… a friend dies with an estate, and the NJ state grave robbers will take 15%. When will people realize that this is grave side robbery. Proper estate planning should result in the deceased leaving nothing for the state to tax. Arghh, give it away, spend it, buy gold coins, whatever!
MONEY: Well got another lesson in estate planning …
Monday, August 21, 2006
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LIBERTY: Another gubamint lie! You have some control … right.
Monday, August 21, 2006NYTimes.com > New York Region
For Benjamin Miles, 4, in Brooklyn, pushing for a green light is fun. But does it work? That’s another story.
For Exercise in New York Futility, Push Button
By MICHAEL LUO
Published: February 27, 2004
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For years, at thousands of New York City intersections, well-worn push buttons have offered harried walkers a rare promise of control over their pedestrian lives. The signs mounted above explained their purpose:
To Cross Street
Push Button
Wait for Walk Signal
Dept. of Transportation
Millions of dutiful city residents and tourists have pushed them over the years, thinking it would help speed them in their journeys. Many trusting souls might have believed they actually worked. Others, more cynical, might have suspected they were broken but pushed anyway, out of habit, or in the off chance they might bring a walk sign more quickly.
As it turns out, the cynics were right.
***End Quote***
It’s a small thing, but at the same time, a huge example.
Push the button, citizen! And we in the government will respond. Fooled you again sucker.
Can you ever envision WalMart doing that? No, they have phones around the store. Ever call one? An associate or a manager comes pretty promptly. Even KMart, has such a system.
Ever call teh gubamint? Yeah, that’s a snooze. Most people would rather go for root canal than endure that.
Small fib these sings? Yup.
BUT, part of the big lie!
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TECH: Getting organized … used the ACRONIS disk utility to create a “data” drive
Sunday, August 20, 2006I am getting organized. I’ve created a partition for my E drive and have begun moving all MY files to that drive. If I create it, then it’ll be there. Easy to backup.
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GUNS: “ballistic fingerprinting” is barabara striesand
Saturday, August 19, 2006http://news.bostonherald.com/editorial/view.bg?articleid=152684
Straight shooting for better gun laws
By James Alan Fox
Monday, August 14, 2006
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What is so wrong with ballistic fingerprinting Sure, I’ve heard the argument that gun barrels can be replaced or modified. As a parallel to actual fingerprinting, criminals sometimes wear gloves or alter their fingertips, but that doesn’t discourage us from collecting this kind of forensic evidence.
***End Quote***
Immoral, ineffective, and inefficient
Immoral – RKBA! If there is a “right” to bear arms, then you can not do ANYTHING that infringes on that right. Fees, licensing, and “fingerprinting” are all infringements. You have no basis to do it.
Ineffective – Gathering data is inherently error prone. Gathering data by the gubamint is a joke in terms of accuracy. Who keeps all this data? When the gubamint collects the guns prior to genocide, all this data tells them where to go.
Inefficient – It has been shown that shooting as few as one hundred rounds changes the ballistic fingerprint. If ammo is a a few cents per round, then everyone can change their profile by a quick trip to the range. Hey and here’s a flash! Criminals don’t obey laws. So they won’t be submitting fingerprints voluntarily — personal or ballistic.
It’s a giant waste!
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LIBERTY: GUBAMINT SKOOLZ – the bigest problem – a well-thought out way out!
Friday, August 18, 2006http://www.mises.org/story/2216
Enterprising Education: Doing Away with the Public School System
by Walter Block and Andrew Young
[Posted on Saturday, August 19, 2006]
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All the arguments in favor of a public provision of primary education prove to be unfounded and/or incorrect. The failure of the state to provide a high quality service to all (its explicit goal) has rendered public primary education illegitimate; and the immeasurable waste of resources and rejection of consumer desires has left public education borderline immoral. As well, if an educated citizenry is to be considered necessary for the operation of the republican government, then it is an inexcusable conflict of interest when elected officials are the ones in charge of providing that education. Furthermore, the argument of externalities and nonexcludability fails to buttress the case for socialist education. The only ethical, reasonable system for the provision of primary education is the free market.
