In current systems, a doctor in a hospital can access basically any patient entered into that hospitals system - but when the audits bring that access up, and it will within the week, you have to be able to justify the access pretty damn well or you will face a disciplinary.
Actually, now would be a damn good time to explain how most UK hospitals work...
During the day, all departments are staffed, with consultants, registrars, Foundation Year 1 and 2's.
At night, most hospitals run "Hospital at Night", where everyone buggers off home aside from half a dozen or so junior grade doctors (consultants and permanent registrars stay on call, but you literally have to call them, training scheme registrars and FY2s get to run the hospital) - who have to cover the entire hospital (aside from A&E and a few very specialist departments).
So, while the hospital may take 400 or more doctors to run during the day, thats reduced to a handful at night - and what that means is that while you may get a doctor who has trained (or is training in) in the department you were admitted to, at night its pot luck.
So that night doctor needs full access to your patient record to treat you, even though they may only ever see you once.
If one hospital had paid for the development of such a system and specified that they own the copyright on the resulting code, they could have released it under an open license and other hospitals could have used it easily.
Fraid not for so many reasons - each hospital has its own budget, out of which comes everything from drugs purchases to theatre time to IT systems, so you would end up with one hospital spending the money.
Which means that they would want to use it as a profit centre with regard to other hospitals, so they would sell it to other hospitals. Unfortunately, working practices between hospitals (hell, between departments within hospitals) are very different, so the package would have to be heavily customised for each hospital (.... department) so if you are spending the money making the purchase and then the customisation, why not just do a custom build.
And we arrive at the actual situation within the NHS currently - everyone has gone computerised, they've just done their own thing.
Don't get me started on SSO, my wife changed rotation yesterday, and despite not going outside of the deanery, she still had to submit all the same paperwork yet again, and pick up no less than four usernames and passwords for hospital systems...
Four.
Four, for crying out loud. Without ever having to leave the one building to use them all.
Summaries actually summarised the article, and not just reposted the first two paragraphs of it...
(The below is my opinion, not a summary of the article)
Basically, what has happened is that the Great And Wonderful NHS Computerised Records System has been in the doldrums for so long that we have ended up with a situation where every GP (community doctor for those not in the UK, they run their own clinics outside of hospitals) and every hospital has implemented their own computer records system, with the large majority of them incompatible with each other.
The only semblance of the NHS wide system to come to light in a customer facing manner has been the emergency care records, which is a computerised subset of your entire record meant to be accessible to every A&E (ER) department in the country - but they still haven't rolled it out to everyone, and it won't be rolled out to everyone it would seem.
It has gotten to the point where the NHS requirements have changed so much that the contracting companies are now walking away from their contracts because they are being asked to do so much more work under the original commitments.
This whole thing has been collossally mismanaged from the start, the current government just gets the blame for the result...
Thats completely wrong, I have three non-GMail domains hosted on separate Apps For Domains accounts, and my own Gmail account - all work perfectly fine under multi-signon. I have absolutely no problems at all switching between the sessions.
While the extradition treaty is a bit shit, your understanding of it is far too simplistic, and that is dangerous in itself - no UK citizen has yet been extradited for carrying out something legal in the UK that is illegal in the US. All examples of usage of the extradition has been where the act has been illegal in both countries, *and* the US has been able to show that some of the act was carried out in the US.
I've been looking at Sky recently (I currently have Virgin for phone, TV and internet - I have no complaints, other than I prefer Sky TV over Virgin)...
I currently pay around £43/month (inc taxes) for the medium Virgin package, with a free upgrade to 20MBit internet (I called about nuisance phone calls, which they couldnt do anything about as it was a foreign number, and they bumped me up to 20MBit internet just because they could).
To switch to Sky, it would cost me in the region of £55 minimum to be comparable - as the cost of a BT phone line and other requirements come into the mix (including the need to go for the unlimited Sky broadband to allow it to be comparable to my current Virgin offering).
So I'm "stuck" on Virgin, but as I said I have no complaints other than I like Sky TV more.
By your own admission, you signed up "years ago", which means you are almost certainly "out of contract"...
I don't see why people think that an offering should remain totally unchanged for all time, especially when you as the consumer have the option of leaving - why doesn't the supplier have the right to change the offering after your initial contract period has expired?
Google uses a subdomain because they share so much static content across their subdomains (mail... plus... docs... etc etc), so sharing the static content speeds up those subdomains due to client side caching.
What about non-static pages? Do you expect Google to magically host your entire site, in its proper environment?
No - you send out the correct headers in response to queries about changes to the page - and if the content in your "non-static" page hasn't actually changed, you tell Google that (or hell, any client that is asking) and it serves up its cached copy. Even most dynamic pages wont change every second, so why run the page code for each request?
