Also, I hope you don't have a hospital in California, because if you do, your new technology is going to require us waiting for the new building to be built - because any construction-related infrastructure improvement (to, say, fit in the new full-body scanner) would require earthquake retrofitting the entire building, which is out of the question.
Hardly true. Plenty of asset forfeitures based on simply being involved with illegal activity. Oh, that car with the completely empty secret compartment? Ours now. The house you bought with your inheritance that we caught you dealing drugs from? Ours now.
When does this zone end? Obviously it ends 1-2 seconds of driving before the intersection, right? I mean, if I'm 20 feet from the light when it turns yellow, I should proceed through, yes?
Putting a marked zone that covers the 300' to 100' range seems silly, and presumes all sorts of things about the speed of the traffic on the road - at night, in the rain, in rush hour, on a clear afternoon.
The system we have, "Hey, dumbass, it's turning red soon, clear the intersection or don't enter it," works pretty well as long as the lights are tuned for a balance of safety and traffic flow instead of revenue.
There are standards for all that. You mark the deceleration zone based on the road worthiness standard. Take the longest distance a car can take to stop and still be street legal.
Are there? The aforementioned Galaxie and Sixty Special are street legal - as are countless other cars that probably couldn't stop on a pile of dimes... I can't imagine their stopping distance at 50 MPH.
...which is why I didn't dismiss any of them without some thought.
To answer your questions though:
Sure. I recognize that all advertising is made to get me to buy something I didn't want or need -- or at a minimum to sway my necessary purchases from Brand-A to Brand-B. I'm fortunate enough to be able to buy some things on a whim, so mostly, I like what Google shows me.
[Their biggest misses are things I already bought - talked about in my email, or searched for an bought brick-and-mortar, or searched for and then after doing my homework decided I didn't want. Case in point: I get tons of ads for Coin, the all-in-one credit card, which I've dismissed as "a bad idea."...but I searched for it a lot, so they advertise for it a lot.]
...and I guess that the fear of things retroactively being made a crime just doesn't concern me. I'm a gun owner, and a lot-of-other-things owner, but I'll take my chances.
For which car shall I mark the deceleration zone? A 1959 Ford Galaxie? A 1976 Cadillac Sixty Special?
Oh, those don't count? Should you use the 112 feet a Porsche Boxster needs or 156 feet a Jeep Wrangler Sahara may need? Those 42 feet won't matter much.
Do you put up a new camera pointed at the start of the deceleration zone, keyed to the yellow light? Does it tie in with the red light camera, or does it send tickets all by itself? What allowance do you give for reaction time on your new zone?
Yeah, crime-scene cleanup companies are actively engaged in dealing meth so that shootings - and thus the need for crime scene cleanups - rise.
Similarly, companies that sell handcuffs to police go from convenience store to convenience sore putting bubble gum in the strike plates of the back doors so that criminals can sneak in at night.
The price point of the device isn't the factor for adoption of devices in clinical settings - it's doing "simple" tasks like making sure they're secure and audit-able.
Your auditors don't like, "The vendor said it's safe," or "We probably didn't lose any."
Yeah, I'm not exactly sure I need a Google connected thermostat, but I just don't care if they know what my thermostat is set for.
There's a line, of course. We all have arbitrary lines about what information we're willing to share. I'm not willing to let them have my taxes, watch me perform my husbandly duties, or plug in an ODB2 scanner into my car, but short of my raw financials, details on my love life, or discreet details of my driving, they're welcome to most anything they want -- as long as I get something in return.
If it's a cool tool, for a fair price, and it leverages what Google already knows about me, great.
I'm marked Troll for some reason. Apparently an informed decision of making a trade of privacy for convenience and liking what I get from Google in exchange for that isn't a valid opinion here.
You know what? I like my phone buzzing about 10 minutes before I normally leave from work to alert me about traffic, and I'm willing to let Google know where I am and where I live (something they knew what I ordered a GPE One from them anyway) in exchange.
By the same token, I'm willing to allow them to sniff my mail (or read it wholesale, I suppose) in exchange for providing me contextually aware ads. What's that? A link to something my brother wants for Christmas? Maybe I'll shop there. Everyone wins, including my brother.
