Imagine a future situation where under the guisse of equal and universal access to education it would be mandated that every child from a young age be plugged in and online. Or imagine under the guisse of fighting "terrorism" - hey, we'll still be at it as long as it's expedient and serves special interests(!) - those in power would claim that "if your got nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about!"
Well she's a psychiatric counsellor, so she's probably interested in memory and how the brain works, and hence her feat is a practical demonstration of her career interests. I would wait to read her book with interest, as she probably has some very **useful** stuff to tell us.
"I would advise any slashdot readers considering trolling this e-mail address to think carefully about the implications their messages might have on this guy, and refrain from contacting HMS unless they have something worthwhile and appropriate to contribute."
I'm afraid you just invited the trolls to, uh, be trolls - to do something they're not supposed to do:-/ I can imagine a few jerks right now responding to your kind regard with deliberate trollish emails to HMS, perhaps some of them even making things up - such people I would love to strangle with a barbwire.
I know the specifics on its face, and there's nothing much specific about it; as always, it's an avaricious team of lawyers that persuaded a client to allow them to jumpstart a case, with the hope that they (the lawyers) may turn it into a class-suit action that would enable them (the lawyers again) to take a huge, huge cut out of any eventual settlement or pay!!
Remember that Microsoft settlement case? Californians got pennies, a team of laywers got hundreds of millions out of it.
Sun suffers more than anything from a disproportionate and hugely unjust share of bad publicity that is thrown at it. It just had become too fashionable to bash Sun. Whatever Sun does or come up with, you can be certain there'll be a crowd of idiots who'll badmouth it and can't wait to sing its obituary. I don't want to hear nonsense in replies as to why this is so - I don't want to hear anyone tell me any such nonsense; I know this company and I have followed it for years, and fuck you and your thoughtless kneejerk impending-doom reponses to anything Sun does. I know that it innovates and contributes a lot to the industry and to open source, yet all eyes are scornfully on and all tongues are poisonously about it, all the while other giants while in their mediocrity under the radars of the crowds of fucktard wannabe pundits.
They must've known it was going to be hugely successful, otherwise they would not have shot the whole 9 hour triology at the same time with such massive budget.
What people often fail to realize is that the Islamic civilisation was a ***Western*** civilisation. There is no dispute about this point amongst scholars, but the public ignorance of it is profound. Western civilisation as we know today has its roots in ancient Greece and ancient Israel, and the Islamic civilisation was essentially a mixture of Plato and the Bible. If people understood this point they would have less of a problem understanding the history of the West and the Mediterranean Basin that is Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. It's not really a question of "us versus them"; they *are* us!
Yes... it was the Data Protection Act. Whenever Europe comes out with something like this I feel good about them.
" Data Protection
If you store data about individuals: employees, customers, the public, then European business are required to comply with the Data Protection Act. This law applies whether you use computers or not, on the web or not.
The laws are similar across the European Community, and in the UK, requires businesses to register with the Information Commissioner, and comply with the regulations.
In particular:
-you must state what you do with the data (and stick to it)
-you should not export the data outside the EC without the subjects permission
-you must keep the data secure, reveal it and delete it, if requested by the subjects"
I thought a recently-introduced European law (THANK GOD FOR EUROPE!) prevented the export of client data to outside of Europe without their consent. Did any of those banks and companies inform their customers that their data will be exported and specifically seek their consent for that?
"SF Gate www.sfgate.com A tough lesson on medical privacy
Pakistani transcriber threatens UCSF over back pay
- David Lazarus
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
"Your patient records are out in the open... so you better track that person and make him pay my dues."
A woman in Pakistan doing cut-rate clerical work for UCSF Medical Center threatened to post patients' confidential files on the Internet unless she was paid more money.To show she was serious, the woman sent UCSF an e-mail earlier this month with actual patients' records attached.
The violation of medical privacy - apparently the first of its kind - highlights the danger of "offshoring" work that involves sensitive materials, an increasing trend among budget-conscious U.S. companies and institutions.
U.S. laws maintain strict standards to protect patients' medical data. But those laws are virtually unenforceable overseas, where much of the labor- intensive transcribing of dictated medical notes to written form is being exported.
