Indeed it is. and that is exactly what I am discussing. Claims processing and bill review: conducted by HR departments, physican's associations (both of external and internal personel related claims), and the like. When you make a medical claim it is usually reviewed by: Your Insurer, the Doctor's billing clerk, your employer's HR department claims review department, and, in between these: If you are Union the Union may have a bill review department; if any of the funds are covered by any state or federal welfare program there will be a (usually contract) review organization/company to look after their interests(?). If Medicare is in any way envolved, they will have their reviewers.. In other words: that confidential discussion with your doctor may well be shared with up to 20 people INCLUDING your employer.
Yep. Hippa complaint. and yes...I have: Billing clerks, and nurses revieiwng claims, bills, med records. I know.. the usual view is: Put on a white lab coat and you are now above human foibles (except on Thursday which you have off to play golf). Actually, the back and forth in any billing center, physican's association, claims processing review or similar place would horrify Joe Q. if he heard it -oh, and knock the whole medical profession down a peg or three. which is not such a bad thing.
I have too and heard the file clerks joke and gossip about: "Ooo! I saw 3 cases of Herpes today alone! I wonder what club SHE goes to! tee hee hee" -pointing to the screen and the file on the unfortunate who must deal with our current intrusive health care system. Laws protect lawyers.....
I would call your atitude "prudent". Here, if no where else, people shoul0d be a wee bit suspect of having their most personal and sensitive information available via the web.
Avaialble to...whom exactly? -is the question
The 6502 does not have a real time clock. the one included in the III was an EXTERNAL clock chip. Many vendors offered external clock cards for the Apple II line
Since Microsoft created the problem, would they not be in the best position to fix it? Oh these holes in the opsys are there by ACCIDENT?? Oops! My bad!
the Second part addresses that first part, and this was in relationship to Germany's proposed law which I find equaly as obecene as the above. sometimes, the law is just.....wrong.
Two thoughts come to mind:
The first involves national sovereignty; if a country's laws, or the law a country decides on decree that a man changing his religion should be executed, then it is not the business of the rest of the world to critique. If citizens of that nation dislike the law they can work within their framework as determined by law to change that law...or chose other paths, or leave. The second thought involves the German character: Anyone standing at a light to cross a street in Dublin, then crossing a similar street in Hamburg will see what I mean. Germany has a long tradition of: "Stay in line, do not rock the boat, Here is your number (RFID?), do not loose your number." An Ordered society sometimes finds it difficult to tell when something is totally out of order.
Apple/// used "SOS" Sophisticated Op Sys. which it was in many ways. First opsys with device drivers for example. When the/// failed, Apple rewrote SOS as ProDOS which was then released on the II line. ProDOS had some interesting limitations: max partiton size- 32mbs, max file count on root -51 files. Max filename length 8 dot 3 ProDOS was the name used as both the opsys and the fiel system for the disk (as was DOS 3.3 for the Apple II's previous operating system).
For more info, just Google Apple II. There are a lot of us still playing with the old girl;)
agreed. After all I just invested in a new 100 pack of steel needles for my Victrola. As long as the crank works, I can hear my Al Jolsen, Bessie Smith and Perry Como whenever I want and on top of that; the Andrew Sisters still look good on their faded liner notes. Beat that Apple!
About a year or two ago I had a discussion with this lady on a subject of mutual interest: the Voynich Manuscript; a medeval bit of encryption. Her knowledge of that obscurity caught my curiousity so I looked her up. A MOST impressive curicula vitae there...
'Tis interesting to see something one makes up atributed to someone more recent, and then, to neeed to Google the name to figure out who the heck it is....
The other day I was cleaning out junk and came across an old AOL disk I had kept. I should mention I am into retro-computers, and, THIS AOL coaster was a 5.25 floppy in ProDOS format. It is for AOL on the Apple II.
I was considering slapping my Micromodem ][ back in the//e, stuffing this beauty into the DuoDisk drive, and at a blazing 300baud dial up my local AOL access number and start spewing my email tax's worth of SPAM at all the other members..