I'm willing to make a number of other trade-offs, even knowing that this data becomes more powerful in aggregate. If my phone beeps on Wednesday, noticing I didn't go home, but out to dinner instead, and asks me if I want to delay turning on the air conditioning, I'll accept that too in exchange for the return I get in terms of convenience.
I've weighed the value of my privacy against the services they return. I'm not a private person, and I know how to compartmentalize what they do and don't get from me. I like my end of the deal, and if I ever don't, I'll discontinue using their services.
I've been caught twice on red light cameras. One I was truly guilty of, and that was plain to see on video. The other was because the intersection became a "no turn on red" intersection and I didn't notice the sign because I've driven through the area a million times.
Frankly, that sounds great. I'm all for automating tasks that keep real police doing something other than sitting at intersections on motorcycles trying to fill the city coffers.
It's hard to keep being rich a secret. Somebody gets a girlfriend, some dude brags about having a big wallet full of bitcoins to her, she tells a girlfriend, and then it's on Facebook.
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Also, I hope you don't have a hospital in California, because if you do, your new technology is going to require us waiting for the new building to be built - because any construction-related infrastructure improvement (to, say, fit in the new full-body scanner) would require earthquake retrofitting the entire building, which is out of the question.
And this is true at all speeds, in all traffic conditions?
The same systems that already get your data, where it has to conform to a pile of other regulations -- some silly, some sensible.
The the external monitors people get sent home with now...
Some data will be kept.
Some data will be discarded.
The kept data will be part of the ever increasing nightmare of healthcare IT data policies.
Hardly true. Plenty of asset forfeitures based on simply being involved with illegal activity. Oh, that car with the completely empty secret compartment? Ours now. The house you bought with your inheritance that we caught you dealing drugs from? Ours now.
For example:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Yea5RW9iAJYJ:ij.org/how-a-philadelphia-family-lost-their-home-to-asset-forfeiture-3+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
(Cached, the original site wasn't answering...)
Next it's the computer you uploaded it from and the house your computer was in.
When does this zone end? Obviously it ends 1-2 seconds of driving before the intersection, right? I mean, if I'm 20 feet from the light when it turns yellow, I should proceed through, yes?
Putting a marked zone that covers the 300' to 100' range seems silly, and presumes all sorts of things about the speed of the traffic on the road - at night, in the rain, in rush hour, on a clear afternoon.
The system we have, "Hey, dumbass, it's turning red soon, clear the intersection or don't enter it," works pretty well as long as the lights are tuned for a balance of safety and traffic flow instead of revenue.
Nobody here wants to hear how he was part of an organized criminal scheme; they just want to seem clever by explaining how copying isn't theft.
Healthcare IT's actual problem is audit and compliance, oversight and regulation and how it slows adoption of useful technologies.
HIPAA, SOX, PCI compliance for payments, JCAHO audits, internal audits, external audits, record retention laws, the list goes on and on.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/5/
What if there was a robot apocalypse? How long would humanity last?
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There are standards for all that. You mark the deceleration zone based on the road worthiness standard. Take the longest distance a car can take to stop and still be street legal.
Are there? The aforementioned Galaxie and Sixty Special are street legal - as are countless other cars that probably couldn't stop on a pile of dimes... I can't imagine their stopping distance at 50 MPH.
All valid points.
To answer your questions though:
Sure. I recognize that all advertising is made to get me to buy something I didn't want or need -- or at a minimum to sway my necessary purchases from Brand-A to Brand-B. I'm fortunate enough to be able to buy some things on a whim, so mostly, I like what Google shows me.
[Their biggest misses are things I already bought - talked about in my email, or searched for an bought brick-and-mortar, or searched for and then after doing my homework decided I didn't want. Case in point: I get tons of ads for Coin, the all-in-one credit card, which I've dismissed as "a bad idea." ...but I searched for it a lot, so they advertise for it a lot.]
For which car shall I mark the deceleration zone? A 1959 Ford Galaxie? A 1976 Cadillac Sixty Special?
