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Saturday, August 16th, 2008 by Harry Lewis

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Saturday, August 16th, 2008 by Harry Lewis

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Friday, August 15th, 2008 by Harry Lewis

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Friday, August 15th, 2008 by Harry Lewis

As widely reported in the British press (Guardian story Price of tramadol, , Telegraph story), a UN report considers British libel laws an infringement on basic human rights -- the right of free expression. The problem is libel tourism, kjøpe tramadol, Kentucky KY Ky., where a wealthy celebrity can sue for defamation in Britain on the basis of something published elsewhere. The laws in Britain place a much heavier burden on the defense in libel cases, tramadol online kopen. Ordering tramadol bars, This is a bits problem -- any time someone in the UK views a web page, it's considered "publication" in the UK, αγοράσετε tramadol, India cosmos tramadol, wherever the web server or actual content source may be. In Blown to Bits, παραγγείλετε online tramadol, Where to buy cheap tramadol, we talk about this (and in particular the case of Australian businessman Joseph Gutnick, a resident of Australia, Ohio OH, Buy tramadol no rx, where the laws follow the British standard.

Unless checked, libel tourism is going to make U.S. publishers self-censor, trumping First Amendment guarantees. So far down the list of international issues for this political campaign it won't even be noticed, but a potentially serious issue for the future.

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Thursday, August 14th, 2008 by Harry Lewis

Purchase levitra, HIPAA is the very strong privacy policy for medical records to which all doctors and hospitals must adhere. As we blogged recently, the Department of Homeland Security has issued guidelines stating that border agents may seize and examine any laptop -- even, order levitra from canada, presumably, Köpa levitra online, the laptop of a doctor who happens to have carried medical data with him out of and into the U.S. (Here are the actual DHS policies. They are extraordinarily sweeping and worth reading.) ¬†A blogging doctor's explains the inconsistency, ordering levitra no prescription.

HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) is the law that governs the privacy of your medical information. It is very, Levitra canada, very detailed, and requires quite a bit from your doctor. You've signed a form at the office of every provider you've visited that notifies you of your privacy rights, purchase levitra. I cannot discuss your care in a hospital elevator, levitra no prescription. I can't send you an email regarding your health without making it very clear that any information in the email cannot be considered secure. Virginia VA Va., I cannot disclose your health information to anyone else except under very specific and limited circumstances. HIPAA has radically changed the way we do things with health information (sometimes for the better, sometimes not).


Moving on to Homeland Security---DHS agents may, levitra thorold, for any reason or none at all, Levitra sale, seize my laptop and demand any security or encryption codes. Purchase levitra, My laptop not infrequently contains information covered by HIPAA (known as PHI, or Protected Health Information). Because of that, my laptop is secured via HIPAA-compliant security measures, Kjøp Discount levitra. Under the new DHS guidelines, Rhode Island RI R.I., I can be required to hand over my laptop and help officers access the information¬†without any suspicion of wrong-doing. We have a little problem here...


Unlimited government authority is always dangerous. I wonder if Chertoff plans to blow off this medical privacy fol-de-rol as a threat to national security.

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Thursday, August 14th, 2008 by Harry Lewis

Purchase soma online, We noted yesterday that McCain's campaign has been promising a technology policy for a long time. It was finally put up on his web site today. Bio soma, For the most part, it isn't really a policy. It's mostly vague, soma online kaufen, aspirational statements, Soma price in pakistan, many of which are in flat contradiction with each other. Example: (a) "John McCain will focus on policies that leave consumers free to access the content they choose"; (b) "He championed laws that … protected kids from harmful Internet content"; (c) "John McCain has fought special interests in Washington to force the Federal government to auction inefficiently-used wireless spectrum to companies that will instead use the spectrum to provide high-speed Internet service options to millions of Americans." All fine things, if that's all that is said, Mississippi MS Miss.. BUT the "policy" fails to note that the laws referred to in (b) have been overturned by federal courts because they unconstitutionally make (a) impossible, purchase soma online. And the plan referred to in (c) is the one we blogged about several weeks ago, Online soma, for a public Internet censored so ruthlessly that it couldn't even carry an email that would be inappropriate for a 5-year-old.

