Comment Re:Future Tech won't handle it (Score 0) 241
Sweet! I can tell my banker to kiss off when he asks about making a mortgage or car payment. Awesome news!
Comment Re:No, it does not (Score 0) 504
I'm in the U.S. and I've spent more time in waiting rooms than I care to remember. Your triage situation doesn't sound that much different than anything I've gone through. Even going to a family Dr. there seems to be an ongoing challenge as to see who can run their clinic with least efficiency. Rarely if ever have I been able to see a physician anywhere close to my appointment time. Test results rarely get back to me in a timely fashion if ever.
Submission + - Why aren't schools connected?
rtobyr writes: "We use the Internet--E-mail, Facebook, Twitter, and blogs to communicate with colleagues, friends, and family. When I was in Iraq with the Marine Corps, we used e-mail (secured with encryption and stuff, but e-mail nonetheless) to communicate the commanding officer's order that a combat mission should be carried out. My third grade daughter produces her own YouTube videos, and can create public servers for her games with virtual private network (VPN) technology.
Yet here I am trusting a third grade girl to deliver memos to me about her educational requirements in an age in which I can't remember the last time I used paper.
Teachers could have distribution lists of the parents. The kids' homework is printed. Therefore, it must have started as a computer file (I hope they're not still using mimeograph machines). Teachers could e-mail a summary of what's going on, and attach the homework files along with other notices about field trips or conferences that parents should be aware of.
Teachers could have an easy way to post all these files to the Internet on blogs. With RSS, parents could subscribe to receive everything that teachers put online. If teachers want to add to the blog their own personal comments about how the school year is going, then all the parents would see that also, and perhaps have the opportunity to comment on the blog.
It seems to me that with the right processes, the cost and additional workload would be insignificant. For example, instead of developing a syllabus in MS Word, use Wordpress. Have schools simply not paid attention to the past decade of technology, or is there a reason that these things aren't in place?"
Yet here I am trusting a third grade girl to deliver memos to me about her educational requirements in an age in which I can't remember the last time I used paper.
Teachers could have distribution lists of the parents. The kids' homework is printed. Therefore, it must have started as a computer file (I hope they're not still using mimeograph machines). Teachers could e-mail a summary of what's going on, and attach the homework files along with other notices about field trips or conferences that parents should be aware of.
Teachers could have an easy way to post all these files to the Internet on blogs. With RSS, parents could subscribe to receive everything that teachers put online. If teachers want to add to the blog their own personal comments about how the school year is going, then all the parents would see that also, and perhaps have the opportunity to comment on the blog.
It seems to me that with the right processes, the cost and additional workload would be insignificant. For example, instead of developing a syllabus in MS Word, use Wordpress. Have schools simply not paid attention to the past decade of technology, or is there a reason that these things aren't in place?"
Comment In the U.S. week keep electing politicians (Score 0) 195
who drone on and on about there being "No inherent right to privacy" in the Constitution. Problem is these same idiots are more than eager to construct nearly impenetrable walls of secrecy on behalf of their corporate donors.
Comment Companies suing companies? But, but........ (Score 0) 115
I thought all lawsuits in this litigious society of ours was due to little old ladies spilling coffee on themselves at McDonalds? Dear God say it isn't so!
Comment Re:Bradley, Coors, DeVos, Koch, Olin, Scaife (Score 1) 343
Conservatives/Republicans/Pseudo-Libertarians want nothing close to a free market. What they want is to maintain this system that protects their interests and make the income gap even wider between the 1% and every one else. A true free market would have none of those protections. Sure there'd be no pesky things like OSHA or the EPA. But also no non-compete clauses or non-disclosure agreements. I could go to any Six Flags amusement park and set up a lemonade stand and no one could stop me. Free market? Bring it bitches!
Comment Voting Systems, Diebold et al (Score 1) 343
I would simply like to know when they're going to convene a panel of talented and gifted high school kids to put together a voting system that can be used across the country. They should be done by noon. It's just tabulating votes people. Diebold's system isn't rocket science,
Comment John Stossel will be on any minute (Score 1) 760
to tell you you're full of it. None of this global-warming environmentalist crap. USA! USA! USA!
