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[wierd]

Hipaa makes it so you cannot even confirm a specific patient or resident is under your care, let alone what care they received, or any kind of details about that person.

What you can disclose to non-medical persons not involved in the care of a person? Not a gods damned thing. What can you disclose to another medical professional? Only that which has a specific need to be known, and then only to staff involved in that care, as is needed to provide said care.

That said, people are busybodies, and violate hipaa all the damn time. I personally do everything I can to avoid that when fulfilling my duties at the local nursing home.


Common occurrences: deaths.

People die when they get old. This happens a lot in long term care facilities. When people die, people that knew them want to know details. We can tell them nothing. The only thing we can legally tell them, is to contact the family for details. We cannot give the family's contact info, even if asked. We certainly cannot comment about the habits, preferences, or orientation of our residents. As I said earlier, we can't even confirm that the resident lives there to anyone not involved in their care.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

The cake is a lie.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

sorry

[Neonivek]

Anyhow now that the United States is slated to be run by corporations... I wonder what you guys will do with your lives post-internet.

[Max™]

Implying we won't have internet when they need it to sell us stuff?

[Frumple]

But query to the medical professionals--it's against ethics for decades >_< It still happens nowadays though?

... ethics and legal culpability are two different things, perhaps unfortunately. Most oaths of ethical behavior or whatev' aren't legally binding. More or less, medical ethics on a lot of levels are a deterrent only insomuch as the practitioner in question values them.

And, uh. While a lot of people do go into medical work primarily because of some kind of ethical inclination towards the work (and particularly a number that stay in the field, because in a lot of ways for all the work tends to pay pretty well it doesn't pay what the work is worth), many also go into it primarily for other reasons -- financial angle, religious commitment, and so on. It's very easy for folks in that latter group to have things they value more than medical ethics in general. So... yeah. It still happens nowadays.

[smjjames]

Eh, it looks like it's going to be about as filled with corporate and banking interests and lobbyists up the wazoo as Bush 43's admin was.

[wierd]

as a cord cutter who has already cut television in its entirety, i will be just fine.

i remember the days before the internet, and will settle into old, familiiar patterns.

however, Max is correct. the internet is too useful as a platform for datamining, govt spying and tracking, and political influence to completely destroy. likewise, nerds (like myself) know how the internet REALLY works, and can still make proper use of it, even in a dystopic horror setting. I have already given thought on how to hide secret, low bandwidth communications inside high bandwidth ones using steganography, and encryption.  i can livestream my cats 24/7, and hide a lot inside the feed, for instance.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

for example, a two directional communication channel can be established over such a live feed, using seemingly innocuous control messages. my special streaming server would embed say, a secret channel to a clandestine IRC server, not reachable any other way. messages on the irc chat would be sent by reqesting rebuffering of the image stream, and the message sent encoded in the timestamp and seconds to buffer feilds as well as things like ack and rst tcp messages. the data goes downstream to connected chatters using steganography inside the stream itself, encoded using RLL on the least significant bits of the image data, and encrypted with a key pair, to make the hidden data appear random to eavesdroppers.

for all intents and purposes, it would appear to just be a livestream of adorable cats being adorable cats. normal clients viewing the stream would not be given any indication that a connection to an irc server was being advertised.

[Max™]

I mean, it was made to withstand things like Trump... I mean nukes, what the fuck, I was thinking "nukes... which Trump might end up asking why he can't just nuke the internet" and my fingers split the difference, little bastards getting uppity again, might have to cut another off as a lesson to the rest.

The amount of traffic moving to p2p will just go up if anyone tries to shut down the main public nodes, and I would sooner expect Comcast to reveal it has nukes and use them than I would expect them to give up their monopoly easily.

[wierd]

I mean, it was made to withstand things like Trump... I mean nukes, what the fuck, I was thinking "nukes... which Trump might end up asking why he can't just nuke the internet" and my fingers split the difference, little bastards getting uppity again, might have to cut another off as a lesson to the rest.

The amount of traffic moving to p2p will just go up if anyone tries to shut down the main public nodes, and I would sooner expect Comcast to reveal it has nukes and use them than I would expect them to give up their monopoly easily.

comcast will be absorbed via an unopposed merger with a large media company, like disney. at which point, comcast supplied internet becomes disney chaannel 2.0

that is how the internet is threatened by this crew of idiots.

as i pointed out though, destroying the dark web is not possible. the net is the home turf of nerds. we know how to actually use technology.  we can make disneynet our bitch.

