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by davidf18 9y ago
Accreditation is the US is done by The Joint Commission. Hospitals without Joint Commission accreditation cannot get paid for Medicare or Medicaid bills. In Britain the accreditation is done by Care Quality Commission: http://ww
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It is a terrible business and business arrangement (eg, the original contracts to purchase said software or equipment that uses software) that doesn't insist that the purchased software/machine run on manufacturer (in this case Mi
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The NHS had warned hospitals several years in advance that Windows XP would be discontinued and that they would have to upgrade the OS. The NHS took out a 1 year contract on Windows XP updates at great financial expense which gave responsi
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Don't know what kind of engineer you are, but I have BS EE with minor CS from top engineering school. Airplanes have to undergo preventative maintenance. We don't count on airplanes not being maintained. Sorry. Highway bridges a
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The reason the attack happened to including British National Health Service hospitals was because they didn't follow manufacturer's instructions (in this case Microsoft) and upgrade their Windows XP software to Windows 10. The onl
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EDIT: Autocorrect correction: Yet, they did not engineer their software system according to the same standards of ++ resiliency ++ which is a part of engineering often forgotten about by many.
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In a way it is ironic because in aeronautical engineering everything is well tested with backup systems when it comes to making the airframes, engines, and the entire airplane. Yet, they did not engineer their software system according to t
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The government funded a tremendous amount of innovation while there was a Cold War with the Soviet Union. When the Soviets launched a satellite before the US, that launched "The Space Race" where the government put an enormous amo
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> "it's also just really damn hard to smoke in NYC." Yes, it is :-) Also banned in the parks. The age increase to 21 is a relatively recent change, the adult rate had been 14% and the teen rate 7% prior to that change. Ta
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A very similar article by many of the same authors was reported in JAMA in Dec 2016. From JAMA Arch Int Med article from today, p. E6: "...At the same time, 74% of the variation was explained by behavioral and metabolic risk factors al
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I'm sorry, but I can't make this any more clear. I have repeatedly said that the insurance should cover those who have genetic issues or issues not caused by their own lifestyle choices. I can't make it any more clear. If
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That's very helpful information and not something reported in the NYT, WaPo, or other MSM. This is my source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-hackers-broke... Also, I learned recently that Clin
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Mar 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/07/donald... mid-July 2016, post BrExit: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/19/reveng...
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Well, the reason for the success of Trump, BrExit, and perhaps Le Pen is that the standard political elites (Dems and Republican in US, Labor and Conservatives in Britain) and the media ignored the harms to the working class from globalizat
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Both DNC and also the Clinton Campaign (Campaign Chairman Podesta). Podesta was hacked by pfishing which most users < 30 knows to avoid. Tells me Podesta had no geek friends.
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The Democrats chose to burden taxpayers, the young, as well as people who are not employed by firms that pay for insurance with excessively high rates instead of taxing tobacco as other countries that offer universal care. Our Federal tax
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In the US at least, most of the phone is paid for by monthly installments as part of the plan so a phone which might sell for nearly $1K elsewhere appears to cost only $200 here. That has helped Apple immensely. For my needs living in NYC
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> "between people who live extremely healthily" I didn't say anything about "extremely healthily". I said people who don't smoke, who don't drink Cokes daily, who don't abuse drugs, who engage is s
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I only stated that people who indulge in unhealthy lifestyles should not have their healthcare costs subsidized by those who choose to not indulge in those unhealthy lifestyles, just as those who drive unsafely should not have their costs s
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I wrote: > "People who choose poor lifestyle behaviors" Most of the healthcare costs are from behavior, a much smaller proportion is from genetics. Insurance should be for insurance not to cover the negative externalities from
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People who drive their cars recklessly and who speed pay higher auto insurance premiums. People who choose poor lifestyle behaviors (smoking, drinking daily Cokes, not exercising, drug use) were subsidized by those who "drove safely.&
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Its a computer with a photon transceiver.
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I live in NYC and note that Google owns the 3rd largest office building in the city which is located in Manhattan and uses it for engineering. Many of the top technical people in the country want to live and work in Manhattan. IBM HQ is lo
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Thank you. I was thinking about CPU microcode, but the problem would apply to the ME, I'd guess. Seems to me the CPU microcode could be hackable given NSA or Israeli govt resources.
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Why can't there be some sort of peer-2-peer Wikipedia or in fact any database that keeps people from blocking it?
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In the US at least, they are now considered as a commodity. But the consolidation of major carriers (American with US Air, United with Continental) may have changed that equation.
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But they usually don't use major, convenient airports.
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Exactly!
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I am worried about the firmware of Intel processors which I believe have had firmware since the mid-1990s or a bit later. Is this possible and are there tools "in the wild" that are capable of doing this? Does Intel do some sort
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> "Isn't this basically an issue of "no american qualified to do the job" "at the price the market is willing to pay for that job"?" It's called global labor arbitrage. The intent of the H1-B visa

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