My belief exactly. Whiskey stops aging after about 30 years in the casket and most of that in the first 15 years or so. Buying a 100 year old bottle of whiskey is just a wast of money.
True, but I am talking thirty years ago. Back when I had long hair and wore tie-dyed tee shirts. If true, it doesn't surprise me that the cycle has shorten.
I used to have a neighbor who was a homicide detective on the Los Angeles Police Department, when I lived in that fine city.
He got transferred to the Vice Unit which seen like a demotion for a homicide detective. His explanation was that no police officer spent more that eighteen months in the Vice Unit because it tended to corrupt the offices and turn them into the criminals they where fighting.
If this holds true, and I have mo reason to doubt my former neighbor, will this be a temporary assignment? Or will we start seeing these employees start posting there own girl meet donkey videos?
But does the high cost and questionable quality of products currently on the market explain why barely 1 in 50 hospitals have a comprehensive electronic records system, and why only 17% of physicians use any type of electronic records?
Yea, right. The Veterans Health Administration has a computerized record system called VistA that is quite successful. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the largest integrated health care network in the country and has been using VistA successfully for at least 10 years.
The software, being developed by the United States Government, is in both the public domain and open source versions.
I read part of the Newsweek article I and I don't have a clue what they where talking about, except wasting taxpayers money. VistA or any of the Supporters of variants of VistA software are not mentioned.
Cryptographer David Chaum and some researchers from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC), George Washington University (GWU), University of Ottawa (UO) and University of Waterloo (UW) have for several years been working on a system called Punchscan.
It is an End-to-end (E2E) cryptographic system with independent verification. The system is designed to be transparent to everyone, candidates, voters, election officials, media, courts et al.
I'm a little confused. If we need to regulate the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere do get rid of all the CO2? Will there be any unintended consequents of removing all the CO2?
How Can the Stimulus Plan Help the Internet? It can't! Already more money has been dumped into this stimulus plan that has been spent on all the major wars this country has fought.
Demand side economics is not the right solution at this time.
Bad comparison - the people who reverse-engineered the IBM weren't the same people who designed it in the first place. A "clean room" approach isn't possible in this case.
Yes, it is a bad example and a clean room is not possible in this case by any standard. That being said, at 3:30 in the morning with ten minutes before leaving for work my intent was to point hi_caramba_2008 in a (very) general direction of some documentation. This is a project that probably will present some very tall obstacles and he will have to think outside the box if he expects succeed.
Start with reverse engineering and the IBM Compatible PC. This has been going on for a long time and is defiantly possible with the right precautions for example if you only have the binary file(s) a clean room approach would probably be used. I believe it is doable but at the very least you will probably need a lawyer.
It may not be a big deal to most people, but someone might be peeved at this:
Online Comments and Personal Information:
We treat your name, city, state, and any comments you provide as public information. We may, for example, provide compilations of your comments to national leaders and other individuals participating in our efforts, without disclosing email addresses. We may also make comments along with your city and state available to the press and public online.
So, in order to tell them what you think via this site, make sure you want it in the Public Domain, as this implies you agree to that condition to comment.
Huh. I wonder if they can do that?
Anyone know?
Probably not, here is the White House policy:
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:
1. The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;
2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
3. The date and time you access our site;
4. The pages you visit; and
5. If you linked to the White House website from another website, the address of that website.
We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.
And
The information you provide is not given to any private organizations or private persons. The White House does not collect or use information for commercial marketing.
Now I feel like a wuss for complaining about the lack of a voter-verified paper trail.
There are about four groups of people working to rectify this problem. The one I've been following is Punchscan which looks like they have everything covered except fraudulent registration. Slashdot covered Punchscan here.
Wow, Slashdot is getting slow in its old age. I put this out in my vast right wing conspiracy email on Friday.
Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber
From: Xxxxx Xxxxx
To: Undisclosed.Recipients:
Date: Friday 08:19:03 pm
Slashdot Mirror
What's new? As someone who hasn't used Windows since 1995 I have no sympathy.
