That is not end to end encryption. You would need S/MIME, PGP, or other technologies for that, where the message itself is encrypted. The fact that the transport may be encrypted is pretty much irrelevant since neither the sender nor recipient have full control over the network hops that may be between them. If you send a message to a TLS-enabled host, and it then gets remailed using plaintext, or the recipient downloads it using plaintext, the TLS is not very useful.
Delta encoding and compression really doesn't help much in many cases. My iTunes collection in Apple Lossless for example takes over 300GB. Yes, it's all paid for music I ripped from my own CDs. That would take eons to upload at the current broadband speeds currently available from most carriers.
I am also sure as hell not going to do my video editing, code compiles, etc on a remove drive, either. Even photo editing is painful. It still takes far too long to upload RAW files. I get 50 MB/s from my UHS-1 card to the hard drive with a USB 3.0 card reader. That's 400 Mbit/s. 4 times as much as the peak download speed available from my cable provider. And I don't know how many times the upload speed.
Solar panels generate DC, and it adds a lot to the cost and complexity to convert it to AC. How about co-locating car charging stations at solar power farms, and skipping the DC-AC conversion equipment. It is a win-win.
Unfortunately, the sun doesn't shine 24/7, so this wouldn't be practical. Such a station would only really work around noon on sunny days. If you don't tie the system to the grid, you would have to store the energy from solar into local batteries. If those were full, any excess energy from the solar farm would be wasted. If the local batteries were empty, then cars could no longer be charged. The cost of local batteries would be quite expensive, and those would have to be replaced over time. The only practical way to use a solar farm for charging is to tie it to the electric grid, and that means adding DC to AC inverters. The inverters don't last forever either, but they cost much less than batteries.
That is not true. If I drive the speed limit, which I have been doing the last week, my 2007 Prius actually does get 50 mpg. That is both as measured at the pump and as reported on the computer screen. In the winter, it gets slightly less, closer to 45.
And contrary to Toyota's claims, the Prius gets better higher and more consistent MPG on the freeway than in the city. That was also my experience with the 2001 Prius.
They still offer them. You can certainly switch from a contract to no-contract plan . I asked about the possibility of doing that. I will do it when contract expires.
You don't need any costly and failure prone batteries, just connect to the grid and use net metering. I did a solar install 18 months ago and it came to $6 per watt DC including labor, Enphase micro-inverters, and US made solar panels (Sharp). Total bill was $40k. This was before any state or federal incentives. It was $26k after incentives. Due to high tiered electricity costs in California and the fact that I live in a large home, that cost will be recouped in 7.5 years.
The total cost to install might be about 20% less now or $8000, but if I had waited I would also have paid more than $4000 electricity costs by now .
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Forgivance of a loan is generally considered taxable income, even if the bank doesn't collect anything.
You are making assumptions that there are kids involved. There are not, in over half of gay couples. Check your math where both gay partners file as single. Also, the health insurance benefits cause not only federal tax to go up, but also social security, medicare, and in California state income tax and state disability taxes. I work at Cisco, which already pays the extra tax for the benefits on my domestic partner's benefits. This results in $320.44 extra income, which comes in a separate paycheck every 2 weeks, with the value of the after-tax benefits being $212.28, and the tax $108.16. In other words, the tax rate on the benefits is 108.16/212.28 = 50.95% . Yes, over 50%.
Heterosexual couples don't have to pay that $108.16 of tax every paycheck. And they also have a much more favorable tax table. Being able to file jointly would allow us to save an additional $250 every paycheck in taxes.
It's not just children. I reiterate that there is no need to blame anyone here. I'm sick of this stigma. Having the disease is bad enough. Do people need to justify themselves for how they got it too ? I got it from sex (gosh, I know, so rare on slashdot!), and I have no shame in it. If somebody wants to cast the first stone, I will listen only if they have never had sex.
I agree with you about education, but unfortunately this is not sufficient. I was fully aware of HIV but still caught it. I think most people who get it have heard of it before as well. Sometimes bad circumstances will still occur - condoms don't work 100% of the time, they don't get used 100% of the time, and occasionally low risk sex acts still cause transmissions. It only takes one mistake. And often you have no idea that it happened.
What we really need is a vaccine or a cure, and preferably both. Education alone is not going to stop the epidemic, unfortunately.
If as I do you had 7 maintenance life-saving prescriptions that cost $2500/month, having your insurance go from $100/month (20% of premium, the rest being employer-paid )to $500/month (full premium) when you get laid off or quit your job is still a pretty good deal, since you wouldn't qualify for any insurance whatsoever otherwise. I agree that it's quite expensive and hard to pay when you are off work, but the alternative of not being able to get insurance at all, as was the case pre-COBRA, is much worse.
