There are strict laws in the US protecting your private health information from your employers. These systems are run by 3rd parties who are only allowed to report aggregate information back to employers. I've worked with these systems, and there is no way for an employer to see your private health information.
Yes, it is legal in the US, although nobody is "forced" into these programs. It's been going on for years. There's nothing wrong with promoting health to your employees. Healthy employees work harder and go to the doctor less. Everybody wins.
Compare the Goodmail system to signed SSL Certificates that EVERY commerce website uses to establish trust. NOBODY complains about having to buy a certificate from a trusted authority who is supposed to verify that you are a legitimate company. If you don't buy a certificate, you can still sign your own certificate, but your users will be warned by their browser that your certificate is not "Trusted". This is almost identical to the Goodmail system. If you do not pay to be certified by Goodmail, your email can still get through. It will just have to go through the normal spam filters that we already deal with EVERY DAY.
I don't understand how this is any different than paying Verisign and others to certify our SSL certificates. Nobody has to use an official signer, but legitimate companies pay the fee and our users' web browsers will not warn them about unknown signers.
This is basically the same concept applied to email.
I drive my car to the post office every day to pick up my mail. Think of the engine cycles that I would be wasting if my car sat in the driveway and the mailman delivered my mail.
Every post so far contains nothing but knee-jerk whining. Did anyone actually look at the claims of the report? Anyone care to see if it the findings might possibly be accurate? How about at least moving past the vauge claims of the submitter? Here's the beef:
The results of the research show that both Linux-based deployments contained more total security vulnerabilities and more "days of risk"-- the amount of time elapsed between public disclosure of a vulnerability and the issuance of a potential fix by a vendor--per vulnerability. The report also includes a separate, step-by-step description of the repeatable methodology, so that others can duplicated and validate the results.
If you've ever worked in a large corporate environment, then you know that the object is to make everything as close to the same as possible. If you're managing every application through ADS, but your firefox settings are applied through startup flags and read-only directories, it's just another exception to the rules.
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If any part of the ABS system fails in your car, the brakes still work.
Ding ding! I think you have the answer.
This discussion is about private records and one's employer, not health providers.
This is why I live in the .com.
There are strict laws in the US protecting your private health information from your employers. These systems are run by 3rd parties who are only allowed to report aggregate information back to employers. I've worked with these systems, and there is no way for an employer to see your private health information.
Yes, it is legal in the US, although nobody is "forced" into these programs. It's been going on for years. There's nothing wrong with promoting health to your employees. Healthy employees work harder and go to the doctor less. Everybody wins.
Google owns oingo.com, one of the largest "parked domain" companies out there.
Compare the Goodmail system to signed SSL Certificates that EVERY commerce website uses to establish trust. NOBODY complains about having to buy a certificate from a trusted authority who is supposed to verify that you are a legitimate company. If you don't buy a certificate, you can still sign your own certificate, but your users will be warned by their browser that your certificate is not "Trusted". This is almost identical to the Goodmail system. If you do not pay to be certified by Goodmail, your email can still get through. It will just have to go through the normal spam filters that we already deal with EVERY DAY.
Don't go to school, can't register on the Facebook. Bummer.
Employers don't print IT jobs in newspapers anymore. Try looking on that Internet thingy.
Doesn't matter. SSL certificate signing exists because you can't trust the websites you are visiting, just like email.
I don't understand how this is any different than paying Verisign and others to certify our SSL certificates. Nobody has to use an official signer, but legitimate companies pay the fee and our users' web browsers will not warn them about unknown signers. This is basically the same concept applied to email.
Who needs Wikipedia to read about policitical information. I just use this van.
I'm sorry, but linking to the Democratic Underground is not a good way to back up ANY post.
Do you ever sneak onto Slashdot late at night and laugh at all of the whiney anti-Microsofters?
I drive my car to the post office every day to pick up my mail. Think of the engine cycles that I would be wasting if my car sat in the driveway and the mailman delivered my mail.
Congratulations. If you are reading a Slashdot thread about 500 time servers, you really are a nerd.
You make it sound so simple. Thank you for your in-depth analysis of the patents in question.
Queue the endless whining about how songs should cost 10 cents.
That's quite a blanket statement. Does it apply to "Hello World"?
Are you trying to build a good application or a cheap application?
The government will not bail you out. Details can be found in the new bankruptcy law. Fun stuff!
The results of the research show that both Linux-based deployments contained more total security vulnerabilities and more "days of risk"-- the amount of time elapsed between public disclosure of a vulnerability and the issuance of a potential fix by a vendor--per vulnerability. The report also includes a separate, step-by-step description of the repeatable methodology, so that others can duplicated and validate the results.
Windows vs. Linux Web Server Security Research Study
If you've ever worked in a large corporate environment, then you know that the object is to make everything as close to the same as possible. If you're managing every application through ADS, but your firefox settings are applied through startup flags and read-only directories, it's just another exception to the rules.