Re:Electronic Health Records is very hard
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The biggest danger, manually you might make one mistake, electronically you can repeat that same mistake thousands of times before you catch it. Next up of course are software warranties, typical M$ warranties categorically states the software is "unfit" for any purpose, so if using it results in an error occurring it immediately leaves the hospital liable for criminal negligence as the software EULA stated it was unfit for the use to which is was put and the hospital "choose" to ignore that warning and use that software at the patients risk.
Strange things can really happen with computers, as stray neutrino can strike a transistor and change it's state and either cause a system to crash or the wrong prescription to be issued. In the medical field, it is life or death and manual system continually checked, and immediately reviewable by any concerned parties do have a considerable safety advantage, this can certainly be augmented by electronics but replacing it requires extremely reliablly hardware and of course software with warranties that actually warrant the quality and reliability of the code in the software.
Arr, Arr, me matey, don't you worry bout dat, us pirates wid dem new fangled "skanners" kontraptions will be fixen dat fer yeah , in no time flat and to davey jones's locker with them thar dead tree things and with torrent or three and a nice "Bay" a quite friendly port o; call, why will have dat contents spread on from coast to coast upon every sea, yar har.
Then of course you are comparing the employees perspective to the employers perspective. From the employers point of view they want to get an employee to carry out the required tasks, for the smallest salary possible and with the least effort and cost possible, basically the employers desire is to be a http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jack%20bastard and quite simply pay the employee less than the value of their work and pocket the difference as quickly and efficiently as possible.
From the employees perspective a wide variety of skills with extra specialisation in some areas will broaden their possibilities of employment so they can search out the less http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jack%20bastard and ensuring their earnings are more in line with the returns for those earnings. There are better employers out there but they are definitely in the minority.
Well there used to be. You see, practice makes perfect and, years ago there used to be many government enterprises and, the would tend to take graduate and train them on the job, the could use the absence of profits to pay the additional costs of all those trainees. Private industry would them pick off the trained graduates after a few years of on the job experience.
So paid training and commercial companies get the benefit. Of course commercial companies got greedy for the government work and cut out that line of free training so they either pay the full cost of training, or pilfer trained employees from other by paying large amounts of money (supply and demand) so skilled programmers are in high demand because no one really wants to pay the high cost of refining graduates with on the job training and corporate lobbyists specifically try to bar government from doing that because then they are competing or they are less cost efficient (that tends to come with a large percentage of trainees).
So a lot of companies muddle through as best they can. Get whatever they can, train them up as little as possible and hope work experience will improve their output and then get pissed off when they loose that trained skilled employee to another company. So government enterprises that use a large percentage of on the job trainees could be a great font of more skilled graduates, hmm, kind of screwed on that one under right wing conservative politics aren't you.
Most of the people I know currently in university are really only there for the piece of paper and a job at the end of it. For employability, I would only really look at their work experience and their qualifications and or certifications beyond the university education. Whilst some of the subjects have been interesting and good on theory, a lot of the subjects which had a strong practical or technical basis where just rushed and poorly done. It seems the lecturers like theory just a little bit too much and have distanced themselves to far from practical, most likely due to a lack of extensive work experience. Quite a few of them are a university to hide from the overly competitive and demanding commercial world;D.
All modern democratic countries require full testing of all medications, most only require the testing to be done in one country as long as they have access to all the tests. So sometimes you yes, drugs used in other countries haven't been specifically tested in those countries but hey do have the results from tests carried out originally. If anything the FDA conclusions and approvals are being rejected and the tests are directly reviewed accepted and or rejected with additionally testing required because the FDA became a for profit rather than a for consumer organisation.
What makes pharmaceuticals cheaper in other countries, the purchase price is negotiated with those countries government administrative bodies prior to the drug being listed for benefits to be paid, so major discounting or the drug is rejected or if it is just a B$ patent shift the drug is rejected. This is something the republicans specifically legislated against, the right of government bodies to pursue a discount to serve the taxpayers interests on pharmaceuticals, imagine a law so corrupt.
The reality rule of thumb, every government enterprise that was privatised does run cheaper, it also provides worse service and for some reason it ends up costing the consumer far more, the difference 'PROFIT'. So it is only more 'efficient' at freeing the consumer from their money, that and spending millions of dollars of B$=PR advertising campaigns. Shame the internet is really starting to screw up those multi million campaigns and expose the lies of a few greedy, manipulative, venomous corporate executives.
