I think they meant Dean-omize. Turn Tor users into Deans of well respected Universities/Colleges, probably to help increase the adoptomization and respectomization of Tor.
If instead you meant Dean-omize as in "turn them into Howard Dean", then in this crowd that would have the exact same effect as demonization.
Anyone have other theories why this number is so much higher than the 5% of people who are just "late"?
The insurance industry - who received the greatest corporate handout in the form of the "health care bill" in 2010 in the history of the world - has an exceptional racket here. They have the ability to not only delay payments in "processing" for so long that they automatically go to collections by the time they decide not to pay, they can also undo payments after the fact for any reason.
Don't believe me? I had exactly that happen to me when I was a college student. The insurance I had (through my parents) decided over a month after paying my doctor's office that they wanted to un-pay it, so they did. By the time they took their money back the debt was considered overdue (relative to the date of service). I knew nothing of this until I started getting debt collections calls from various bad actors at 3am under assumed celebrity names. They threatened to garnish everything imaginable and impound my measly car (which was not worth anywhere near the debt) to seek payment.
I eventually got through to the insurance company directly and got them to go back and re-pay the un-paid bills. They never apologized for their little experiment or gave a reason why they chose me. Even better I had to promise to never, ever, use that insurance policy again in exchange.
Thanks a lot blue cross-blue shield. I hope your CEOs enjoyed the additional cruise amenities that they got in reward for destroying my credit.
I love that the article says it won't say how long the code was. If it is still as it was back when I worked retail, then it is a 6 digit code. Whoop-de-freaking-doo. Not like people couldn't have figured that out by trial and error.
The bigger dipshits are the cashiers who were stupid enough to fall for it.
Because they were doing their jobs as described? They didn't know they were entering bogus numbers. The procedure should have had the cashier - not the customer - calling the bank, but that didn't happen. It's unclear at this point why it went this way.
So they weren't calling the bank, but obviously they were calling someone. Did the store employee actually speak with someone, or did he manage to fake the call entirely? Presumably he had an accomplice who was pretending to be the bank. Did they track down and arrest that person? I didn't see it in the article.
I believe it said that the culprit was making the call himself (likely from his own cell phone) and then giving the "code" to the cashier. Whether or not he was talking to anyone at all is not clear, he might have been calling some unanswered number and just talking into air to make the con look legit.
They don't know, and they couldn't help you. You might as well ask your bus driver or your dentist. Cell phone store employees are the new epitome of helpless retail slave.
Actually, I bet it's a lot more bilateral than either configuration. The mutual scratching of the backs while they pretend to squabble for the proles.
There is no disputing the incredible piles of cash that the insurance industry invested into Washington over the past several decades. Other than that capital investment (which helps to keep the "right" elected officials elected to office) what did the government have to gain by giving this giant gift to the insurance industry?
From my vantage point this was a killer ROI for the industry. And a massive anal probe for the people.
It takes a large state to build tyranny, whether its strings are pulled by a bunch of ideological loons, or by runaway corporate interests.
I guess that depends on how one defines large. For example few people would argue against Saddam Hussein being a tyrant, but neither his kingdom nor his government were that large. Now, if you were to instead define large in terms of what fraction of the country's wealth is consumed by the state, then I would certainly agree that his state was enormous. And indeed pretty much every highly militarized state in recent history could be qualified as large in that way.
... that is, unil the insurance companies get another fantastic handout from the federal government, this time requiring google to release the information to them so that they can raise your rates. Google has no power in comparison to the insurance industry.
My eyes are actually beyond sensitive, an eye phobia is probably a better way to describe it. When I go to my ophthalmologist they occasionally have to bring in additional people to hold my eyes open so I can take the dilation drops (even though I do that every year and have for decades).
So no, I am not a candidate for Lasik. Not now, and likely not ever.
Anyone dumb enough to try that under the expectation that the DHS wouldn't be watching for it would find themselves quickly on a one-way trip to Gitmo.
Snowden was able to do what he did at the NSA because he had the wealth to be able to afford to run away. Most people who work in government jobs don't have that luxury.