"This was an egregious breach," said Tomi Ryba, chief operating officer of UCSF Medical Center. "We took this very, very seriously."
She stressed that the renowned San Francisco facility is not alone in facing the risk of patients' confidential information being used as leverage by unscrupulous members of the increasingly global health-care industry.
"This is an issue that affects the entire industry and the entire nation," Ryba said.
Nearly all Bay Area hospitals contract with outside firms to handle at least a portion of their voluminous medical-transcription workload. Those firms in turn frequently subcontract with other companies.
In the case of the threat to release UCSF patient records online, a chain of three different subcontractors was used. UCSF and its original contractor, Sausalito's Transcription Stat, say they had no knowledge that the work eventually would find its way abroad.
The Pakistani woman's threat was withdrawn only after she received hundreds of dollars from another person indirectly caught up in the extortion attempt.
The $20 billion medical-transcription business handles dictation from doctors relating to all aspects of the health-care process, from routine exams to surgical procedures. Patients' full medical histories often are included in transcribed reports.
While it's impossible to know for sure how much of the work is heading overseas, the American Association for Medical Transcription, an industry group, estimates that about 10 percent of all U.S. medical transcription is being done abroad.
For two decades, UCSF has outsourced a portion of its transcription work to Transcription Stat. Kim Kaneko, the owner of the Sausalito firm, said she maintains a network of 15 subcontractors throughout the country to handle the "hundreds of files a day" received by her office.
One of those subcontractors is a Florida woman named Sonya Newburn, whom Kaneko said she'd been using steadily for about a year and a half. Kaneko knew that Newburn herself used subcontractors but assumed that was as far as it went.
What Kaneko said she didn't know is that one of Newburn's transcribers, a Texas man named Tom Spires, had his own network of subcontractors. One of these, apparently, was a Pakistani woman named Lubna Baloch.
On Oct. 7, UCSF officials received an e-mail from Baloch, who described herself as "a medical doctor by profession." She said Spires owed her money and had cut off all communication. Baloch demanded that UCSF find Spires and remedy the situation.
She wrote: "Your patient records are out in the open to be exposed, so you better track that person and make him pay my dues or otherwise I will expose all the voice files and patient records of UCSF Parnassus and Mt. Zion campuses on the Internet."
Actual files containing dictation from UCSF doctors were attached to the e- mail. The files reportedly involved two patients.
"I can't believe this happened," Kaneko said. "We've been working for UC for 20 years, and nothing like this has ever happened before."
The files i
I can't find the link now but I recall a year or two ago reading about a medical transcriptionist in the Indian subcontinent who threatened to publish the confidential letters about the patients of an American hospital online in a dispute over the price agreed upon.
I really suggest you watch the movie and see the man himself tell it, and how they threw bandaged human skulls in the dorms of Standford (or was it Harvard? can't remember). But failing that, here's a blurb that's far short of the film account, though will do http://carapace.weblogs.us/archives/013796.html (look under "Safety Becomes Job One")
Actually this isn't an issue for debate and any debate about it would be suspect in its intentions; any society that doesn't help its poor is morally corrupt. Period. It's really as simple as that. If some children in a society live in such abject poverty that they're too poor to get healthcare, food, and shelter, when the society can easily afford to provide for them, then I don't care what the self-righteous SOBs of the society claim.
In the US there is a societal ill of self-righteoussness; many of the wealthy and the religious think they are blessed because they had been good, and they think the poor are poor because of their moral failings. Hence they think they should not help the poor, and they think they (the rich and the religious) are entitled to whatever they can have, because it's a "blessing", and the more they get the more blessed they are and the more deserved it is! Monbiot wrote about this a while ago http://tinyurl.com/43tyl and if you observe Americans you'll see it evident. It even "trickled down" to their middle-classes. I recall an average American guy interviewed once whose definition of a "moron/idiot" was "a homeless person, someone who couldn't keep a job". This lack of empathy, my friends, reeks of stink! There's no debate about it.
