If my memory serves me correctly, the answer to this is not that straight forward. There are plenty of confidential reasons for search that require strong sonar on a sub. The greater the ocean depth the stronger the signal that is needed (as well as the ocean temperature). You also have other considerations such as the clarity of the water of marine life and strength and location of currents. We had to open open several times though I will be the first to admit it occurred about 10 times more often on the CG I was on.
So do they need strong sonar - of course they do and you should know why. They just dont need it often.
As another former surface and sub sonar tech out of San Diego, you would probably have to agree this is a rediculous concern. Reason I say this is when on the CG, we used Dolphins for target practice qualifications. I would think that and others like throwing freon filled units off the side of the ship are much larger concerns than damaging dolphin or whale hearing. I just bet in the last ten years this has not changed one bit since I got out.
My senior cheif used to encourage us to 'open up' when whales would slam upside the sub outside Alaska. You dont just make them deaf, you melt their insides when you do that. So make them deaf???!!! I think this should be peoples last concern.
I worked on the original release of voting machines from a company (not to be specified) and took part in the negotiations between several companies for merging in this industry. I am absolutely not surprised this is occurring. The FEC was so critical and ridiculous in their formalities that most time was spent documenting over and over and over again (punctuation is absolutely essential) and less time was spent on the actual architectures. In addition, I rarely saw security as the primary concern. They were more worried about it working for some guy without arms (the lowest common denominator) vs. what I and others felt were more credible concerns. Absolutely ridiculous. So do I trust Diebold as one example? No. But really I am more concerned about the knuckleheads developing Micro$oft interfacing software for tactical warfare for subs. That is a serious concern.
I'd rather keep my job but I will say the encryption of data within a hospital is usually or generally pretty good - what about interfaces with other facilities and sending non encrypted HL7 messages. Comeon - I have been involved this standard since 1996 and still have as of yet to find a location that enforces outgoing compliant piped encrypted data beyond SSL. As well I have worked several positions (Unisys to name one biggie) where it is unbelievably easy to get in there and during testing have access to a million plus medical records and with a few simple queries via ISQL or some other tool - have everything you would need to destroy someones life.
I am quite honestly thinking of discussing this at next years Defcon but my fear is some major hospitals will make my life miserable for making something so obviously nuts - known to the public.
BTW did you know that even though your data at the HIS is secure - that you are still ultimately responsible for what vendors do with that data - especially when piping it back and forth as we all do so frequently.
Of course but this apparantly makes no difference it also is rarely enforced. I agree this si a problem.
I tell you I am one of a great many savy little engineers out there with millions of your healthcare records at my finger tips due to loopholes in laws or blatantly ignoring them.
Believe what you will. I am stating a fact. And it has scared me considerably. What is worse is noone is doing anything about it. But lets be honest the healthcare act does very little to enforce laws and it is very ill concieved as a plan to begin with.
I believe HL7 security was one means of encrypting messages to hide patient data and exam information but out of 100-150 interfaces I have taken part in I have never encountered encrypted data. That may be a first step. That does not stop a rougue developer from burning to disk and selling.
I tell you - I may not have gotten any points for my post but every day I have SSNs / Maiden names / past addresses / blood type / last 10 years of insurance carriers / billing address / CC#'s etc.. I know for a fact I am just one of many with this ifnormation at my finger tips and unfortunately not everyone is ethical as I chose to be. Financial institutes acting on this will in no way prevent it when people can get the informaiton I describe from say 50-100k individuals.
Take this serious and make certain you ask your provider what institutions have access to your medical information electronically. It ios a patient right to know,
I hear this often - identity theft of healthcare information. In many cases the insurance and billing information associated with Healthcare are ill enforced from a security perspective. When you have this information available it makes much of Biometrics (the next generation of security) conceivably null and void. Having worked in this industry for 12 years I can tell you it is scary how little your medical information and all that is related to it are enforced.
I can understand but also as an American and musician with two records as of yet as well as several released songs I have to state some of this makes sense. I do believe as a musician it is nice to be compensated for my art. If Americans want to change this why dont they work on offering artist grants in exchange for open art as they say. I believe if an artist wants to release his or her art free of charge that is his or her decision but who gives anyone else the right to take it. For God sake I can't just walk into a concert and blab off that this is art and I have the freedom to hear it if I so choose. I should have the right as any business to charge people for my art and not have to be concerned with whether it is enforceable if someone decides to steal it.
