Mr. No Skills - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Hasn't this already been done? (Score 1) 563

by Mr. No Skills on Monday January 12, 2009 @05:03PM (#26422961) Attached to: Obama Proposes Digital Health Records

Actually, insurance companies have of copies of their customers medical _claims_, not their medical _records_. A claim contains a few simple codes to indicate reimbursement, and often deviate quite a bit from what actually happened since the claim is fudged to get paid, not trying to document comprehensive medical information.

You could also get into people moving between insurance companies and paying out of pocket and paying because of car insurance etc etc...

An insurance company contains information about your health the same way your credit card company contains information about your automobile maintenance...

Comment Re:exatly (Score 4, Funny) 563

by Mr. No Skills on Monday January 12, 2009 @04:51PM (#26422811) Attached to: Obama Proposes Digital Health Records

Add some extra space for buffering, swap space, and so forth, and you're talking about a Terrabyte of data per year for the X-Rays at a large community hospital. MRI, CT, Ultrasound, Angiography, and all the rest will add more, of course.

The hospital I used to work at stored about 2.5 terabytes of images per year.

Christ!!! That's almost $250 a year for storage!!!!! Or, $75,000,000,000 if you're the govment!

Submission + - Apple Tops Innovative Company List

Submitted by

SnapperHead

on Friday May 04, 2007 @01:34PM

SnapperHead writes: "Businessweek compiled their 2007 list of the 50 most innovative companies.

Apple leads the pack for the third year in a row. As our first-place innovator for the third year in a row, Apple reigns again. The iPod creator is a master of superb product, store, and experience design. Now that it's invading the living room and the cell-phone market, will it continue the winning streak?

The list was compiled based on volunteer surveys sent to executives of the 1,500 largest global corporations.

Meanwhile, it was recently revealed by Forbes that despite an official $1/year salary, Apple's Steve Jobs is the highest compensated CEO in America this year at $646 million."

Submission + - No emulation software for Dell's Linux machines

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday May 04, 2007 @01:31PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Dell will not include open-source software such as Wine, which lets users run Windows programs on Linux, with the PCs it plans to bundle with Ubuntu Linux, Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu and its commercial sponsor Canonical, told eWeek (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2125848,00.a sp). He is quoted in the article as saying the reason for this is that he does "not want to position Ubuntu and Linux as a cheap alternative to Windows." While Linux is an alternative to Windows, it is not cheap Windows, he says, adding that Linux has its own strengths, and users should want it because of those strengths and not because it's a cheap copy of Windows."

Submission + - Common sense standard of "obvious" for pat

Submitted by ContractualObligatio on Friday May 04, 2007 @01:19PM

ContractualObligatio writes: Interesting news item on The Economist website. I'm still against patents for software and for business methods, but applying a more real world approach to what is obvious strikes me as a good move:

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id =9134111&fsrc=RSS

Submission + - Vista sucks batteries.

Submitted by LWATCDR on Friday May 04, 2007 @01:07PM

LWATCDR writes: It looks like more issues with Vista Vista drains notebook batteries. Using the Aero interface really eats into your notebooks battery life. Of course one of the new "features" of Vista is supposed to be better power management. Of course this provides a great opportunity for a showdown. How long until someone loads Vista on a MacBook and compares run time? It would provide a flat playing field now that Apple makes Intel powered notebooks. For our next test how about Vista and Ubuntu on a Dell? What review site will step up to this challenge?

Submission + - Conviction for piggybacking wireless internet

Submitted by CatrionaMcM on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @12:21PM

CatrionaMcM writes: BBC news reported that Gregory Straszkiewicz, a UK resident, was fined £500 and sentenced to a conditional discharge for 12 months.
"Gaining unauthorised access to a computer is an offence covered by the Computer Misuse Act. In Straszkiewcz's case, he was prosecuted under the Communications Act and found guilty of dishonestly obtaining an electronic communications service."
Apparently he was seen on several occasions using a laptop in a car parked outside someone else's house. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4721723.stm

Submission + - Microsoft, Adobe Competition Heats Up

Submitted by MicroAdobe on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @12:19PM

MicroAdobe writes: It has not escaped Microsoft's attention that some of the coolest sites on the Web — YouTube and MySpace included — get much of their flash from Flash and other design programs sold by Adobe Systems Inc. But as Microsoft Corp. gets ready to ship its own line of tools for designers and Web developers, the world's largest software maker finds it must also defend against Adobe on its home turf, the desktop. At the same time, the line between Internet and desktop programs is blurring — and both companies see an opportunity to capture new business.