***End Quote***
Education is too important to have the gubamint involved at all. Just look at what we have: Immoral (based on theft from taxpayers), Inefficient (e.g.: corruption, vested interests, cronyism, political decisions, agendas galore, dropouts, and private & parochial parents pay for services they don’t want), AND Ineffective (e.g.: poor results, high costs, one size fits all, slows the brightest, too fast for the slowest, discriminates against males, and political control of content).
GUNS: Armed customer stops KFC robbery
Friday, August 18, 2006http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060818/NEWS01/60818008
***Begin Quote***
Maybe gun ownership isn’t so bad afterall…
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The writer, who nominated this link at REDDIT, may be rethinking “victim disarmament”. I hope that they do.
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MONEY: The pension was a great benefit. Right! (continued)
Friday, August 18, 2006http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/regulation/2006-08-17-pension-overhaul_x.htm
Bush signs massive pension overhaul
Updated 8/17/2006 1:51 PM ET
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With its hundreds of pages, the bill seeks to strengthen traditional defined-benefit plans and requires companies to tell workers more about the health of their pension programs. It also nudges workers into putting more money away for their own retirement.
It aims to boost the 30,000 defined-benefit plans run by employers that are now underfunded by an estimated $450 billion. Those plans must reach 100% funding, up from the current 90% requirement, in seven years.
***End Quote***
Hey sounds good right?
Now let’s look behind the curtain.
Defense contractors, exception. Two big airlines, big exception. Shortfallers get 7 years to catch up (or go bankrupt!). A little pork project to make it palatable and worthwhile for one representative to vote for it! Automatic 401k enrollments because your too stupid to make your own decisions. And, plans with over 120% funding can fund retiree healthcare (a little relief to Medicare?).
Whatta bunch of Barbara Streisand!
This is about helping out their friends in the Airline industry, Defense Contractors, and making sure that the federal Pension Guarantee doesn’t have to pay out too much.
It’s not about rectifying the mistake made in WW2 when the Federal Government winked so that Companies could pay more than the government’s published wage and price controls allowed. We’ve been paying for that mistake ever since.
Here’s a novel idea. Let people make their own decisions.
Pension plans should be “spun out”. Take the assets and divide it among the recipients. Allow them to decide what to do next. I am sure that the Insurance Companies, Stockbrokers, and Mutual Funds can help them with plans that they won’t have to worry about.
(Look up a Vangard Guaranteed Annuity, and see how little one has to pay in fees for that! Then see how everyone is being ripped off by the collusion of the politicians and the companies.)
Bet the airline pilots would have like to have that before those tow special airlines welshed on them!
Unintended consequences.
When the government “protects” me from something, why should I be afraid? I should just be terrified!
PROD: POWERPOINT is not a document. It’s not even as good as a mind map.
Friday, August 18, 2006August 14, 2006
PowerPoint printouts used for communicating battle plans?
***Begin Quote***
Ricks quotes an Army Lt. General who was frustrated over getting vague PowerPoint slides sent to him instead of clear orders or plans. Said Ricks:
“That reliance on slides rather than formal written orders seemed to some military professionals to capture the essence of Rumsfeld’s amateurish approach to war planning.” — Thomas Ricks, author of Fiasco
Reliance on slides rather than formal written documents — sound familiar? It should. Remember the findings of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board in 2003?
“The Board views the endemic use of PowerPoint briefing slides instead of technical papers as an illustration of the problematic technical communication at NASA.” — Columbia Accident Investigation Board
Déjà vu.
***End Quote***
Powerpoint is a tool. It allows the speaker givign a presentation to hit the highpoints. There’s nothing deadlier that to be “read” a presentation. Powerpoint is the index card of the presenter. To ensure that major points are not missed.
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TECH: LUGGABLE avoid winrot plan
Thursday, August 17, 2006LUGGABLE avoid winrot plan,My tentative plan is:
1. delete all downloaded software installer distributions <== DONE
Found that LUGGABLE has THREE partitions. Who knew?
#1 FAT16 47.03M 39.66M Free
#2 NTFS the C drive 90G 23G Free
#3 FAT32 3.02G 404.4M Free
WHY?