The real problem is the big record companies. I am dumbfounded by the fact I get such a little amount from my CD sales. This is rediculous. I agree that the average consumer says "I dont want to pay that" So be it but that DOES NOT give you the right as an American or anyone else for that matter to jump in and take it. For me even making as little as I do from record sales, it is an ethical issue.
Yah I know some people that work there and people were much happier with this added choice - I also understand there were some heated debates on Firefox as well. Shrug - hopefully next will be a push towards more LINUX!
I thought art was the ability to forumalte a median of communication that expresses oneself emotionally. I do believe hacking is far from that. We are talking about problem solving. I know when I do an art show I in no way compare this to my ability to write software. Why is it everyone in the US fights so hard these days to be called an artist? Is it really that cool these days to say ah I am the Auu r teest? I remember when it was not always the most popular thing to be considered - ah how times change. The insecurity of needing to be special with a label of sorts.
Here is a word - try creativity. Much better. If you are a traditional artist then I imagine you are not the one cponsidering your skill as art - major difference. But language is always in flux as they say.....
Who is the enemy they speak of defending us against at the expense of of billions spent and if it is Russia (which I can pretty much assume at this point) then how can we assume they dont have the same. So the real question is who gets to jam who first.. Real quagmire.
I think on average the answer is yes we are but so many things are in the equation for judging what makes someone chose A. over B. and if we find we allow ourselves to be approached with items that meet a formula built on estimation then we are likely selling ourselves short.
Issac Asimov spoke to this in the Foundation series when speaking of Psychohistory and the ability to predict humans actions in large groups. It is evident to me that there is a great deal of truth in this for large groups of people but I do believe this is very controversial with regards to individuals and believing you can predict their like and dislikes over time.
I would be interested in how this data applies to the Stephen Hawkings theory of radiation expelled at the end of a Black hole - his come-back theory that everyone is still waiting to hear about. Dark Matter though compelling leaves us with more questions than answers.
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Just curious if this will eventually lead to prostitutes asking for a bailout due to lost business? Worth a thought. ... ;)
If my memory serves me correctly, the answer to this is not that straight forward. There are plenty of confidential reasons for search that require strong sonar on a sub. The greater the ocean depth the stronger the signal that is needed (as well as the ocean temperature). You also have other considerations such as the clarity of the water of marine life and strength and location of currents. We had to open open several times though I will be the first to admit it occurred about 10 times more often on the CG I was on. So do they need strong sonar - of course they do and you should know why. They just dont need it often.
As another former surface and sub sonar tech out of San Diego, you would probably have to agree this is a rediculous concern. Reason I say this is when on the CG, we used Dolphins for target practice qualifications. I would think that and others like throwing freon filled units off the side of the ship are much larger concerns than damaging dolphin or whale hearing. I just bet in the last ten years this has not changed one bit since I got out. My senior cheif used to encourage us to 'open up' when whales would slam upside the sub outside Alaska. You dont just make them deaf, you melt their insides when you do that. So make them deaf???!!! I think this should be peoples last concern.
I worked on the original release of voting machines from a company (not to be specified) and took part in the negotiations between several companies for merging in this industry. I am absolutely not surprised this is occurring. The FEC was so critical and ridiculous in their formalities that most time was spent documenting over and over and over again (punctuation is absolutely essential) and less time was spent on the actual architectures. In addition, I rarely saw security as the primary concern. They were more worried about it working for some guy without arms (the lowest common denominator) vs. what I and others felt were more credible concerns. Absolutely ridiculous. So do I trust Diebold as one example? No. But really I am more concerned about the knuckleheads developing Micro$oft interfacing software for tactical warfare for subs. That is a serious concern.
I'd rather keep my job but I will say the encryption of data within a hospital is usually or generally pretty good - what about interfaces with other facilities and sending non encrypted HL7 messages. Comeon - I have been involved this standard since 1996 and still have as of yet to find a location that enforces outgoing compliant piped encrypted data beyond SSL. As well I have worked several positions (Unisys to name one biggie) where it is unbelievably easy to get in there and during testing have access to a million plus medical records and with a few simple queries via ISQL or some other tool - have everything you would need to destroy someones life.
I am quite honestly thinking of discussing this at next years Defcon but my fear is some major hospitals will make my life miserable for making something so obviously nuts - known to the public.
