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The Australian government is in trouble over its planned introduction of My Health Record, a centralized storage of personal medical history. Closure of the opt-out date has been pushed forward several times. There is no way the government can continue to claim that the system will be secure. This is impossible. The weak link in the chain is human. Doctors, nurses and general hospital staff will have access. They will be able to print out any one's record and take a copy home. International criticism revolves around the outdated methods to be used. The main storage medium will be PDF. Searching these for significant insights into a patient's history will be problematic. Ease of searching is paramount. Systems to be adopted in the US and China have separate computer codes for different medication, test results and diseases. This improves searching by clinicians. The FHIR system was developed in Australia but it is the only country not adopting it. As always, Australian ...

The paper-free culture is impacting on sales of printers. Many consumers now tick the box to have their bill sent my email. They must pay by BPAY or some other auto method. You still need a paper copy of a bill to pay at the post office. Printer sellers have seen a big bumpy fall this year. Industry analyst IDC recorded a decline of 8.8 per cent to 446,000 units in the first quarter. Fewer inkjet and laser printers are being purchased: 9.3 per cent and 8.6 per cent respectively. Canon was hit the hardest. It had a drop of 21.2 per cent. It seems the Canon product is being avoided (could be those fixed page inkjet replacements). Market leader HP retained almost the same sales as last year. Brother did the best of all with a rise of 17.3 in sales. Traditional laser producers Ricon, Xerox and HP were ignored by buyers. Most took home a Brother laser. Fuji Xerox had a massive hit of 30 percent. Analyst Jimmy Lee says the traditionals are now aiming at the prestige end of...

Despite all the technological achievements there is no real practical way to store data for the posterity of the human race. All the methods we have break down over time.  New optical disks that use gold particles may be the answer. They have a 10TB capacity and it is claimed that they will last six centuries. The disks can be mass produced. Currently, standard disks used by data centers hold 2TB of data and last only two years. If the new technology is for real it will be a huge step forward. The best disks all optical, we have to date last for a maximum of 50 years and they have not been put into service because of high cost. Australian and Chinese researchers say there is still a long way to go before the gold particle strategy is fully developed. Gold nanomaterials are combined with hybrid glass which produces a structure with great strength. Data can be stored across the whole spectrum of visible light rays. There is a trade off :  increasing the storage lev...

Australia's attempt at a fast broadband network has failed. NBN is absolute negative investment. broadband copper ◘1 nbn up we australia's at am it aged australia's news australia's an ◘1 Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) is a failure. Well, I did tell the government that before they put capital into it. Like all politicians they think they know best, when many have never held down a "proper" job. It was obvious that new tech would make the old obsolete.    ◙2 nbn absolute a failure australia's ok investment to or ◙2 The Liberal Government f..... it up. It was they who chose to use the old copper : a network constructed more than a century ago. It is now that Labor can hold its head high and tell everyone we were putting fibre to the house when the policy road was changed - even though it became a waste of taxpayer funds.  ⦿3 investment failure up to absolute investment ⦿3 Telstra lies to us. ADSL is now called ADSL2. This is bl...

VPN is no longer the way to access BBC iplayer. It blocks it. IPs used by companies providing such services are being blocked by BBC. ◘1 Blocks on iPlayer we Access at Using am VPN bbc it blocks news ◘1 The BBC restricts program market. Virtual private networks have always been a way to jump fences set up by greedy programming license holders. The BBC is now protecting this sector. It has found a way to close VPN tunnels to overseas users who want to access the iPlayer.         ◙2 bbc or Blocks in iPlayer he Access to Using or VPN ◙2 It is even acting as if  we  and  it  do not know what it is doing. The message "This content doesn't seem to working. Try again" is playing us for fools.  We  know what is going on and  it  does as well. An act such as this will obviously put many VPNs out of business. So many people in the world like to watch British programs.   ⦿3 iplayer up access blocks ⦿3 It seems the way...

Culture: we buy on impulse with east credit and fast pay. We are all guilty of it. What is it? Impulse buying of course! It may not be for major purchase - we usually have a think about them before making a decision. Well most of us do. Minor things like snack bars and quick coffees are usually done on a whim. A site like eBay where thing are cheap but generally of low quality is also a vehicle for fast shopping. Some people purchase "quickie" items more than others. It all depends on ones personality. Even being out with others affects buying behavior. Having money to buy is less of a factor because easy credit is available. A person's prevailing mood also has an effect: happiness drives impulse buying. Advertising is perceived differently by individuals. "Buy one and get one free" is a trap for some. Indeed, Westerners seem to be particularly prone to buying things with little thought, people in Eastern cultures not so much. Culture does ...

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Netflix came to Australia and within a few months the entertainment landscape changed. All of the major free-to-air televisions stations now offer movie and program downloads at an exceedingly low monthly rate. Foxtel reduced the prices of some of its packages by 60 per cent. The Internet market per se is about to be hit as well. MyRepublic is coming to Australia. It has heavily condemned Telstra for its lacklustre provision of broadband Internet via the National Broadband Network (NBN). The Singaporean company will invest in its own network and provide super-fast broadband at prices lower than Telstra. The offer of 100 megabit per second at $80 a month is at the low end of Telstra much slower offer. The copper to homes from the node will hamper Telstra Mr Rodrigues of My Republic says. He says the government has been lying all along about the NBN's ultimate speed. Just about every Australian believes that the NBN rollout is a mess. It is the target of ongoing jo...

Since the email was "invented" in 1977 it has continued as the main means of sending information that is admissible in court. Though you may think that what you say is not important, the content can be used against you in a court of law.  For light social exchange people use Facebook, Whatsapp and Twitter. If governments could get their hands on the data it would use that against you as well. The main problem with email is that there is so much of it. The vast majority of users cannot deal with it. Most emails are discarded without being read simply because users think it is spam, or the nearest thing to it - continuing emails from a company you have either purchased something from or downloaded supposedly for free. New email systems from Google, Amazon, IBM or WorkMail usually just provide more folders that you could create yourself. The boundary between work and home life is now blurred with a mass of emails that need ongoing, endless attention. Tryin...

Like many other professions, professional photography has died due to the Internet. If a person at a party tells you he is a professional photographer, you put him in the same group as journalists and consultants : you quietly whisper in your wife's ear that the bloke over there is unemployed. If you patent a new mousetrap and you say you have given it away, you will not get a patent because it is has become public knowledge and someone is already using the concept. Like photography, just about everyone is taking and freely distributing photos. A so-called professional photographer who shows his work online is really doing the same thing as the person trying to patent an idea. Even if the photographer blocks a direct save to a computer by website coding, users can easily snap the picture in all its high definition glory. To expect payment is naive with the Internet as it is. Professional photographers will not retire wealthy. They will not get sufficient income t...

Environmental researchers do not have to take the kitchen sink with them on field trips any more. They can leave GPS, camera and notepad behind as they do their work. New software makes this possible. A single device linked to the Internet now has everything an investigator requires. This is especially so in mining. The Northern Territory has adopted the new system and it is doing all it promises.  As farming takes up new technology it would be expected that researchers would do the same. Capturing information is now very easy indeed with reports being done automatically. Photographs are coordinated with Google Earth maps. Relevant data is also stored.  In depth analysis is now possible with the extra time on hand for investigators. A researchers movement around a site is recorded. This makes monitoring of tasks much easier. The software is a significant step forward. Hours of tedious labor has been reduced.  With a solid data bank in hand, looking...