The best way to reduce costs, is ignore the B$ coming from corporations trying to get your money. When insurance corporations talk about costs they only care about their costs, what you have to spend is their profits and they do everything they can to increase it as much as possible, the rest of the time the spend trying to eliminate their costs ie. your insurance claim. While government tries to do a much as possible for the least amount of money possible corporations on the other hand do the exact opposite, try to do a little as possible and charge as much money as possible for it.
The worst thing about this case is not the RIAA or the lawyers it is the jurists and their blind acceptance of farcical evidence in light of a 1.94 million dollar penalty. No evidence at all was submitted of the persons direct involvement. The jury selection process must have been interesting and very one sided.
You obviously do not grasp the the logic of a university education. The focus has been on theory and research not on actually professional trade skills, no specialisation at all outside of medicine of course. What you need to do is pursue people coming out of technical and further education colleges with qualifications in your areas of employment needs, you will find that technical and further education institution do specifically target their course and students and specific jobs.
So rummage around the net, find the technical schools teaching the courses, actual subjects, that you want your potential employees to have and contact them direct for students interested in employment.
Seriously don't expect university graduates to be able to do any professional job well, engineering, architecture or software coding, all the graduates will require years of training to become anything approaching useful.
You might think it is weird but at the end of the day how many thousands of different types of degrees do you want, how tightly specialised does a graduate and of course how many specialist (they have to be specifically trained and have gained considerable experience) lecturers will you require.
Technical colleges cheat a bit as they can ignore large segments of the employment market and focus their education on high demand areas within the local region and they often directly employ from and into local industry and businesses.
The reality is that most of the elected representatives and employed professionals were largely unaware of what was going on. This is just the typical act of a power mad 'perve' someone who lies to pry into other people's lives, get a sexual kick out of having that level of control over other peoples lives.
It would be really interesting to find out who put in that clause and thought it was suitable and who else knew about it.
Well, if you really are a true believer - God. Now of course if you are saying your god is somewhat feebly minded and is incapable of creating or even understanding evolution, well you blasphemer you. Now if you are so tied to observing and, all you beliefs and understanding is based upon a single book, then perhaps you can show every one the original. Hell, if it is so important you'd think your supreme being of the universe you manage to save at least one original copy or is just that you want to hang you hat on the version that has been translated, interpreted and edited to suit various political leaders and their personal quest to ensure that peasants did not behave as greedily and selfishly as the leaders else the leaders would never life long enough to cash in, much the same as the multi millionaire religious pundits of today.
Of course the god in the case of net neutrality, is the internet itself and it's ability to shift and form social consciousness, especially when it comes to hot button issues, well at least to computer geeks, of broadband and open access networks. So the conservative parties who where only ever really interested in conserving the profits of existing telcos and cable tv networks are now forced to at least appear to be up to date and current else fall foul of the younger more net active electorate who will ruthlessly meme them into non-existence. Of course to put their mouth where our money is, the will first have to put up legislation to protect net neutrality and provide universal broadband before anyone will be stupid enough to believe anything the 'incumbent telco lovers' have to say on this issue.
Don't forget the courts only interprets the law they absolutely never write them. The only time the courts ever come even remotely close to writing law, is when the law was so poorly written is was open too interpretation. So it is up to the legislature to keep track of the courts and the way the laws are being interpreted and introduce new laws and amend old ones to ensure those laws remain within in the moral intent that formed the original basis of those laws.
It is pretty obvious to anyone that the police, the courts and the government have been playing fast and loose with citizen's digital rights, the extension of a citizen within a electronic networked framework. The time has come when a citizens digital rights should be discussed across a broad forum, their maintained right to privacy, their possession of the digital identity, strict and tight controls to prevent analysis and manipulation of an individual and of course open access to the shared electronic existence.
The internet has broken the strangle hold of mass media on the exchange and formation of societies moral and behavioural consciousness and this needs to be protected and nurtured, not only as a work of society but also protecting the individuals access and participation in it. Society is currently being rewritten as both more liberal as in more open minded and more conservative as in living a more conservative and balanced life both public and private.
Actually the whole current distortion of copyright is a lie. Copyright protection's sole and only purpose was to allow people to generate an exclusive income from their works for a short period of time in order to promote the creation of more works, "THAT WOULD FURTHER THE ARTS AND SCIENCES". Not make a handful of bloated egotistical people rich, not distort the nature of human society so that it would attempt to mimic the aberrant behavioural patterns of poseurs and grossly self indulgent individuals, not to imprison people for copying it and, most certainly not to corrupt the democratic process.
