[geeks] Now for something completely geek

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 @ 09:33 -0600, Dan Duncan said:

> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > Emergency services and police are bound by law to protect your
> > information.  Wether they actually do or not is a different matter.
> 
> Until one of them takes home a laptop or a disk with everyone's
> information in an unencrypted Excel spreadsheet and loses it.  

Thus, my last sentence... :)

I don't expect the system to be perfect, since that would not be
possible.

It's the blindly stupid "they should be shot for it" things that really
tick me off.

> I was
> really hoping the VA laptop would give Congress a kick in the ass about
> punishing this sort of stupidity given the number of veterans in Congress
> but I don't think it's going to happen.  

You mean military veterans?

Are you sure they aren't just retired brass, and not all that clueful?

I've got mixed feelings about ex-military personnel in politics and
business.

I've seen a lot of them in business, and they are often horrible
business leaders.

-- 
shannon "AT" widomaker.com -- ["An Irishman is never drunk as long as he
can hold onto one blade of grass and not fall off the face of the earth."]