Feed N Korea preps nuclear reactor shutdown (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @12:13PM

Satellite images indicate imminent action, spooks claim

North Korea may be preparing to shut down its main nuclear rector, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

Feed Fujitsu intros P70WN, P50WN convertible tablets (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @12:12PM

Filed under: Laptops

Fujitsu seems to be keeping up a steady pace with its convertible tablet PCs these days, introducing another pair of new ultralight models for those willing to accept a few trade-offs in favor of portability. The processor looks to be the biggest difference between the two models here, with the P70WN packing a Core Solo U1400 processor and the P50WN opting for a Celeron M443 instead. Otherwise, each will give you the same 8.9-inch touchscreen with a 1280x768 resolution, and between 60 and 80GB of hard drive space, with the whole thing barely weighing you down at about 2.2 pounds. Unfortunately, there's no word on pricing or availability, although we suspect it'll be spending some time in Japan before the rest of us can get our hands on it.

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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time

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Feed AT&T, Apple to offer rebate cash on the iPhone? (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @12:12PM

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

If this were literally any other phone, talk of a rebate and/or instant discount at the time of purchase with a new contract would be a foregone conclusion; in fact, customers wouldn't tolerate it any other way. But this is the iPhone, after all -- and according to an analyst with American Technology Research, Apple is just now getting around to considering such a deal. Word on the street has Atlanta and Cupertino considering a rebate in the $50 to $150 range (presumably based on the model purchased) which could definitely make the 8GB version's $600 price point just a touch easier to swallow. Did Apple determine through extensive market research that consumers like it (gasp!) when things cost less? From its perspective, it may not matter either way because the same analyst is reporting that the company will be paid a "bounty" for each and every new AT&T customer it signs up in its brick and online stores. A good deal for Apple? Indeed.

[Thanks, Raphael D.]

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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time

Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Submission + - NEW Sun SPARC M-Class Enterprise Servers released

Submitted by unixgod13 on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @11:18AM

unixgod13 writes: Sun Microsystems released details on their new M-Class line of SPARC64 VI servers with the high-end server supporting up to 32 processros and 2TB of RAM. Sun and Fujitsu allied themselves to development these new SPARC64 VI systems.

These new servers give you extreme scalability, sophisticated RAS features, and SPARC64 VI processing for large workloads, databases, BIDW, and OLTP.

Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server: 32 or 64 processors
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server: 16 processors
Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 server: 8 processors
Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server: 4 processors

The family also includes two rebranded servers that feature the Sun UltraSPARC T1 processor with CoolThreads technology. They're compact rack-optimized servers with up to eight cores with four threads per core. Their quick, 32-simultaneous threads are ideal for Web 2.0 and application tier environments, as well as OLTP database environments.

Sun SPARC Enterprise T1000 server: 1RU
Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 server: 2RU

http://www.sun.com/servers/sparcenterprise/?intcmp =hp2007apr17_launch_learn

Submission + - LED forty years older than thought

Submitted by LED lover on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @01:23PM

LED lover writes: The discovery of the LED is usually credited to four US groups in 1962, but an unrecognised Russian genius got there forty years before. Oleg Losev even filed a patent on using his device to long range communications, and wrote to Einstein to ask for help with the theory — but got no reply.

Submission + - Court Reverses Penalty Over MySpace Post

Submitted by PDone on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @01:17PM

PDone writes: A judge violated a juvenile's free-speech rights when he placed her on probation for posting an expletive-laden entry on MySpace criticizing a school principal, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled. The three-judge panel on Monday ordered the Putnam Circuit Court to set aside its penalty against the girl, referred to only as A.B. in court records.

Submission + - Simplify Ajax development with jQuery

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 11, 2007 @01:14PM

An anonymous reader writes: Are you tired of the boring repetition involved with DOM scripting and Ajax, then take a look at jQuery. jQuery is a JavaScript library that helps simplify your JavaScript and Ajax programming. Unlike similar JavaScript libraries, jQuery has a unique philosophy that allows you to express common complex code succinctly. Learn how to extend jQuery with plug-ins.

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