Clearly the original intent of copyright has gotten way out of hand and something needs to be done kerb it's society destructive excesses and to bring it back under control. Creative content is the work of a society, not an individual, no individual is capable of creating any copyrightable content with out the support of human society behind them, No movies, no songs, no books etc. all those works are the works of society and in reality do belong to the society that created them, that supported them and that nurtured them.
In truth the only time a work is stolen is when some one claims that they originated it when someone else did. Not when it is copied, by simple true and honest logic when a creative work is copied, a new creative work is produced, it takes nothing from the original, the original is not diminished, it is a fact that a new work has been produced. So copyright should never be valued over the true essentials of life, food, clothing accommodation etc. and first and foremost it should promote the arts and sciences and, be of benefit to the society that protects and nurtures. Where it fails this test, and it should be tested against acceptable human metrics and where it fails it should not be protected at societies cost, either that or copyright should simply be abandoned as a parasitical waste of human resources.
Well it is the pretty much the same as comparing a child who copies a song, to a person who steals the family car, pirates come on now really. To be clear here, if I could press the button and make a copy of any car I liked, well bugger the copyrightists and show me the button.
So yeah, moves are afoot to get copyright back under control, to eliminate the excessive influence of publicists and mass media over politics, ensure that copyright is valued well below the real essential of life, that only content that is of value to society is protected and duration is pulled back to the original period.
I tried to use bing but gave up, it really does come off as the annoying insurance salesman of search engines "BING", ground hog days repetitions of M$ launching yet another re-branding of the same old search engine. It seems to make multiple calls across several networks for a single search, I wonder if M$ is trying to cook the numbers and making one search look like many. For me it seem to disappear of in weird and unpredictable ways, mapping was worse, in the end while I could get it to function reasonably it just wasn't worth the additional efforts or the additional adds .
I guess all those extra adds are ballmer's idea of what is a more effective search engine. For a while there I was using live and yahoo, but have now dumped live the undead search and with that of course the annoying insurance salesmen "bing" and gone with google as the either or search to yahoo and of course wikimedia variants.
Rail is the way to go, the big thing there is getting the system much more flexible, more readily dropping off and picking up cargo along it's route, getting many smaller trains continuously running on the same set of rails, perhaps even smaller more flexible rail cars.
Just bear in mind that both the pick up truck and the passenger can be overloaded, whilst it might be detrimental to their life they certainly wont fail to take off and, the load carrying capacity can readily be improved just by changing the tyres, springs and shock absorbers. When it comes to rail, the cost of use will largely be driven my how often the rail lines are utilised, once a week versus several times a day.
Now here is a tricky questions, did they include cars and roads, and trains and rail, in getting passengers, cargo, parts, and fuel to and from airports. Obviously a car can pick me up and home and drop me off at home. whilst a plane might be able to achieve the drop off depending upon targeting systems the pick up would certainly be a lot trickier.
The biggest driver of energy efficiency will always be how efficient the motors are at converting the stored fuel to energy and beyond that how much pollution that conversion generates. As it stands electric wins hands down as the power can be generated from many sources and even when fossil fuels are used power stations are by far more efficient at generating energy than a car, train or plane. Electric planes are of course a long way off apart of experimental solar powered versions.
The whole engineering behind rail systems needs to be re-investigated in order to achieve greater flexibility and efficiency in getting cargo and passengers into and out of the system, to more effectively combine road and rail systems, long haul versus short haul.
The naming warfare already indicates a measure of status symbol, the arm Linux smartbook versus the windows intel netbook ie stupidbook (especially in the education market). The performance advantage of Linux the operating system can specifically be tweaked at the coding level for the processor and system to squeeze as much performance as possible and that can be extended out into the office suit in the case of openoffice.org and of course browser fireofox and email client thunderbird (now with lightning https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2313).
So really fine tuned custom installation which allow for effective manufacturer branding within the applications and even the operating system, they just have to be careful about how the balance out their specific distribution and what additional software libraries to mirror for free download and even what proprietary software the sell via their home sites.
The second computer market is going to be a very competitive and active market with lots of changes occuring for some time to come.
So first for first, apologise for the rampant stupidity expressed across all human cultures on this planer and assure them that the destructive habits of humanity will not be taken out into space. Communications are more likely to be them visiting us, either just before we manage to destroy ourselves so as to redirect our efforts in more positive directions or just before our reach starts to extend beyond our own solar system and into the rest of the galaxy.
It of course would be likely that any species that could travel from star to star would also manage to train anthropologists and to send investigatory satellites ahead of any 'manned' expeditions and, as such would arrive fully capable of dealing with any situation that is likely to arise.
