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1. Comment - Small-town thinking leads to a healthcare privacy smashup

   (May 28, 2009 - 4:41 PM)

   No organization but the official Social Security Organization (SSO) can require the use of ones own SSN as an indentifying number..............ever.
   
   It is encumbent upon all other orgs to generate a unique personal identifer for everyone. Sure, it makes it more difficult to ID someone, but its needed because the SSN is very powerful. Therefore, they cannot require the number for office identification purposes. They can have the SSN in the file, and ask for a valid ID and proof of SSN from the patient, but it cannot be used as the the sole office key for the patient records.....period.

2. Comment - So much for 'Firefox 3.1:' Mozilla gives its next browser an early promotion to 3.5

   (Mar 6, 2009 - 3:35 PM)

   I never said we code *for* Opera....those are your words. We code for W3C compliance, and then test cross-browser for all those mentioned above. When we find breakage, 90% of the time it's in IE, the rest is Safari. So we have to conditionally branch code *for* IE.
   
   This, for your information, is how the rest of the world develops web apps....real web apps. When you don't have the luxury of forcing all of your user base to use one browser, like you and IE.

3. Comment - So much for 'Firefox 3.1:' Mozilla gives its next browser an early promotion to 3.5

   (Mar 6, 2009 - 2:13 PM)

   Oh really "Mr PC-Tool". I work for a corp that takes this seriously, as our worldwide customer base needs this information to be accurate.....their businesses depend upon it.
   
   So, I guess you don't work in the international business world, having to develop cross-browser applications for IE, FF, Safari, Opera? It's in this space where this matters. All the work to support the common denominator (which is not IE) irrelevant? The common denominator is that it works, with the version you claim, and sticking to the W3C standards is only 80% of the way there.

4. Comment - So much for 'Firefox 3.1:' Mozilla gives its next browser an early promotion to 3.5

   (Mar 6, 2009 - 11:22 AM)

   You may think that it doesn't make a shred of difference to you (or the general Joe Shmoe on the street) but it matters to corporations that need to support Firefox for their web applications. There's a plethora of documentation, sales, marketing materials that need to reflect this change accurately to inform the customer what versions will be supported by the companies apps.
   
   Therefore, you, the customers, can be properly informed of the supported versions when you use the web app. If your bank states it supports FF3.1 (even though it's 3.5), will you complain that they should be supporting the newer 3.5, when in fact they are, but the techpubs folks didn't get the message to change the literature/suppport statement?
   
   Put in that perspective, does it matter to you NOW?

5. Comment - The oldest trick in the book, literally, defeats UAC in Windows 7

   (Feb 2, 2009 - 4:18 PM)

   It's BETA folks, expect these type of things. Once it goes RTM (Release to Manufacturing for those not in the business), if these are found, then hell yea, let's raise the roof.
   
   Until that time, it's what a beta program is used for, to find things and fix them before everyone gets it installed.