This is just as much about adults as it is about kids. Most humans have urges to have sex they can't hold indefinitely. Abstinence will prevent HIV, STDs and unwanted pregnancies in theory, but it is impossible actually to put into practice. Do you actually know anyone who will abstain from sex their whole life ? And if you are talking about abstinence before marriage, as is apparently taught in some places, that excludes a whole category of people who can't get married - gays, and who are most at risk for HIV. Also, some straight girls who pledged to remain "virgins" before marriage have substituted intercourse with other even higher-risk behavior like anal sex because they just don't know any better.
What we need a comprehensive sex education program that focuses on safe sex, contraception, and preventing STDs/HIV. I don't think abstinence should deserve more than a footnote in such a program because we already know teaching it alone doesn't work.
Note that 16 states have already rejected funds for abstinence-only education, the most recent of which being Arizona.
Why was this moderated troll ? Just because the moderator doesn't have sex often enough to have statistically experienced or witnessed this ? Oh, I forgot this is slashdot.
Newsflash, condoms do break occasionally. They also slip. The below study shows a 2% rate of failure per condom, and 2.7% per person. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8070546
Firstable, AIDS is not an infection, HIV is. And there is no law against people with HIV/AIDS having sex anywhere that I am aware of, so it is not a "universal principle". In many states and countries, people with HIV are required to inform their partner that they have HIV prior to having sex, however.
>As bad as it was, Small Pox was a 20-60% mortality rate (see wikipedia), which is horrible, but there was a chance. HIV is a 100% mortality rate, it just >takes a bit longer. If we could find a way to create immunity from HIV, it would die out.
>Most of the treatments for HIV simply extend the person's life, probably with the hope that they live long enough to find a cure. The drugs are not >pleasant, and often make the person ill while trying to swallow them.
Only life has a 100% mortality rate, not HIV. Nowadays, the majority people with HIV/AIDS who have access to modern treatment die of causes unrelated to HIV/AIDS.
If untreated, people will go from HIV to AIDS in an average of 8 to 10 years. Then if still untreated, they will die from AIDS in 6 months to 2 years. Currently, the estimates are that the HAART drugs extend lifespan to about 25 years from HIV infection on average. If you get infected old enough, it may well not affect your lifespan at all. And new treatments are continually being researched which could improve the average.
Of course, the drugs can have major side effects. Taking them is no picnic, and even if your lifespan is unchanged, your quality of life will be affected. However the new drugs are always improving, and the side effects are being reduced. Even if there is no cure for HIV/AIDS in sight, the drugs may allow those have access to them to lead a normal life eventually.
Unfortunately it's not possible to guarantee you are non-infectious at anytime. Sometimes the drugs will stop working. And doctors only check viral load every few months. There could be increases in viral load before you or your doctor know it. So you could still become infectious even if you were not before.
"The Washington Blade, a gay newspaper, reported on Nov. 14 that the new estimates showed infection rates were 50 percent higher than previously believed, with 58,000 to 63,000 infected in the most recent 12-month period. The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal had similar reports on Saturday."
We are still waiting for the new official stats. But the virus appears to be more prevalent than previously thought, not less.
The purpose of all insurance is to protect against risk. It is the nature of insurance that some people pay more in premiums than they get, and others get more than they pay. But insurance only works well if there are a lot of members and the risk is spread between low risk and high risk people. In this country, you can go without any health insurance if you don't think you need it, unlike car insurance, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. You can get rear-ended in a motor vehicle and you are supposed to always have insurance to cover it and passenger injury, or you can get rear-ended physically and catch some very serious infectious diseases like AIDS (it is world AIDS day today !), but apparently society accepts that you may not be covered in that case. However, if you get something like AIDS and have no insurance, you will be left in a sorry state and to die if you can't afford to pay for your own care in full, which almost nobody can once they become disabled. As to signing up for death, people can already sign up for it if they want, they always have the option of not getting care, but usually they don't do it by choice but because they have no other option.
Oh, and health insurance premiums are already much higher for people who can't tolerate high levels of risks and only want low copays, or for those who have pre-existing conditions and can still get insurance.
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The acquisition of Netscape by AOL closed in March 1997. I was there, as the last pre-AOL Netscape hire.
It was indeed under AOL that the Netscape Navigator was open-sourced under Mozilla.
That is not end to end encryption. You would need S/MIME, PGP, or other technologies for that, where the message itself is encrypted.
The fact that the transport may be encrypted is pretty much irrelevant since neither the sender nor recipient have full control over the network hops that may be between them. If you send a message to a TLS-enabled host, and it then gets remailed using plaintext, or the recipient downloads it using plaintext, the TLS is not very useful.