2. copy everything from HOMEDESK to the WD500;
3. make an image of HOMEDESK on the WD500;
4. GHOST HOMEDESK to cd;
5. pray;
6. repartition HOMEDESK’s 90 into 10-25-45-10+;
7. reinstall XP into the D drive;
8. see what I have lost?;
9. live happiply ever after?
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TECH: HOMEDESK winrot correction plan
Thursday, August 17, 2006HOMEDESK has a bad case of winrot. My tentative plan is:
1. delete all downloaded software installer distributions DONE
2. copy everything from HOMEDESK to the WD500 IN PROGRESS
3. make an image of HOMEDESK on the WD500;
4. GHOST HOMEDESK to cd;
5. pray;
6. repartition HOMEDESK’s 90 into 10-25-45-10+;
7. reinstall XP into the D drive;
8. see what I have lost?;
9. live happiply ever after?
Sounds like a plan. Comments
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TECH: 1&1 blog maps to WordPress … interesting
Thursday, August 17, 2006I thought they were actually doing something!
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RANT: Hospitals in paticular, and medicine men in general, make mistakes
Wednesday, August 16, 2006In Frau Reinke’s recent encounters with medical “help”, I have seen “mistakes” and “blunders” and out and out stupidity. I’m not surprised that medical malpractice insurance is expensive. More than once we have been impacted by handwriting errors, confused instructions, and “that’s not int he written orders”. Arghhh!
***Begin Quote***
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 17:23:04 PDT
From: “Peter G. Neumann” <neumann@csl.sri.com>
Subject: More on medical errors
A major study lists confusion over names and wrong doses among the mistakes,
and urges more use of computers in prescribing drugs.
At least 1.5 million Americans are injured or killed every year by
medication errors at a direct cost of billions of dollars, according to a
report issued Thursday by the prestigious Institute of Medicine in
Washington, D.C.
For hospitalized patients, the report said that on average, one medication
error per day was caused by confusion in drug names, wrong doses, failure to
deliver drugs or a host of other problems.
The study is a follow-up to a 1999 report from the institute, which is part
of the National Academies, that outlined all medical errors and claimed that
as many as 98,000 people were killed each year as a result of medical errors
— 7,000 of them as a result of medication errors. The study lays out a
detailed series of recommendations for new procedures and research to
minimize the risk of future medication errors, emphasizing computerization
of prescribing and administering drugs and data acquisition.
[Source: Medication Errors Hazardous to Your Health, Thomas H. Maugh II,
*Los Angeles Times*, 21 Jul 2006; PGN-ed, tnx to Lauren Weinstein]
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-sci-drugs21jul21,0,5771929.story?coll=la-home-health
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RANT: Ms Weinstein requests the pleasure of an answer.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:06:54 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Subject: Survey on putting electronics in checked airline baggage
[ Please distribute widely, as considered appropriate ]
I’m conducting a little unscientific survey on whether or not airline
passengers are willing to place their expensive or important
electronic equipment in airline checked baggage (whether “locked” or
not, but on most flights unlocked will be required), and how this
would affect their flying patterns.
With the above as preface, there are three questions:
1) Are you willing to place all of your significant electronic equipment
(including laptop or other computers, cellphones, DVD players, iPods,
etc.) in checked baggage for airline flights?
2) If you are required to place such electronic equipment in checked
baggage, would it have a significant negative impact on your willingness
to fly?
3) Do you mainly fly for business or pleasure?
I will only publish aggregated statistics from this survey, unless
individual persons specifically note that their responses may be
released publicly.
To participate in the survey, please e-mail a note (or simply
forward this message) with your responses to:
baggage@vortex.com
Only a one word reply is necessary to each of the questions
unless you wish to add comments, which are invited.
Thanks very much.
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com or lauren@pfir.org
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR
– People For Internet Responsibility – http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, IOIC
– International Open Internet Coalition – http://www.ioic.net
Moderator, PRIVACY Forum – http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren’s Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com
= = = = = = = =
My answers:
1) Are you willing to place all of your significant electronic equipment
NO
2) If you are required to place such electronic equipment in checked
YES
3) Do you mainly fly for business or pleasure?