And if you look at American foreign policy you'll see that it is likewise, with so-called aid actually being *far* from being real aid, with a third of it essentially being military aid to Israel, already one of the wealthiest nations(! - aid, huh?), the Egyptian regime and the Columbian government. Overall, more than 80% of the ~$15b American "aid" is actually subsidies to American enterprises doing work overseas, that would've otherwise been deemed illegal by WTO. Compare that with the $50b European aid, well over 80% of it is real aid that actually goes to the poor, and also compare it to the far more egalitarian European societies, where the poor get free healthcare, food, shelter, education, and so on, and I am left in no doubt as to the clarity of the moral issues here, far past any "byzantine debate" by a bunch of self-righteous bastards.
Mod parent up. Yes! 100% insightful. Better have TEN $300 camcorders than have one $3000 camera. Note: JVC makes some wonderful budget camcorders that can be had for $300 or even less. Best video quality you'll get in this price range will be a JVC. The other thing - If you've seen the Fog of War with Robert McNamara and remember the egg packaging anecdote, then I highly suggest you no longer look for a "rugged" camcorder but for a good protection from a camcorder case. Lowepro makes some good ones that'll take the abuse http://www.lowepro.com/.
And don't forget the "revolving door" process where a politician does a stint on the board of a corporation, get loaded with share options, go back to government and in government remains loyal to his massive share options. Cheney and Halliburton are such examples, and most of the Bush administration. There's yet another reason why those who often end up in Government are multi-millionaires despite being fuckalls in actual business and actual governments.
HEY! You need a reality check! The GOP have been THE party of dirty politics and dirty playing. They are in full support of big corporate interests and they are anti-consumers.
You can. See this "To the adventurous: Add YubNub to your Firefox address bar by going to about:config and changing keyword.URL to http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command= You haven't lived until you've turned the address bar into a full-fledged command line."
Slashdot Mirror
Can someone remind what the significance of a fish on a car in texas is?
At 100% my fan draws 2 watts, at 100% my HD draws 12 watts, at 100% my cpu draws 89 watts.
CPU cycles are *A* if not *THE* major power burner.
Imagine a future situation where under the guisse of equal and universal access to education it would be mandated that every child from a young age be plugged in and online. Or imagine under the guisse of fighting "terrorism" - hey, we'll still be at it as long as it's expedient and serves special interests(!) - those in power would claim that "if your got nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about!"
Wait for it!
Well she's a psychiatric counsellor, so she's probably interested in memory and how the brain works, and hence her feat is a practical demonstration of her career interests. I would wait to read her book with interest, as she probably has some very **useful** stuff to tell us.
"I would advise any slashdot readers considering trolling this e-mail address to think carefully about the implications their messages might have on this guy, and refrain from contacting HMS unless they have something worthwhile and appropriate to contribute."
:-/ I can imagine a few jerks right now responding to your kind regard with deliberate trollish emails to HMS, perhaps some of them even making things up - such people I would love to strangle with a barbwire.
I'm afraid you just invited the trolls to, uh, be trolls - to do something they're not supposed to do
I know the specifics on its face, and there's nothing much specific about it; as always, it's an avaricious team of lawyers that persuaded a client to allow them to jumpstart a case, with the hope that they (the lawyers) may turn it into a class-suit action that would enable them (the lawyers again) to take a huge, huge cut out of any eventual settlement or pay!!
Remember that Microsoft settlement case? Californians got pennies, a team of laywers got hundreds of millions out of it.
Don't like their stuff? then don't use it, and stay the hell away with your unalterable opinions and vitriol or STFU.
Sun suffers more than anything from a disproportionate and hugely unjust share of bad publicity that is thrown at it. It just had become too fashionable to bash Sun. Whatever Sun does or come up with, you can be certain there'll be a crowd of idiots who'll badmouth it and can't wait to sing its obituary. I don't want to hear nonsense in replies as to why this is so - I don't want to hear anyone tell me any such nonsense; I know this company and I have followed it for years, and fuck you and your thoughtless kneejerk impending-doom reponses to anything Sun does. I know that it innovates and contributes a lot to the industry and to open source, yet all eyes are scornfully on and all tongues are poisonously about it, all the while other giants while in their mediocrity under the radars of the crowds of fucktard wannabe pundits.
MOD PARENT UP PL.... oh, wait, I forgot I had mod points!
