Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×

Comment Re:Forecast (Score 1) 139

Put aluminum foil in the microwave, would you want to breath those vapors? (BTW, if you do nuke some foil, don't breath the vapors). As to stainless steel foil, I've bought smaller pieces of it many times, it makes great shim stock. Never needed a roll. Now I'm wondering if you could suspend enough powered metal in paint to do the trick... OR would your paint just melt.

Comment Re:Oh, I wouldn't worry about it. (Score 1) 130

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...

Comment Re: Better known as... (Score 1) 45

I also think they're underestimating cats. But If they're connecting deep learning systems to telescopes (which is not explicitly stated), when a cat is positively identified, perhaps somewhere millions of light-years away and hundreds of thousands of light-years across, I guess we'll be sorry.

And then all we would need to do to contact extraterrestrial beings is turn our solar system into a giant can opener and broadcast the sound for about ten seconds. This would have the added benefit of allowing our study of the seemingly faster than light response cats tend to exhibit...

Slashdot Top Deals

New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. - David Letterman

Working...