I told you it was systemic... Good quote at the end of the article.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07105/778182-85.stm
Second set of UPMC data found on Internet
Sunday, April 15, 2007 By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A second set of UPMC patient names, Social Security numbers, X-rays and other personal medical information has surfaced on a Web site maintained by a California archival company.
The data and related medical scans came from a PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Paul J. Chang to the Radiological Society of North America in 2002.
In December 2003, the California company, The Internet Archive, retrieved the presentation from the UPMC radiology department's Web site and posted it on its own Web site. That made it available to anyone searching the Archive site.
At some point, the presentation was deleted from the UPMC Web site, but it remained on The Internet Archive site until Friday.
On Thursday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that another old PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Chang containing UPMC patient data was still accessible on the UPMC site, with identifying personal information for nearly 80 patients.
UPMC removed the item from its Web site Wednesday, but a copy was still available from The Internet Archive through Friday morning.
The latest presentation contains information on eight additional patients, including X-ray scans. At least two of the patients have since died. But other slides clearly show valid Social Security numbers for still-living patients.
Both sites were taken down Friday afternoon after the Post-Gazette inquired about them, and Internet Archive access to UPMC radiology sites now has been blocked.
... "I can guarantee this will never happen at UPMC again, but something else will. It's more than the Internet. It's being digital. If I burn a piece of paper, it's gone. If I shred a record, it's gone. But if I have an electronic version, it doesn't ever go away."
Someone at Sony needs a good talking to...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/15/1914248&from=rss
New Sony DVDs Not Working In Some Players
Posted by kdawson on Sunday April 15, @05:33PM from the DRMed-out dept. Sony Media Movies Entertainment
An anonymous reader writes "It seems that the most recent DVDs released by Sony — specifically Stranger Than Fiction, Casino Royale, and The Pursuit of Happyness — have some kind of 'feature' that makes them unplayable on many DVD players. This doesn't appear to be covered by the major media yet, but this link to a discussion over at Amazon gives a flavor of the problems people are experiencing. A blogger called Sony and was told the problem is with the new copy protection scheme, and they do not intend to fix it. Sony says it's up to the manufacturers to update their hardware."
e-Discovery resource?
http://searchstorage.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1176144651_457.html?asrc=RSS_BP_KABPMANAGEIT
ON DEMAND WEBCAST!
Email Archiving Regulations and Legal Discovery for Exchange - Expert Webcast
by Sherpa Software
Will every company need a tool like this? Can users make this call?
EMC taps users to expedite e-discovery
User input and full-text indexing fuel upgrades to company’s archiving governance initiative
By Jason Snyder April 16, 2007
... Slated for availability May 21, EmailXtender 4.8 allows administrators to push out archiving folders with predefined retention periods to users of Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino. Users can drag and drop messages they deem business-critical to these folders. The messages will appear in their inbox and can be shared among multiple users according to project needs.
“In the past, the form of archiving was automation,” Ferguson said. “What we’re adding is the ability for users to determine, based on their intimate knowledge of the content, what is a business record and, therefore, should be archived.”
...for a mere $3500
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/014554.html
April 13, 2007
Worldwide Email Usage 2007–2011 Forecast
Press release, Worldwide Email Usage 2007–2011 Forecast: Resurgence of Spam Takes Its Toll, March 2007: "This IDC study examines how email is being used and will be used for business and personal purposes. In its eighth year, this annual study of email usage provides email solution providers and their customers with insights on how email usage is changing based on a 10+ year perspective (2000–2010)... "Spam volumes will continue to grow faster than expected [“Illogical” Spock Bob] due to the success of image-based spam in bypassing antispam filters and of email sender identity spoofing in getting higher response rates. Instant messaging, joined by free and low-cost VoIP calling, will result in slower email growth, especially among teens and young adults," [Interesting to us “business modelers” Bob] said Mark Levitt, program VP, Collaborative Computing and the Enterprise Workplace, IDC."
Shouldn't all this be free? Why all the limitations?
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/014555.html
April 13, 2007
Nebraska Now Offers Online Access to 7.1 million State Court Case Records
Press release: "Nebraska's Court Case One Time Search service provides online access to court case records in all 93 county courts and 92 of the state's 93 district courts (excluding the district court in Douglas County). The service was launched through a collaborative effort between the Nebraska Office of the State Court Administrator and Nebraska.gov.
Justice Court Case One Time Search. This system is designed to allow easy access to information about court cases throughout Nebraska. For a $15.00 per search fee, a user can search for a party involved in a case in Nebraska. The results of the search can provide information on up to 30 cases. The search and corresponding results can be viewed over a three day time frame... The full listing of cases is updated nightly, so there is a 24 hour lag time between when data is entered into the system, and when it appears on the search."
For my web site class
http://digg.com/software/Turn_Any_Picture_Into_3D_Image
Turn Any Picture Into 3D Image
Fotowoosh, a new service from Maryland-based startup Freewebs, will turn any image into a 3D model. In a week or so, the company says, users will be able to upload a picture and have an animated 3D image returned to them in an embeddable Flash widget.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/15/fotowoosh-will-turn-any-picture-into-3d-image/
Granny's no fool. ...and you thought this industry had died in the 1960s...
http://techdirt.com/articles/20070413/110343.shtml
Open Source... Sewing?
from the stitch-it-up dept
Apparently this is the month for the fashion industry to teach some lessons to other industries that you don't need to focus on protecting your intellectual property when, instead, you can use it to promote products to sell. First there was the research showing how a lack of intellectual property protection on fashion designs helped grow the industry by making it faster to change and faster to innovate. Now, Portia writes in with an example of a company that sells high-end sewing patterns that has decided to adopt an "open source" attitude. Basically, the company has recognized that obscurity or disinterest is a much bigger risk its business than "piracy." So, with that in mind, it's removed the copyright on its designs, asked people to feel free to improve on them -- and even encourages people to make money selling the improved designs. The only thing the company asks for is attribution of where the design originated from. What gave Hubert Burda, the chairman of the company, the idea? "He said we should not make the same mistakes as record companies did with copy restrictions."
ATTENTION CLASS_ACTION LAWYERS!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6554755.stm
Titanic passenger lists go online
The original passenger lists from the Titanic are being made available online for the first time, 95 years after the ocean liner sank on its maiden voyage.
The lists could previously be seen only at the National Archives in Kew, south-west London.
They will be free to view on the findmypast.com website for a week - after which a fee will be charged.
... The Titanic lists are part of a larger project - with 1.5m ship passenger lists dating back to 1890 being put online. [Some of which actually made it! Bob]
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