Are you suggesting that Timothy (or any slashdot "editor") uses a keyboard? I thought those were too old-fashioned for them and they did all their entry using 12th-generation iPad femtos with tactile inputs that are derived from Minority Report
Obviously it would be cheaper for education districts to band together and commission their own textbooks that cost $0 to distribute once written.
That is an oversimplification, to say the least. Even if you have a collection of districts who paid for the development of a textbook, it still has a non-zero distribution cost once it is complete. It still needs to be printed and delivered. If you want to go without actually printing it, you have to pay for the bandwidth to host it so that people can read the electronic copy (and then come up with a solution for kids who aren't connected to the internet at home or are disabled in a way that makes computer use impractical). Parents will complain about errors and ommissions in the book which will end up dictating rewrites.
This is not a small thing you are asking for, here. Your proposal then requires the school boards to fund such productions for every topic of every grade - in some cases multiple levels of one subject for each grade.
But the school boards are strangely disinterested in this option.
Primarily because the school boards aren't in the business of writing textbooks or funding the creation of the same.
It seems that in the US at least, the minivan is quite nearly dead. How many companies other than Chrysler are still making them for the US market at all? Not many.
As for the "pull down mirror", that isn't even remotely new technology. Other vehicles have had those for a decade or more. But of course because America - and the American media especially - love Toyota with a great passion, we regard it as a technological marvel.
It's because people got bored doing the same thing over and over.
Really? We only successfully got people to the moon 6 times. If you urinate 6 times in a day, do you refuse to do it again later in the day because you are bored of urination?
Beyond the novelty factor, there's just not much purpose in sending people to walk on the moon.
Novelty? Really? No. Going to Disney World is novel (though plenty of people do it far more than 6 times in their lifetime). Going to the moon is not merely "novel". Going to the moon is a pinnacle of engineering and science.
As for purpose, anyone claiming there to "not be much purpose" to going to the moon is epically shortsighted. For one, we will eventually exhaust all the resources on this planet, and our species will become extinct if we cannot - at the very least - successfully extract resources from other worlds. We really need to find a way to actually live on other worlds if we are to continue to exist. Furthermore the moon can tell us a great deal about the origins of our planet and solar system.
... we returned from the last manned mission to the moon. For a while it seemed like it was going to be a routine event, then we just gave up on it. We haven't put a man on the moon in over 40 years now.
I became - not entirely by my own choice - a comcast customer last summer (I previously lived in a place with a different cable company who had vastly superior service in every aspect). Every time I have called for support I have had to deal with operators who were running on obvious scripts. I expect the 8 minute hard sell to try to prevent the customer from leaving was only another script.
I think you win the internet there for the most absurd comparison of the year.
Or can you point me to the chapter in the bible where Jesus the carpenter set down his hand tools, stole his neighbor's air compressor, power tools, and precut lumber, and proceeded to craft stuff from it in his own name?
It dulls the impact of an important event,
Which "important event" do you have in mind here? Are you talking about when he opened up a network closet and slowed down the network traffic of an entire academic library for his own aims - when he could have downloaded all the same material from the desk where he worked his job? Or are you talking about when he got scared about the possibility of having to face trial, and took his own life rather than object to the laws that he was potentially facing trial under?
There is an argument to make that he was intentionally trying to make a martyr out of himself. He could have done what he did without opening up the network closet - which is the most significant charge that was filed against him. Yeah, the overall response was heavy handed without a doubt, but he wasn't exactly rational himself.
Granted, I guess this is a slightly more interesting story than facebook, the movie but still not that great.
Unfortunately, very few people who complete a PhD in this country go on to acheive much financially. Even as the chair of a math department his salary was dwarfed by that paid to the football coach of the same university. It is sad that research pays so poorly in this country in spite of its great benefits.
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I think they meant Dean-omize. Turn Tor users into Deans of well respected Universities/Colleges, probably to help increase the adoptomization and respectomization of Tor.
If instead you meant Dean-omize as in "turn them into Howard Dean", then in this crowd that would have the exact same effect as demonization.
