A similar situation, where copyright shows its ugly leash, appears in everyday medical practice. The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes describe the type of service that a doctor has provided (e.g. simple office visit, complex office visit, appendix operation, etc.) and is used a few dozen times a day by insurance companies all around the USA to determine payment for services. It becomes essential for every doctor and every clinic/hospital to know the definition of these codes in order to remain financially solvent. If you surgically extracted a lipoma, but didn't know that the correct code for that particular case was 11424 (if the incision was 4cm long and the location was on the foot), then the insurance company just got a free ride and your other patients are subsidizing the cost of that operation.

You'd think that, for such an important part of daily operations, there'd be a list of all the CPT codes and what they mean. It should be a plain text file. I myself tried to get such a list --a simple text file, to call up on my laptop or handheld or something. Alas, nothing so simple. Yes, there's a list available for purchase, published on paper in thick books the size of a white page phone book (remember those?). If you wanted an electronic version, you'll have to hope someone wrote an app for your particular platform to display the text, because the American Medical Association holds the strings to that piece of text and doesn't want you to do your own searches in your favourite editor or sort the text alphabetically, etc. I'm not sure why such a code is not in public domain if it's so essential to keeping healthcare running smoothly.

I'm told that doctors are one of the most developmentally delayed professions when it comes to adapting to technology, and this is not the first time they seem woefully ignorant of issues in the information age which are screwing them over. I imagine that if someone held the intellectual property rights to the names of diagnoses ("You're not allowed to say 'appendicitis', doctor, because you haven't paid the licensing fees!") then doctors would just bend over and hand over some lube.

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CollegeHumor did some videos that did use Google Street images and animation. Kinda neat.

Here's the first one, and that should lead you to more:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35LqQPKylEA

Wait, no one has mentioned this yet?

So, with the Raspberry Pi running the QT 5 operating system, of course this combination will be called ...

the QT Pi

Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week ...

"""I think that AdBlocking on a phone can only improve the usage.I don't see what problem you could possibly have with the idea? AdBlock Plus on my N900 works great, and makes certain sites much less intensive on my phone. Unfortunately, there's no NoScript equivalent for the Maemo browser, which IMO is a must have as well."""

Alas, it's also not in the cards short of rooting your phone.

First, Google owns AdMob, the largest mobile ad company out there. They sell in-app ads (Google knows your app usage habits bevcause of this). It's not in their interest to let you easily block it.

Not sure what you mean: GP poster was talking about N900, which more or less comes with root. Not sure how Google would have anything to say about the Maemo browser (micro-B, I think it's called) or how they could make it less/more easy to have NoScript equivalent. Presumably you can run NoScript on Fennec (ie. Firefox for N900) although I haven't tried on mone.

This would not work for those middle-of-the-night surprise raids, but would work if you could get a 5- or even 1-minute warning; definitely works for airport crossings, etc.

Put a keyfile on a removable USB stick. It *looks like* that stick is acting as a physical key. Instead of typing a password, you direct TrueCrypt (or whichever other encryption program) to use that file. When law enforcement arrives, you get rid of the USB key and the drive is undecryptable.

The trick is that the keyfile is something easy for you to memorize, like some lines from Shakespeare or something. (If you like, insert your mother's maiden name before the 17th word to salt the text.) Law enforcement has no way to know that this is not a bunch of random characters, if they don't have the USB key.

"""Moral of the story - make sure you are logged off from Skype before file sharing."""

... because there's no way they can acquire the Skype identification at "random time A", and then correlate that with the BitTorrent traffic at "random time B"...

Right, at least for those users whose ISP gives them a dynamically reassigned IP address. Log off Skype, disconnect from the Internet and then reconnect, hopefully getting a new IP address (I remember one Slashdot user who kept getting reassigned the same "random" address), and then your IP addresses won't be correlatable.

I pity the guy who ends up with your recycled IP address, though.

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Since you mention the Kindle, I'll slip in this question about the Kindle. Apparently they are $80 on Amazon now, which is cheaper than the HP $99 WebOS tablet (but of course it also does less).

How hackable is the Kindle? Is it worth it at $80?

I basically want something to hold *MY* documents to read, either HTML or text (but I can convert to PDF, etc.). Would be a bonus to be able to edit them, save under subdirectories, etc. but that would be secondary. Would be a bonus to be able to grab documents wirelessly from my home web server but again I'm willing to put on documents via USB.

Other suggestions for cheap easy-to-use, easy-to-read tablets (with any DRM jailbroken) would also be welcome.

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