These issues are not simple. Blown to Bits is largely about how hard it is to reconcile conflicting values, Massachusetts MA Mass.. They can't be reconciled by apple-pie rhetoric that leaves doubt the candidate even recognizes the tensions exist. Purchase soma online, On the other hand, it's hard for me to complain about this sound bite from the prologue: "In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the ways Americans communicate with family, friends, and business partners; shop and connect with global markets; educate themselves; become more engaged politically; and consume and even create entertainment." Nice metaphor, there. Soma brand, Perhaps the most disappointing thing to me is the "policy's" posture toward intellectual property: that it is something to protect. Does he realize how the explosion happened. McCain seems to be in the grip of the entertainment industry and the law firms, buy soma no prescription. The Internet is the greatest thing ever invented for inventiveness by small businesses, Osta alennus soma, and this is a big-business policy platform. Invention is being choked by our intellectual policy apparatus, and this platform would strengthen it, not relax it, purchase soma online. I am not surprised by the absence of actual proposals about democratic empowerment, collaboration, buy soma delivery, and civic engagement that the Internet might support. But does McCain even realize that digital technology is going to be the wellspring of economic growth in the U.S. -- and that won't come just from making Disney and Comcast yet more powerful.

For an even more intemperate response to this long-awaited policy, read David Weinberger's blog.

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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 by Harry Lewis

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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 by Harry Lewis

Meridia online stores, The New York Times features "bits" stories today that are two sides of the same coin. On the front page, tech writer John Markoff reports that the shooting war between Russia and Georgia was preceded by a cyberwar -- specifically, αγοράσετε meridia, a "distributed denial of service" (DDOS) attack, Cheapest meridia, aimed at critical computers in Georgia. A DDOS is simply a bombardment of Internet-connected computers with messages in such enormous quantities that even figuring out that the messages should be ignored overwhelms the computers' network bandwidth and processing power. What makes it "distributed" is that the messages are coming not from a single source but from hundreds or thousands of machines, bestill meridia online, perhaps distributed around the world. Connecticut CT Conn., And that's what makes it hard to draw the natural conclusion, that the attack was coming from Russia, or even that Russian hands were on the trigger, cheap meridia no rx. Tracing the origins of an attack like this is very difficult, since the machines sending the messages may themselves have been taken over for this purpose by a remote attack, without the owner's knowledge, meridia online stores.

On the Opinion page, Can i use meridia for whole life, Garrett Graff -- with whom I had friendly relations when he wrote for the Crimson -- has an interesting analysis of the story behind Obama's promise to text-message his VP choice. That database of contact info is hugely valuable in a political campaign, especially now that many young voters don't have landlines, meridia en ligne afin. Badger them with text messages and they are more likely to vote. Comprar meridia baratos, It's how organizing now happens, and campaigns are about organization. Meridia online stores, McCain doesn't seem to have figured that out yet. As far as I can see (the search window on his web site is broken), billige meridia apotek, McCain sees information technology as mostly something to be feared. Maryland MD Md., The only reference to the Internet is on the "Sanctity of Life" page. Reports keep coming (e.g. from Kevin Werbach here) that McCain's technology policy will be announced any day now. But even when and if it comes, comparisons like the one Graff makes leave doubt that McCain really gets it in a way that will usefully guide government actions.

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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 by Harry Lewis

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Media Nation has the right take on this. Prozac pharmacy, "Charles Evans Hughes forgot something when he wrote the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Near v. Minnesota decision in 1931. The chief justice listed national security, prozac in india, obscenity and the imminent threat of violence as essentially the only three reasons that the courts could ever step in and order someone not to exercise his right to free speech. What he left out: information that could result in the MBTA's losing some fare money. Prozac without prescription, What a bonehead, eh?" The Media Nation post goes on to note that the judge who issued the TRO has a history of offenses to the First Amendment.

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