"Obamacare" had no robust public option for that reason; the Big Pharmy, Big Insurance and Big Healthcare chains instead get even more money.
Single payer healthcare is still the objective. The ACA is a solid first step toward that goal, which is the main reason Republicans oppose the legislation. Both the GOP and the Pharma/Insurance/Healthcare corporations they represent have good reason to be worried.
Nudity isn't pornography so I wouldn't sweat it. It's pretty absurd though that the article talks about teenage girls being charged with a felony for taking pictures of themselves. What a world we live in.
I find it amusing to see how hard some people will work to try to compromise my inconsequential system.
Lol, same here. The only thing of value on my file server is the stuff I'm sharing publically anyways. When I look through my logs at all the fancy attack vectors I think to myself they'd be better off pointing a web browser at index.html, it would sure save them a lot of trouble.
So if I download lots of copyrighted music and films, but never listen to them -- then I'm apparently okay right?
Let's turn this idea on it's head. Since NSA is scooping up everything, they most assuredly are "collecting", lots of copyrighted material. All we need is for some enterprising entertainment industry lawyer to see how much money can be made by suing NSA for copyright infringement.
I would not be surprised non-technical people and not that smart people have fallen for such schemes.
A well-crafted phishing attack like this appears to be is going to snare a certain amount of people regardless of their intelligence or computer expertise. It's impossible to be viligant 100% of the time at any task, much less security.
Also I think the overuse of notifications and popup alerts actively condition users to respond without really giving it a whole lot of concious thought. I've caught myself clicking these alerts with "how do I get rid of this annoyance" rather than "what are the security implications of this" in the forefront of my mind.
Oh, and the president is just a man. His family is just a family. He is an important man serving the country and deserves to be protected by said country, but if he bites the dust he'll be replaced...
... by Joe Biden. That's as compelling a reason as any to keep President Obama healthy.
Conceptually, an email client is simple affair but the KMail devs have managed to take this seemingly straight-forward task and create a huge pile of shit. I switched to Thunderbird after the fourth time I had to manually recover my emails after a KMail crash or "upgrade" and from what I gather I'm not alone in abandoning that time wasting, file corrupting POS.
My definition of "cure "is when people stop dying of these diseases. My point was that medical doctors and psychiatrists in particular have but a tenuous grasp on the actual workings of the human body. Many doctors contend if you have a mental illness that it is not a medical problem. You have to go see a psychiatrist for that. As if the brain weren't part of the human body.
If you want to cherry-pick cases where where medical science reigns supreme, I'm all in favor of antibiotics. I will gladly join you in celebrating that success. However....
Remember Ted Kennedy? Great guy, guzzled Chivas and often pulled his pants down during parties on Martha's Vineyard? He's dead. Got glioblastoma, didn't last much more than a year despite having the best doctors in the world.
How about Randy Pausch? He was fully aware how well and truly fucked he was by pancreatic cancer, even made a video about it. He's now six feet under.
Let's not forget Richard Feynman, being blessed with two forms of cancer, liposarcoma and WaldenstrÃm's macroglobulinemia. Suffice to say it didn't end well.
Then there's Patrick Swayze, Farrah Fawcet, Gilda Radner, Peter Jennings, Sydney Pollack - I don't see much point in continuing this particular litany, having abundantly made my point already.
The problem with meds is that they aren't a treatment, they are at best a bandage.
For the majority of medical afflictions being treated today there is no cure, so the best doctors can do is offer palliative care.
There is no cure for cancer, heart disease, athsma, arthritis, or even the common cold. So little is known about the human brain that zero percent of psychological disorders are effectively treated. Whenever I hear a doctor brag about how much they know about the human body or worse a psychologist remark about how much is known about the brain I always remind them how much there is they don't know.
Do you think a single one of those celebrities will move to such a system?
I really think they will if it's the easiest option. It's up to developers to make encrypted, decentralized storage the default and easy to use. Build it and they willl come (pun half-heartedly intended.)
Decentralized services are a great idea, but there is one big flaw. Not enough people care about it to get a critical mass of users.
There's a group of Hollywood celebrities that have just been made aware of the need for decentralized and more private internet services. I think people will care, albeit only after a problem has occured.
Listen, we all know what the pro-pot movement is about. It's not medical. Medical usage is being used like a crowbar to pry open the gate on the path to legalization, but we all know the real reason people are behind it.
Yes, we all know what's going on. "Medical usage is being used like a crowbar" because that's the only thing that has worked so far. It also has the added benefit of being a factual and legitimate use that people can understand. No one who has experienced pain (everyone has at some point) will question why someone else does not want to be in pain.
