Merci.
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I’m a frequent ECG flyer with my arrhythmia issues. My last 12 lead bill, from one of the Mayo Clinics, was USD278, Medicare Advantage authorized $14.76. Performed on 5/9, paid on 5/15. Maybe that billing speed is why Mayo billed 18 billion last year, and made over a billion in whatever a non-profit’s profit is called.
I’m always impressed with their 12 lead setup. Something around 10 male and looks like the same female (no idea how they tell the difference…) from glancing down the hallway rooms, with matching gown up cubicles (for those not wearing t shirts; I’ve learned). All the leads are hanging from an arm off the wall, no fumbling around or untangling. Off with the shirt, lay down, wired and done in a couple minutes. Results posted on their Epic portal by the time my following CXR was done after the not yet billed one I had at 8am yesterday.
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The comments are clever
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Looks like there will be more of the same from the Secret Service going forward. Their response is to double down on DEI.
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The Commodore 64 thing is almost not a joke, Southwest is actually still on Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 for some things:
So the ClownStrike incident isn’t affecting them very much. Apparantly there are a handful of systems that broke, but not enough to stop them.
Edit: replies to the crowdstrike thread please.
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How long can they operate without upgrading?
Can they get away with the status quo in perpetuity?
They had a massive disruption in Dec 2022 triggered by a major winter storm.
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How long? If they’ve gotten this far and are willing to pay MS for patches, probably quite a while. They shouldn’t go further and I’m sure they are in the process of updating as they earmarked 1.3 billion USD for updates after the 2022 incident. They will need to update at some point and this incident will probably make them rethink their plans to involve fewer points of failure.
As a side note, part of the problem here is having automatic updates enabled (and that ClownStrike ignored the “do not update automatically” settings). In general, if you have a competent IT staff, they should be manually approving updates so they can make backups and do other maintenance tasks as necessary before the update.
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So any employee at Crowdstrike could update code that impacts this many corporations? I wonder how much is spent on really complex security solutions only to find that all some foreign or local nasty, that wants to do some real damage, has to do is get hired at Crowdstrike. How many other companies have carte blanche access?
I don’t know much about cybersecurity, but to a passerby such as myself it ranks right up there with an assassin with an AR15, spotting scope and remote detonator getting within 150 yards of a former President.
Or watching the whole government apparatus act like its just another day at the office. It would be nice if they would hold a press conference and just say to the public… maybe you had the impression that the secret service actually provides protection. Come on folks, it is just a show we put on for 3 billion a year. You have head of 500 dollar toilet seats. Imagine what the cost is to outfit these agents with suits, shades and ear pieces.
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The “These assertions are baseless and insulting” is an anachronism.
Back when there was some rule of law, “insulting” was a lawyered up term to respond to something truthful without subjecting the speaker to risk of defamation or worse. At that time, the speaker/writer would clearly lose a defamation suit if they said “baseless” to anything as well evidenced as the deficiencies of DEI.
But, we are now in a post rule of law world where “baseless” and “without evidence” can be applied to things that are well based/evidenced because the speaker/writer knows a leftist judge will find a way to finesse things in their favor.
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I’m expecting a UPS delivery today. 51 percent chance it is delivered to the wrong building or not delivered at all. For whatever reason UPS has trouble finding my residence. I have more faith in USPS which actually is not too bad for priority mail. Although recently I received priority mail early but USPS tracking said late delivery. I even sent an email to my local post office saying that tracking is incorrect as a courtesy.
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I have been told UPS maps are incorrect in some cases and that they don’t have a decent system to make corrections based on driver input.
I have a friend with this issue. The driver will show the dot on the map and the dot is in the wrong place. She said it happens all the time.
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Crisis averted, UPS delivery success
I wonder if they fixed the map for my street
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This story looks bogus. The surveillance camera footage is too low-quality to discern what’s happening. It’s also not credible that the driver could casually fling a 55-pound box over the gate. Also, where’s the Ring camera footage? The news report clearly shows there was a Ring doorbell at the residence hat would have clearly captured the event.
Given that the corporate press — enemy of the people — lies about almost everything, it would not be shocking if the story were entirely fabricated.
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Being bi is cool now.
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This from @eggspurt is appropriate for this section. It ties the topic to the fundamentals.
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