SINCE 9/11, BUSINESS ONLY. AND, THEN ONLY WHEN UNAVOIDABLE!
As a Libertarian, I think the expansion of government is a bigger threat than “terrorism”. The terrorists can only kill us; the government can enslave us “for our own good”. Then, they rob us (taxes). And, then they kill us.
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But, then anyone who’s read this blog, could have guessed those answers!
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GUNS: Gun “safety” rules!
Tuesday, August 15, 2006From: “Benjamin Rogers”
Subject: FW: sage advice (UNCLASSIFIED)
These little gun fight principles are good ones to remember:
1. Bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. Bring all of your friends who have guns.
2. Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive.
3. Only hits count. The only thing worse than a miss is a slow miss.
4. If your shooting stance is good, you’re probably not moving fast enough or using cover correctly.
5. Move away from your attacker. Distance is your friend. (Lateral and diagonal movement are preferred.)
6. If you can choose what to bring to a gunfight, bring a long gun and a friend with a long gun.
7. In ten years nobody will remember the details of caliber, stance, or tactics. They will only remember who lived.
8. If you are not shooting, you should be communicating, reloading, and running.
9. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependent on “pucker factor” than the inherent accuracy of the gun. Use a gun that works EVERY TIME. “All skill is in vain when an Angel pisses in the flintlock of your musket.”
10. Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.
11. Always cheat, always win. The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
12. Have a plan.
13. Have a back-up plan, because the first one won’t work.
14. Use cover or concealment as much as possible.
15. Flank your adversary when possible. Protect yours.
16. Don’t drop your guard.
17. Always tactical load and threat scan 360 degrees.
18. Watch their hands. Hands kill. (In God we trust. Everyone else, keep your hands where I can see them.)
19. Decide to be aggressive ENOUGH, quickly ENOUGH.
20. The faster you finish the fight, the less shot you will get.
21. Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
22. Be courteous to everyone. Friendly to no one.
23. Your number one Option for Personal Security is a life-long commitment to avoidance, deterrence, and de-escalation.
24. Do not attend a gun fight with a handgun, the caliber of which does not start with a “4”.
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TECH: PRINTERANYWHERE looks like it could be useful
Tuesday, August 15, 2006http://www.printeranywhere.com/index.html
PrinterAnywhere is a solution to print documents from a computer connected to the Internet to other people’s printers on the network. You can print directly from your application such as Microsoft Word, Outlook or any other program you work with to a printer connected to another computer next door or ten thousand miles away. With PrinterAnywhere you can share your printers with other or print your documents on someone else’s printer. Unlike fax, PrinterAnywhere does not require the documents being scanned and only then transmitted. don’t want to send (email) electronic copies of the documents. It is also useful whenever the recipient does not have the application to open your documents. Free download.
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LIBERTY: Even the local liberal sees a Social Security problem with the D and R candidate here in NJ
Tuesday, August 15, 2006http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2006/08/kean-on-social-security.html#comments
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Kean on Social Security
*** BEGIN QUOTE ***
So, here is the fullest explanation that young Kean has offered on Social Security to date, a rather long-winded yet empty response full of campaign soundbites, a response that manages to sound thoughtful but that lacks any meaningful policy prescriptions.
*** AND ***
Menendez, also turns to the political cudgel, but his response ultimately is pretty straightforward. He opposes privatization and does not believe the system is in crisis
*** END QUOTE ***
To which, I respond:
http://www.hallnj.org/virtualdebate/flynn_response3.jsp
How about, instead of tweedle dum TOM KEAN’s privatization of something not specific, and tweedle dumber ROBERT MENENDEZ’s “what problem? there’s a problem? where?”, perhaps we could consider a libertarian solution?
LEN FLYNN, in the “other condidate’s section”, like sitting in the back of the election bus, (everyone not a D or an R has no chance, and everyone knows they’re just nut jobs anyway), is the Libertarian candidate for Senate. His answer recognizes that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. He’ll tackle it head on.
