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  1. Re: Mix on Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police · · Score: 2

    The police and paramedics can do this by placing bodies between camera and patient or by using sheets and blankets. Arresting people and confiscating equipment is not the way to provide a patient with privacy.

  2. Re: What about my privacy? on Man Charged With HIPAA Violations For Video Taping Police · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you are in public you have should have no expectation of privacy. If someone edits and shares the video to change the story then that could be grounds for libel.

  3. Re:interest prospect on Using the Sea To Cool Your Data Center · · Score: 1

    Why not move the heat-exchanger (thin walls and all) into the ocean. Have a closed-loop of FRESH water that you pump around. It cools down in the ocean and then is pumped back in, through the data centre, heats up. Now you've got internals (and your pump) free of salt. Yes, you still have to maintain the outside of all the pipes AND the ocean-side of the heat exchanger but that seems easier than moving salt around.

  4. Re:Tabs on top, do it NOW! on Firefox 4.0 Goes Chrome, New UI In Q4 2010 · · Score: 1

    Ahhh, that made my day.

  5. Re:Let's Get Serious on Bush Demands Amnesty for Spying Telecoms · · Score: 1

    that is(sic) todays nerds were given the power to create a governmental system, it would be completely awesome.

    If the 'nerds' are waiting for the power to be 'given' to them, then it won't happen and you're no help to the GGP's post.
    Taking responsibility is step 1. Taking action is a close Step 2.

  6. Re:Your Movie Rights Online. on Canadian Fined For Videoing Movie In Theatre · · Score: 1

    Yeah, poor guy needs a camera that can't record video. He'll probably be stuck with an iPhone

  7. Re:I liked it, but... on Researchers Developing Cancer-Fighting Beer · · Score: 1

    And what's the point of having it published without a little product placement!

    The students, using their own Dell, Lenovo ThinkPad and Gateway laptops, are now in the process of developing a genetically modified strain of yeas

    Think Adblock could be configured to identify in-story hyperlinks and replace it with generic equivalents? Time for a beer...

  8. Re:Download on Firefox Download Day To Start At 1 p.m. EST · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Any downloads AFTER the time will result in

    "There were problems checking for, downloading or installing this update. Firefox could not be updatd because: AUS: No data was received (Please try again)"

    Same for mozilla.org, spreadfirefox.com. Yes, I know I can wait. I've already waited for the damn thing to start.

    I hope this stunt gets them to concentrate on the product rather than the publicity. The success of Firefox was not because of advertising, it was a good product spread by WOM and email.

  9. Suprisingly? on US Does Surprisingly Well in Internet Survey · · Score: 1

    I'm kind of suprised that the headline is spelled incorrectly.

  10. Made us look... on Groklaw Explains the Cyberlaw "Trademark" · · Score: 0

    Well, you made us look.
    At their site.

    TM or not, they've got the publicity they wanted.

  11. First Responders - Data sharing in Emergencies on 5 Cool Wireless Reseach Projects · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The paper describes outfitting such devices as the handheld computers used by first responders with elements dubbed a "device root key" and a "storage root hash" to enable temporary access to information.

    I think this idea needs to be pursued. Having immediate but temporary access to need-to-know info such as medical history, contact phone numbers, and even a programmable access card for building (apt or condo) access to respond to 911 calls would be excellent.

    The temporary, secure design would reduce the risk (or just the fear) of having first responders abuse the info (i.e. using a 'universal' key card to access a building during a non-emergency. As a first responder I know time would be saved if I could enter a building during a call without needing to enter buzz codes, etc, but I don't want to have the responsibility of universal access.

    Expanding the system to share location/status of first responders/patients/threats/etc, along with live-updated info from the control centre would be very valuable.

  12. Re:All the things true Audiophile needs.... on James Randi Posts $1M Award On Speaker Cables · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I can't see it being an issue."

    That's because you're using lower quality cable - I can see it just fine with my graduated density cable.