BTW did you know that even though your data at the HIS is secure - that you are still ultimately responsible for what vendors do with that data - especially when piping it back and forth as we all do so frequently.
Of course but this apparantly makes no difference it also is rarely enforced. I agree this si a problem.
I tell you I am one of a great many savy little engineers out there with millions of your healthcare records at my finger tips due to loopholes in laws or blatantly ignoring them.
Believe what you will. I am stating a fact. And it has scared me considerably. What is worse is noone is doing anything about it. But lets be honest the healthcare act does very little to enforce laws and it is very ill concieved as a plan to begin with.
I believe HL7 security was one means of encrypting messages to hide patient data and exam information but out of 100-150 interfaces I have taken part in I have never encountered encrypted data. That may be a first step. That does not stop a rougue developer from burning to disk and selling.
I tell you - I may not have gotten any points for my post but every day I have SSNs / Maiden names / past addresses / blood type / last 10 years of insurance carriers / billing address / CC#'s etc.. I know for a fact I am just one of many with this ifnormation at my finger tips and unfortunately not everyone is ethical as I chose to be. Financial institutes acting on this will in no way prevent it when people can get the informaiton I describe from say 50-100k individuals. Take this serious and make certain you ask your provider what institutions have access to your medical information electronically. It ios a patient right to know,
I hear this often - identity theft of healthcare information. In many cases the insurance and billing information associated with Healthcare are ill enforced from a security perspective. When you have this information available it makes much of Biometrics (the next generation of security) conceivably null and void. Having worked in this industry for 12 years I can tell you it is scary how little your medical information and all that is related to it are enforced.
I can understand but also as an American and musician with two records as of yet as well as several released songs I have to state some of this makes sense. I do believe as a musician it is nice to be compensated for my art. If Americans want to change this why dont they work on offering artist grants in exchange for open art as they say. I believe if an artist wants to release his or her art free of charge that is his or her decision but who gives anyone else the right to take it. For God sake I can't just walk into a concert and blab off that this is art and I have the freedom to hear it if I so choose. I should have the right as any business to charge people for my art and not have to be concerned with whether it is enforceable if someone decides to steal it. The real problem is the big record companies. I am dumbfounded by the fact I get such a little amount from my CD sales. This is rediculous. I agree that the average consumer says "I dont want to pay that" So be it but that DOES NOT give you the right as an American or anyone else for that matter to jump in and take it. For me even making as little as I do from record sales, it is an ethical issue.
Yah I know some people that work there and people were much happier with this added choice - I also understand there were some heated debates on Firefox as well. Shrug - hopefully next will be a push towards more LINUX!
I thought art was the ability to forumalte a median of communication that expresses oneself emotionally. I do believe hacking is far from that. We are talking about problem solving. I know when I do an art show I in no way compare this to my ability to write software. Why is it everyone in the US fights so hard these days to be called an artist? Is it really that cool these days to say ah I am the Auu r teest? I remember when it was not always the most popular thing to be considered - ah how times change. The insecurity of needing to be special with a label of sorts. Here is a word - try creativity. Much better. If you are a traditional artist then I imagine you are not the one cponsidering your skill as art - major difference. But language is always in flux as they say. ....
Planet of the Apes anyone?!?!
1,000,001 - thanks google!
Who is the enemy they speak of defending us against at the expense of of billions spent and if it is Russia (which I can pretty much assume at this point) then how can we assume they dont have the same. So the real question is who gets to jam who first.. Real quagmire.
I think on average the answer is yes we are but so many things are in the equation for judging what makes someone chose A. over B. and if we find we allow ourselves to be approached with items that meet a formula built on estimation then we are likely selling ourselves short. Issac Asimov spoke to this in the Foundation series when speaking of Psychohistory and the ability to predict humans actions in large groups. It is evident to me that there is a great deal of truth in this for large groups of people but I do believe this is very controversial with regards to individuals and believing you can predict their like and dislikes over time.
I like it - maybe they can define PI down to an even greater degree. !!
I would be interested in how this data applies to the Stephen Hawkings theory of radiation expelled at the end of a Black hole - his come-back theory that everyone is still waiting to hear about. Dark Matter though compelling leaves us with more questions than answers.
dirka dirka mohammad jihad. We have everything but Americans working at our place and most leave back to China and India soon after learning our entire system..... Problem?... Solution?...