Surely the collection of the data is the main starting point for anyone wishing to confirm anothers results? There is no point confirming something from the same set of data, surely?
Do you not see the difference between "available on request" and "available to download through a website"? The first is still "freely available", you just have to make some effort to request it.
Take a look at how different the two versions of the ratification that the Irish voted on were, its quite interesting...
Basically, they didn't just vote on the same thing twice - it was rejected, they heavily amended it and asked if the amendment was acceptable and it was.
After you buy, you have the option of "liking" or "tweeting" or "+1-ing" the Humble Bundle, with some interesting stats on who has done so currently...
Nice to see that you think your definition of "value" and "worth" need to be applied to everyone with no modifiers at all - thats a unique kind of arrogance.
If the terms of the subscription are quite clear that you only have access to the music so long as you pay the subscription, why should you own the content?
I don't own every film I get in my Netflix subscription....
No, the ISS wouldn't be the same, but you do realise that many of the core Russian ISS modules are pretty much unchanged from when they were designed for Mir 2?
I think you dramatically over hyped just how reliant the world is on the Americans for space flight - and thats a sign of arrogance.
The fact that the Shuttle was still flying in 2011 isn't just a testament to its longevity. It's a sad reminder that, at least for now, human spaceflight is at the mercy of the schizophrenia that is the American political process.
How are the laws unjust? The piracy is still happening, the fact that the pirates also buy stuff shouldn't be a mitigating factor.
Its up to the rights holder to decide if the piracy is something they can live with or not, not you or I - although its great fun watching people try to justify it on Slashdot...
Also, the entire basis for this story is "an anonymous person says..." - thats great, a fantastic headline with no way to corroborate it at all.
Quick tip people, from the kind folk in #MacOSX on Freenode - after downloading from the Mac App Store, but prior to installing OSX 10.7, take a copy of the app file from/Applications and store it in a safe place because it won't be there after you install.
You will need to do this if you need access to the dmg for backup purposes.
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In current systems, a doctor in a hospital can access basically any patient entered into that hospitals system - but when the audits bring that access up, and it will within the week, you have to be able to justify the access pretty damn well or you will face a disciplinary.
Actually, now would be a damn good time to explain how most UK hospitals work...
During the day, all departments are staffed, with consultants, registrars, Foundation Year 1 and 2's.
At night, most hospitals run "Hospital at Night", where everyone buggers off home aside from half a dozen or so junior grade doctors (consultants and permanent registrars stay on call, but you literally have to call them, training scheme registrars and FY2s get to run the hospital) - who have to cover the entire hospital (aside from A&E and a few very specialist departments).
So, while the hospital may take 400 or more doctors to run during the day, thats reduced to a handful at night - and what that means is that while you may get a doctor who has trained (or is training in) in the department you were admitted to, at night its pot luck.
So that night doctor needs full access to your patient record to treat you, even though they may only ever see you once.
If one hospital had paid for the development of such a system and specified that they own the copyright on the resulting code, they could have released it under an open license and other hospitals could have used it easily.
Fraid not for so many reasons - each hospital has its own budget, out of which comes everything from drugs purchases to theatre time to IT systems, so you would end up with one hospital spending the money.
Which means that they would want to use it as a profit centre with regard to other hospitals, so they would sell it to other hospitals. Unfortunately, working practices between hospitals (hell, between departments within hospitals) are very different, so the package would have to be heavily customised for each hospital (.... department) so if you are spending the money making the purchase and then the customisation, why not just do a custom build.
And we arrive at the actual situation within the NHS currently - everyone has gone computerised, they've just done their own thing.
Don't get me started on SSO, my wife changed rotation yesterday, and despite not going outside of the deanery, she still had to submit all the same paperwork yet again, and pick up no less than four usernames and passwords for hospital systems...
Four.
Four, for crying out loud. Without ever having to leave the one building to use them all.
Summaries actually summarised the article, and not just reposted the first two paragraphs of it...
(The below is my opinion, not a summary of the article)
Basically, what has happened is that the Great And Wonderful NHS Computerised Records System has been in the doldrums for so long that we have ended up with a situation where every GP (community doctor for those not in the UK, they run their own clinics outside of hospitals) and every hospital has implemented their own computer records system, with the large majority of them incompatible with each other.
The only semblance of the NHS wide system to come to light in a customer facing manner has been the emergency care records, which is a computerised subset of your entire record meant to be accessible to every A&E (ER) department in the country - but they still haven't rolled it out to everyone, and it won't be rolled out to everyone it would seem.
It has gotten to the point where the NHS requirements have changed so much that the contracting companies are now walking away from their contracts because they are being asked to do so much more work under the original commitments.