Linux Standard Base (LSB)
If I see it in a restaurant I might give it a try. I personally drink scotch but I am not above bourbon, American or Irish whiskey once in a while.
My belief exactly. Whiskey stops aging after about 30 years in the casket and most of that in the first 15 years or so. Buying a 100 year old bottle of whiskey is just a wast of money.
What? They can't tell the difference by tasting it?
True, but I am talking thirty years ago. Back when I had long hair and wore tie-dyed tee shirts. If true, it doesn't surprise me that the cycle has shorten.
He got transferred to the Vice Unit which seen like a demotion for a homicide detective. His explanation was that no police officer spent more that eighteen months in the Vice Unit because it tended to corrupt the offices and turn them into the criminals they where fighting.
If this holds true, and I have mo reason to doubt my former neighbor, will this be a temporary assignment? Or will we start seeing these employees start posting there own girl meet donkey videos?
--
The American Form of Government
But does the high cost and questionable quality of products currently on the market explain why barely 1 in 50 hospitals have a comprehensive electronic records system, and why only 17% of physicians use any type of electronic records?
Yea, right. The Veterans Health Administration has a computerized record system called VistA that is quite successful. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the largest integrated health care network in the country and has been using VistA successfully for at least 10 years.
The software, being developed by the United States Government, is in both the public domain and open source versions.
I read part of the Newsweek article I and I don't have a clue what they where talking about, except wasting taxpayers money. VistA or any of the Supporters of variants of VistA software are not mentioned.
It is an End-to-end (E2E) cryptographic system with independent verification. The system is designed to be transparent to everyone, candidates, voters, election officials, media, courts et al.
checked out some names:
/. name 24 times
spiff 74 times
snake 75 times
My
4nic8 a mesially 13 times.
I have a burning question. Why is it now called "Climate Change" and no longer "(Man Made) Global Warming"?
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
-- Benjamin Franklin
Yep, looks like an "Ides of March" conspiracy to me.
Shakespeare, Makespeare. Just another bunch of Clichés strung together.
Of course they do and the only thing that kept them from doing it before was the fear of a backlash from their customers.
A good case against automatic deposit. Also, a good time to get a lawyer.
That is a stupid question, 4.2 is in the state of disbelief.
I personally believe that the end of the world will be with a whimper. However, it is such a good story I couldn't pass it up.
I'm a little confused. If we need to regulate the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere do get rid of all the CO2? Will there be any unintended consequents of removing all the CO2?
How Can the Stimulus Plan Help the Internet? It can't! Already more money has been dumped into this stimulus plan that has been spent on all the major wars this country has fought.
Demand side economics is not the right solution at this time.
Now, where those new (OEM) parts, third party parts or did they go to the local junk yard to get parts?
Yes, it is a bad example and a clean room is not possible in this case by any standard. That being said, at 3:30 in the morning with ten minutes before leaving for work my intent was to point hi_caramba_2008 in a (very) general direction of some documentation. This is a project that probably will present some very tall obstacles and he will have to think outside the box if he expects succeed.
Start with reverse engineering and the IBM Compatible PC. This has been going on for a long time and is defiantly possible with the right precautions for example if you only have the binary file(s) a clean room approach would probably be used. I believe it is doable but at the very least you will probably need a lawyer.
Probably not, here is the White House policy:
And
http://www.whitehouse.gov/privacy.html
Another thing that bothers me is change.gov has a copyright notice on it. With a few exceptions United states Government work is in the Public domain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_of_the_United_States_Government
There are about four groups of people working to rectify this problem. The one I've been following is Punchscan which looks like they have everything covered except fraudulent registration. Slashdot covered Punchscan here.
Wow, Slashdot is getting slow in its old age. I put this out in my vast right wing conspiracy email on Friday. Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber From: Xxxxx Xxxxx To: Undisclosed.Recipients: Date: Friday 08:19:03 pm