well, yes - stop vaccination programs.Two birds with one stone, eh?
Also, the increase in certain rare 3rd world cancers are due to cancers resulting from infectious agents - a problem the affluent don't have so much.
Is the author seriously suggesting Gates drop funding that saves millions of lives in third world countries in order to put more money into the already highly funded cancer research?
LSD doses at tripping strength are tiny by measurement standards. How are they cutting something measured in such tiny amounts with any accuracy? And how do they know the strength of their sources?
This, and also, we know how people are.
If they don't get that creative flash with 10 micrograms, they'll keep taking more throughout the day.
And then he's going to try to drive home.
Followup news articles later showed that the one listed is "Georgia Pundit" is actually "Peach Pundit", so it's just 12 after all.
News gets worse.
Here's is someone who got the disk, copied it, and is not mentioned in the list of twelve.
But the state knew about them. How many were actually sent out?
http://www.peachpundit.com/201...
It is possible that the list of twelve released has typos in it and that only twelve disks went out.
I doubt that "Georgia GunOwners magazine"asked for or got the list, but rather the PAC "Georgia Gunowners" which has a web site "georgiagunowners.org"
Likewise, the disk sent to actually sent to Peach Pundit was perhaps listed as "Georgia Pundit"
They did find someone in IT to fire:
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/s...
Most of the CD's have been returned. For some reason the Libertarian party is being a jerk about it and is dawdling.
What I can't find out is which of the others still have their copy, or worse yet, are making copies.
all the big hacks have been around money. stealing CC cards to buy stuff or wiring money right out of a bank account. what do i get out of hacking medical devices except a free and painful medical experience along with being forced to eat hospital food?
It's a way to get medical records.
Once you have a medical record, then you can bill medicare and insurance companies for tens of thousands of dollars through your phony company.
You need the medical record not only for the patient name, address, SS #, but also because the fraudulent billings need to be consistent with existing medical conditions.
Credit card theft is petty cash compared to the hundreds of millions of dollars fraudulent medical billing brings in.
It's only a movie dude. Not real.
It did happen, but you're too young to remember.
Am I the only one who thought it's been a fixture in the sky for much longer than just 15 years?
Or am I just getting so old that fifteen years seems like a short duration?
No on 1 and yes on 2.
It still does. That's why it orbits instead of just floating in one spot.
sorta.
It weighs a little less due than its weight at earth's surface due to being Earth's radius plus 400kM from Earth's center of mass. About 96%, I think.
But, if it had zero weight, it would not hover but rather continue in a straight line in the original direction of launch, or in whatever direction it was headed when weight went to zero.
And it certainly would not orbit, as spauldo pointed out.
The media has long been saying it wrong. Objects in orbit are not in zero gravity, they're in freefall.
If you doubt what I say, then check the time dilation relative to Earth's surface, and you'll see the difference is due to being 400kM farther from Earth's center of mass, but it isn't a as much as it would be if you were in zero gravity relative to earth.
The media ges it wrong. Zero gravity is not the same as zero g.
The only reliable way to protect your data from government thugs is to change the government such that there are no government thugs wanting your data.
Anything else is a band-aid and temporary at best.
Strat.
That is the final step in the process.
Step one is getting people to realize there's a problem.
And that's why journalists need to have their information protected, and that's why the goons want to get their hands on it.
"The same number you let starve under Mao"?
Uh, whut? We all know about the great famine under Mao, but WTF do you think the USA was supposed to do about it?
They're not holograms, and this has been discussed before and here.
Slashdot is supposed to be a tech site.
For actual article to be so misinformed about such a basic technology as holography (that has been around for over a half century) is saddening.
The real fun begins when some of that DNA gets picked up by an E. Coli.
Well, that really does look cool, and one can see how it could be expanded to monitor other things.
Their solution to power and networking also could be used for something like a webcam for increased flexibility.
However, it looks like a variation of the "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" thought-process.
If I were in the position of these farmers, I would prefer a drone to inspect the fields.
With a human eyeball, you can spot the things that no one had thought would happen.
A failed drone can be easily fixed by ordering another one, or you can two on hand.
Or just make your own network and base it on IPX/SPX. Either way you would be alone.
Lee pled down to fairly light charges, with 50 or so completely dismissed. Lee was awarded a $1.6 million settlement from the U.S. federal government and several news organizations for privacy violations. I guess the government just passes out money to suspected Chinese spies?
It wasn't so much the government that settled as it was the four news organizations.
It appears to me that the lawsuit the Wen Ho Lee brought was a revenge suit to try to find out who had ratted him out by giving his name to the press.
The people at LANL closed ranks and refused to tell. After all, they had been filing complaints about his violating security measures long before the FBI was investigating Lee.
So Lee sues the news organizations to make them reveal the sources. Historically, the media would have an easy win on First Amendment rights and centuries of case law. The judge, Thomas Penfield Jackson, ignores all this and finds the reporters in contempt and gives them a $500 a day fine.
If you remember the DOJ vs Microsoft case, you'll know why Judge Jackson has a grudge against the media.
The settlement is really bad news for the rest of us.
It's going to make it easy for politicians to shut up the press when something they don't like is reported.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...
Also, note that the government's condition was that Wen Ho Lee gets none of the government's money - it goes only to pay lawyer's expenses.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06...
Whether or not he was actively spying, I can't say. I find it very difficult to think that a Taiwanese would do anything to help China.
But I'm real sure he was up to no good.
You really need to read this of you want to talk about the Wen Ho Lee case.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02...
If nothing else, he should have been imprisoned for this felony:
"They did discover that Dr. Lee had given his password to his children so they could connect to the Internet and play computer games through his Los Alamos computer while they were at college. "
Of course the main reason for dropping the charges was that they had no smoking gun. That is, Lee copied all these documents, but they didn't catch him transferring them. The tapes just disappeared. Part of the settlement was that Lee would reveal the location of the missing tapes, and the big reveal was "I threw them in the trash". That in itself is a felony.
Also the government settled for a plea bargain in the original spy case was to a large extent due to the defense lawyers filing to get security clearance to get access to the 400,000 documents Lee downloaded, and secondly to put them into the court records.
Once again, I maintain that the Wen Ho Lee case is nothing like the Xi Xiaoxing case.
Seems similar to the Wen Ho Lee case.
They really do *not* like physicists at the FBI, do they?
No, I would not say those two cases are similar. Xi Xiaoxing was persecuted for what would have been a trivial accusation even if were true.
Wen Ho Lee was working on nuclear weapons at LANL. An agent of ours in China found our weapons designs in China.
That is a really big deal, and not something you should brush off because you don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
Wen Ho Lee had a long history of suspicious behavior. He did everything he could to look like a spy, including travel to China.
Lee had a history of using secure system to copy data that he then moved to unsecured systems to make tapes, and he took those tapes out of the facility.
His co-workers had filed complaints about his actions over the years, and it was LANL that turned Wen Ho Lee into the FBI.
Lee met with Hu Side in a hotel room. Hu Side is head of China's nuclear weapons program. lee says Side asked him to spy, but he declined. The problem is,
if you work in a facility like LANL, you are required to report things like this. Lee didn't; he got caught.
Even after his access was revoked, he borrowed a co-workers computer to move data across three levels of secured system to copy out more data to remove.
Ultimately, it was decided that the weapons designs found in China's hands did not come from the level that Wen Ho Lee had access to.
Lee refused to disclose the locations of those nuclear weapons secrets tapes he had taken out of the facility until he got a plea bargain.
I think these two cases are quite different.