It has long been recognized that Social Security is (a) not insurance, but a fraud on the working class; (b) a federal slush fund to hide the true costs; (d) a socialist’s dream that puts everyone on the welfare dole; and (d) a political football to scare voters with.
Chile, guided by a American educated free-market economist, “unwound” their social security system from a government joke into a free market engine of savings and investment. And, at the time, Chile was largely illiterate. That’s doesn’t make them stupid; by “social security” standards, they were a heck of lot smarter than we are.
So, in sum, Flynn offers a real choice to solve social security. End the theft of a lifetime’s work. Allow the poor not to pay a 100% death tax. Stop the wealth transfer from from poor minority men to rich white women! And, make us as smart as the average Chilean — get the gubamint out of the retirement business.
Or, you can flip a coin and pick a big gubamint republicrat or the big government democan. Don’t kid yourself, there’s NO difference between the empty suits.
I’m voting for small government. Every time. No excuses.
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TECH: GRIPELOG gives HP the “kiss of death” Caveat Emptor!
Tuesday, August 15, 2006http://weblog.infoworld.com/foster/2006/08/15_a437.html#a437
THE GRIPE LINE WEBLOG by Ed Foster
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
HP Printers: The Older, the Better?
***Begin Quote***
Even so, many readers say that HP has fallen from the top of their list of suppliers because of quality issues.
***End Quote***
I agree printers suck. I had an OJ85 that ran forever. When it died, fixing it was prohibitive. I’ve been buying printers and they seem to die very quickly. Dried print heads. Strange failures. Expensive ink refills. It appears that Brother is my new choice. Absent any other info. Buy cheap ’cause you’ll be tossing them soon.
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TECH: Search engines for blogs are fooled by something.
Monday, August 14, 2006I have this defined in my rss reader:
AND it pulls up trash like this:
http://bet-wwts.com/archives/manhattan-college-basebal-l/56251/
Any thoughts?
I admire their ingenuity, but it wastes my time.
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MONEY: Cell phone offer … wrong and scam
Monday, August 14, 2006I received a “long time” customer offer from Verizon. It said that I was paying 80 bucks for my two lines and 400 minutes. For the same money, I could have 700 minutes. So I called. In fact, I am paying 60 bucks. So, if I don’t want to pay more, (and who does?) I could have 500 minutes but have to commit for 2 years more. Arghh, waste of fifteen minutes of my life. Just goes to show, there’s no free lunch. And, marketing lies!
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GUNS: Criminal brings a bb gun, but picks on the wrong citizen!
Monday, August 14, 2006Man denies gun charge after killing attacker
Michael Zeigler Staff writer
***Begin Quote***
(August 10, 2006) — When Matthew L. McDonald tried to rob Stuart D. Miles at gunpoint, Miles responded by shooting and killing McDonald with a .38-caliber revolver.
Now Miles is in trouble for illegally possessing the gun he used in self-defense.
***End Quote***
One has to wonder where they find such prosecutors. Didn’t they cover the Second Amendment in Law School? Clearly any law that abridges the right to defend oneself is, prima facie, unconstitutional. The old expression “better judged by 12, than carried by 6” applies here. Intelligent Designer help us if the juries ever run out of common sense.
Here’s a clear example of “concealed carry” benefiting everyone. One less criminal. And, don’t think the other criminals aren’t paying attention! Watch them start to prey on women, whom they perceive will give them less of a fight. Maybe Paxton Quigley can stroll, or troll, their neighborhood.
RKBA is for the control of the two-legged, and four-legged, varmints out there.
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TECH: Whose to blame for no backups?
Sunday, August 13, 2006http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877-6093189.html#
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#1: Accidentally deleting the VP’s files without having a backup.
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I wouldn’t feel bad. There’s a reason why they call it “personal” computing. And, in an enterprise, any exec worht their salt doesn’t depend on centralized IT for recovery. I once had a low tech boss who printed everything, took it home, where his wife scanned it in to their home computer. Depend upon others at your own peril! If there’s a company policy against it, figure out a way to do it within policy!
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TECH: Why an organized approach to the “personal computer” is needed!
