And it isn't just hospitals. Even school system record keeping is all over the place. A friend of mine is head shrink at a school. He laments the database conversion done where they assured him everything would be fine only to find a lot of data just missing.
To the point where they want me to re-engineer their old app and add some functionality to it.
That's all fine and good but there are ways to make the data redundant. That's what databases do son, plus you can make replicas, use commit/charge etc.
Is due to the fact there's no standardization for medical records from hospital to hospital. To accomplish it we first need to nationalize and unify every hospital in the United States. I use the VA Hospitals as my model. They have electronic record interchange already.
Then you can use best practice to standardize all procedures from actual medical procedure to operational procedure and everything in between. Then once you've nationalized the hospitals, setup several NATIONAL universities that grant M.D.'s and integrate the training.
Well, I looked at it solely from the fact you may have incriminating evidence on the phone. That being said, there are also apps like OpenWatch that automatically upload on the sly. So if you're concerned about the videos being wiped by the Po-Po install the app.
Well - it all depends. In fact a lot of the wipe apps can be triggered by too many incorrect password attempts. But the app I have on my phone lets me wipe from remote. Let them try to charge me when they barge into my phone without a warrant.
Autonomous vehicles are going to change the entire traffic enforcement game. I mean, the car will be a cautious driver that won't speed, won't do boneheaded things. So why do we need traffic cops at that point?
Then legalize drugs and the interdiction force becomes unnecessary. So you need a small number of cops to investigate murders, robberies, etc. That will do wonders for municipal budgets all over the U.S.
So what do you do with all the cops you're going to have to lay off? Firing squads perhaps?
I recall a certain horror flight a few years ago. It wasn't the danger element but the frustration and boredom element.
We were coming from Norfolk, VA to Dulles. Driving to the airport I noted it was a stormy, rainy day and I commented that there was no way in hell we'd get back up north before the next day. How right I was!
We arrived at Dulles after our connecting flight for PVD had already left. Lovely. So I tried to get us on a Boston based flight. Sure enough, a 6PM flight to Logan was available and they switched us unto that. I figured we'd get into Boston and grab the MBCR/MBTA commuter rail back into Providence.
6PM came and went. No information whatsoever until about 10PM. Apparently they had to replace the APU on the damned aircraft. The flight didn't take off until after midnight the next day. We landed in Boston at about 2AM. No transit ran at that hour but a friend lived close so we called her.
The cherry on top? Our luggage got routed to Manchester, NH!
Very interesting post. Of course outsourcing cannot be applied to EVERY project. There's a certain amount of cultural knowledge that gets completely lost in the process when you're building something as complex as an airframe. And as you so point out, the Execs at Boeing completely screwed the pooch!
That it will take 18 months to get to Mars. I know they're using the rocket model for this but I have to explain:
Rockets expend a vast amount of their energy just getting free of Earth gravity and then use the acceleration to head toward any object but not under power. So they expend the fuel just within the band of the origin.
But there's a little technology that is currently propelling a couple of satellites called ion propulsion. It's not a massive dump of energy but a slow, steady one while acceleration increases. Calculation show a trip to Mars would take about 39 days with ion drive. Granted, the spacecraft would be best built in LEO or above that way no aerodynamic issues have to be taken into account. Essentially you'd have something that looks like the lunar lander used in the Apollo program. Not sleek and graceful but sort of cute ugly.
And one of the proposals for projects for 2013 was a video game/console. I mentioned that the half dozen of us there could probably have down with 38 Studios couldn't and it wouldn't have cost the state taxpayers $125 Million.
A large hierarchical tech company. I was in the security systems side and we had a perfectly functional, mature, expandable system in place. But when we got bought by another security company and then finally the big tech company they decided they needed to go with something new and unproven.
They'll lose about $20 million to $80 million over that little cluster fuck.
It hasn't already been done in a lab somewhere. I mean the basic IVF setup could be used to do it. Now couple this with Kurzweils Singularit theory and you'll be able to have clones in stasis, then when you get old and gray, you can just stuff your consciousness into a new body. Cool!
I was working for the state Attorney General's office. On one occasion, we government types got to go down to the SEARCH conference in D.C. Now we were all issued photo ID's that lived right next to our state ID's.
So when we arrived en masse at the check-in and produced ID the drone got panicky. It was too funny. Just because we were on the inner fringe of LEO they freaked.
I never bought into the Instagram app is that I knew this crap would happen. Now I do upload photos directly to Facebook and I'm concerned about rights there.
But I like how flickr does it - I can set attributions on the photos and I've actually sold a few photos on that site and I got the profit.
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My RasPi cost me a total of $35. Has HDMI and Composite. It's designed to work with a television set.
And it isn't just hospitals. Even school system record keeping is all over the place. A friend of mine is head shrink at a school. He laments the database conversion done where they assured him everything would be fine only to find a lot of data just missing.
To the point where they want me to re-engineer their old app and add some functionality to it.
That's all fine and good but there are ways to make the data redundant. That's what databases do son, plus you can make replicas, use commit/charge etc.