Black Hat Researchers Actively Trying to Demonize Tor Users
Then I thought it was perhaps
Black Hat Researchers Actively Trying to Deamonize Tor Users
Before I figured out they meant
De-anonymize
Anyone have other theories why this number is so much higher than the 5% of people who are just "late"?
The insurance industry - who received the greatest corporate handout in the form of the "health care bill" in 2010 in the history of the world - has an exceptional racket here. They have the ability to not only delay payments in "processing" for so long that they automatically go to collections by the time they decide not to pay, they can also undo payments after the fact for any reason.
Don't believe me? I had exactly that happen to me when I was a college student. The insurance I had (through my parents) decided over a month after paying my doctor's office that they wanted to un-pay it, so they did. By the time they took their money back the debt was considered overdue (relative to the date of service). I knew nothing of this until I started getting debt collections calls from various bad actors at 3am under assumed celebrity names. They threatened to garnish everything imaginable and impound my measly car (which was not worth anywhere near the debt) to seek payment.
I eventually got through to the insurance company directly and got them to go back and re-pay the un-paid bills. They never apologized for their little experiment or gave a reason why they chose me. Even better I had to promise to never, ever, use that insurance policy again in exchange.
Thanks a lot blue cross-blue shield. I hope your CEOs enjoyed the additional cruise amenities that they got in reward for destroying my credit.
I love that the article says it won't say how long the code was. If it is still as it was back when I worked retail, then it is a 6 digit code. Whoop-de-freaking-doo. Not like people couldn't have figured that out by trial and error.
The bigger dipshits are the cashiers who were stupid enough to fall for it.
Because they were doing their jobs as described? They didn't know they were entering bogus numbers. The procedure should have had the cashier - not the customer - calling the bank, but that didn't happen. It's unclear at this point why it went this way.
So they weren't calling the bank, but obviously they were calling someone. Did the store employee actually speak with someone, or did he manage to fake the call entirely? Presumably he had an accomplice who was pretending to be the bank. Did they track down and arrest that person? I didn't see it in the article.
I believe it said that the culprit was making the call himself (likely from his own cell phone) and then giving the "code" to the cashier. Whether or not he was talking to anyone at all is not clear, he might have been calling some unanswered number and just talking into air to make the con look legit.
They don't know, and they couldn't help you. You might as well ask your bus driver or your dentist. Cell phone store employees are the new epitome of helpless retail slave.
Actually, I bet it's a lot more bilateral than either configuration. The mutual scratching of the backs while they pretend to squabble for the proles.
There is no disputing the incredible piles of cash that the insurance industry invested into Washington over the past several decades. Other than that capital investment (which helps to keep the "right" elected officials elected to office) what did the government have to gain by giving this giant gift to the insurance industry?
From my vantage point this was a killer ROI for the industry. And a massive anal probe for the people.
It takes a large state to build tyranny, whether its strings are pulled by a bunch of ideological loons, or by runaway corporate interests.
I guess that depends on how one defines large. For example few people would argue against Saddam Hussein being a tyrant, but neither his kingdom nor his government were that large. Now, if you were to instead define large in terms of what fraction of the country's wealth is consumed by the state, then I would certainly agree that his state was enormous. And indeed pretty much every highly militarized state in recent history could be qualified as large in that way.
The insurance companies and the subservient state
There, fixed that for 'ya. You're welcome.
The insurance industry didn't get the largest corporate handout to come from any federal government, ever by accident.
... that is, unil the insurance companies get another fantastic handout from the federal government, this time requiring google to release the information to them so that they can raise your rates. Google has no power in comparison to the insurance industry.
Mostly because as a general technical rule I don't trust my balls with private institutions unless they're highly regulated
If you go in for Lasik but they end up operating on your balls, I think there's a real problem there.
That might be overly discounted discount LASIK, probably the kind done in a van with a laser pointer. I would not advise taking up that offer.
My eyes are actually beyond sensitive, an eye phobia is probably a better way to describe it. When I go to my ophthalmologist they occasionally have to bring in additional people to hold my eyes open so I can take the dilation drops (even though I do that every year and have for decades).