  13. Re:That's why they call it the Crackberry. on The BlackBerry Orphans · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And a few getaways that will forcibly remove you from your technology.

    You mean they can't even take responsibility for their own pleasure? These people need counselling; not forcible removal of the device.

  14. Re:Really? on iPod To Eventually Hold All the Video In the World? · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I think that enough space to hold all the world's video should be enough for everyone"

  15. Re:Something I noticed about all their answers on Great Programmers Answer Questions From Aspiring Student · · Score: 5, Funny

    How many actors, salesman, or politicians have you ever heard use those words?

    I don't know.
    Good point, though.

  16. Is IM bad for spelling? on It's OK to keep AIMing · · Score: 2, Funny

    or is it just Slashdot?
    fooby12 writes "According to the Univeristy of Toronto

  17. +1 for therapy ball on Do Ergonomic Chairs Really Work? · · Score: 1

    After a motor-vehicle collision in the fall left me with persistent back pain/tightness, I ditched my computer chair and replaced it with an exercise ball (Thera-Ball) like you described. The ball makes a better chair than any chair I've used - it cured the pain, increased the strength and, thanks to a very gentle slope in the floor, always rolls itself under the desk when I'm done.

  18. AVe.Q on Internet For All in Europe · · Score: 1

    The internet is really, really good...

  19. Re:iTunes? on Good Podcasts and Podcatchers? · · Score: 1

    Finding good podcasts is a challenge.
    Here's one! CBC Radio 3.
    New music, many styles. Available in M4A, MP3, and OGG Vorbis.

  20. Re:RTFA on Brits To Crash Test a Scramjet · · Score: 1

    If everything goes to plan, the experiment will begin at a height of 35km.

    I wonder if the team declined to comment on what might happen if "everything goes to hell."

  21. Re:Are YOU making a contribution? on 17 Year Old Creates Flickr Competitor · · Score: 5, Funny

    building 7 fell in exactly the same exactly symmetrical way as WTC 1 and 2

    uhhh...down?

  22. Re:"revolving ill" not a useful concept on The Pandemic vs. the IT Department · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes the virus can be lethal. As I wrote in this post the mortality/morbidity rate for the avian flu in humans is NOT known; the rate for the virus in a pandemic influenza will not necessarily be the same.

    IIRC the 1918 pandemic flu mortality rate was ~2 or 2.5%.

  23. Re:Isolation slows infection down on The Pandemic vs. the IT Department · · Score: 2, Informative

    The general concern is that if it mutates into a form which spreads easily from human to human (like normal human influenza) that we're in trouble.

    Read this

  24. Re:Business IT?? on The Pandemic vs. the IT Department · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Facing 50%+ mortality rate,

    That mortality rate, provided by the WHO for their 'laboratory confirmed cases, only includes people who
    a. became very sick from the infection
    b. obtained medical attention which the WHO recognized
    c. had blood samples tested and confirmed in a lab

    Anyone that became infected and didn't exhibit symptoms wouldn't be included (why would they get tested?), and anyone that died in a remote area wouldn't be included either. The more 'infections' that develop in "1st world" countries the better able we will be to determine the true mortality/morbidity rate of avian influenza in humans.

    Unfortunately that won't be able to predict the rate for 'pandemic flu' which would be a mutation of the current avian flu virus.

  25. Isolation slows infection down on The Pandemic vs. the IT Department · · Score: 3, Informative

    prepared or somewhat prepared to move employees to remote locations or let them work at home,
    It's important to remember that working from home (or remote locations) isn't going to prevent the illness from infecting everyone - it will just prevent everyone from falling ill at the same time.

    The 'attack rate' (ranging from 10 to 35% in most 'plans') is cumulative. It would be much easier to handle 10% revolving ill over a few months than it would be to handle ~35% of staff ill for 2 weeks.

    Remember, too, that if this virus mutates into a human-to-human transmissible form that you'll be just as likely to catch it at the grocery store/transit system than you will at work.

    Wash your hands/keyboards/mice/doorknobs