Delta encoding and compression really doesn't help much in many cases.
My iTunes collection in Apple Lossless for example takes over 300GB. Yes, it's all paid for music I ripped from my own CDs.
That would take eons to upload at the current broadband speeds currently available from most carriers.
I am also sure as hell not going to do my video editing, code compiles, etc on a remove drive, either. Even photo editing is painful. It still takes far too long to upload RAW files. I get 50 MB/s from my UHS-1 card to the hard drive with a USB 3.0 card reader. That's 400 Mbit/s. 4 times as much as the peak download speed available from my cable provider. And I don't know how many times the upload speed.
sorry, couldn't resist.
I have never heard of either Battletoads or Terra tubes.
Solar panels generate DC, and it adds a lot to the cost and complexity to convert it to AC. How about co-locating car charging stations at solar power farms, and skipping the DC-AC conversion equipment. It is a win-win.
Unfortunately, the sun doesn't shine 24/7, so this wouldn't be practical. Such a station would only really work around noon on sunny days.
If you don't tie the system to the grid, you would have to store the energy from solar into local batteries. If those were full, any excess energy from the solar farm would be wasted. If the local batteries were empty, then cars could no longer be charged.
The cost of local batteries would be quite expensive, and those would have to be replaced over time.
The only practical way to use a solar farm for charging is to tie it to the electric grid, and that means adding DC to AC inverters. The inverters don't last forever either, but they cost much less than batteries.
That is not true. If I drive the speed limit, which I have been doing the last week, my 2007 Prius actually does get 50 mpg. That is both as measured at the pump and as reported on the computer screen. In the winter, it gets slightly less, closer to 45.
And contrary to Toyota's claims, the Prius gets better higher and more consistent MPG on the freeway than in the city. That was also my experience with the 2001 Prius.
Why was a laser "eraser" not a perfectly adequate word for it ?
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/assets/img/browse/2012/03/11/20120311_152808_1024_0193.jpg
They still offer them.
You can certainly switch from a contract to no-contract plan . I asked about the possibility of doing that. I will do it when contract expires.
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans
You don't need any costly and failure prone batteries, just connect to the grid and use net metering.
I did a solar install 18 months ago and it came to $6 per watt DC including labor, Enphase micro-inverters, and US made solar panels (Sharp). Total bill was $40k. This was before any state or federal incentives. It was $26k after incentives.
Due to high tiered electricity costs in California and the fact that I live in a large home, that cost will be recouped in 7.5 years.
The total cost to install might be about 20% less now or $8000, but if I had waited I would also have paid more than $4000 electricity costs by now .
Forgivance of a loan is generally considered taxable income, even if the bank doesn't collect anything.
You are making assumptions that there are kids involved. There are not, in over half of gay couples. Check your math where both gay partners file as single.
Also, the health insurance benefits cause not only federal tax to go up, but also social security, medicare, and in California state income tax and state disability taxes. I work at Cisco, which already pays the extra tax for the benefits on my domestic partner's benefits. This results in $320.44 extra income, which comes in a separate paycheck every 2 weeks, with the value of the after-tax benefits being $212.28, and the tax $108.16. In other words, the tax rate on the benefits is 108.16/212.28 = 50.95% . Yes, over 50%.
Heterosexual couples don't have to pay that $108.16 of tax every paycheck. And they also have a much more favorable tax table. Being able to file jointly would allow us to save an additional $250 every paycheck in taxes.
It's not just children. I reiterate that there is no need to blame anyone here. I'm sick of this stigma. Having the disease is bad enough. Do people need to justify themselves for how they got it too ?
I got it from sex (gosh, I know, so rare on slashdot!), and I have no shame in it. If somebody wants to cast the first stone, I will listen only if they have never had sex.
I agree with you about education, but unfortunately this is not sufficient. I was fully aware of HIV but still caught it. I think most people who get it have heard of it before as well.
Sometimes bad circumstances will still occur - condoms don't work 100% of the time, they don't get used 100% of the time, and occasionally low risk sex acts still cause transmissions. It only takes one mistake. And often you have no idea that it happened.
What we really need is a vaccine or a cure, and preferably both. Education alone is not going to stop the epidemic, unfortunately.
If as I do you had 7 maintenance life-saving prescriptions that cost $2500/month, having your insurance go from $100/month (20% of premium, the rest being employer-paid )to $500/month (full premium) when you get laid off or quit your job is still a pretty good deal, since you wouldn't qualify for any insurance whatsoever otherwise. I agree that it's quite expensive and hard to pay when you are off work, but the alternative of not being able to get insurance at all, as was the case pre-COBRA, is much worse.
A lot of people in mixed HIV status relationships already have.