Inter stellar warfare is in reality impossible as there is no way to defend a planet from attack from space, whether in be a toxic dust cloud in a contra orbit, a series of very high velocity dark asteroids, specifically targeted biological warfare across multiple simultaneous vectors so as to preserve the remaining ecology, let alone any high tech weaponry, if you can get out of the way, you have no defence. It brings to mind the idea that any species that threatens that type of activity when it travels out into the galaxy is likely to get weeded out well prior to them becoming an actual threat.
Another answer for the benefits of Rome (some of those others aren't actually accurate) use a monotheistic religion as part of a military strategy, in order to group together disparate nationalities and more effectively target, isolate and eliminate non-believers. Not really all that much of a good thing, pretty sucky in fact
Speaking of google chromium I came across an add for it on that new search mess Bing - multimap, ugh (I ain't cruel so no link). I finally remembered where I heard bing repeated over and over again, it was that insurance salesman in the movie ground hog day that accosted bill, trust ballmer to pick that as the new name for the M$ search engine, it's seem you can never really take the insurance salesman out of the wanna-be jockstrap, 'BING';D.
You forget the underlying reality. Part of closing the tax loopholes is that it is not just a project coming out of the US, it is a global effort, being driven by most major democratic countries whose economies are not driven by providing financial support to criminals. So not so much about forcing companies and the rich and greedy to pay tax, it is about setting up methods to penalise and financially isolate countries which facilitate tax evasion, money laundering and the various other criminal enterprises.
Want to bury your money in Bahama dollars, you share holders will be screaming when the become untradeable and worth nothing, along with the Swiss franks or other criminal currency.
Ballmer's rant, is just more bluff, bluster and bullshit. Threatening a country with job losses if they are not allowed to continue cheating on their taxes, taxes that other companies pay in full when they don't cheat and employ locally. To quote "We're better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. as opposed to keeping them inside the U.S.", what is that some sort of new forced migration policy from M$, did he have a few too many prior to that interview yet again. It brings to mind a picture of ballmer driving his flock of windrone coders onto a ship with a 'chair' (oh my) and a whip and moving them out to destinations unknown.
Well legally speaking, when a company that supplies DRMed content goes out of business then it's customers should be able to gain relief and pursue the administrators for resolution, obviously the customers should be considered creditors as the value of the games investments are held by the bankrupted company.
So the bankruptcy administrators should either pay for relocation of the DRM servers or, the shifting of the licences to a different provider or a patch to remove the now DMCA infringing DRM protection as a failure to provide access to the DRM servers actually does break the copyright protection method under law.
Obviously various governments and consumer protection agencies have failed to catch up to the digital age and are as yet not protecting the consumer as they should.
By far the most important part of this incident "Northern California district court judge approved an FTC request to have the company's upstream Internet providers stop routing traffic for the provider". So no matter to which country they shift their criminal operations that action can still be applied locally to block traffic from a illegal enterprise masquerading behind the façade of a legal ISP, where there is sufficient evidence of the direct involvement in criminal enterprise.
The only tricky part is, should all legitimate customers be warned of this action prior to it occurring so that they can relocate their services because the legal action is also attacking innocent third parties and disrupting their services and that is no really appropriate.
The piracy is obviously detected by the eyes of the handler and the nose of the dog. The dog detects the odour of the disc manufacturing process and the handler inspect the packages, if they are labelled as DVD coming from a expected source and going to and expected source, fin. However if they are labelled as something other than DVD coming from a questionable source and going to a questionable source then there is a problem.
So pirates (often also the legal low cost producer) simply needs to camouflage their pirate DVDs as legal DVDs and not as something else. In the rare case they are DVDRs simply identify them as a legal shipment of blank DVDRs.
Steam used games, no problem, sell your account with all your games. Next person can then change all the details on the account to make it accurate for them. No if steam was really nice it would allow you to transfer game access rights for a minimal fee to other account holders.
Easy simply require full registration and email validation. Those who want to write stupid things and demonstrate an antipathy to democracy go on a, likely very accurate, watch list, of course not a watch list with idiotic ramification, just keep track of any additional anti democratic, racist and extremist views. Oh my, your typical mass media talking head pseudo conservative republican, seriously does anyone still believe they are actually conservative republicans and not just talking heads for a handful of rich and greedy individuals, corporate executives and a whole bunch of lobbyists.
Obviously people who put up suggestions and vote for suggestion should be willing to take adult responsibility as a citizen for their actions. Of course attempting to change stupid, destructive and wasteful laws that wage war on a nation's own citizens is being a good, sensible, responsible citizen and are not the actions of a drug addict, grr;).