[itisnotlogical]

as a cord cutter who has already cut television in its entirety, i will be just fine.

i remember the days before the internet, and will settle into old, familiiar patterns.

however, Max is correct. the internet is too useful as a platform for datamining, govt spying and tracking, and political influence to completely destroy. likewise, nerds (like myself) know how the internet REALLY works, and can still make proper use of it, even in a dystopic horror setting. I have already given thought on how to hide secret, low bandwidth communications inside high bandwidth ones using steganography, and encryption.  i can livestream my cats 24/7, and hide a lot inside the feed, for instance.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

for example, a two directional communication channel can be established over such a live feed, using seemingly innocuous control messages. my special streaming server would embed say, a secret channel to a clandestine IRC server, not reachable any other way. messages on the irc chat would be sent by reqesting rebuffering of the image stream, and the message sent encoded in the timestamp and seconds to buffer feilds as well as things like ack and rst tcp messages. the data goes downstream to connected chatters using steganography inside the stream itself, encoded using RLL on the least significant bits of the image data, and encrypted with a key pair, to make the hidden data appear random to eavesdroppers.

for all intents and purposes, it would appear to just be a livestream of adorable cats being adorable cats. normal clients viewing the stream would not be given any indication that a connection to an irc server was being advertised.

Everyone knows that the best way to preserve a secret hacker scheme to circumvent the government is to post the exact method on a public website.

Also, it's not like the government is full of old fogeys that can't even into technology. Somebody had to build PRISM and stuxnet and all that, and it wasn't whatever luddites you seem to be imagining as your opponent.

[Max™]

Hmmm, I don't know shit about finances, what does: https://ycharts.com/companies/CMCSA/enterprise_value and https://ycharts.com/companies/DIS/enterprise_value mean?

[wierd]

as a cord cutter who has already cut television in its entirety, i will be just fine.

i remember the days before the internet, and will settle into old, familiiar patterns.

however, Max is correct. the internet is too useful as a platform for datamining, govt spying and tracking, and political influence to completely destroy. likewise, nerds (like myself) know how the internet REALLY works, and can still make proper use of it, even in a dystopic horror setting. I have already given thought on how to hide secret, low bandwidth communications inside high bandwidth ones using steganography, and encryption.  i can livestream my cats 24/7, and hide a lot inside the feed, for instance.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

for example, a two directional communication channel can be established over such a live feed, using seemingly innocuous control messages. my special streaming server would embed say, a secret channel to a clandestine IRC server, not reachable any other way. messages on the irc chat would be sent by reqesting rebuffering of the image stream, and the message sent encoded in the timestamp and seconds to buffer feilds as well as things like ack and rst tcp messages. the data goes downstream to connected chatters using steganography inside the stream itself, encoded using RLL on the least significant bits of the image data, and encrypted with a key pair, to make the hidden data appear random to eavesdroppers.

for all intents and purposes, it would appear to just be a livestream of adorable cats being adorable cats. normal clients viewing the stream would not be given any indication that a connection to an irc server was being advertised.

Everyone knows that the best way to preserve a secret hacker scheme to circumvent the government is to post the exact method on a public website.

Also, it's not like the government is full of old fogeys that can't even into technology. Somebody had to build PRISM and stuxnet and all that, and it wasn't whatever luddites you seem to be imagining as your opponent.

Oh, silly one.

That's just one of the ideas I had. There are others much more capable than I, and never under estimate the stupidity of greed.

The whole IoT madness? Want to know the secret sauce?  Its not even elite hackers behind that botnet. The creators of the devices just couldn't be bothered to remove always on active telnet servers baked into the devices with read only configurations set to default passwords, like "password".  (Because doing so would make them cost a few cents more per unit.)

You don't need to tangle with the NSA head to head. You can do much just by exploiting the idiocy of the people taking power.

[Frumple]

Hmmm, I don't know shit about finances, what does: https://ycharts.com/companies/CMCSA/enterprise_value and https://ycharts.com/companies/DIS/enterprise_value mean?

... like. What part of it? What the EV (which that data seems to be directed at) is is described near the bottom* and... seems fairly straightforward?

Also, uh. How's this relevant to US politics?

*

It is a sum of claims of all preferred shareholders, debt holders, security holders, common equity holders, and minority shareholders - unlike market cap, which only captures the total value of common equity securities.

Bit more down there, but that's the EV itself.

[wierd]

I mentioned that DIS and CMCSA are destined to merge, now that all sense and reason has left Washington.

He is following up on the possibility of the prediction.

Based on current value, Comcast would absorb Disney. However, Disney has the more valuable brand, as ccast is synonymous with bad service, while Disney has meticulously manicured its image.

[Max™]

I mentioned that DIS and CMCSA are destined to merge, now that all sense and reason has left Washington.

He is following up on the possibility of the prediction.

Based on current value, Comcast would absorb Disney. However, Disney has the more valuable brand, as ccast is synonymous with bad service, while Disney has meticulously manicured its image.

Yar, I was curious about it, though Comcast and Disney own NBC and ABC I think, which would be a problem, it did look like CMCSA had more value but a lower stock price so I was rather confused.