If they were happy taking it up the ass, then there'd be no sense in looking for a lady (except perhaps to wash clothes and cook meals). Problem solved.
If health insurance companies follow this tack, they'll end up with 2 groups of people.
1) Those with "super" genes, who are so low risk they won't need insurance, as nothing serious will ever happen to them, medically speaking.
2) Those with "crappy" genes, who the insurance companies won't want to cover, or will make the premiums so high, people can't afford them anyway.
So who is left to insure, genius ?
We'll end up with no "generic" health care for anyone, only accident insurance (unforseen bus accidents etc) for group 1, and private savings plans (saving for the inevitable kind of thing) for group 2.
Insurance companies will go out of business. Maybe not such a bad thing.
It's laughable that the domain freecreditreport.com says this on it's homepage.
When you order your free report here, you will begin your free trial membership in Triple AdvantageSM Credit Monitoring. If you don't cancel your membership within the 7-day trial period**, you will be billed $14.95 for each month that you continue your membership.
So it's NOT free at all. Seems like they just handed over care of the lambs from one wolf to another.
Yes, I'm not debating that there is also a cost in upgrading to a more recent version of MS Office. But in a lot of cases, businesses are solid enough with Office 97 or Office XP, and don't feel the need to upgrade.
The issue here was that because of the cost of licences for MS products, the suggested alternative is "free" OpenOffice, with the implication that the changeover comes at zero cost, which is simply not true.
Anything that assumes an IP belongs even temporarily (one visit or session) to a certain user is going to fail. As far back as 5 years ago, we were seeing some large ISPs using proxy / pool servers which meant requests for subsequent pages, and even requests for images on the same page they were currently loading were appearing in our server logs as coming from different IPs.
So trying to track a users behaviour is not as clear cut as you'd believe. A distinct cookie on the other hand, identifies uniquely a user / computer, regardless of whether he's using wifi, shared access point, proxy server or whatever.
With some jiggery-pokery (we used some rewrite rules in httpd.conf couple with a pass-through perl script), we managed to collect 100% accurate logs of our users session behaviour, all completely invisible to the end user, and without messy POSTs / GETs with parameters or client-side javascript callbacks.
Alnd OpenOffice saves $400 per license over MS Office
And how much is lost in productivity, retraining staff, converting between formats, and the pointy headed boss calling you every 2 minutes because Clippy doesn't help him compose his letters anymore ?
Free software is only free if your time is valueless.
Muh WTF ? Way to go off on a tangent, mate. You must be perpendicular to the equator and heading off towards Jupiter with that one !
In other news...
City Laws Only Available Via $200 License, but are they standards compliant ? Micro-Black Holes Make Poor Planet Killers, but are they standards compliant ? Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools, but are they standards compliant ? (Oh, that one actually IS relevant) ! Future Blu-ray Movies To Come With Playable Game Demos, but are they standards compliant ?
There's a time and a place to grind your axes, but I don't think this was either.
So having a jibe at how much everything costs in UK is okay ?
I'd hoped you'd take my comment in the same vein as the OP's comment. Obviously you have the sense of humour of a wire coat hanger and are overly sensitive to anyone criticising the Land of the Free (in 360 easy monthly payments).
It's only a minority that do asshat things like supporting their kids-text addiction to the tune of thousands of bucks.
My girl (12 years old) gets 300 pesos load a month ($6 US) for her phone. That's good for 300 texts, or 10 a day. If she finishes them in a week, that's up to her, but's she's not getting any more till the next month.
But as a parent, the ability to at least call her wherever she is, if she's late home from school etc, and save myself the worry / stress / potential coronary, it's a small price to pay.
Kid's DO need cells, in the same way as kids in our day needed the latest Nikes, or a skateboard, or whatever the trend of the week was. Not just so they don't become social pariahs, but so the parents can have some peace of mind that they can be contacted in an emergency.
All it will take is for the Arabs to start selling oil in Euros, and your greenback will be as respected as a Matabele Gumbo Bead (and probably worth about the same).
CNN seems to have this "child-like wonder" with tech at the moment.
I was somewhat sickened during the recent unrest in Myanmar, because CNN, rather than focus on the actual issue, seemed more obsessed with extolling the virtues of mobile phones and remote Twittering.
That and Christiane Amanpour coaxing people around the world to say "bloody murder" on camera in the name of investigative journalism, which reminded me of the Southpark episode where they used the word "shit" 162 times (complete with counter at the bottom of the screen).
CNN (along with the Beeb) used to be the forefront of news especially for people who tend to travel a lot and live out of hotel rooms, but these days they are becoming Fox for Nerds.
Not very knowledgeable about Quantums and stuff, but why can't Quantum Entanglement imply the states of 2 things as they are now ? Why does a change in one half "now" allow a change in the other half "past / future", thus breaking causality ?
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When are they going to learn that EVERY port from 0 - 65535 should be disabled by default, and only enabled if the user chooses ?
This guy was such an old fossil he wanted to know where to input the DOS commands
Yes, because a DOS-box is *so* far removed from a bash terminal, there's simply no comparison.
If they were happy taking it up the ass, then there'd be no sense in looking for a lady (except perhaps to wash clothes and cook meals). Problem solved.
Look, it's perfectly simple.
If health insurance companies follow this tack, they'll end up with 2 groups of people.
1) Those with "super" genes, who are so low risk they won't need insurance, as nothing serious will ever happen to them, medically speaking.
