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  1. Re:So what? on Open Salaries: the Good, the Bad and the Awkward (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds great, until you find out you were making 20% less then Sam because, "Well, Sam has to pay alimony / child support / he's my son-in-law". Publicly traded companies should have published salaries. Taxes should also be open records.

  2. Re:State employees on Open Salaries: the Good, the Bad and the Awkward (yahoo.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Meanwhile, your lifetime earnings go up (SS), you can afford to save more, and HR gives your next employer a higher salary number. I don't see the downside.

  3. Re:Interoperability starts at the server on Major Health Organization Stops Forcing Doctors To Adopt New Technology (internalmedicinenews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, and everytime you pull up a past patient interaction, it will show pages of data, including that, No, the cervix was not dilated... Doesn't matter if the patient is a 12 year old boy with a sore throat.

  4. Re:Doctors: Whiny bitches, all of 'em. on Major Health Organization Stops Forcing Doctors To Adopt New Technology (internalmedicinenews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, most EMR seems to be entered by the person who least understands what they are entering.

  5. Re:Doctors: Whiny bitches, all of 'em. on Major Health Organization Stops Forcing Doctors To Adopt New Technology (internalmedicinenews.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't forget all the big data proponents. You can't easily pack free form data into a database and crunch it up. Data analysts think everything can be chopped up and analyzed. They are a big driving force in the travesty of EMR.

  6. Re:Doctors: Whiny bitches, all of 'em. on Major Health Organization Stops Forcing Doctors To Adopt New Technology (internalmedicinenews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, once again we see that despite the rhetoric, "Doctors are too full of themselves...", the real problem is Management. They only worry about the bottom line, give into unreasonable demands (arbitrarily, because they'll fight it if they feel like it), and engage in cronyism. All of this destroys any chance for EMR to work.
    For similar examples of Management screw ups with different whipping boys see:
    * Automaker Unions
    * Unions in General
    * Teachers in American schools
    *Too big to fail banks

    Our system is not capitalism, it is (mis)managementism, and we need a change. Corporations are the main driver of this travesity, let fix things.

  7. Re: This was _outlawed_ in the USA? on Federal Law Now Says Kids Can Walk To School Alone (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    3 assaults per 100,000 w/ population of 50,000 = 1.5 assaults
    1 assault per 100,000 w/ population of 600,000 = 6 assaults


    Which one give the newspaper more stories to print?

  8. Re:Seems overly optimistic on Coast-To-Coast Autonomous Tesla Trips 2-3 Years Out, Says Elon Musk (google.com) · · Score: 1

    That's one of the safe things about autonomous vehicles - they don't succumb to the pressure of wanting to get to a destination in unreasonable circumstances as humans often do.
    Not until the aftermarket mods come out...
    wait, you don't support my freedom to modify my vehicle software?

  9. Re:Income inequality has *RISEN* under Obama?!?!? on Why Do Americans Work So Much? · · Score: 1

    There is no such distinction in our legal framework. You cannot create a contract to become a slave (except a debt slave).

  10. Re:Not quite AV, but close on Antivirus Software Could Make Your Company More Vulnerable (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    So, what I'm hearing is that huge pig AV's are bad (McAfee). They also open an attack vector because they are obsfucated to protect themselves from end users. This makes it more difficult for people to notice problems and I see a clear pattern of users blaming slowness an odd behavior on the AV without any ability to really verify this.

  11. Re: RF? on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The real point of this type of lock is that the gun is not stored ready to shoot. Bad locks and ready to shoot guns don't go together.

  12. Re:I cherish the day I left America on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can defend with an offensive weapon. That does not make it a defensive tool. It's still an offensive tool. Guns can only be used to attack or threaten attack (offense).

  13. Re:I cherish the day I left America on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Guns are not a defensive weapon, they are offensive. They can allow you to go on the offensive against an attacker, which could be construed as a type of defense, but guns are not defensive.

  14. Re:I cherish the day I left America on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, give you time to get your securely stored gun. 9 times out of 10, a ball bat is a better tool to dispel intruders.

  15. Re: RF? on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Gun safes aren't so safe either, http://www.thesidebar.org/inse...

    You really need a lock that passes through the firing chamber if you want to store your gun safely.

  16. Re: RF? on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, why not just blast blindly into the dark, it worked for Pistorius.

  17. Re: RF? on Obama Orders Feds To Study Smart Gun Technology (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Unless you tucked it in the glove box, dropped it on the nightstand, or set it by your PC while your working. You'd never walk away from it accidentally or leave it in the car with some kids while you grab something you forgot.
    You also won't get tired of carrying it after afew years and leave it in a box in your storage unit.
    Never happened, never will
    ---I've seen all these examples.

  18. Re:semicolon except sometimes they do on 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Just seems like a poor Cost to Benefit ration, for the consumer.

  19. Re:semicolon except sometimes they do on 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds great for an assembly line kitchen, maybe a restaurant. Not so much for someone whose diet varies or who buys seasonal and on sale foods.
    But keep telling me why I need this while omitting how valuable this information is to the companies trying to sell me food.

  20. Re:Systemd on slashdot on New Year's Resolutions For *nix SysAdmins (cyberciti.biz) · · Score: 1

    Lazy system admins don't mess with things. There are always improvements to be made and testing to insure things can fail and be restored. People like you are why nobody can reboot that 10 year old Solaris box that nobody understands.
    A good system admin shouldn't be afraid to break something and use the opportunity to fix it and learn something new. They should always be on the lookout for ways to smooth processes and verify documentation.

  21. Re:Basic economics on The Winner-Take-All Trend In Tech (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    I disagree, tax where the money pools. Companies employ most people (small and large). Companies have tilted things so they mostly set pay rates. If corporate taxes dissapeared tomorrow, would you get any of that money in your paycheck or dropped off the price of things you buy?
    You certainly wouldn't, it would be used for litigation, lobbying, bonuses (mostly at the top), stock buybacks, etc.

    Why doesn't it make sense to take the money where it is most accessible and avoid a filing for every person?

  22. Re:Data will still be copied. on Lessig: Future Tech Will Help Privacy Catch Up With the Internet (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, this has certainly held true for other companies like mining, manufacturing, fishing etc... Look at Exon and BP. They certainly paid every cent necessary to make the areas affected by their spills whole again. Plus the heavy fines they paid...
    wait...
    Isn't that what shell companies are for?

  23. Re:Standing desks... on Posture Affects Standing, and Not Just the Physical Kind (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I found that when I used a standing desk I tended to lean onto my keyboard rest and it seemed to exacerbate my occasional wrist pain.
    Yeah, your wrists should hover...

  24. Re:MAYBE... but standing has it's own problems. on Posture Affects Standing, and Not Just the Physical Kind (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it also depends on what you stand on. If your working in a warehouse or factory with concrete floors, it can take a serious toll.
    I used to work on a factory floor, part of my work area had a raised wooden floor. After six weeks or so, getting on my feet after sitting or laying felt like I was pushing on a bruise. Stepping from the concrete floor to the raised wooden floor was like walking onto a cloud.

  25. Re: Needs an Update on Tim Cook Calls Apple's Tax Questions 'Political Crap' (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    oh Tim, you rascal, let the adults talk.