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The biggest danger, manually you might make one mistake, electronically you can repeat that same mistake thousands of times before you catch it. Next up of course are software warranties, typical M$ warranties categorically states the software is "unfit" for any purpose, so if using it results in an error occurring it immediately leaves the hospital liable for criminal negligence as the software EULA stated it was unfit for the use to which is was put and the hospital "choose" to ignore that warning and use that software at the patients risk.
Strange things can really happen with computers, as stray neutrino can strike a transistor and change it's state and either cause a system to crash or the wrong prescription to be issued. In the medical field, it is life or death and manual system continually checked, and immediately reviewable by any concerned parties do have a considerable safety advantage, this can certainly be augmented by electronics but replacing it requires extremely reliablly hardware and of course software with warranties that actually warrant the quality and reliability of the code in the software.
Arr, Arr, me matey, don't you worry bout dat, us pirates wid dem new fangled "skanners" kontraptions will be fixen dat fer yeah , in no time flat and to davey jones's locker with them thar dead tree things and with torrent or three and a nice "Bay" a quite friendly port o; call, why will have dat contents spread on from coast to coast upon every sea, yar har.
Then of course you are comparing the employees perspective to the employers perspective. From the employers point of view they want to get an employee to carry out the required tasks, for the smallest salary possible and with the least effort and cost possible, basically the employers desire is to be a http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jack%20bastard and quite simply pay the employee less than the value of their work and pocket the difference as quickly and efficiently as possible.
From the employees perspective a wide variety of skills with extra specialisation in some areas will broaden their possibilities of employment so they can search out the less http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=jack%20bastard and ensuring their earnings are more in line with the returns for those earnings. There are better employers out there but they are definitely in the minority.
Well there used to be. You see, practice makes perfect and, years ago there used to be many government enterprises and, the would tend to take graduate and train them on the job, the could use the absence of profits to pay the additional costs of all those trainees. Private industry would them pick off the trained graduates after a few years of on the job experience.
So paid training and commercial companies get the benefit. Of course commercial companies got greedy for the government work and cut out that line of free training so they either pay the full cost of training, or pilfer trained employees from other by paying large amounts of money (supply and demand) so skilled programmers are in high demand because no one really wants to pay the high cost of refining graduates with on the job training and corporate lobbyists specifically try to bar government from doing that because then they are competing or they are less cost efficient (that tends to come with a large percentage of trainees).
So a lot of companies muddle through as best they can. Get whatever they can, train them up as little as possible and hope work experience will improve their output and then get pissed off when they loose that trained skilled employee to another company. So government enterprises that use a large percentage of on the job trainees could be a great font of more skilled graduates, hmm, kind of screwed on that one under right wing conservative politics aren't you.
Most of the people I know currently in university are really only there for the piece of paper and a job at the end of it. For employability, I would only really look at their work experience and their qualifications and or certifications beyond the university education. Whilst some of the subjects have been interesting and good on theory, a lot of the subjects which had a strong practical or technical basis where just rushed and poorly done. It seems the lecturers like theory just a little bit too much and have distanced themselves to far from practical, most likely due to a lack of extensive work experience. Quite a few of them are a university to hide from the overly competitive and demanding commercial world ;D.
All modern democratic countries require full testing of all medications, most only require the testing to be done in one country as long as they have access to all the tests. So sometimes you yes, drugs used in other countries haven't been specifically tested in those countries but hey do have the results from tests carried out originally. If anything the FDA conclusions and approvals are being rejected and the tests are directly reviewed accepted and or rejected with additionally testing required because the FDA became a for profit rather than a for consumer organisation.
What makes pharmaceuticals cheaper in other countries, the purchase price is negotiated with those countries government administrative bodies prior to the drug being listed for benefits to be paid, so major discounting or the drug is rejected or if it is just a B$ patent shift the drug is rejected. This is something the republicans specifically legislated against, the right of government bodies to pursue a discount to serve the taxpayers interests on pharmaceuticals, imagine a law so corrupt.
The reality rule of thumb, every government enterprise that was privatised does run cheaper, it also provides worse service and for some reason it ends up costing the consumer far more, the difference 'PROFIT'. So it is only more 'efficient' at freeing the consumer from their money, that and spending millions of dollars of B$=PR advertising campaigns. Shame the internet is really starting to screw up those multi million campaigns and expose the lies of a few greedy, manipulative, venomous corporate executives.