Sunday, August 13, 2006http://pcmech.com/show/bizspot/981/
Surviving Disk Crashes
Category: Weekly Columns / Small Business Spotlight – August 9, 2006. Posted by Rahul Pitre.
***Begin Quote***
# You can’t find the Windows XP CD
# You can find the Office 2003 CD, but … the registration key has vanished …
# You purchased some software online and the downloaded file just got hosed along with the now-deceased hard drive. Of course, you don’t remember what user id you used for registration and the credit card used for the purchase was cancelled last year.
# You use the 1999 version of some software. … The 2006 version … can’t read the version 1999 data files.
# Tech support asked you to make changes to the registry … you can’t remember what you did.
# You can’t remember the name of that little East-European program you use to take notes
***End Quote***
He left out the crap that comes with the system that you got with the system for free but there’s no way to reinstall it or register it or reauthenticate to it or reactivate it. And, it’s was registered using an now defunct email account for an isp that was acquired and spun out six times. Arghhh!
My list would go:
- Window’s
- Office
- other MSFT products
- free stuff that came on the hard disk
- rud that your isp gave you (note: the free mcafee is probably why i’m in this mess!)
- stuff you did
- stuff you downloaded
- stuff you bought with no media
- stuff you bought, media & keys & stuff gone
- settings inside programs that won’t divulge what you did or allow you to export your own data
- time spent in recovery
- all your data
- all your methods and procedures
And this is a productivity enhancer?
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RANT: Have an idea; need a patent!
Sunday, August 13, 2006It’s not easy. TO have an idea that is. So, I want to protect it!
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WRITING: My feedback made it into print!
Sunday, August 13, 2006http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/gwm/2006/0807msg2.html
Mailbag: Communications in the healthcare industry
Readers weigh in with their views on the healthcare’s slow adoption of IT
Messaging Newsletter By Michael Osterman, Network World, 08/10/06
***Begin Quote***
My recent article offering one potential explanation about why the healthcare industry is slow to adopt the use of e-mail and other communications technology prompted a number of readers to offer their comments – here is what some of the readers said:
*** Other’s Deleted ***
* “I blame the technology industry primarily [for the slow pace of adopting communications technology]. No one has a good easy public key encryption system. I look for a ‘solution’ with identification, authentication, authorization, accountability, confidentiality, non-repudiation, continuous protection, and recovery across the problem spaces of users, systems, applications, databases and networks. The technology industry has known the problem space for at least four decades. I remember being lectured about it when personal computers were first put into use! This is all our fault. I could go on for hours. PKI and GSSAPI are/were out there. Encryption engines abound. Yet, I can’t sit down and e-mail, fax, call, or IM my doctor. AND, the doc can’t communicate with me.”
Thank you to everyone who sent me their feedback on the article.
***End Quote***
Hey that’s mine. I got into print again!
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TECH: Why do I dislike Outlook? Let me count the ways … …
Sunday, August 13, 2006I like to organize my contacts into logical groups (i.e., fellow alums, LinkedIn, Prepsters, Prepsters64, family, friends, acquaintences, coworkers, excoworjkers, exjobs). So I have different files for different groups. What happens when one person is across different groups? Does LookOut recognize people? Nah. That’s your problem!
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TECH: Why do I dislike Outlook? Let me count the ways … …
Sunday, August 13, 2006It’s inconsistent. (Porbably the most damning thing one can say about a software product)
It takes mental vacations when you are pounding away, and goes off doing something or an other, all I am sure very important, but frustrating.
The right mouse click doesn’t always work. For example, when I am creating a new contact from an alumni record, I cutnpaste (didn’t know that was now a one word verb, did ya?) from an alums info on mcalumdb. Sometimes their birthday is in the mcalumdb, so I highlight it, copy it to the clipboard, take the “details” tab, highlight the trash that in the birthday field, right click getting ready to paste, and nothing. It doesn’t work. I have to cntl v it. Argh!
Also, “take the details tab” means I have move my right hand from the keyboard to the mouse to take it. Arghh! Each tab coulda had an alt key combo assigned to it. SO, I should be able to to an ALT D to it. I think that no one really used this stuff. It’s so obvious.
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