C. M. Kornbluth's estate called, they want credit or they'll file DMCA take down notices for infringement of The Marching Morons. Education vs intelligence vs training to use tools. How bright does anyone need to be when the Oracle at Google can answer most question?

Gave up caffeine, I lasted almost an hour . . . .

A patient or referring physician would hardly ever use that data. That might be given out on a CD. The original full data scan is never given to a patient.

I don't know what cut rate medical care you have, but's it's common to source the original images for review by when seeking a second opinion, at least in California. Images are generally burned to DVD, some services provide shared encrypted access to image servers. Archive graphics can be reloaded to the server by phone. Legally, there's a 7 year retention for adult records, copies must be made available to patients on request.

The American political system is designed to limit choices to a narrow range. There's little real difference. This year, the Republicans are providing an extremist example, but even if victorious they won't be very effective.

That said, I'm for the party with the open bar.

Generally, an incident like this will be traced to the submarine commander skipping the surfacing protocols spelled out in the exercise tasking. The submarine CO has everyone tracked, knows where everyone is and can torpedo at will. The reality is there are surfacing protocols, signals and course/speed specified to avoid collisions built into any ASW exercise. USS Leftwich collided with submarine in 1982 during exercises. The Leftwich CO and bridge watch were cleared and commended for rapid damage control reaction and rendering assistance. The submarine CO was selected to pursue other career options.

Point to consider is the Imperial Japanese Navy design philosophy. Carriers, like their planes, were glass jawed fighters. The carriers were fast, could cycle planes quickly. This came by eliminating armored flight decks, compartmentalization and blast shielding on weapon elevators. Midway caught the Japanese with hanger bays full of armed and fueled aircraft. Dropping a single bomb or two into that was like dropping a match into a grill soaked with extra lighter fluid.

The American carriers of the time carried more armor, added luxuries like CO2 flooding on aviation fuel systems and had crews trained in isolating damage and restoring services. Yorktown reported sunk at Coral Sea twice, made her way back to Pearl for a 3 day miracle refit. Combat ready she absorbed two airstrikes and submarine torpedoing before finally sinking.

The carriers of today's navy build on the that tradition. USS Enterprise had two iron bombs go off on her flight deck on station off the Vietnamese coast. The crew repaired damages in few hours and she continued flight operations.

Norman Spinrad - varied novels and intriguing people
Lloyd Biggle Jr Monument is one of my favorite novels.
Eric Frank Russell - Look for And then there were none
James Hogan - Sometimes accused of telling the same libertarian story over and over. There might be some truth to that, but he does it so well.
Donald Kingsbury - The Moon Goddess and the Son and Psychohistorical Crisis were intriguing. Amazingly detailed new worlds.
Tim Powers - Perhaps drifting into fantasy but well crafted stories.

he security ramifications of putting every last IV pump on the hospital network are simply too great to deal with, at least at present.

Well actually every last IV pump in our two hospitals, half dozen care centers and dozen medical offices are on a network. Medical devices connect to a wireless SSID with restricted network access. IV pumps shipping now a days record dose information, maintain libraries of drug/time protocols, and can issue a service me request.

As systems get more interconnected, time becomes important. In the last 5 years, NTP has become more and more important to keeping multiple systems running at the same time. I've had to teach vendors how to configure their systems. The Microsoft fan club is particularly bad since they expect system to just synch up with the standard MSFT time servers. Of course those ports are blocked, and those time servers are always off anyway.

Have the shiniest Airline Magazine articles.

Greg Costikyan - First Contract, a first contact novel showing profit behind exploiting backward worlds.
Robert Frezza - A Small Colonial War and the sequel, Fire in a Faraway Place future war
Harry Harrison - Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers, this would make fantastic action movie

Poul Anderson - High Crusade, Ens Flandry, Nick van R....
Lloyd Biggle, Jr - Monument was his peak, but anything he wrote is worthy of picking up
James Blish - Cities In Flight, short stories
James Hogan - enjoy
Donald Kingsbury - The Moon Goddess and the Son and Psychohistorical Crisis
John Myers Myers - Silverlock, a classic
Chris Moore - Hunter S. Thompson craziness in contemporary world. Find, read, laugh
Jerry Pournelle - tells a good yarn, A Spaceship for the King / King David's Spaceship
Tom Reamy - San Diego Lightfoot Sue, Blind Voices
Eric Frank Russell - everything ,but And Then There Were None is a personal favorite
Fred Saberhagen - An Old Friend of the Family (and sequels) and Berserker stories
George R Stewart - Earth Abides, this novel defines the post apocalypse genre
Roger Zelazny - The first 3 Amber books, Jack of Shadows, Lord of Light

Old Friend of the family by Fred Saberhagen and it's Dracula told from the vampire's point of view. Seems the human records have it all wrong . . . Very much recommended.