http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=10223
Is Your Favorite Charity Spying on You?
May 16, 2010 by Dissent
Anne Kadet reports:
Whether a patient comes in for a gall-bladder operation or to have a baby, the routine remains the same for staff at Sharp HealthCare hospitals in San Diego. The front desk checks insurance records to make sure the bills get paid on time. Nurses take vitals and tag their charges with a bar-coded wristband. And behind the scenes, fund-raisers scan the assets of each patient — to find out whether they’re “megarich,” “wealthy” or merely “comfortable.”
While the folks checking in don’t know it, the nonprofit hospital chain is hunting for prospective donors. Armed with powerful data-mining software, staffers screen admissions records to find wealthy patients who’ve shown prior interest in the hospital. Those who make the cut may enjoy a bedside visit from a “patient-relations director” who offers perks like free parking passes for visitors.
Read more in the WSJ.
The philosophy of Facebook. Is this what he learned a Harvard? Maybe all of this kerfuffle is because he was born in 1984?
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=10198
Facebook’s Zuckerberg: “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity”
May 15, 2010 by Dissent
Michael Zimmer takes Mark Zuckerberg to task – not for allegedly calling people who share information with him “dumb f*cks” but for saying that people who manage their identities lack integrity:
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has a history of speaking his mind on privacy, and what he speaks is often fraught with problems, ignorance, and arrogance….. But, today, I found a new statement that brings Zuckerberg’s hubris to a new level.
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“Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”
Wow. And I thought Elliot Schrage’s statement that “Everything is opt-in on Facebook” was going to be the craziest thing I read this week.
According to Zuckerberg, the person responsible for the world’s most popular website for sharing information about oneself, wanting to manage your flows of information in such a way that might present a different version of your “complete” self to your friends, family, co-workers, and more distant friends shows a lack of integrity.
Really.
Read more on MichaelZimmer.org
(Related) A facebook graphic
http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/facebook-facts-you-probably-didn%E2%80%99t-know/
Facebook Facts You Probably Didn’t Know
(Related) Some interesting quotes and some possible points...
Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated
An interesting question. If you buy a car and want to maintain (or modify) it yourself you MUST also buy their proprietary diagnostic tool. Isn't that similar to Apple requiring you to use their development toolkit?
Any Open Source Solutions For DIY Auto Diagnostics?
Posted by kdawson on Sunday May 16, @08:09AM
"As an avid tinkerer, I really want to collect as much data about my car as possible. Using On-Board Diagnostics (OBDII) sounded great to me, but the pricetags of systems like AutoTap Scanner are a bit much for my college budget to handle. Are there any free, open source solutions available? What do Slashdotters do to tinker and record the inner workings of their own vehicles?"
Clearly, if I write about this article about filming a film I'm violating the Terminator's copyright. (Even stranger: One video still on Youtube)
http://www.scitechbits.com/2010/05/15/nonsense-filming-a-movie-being-filmed-violates-copyright/
Nonsense: Filming a movie being filmed violates copyright
Paramount recently began the filming of Transformers 3 in LA, for which Michael Bay and his crew were filming an action shot of flipping a smart car down an alley. Ben Brown and Micki Krimmel who work in a building on the same alley were obviously excited to see this happen. Just like you or I would do, they got their iPhones out, to film a very small clip. Both of them uploaded their clips to YouTube.
Doesn’t this all sound very normal to you? Well no, Viacom (parent company of Paramount) issued a take down notice to Ben Brown, and YouTube took down the clip, claiming “matched third party content”.
For all my Tech students... It's not really cheating because my tests are much more difficult than parroting back a few simple definitions.
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/quicklycode-programming-cheat-sheets
QuicklyCode: Gallery For Programming Cheat Sheets
Similar tools: DevCheatSheet, TechPosters and CustomGuide.
You can also read 14 Greats Cheat Sheets Posters To Make You A Software Wizard.
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