People get there because of restrictions in Canada and England that do effectively prohibit purchase of health care by private entities.
Citation please? Don't know about Canada but in the UK there is a thriving private healthcare industry, particularly for elective procedures, for people who don't want to wait to get to the top of an NHS waiting list. Nobody is stopping you paying out of pocket, or indeed for private insurance, if you can afford it.
The difference is, if you can't afford it, you'll still get all the treatment you need. You won't be discharged as soon as you've been stabilized in A&E. And you won't subsequently be bankrupted by medical bills.
And if you can afford it, you still have to pay for everyone else's. Uh, yeah, doesn't sound like socialism to me. Right.
Okay, the opposite question applies:
I have a top of the line laptop (for now). What should I be running on it? And if you say Gentoo, give me some kind of make.conf options. The thing is a Centrino 2.
Really? It takes a good five minutes for this machine to boot and stabilize to where it's really usable. Enough that I never shut the laptop down, I just hibernate or put it into stand-by.
You're totally right. This is such a non-story and frankly mildly offensive in how full of himself the scientist is with sweeping comments like that.
As it stands currently, the amount of genetic degenerecy in amino acid coding means that they would easily have those double and tripled coded amino acids switched to something else. They could potentially add another 20-30 new amino acids with absolutely no change in the number or form of the base pairs used.
Its like finding a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, will never exist, and serves no purpose even if it was found. But apparently its equivalent from going to the iron age from the bronze age. Ha!
Yeah, he just synthesized two new DNA base pairs with no corresponding tRNA, meaning that they'll just function as stop codons, which makes them worthless for now. That's in addition to your point.
The thing that kills me is that he first article makes the guy just look like a raging buffoon. The New
No, seriously, USB drives or something equivalent. Get an 8GB USB drive and walk around with all your medical information on it. Make a standardized protocol for it. Then when you go to the doctor, you plug it in and sync it. With digital signatures, you could sign each entry (including, for example, an index of the entries with SHA-1 hashes of each entry) so that it's hard to mess with.
I bought five 500GB drives for $150 a piece and stuck the things in a box which is otherwise pretty high-end. If you had an old machine laying around that would accomodate it, you could get four 500GB drives and have a 1.5TB RAID-5 cluster.
The Ministry of Justice has given clear expression to this prohibition: "There is no 'right of private copying' at the expense of rights holders".
In other news, the Ministry of Truth has declared that Ignorance Is Strength. An announcement is expected from the Ministry of Love tomorrow explaining the penalties for those who copy. The Junior Anti-Sex League has, meanwhile, expressed concern that this act may decrease dissemination of pornography, thus leading to more actual sex.
Then they can use ToS/QoS and prioritize traffic. The fact is that the ISPs have deliberately gone out of their way to ignore such modifiers. At the same time, they've forced people who actually use their service to come up with all sorts of roundabout ways to stay under their radar. Other asinine policies like "no servers" (for no reason and with no explanation of what that means) lead to other things like people setting up ssh forwarding from port 25 on some random machine to a port that isn't blocked on their machine, then listing that random machine as an MX host so that they can send and receive email without using the ISP's crap.
The ISPs have grossly oversold their bandwidth, and now they're pissed that people are actually using it. If you offer 7MB/sec, then you should not be surprised when a customer uses 7MB/sec for a month. You can statistically estimate that only x% of customers are going to be doing that, and upgrade your network accordingly. If you can't be bothered to do that and instead want to start cutting people off arbitrarily, then fine: By law, you should be required to advertise "7MB/sec service with 100GB/month bidirectional traffic limit."
And Comcast's ridiculous units of measure here wouldn't hold up in any court I know of when someone sues their ass for breach of contract and deceptive business and marketing practices.
Harm you because their heart rate is raised? They could be overdosing on caffeine. They could be on meth. They might be some teenager on Ritalin or its relatives. They might be masturbating. They might just have physiological tachycardia.
I'd rather the government not base their decision on whether to come in guns blazing on something as ridiculous as whether my heart rate is increased above some theoretical average at the time.