Oh, those don't count? Should you use the 112 feet a Porsche Boxster needs or 156 feet a Jeep Wrangler Sahara may need? Those 42 feet won't matter much.
Do you put up a new camera pointed at the start of the deceleration zone, keyed to the yellow light? Does it tie in with the red light camera, or does it send tickets all by itself? What allowance do you give for reaction time on your new zone?
Yeah, crime-scene cleanup companies are actively engaged in dealing meth so that shootings - and thus the need for crime scene cleanups - rise.
Similarly, companies that sell handcuffs to police go from convenience store to convenience sore putting bubble gum in the strike plates of the back doors so that criminals can sneak in at night.
There are some laws we can all agree on.
Name one.
if you want to contract out police work
We don't want to contract out police work. Ever. Why even bother having a government if you're going to contract out its essential functions?
At the most basic levels, we contract out everything the government does to the people who actually do it.
The government isn't responsible for the act of policing. It's responsible for ensuring we have that service.
One reason I drive with a dash cam is that some red light cameras will randomly have no yellow light. Yep, green->red.
Shenanigans. I call bravo sierra.
The price point of the device isn't the factor for adoption of devices in clinical settings - it's doing "simple" tasks like making sure they're secure and audit-able.
Your auditors don't like, "The vendor said it's safe," or "We probably didn't lose any."
Well yea, business still actually sit down and do 5-year budgets...
Yeah, I'm not exactly sure I need a Google connected thermostat, but I just don't care if they know what my thermostat is set for.
There's a line, of course. We all have arbitrary lines about what information we're willing to share. I'm not willing to let them have my taxes, watch me perform my husbandly duties, or plug in an ODB2 scanner into my car, but short of my raw financials, details on my love life, or discreet details of my driving, they're welcome to most anything they want -- as long as I get something in return.
If it's a cool tool, for a fair price, and it leverages what Google already knows about me, great.
I'm marked Troll for some reason. Apparently an informed decision of making a trade of privacy for convenience and liking what I get from Google in exchange for that isn't a valid opinion here.
You know what? I like my phone buzzing about 10 minutes before I normally leave from work to alert me about traffic, and I'm willing to let Google know where I am and where I live (something they knew what I ordered a GPE One from them anyway) in exchange.
By the same token, I'm willing to allow them to sniff my mail (or read it wholesale, I suppose) in exchange for providing me contextually aware ads. What's that? A link to something my brother wants for Christmas? Maybe I'll shop there. Everyone wins, including my brother.
I'm willing to make a number of other trade-offs, even knowing that this data becomes more powerful in aggregate. If my phone beeps on Wednesday, noticing I didn't go home, but out to dinner instead, and asks me if I want to delay turning on the air conditioning, I'll accept that too in exchange for the return I get in terms of convenience.
I've weighed the value of my privacy against the services they return. I'm not a private person, and I know how to compartmentalize what they do and don't get from me. I like my end of the deal, and if I ever don't, I'll discontinue using their services.
I've been caught twice on red light cameras. One I was truly guilty of, and that was plain to see on video. The other was because the intersection became a "no turn on red" intersection and I didn't notice the sign because I've driven through the area a million times.
Ah, so, you mean TWICE you were guilty.
They took our jerbs!
Frankly, that sounds great. I'm all for automating tasks that keep real police doing something other than sitting at intersections on motorcycles trying to fill the city coffers.
Web connected devices could allow Google access to a treasure trove of data on people's daily habits and routines."
Don't care.
I went "all in" on Google a while ago, and I enjoy our current exchange of my personal data for their pretty damned awesome services.
I know what I've given up, and I like what I got in return.
If it's a cool thermostat, I'm in. Google already knows when I'm driving home. Let them turn on my air conditioner.
Where I'm from, further can be used for distance:
By informal (read: idiot) speakers, yes.
It's hard to keep being rich a secret. Somebody gets a girlfriend, some dude brags about having a big wallet full of bitcoins to her, she tells a girlfriend, and then it's on Facebook.
*shrug*
It's my theory and I'm sticking to it.