I would probably generate them about as fast as common sense takes to get to AOL Corporate HQ....
The sweet spot for music sales has always been the Teen Market. Teens in America have traditionally had the most disposable income. Trends, fads, "cool" (whatever the current, this week only, word for "cool" is) stuff has been a money maker. When all media was a one way, we put it on, shut up and consume paradigm...music was a way to print money for those who controlled it. Today.... well, there is this Internet thing I keep reading about in the news...
My 15 year old son keeps me appraised of the current trends in music and they are...all over the place. He is into remixed game music (see http://www.ocremix.org/ for one site that has this). His friends are all into various Indie groups. "Pop" music frankly is not even listened to anymore by that age group. Didn't anyone note how the Grammies bombed in the ratings? DRM? Insanely high price? -Making it harder to buy or use forr those who refuse to buy or use it anyway...
testimonial: I was leaving work one day and...the elevator stopped between floors. I pushed the emergency talk button and got a P..rson talk.. th..sounded..ike t.is (the sound cut in and out) . I was told, by the dispatcher (what I could hear of the conversation and from later discussion) communication problems were my fault (huh?). Since I could hear little, I talked into the mike and explained where I was and what the circumstance was. then settled back on the floor of the car, and waited 2 hours for someone to get me out. This was a Friday night and I was perhaps the only one in the building by then... By the way this was the 2nd time I had been stuck on an elevator in that building and the final upshot was the maintenance company lost the contract. But, on to the thread: I sat down with my iBook and wrote a log of my experience via email(s) and sent it to Building maint. CCed to my supervisor (wireless) and by 1.5 hours the email contained the word "damn" in one line. Nothing worse; just that. Next Monday I was called on the use of offensive language.
To defeate this, all one need do is what many in New Orelans seem to have done; Apply for it under various names many many many times. In New Orelans many poor had up to 20 SSNs. Today we hear about this in terms of FEMA payments but it is not a suprise to those who know.
I have seen this in other places too. SSNs are stupidly easy to obtain. Other "identification" is almost as easy. -in most US states, there is usually someone in DMV who is not above a small personal paycheck to issue a nice legal driver's license. The old Fredrick Forsyth novel The Day of the Jakyl gave a blueprint on how to obtain ID. It is still a workable system to this day. All any new ID system does is increase the cost of obtaining fake paper.
I first used a IBM OS/360 (yes I am that old), but early on I used an Apple II, then II+ then IIe then IIgs, and.....I STILL do to this day. In the rush to megabits and megahertz much was lost from the old II days. Google Apple II and you will find there is still quite a community of users of this venerable box..
Two points here: First, do you remember Direct Master LPs? This was a bleeding edge LP tech that came out at the end of the LP era just when CDs were taking off. It died because the CD was the new tech, and it won that format war. Direct Master was as technically good as an LP could get but it wasn't good enough to win against CD. Now we have a Beta/ VHS war all over again with one small difference and that brings up the second part: with Tivo like devices, the internet and a computer in every house, fighting over Blue Ray vs. HD-DVD vs. whatever.. is moot. Movies are data. Data moves on the wire (or wireless). You want movie? Download.
Sure DRM fights and other nonsense will stop this...for a while...Just as the Church blocked Guttenberg from printing when their quill written indulgences were making the good Fathers a bundle but eventually it will prevail. Regardless of how well you craft your buggy whip, if the world has moved beyond buggies, no matter how much PR, Legislation, Weasels in Suits (Lawyers) or just plain lies you tell, people just won't be buying buggy whips or New fangled DVDs
When you do not check the ethnicity box on those forms, Human Resource Agents are instructed to check the box based on their "impression" of the apropriate catagory. I dated a HR gal for a t ime and she told me about the various and absolutely stupid regulations she had to deal with. -
Elephant: mouse designed by commitee and built to government specifications. -Robert A. Heinlein
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Indeed it is. and that is exactly what I am discussing. Claims processing and bill review: conducted by HR departments, physican's associations (both of external and internal personel related claims), and the like. When you make a medical claim it is usually reviewed by: Your Insurer, the Doctor's billing clerk, your employer's HR department claims review department, and, in between these: If you are Union the Union may have a bill review department; if any of the funds are covered by any state or federal welfare program there will be a (usually contract) review organization/company to look after their interests(?). If Medicare is in any way envolved, they will have their reviewers.. In other words: that confidential discussion with your doctor may well be shared with up to 20 people INCLUDING your employer.