The best way to reduce costs, is ignore the B$ coming from corporations trying to get your money. When insurance corporations talk about costs they only care about their costs, what you have to spend is their profits and they do everything they can to increase it as much as possible, the rest of the time the spend trying to eliminate their costs ie. your insurance claim. While government tries to do a much as possible for the least amount of money possible corporations on the other hand do the exact opposite, try to do a little as possible and charge as much money as possible for it.
The worst thing about this case is not the RIAA or the lawyers it is the jurists and their blind acceptance of farcical evidence in light of a 1.94 million dollar penalty. No evidence at all was submitted of the persons direct involvement. The jury selection process must have been interesting and very one sided.
You obviously do not grasp the the logic of a university education. The focus has been on theory and research not on actually professional trade skills, no specialisation at all outside of medicine of course. What you need to do is pursue people coming out of technical and further education colleges with qualifications in your areas of employment needs, you will find that technical and further education institution do specifically target their course and students and specific jobs.
So rummage around the net, find the technical schools teaching the courses, actual subjects, that you want your potential employees to have and contact them direct for students interested in employment.
Seriously don't expect university graduates to be able to do any professional job well, engineering, architecture or software coding, all the graduates will require years of training to become anything approaching useful.
You might think it is weird but at the end of the day how many thousands of different types of degrees do you want, how tightly specialised does a graduate and of course how many specialist (they have to be specifically trained and have gained considerable experience) lecturers will you require.
Technical colleges cheat a bit as they can ignore large segments of the employment market and focus their education on high demand areas within the local region and they often directly employ from and into local industry and businesses.
The reality is that most of the elected representatives and employed professionals were largely unaware of what was going on. This is just the typical act of a power mad 'perve' someone who lies to pry into other people's lives, get a sexual kick out of having that level of control over other peoples lives.
It would be really interesting to find out who put in that clause and thought it was suitable and who else knew about it.
Well, if you really are a true believer - God. Now of course if you are saying your god is somewhat feebly minded and is incapable of creating or even understanding evolution, well you blasphemer you. Now if you are so tied to observing and, all you beliefs and understanding is based upon a single book, then perhaps you can show every one the original. Hell, if it is so important you'd think your supreme being of the universe you manage to save at least one original copy or is just that you want to hang you hat on the version that has been translated, interpreted and edited to suit various political leaders and their personal quest to ensure that peasants did not behave as greedily and selfishly as the leaders else the leaders would never life long enough to cash in, much the same as the multi millionaire religious pundits of today.
Of course the god in the case of net neutrality, is the internet itself and it's ability to shift and form social consciousness, especially when it comes to hot button issues, well at least to computer geeks, of broadband and open access networks. So the conservative parties who where only ever really interested in conserving the profits of existing telcos and cable tv networks are now forced to at least appear to be up to date and current else fall foul of the younger more net active electorate who will ruthlessly meme them into non-existence. Of course to put their mouth where our money is, the will first have to put up legislation to protect net neutrality and provide universal broadband before anyone will be stupid enough to believe anything the 'incumbent telco lovers' have to say on this issue.
Don't forget the courts only interprets the law they absolutely never write them. The only time the courts ever come even remotely close to writing law, is when the law was so poorly written is was open too interpretation. So it is up to the legislature to keep track of the courts and the way the laws are being interpreted and introduce new laws and amend old ones to ensure those laws remain within in the moral intent that formed the original basis of those laws.
It is pretty obvious to anyone that the police, the courts and the government have been playing fast and loose with citizen's digital rights, the extension of a citizen within a electronic networked framework. The time has come when a citizens digital rights should be discussed across a broad forum, their maintained right to privacy, their possession of the digital identity, strict and tight controls to prevent analysis and manipulation of an individual and of course open access to the shared electronic existence.
The internet has broken the strangle hold of mass media on the exchange and formation of societies moral and behavioural consciousness and this needs to be protected and nurtured, not only as a work of society but also protecting the individuals access and participation in it. Society is currently being rewritten as both more liberal as in more open minded and more conservative as in living a more conservative and balanced life both public and private.
Actually the whole current distortion of copyright is a lie. Copyright protection's sole and only purpose was to allow people to generate an exclusive income from their works for a short period of time in order to promote the creation of more works, "THAT WOULD FURTHER THE ARTS AND SCIENCES". Not make a handful of bloated egotistical people rich, not distort the nature of human society so that it would attempt to mimic the aberrant behavioural patterns of poseurs and grossly self indulgent individuals, not to imprison people for copying it and, most certainly not to corrupt the democratic process.