2) Those with "crappy" genes, who the insurance companies won't want to cover, or will make the premiums so high, people can't afford them anyway.
So who is left to insure, genius ?
We'll end up with no "generic" health care for anyone, only accident insurance (unforseen bus accidents etc) for group 1, and private savings plans (saving for the inevitable kind of thing) for group 2.
Insurance companies will go out of business. Maybe not such a bad thing.
Like that war torn shithole Dubai, with the only 7 star hotel in the world ?
It's laughable that the domain freecreditreport.com says this on it's homepage.
When you order your free report here, you will begin your free trial membership in Triple AdvantageSM Credit Monitoring. If you don't cancel your membership within the 7-day trial period**, you will be billed $14.95 for each month that you continue your membership.
So it's NOT free at all. Seems like they just handed over care of the lambs from one wolf to another.
Yes, I'm not debating that there is also a cost in upgrading to a more recent version of MS Office. But in a lot of cases, businesses are solid enough with Office 97 or Office XP, and don't feel the need to upgrade.
The issue here was that because of the cost of licences for MS products, the suggested alternative is "free" OpenOffice, with the implication that the changeover comes at zero cost, which is simply not true.
Pot, Kettle, Black.
The word is grammar.
Fly tends to get caught in the Web, but you can usually Spider the results. Also Gecko eats Fly.
Someone from Mumbai underbid you on ELance again ?
If God had intended us to find anything accurate or informative in the summary, he wouldn't have invented kdawson.
Well that is somewhat debatable.
Anything that assumes an IP belongs even temporarily (one visit or session) to a certain user is going to fail. As far back as 5 years ago, we were seeing some large ISPs using proxy / pool servers which meant requests for subsequent pages, and even requests for images on the same page they were currently loading were appearing in our server logs as coming from different IPs.
So trying to track a users behaviour is not as clear cut as you'd believe. A distinct cookie on the other hand, identifies uniquely a user / computer, regardless of whether he's using wifi, shared access point, proxy server or whatever.
With some jiggery-pokery (we used some rewrite rules in httpd.conf couple with a pass-through perl script), we managed to collect 100% accurate logs of our users session behaviour, all completely invisible to the end user, and without messy POSTs / GETs with parameters or client-side javascript callbacks.
Alnd OpenOffice saves $400 per license over MS Office
And how much is lost in productivity, retraining staff, converting between formats, and the pointy headed boss calling you every 2 minutes because Clippy doesn't help him compose his letters anymore ?
Free software is only free if your time is valueless.
Muh WTF ? Way to go off on a tangent, mate. You must be perpendicular to the equator and heading off towards Jupiter with that one !
In other news ...
City Laws Only Available Via $200 License, but are they standards compliant ?
Micro-Black Holes Make Poor Planet Killers, but are they standards compliant ?
Microsoft Buys Teamprise, Will Ship Linux Tools, but are they standards compliant ? (Oh, that one actually IS relevant) !
Future Blu-ray Movies To Come With Playable Game Demos, but are they standards compliant ?
There's a time and a place to grind your axes, but I don't think this was either.
So having a jibe at how much everything costs in UK is okay ?
I'd hoped you'd take my comment in the same vein as the OP's comment. Obviously you have the sense of humour of a wire coat hanger and are overly sensitive to anyone criticising the Land of the Free (in 360 easy monthly payments).
It's only a minority that do asshat things like supporting their kids-text addiction to the tune of thousands of bucks.
My girl (12 years old) gets 300 pesos load a month ($6 US) for her phone. That's good for 300 texts, or 10 a day. If she finishes them in a week, that's up to her, but's she's not getting any more till the next month.
But as a parent, the ability to at least call her wherever she is, if she's late home from school etc, and save myself the worry / stress / potential coronary, it's a small price to pay.
Kid's DO need cells, in the same way as kids in our day needed the latest Nikes, or a skateboard, or whatever the trend of the week was. Not just so they don't become social pariahs, but so the parents can have some peace of mind that they can be contacted in an emergency.
Well if it's a case of "first to use", then that would be the Chinese emperor Yao (2337-2258 BC).
Or maybe it's just your currency is worthless ?
All it will take is for the Arabs to start selling oil in Euros, and your greenback will be as respected as a Matabele Gumbo Bead (and probably worth about the same).
CNN seems to have this "child-like wonder" with tech at the moment.
I was somewhat sickened during the recent unrest in Myanmar, because CNN, rather than focus on the actual issue, seemed more obsessed with extolling the virtues of mobile phones and remote Twittering.
That and Christiane Amanpour coaxing people around the world to say "bloody murder" on camera in the name of investigative journalism, which reminded me of the Southpark episode where they used the word "shit" 162 times (complete with counter at the bottom of the screen).
CNN (along with the Beeb) used to be the forefront of news especially for people who tend to travel a lot and live out of hotel rooms, but these days they are becoming Fox for Nerds.
Not very knowledgeable about Quantums and stuff, but why can't Quantum Entanglement imply the states of 2 things as they are now ? Why does a change in one half "now" allow a change in the other half "past / future", thus breaking causality ?
I think you meant "for all intents and purposes", but not bad.
A poke in the other one !
My lawn is *not* accessible to the disabled
So all MS should do is publish the source code as an Automatic Update, and then they've complied with the GPL, yes ?
If they played it right, they could win some kudos ... maybe not here of course, thise is /.
You mean they actually got something *right* for once ?
Cmdr Taco says no <em>tags</em> in story titles on the /. homepage !