Interesting Links for 6-7-2011

[andrewducker]

• Why Did L.A. Noire Take Seven Years to Make? (Enough to put you off ever working in the games industry)
  (tags: games work)
• Cutting down on salt doesn't reduce your chance of dying
  (tags: health salt)
• Conservative MEPs defeat new climate change targets (against instructions too - want to bet if they get punished?)
  (tags: politics conservatives climatechange europe)
• C.S. Lewis reviews Childhood's End (He liked it. I agree.)
  (tags: CSLewis ArthurCClarke review)
• Amazon just bought The Book Depository
  (tags: books amazon uk)
• Google's lack of decent testing on Android makes it unfit to be used in the enterprise
  (tags: google android testing email EpicFail)
• A collection of awful sci-fi book covers
  (tags: scifi art books)
• Chinese coal blamed for global warming er... cooling
  (tags: china globalwarming environment coal)

Comments

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

If I understand the mess correctly (IANAL) the phrasing of the law is archaic and badly needs changing; it doesn't distinguish between data and packets when it forbids allowing health information to leave the province.

IP packet switching doesn't distinguish by geography. So in order to use IP, eHealth would have had to lay down its own network without access out-of-province. And laying down a dedicated, separate network (particularly to rural and remote regions) is prohibitively expensive.

Soooo, billion-dollar boondoggle that gets nowhere because government can't seem to ammend PHIPPA while trying to both conform to it and to allow doctors to use the existing Internet.

-- Steve calls it the bane of his existance for a reason.