I don't happen to have a problem with being a bit disingenuous if that's what it takes. I personally want to see recreational marijuana use legalized in every state.
So for a lot of cases it can actually replace opiates, and smoking is a faster way for it to get into your bloodstream than everything except IV injections.
Clearly we need to fast-track the development of IV marijuana. I'll volunteer for any clinical trials.
On a more serious note, I was treated for a while by a rheumatologist that had done a lot of research on pain-killers derived from marijuana. To my knowledge, there aren't any on the market currently, but the research is being done. Finally.
The cops can go ask your neighbors about you. The neighbor can choose whether or not to talk to them.
Yet my email can't choose whether or not to be read by them. That's one reason why I encrypt everything whether it's needed or not.
The other reason I encrypt emails is the assinine spam filter a certain ISP uses that many times falsely detects my emails as spam and does not deliver them. I'm too much of a gentleman to mention the company by name, but it rhymes with Horizon and it starts with the letter V.
As the OP of the original post, I would like to point out that I listed 3 possibilities and the first was that the story was wrong, maybe even intentionally wrong.
This is Slashdot. We don't let facts get in the way of a good story.
IIRC, Texas has similar middle-fingers pointed at the feds.
Texas has drive through liquor stores/beer barns so you can literally replenish your alcohol inventory without ever leaving the vehicle. Which really comes in handy when you're just too drunk to walk.
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Funny, I use search engines and read review sites.
Search results and reviews are ads, Einstein. Ones you solicit and are interested in.
In fact, ads want me to let arbitrary web sites run scripts and other crap which makes things less secure.
Yes, that is a problem. Those are the unsolicited ads I was referring to. I don't allow them either.
I don't think that there's any such thing as an advert that I actually want to see.
Ads are helpful when it comes time to make a purchasing decision. You aren't going to buy something if you don't know it exists.
When deciding what to buy I seek ads out. What I do not condone is unsolicited ads. Those add nothing of value.
"Obamacare" had no robust public option for that reason; the Big Pharmy, Big Insurance and Big Healthcare chains instead get even more money.
Single payer healthcare is still the objective. The ACA is a solid first step toward that goal, which is the main reason Republicans oppose the legislation. Both the GOP and the Pharma/Insurance/Healthcare corporations they represent have good reason to be worried.
Nudity isn't pornography so I wouldn't sweat it. It's pretty absurd though that the article talks about teenage girls being charged with a felony for taking pictures of themselves. What a world we live in.
I find it amusing to see how hard some people will work to try to compromise my inconsequential system.
Lol, same here. The only thing of value on my file server is the stuff I'm sharing publically anyways. When I look through my logs at all the fancy attack vectors I think to myself they'd be better off pointing a web browser at index.html, it would sure save them a lot of trouble.
So if I download lots of copyrighted music and films, but never listen to them -- then I'm apparently okay right?
Let's turn this idea on it's head. Since NSA is scooping up everything, they most assuredly are "collecting", lots of copyrighted material. All we need is for some enterprising entertainment industry lawyer to see how much money can be made by suing NSA for copyright infringement.
I can't help but to hear Inigo Montoya's voice saying "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means".
George Orwell got it right. When you're free to redifine what words mean, you can justify and get away with anything.
Does he really think it's about people placing themselves beyond the law? Is he so dense that he can't see this in the context of recent history?
No, he knows damn well what he's saying is complete and utter bullshit. Judging from the comments, everyone here realizes that he's full of it too.
I would not be surprised non-technical people and not that smart people have fallen for such schemes.
A well-crafted phishing attack like this appears to be is going to snare a certain amount of people regardless of their intelligence or computer expertise. It's impossible to be viligant 100% of the time at any task, much less security.
Also I think the overuse of notifications and popup alerts actively condition users to respond without really giving it a whole lot of concious thought. I've caught myself clicking these alerts with "how do I get rid of this annoyance" rather than "what are the security implications of this" in the forefront of my mind.
There are also no desktop effects.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Desktop effects are the second thing I turn off in a new install, the first being those fscking bongos.
Oh, and the president is just a man. His family is just a family. He is an important man serving the country and deserves to be protected by said country, but if he bites the dust he'll be replaced...
... by Joe Biden. That's as compelling a reason as any to keep President Obama healthy.
But they had to buy 10k CNC machines to build 1M bodies? Doesn't sound right.
There's a couple things in TFS that don't sound right. I'm still wondering about that machine that drills 20 meter holes in aluminum.