Is due to the fact there's no standardization for medical records from hospital to hospital. To accomplish it we first need to nationalize and unify every hospital in the United States. I use the VA Hospitals as my model. They have electronic record interchange already.
Then you can use best practice to standardize all procedures from actual medical procedure to operational procedure and everything in between. Then once you've nationalized the hospitals, setup several NATIONAL universities that grant M.D.'s and integrate the training.
Well, I looked at it solely from the fact you may have incriminating evidence on the phone. That being said, there are also apps like OpenWatch that automatically upload on the sly. So if you're concerned about the videos being wiped by the Po-Po install the app.
Thank you very much. There will still be things like fraud, etc. to investigate but more a detective squad than a reactive police force.
I mean - NERC is supposed to cover most all of that. It proves utilities all over the U.S. ignored NERC standards.
Give him a sandbox to build his own code that does the same thing. Then be objective about evaluating his code.
Well - it all depends. In fact a lot of the wipe apps can be triggered by too many incorrect password attempts. But the app I have on my phone lets me wipe from remote. Let them try to charge me when they barge into my phone without a warrant.
Should be forced to read "The Toaster Story". http://ronald.naweb.com/funnies/tech02-toast.html
Another thing to think about is:
Autonomous vehicles are going to change the entire traffic enforcement game. I mean, the car will be a cautious driver that won't speed, won't do boneheaded things. So why do we need traffic cops at that point?
Then legalize drugs and the interdiction force becomes unnecessary. So you need a small number of cops to investigate murders, robberies, etc. That will do wonders for municipal budgets all over the U.S.
So what do you do with all the cops you're going to have to lay off? Firing squads perhaps?
So you install an app that can remotely WIPE your phone. That will stop them in their tracks.
I recall a certain horror flight a few years ago. It wasn't the danger element but the frustration and boredom element.
We were coming from Norfolk, VA to Dulles. Driving to the airport I noted it was a stormy, rainy day and I commented that there was no way in hell we'd get back up north before the next day. How right I was!
We arrived at Dulles after our connecting flight for PVD had already left. Lovely. So I tried to get us on a Boston based flight. Sure enough, a 6PM flight to Logan was available and they switched us unto that. I figured we'd get into Boston and grab the MBCR/MBTA commuter rail back into Providence.
6PM came and went. No information whatsoever until about 10PM. Apparently they had to replace the APU on the damned aircraft. The flight didn't take off until after midnight the next day. We landed in Boston at about 2AM. No transit ran at that hour but a friend lived close so we called her.
The cherry on top? Our luggage got routed to Manchester, NH!
Haven't flown since.
Very interesting post. Of course outsourcing cannot be applied to EVERY project. There's a certain amount of cultural knowledge that gets completely lost in the process when you're building something as complex as an airframe. And as you so point out, the Execs at Boeing completely screwed the pooch!
I know. I love what Anonymous is doing. It's the Justice League of the net.
That it will take 18 months to get to Mars. I know they're using the rocket model for this but I have to explain:
Rockets expend a vast amount of their energy just getting free of Earth gravity and then use the acceleration to head toward any object but not under power. So they expend the fuel just within the band of the origin.
But there's a little technology that is currently propelling a couple of satellites called ion propulsion. It's not a massive dump of energy but a slow, steady one while acceleration increases. Calculation show a trip to Mars would take about 39 days with ion drive. Granted, the spacecraft would be best built in LEO or above that way no aerodynamic issues have to be taken into account. Essentially you'd have something that looks like the lunar lander used in the Apollo program. Not sleek and graceful but sort of cute ugly.
And one of the proposals for projects for 2013 was a video game/console. I mentioned that the half dozen of us there could probably have down with 38 Studios couldn't and it wouldn't have cost the state taxpayers $125 Million.
3rd order harmonic of 104.7 is 1MHz from the main center frequency or automotive remotes. That's why the remotes weren't working. Ha ha ha ha ha!
The Mooninites in Boston. The police absolutely wigged out about those little LED displays. It was funny.
A large hierarchical tech company. I was in the security systems side and we had a perfectly functional, mature, expandable system in place. But when we got bought by another security company and then finally the big tech company they decided they needed to go with something new and unproven.
They'll lose about $20 million to $80 million over that little cluster fuck.
It hasn't already been done in a lab somewhere. I mean the basic IVF setup could be used to do it. Now couple this with Kurzweils Singularit theory and you'll be able to have clones in stasis, then when you get old and gray, you can just stuff your consciousness into a new body. Cool!
Ditto! It's a fucking connector, not an intellectual property!
To hear from anyone that I don't know on FB. I totally lock down my account, nobody but me can post on my page, only friends can see posts, etc.
I was working for the state Attorney General's office. On one occasion, we government types got to go down to the SEARCH conference in D.C. Now we were all issued photo ID's that lived right next to our state ID's.
So when we arrived en masse at the check-in and produced ID the drone got panicky. It was too funny. Just because we were on the inner fringe of LEO they freaked.
I never bought into the Instagram app is that I knew this crap would happen. Now I do upload photos directly to Facebook and I'm concerned about rights there.
But I like how flickr does it - I can set attributions on the photos and I've actually sold a few photos on that site and I got the profit.