Umm... Math. What's the probability you are going to find a woman? Anyways, one of the pioneers in encryption, Alan Turing, was a complete 'mo. Thus not completely surprising if you were right.

Am I correct in assuming that you are talking about trying to run an identity function through the encrypted data set and thus outputting the original data? I find this to be a moot point because I'd assume that the person doing this would not be smart enough to figure out the identity function, and if it is trivial, then a filter can be programmed in to disallow the use of it.

Also, I'd hope that the individual that is working with the information is cleared and trusted by the organization to access the raw data anyways. And how are we doing this now anyways? We have individuals who manually analyze the data and produce output, so it is kinda a like saying, "I've just invented a new foolproof/crash proof car, but you can only drive it if you get a new driver's license." You don't need to re-trust the current people who are working with the data since they are already working with it raw. It isn't like they'll be giving away the private key to someone to encrypt the function to create the outputs themselves.

As a rider, I dread going over concrete freeways at speed, hurts my manly bits from the thumping it does. the grooves aren't *that* bad to deal with, it's going mostly straight and can just avoid them most of the time.

Wow... Seriously? No way in hell would I want to get in and out of a car if "things are that bad". If I am in a pretty bad condition, just sitting in a car might make the injury worse. And you'll be moving, how are you going to coordinate with the ambulance where you are and will be? Yes, alot of ambulances are stationed at a hospital, but quite a few are just out there randomly at one location or another, so you may think one is far, but he might just be at the starbucks down the street waiting for a call.

WORST IDEA EVER.

You're kidding right? NO hospital is completely computerized. They ALL have paper work and patient files. My mother is a medical records coder and needed to take a certification test before she would even be considered as a candidate for the position in California. It isn't mandatory, but most hospitals prefer it. Anyways, several times the paper would would build up for one reason (coworkers on vacation) or another (computer system down) and when it does her boss would force her to take OT (time and a half) to finish the work, even if that means working over the weekends.

If you walk into any hospital, I would guarantee that doctors are walking around with pen and paper and not tablets or palm pilots. Sure there would be digital x-rays and blood sampling and easily ties in with the bar code on your admission bracelet, but they can always burn the data onto cds whenever and look at on any terminal if the network is down. If not, then someone screwed up big time.

TLDR: Paperwork is everywhere in the hospital, it seems like the hospital doesn't want to make people take OT to catchup on the "mountain" of work.

My mother is a medical records coder. She needed to pass an exam to get a certificate as a "Registered Health Information Technicians" to able to input the data into the computer from the ER paperwork. What she does is she sits at the computer, reading over the ER paper work, and inputting it into the computer. This information is how the government gets the statistics on how people injure themselves as well. There has been numerous times when the paper work has piled up so that she is quite literally forced into doing overtime and even going in on SATURDAYS to be able to catch up.

So in my humble opinion, it sounds like the hospital just doesn't want to give their medical records techs overtime to catch up on the paperwork that they miss due to the computer systems being down. But I could be wrong. Yes, I am aware it says "access records of patients" but when visiting the ER, they really only just input records and not retrieve them much + if it is recent enough, can always go get the hard copies, they should have hard copies just for the reason the system goes down. The more I think about it, the more I am convinced that the hospital isn't able/doesn't want to pay for overtime to catch up on the work.

Disclaimer: this is for the state California, might not be be so with Indianapolis, and they just skip having medical records coders, and the nurses fill in the reports directly to the mainframe. But still, nothing one or two people won't be able to clear up with a Saturday of overtime.

Take a min to think about it. I think we can agree that the big bang started in a infinitesimally small point and is the source of all matter, and before the big bang, there was absolutely nothing. So that will be where I'll base my points.

Thus based on this definition, before the big bang, there was nothing. Space is something, empty space now contains quarks, photons, electrons, neutrons, etc... flying around randomly, but before the big bang, there was nothing. Yes, there kinda was time there but how do you tell the difference between one moment to the next when there is nothing at all there, and why would it matter? So before the big bang, time kinda didn't exist is the notion.

Since the big bang itself is the source of all matter, it could be imagined as a bubble that our universe just started as a point and started growing with all the matter and bits and pieces already inside it since it was a point. Since that bubble with all the stuff in it never existed until the big bang, his phrase "'here' (space) didn't exist yet" is technically true.

You must be new to CL. That should be ers or cas, stp is starting to head in that direction depending on your locale, and easily m4m if you swing that way. Maybe something from mcy or msg would help your odds in the w4m/m4w section. Not even going to bother talking about w4w since this is slashdot, some nice eye candy there though. Or you can just troll mis and let her make the first move. Hit refresh every 30 mins and read best of in between updates, there's about 2000 posts there to keep you entertained. And if you do actually find someone, remember to look through tix for somewhere nice to go to.

Yea, like it's impossible to smuggle in a bale of marijuana into the US via ship. + USS Cole, enough said. Translation: we're hampered by the international law and our own rules of engagement, they have no such restrictions.

Talking in class? You're kidding right? What kind of a school did you go to where the teachers allowed you to talk to friends so freely during instruction from the teachers?

Here in California, mobiles were banned in 1988 from schools because only drug dealers would have them at school. But back in 2002-2003, the law changed so that each school district now can dictate themselves on if mobiles should be or not. The best argument is ease of communication between child and parent about coordination for changes in plans for after school. I for one, would want to find out asap that mommy had to go "help out" the gardener and couldn't pick me up.

But use during class obviously is restricted, usually. Thus sms is the most unobtrusive method of getting the message across to anyone, even the dumb ass two seats away who's paying you $1.15 a question for the test on the Krebs cycle.