Comment Re:Hey, Lasrick. (Score 3, Insightful) 160
The sky is falling.
I just checked and it already hit the ground...
There it is, just laying on the dirt. It's still pretty thick though...
The sky is falling.
I just checked and it already hit the ground...
There it is, just laying on the dirt. It's still pretty thick though...
I learned not to watch TLC anymore!
Mission Accomplished! Their job is now to teach people not to watch TLC...
> who pays for a research where they are going to feed birds alcohol?
Exactly! I want names! Who paid for those two thimbles of rum and a half days work from six finches!
You are forgetting the hidden costs! Transporting the birds to Passages Malibu (you can't trust them to fly there after a few drinks), rehab and counseling, getting them to meetings, etc.. If you don't take these steps we will have Sarah McLachlan commercials, singing about "Skid Row Finches"... and no one wants that!
As can a flying omnipotent spaghetti monster.
That would explain the low carb trend!
It's trying to create conditions that would insure it's safety upon revelation...
pity...
It could have been a great boon to the garlic bread industry...
Uphill, in the solar wind.
At minus 148 degrees Fahrenheit (in the shade)
EHRs in general are so fucked up that even legitimate users can't figure out what the hell is going on most times.
I tell you what guys. If you do manage to hack into a bunch of systems, could you gin up some code that allows you to get the information out of all of them and put them in one useable place? Despite millions of dollars and countless lines of code, the vendors have yet to make that happen.
One of my own medical care providers completed the transition not long ago. I notice someone doing a zoom (reverse pinch) on one of my lab results and realized they were looking at an image of a printed page. At first I thought this was nuts as an image would have to be converted and OCRed to be machine readable. But now, I can see that stealing a bunch of images that you must read by eye or OCR is a lot less useful than nice regexp-able data. "Hey, we stole 300,000 medical files... all TIFFS" does not seem like hacker heaven to me... and that would be assuming they were not some proprietary, encrypted image file type.
I also noted that they transmit the images via FAX, not plain old internet. When dealing with a pharmacy they seem to actually FAX via POTS, I don't know about the procedure between providers.
I have to wonder if this is an attempt to make the information portable and shareable while trying to reduce it's attractiveness to outside parties...
...I know if I'm somewhere and suddenly all the animals start hauling ass I'm going to follow them.
I act the same way if I see people in lab coats running, but I give them some lateral space in case they started too late...
Just in time for the 4th Succession War!
Nothing succeeds like excess!
"The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." -- Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards
