HIPAA allows for confidential patient information to be shared with certain other people in the course of their professional responsibilities. Doctors consulting with colleagues, nurses checking charts, hospital billing staff writing up bills, etc. Hell, even orderlies and janitors could be privy to some personal information. IT staff must be included in that category, no?
And how many child porn enthusiasts are blithe enough about the egregiously criminal nature of their "hobby" to hand over an unencrypted volume of illegal material to an IT repair person? It's not like forgetting that you had an IM conversation about drugs or something that's saved in a logfile somewhere.
Who ever said that Central America is a continent? It's a region with geographical and cultural commonalities, like Asia Minor or North Africa. And I've never heard it used in a derogatory manner.
The Federation of American Scientists argues that the high accuracy and low destructive settings means military commanders might press to use the bomb in an attack, knowing the radioactive fallout and collateral damage would be limited.
Aren't fallout and collateral damage the main problems people have with nuclear weapons? Without those factors The Bomb wouldn't have that enormous stigma attached to it, it would be just another bomb, albeit larger. Since the Cold War is over, and since everyone involved knows that smaller tactical nukes exist, there's no reason that the response to any and all non-testing nuclear explosion has to be full-on empty the silos.
The forces pushing the “evolution” (another word you’re misusing) of language one way or another are all human. I am a human, and I am pushing in the direction I see fit. If your best argument is “but everyone’s sayin it!” then I shouldn’t have to push too hard.
And you can fuck off if you don’t like people correcting your misusage. You are wrong. Just because a lot of other people are wrong along with you doesn’t make you less wrong, it just makes you less uniquely wrong.
There are plenty of phrases meaning “brings up the question,” “asks the question,” “leads me to ask,” etc. There are not many for “making an unspoken assumption,” so by appropriating a phrase that means one thing to mean another (for which there are ample alternatives) you are reducing the utility of language, not enriching it.
That’s the point. “Shall” is a legal term, the inclusion of which makes the document potentially legally-binding, which would mean the Senate has to ratify it.
> Can someone please tell lawmakers that this is a solved problem?
It’s a feature, not a bug. If all the commits are made by the Acting Chief Typist under orders from various other authorities, the identity of the actual contributor can be kept confidential, and it provides deniability to be able to blame the A.C.T.’s fumblefingers when slips like this one get noticed.
They're not really backronyms, as the drafters didn't say "We're calling this HANGUP, now go find a phrase that could stand for!" If staffers had come up with a better title that abbreviated to DIALTONE or NOCALLS they'd have gone with that. The military does the same thing, but they're far more apt to drop or include letters to make an appropriately military-sounding word. It's probably a pretty fun process! And you have to admit this one is better than most; the title isn't a tortured mess. They could have even done Phonecalls as one word so as not to cheat.
There are a couple of extensions that will preview the real URL behind a shortened link. For instance, Firefox has Interclue, Safari has Ultimate Status Bar, couldn't find one for Chrome or Opera but there's probably something.
Of course that doesn't help with SMS or mobile browsers that don't support extensions, but it makes desktop browsing a little more secure.
That’s nonsense. Sure, they’re not working out new material while shooting an HBO special or on a big arena tour, but they absolutely do so at comedy clubs. Even hugely successful ones will make unannounced surprise appearances at the local Laugh Pocket to stay sharp. If you think there’s no standup circuit you just haven’t been looking.
That’s not so much a California thing as a local busybody HOA / city council thing. San Francisco recently cracked down on people parking their RVs on the street and living in them because all the new money here found them unsightly and complained. Now they get to sleep on the sidewalks instead.
There’s a possibly anecdotal story that floats around about some cops who put a suspect’s hand on a photocopier as a “lie detector,” claiming to him that the copies of his handprint proved he was lying, thus inducing him to confess. Pretty sure that bit has made it into at least one TV show, but the story has been around for a while.
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Yeah, the Cow Palace is literally across the street from San Francisco.
We're in the midst of transitioning right now.
HIPAA allows for confidential patient information to be shared with certain other people in the course of their professional responsibilities. Doctors consulting with colleagues, nurses checking charts, hospital billing staff writing up bills, etc. Hell, even orderlies and janitors could be privy to some personal information. IT staff must be included in that category, no?
And how many child porn enthusiasts are blithe enough about the egregiously criminal nature of their "hobby" to hand over an unencrypted volume of illegal material to an IT repair person? It's not like forgetting that you had an IM conversation about drugs or something that's saved in a logfile somewhere.
