I really don't know anyone who would need to use something like this.
Some recording may be useful, but vast majority of the info is useless... to the patients. Call me paranoid but I'm sick of Big Brother invading my privacy everyday, and this info is to be used for tracking individuals or some other nefarious activity in the future.
Why do people think anyone cares about their health info? Worst case scenario is someone finds out you have VD, well sorry to inform you an overwhelming percentage of the planet don't care about you or your STD's.
Bullshit, why don't you post your and your family's medical history on this site right now? You can't have a free society without privacy. We sure as fuck don't want everyone's medical history in a government database (aka Google database).
Is this really what it's like? Is having malware violating your personal computer the norm? Is it really impossible to design secure OS's and applications from the ground up instead of making them full of holes and relying on "solutions" that pick up the pieces?
It is quite possible to design an OS that cannot be attacked by malware. However, Microsoft is probably not interested (profit-wise) in designing such a thing. Once you have such an OS, you're not interested in upgrading to the next OS, if you're a business trying to save money. Instead, MS pushes DRM, which no consumer wants to touch with a 100-foot pole. I recently came across a MS patent covering an OS that is downloaded by an OS-free machine. Your future OS will probably be rented and downloaded from a server.
Cisco is trying to peddle the mantra "network apps are more secure because they cannot be attacked as easily is desktop apps".
Well, network apps are more expensive (hosting is very expensive), unreliable (because they use networks) and slow (depending on how many users are using the remote server).
The worst part is, network apps allow Big Brother to completely spy on all your activities on the computer. No way we want this.
Who the hell wants their private medical info accessible to anyone around the world with the right password?
If anything, there should be less tracking, or only tracking of things that are relevant to future treatment. This insane desire of big brother to know, own and control everyone should be stopped.
All discrimination is not bad, but the malicious kind, done to shut people up, is censorship.
Appropriate moderation is to filter out the chaff posts, not downmod someone because you happen to disagree with them.
People are lazy and getting a bogus humanistic degree is much easier than an engineering one.
Lazy or smart? Engineering degrees are hard to earn and once you get a job, the pay is only 1.5 to 2.5 times than jobs with these liberal arts degrees.
It's surprising that billion dollar a year companies only shell out 75K to 150K for their top engineers. Or that a simple test programmer or admin makes almost as much as a developer.
Quit being pedantic because moderation is censorship when abused. Highly moderated posts are more likely to be viewed while -1 posts usually don't get any attention. It's not uncommon for a negative moderation when a poster's message attacks the beliefs of the moderators.
There's obviously a problem with a study that takes 8GB of data and concludes that there's no difference in quality between kernels with legendary uptimes and those that can't manage memory well enough to stay up more than a few weeks.
In summary, whether you believe in the OSS religion or not makes little difference. Good programmers write good code and bad programmers write crap.
Even with Windows' many flaws, it does not compile drivers into the kernel, and has a clean API for drivers to interface with the OS and platform. Compare that with recompiling drivers for every linux kernel version.
Science is based on theories, and experiments and empirical data to back up those theories. While experiments on gravity and electricity are repeatable and reproducible to test its theories, no such thing can be done with evolution. Therefore evolution may be just a fairy tale, and not true science.
Why are you against freedom?... freedom to charge for your product like every other trade on the planet. Open source robs that freedom while closed source defends it.
And what's so great about access to source code? There are thousands of buggy open source programs out there but nobody is interested in being a software janitor fixing other people's crap.
The only thing patents give you is monopoly inefficiency. A level of inefficiency that surpasses even what governments can waste on their own.
Well, the monopoly is limited to 20 years, so they have to increase the price for maximum return on investment. After 20 years, it's almost worthless unless they have a strong brand.
It's as if building a house and renting it out someone for 20 years, after which, the renter or someone else gets to keep it for free...a relatively nice deal for the renter.
Intellectual property is a very egoist concept nowadays, in a time in which technological innovation can help so many people...it's really detrimental to humanity as a whole.
You're being idealistic and impractical. For the innovation to reach people, someone has to come up with the patent after god knows how much time and money spent on it. Then a product based on the patent has to be built. That requires a large sum of money unless you plan on using open source slaves. Marketing and advertising costs huge sums of money. Subsequently, the product has to be distributed, which is not as expensive as it used to be.
All you care about is getting the final result without dealing with cost and sacrifice needed to achieve it. Of course, doing all this is risky and expensive, so the innovator will demand a profit higher than what can be earned as an office worker, who takes no risk and generally gets what he deserves.
I've noticed that the Bush administration and their corporate cronies have been steadily stealing economic power away from the people (inflation etc.). Human independence comes partially from economic wealth, without which we would be slaves, at the mercy of our feudal masters. The founders of US created patents to allow fair compensation for creative innovation. So we should keep patents the way they are.
Few people work without profit incentive and if you spend 100% of your time in altruistic endeavors like OSS, you're unlikely to ever become rich. What we should be after is a fair trade, the innovative product in return for a profit.
If IP is so valuable, then tax it. I'm all for that.
It's not free. Patents require periodic "maintenance fees" to remain enforceable. That's several thousand dollars after you've already received the patent..
There's a reason that professionally designed, usability-centered type families cost hundreds of dollars [fonts.com] -- they take many months of careful planning, experimentation (often through scientific trials [clearviewhwy.com]), and adjustment to bring from concept to completion.
If history is any indicator, cheap, especially free, is often preferable to a higher-priced quality product.