Clearly the original intent of copyright has gotten way out of hand and something needs to be done kerb it's society destructive excesses and to bring it back under control. Creative content is the work of a society, not an individual, no individual is capable of creating any copyrightable content with out the support of human society behind them, No movies, no songs, no books etc. all those works are the works of society and in reality do belong to the society that created them, that supported them and that nurtured them.
In truth the only time a work is stolen is when some one claims that they originated it when someone else did. Not when it is copied, by simple true and honest logic when a creative work is copied, a new creative work is produced, it takes nothing from the original, the original is not diminished, it is a fact that a new work has been produced. So copyright should never be valued over the true essentials of life, food, clothing accommodation etc. and first and foremost it should promote the arts and sciences and, be of benefit to the society that protects and nurtures. Where it fails this test, and it should be tested against acceptable human metrics and where it fails it should not be protected at societies cost, either that or copyright should simply be abandoned as a parasitical waste of human resources.
Well it is the pretty much the same as comparing a child who copies a song, to a person who steals the family car, pirates come on now really. To be clear here, if I could press the button and make a copy of any car I liked, well bugger the copyrightists and show me the button.
So yeah, moves are afoot to get copyright back under control, to eliminate the excessive influence of publicists and mass media over politics, ensure that copyright is valued well below the real essential of life, that only content that is of value to society is protected and duration is pulled back to the original period.
I tried to use bing but gave up, it really does come off as the annoying insurance salesman of search engines "BING", ground hog days repetitions of M$ launching yet another re-branding of the same old search engine. It seems to make multiple calls across several networks for a single search, I wonder if M$ is trying to cook the numbers and making one search look like many. For me it seem to disappear of in weird and unpredictable ways, mapping was worse, in the end while I could get it to function reasonably it just wasn't worth the additional efforts or the additional adds .
I guess all those extra adds are ballmer's idea of what is a more effective search engine. For a while there I was using live and yahoo, but have now dumped live the undead search and with that of course the annoying insurance salesmen "bing" and gone with google as the either or search to yahoo and of course wikimedia variants.
Rail is the way to go, the big thing there is getting the system much more flexible, more readily dropping off and picking up cargo along it's route, getting many smaller trains continuously running on the same set of rails, perhaps even smaller more flexible rail cars.
Just bear in mind that both the pick up truck and the passenger can be overloaded, whilst it might be detrimental to their life they certainly wont fail to take off and, the load carrying capacity can readily be improved just by changing the tyres, springs and shock absorbers. When it comes to rail, the cost of use will largely be driven my how often the rail lines are utilised, once a week versus several times a day.
Now here is a tricky questions, did they include cars and roads, and trains and rail, in getting passengers, cargo, parts, and fuel to and from airports. Obviously a car can pick me up and home and drop me off at home. whilst a plane might be able to achieve the drop off depending upon targeting systems the pick up would certainly be a lot trickier.
The biggest driver of energy efficiency will always be how efficient the motors are at converting the stored fuel to energy and beyond that how much pollution that conversion generates. As it stands electric wins hands down as the power can be generated from many sources and even when fossil fuels are used power stations are by far more efficient at generating energy than a car, train or plane. Electric planes are of course a long way off apart of experimental solar powered versions.
The whole engineering behind rail systems needs to be re-investigated in order to achieve greater flexibility and efficiency in getting cargo and passengers into and out of the system, to more effectively combine road and rail systems, long haul versus short haul.
The naming warfare already indicates a measure of status symbol, the arm Linux smartbook versus the windows intel netbook ie stupidbook (especially in the education market). The performance advantage of Linux the operating system can specifically be tweaked at the coding level for the processor and system to squeeze as much performance as possible and that can be extended out into the office suit in the case of openoffice.org and of course browser fireofox and email client thunderbird (now with lightning https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2313).
So really fine tuned custom installation which allow for effective manufacturer branding within the applications and even the operating system, they just have to be careful about how the balance out their specific distribution and what additional software libraries to mirror for free download and even what proprietary software the sell via their home sites.
The second computer market is going to be a very competitive and active market with lots of changes occuring for some time to come.
So first for first, apologise for the rampant stupidity expressed across all human cultures on this planer and assure them that the destructive habits of humanity will not be taken out into space. Communications are more likely to be them visiting us, either just before we manage to destroy ourselves so as to redirect our efforts in more positive directions or just before our reach starts to extend beyond our own solar system and into the rest of the galaxy.
It of course would be likely that any species that could travel from star to star would also manage to train anthropologists and to send investigatory satellites ahead of any 'manned' expeditions and, as such would arrive fully capable of dealing with any situation that is likely to arise.