This whole thing has been collossally mismanaged from the start, the current government just gets the blame for the result...
Thats completely wrong, I have three non-GMail domains hosted on separate Apps For Domains accounts, and my own Gmail account - all work perfectly fine under multi-signon. I have absolutely no problems at all switching between the sessions.
While the extradition treaty is a bit shit, your understanding of it is far too simplistic, and that is dangerous in itself - no UK citizen has yet been extradited for carrying out something legal in the UK that is illegal in the US. All examples of usage of the extradition has been where the act has been illegal in both countries, *and* the US has been able to show that some of the act was carried out in the US.
Intention is everything...
I've been looking at Sky recently (I currently have Virgin for phone, TV and internet - I have no complaints, other than I prefer Sky TV over Virgin)...
I currently pay around £43/month (inc taxes) for the medium Virgin package, with a free upgrade to 20MBit internet (I called about nuisance phone calls, which they couldnt do anything about as it was a foreign number, and they bumped me up to 20MBit internet just because they could).
To switch to Sky, it would cost me in the region of £55 minimum to be comparable - as the cost of a BT phone line and other requirements come into the mix (including the need to go for the unlimited Sky broadband to allow it to be comparable to my current Virgin offering).
So I'm "stuck" on Virgin, but as I said I have no complaints other than I like Sky TV more.
Your sums only work if you assume that BT and Virgin are the only ISPs that are gaining and losing customers - they aren't.
BT could quite easily gain 1 customer from Virgin and 19 from elsewhere, and Virgin could quite easily gain 2 customers from BT and 28 from elsewhere.
By your own admission, you signed up "years ago", which means you are almost certainly "out of contract"...
I don't see why people think that an offering should remain totally unchanged for all time, especially when you as the consumer have the option of leaving - why doesn't the supplier have the right to change the offering after your initial contract period has expired?
Google uses a subdomain because they share so much static content across their subdomains (mail... plus... docs... etc etc), so sharing the static content speeds up those subdomains due to client side caching.
What about non-static pages? Do you expect Google to magically host your entire site, in its proper environment?
No - you send out the correct headers in response to queries about changes to the page - and if the content in your "non-static" page hasn't actually changed, you tell Google that (or hell, any client that is asking) and it serves up its cached copy. Even most dynamic pages wont change every second, so why run the page code for each request?
Surely the collection of the data is the main starting point for anyone wishing to confirm anothers results? There is no point confirming something from the same set of data, surely?
Do you not see the difference between "available on request" and "available to download through a website"? The first is still "freely available", you just have to make some effort to request it.
He actually means "erodes the ability to not be found out after griefing other accounts that belong to people you know"...
Take a look at how different the two versions of the ratification that the Irish voted on were, its quite interesting...
Basically, they didn't just vote on the same thing twice - it was rejected, they heavily amended it and asked if the amendment was acceptable and it was.
After you buy, you have the option of "liking" or "tweeting" or "+1-ing" the Humble Bundle, with some interesting stats on who has done so currently...
Twitter has 14,900 tweets
Facebook has 115,000 Likes
Google+ has 1,200 +1's
Very interesting indeed.
Nice to see that you think your definition of "value" and "worth" need to be applied to everyone with no modifiers at all - thats a unique kind of arrogance.
If the terms of the subscription are quite clear that you only have access to the music so long as you pay the subscription, why should you own the content?
I don't own every film I get in my Netflix subscription....
No, the ISS wouldn't be the same, but you do realise that many of the core Russian ISS modules are pretty much unchanged from when they were designed for Mir 2?
I think you dramatically over hyped just how reliant the world is on the Americans for space flight - and thats a sign of arrogance.
The fact that the Shuttle was still flying in 2011 isn't just a testament to its longevity. It's a sad reminder that, at least for now, human spaceflight is at the mercy of the schizophrenia that is the American political process.
American human space flight...
How are the laws unjust? The piracy is still happening, the fact that the pirates also buy stuff shouldn't be a mitigating factor.
Its up to the rights holder to decide if the piracy is something they can live with or not, not you or I - although its great fun watching people try to justify it on Slashdot...
Also, the entire basis for this story is "an anonymous person says..." - thats great, a fantastic headline with no way to corroborate it at all.
Quick tip people, from the kind folk in #MacOSX on Freenode - after downloading from the Mac App Store, but prior to installing OSX 10.7, take a copy of the app file from /Applications and store it in a safe place because it won't be there after you install.
You will need to do this if you need access to the dmg for backup purposes.
Your post sounds more like propaganda than his post...
Wouldn't that be leveraging an advantageous position in one market in order to gain an advantage in another...?