Dumb. Given any indication that a
patient may use that gun (suicide, rage, whatever) it could save
lives to get this question answered. How does this improve
healthcare?
By Dissent,
January 19, 2013 1:46 pm
I’ve previously
noted a Florida law
that prohibited doctors from inquiring whether there was a gun in a
patient’s home. In my opinion, the Firearm Owners ‘Privacy Act
was, and is, a terrible law, and interferes with health care
professionals’ attempts to routinely screen for environmental
factors that may, at some point, become a safety risk for the patient
or others. The law made an exception for health care professionals
inquiring if there was a specific concern, but otherwise, the law
tried to tie healthcare professioanls’ hands from inquiring and
recording such information.
The law was put on hold last year by a
federal court, and now in the wake of the Newtown tragedy, there’s
an attempt to repeal it altogether. Michael Peltier reports:
No attempt to justify this based on a
need to ensure the “head count” is correct.
J.D. Tuccille writes:
Rare though they
are, horrific events like the Newtown shooting inevitably provoke a
variety of responses. The intent is to head off a recurrence of the
sort of crime that, truth be told, very likely can’t be completely
prevented, if for no other reason than that so many of the
perpetrators seemingly have little interest in surviving their deeds.
But some of the responses, like encouraging people to take
responsibility for defending themselves and those around them, offer
the possibility of reducing the damage done by rampage killers. Some
responses, like gun restrictions and video-game censorship, put
widespread civil liberties at the mercy of opportunistic control
freaks. And some responses seem designed to turn public schools into
replica prisons. On that last point, I’m talking about
Albuquerque’s scheme for multi-school surveillance, centrally
monitored at the Albuquerque Public Schools Police headquarters
dispatch center.
Read more on Reason.
I suspect many of this blog’s readers
do not realize the extent to which surveillance was already being
used in public schools prior to the Newtown tragedy. Perhaps an
illustration will help:
Several years ago, one of my patients
was having a problem in school. Well, many of my patients have
problems in school, so that’s nothing new for me, but what was new
for me was when the school administrator offered to show me footage.
It seems that their surveillance system had captured one incident
that they felt was proof/evidence that my patient was engaging in
willful conduct.
So I went to the school and with the
administrator, viewed the footage (with the parents’ and patient’s
consent and release).
I won’t discuss the clinical aspects
(suffice to say that the school’s interpretation was not supported
by the video), but simply note that I was shocked at the extent of
the video surveillance system and wondered how many parents (and
students) realized that the students were being captured on video and
that those videos might be stored for indefinite amounts of time,
depending on the school’s needs – which might have nothing to do
with school safety or crime.
Do you know what surveillance is in
place in your child’s school? Do you know whether it’s video or
video + audio? Do you know who has access to the surveillance and
what the retention policies are? Do you know under what conditions
the school may share that surveillance evidence with law enforcement?
If not, start asking questions.
(Related) Good timing on a provocative
blog post. If surveillance fails to achieve any of these “goals”
should it be allowed? Do we at last have an outline for “good
surveillance?”
Enlightened
surveillance?
… In this post, I’m not going to
suggest how to achieve enlightened surveillance (a 360 degree
surveillance would be a small start, for instance), but just outline
some of the positive good we could get from it. We all know the
negatives; but what good could come from corporations,
governments and neighbours being able to peer continually into your
bedroom (and efficiently process that data)? In the ideal case, how
could we make it work for us?
Is this the ultimate business model for
“Cloud Storage?” (Have the RIAA and MPAA been hoist on their own
petards?)
Mega
Launches Its Cloud Storage And File Sharing Service As ‘The Privacy
Company’, ‘Thousands Of Registrations Per Minute’
In English, "transform" means
change. If I'm translating correctly, in legalese "transformative"
means to take the original and improve it for a particular purpose.
Is this the right point to argue here?