Yep. Hippa complaint. and yes...I have: Billing clerks, and nurses revieiwng claims, bills, med records. I know.. the usual view is: Put on a white lab coat and you are now above human foibles (except on Thursday which you have off to play golf). Actually, the back and forth in any billing center, physican's association, claims processing review or similar place would horrify Joe Q. if he heard it -oh, and knock the whole medical profession down a peg or three. which is not such a bad thing.
I have too and heard the file clerks joke and gossip about: "Ooo! I saw 3 cases of Herpes today alone! I wonder what club SHE goes to! tee hee hee" -pointing to the screen and the file on the unfortunate who must deal with our current intrusive health care system. Laws protect lawyers.....
I would call your atitude "prudent". Here, if no where else, people shoul0d be a wee bit suspect of having their most personal and sensitive information available via the web.
Avaialble to...whom exactly? -is the question
The 6502 does not have a real time clock. the one included in the III was an EXTERNAL clock chip. Many vendors offered external clock cards for the Apple II line
Since Microsoft created the problem, would they not be in the best position to fix it? Oh these holes in the opsys are there by ACCIDENT?? Oops! My bad!
can you imagine handing one of these to most professors and mandating they abide by it during those...yes THOSE lectures?
the Second part addresses that first part, and this was in relationship to Germany's proposed law which I find equaly as obecene as the above. sometimes, the law is just.....wrong.
Two thoughts come to mind:
The first involves national sovereignty; if a country's laws, or the law a country decides on decree that a man changing his religion should be executed, then it is not the business of the rest of the world to critique. If citizens of that nation dislike the law they can work within their framework as determined by law to change that law...or chose other paths, or leave.
The second thought involves the German character: Anyone standing at a light to cross a street in Dublin, then crossing a similar street in Hamburg will see what I mean. Germany has a long tradition of: "Stay in line, do not rock the boat, Here is your number (RFID?), do not loose your number."
An Ordered society sometimes finds it difficult to tell when something is totally out of order.
Apple /// used "SOS" Sophisticated Op Sys. which it was in many ways. First opsys with device drivers for example. /// failed, Apple rewrote SOS as ProDOS which was then released on the II line. ProDOS had some interesting limitations: max partiton size- 32mbs, max file count on root -51 files. Max filename length 8 dot 3 ProDOS was the name used as both the opsys and the fiel system for the disk (as was DOS 3.3 for the Apple II's previous operating system).
;)
When the
For more info, just Google Apple II. There are a lot of us still playing with the old girl
Oh yeah, and this one too:
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Charles H. Duell
U.S. Commissioner for Patents
1899
The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our
credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period
when human improvement must end.
Henry Elsworth
US Patent Office, 1844
Well,actually that would be:
13 cycles 0 katuns, 0 tuns, 0 uinals, o kins -but who's counting?
agreed. After all I just invested in a new 100 pack of steel needles for my Victrola. As long as the crank works, I can hear my Al Jolsen, Bessie Smith and Perry Como whenever I want and on top of that; the Andrew Sisters still look good on their faded liner notes. Beat that Apple!
About a year or two ago I had a discussion with this lady on a subject of mutual interest: the Voynich Manuscript; a medeval bit of encryption. Her knowledge of that obscurity caught my curiousity so I looked her up. A MOST impressive curicula vitae there...
'Tis interesting to see something one makes up atributed to someone more recent, and then, to neeed to Google the name to figure out who the heck it is....