Much as I like OSS, I don't like the forced approach here to requiring you to license your creative work for free.
Few things in life are free and FontStruct wants you to work for free in return for access to this tool... a bad deal. Fonts sell for $20 to $50 per user, per font. If this site gets popular, we'll be stuck with mediocre fonts designed by amateurs while the creators of quality fonts will be out of business. Thanks, OSS.
I envision a system where every person has a personal recorder that they carry around, and all the output of public cameras is mirrored and shared in a fashion that made it difficult to tamper with
What's wrong with a little crime and why should we completely lose our freedom to eliminate it? Crime has existed for millenia and will never go away because the clever human mind can overcome any obstacle a system can throw at it.
The real crime here is govt stealing our freedom by monitoring everyone continuously (phones, internet, email). If this crap goes on any longer (24-hour surveillance), we'll all be slaves in a form that will make egyptian and african slavery look like a picnic. I'm surprised not a single entity out there interested in preserving freedom. The govt should stick to its basic function: military protection, and allocating resources for maximum profit of its citizens.
No. A competitor should not be allowed to leech off Hoover's brand value, and it would not be too difficult for Google to implement this. Asking business or non-tech related questions on slashdot is like asking a kid about economics... you get stupid answers.
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Once enough idiots upload their info, it will become mandatory after several years, just like supermarket cameras led to public street cameras.
It won't be modded funny ten years from now.
Bullshit, why don't you post your and your family's medical history on this site right now? You can't have a free society without privacy. We sure as fuck don't want everyone's medical history in a government database (aka Google database).
It is quite possible to design an OS that cannot be attacked by malware. However, Microsoft is probably not interested (profit-wise) in designing such a thing. Once you have such an OS, you're not interested in upgrading to the next OS, if you're a business trying to save money. Instead, MS pushes DRM, which no consumer wants to touch with a 100-foot pole. I recently came across a MS patent covering an OS that is downloaded by an OS-free machine. Your future OS will probably be rented and downloaded from a server.
Cisco is trying to peddle the mantra "network apps are more secure because they cannot be attacked as easily is desktop apps". Well, network apps are more expensive (hosting is very expensive), unreliable (because they use networks) and slow (depending on how many users are using the remote server).
The worst part is, network apps allow Big Brother to completely spy on all your activities on the computer. No way we want this.
If anything, there should be less tracking, or only tracking of things that are relevant to future treatment. This insane desire of big brother to know, own and control everyone should be stopped.
All discrimination is not bad, but the malicious kind, done to shut people up, is censorship. Appropriate moderation is to filter out the chaff posts, not downmod someone because you happen to disagree with them.
It's surprising that billion dollar a year companies only shell out 75K to 150K for their top engineers. Or that a simple test programmer or admin makes almost as much as a developer.
Isn't it the other way around?
In summary, whether you believe in the OSS religion or not makes little difference. Good programmers write good code and bad programmers write crap.
Even with Windows' many flaws, it does not compile drivers into the kernel, and has a clean API for drivers to interface with the OS and platform. Compare that with recompiling drivers for every linux kernel version.
Why do they keep inventing these big brother technologies instead of inventing something useful?
Why are you against freedom? ... freedom to charge for your product like every other trade on the planet. Open source robs that freedom while closed source defends it.
And what's so great about access to source code? There are thousands of buggy open source programs out there but nobody is interested in being a software janitor fixing other people's crap.
It's as if building a house and renting it out someone for 20 years, after which, the renter or someone else gets to keep it for free...a relatively nice deal for the renter.
You're being idealistic and impractical. For the innovation to reach people, someone has to come up with the patent after god knows how much time and money spent on it. Then a product based on the patent has to be built. That requires a large sum of money unless you plan on using open source slaves. Marketing and advertising costs huge sums of money. Subsequently, the product has to be distributed, which is not as expensive as it used to be.
All you care about is getting the final result without dealing with cost and sacrifice needed to achieve it. Of course, doing all this is risky and expensive, so the innovator will demand a profit higher than what can be earned as an office worker, who takes no risk and generally gets what he deserves.
I've noticed that the Bush administration and their corporate cronies have been steadily stealing economic power away from the people (inflation etc.). Human independence comes partially from economic wealth, without which we would be slaves, at the mercy of our feudal masters. The founders of US created patents to allow fair compensation for creative innovation. So we should keep patents the way they are.
Few people work without profit incentive and if you spend 100% of your time in altruistic endeavors like OSS, you're unlikely to ever become rich. What we should be after is a fair trade, the innovative product in return for a profit.
It's not free. Patents require periodic "maintenance fees" to remain enforceable. That's several thousand dollars after you've already received the patent..
...or demanding fair value for their product, you cheapskate.
What's wrong with a little crime and why should we completely lose our freedom to eliminate it? Crime has existed for millenia and will never go away because the clever human mind can overcome any obstacle a system can throw at it.
The real crime here is govt stealing our freedom by monitoring everyone continuously (phones, internet, email). If this crap goes on any longer (24-hour surveillance), we'll all be slaves in a form that will make egyptian and african slavery look like a picnic. I'm surprised not a single entity out there interested in preserving freedom. The govt should stick to its basic function: military protection, and allocating resources for maximum profit of its citizens.
No. A competitor should not be allowed to leech off Hoover's brand value, and it would not be too difficult for Google to implement this. Asking business or non-tech related questions on slashdot is like asking a kid about economics... you get stupid answers.