Inter stellar warfare is in reality impossible as there is no way to defend a planet from attack from space, whether in be a toxic dust cloud in a contra orbit, a series of very high velocity dark asteroids, specifically targeted biological warfare across multiple simultaneous vectors so as to preserve the remaining ecology, let alone any high tech weaponry, if you can get out of the way, you have no defence. It brings to mind the idea that any species that threatens that type of activity when it travels out into the galaxy is likely to get weeded out well prior to them becoming an actual threat.
Another answer for the benefits of Rome (some of those others aren't actually accurate) use a monotheistic religion as part of a military strategy, in order to group together disparate nationalities and more effectively target, isolate and eliminate non-believers. Not really all that much of a good thing, pretty sucky in fact
Speaking of google chromium I came across an add for it on that new search mess Bing - multimap, ugh (I ain't cruel so no link). I finally remembered where I heard bing repeated over and over again, it was that insurance salesman in the movie ground hog day that accosted bill, trust ballmer to pick that as the new name for the M$ search engine, it's seem you can never really take the insurance salesman out of the wanna-be jockstrap, 'BING' ;D.
You forget the underlying reality. Part of closing the tax loopholes is that it is not just a project coming out of the US, it is a global effort, being driven by most major democratic countries whose economies are not driven by providing financial support to criminals. So not so much about forcing companies and the rich and greedy to pay tax, it is about setting up methods to penalise and financially isolate countries which facilitate tax evasion, money laundering and the various other criminal enterprises.
Want to bury your money in Bahama dollars, you share holders will be screaming when the become untradeable and worth nothing, along with the Swiss franks or other criminal currency.
Ballmer's rant, is just more bluff, bluster and bullshit. Threatening a country with job losses if they are not allowed to continue cheating on their taxes, taxes that other companies pay in full when they don't cheat and employ locally. To quote "We're better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. as opposed to keeping them inside the U.S.", what is that some sort of new forced migration policy from M$, did he have a few too many prior to that interview yet again. It brings to mind a picture of ballmer driving his flock of windrone coders onto a ship with a 'chair' (oh my) and a whip and moving them out to destinations unknown.
Well legally speaking, when a company that supplies DRMed content goes out of business then it's customers should be able to gain relief and pursue the administrators for resolution, obviously the customers should be considered creditors as the value of the games investments are held by the bankrupted company.
So the bankruptcy administrators should either pay for relocation of the DRM servers or, the shifting of the licences to a different provider or a patch to remove the now DMCA infringing DRM protection as a failure to provide access to the DRM servers actually does break the copyright protection method under law.
Obviously various governments and consumer protection agencies have failed to catch up to the digital age and are as yet not protecting the consumer as they should.
By far the most important part of this incident "Northern California district court judge approved an FTC request to have the company's upstream Internet providers stop routing traffic for the provider". So no matter to which country they shift their criminal operations that action can still be applied locally to block traffic from a illegal enterprise masquerading behind the façade of a legal ISP, where there is sufficient evidence of the direct involvement in criminal enterprise.
The only tricky part is, should all legitimate customers be warned of this action prior to it occurring so that they can relocate their services because the legal action is also attacking innocent third parties and disrupting their services and that is no really appropriate.
The piracy is obviously detected by the eyes of the handler and the nose of the dog. The dog detects the odour of the disc manufacturing process and the handler inspect the packages, if they are labelled as DVD coming from a expected source and going to and expected source, fin. However if they are labelled as something other than DVD coming from a questionable source and going to a questionable source then there is a problem.
So pirates (often also the legal low cost producer) simply needs to camouflage their pirate DVDs as legal DVDs and not as something else. In the rare case they are DVDRs simply identify them as a legal shipment of blank DVDRs.
Steam used games, no problem, sell your account with all your games. Next person can then change all the details on the account to make it accurate for them. No if steam was really nice it would allow you to transfer game access rights for a minimal fee to other account holders.
Easy simply require full registration and email validation. Those who want to write stupid things and demonstrate an antipathy to democracy go on a, likely very accurate, watch list, of course not a watch list with idiotic ramification, just keep track of any additional anti democratic, racist and extremist views. Oh my, your typical mass media talking head pseudo conservative republican, seriously does anyone still believe they are actually conservative republicans and not just talking heads for a handful of rich and greedy individuals, corporate executives and a whole bunch of lobbyists.
Obviously people who put up suggestions and vote for suggestion should be willing to take adult responsibility as a citizen for their actions. Of course attempting to change stupid, destructive and wasteful laws that wage war on a nation's own citizens is being a good, sensible, responsible citizen and are not the actions of a drug addict, grr ;).