This is just as much about adults as it is about kids. Most humans have urges to have sex they can't hold indefinitely. Abstinence will prevent HIV, STDs and unwanted pregnancies in theory, but it is impossible actually to put into practice. Do you actually know anyone who will abstain from sex their whole life ? And if you are talking about abstinence before marriage, as is apparently taught in some places, that excludes a whole category of people who can't get married - gays, and who are most at risk for HIV. Also, some straight girls who pledged to remain "virgins" before marriage have substituted intercourse with other even higher-risk behavior like anal sex because they just don't know any better.
What we need a comprehensive sex education program that focuses on safe sex, contraception, and preventing STDs/HIV. I don't think abstinence should deserve more than a footnote in such a program because we already know teaching it alone doesn't work.
Note that 16 states have already rejected funds for abstinence-only education, the most recent of which being Arizona.
FYI :
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/21606.php
http://www.avert.org/abstinence.htm
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/221980
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/reproductive_rights/2008/01/ariz-gov-napoli.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26623-2004Dec1.html
Because trying to get people to abstain from sex just doesn't work.
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9831189
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/13/AR2007041301003.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18136717/
http://thegodcomplex.blogspot.com/2007/12/abstinence-only-education-does-not-work.html
Why was this moderated troll ? Just because the moderator doesn't have sex often enough to have statistically experienced or witnessed this ? Oh, I forgot this is slashdot.
Newsflash, condoms do break occasionally. They also slip.
The below study shows a 2% rate of failure per condom, and 2.7% per person.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8070546
Firstable, AIDS is not an infection, HIV is. And there is no law against people with HIV/AIDS having sex anywhere that I am aware of, so it is not a "universal principle". In many states and countries, people with HIV are required to inform their partner that they have HIV prior to having sex, however.
>As bad as it was, Small Pox was a 20-60% mortality rate (see wikipedia), which is horrible, but there was a chance. HIV is a 100% mortality rate, it just >takes a bit longer. If we could find a way to create immunity from HIV, it would die out.
>Most of the treatments for HIV simply extend the person's life, probably with the hope that they live long enough to find a cure. The drugs are not >pleasant, and often make the person ill while trying to swallow them.
Only life has a 100% mortality rate, not HIV.
Nowadays, the majority people with HIV/AIDS who have access to modern treatment die of causes unrelated to HIV/AIDS.
If untreated, people will go from HIV to AIDS in an average of 8 to 10 years. Then if still untreated, they will die from AIDS in 6 months to 2 years.
Currently, the estimates are that the HAART drugs extend lifespan to about 25 years from HIV infection on average. If you get infected old enough, it may well not affect your lifespan at all. And new treatments are continually being researched which could improve the average.
Of course, the drugs can have major side effects. Taking them is no picnic, and even if your lifespan is unchanged, your quality of life will be affected. However the new drugs are always improving, and the side effects are being reduced. Even if there is no cure for HIV/AIDS in sight, the drugs may allow those have access to them to lead a normal life eventually.
Unfortunately it's not possible to guarantee you are non-infectious at anytime. Sometimes the drugs will stop working. And doctors only check viral load every few months. There could be increases in viral load before you or your doctor know it. So you could still become infectious even if you were not before.
Actually, the 40,000 annual HIV infections have been widely underestimated.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/health/02aids.html
To quote :
"The Washington Blade, a gay newspaper, reported on Nov. 14 that the new estimates showed infection rates were 50 percent higher than previously believed, with 58,000 to 63,000 infected in the most recent 12-month period. The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal had similar reports on Saturday."
We are still waiting for the new official stats. But the virus appears to be more prevalent than previously thought, not less.
20:01 refers not to odds, but to the time of Royale's concession speech, ie. 8:01pm. France uses 24 hour time.
The purpose of all insurance is to protect against risk. It is the nature of insurance that some people pay more in premiums than they get, and others get more than they pay. But insurance only works well if there are a lot of members and the risk is spread between low risk and high risk people. In this country, you can go without any health insurance if you don't think you need it, unlike car insurance, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. You can get rear-ended in a motor vehicle and you are supposed to always have insurance to cover it and passenger injury, or you can get rear-ended physically and catch some very serious infectious diseases like AIDS (it is world AIDS day today !), but apparently society accepts that you may not be covered in that case. However, if you get something like AIDS and have no insurance, you will be left in a sorry state and to die if you can't afford to pay for your own care in full, which almost nobody can once they become disabled. As to signing up for death, people can already sign up for it if they want, they always have the option of not getting care, but usually they don't do it by choice but because they have no other option.
Oh, and health insurance premiums are already much higher for people who can't tolerate high levels of risks and only want low copays, or for those who have pre-existing conditions and can still get insurance.