Conceptually, an email client is simple affair but the KMail devs have managed to take this seemingly straight-forward task and create a huge pile of shit. I switched to Thunderbird after the fourth time I had to manually recover my emails after a KMail crash or "upgrade" and from what I gather I'm not alone in abandoning that time wasting, file corrupting POS.
They had found the boat, dangling underwater by the chains holding it to the dock pilings.
Find out what the chains are made of - you'll be all set :)
My definition of "cure "is when people stop dying of these diseases. My point was that medical doctors and psychiatrists in particular have but a tenuous grasp on the actual workings of the human body. Many doctors contend if you have a mental illness that it is not a medical problem. You have to go see a psychiatrist for that. As if the brain weren't part of the human body.
If you want to cherry-pick cases where where medical science reigns supreme, I'm all in favor of antibiotics. I will gladly join you in celebrating that success. However....
Remember Ted Kennedy? Great guy, guzzled Chivas and often pulled his pants down during parties on Martha's Vineyard? He's dead. Got glioblastoma, didn't last much more than a year despite having the best doctors in the world.
How about Randy Pausch? He was fully aware how well and truly fucked he was by pancreatic cancer, even made a video about it. He's now six feet under.
Let's not forget Richard Feynman, being blessed with two forms of cancer, liposarcoma and WaldenstrÃm's macroglobulinemia. Suffice to say it didn't end well.
Then there's Patrick Swayze, Farrah Fawcet, Gilda Radner, Peter Jennings, Sydney Pollack - I don't see much point in continuing this particular litany, having abundantly made my point already.
The problem with meds is that they aren't a treatment, they are at best a bandage.
For the majority of medical afflictions being treated today there is no cure, so the best doctors can do is offer palliative care.
There is no cure for cancer, heart disease, athsma, arthritis, or even the common cold. So little is known about the human brain that zero percent of psychological disorders are effectively treated. Whenever I hear a doctor brag about how much they know about the human body or worse a psychologist remark about how much is known about the brain I always remind them how much there is they don't know.
Do you think a single one of those celebrities will move to such a system?
I really think they will if it's the easiest option. It's up to developers to make encrypted, decentralized storage the default and easy to use. Build it and they willl come (pun half-heartedly intended.)
Decentralized services are a great idea, but there is one big flaw. Not enough people care about it to get a critical mass of users.
There's a group of Hollywood celebrities that have just been made aware of the need for decentralized and more private internet services. I think people will care, albeit only after a problem has occured.
Listen, we all know what the pro-pot movement is about. It's not medical. Medical usage is being used like a crowbar to pry open the gate on the path to legalization, but we all know the real reason people are behind it.
Yes, we all know what's going on. "Medical usage is being used like a crowbar" because that's the only thing that has worked so far. It also has the added benefit of being a factual and legitimate use that people can understand. No one who has experienced pain (everyone has at some point) will question why someone else does not want to be in pain.
I don't happen to have a problem with being a bit disingenuous if that's what it takes. I personally want to see recreational marijuana use legalized in every state.
So for a lot of cases it can actually replace opiates, and smoking is a faster way for it to get into your bloodstream than everything except IV injections.
Clearly we need to fast-track the development of IV marijuana. I'll volunteer for any clinical trials.
On a more serious note, I was treated for a while by a rheumatologist that had done a lot of research on pain-killers derived from marijuana. To my knowledge, there aren't any on the market currently, but the research is being done. Finally.
That's not insanity. It's persistence.
I don't go for ancient wisdom
I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
It means that they're worthy
- Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"
The cops can go ask your neighbors about you. The neighbor can choose whether or not to talk to them.
Yet my email can't choose whether or not to be read by them. That's one reason why I encrypt everything whether it's needed or not.
The other reason I encrypt emails is the assinine spam filter a certain ISP uses that many times falsely detects my emails as spam and does not deliver them. I'm too much of a gentleman to mention the company by name, but it rhymes with Horizon and it starts with the letter V.
As the OP of the original post, I would like to point out that I listed 3 possibilities and the first was that the story was wrong, maybe even intentionally wrong.
This is Slashdot. We don't let facts get in the way of a good story.
In the US it should read: "I am 280kg and have severely clogged arteries, which begs the question: why have I not bought a mobility scooter ?"
We haven't quite caught up with the rest of the world and switched to metric units. So instead of 280kg, it's 617 lbs.</pedant>
IIRC, Texas has similar middle-fingers pointed at the feds.
Texas has drive through liquor stores/beer barns so you can literally replenish your alcohol inventory without ever leaving the vehicle. Which really comes in handy when you're just too drunk to walk.