First they prove they can do it by giving them several phones with the same kind of firmware, iOS version, encryption, etc, set up and locked by the FBI with known data with the FBI watching and being informed in detail what is going one each step of the way. Assuming they are successful, they then fly out the team to a controled area, have all their equipment and software inspected. You then put out 5 phones of which one is the real one, and 4 others have fake but known data. As long as the 4 fake phones have the data you are expecting, it is very likely the data from the real one is correct (not altered.) Of course, if it is a software solution of some sort that is relatively easy to run, the FBI could just buy it and run the tests themselves...

Eh? Posted on wrong thread for some reason. Where is delete button when you need it???

Do you use VMs? ALL of our servers are now running on VMware at remote locations. I can't automate maintenance, but it does not matter if I do it from the office or at home as I am remoting either way... Set up a snapshot to roll back if there is a problem, and you can at least make it a bit more comfortable if you have to be up at odd hours...

Do you use VMs? ALL of our servers are now running on VMware at remote locations. I can't automate maintenance, but it does not matter if I do it from the office or at home as I am remoting either way... Set up a snapshot to roll back if there is a problem, and you can at least make it a bit more comfortable if you have to be up at odd hours...

Superhero Comics existed but really were not as popular prior to the Comics Code... There tended to be more of the horror and shock type (in addition to cowboy and funny book types) which inspired the code to be created... Superheroes tended to be more magical than science based and more violent than today... (For instance, Batman had a gun in his earliest comics.) The Golden Age Spectre Archives, Vol. 1 might be a good start...

"...now appears to be as significant as pi." Wonder if this is a subtle joke or actually related to the value of pi... Pi is approximated by 22/7...

There are good reasons to identify the physical gender of a person rather than their self identified one. Short of an operation, it doesn't change. In medical databases I have worked on, we needed it for health reasons as to what areas exists. We needed it for family medical history. We needed it to help identify people who were injured or killed. For the same reasons, gender neutral identification don't work for us either. If people feel like their physical sex should be kept private, it could be treated as HIPAA info, but we still need to track it.

",' who was required to attend nightly 1 a.m. video conference calls" It happens... I remember when I was on a business trip to Seoul, South Korea and my managers insisted I attend a telephone conferance everyday starting at Midnight my time because they could not get everyone together in our US east coast office before Noon (give or take an hour, I forget...) Keep in mind I had to be at work locally at 6am, I emailed reports everyday, and we were ahead of schedule. I honestly believe some of the folks at home were simply upset we were not where they could see us in the office. Luckily the meeting was often cut short by lack of Home Office managers being available... :/

Slight technical correction, it uses a Micro-SD card, not a CF card... Loading up CyanogenMod7 on bootable uSD works great, and you can still use the Native OS and have not voided the warrenty...

Sounds a lot like a smart phone... Load Android and your done...

Yes, HL7... The problem is insurance companies aren't using it in general, because it doesn't meet their needs... Since they are in charge of the purse strings, medical centers will follow their lead... When insurance companies insist on a submital format for claims to be processed, it will be done...

VistA is an example of where things could go... Because it is the standard for all VA medical sites, it begins to use an economy of scale... The problem is not everyone likes VistA, but if you had a universal mobile medical record format, you could import or export you record between a system like VistA and another such as Nextgen or HARMONY. My personal feeling is CPT billing codes (which aren't free to use) needs to be replaced with something like HL7 before this will happen...

The thing most people don't realize is going digital does NOT necessarily save money or time for the local staff, but it does force conformity that lessens the chance of a misunderstanding or a lack of information when sharing a health record. It can also make tracking who has had access to your information more or less automatic. If set up correctly: The big advantage will be to large medical facilities where mutiple staff can access the same medical record from different locations doing different functions at the same time... The main advantage to small practices will be the ability to bill insurance companies faster, as procedures performed will already be in in the record in a standard form... Insurance companies will see less fraud... Of cource, this is a big "if"... The key will be defining the "mobile" medical record format... It really doesn't matter what form the data in local databases takes, as long as the local databases can import and export the yet to be defined "standard", as opposed to the mutiple, often conflicting standards already out... Until a single standard is selected and followed, most advantages just won't exist.