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  1. Re:Single Payer Cost Board Says "No" on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    With no care at all?
    That claim does not reflect reality.

    There are many cancers that are treatable or curable. In most of the first world this care is available to all citizens. In the USA if you lack a method of paying for said care you will be given pain killers by an ER doctor and sent home.

  2. Re:Why should the patient have to pay? on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    At which point the hospitals should have contracted such a system. Accepting this situation is their own fault.

  3. Re:Single Payer Cost Board Says "No" on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I disagree with your claim that it has failed in Canada.
    It appears to be working fine, for an good example check out life expectancies.

    People always die, selecting who lives based on who has the most money is immoral.

    I pay my taxes happily, in the knowledge that they buy me the civilization I expect. That is the entire point.

  4. Re:Learning the hard way on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 2

    It is immoral to force doctors to live up to some sort of standard?

    Then what do you think of medical licensing or even education?

    Storing a png of this record costs near nothing.

  5. Re:Single Payer Cost Board Says "No" on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    Clearly he would have forced to pay even more and the GP would have suggested the guy select a better hospital next time. He would also also stated that you have no right to question what the job creators want to charge for access to your own records.

  6. Re:Why should the patient have to pay? on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    It is the hospitals fault for selecting such a system. The hospital should have required any vendor provide the database schema and an export tool at the time the software was purchased.

  7. Re:He should seek legal advice. on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    So you have no medical history older than 7 years?
    Hope you never need to prove you had some required shots.

  8. Re:Records Retention? on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    Medical records are only kept for less than 5 years in Michigan?

    That cannot be correct. Human medical histories have value a lot longer than that.

  9. Re:Single Payer Cost Board Says "No" on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So 1 person has some trouble getting some old files vs our current system where we let folks with cancer die.

    Yeah, what a terrible tradeoff.

  10. Re:Uh... on The Web Won't Be Safe Or Secure Until We Break It · · Score: 2

    Speaking of terrible websites Netflix is a great example. You have to mousehover to get a link to click on to see any useful information about a film.

    When it was less shiny you could click on the film name for that. Today it tries to stream.

  11. Re:Just store it in the cloud on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 2

    Will the fish that live in the fog eat this data?

  12. New Bond? on James Bond Film Skyfall Inspired By Stuxnet Virus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is Vladimir Putin still playing James Bond?

    We need a Bond that looks more like Bond and less like a Bond Villian.

  13. Re:I guess they don't want me to buy their product on AMD Closes OSRC, Lays Off Several Linux Kernel Developers · · Score: 1

    I realize that. I only meant they were already crap, so this was basically their only way of making those products less attractive to me.

  14. I guess they don't want me to buy their products on AMD Closes OSRC, Lays Off Several Linux Kernel Developers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The AMD/ATI linux drivers suck, they are laying off their kernel folks, and no indication they have any plans to change. I hope they survive, but convincing me not to buy your products is not going to help.

  15. Re:304.10 won't build against the 3.7 kernel sourc on Nvidia Doubles Linux Driver Performance, Slips Steam Release Date · · Score: 1

    It would be if they at least put all the 2D stuff in the shim. What exactly is so interesting about 2D?

  16. Re:Yet another YOTLD estimate on Nvidia Doubles Linux Driver Performance, Slips Steam Release Date · · Score: 1

    The amazon packages are easy to remove and if you are not able to convince steam that your fedora box is an ubuntu machine that is pretty sad.

  17. Re:Just happy to see a Republican supporting scien on Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors, Says Florida Task Force · · Score: 2

    I agree. What we should do instead is make college educations affordable for all.

  18. Re:700,000 dollar on AT&T To Pay $700,000 For Overcharging Consumers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just success is never villianized.

    Clearly some of AT&T profits were not just nor legal, or else they would not have had to pay this money back.

  19. Re:Only Apple on Apple Considering Switch Away From Intel For Macs · · Score: 0

    Actually I have a GN and I hate that the N4 has a glass back. The rest I could care less about, but glass is a crap material for the shell of a phone.

  20. Re:64-way, on 1-die on Apple Considering Switch Away From Intel For Macs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even that probably would not be enough to win if floating point performance was needed.

    You would also be a huge disadvantage for anything that is difficult or plain impossible to to parralelize.

  21. Re:Maybe in five-ten years on Apple Considering Switch Away From Intel For Macs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The air has an i5, what ARM chip competes with that?

  22. Re:Cryptographic lockout on Apple Considering Switch Away From Intel For Macs · · Score: 1

    Don't buy those.

    Just avoid anything with a locked bootloader.

  23. Re:Go Ahead on Apple Considering Switch Away From Intel For Macs · · Score: 1

    Linux works fine on ARM.

  24. Re:Steam Game Console on Nvidia Doubles Linux Driver Performance, Slips Steam Release Date · · Score: 2

    Duh!

    Except it will not be one steam game console. It will be a whole series of them. Think android phones. Lots of vendors lots of choices all running one distro provided by Ubuntu for Valve.

  25. Re:Yet another YOTLD estimate on Nvidia Doubles Linux Driver Performance, Slips Steam Release Date · · Score: 1

    If you are going to violate the license why not just pirate windows?

    OEM versions are for you to build a PC that you sell, not one for your own use.