January 19, 2013
EFF
Amicus Brief Argues for Protection of Transformative Uses to Protect
News Tracking Services
EFF:
"In Associated
Press v. Meltwater, AP claims its copyrights are infringed when
Meltwater, an electronic news clipping service, includes excerpts of
AP stories in search results for its clients seeking reports of news
coverage based on particular keywords. In its argument, AP asks the
court to accept an extraordinarily narrow view of fair use – the
doctrine that allows for the use of copyrighted material for purposes
of commentary, criticism, or other transformative uses – by
claiming that Meltwater's use of copyrighted excerpts cannot be
"transformative" fair use unless they are also
"expressive." In an amicus
brief filed [January 18, 2013], EFF argues that AP's theory would
restrict the use and development of services that allow users to
find, organize, and share public information."
Reporters apparently don't understand
logic (or recognize illogic) why should we expect them to know then
the basic principles of Economics are violated?
"Broadcasting Cable reports on
comments from Former FCC chairman Michael Powell (now president of
the U.S. cable industry's trade association) confirming what many
have long suspected: data
caps on internet service aren't just about network congestion,
but rather about 'pricing fairness.' [Not
a word found in my Ecomonic textbooks Bob]
'Asked by MMTC president David Honig to weigh in on data caps, Powell
said that while a lot of people had tried to label the cable
industry's interest in the issue as about congestion management.
"That's wrong," he said. "Our principal purpose is
how to fairly monetize a high fixed cost."
[Try
to get as many users as possible by lowering
the price Bob] He said bandwidth management
was part of it, though a more serious issue with wireless.' Powell
went on to say that ISPs had huge up-front costs which had to be
allocated out to consumers, and those consumers were familiar
with usage-based fees from paying their power bill or buying food.
[But
not “$X for the first ton, with all proces rising if you go over
that... Bob] He was part of a panel with three
other former FCC chairs. Dick Wiley agreed with his cost argument,
adding that the marketplace was responding
better than new legislation could. [Like
sheep rather than shepards Bob] Michael Copps
thought the FCC could question data caps a bit more, but wasn't
opposed in principle. Reed Hundt said he wants the FCC to focus on
getting better, faster, cheaper internet to 100% of the population."
Vive
les illusion! (long live your delusions) I really
doubt this one. If Google blocked access to users of this ISP how
long would it survive? If it too is a monopoly, just “adjusting”
the seraches to return “Ask Orange at 09 69 36 39 00” See how
they feel after a few million calls...
"The head of French telecoms
operator Orange said on Wednesday it had been able
to impose a deal on Google to compensate it for the vast amounts of
traffic sent across its networks. Orange CEO Stephane Richard
said on France's BFM Business TV that with 230 million clients and
areas where Google could not get around its network, it had been able
to reach a 'balance of forces' with the Internet search giant.
Richard declined to cite the figure Google had paid Orange, but said
the situation showed the importance of reaching a critical size in
business. Network operators have been fuming for years that Google,
with its search engine and YouTube video service, generates huge
amounts of traffic but does not compensate them for using their
networks. An editorial piece at GigaOm says Google
is abandoning its principles and giving Orange 'the incentive to
demand the same from other content providers.'"
Perspective.
Why do I need a cable provider selling me 400 channels (most of
which I never watch) when I can get everything I do want to watch
over the Internet for far less money? Is Cable as doomed as big
newspapers are?
How
To Ditch Your Cable Internet Provider Forever
[Note: This article
talks mainly about faster Internet options. I'm seeing existing
Smartphone options as “good enough” Bob]
Tools
for information gathering and sharing?
January 18, 2013
Comparison
of Curation Platforms
Via SocialCompare:
"Curation Platforms are tools enabling you to select manually
content online, to edit and share it. This comparison table is part
of a French IT news article about (original
article) Curation Tools: "Le Guide de la Curation".
For more details about products and criteria, please read to the
original article. This comparison is associated to another
one about the automatic publishing tools, that automatically
select content.
You are free to update this comparison
and rate your favorite tools!"
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