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Submission + - Americans Trust Docs But Not Computerized Records (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Lucas123 on Thursday February 17, 2011 @03:16PM

Lucas123 writes: A soon-to-be-released survey from CDW shows that Americans trust their physicians to use their health information responsibly, but they're very concerned that once in electronic format, their personal health information may suddenly show up on the Internet. Their fears may not be unfounded. CDW said that survey data showed 30% and 34% of doctors lack basic anti-virus software and network firewalls, respectively. Most amusingly, however, nearly a quarter of the 1,000 patient respondents said they don't even trust themselves with access to their own electronic health records.

Comment Weather Stations (Score 2, Funny) 188

by danielk82 on Friday September 18, 2009 @05:05PM (#29472039) Attached to: Blizzard Offers Look Inside WoW at GDC

a data core that even has televisions tuned to the weather stations.

That the night shift promptly changes to Family Guy at 8 PM when everyone else goes home.

Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive 465

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 20, 2008 @10:47AM from the optimization-takes-effort dept.

Sportsqs points out a story at Coding Horror which begins: "Given the rapid advance of Moore's Law, when does it make sense to throw hardware at a programming problem? As a general rule, I'd say almost always. Consider the average programmer salary here in the US. You probably have several of these programmer guys or gals on staff. I can't speak to how much your servers may cost, or how many of them you may need. Or, maybe you don't need any — perhaps all your code executes on your users' hardware, which is an entirely different scenario. Obviously, situations vary. But even the most rudimentary math will tell you that it'd take a massive hardware outlay to equal the yearly costs of even a modest five person programming team."

Record Label Infringes Own Copyright, Site Pulled 282

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 19, 2008 @04:49PM from the wonder-who-filed-the-complaint dept.

AnonCow sends in a peculiar story from TorrentFreak, which describes the plight of a free-download music site that has been summarily evicted from the Internet for violating its own copyright. The problem seems to revolve around the host's insistence that proof of copyright be snail-mailed to them. Kind of difficult when your copyright takes the form of a Creative Commons license that cannot be verified unless its site is up. "The website of an Internet-based record label which offers completely free music downloads has been taken down by its host for copyright infringement, even though it only offers its own music. Quote Unquote Records calls itself 'The First Ever Donation Based Record Label,' but is currently homeless after its host pulled the plug."

BioShock Installs a Rootkit 529

Posted by kdawson on Friday August 24, 2007 @07:36PM from the drm-even-in-the-demo dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sony (the owner of SecureROM copy protection) is still up to its old tricks. One would think that they would have learned their lesson after the music CD DRM fiasco, which cost them millions. However, they have now started infesting PC gaming with their invasive DRM. Facts have surfaced that show that the recently released PC game BioShock installs a rootkit, which embeds itself into Explorer, as part of its SecureROM copy-protection scheme. Not only that, but just installing the demo infects your system with the rootkit. This begs the question: Since when did demos need copy protection?"

Procedural Programming- The Secret Behind Spore 277

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday August 05, 2007 @11:30AM from the i-thought-it-was-crack dept.

imashoe writes "Ever wonder how Spore works under the hood? The game seems to be insanely huge and how is it that there can be an infinite amount of different creates created in the game? The answer is Procedural Programming."

Comment Re:Better submission (Score 0, Troll) 244

by danielk82 on Saturday June 09, 2007 @06:50PM (#19453987) Attached to: Church Threatens Legal Action Over Sony Game

You mean horrible submission. It said "The bishop of Manchester has stated that violence shouldn't be associated with the church, a view which may come as a shock to history students and those who've actually read the bible." First, according to the article the bishop said he didn't like the association with guns and gun crime. And those aren't in the bible. That submission looks more like an excuse to bash the church, and has little to do with the article.

Gateway Customer Sues to Get His PC Fixed 147

Posted by Zonk on Saturday June 09, 2007 @06:19AM from the toss-the-tossing-toses dept.

prostoalex writes "The Sacramento Bee tells the story of an El Dorado resident who had to go to small claims court to get his Gateway PC fixed: 'Right out of the box, he says, the computer displayed scattered graphics and wouldn't work properly. He says he called a Gateway salesman five times and sent him an e-mail to get an authorization number to send the computer back, but his phone calls and message were never returned. Then, over the course of months, Sheehan said he called Gateway technical support dozens of times.' Gateway insists that by clicking 'Accept' on a customer service EULA when the computer was first booted, Mr. Sheehan has waived his rights to sue the computer manufacturer in United States courts. The Gateway EULA states that conflicts must be resolved via private arbitrage. Sheehan, though, argues that he never saw the EULA, because of the broken graphics. As such, he's not held to that agreement." Some connections between this and a discussion about a Second Life case we had yesterday.

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