They must've known it was going to be hugely successful, otherwise they would not have shot the whole 9 hour triology at the same time with such massive budget.
What you effectively did is made a mini-greenhouse.
Buy a bunch of miniDV tapes from ebay or a stock clearance and just use them? Or if you can compromise on quality then even VHS?
What people often fail to realize is that the Islamic civilisation was a ***Western*** civilisation. There is no dispute about this point amongst scholars, but the public ignorance of it is profound. Western civilisation as we know today has its roots in ancient Greece and ancient Israel, and the Islamic civilisation was essentially a mixture of Plato and the Bible. If people understood this point they would have less of a problem understanding the history of the West and the Mediterranean Basin that is Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. It's not really a question of "us versus them"; they *are* us!
In other words, exactly the kinds of people we want getting shot at. This is a good thing folks. Darwin at work.
If only it was true. The truth though is that they are got into the army to do as they're told shoot us, *not* to get shot at.
Yes... it was the Data Protection Act. Whenever Europe comes out with something like this I feel good about them.
" Data Protection If you store data about individuals: employees, customers, the public, then European business are required to comply with the Data Protection Act. This law applies whether you use computers or not, on the web or not. The laws are similar across the European Community, and in the UK, requires businesses to register with the Information Commissioner, and comply with the regulations. In particular: -you must state what you do with the data (and stick to it) -you should not export the data outside the EC without the subjects permission -you must keep the data secure, reveal it and delete it, if requested by the subjects"
I thought a recently-introduced European law (THANK GOD FOR EUROPE!) prevented the export of client data to outside of Europe without their consent. Did any of those banks and companies inform their customers that their data will be exported and specifically seek their consent for that?
Here... I found it
"SF Gate www.sfgate.com A tough lesson on medical privacy Pakistani transcriber threatens UCSF over back pay - David Lazarus Wednesday, October 22, 2003 "Your patient records are out in the open... so you better track that person and make him pay my dues." A woman in Pakistan doing cut-rate clerical work for UCSF Medical Center threatened to post patients' confidential files on the Internet unless she was paid more money.To show she was serious, the woman sent UCSF an e-mail earlier this month with actual patients' records attached. The violation of medical privacy - apparently the first of its kind - highlights the danger of "offshoring" work that involves sensitive materials, an increasing trend among budget-conscious U.S. companies and institutions. U.S. laws maintain strict standards to protect patients' medical data. But those laws are virtually unenforceable overseas, where much of the labor- intensive transcribing of dictated medical notes to written form is being exported. "This was an egregious breach," said Tomi Ryba, chief operating officer of UCSF Medical Center. "We took this very, very seriously." She stressed that the renowned San Francisco facility is not alone in facing the risk of patients' confidential information being used as leverage by unscrupulous members of the increasingly global health-care industry. "This is an issue that affects the entire industry and the entire nation," Ryba said. Nearly all Bay Area hospitals contract with outside firms to handle at least a portion of their voluminous medical-transcription workload. Those firms in turn frequently subcontract with other companies. In the case of the threat to release UCSF patient records online, a chain of three different subcontractors was used. UCSF and its original contractor, Sausalito's Transcription Stat, say they had no knowledge that the work eventually would find its way abroad. The Pakistani woman's threat was withdrawn only after she received hundreds of dollars from another person indirectly caught up in the extortion attempt. The $20 billion medical-transcription business handles dictation from doctors relating to all aspects of the health-care process, from routine exams to surgical procedures. Patients' full medical histories often are included in transcribed reports. While it's impossible to know for sure how much of the work is heading overseas, the American Association for Medical Transcription, an industry group, estimates that about 10 percent of all U.S. medical transcription is being done abroad. For two decades, UCSF has outsourced a portion of its transcription work to Transcription Stat. Kim Kaneko, the owner of the Sausalito firm, said she maintains a network of 15 subcontractors throughout the country to handle the "hundreds of files a day" received by her office. One of those subcontractors is a Florida woman named Sonya Newburn, whom Kaneko said she'd been using steadily for about a year and a half. Kaneko knew that Newburn herself used subcontractors but assumed that was as far as it went. What Kaneko said she didn't know is that one of Newburn's transcribers, a Texas man named Tom Spires, had his own network of subcontractors. One of these, apparently, was a Pakistani woman named Lubna Baloch. On Oct. 7, UCSF officials received an e-mail from Baloch, who described herself as "a medical doctor by profession." She said Spires owed her money and had cut off all communication. Baloch demanded that UCSF find Spires and remedy the situation. She wrote: "Your patient records are out in the open to be exposed, so you better track that person and make him pay my dues or otherwise I will expose all the voice files and patient records of UCSF Parnassus and Mt. Zion campuses on the Internet." Actual files containing dictation from UCSF doctors were attached to the e- mail. The files reportedly involved two patients. "I can't believe this happened," Kaneko said. "We've been working for UC for 20 years, and nothing like this has ever happened before." The files i
I can't find the link now but I recall a year or two ago reading about a medical transcriptionist in the Indian subcontinent who threatened to publish the confidential letters about the patients of an American hospital online in a dispute over the price agreed upon.