Well, they think words like "amnesty" and "socialism" are derogatory too, so I'm hardly going to follow their language usage tips.
That's because you can recognize the horse by sight.
Who ever said that Central America is a continent? It's a region with geographical and cultural commonalities, like Asia Minor or North Africa. And I've never heard it used in a derogatory manner.
"Cloud-based" datacenters? So, what, these drives wouldn't be any good for the datacenter in the basement with no internet connection?
Aren't fallout and collateral damage the main problems people have with nuclear weapons? Without those factors The Bomb wouldn't have that enormous stigma attached to it, it would be just another bomb, albeit larger. Since the Cold War is over, and since everyone involved knows that smaller tactical nukes exist, there's no reason that the response to any and all non-testing nuclear explosion has to be full-on empty the silos.
The forces pushing the “evolution” (another word you’re misusing) of language one way or another are all human. I am a human, and I am pushing in the direction I see fit. If your best argument is “but everyone’s sayin it!” then I shouldn’t have to push too hard.
And you can fuck off if you don’t like people correcting your misusage. You are wrong. Just because a lot of other people are wrong along with you doesn’t make you less wrong, it just makes you less uniquely wrong.
There are plenty of phrases meaning “brings up the question,” “asks the question,” “leads me to ask,” etc. There are not many for “making an unspoken assumption,” so by appropriating a phrase that means one thing to mean another (for which there are ample alternatives) you are reducing the utility of language, not enriching it.
That’s the point. “Shall” is a legal term, the inclusion of which makes the document potentially legally-binding, which would mean the Senate has to ratify it.
> Can someone please tell lawmakers that this is a solved problem?
It’s a feature, not a bug. If all the commits are made by the Acting Chief Typist under orders from various other authorities, the identity of the actual contributor can be kept confidential, and it provides deniability to be able to blame the A.C.T.’s fumblefingers when slips like this one get noticed.
If only it were a joke.
> "Japan has resumed its controversial lethal research whaling because it wants to determine how many minke whales can be harvested sustainably”
Japan’s rep is pretty much paraphrasing Pratchett’s line right there.
> Except that's actually the OPPOSITE of the meaning of the term. A Shibboleth is used to identify members who belong to a group.
That’s the same thing. If you're identifying group members, you are also identifying group nonmembers.
Dr. Horrible’s was pretty good though.
That's not an "online purchase" though. That's an online agreement to make a traditional offline transaction.
> Who runs Apache any more? Every serious Linux webserver is running Nginx now.
I don’t know if you’re trying to start another "BSD Is Dying" thing but
http://news.netcraft.com/archi...
Nginx is certainly making headway but it's still only half Apache's market share of the million busiest sites, and 30% among all active sites.
They're not really backronyms, as the drafters didn't say "We're calling this HANGUP, now go find a phrase that could stand for!" If staffers had come up with a better title that abbreviated to DIALTONE or NOCALLS they'd have gone with that. The military does the same thing, but they're far more apt to drop or include letters to make an appropriately military-sounding word. It's probably a pretty fun process! And you have to admit this one is better than most; the title isn't a tortured mess. They could have even done Phonecalls as one word so as not to cheat.
There are a couple of extensions that will preview the real URL behind a shortened link. For instance, Firefox has Interclue, Safari has Ultimate Status Bar, couldn't find one for Chrome or Opera but there's probably something.
Of course that doesn't help with SMS or mobile browsers that don't support extensions, but it makes desktop browsing a little more secure.
That’s nonsense. Sure, they’re not working out new material while shooting an HBO special or on a big arena tour, but they absolutely do so at comedy clubs. Even hugely successful ones will make unannounced surprise appearances at the local Laugh Pocket to stay sharp. If you think there’s no standup circuit you just haven’t been looking.
That’s not so much a California thing as a local busybody HOA / city council thing. San Francisco recently cracked down on people parking their RVs on the street and living in them because all the new money here found them unsightly and complained. Now they get to sleep on the sidewalks instead.
So where do people park their RVs?
Right, I’d misremembered the exact methodology. It was on The Wire, as the AC notes, but I’m sure I heard it before that.
There’s a possibly anecdotal story that floats around about some cops who put a suspect’s hand on a photocopier as a “lie detector,” claiming to him that the copies of his handprint proved he was lying, thus inducing him to confess. Pretty sure that bit has made it into at least one TV show, but the story has been around for a while.