All right I know I'm in there! If I don't come out with my hands up... I'm Coming in to Get Me!!!!
The other day I was cleaning out junk and came across an old AOL disk I had kept. I should mention I am into retro-computers, and, THIS AOL coaster was a 5.25 floppy in ProDOS format. It is for AOL on the Apple II.
I was considering slapping my Micromodem ][ back in the
I would probably generate them about as fast as common sense takes to get to AOL Corporate HQ....
The sweet spot for music sales has always been the Teen Market. Teens in America have traditionally had the most disposable income. Trends, fads, "cool" (whatever the current, this week only, word for "cool" is) stuff has been a money maker.
When all media was a one way, we put it on, shut up and consume paradigm...music was a way to print money for those who controlled it. Today.... well, there is this Internet thing I keep reading about in the news...
My 15 year old son keeps me appraised of the current trends in music and they are
DRM? Insanely high price? -Making it harder to buy or use forr those who refuse to buy or use it anyway
testimonial: I was leaving work one day and...the elevator stopped between floors. I pushed the emergency talk button and got a P..rson talk.. th..sounded ..ike t.is (the sound cut in and out) . I was told, by the dispatcher (what I could hear of the conversation and from later discussion) communication problems were my fault (huh?). Since I could hear little, I talked into the mike and explained where I was and what the circumstance was. then settled back on the floor of the car, and waited 2 hours for someone to get me out. This was a Friday night and I was perhaps the only one in the building by then...
By the way this was the 2nd time I had been stuck on an elevator in that building and the final upshot was the maintenance company lost the contract. But, on to the thread: I sat down with my iBook and wrote a log of my experience via email(s) and sent it to Building maint. CCed to my supervisor (wireless) and by 1.5 hours the email contained the word "damn" in one line. Nothing worse; just that.
Next Monday I was called on the use of offensive language.
To defeate this, all one need do is what many in New Orelans seem to have done; Apply for it under various names many many many times. In New Orelans many poor had up to 20 SSNs. Today we hear about this in terms of FEMA payments but it is not a suprise to those who know.
I have seen this in other places too. SSNs are stupidly easy to obtain. Other "identification" is almost as easy. -in most US states, there is usually someone in DMV who is not above a small personal paycheck to issue a nice legal driver's license.
The old Fredrick Forsyth novel The Day of the Jakyl gave a blueprint on how to obtain ID. It is still a workable system to this day.
All any new ID system does is increase the cost of obtaining fake paper.
I first used a IBM OS/360 (yes I am that old), but early on I used an Apple II, then II+ then IIe then IIgs, and.....I STILL do to this day. In the rush to megabits and megahertz much was lost from the old II days. Google Apple II and you will find there is still quite a community of users of this venerable box..
Two points here: First, do you remember Direct Master LPs? This was a bleeding edge LP tech that came out at the end of the LP era just when CDs were taking off. It died because the CD was the new tech, and it won that format war. Direct Master was as technically good as an LP could get but it wasn't good enough to win against CD. .. is moot. Movies are data. Data moves on the wire (or wireless). You want movie? Download.
Now we have a Beta/ VHS war all over again with one small difference and that brings up the second part: with Tivo like devices, the internet and a computer in every house, fighting over Blue Ray vs. HD-DVD vs. whatever
Sure DRM fights and other nonsense will stop this...for a while...Just as the Church blocked Guttenberg from printing when their quill written indulgences were making the good Fathers a bundle but eventually it will prevail.
Regardless of how well you craft your buggy whip, if the world has moved beyond buggies, no matter how much PR, Legislation, Weasels in Suits (Lawyers) or just plain lies you tell, people just won't be buying buggy whips or New fangled DVDs
When you do not check the ethnicity box on those forms, Human Resource Agents are instructed to check the box based on their "impression" of the apropriate catagory. I dated a HR gal for a t ime and she told me about the various and absolutely stupid regulations she had to deal with. -
Elephant: mouse designed by commitee and built to government specifications. -Robert A. Heinlein
spoken like a true native...