So no, I am not a candidate for Lasik. Not now, and likely not ever.
two words:
anonymous dropbox
Anyone dumb enough to try that under the expectation that the DHS wouldn't be watching for it would find themselves quickly on a one-way trip to Gitmo.
Snowden was able to do what he did at the NSA because he had the wealth to be able to afford to run away. Most people who work in government jobs don't have that luxury.
Are you suggesting that Timothy (or any slashdot "editor") uses a keyboard? I thought those were too old-fashioned for them and they did all their entry using 12th-generation iPad femtos with tactile inputs that are derived from Minority Report
I hadn't previously heard of this MIT' before. I hope we see good things from them.
Obviously it would be cheaper for education districts to band together and commission their own textbooks that cost $0 to distribute once written.
That is an oversimplification, to say the least. Even if you have a collection of districts who paid for the development of a textbook, it still has a non-zero distribution cost once it is complete. It still needs to be printed and delivered. If you want to go without actually printing it, you have to pay for the bandwidth to host it so that people can read the electronic copy (and then come up with a solution for kids who aren't connected to the internet at home or are disabled in a way that makes computer use impractical). Parents will complain about errors and ommissions in the book which will end up dictating rewrites.
This is not a small thing you are asking for, here. Your proposal then requires the school boards to fund such productions for every topic of every grade - in some cases multiple levels of one subject for each grade.
But the school boards are strangely disinterested in this option.
Primarily because the school boards aren't in the business of writing textbooks or funding the creation of the same.
It seems that in the US at least, the minivan is quite nearly dead. How many companies other than Chrysler are still making them for the US market at all? Not many.
As for the "pull down mirror", that isn't even remotely new technology. Other vehicles have had those for a decade or more. But of course because America - and the American media especially - love Toyota with a great passion, we regard it as a technological marvel.
It's because people got bored doing the same thing over and over.
Really? We only successfully got people to the moon 6 times. If you urinate 6 times in a day, do you refuse to do it again later in the day because you are bored of urination?
Beyond the novelty factor, there's just not much purpose in sending people to walk on the moon.
Novelty? Really? No. Going to Disney World is novel (though plenty of people do it far more than 6 times in their lifetime). Going to the moon is not merely "novel". Going to the moon is a pinnacle of engineering and science.
As for purpose, anyone claiming there to "not be much purpose" to going to the moon is epically shortsighted. For one, we will eventually exhaust all the resources on this planet, and our species will become extinct if we cannot - at the very least - successfully extract resources from other worlds. We really need to find a way to actually live on other worlds if we are to continue to exist. Furthermore the moon can tell us a great deal about the origins of our planet and solar system.
... we returned from the last manned mission to the moon. For a while it seemed like it was going to be a routine event, then we just gave up on it. We haven't put a man on the moon in over 40 years now.
I became - not entirely by my own choice - a comcast customer last summer (I previously lived in a place with a different cable company who had vastly superior service in every aspect). Every time I have called for support I have had to deal with operators who were running on obvious scripts. I expect the 8 minute hard sell to try to prevent the customer from leaving was only another script.
I thought this was going to relate to nuts with high amounts of radioactivity.
Or can you point me to the chapter in the bible where Jesus the carpenter set down his hand tools, stole his neighbor's air compressor, power tools, and precut lumber, and proceeded to craft stuff from it in his own name?
It dulls the impact of an important event,
Which "important event" do you have in mind here? Are you talking about when he opened up a network closet and slowed down the network traffic of an entire academic library for his own aims - when he could have downloaded all the same material from the desk where he worked his job? Or are you talking about when he got scared about the possibility of having to face trial, and took his own life rather than object to the laws that he was potentially facing trial under?
There is an argument to make that he was intentionally trying to make a martyr out of himself. He could have done what he did without opening up the network closet - which is the most significant charge that was filed against him. Yeah, the overall response was heavy handed without a doubt, but he wasn't exactly rational himself.
Granted, I guess this is a slightly more interesting story than facebook, the movie but still not that great.
Unfortunately, very few people who complete a PhD in this country go on to acheive much financially. Even as the chair of a math department his salary was dwarfed by that paid to the football coach of the same university. It is sad that research pays so poorly in this country in spite of its great benefits.