P2P vs electronic medical records are not really that related. Although I agree the government has not always kept records safe, neither has private industry.
I thought the main problem that electronic medical records was meant to fix was making sure information could get from one doc or insurance company correctly and securely. At least several years ago when I looked at this, the insurance company had an incentive to have things mis-tagged so they don't have to pay. Therefore they were reluctant to standardize systems.
Since you seem to question all of this as common wisdom instead of logic.
1- There are many items that are affected by the cooling and heating of powercycling.
They include light bulbs, monitors and hard disks. You can sometimes find numbers
for Mean Power Cycles between failures as well as MTBF.
2- Reducing the MTBF usually means you are increasing the failure rate some
before you reach the mean time.
3- This is hard to know for sure, but consider that replacing a ram stick is cheap
only after you have determined that is what is causing random crashes and wasting
a good bit of user time. The lost productivity costs and diagnostic time may easily
swamp the power savings.
Actually that taser should have have been used if they did not thing they could move him safely without
it. It appeared they have more than enough to man handle him out the door. There looked like there
was a clear path they could take to the door. Although I could not see how much the guy
was struggling right before they tasered him.
Police are allowed to use force to subdue someone. They are not allowed to then
get an extra kick in or taser them EVEN IF they deserve it. So although I think this guy
diserved it and asked for, it was still wrong to use the taser as a punishment instead of a
restraint.
I do think that he did resist arrest, maybe assulted an officer (when he charged at one). I am not defending
the guy so much as wanting to police to do a better job. The taser was not even useful at the point much
less necessary.
Although there is almost no money in the US health system for curing people, many other countries have state supported healthcare. They actually have a financial incentive to produce cures or at least pay for research to that effect.
Even though a lot of research goes on in the US, at least other countries can continue providing us with cures while US companies are "looking out for their stockholders".
The real question is did 50 dead people vote,
did 50 live people get marked as dead or
did the correlation just merge 50 people that
were really 100 originally.
Probably some of all three.
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P2P vs electronic medical records are not really that related. Although I agree the government has not always kept records safe, neither has private industry. I thought the main problem that electronic medical records was meant to fix was making sure information could get from one doc or insurance company correctly and securely. At least several years ago when I looked at this, the insurance company had an incentive to have things mis-tagged so they don't have to pay. Therefore they were reluctant to standardize systems.
Since you seem to question all of this as common wisdom instead of logic. 1- There are many items that are affected by the cooling and heating of powercycling. They include light bulbs, monitors and hard disks. You can sometimes find numbers for Mean Power Cycles between failures as well as MTBF. 2- Reducing the MTBF usually means you are increasing the failure rate some before you reach the mean time. 3- This is hard to know for sure, but consider that replacing a ram stick is cheap only after you have determined that is what is causing random crashes and wasting a good bit of user time. The lost productivity costs and diagnostic time may easily swamp the power savings.
Actually that taser should have have been used if they did not thing they could move him safely without it. It appeared they have more than enough to man handle him out the door. There looked like there was a clear path they could take to the door. Although I could not see how much the guy was struggling right before they tasered him. Police are allowed to use force to subdue someone. They are not allowed to then get an extra kick in or taser them EVEN IF they deserve it. So although I think this guy diserved it and asked for, it was still wrong to use the taser as a punishment instead of a restraint. I do think that he did resist arrest, maybe assulted an officer (when he charged at one). I am not defending the guy so much as wanting to police to do a better job. The taser was not even useful at the point much less necessary.
Even though a lot of research goes on in the US, at least other countries can continue providing us with cures while US companies are "looking out for their stockholders".
The real question is did 50 dead people vote, did 50 live people get marked as dead or did the correlation just merge 50 people that were really 100 originally. Probably some of all three.