So a bunch of people who don't like the way the police department is being run post anonymously what they don't like (i.e. "The Chief blows goats"). While this may not be particularly constructive, what kind of message do you send by "out-ing" these posters publicly? You basically give the dissenters a Streisand effect, and prove that you actually do, in fact, blow goats -- thereby increasing the pool of dissenters.

Did I step on your dog or something? Previous posters have suggested that there should be a separate systems for EMR software and everything else. I said that wouldn't work very well in the current system, one in which I spend over 100 hours per week. As the primary target end-user for the EMR system, I think I am qualified to at least render an opinion on it. Nowhere in my post did I presume to tell you how to do your job, whatever that happens to be. Perhaps "news for nerds" should be amended to "news for sysadmins and software designers, who may or may not be nerds at all, but who certainly have disinclination towards anyone who makes a comment even tangentially related to their profession." Then at least I'll know to take my comments elsewhere.

Green = "Go ahead, let your guard down, see what happens" Yellow = "There is a new budget up for vote, and if you don't give DHS more money the terrorists win" Red = "Imminent threat, only direct intervention by Steven Segal can prevent global disaster" Black = "We told you this would happen if you didn't give DHS more money"

This is all happening at such a horrible confluence of bad timing for NASA. Stimulus package + healthcare overhaul + war + recession = bad time to convince taxpayers to fund moon trips. I support most of the above initiatives, but at the end of the day, there really is only so much money to go around.

I actually am a physician, and work at a hospital with electronic records. We do not have, nor have I ever worked at a hospital the does have, an independent set of computers with medical records, separate from ones to use for other purposes. The work-flow is just not feasible with such a system, which would require us to look things up on one computer while referencing and typing notes into another one, while dozens of other people walk around the unit trying to do the same thing.

If you really want your mind blown, many electronic medical record systems run through internet browsers, and are not compatible with anything other than IE.

Oh, and I can access it from home with an RSA key if Clean-client thinks my machine looks OK.

Locking down sounds good to some of you, but it would break the workflow in a medical system that is already operating near the breaking point.

Yes, but how fast can a person on a bicycle go on a YikeBike?

What happens if you brake going down a steep hill?