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Journal Journal: Medical privacy: You have none. Psych notes are public

Your most private thoughts that you share with your psychotherapist have been scanned and merged with your general medical records, where they are now available to anybody who sues your insurance company over a fender-bender auto accident, if your hospital is like Stanford Hospital & Clinics (and most are). That's what Patricia Galvin found out when she sued her therapist, clinical psychologist Rachel Manber, for disclosing her therapy notes, even though Manber assure

Feed Tracking Audis With RFID (wired.com)

Audi will use RFID tags through production and delivery of its TT sports car for "quality-assurance." But how are the embedded tags used over a car's lifetime? Plus: BMW fields a remote-control convertible top. In Autopia.


Comment Re:*Insurgents* (Score 1) 541

Given that choice, it's easy.

Pull out in three months, announcing the intention loud and clear. Explain to the Kurds, Sunnis and Shi'ites exactly what that means.

Then do it.

Then deal with whoever comes out on top of the heap at the end of a couple of years, or longer if there is no clear victor in sight.

Only problem of course might be the interference with the oil supply and other US interests in the area. It is moderately clear that the US is not interested in a stable government in Iraq, but a stable government alighend with US interests in the region (see Shah of Iran or Daniel Ortega for other examples of democracy at work).

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