I really suggest you watch the movie and see the man himself tell it, and how they threw bandaged human skulls in the dorms of Standford (or was it Harvard? can't remember). But failing that, here's a blurb that's far short of the film account, though will do http://carapace.weblogs.us/archives/013796.html (look under "Safety Becomes Job One")
Actually this isn't an issue for debate and any debate about it would be suspect in its intentions; any society that doesn't help its poor is morally corrupt. Period. It's really as simple as that. If some children in a society live in such abject poverty that they're too poor to get healthcare, food, and shelter, when the society can easily afford to provide for them, then I don't care what the self-righteous SOBs of the society claim.
In the US there is a societal ill of self-righteoussness; many of the wealthy and the religious think they are blessed because they had been good, and they think the poor are poor because of their moral failings. Hence they think they should not help the poor, and they think they (the rich and the religious) are entitled to whatever they can have, because it's a "blessing", and the more they get the more blessed they are and the more deserved it is! Monbiot wrote about this a while ago http://tinyurl.com/43tyl and if you observe Americans you'll see it evident. It even "trickled down" to their middle-classes. I recall an average American guy interviewed once whose definition of a "moron/idiot" was "a homeless person, someone who couldn't keep a job". This lack of empathy, my friends, reeks of stink! There's no debate about it.
And if you look at American foreign policy you'll see that it is likewise, with so-called aid actually being *far* from being real aid, with a third of it essentially being military aid to Israel, already one of the wealthiest nations(! - aid, huh?), the Egyptian regime and the Columbian government. Overall, more than 80% of the ~$15b American "aid" is actually subsidies to American enterprises doing work overseas, that would've otherwise been deemed illegal by WTO. Compare that with the $50b European aid, well over 80% of it is real aid that actually goes to the poor, and also compare it to the far more egalitarian European societies, where the poor get free healthcare, food, shelter, education, and so on, and I am left in no doubt as to the clarity of the moral issues here, far past any "byzantine debate" by a bunch of self-righteous bastards.
Mod parent up. Yes! 100% insightful. Better have TEN $300 camcorders than have one $3000 camera. Note: JVC makes some wonderful budget camcorders that can be had for $300 or even less. Best video quality you'll get in this price range will be a JVC. The other thing - If you've seen the Fog of War with Robert McNamara and remember the egg packaging anecdote, then I highly suggest you no longer look for a "rugged" camcorder but for a good protection from a camcorder case. Lowepro makes some good ones that'll take the abuse http://www.lowepro.com/.
And don't forget the "revolving door" process where a politician does a stint on the board of a corporation, get loaded with share options, go back to government and in government remains loyal to his massive share options. Cheney and Halliburton are such examples, and most of the Bush administration. There's yet another reason why those who often end up in Government are multi-millionaires despite being fuckalls in actual business and actual governments.
HEY! You need a reality check! The GOP have been THE party of dirty politics and dirty playing. They are in full support of big corporate interests and they are anti-consumers.
Haven't I heard that Gain sued someone for 'alleging' that their software is spyware?
You can. See this "To the adventurous: Add YubNub to your Firefox address bar by going to about:config and changing keyword.URL to http://yubnub.org/parser/parse?command= You haven't lived until you've turned the address bar into a full-fledged command line."