The reality is that hospital equipment and airplane navigation equipment don't malfunction when presented with a modern cellular telephone. Maybe they did back in the early days, but speaking as someone who deliberately (fuck the signs) uses one in the ICU all the time, it does NOT interfere. (ObSpecificity: Sprint PCS phone.)
Well, there is one thing: don't purchase it. As enraged as people seem to get about these things, though, nobody actually stops buying.
Actually, it's the precise reason I haven't bought a CD or DVD since the RIAA and MPAA, respectively, started this little anti-fair-use jihad of theirs.
Here's an example: I subscribe to HBO. HBO shows, say, "Superman Returns." I can watch it legally on HBO. I can record it and rewatch it. The MPAA is arguing that I can't "context shift" that material so that I can watch it when I'm stuck on call at work. (Doctor. Lots of down time in the middle of the night.) What has the MPAA lost? Nothing. What has HBO lost? Nothing, because I already subscribe to that channel.
Now, I can see the MPAA's argument if I don't subscribe to any of the "premium" channels and am doing this, but regardless of HOW I get the material, I'm paying to view it. Frankly, the more the MPAA argues these points, the greater the chance that people like me are just going to stop subscribing to the "premium" channels in the first place. They've already done great strides for this with CableCard. (i.e., I'd love to record my favorite programs to my PC, then load them on my laptop and watch them during down time. Unfortunately, idiotic encrypted QAM prevents that.)
The same goes for the RIAA. If it's "fair use" that I record a song off the radio, then how is it any different if I obtain said recording through a different means? Sure, I *could* go set up a recording rig and hook it to an FM receiver. I have the equipment to do it. In that case, I have the content, and it's "fair use." So if I obtain it through different means, it's the same data. How is that not "fair use?"
Becasue someone just might be willing to provide the firepower to back it up?
That's just it, isn't it? Claiming of territory in space is governed by some UN treaty as I recall. But that doesn't matter. If I go and somehow colonize Mars right now, I'm vulnerable to anybody who might want to take it from me. The only solution is to arm Mars to defend it, at which point any aggressor can either fight and lose, or fight and lose far more than Mars is worth to them. Either case makes it illogical to try and capture Mars, and therefore they have to work with Mars, not just invade it.
This is precisely why the world politica is divided into two groups: Nuclear and non-nuclear powers. If a country is a nuclear power, the rules change, because that country can inflict substantial damage to you, more than the country itself is probably worth.
Turn on yolur television and leave a window open. Images and sounds escape and are evident from the street. Do the lights and sounds give others permission to stare into your home?
Yes. It is my responsibility to not have things that I want to keep private or otherwise restricted from being visible to those outside.
Has anyone used a cablecard with their local cable? What was the support experience like? I suspect since they feel the FCC shoved it down their throat, it might not be the best. My comcast says they support it, but it requires a tech visit and you lose on-demand, pay-per-view, and the channel guide. Perhaps dell doesnt want to get in the middle of that mess.
Here's my story, eerily similar to what others have posted here:
I have a machine at home which is (primarily) a Linux server with about 2.5TB of hard disk space situated in a RAID-5 array. The processor is a AMD X2 5000+, and it has 4GB of RAM in it and a top of the line Nvidia video card. (Why did I buy this? As a research data and number crunching box for bioinformatics, and I had the forethought when I bought it to go ahead and get a decent video card. The drives only cost me something like $750 total.) I also have a 42" plasma TV and cable service from the local company. When I bought this, I wasn't quite aware of all the cable card crap. What I figured, naively, was that if I subscribe to cable, I could get a TV card and MPEG encoder, and use my machine as a MythTV box when it wasn't otherwise occupied.
So I move, and sign up with the local cable company. It's then that I find out that I have to either go through the Cablecard mess, or use their sub-shit TV-top PVR, because their channels are encrypted and I can't just plug the feed into a capture card. The only reason for them to do this is to restrict people recording their shows, but their PVRs and the DVRs that use the Cablecard do that anyway. So what is the point?
So the result? Sure, I watch the channels (obviously, or I wouldn't be paying for them). I watch the video-on-demand. But when I want to keep a long term copy of something (read: fair use) or record it so I can watch it during my long nights on call when sometimes nothing happens, I have to pirate the damned thing off the Internet -- precisely what they were trying to PREVENT. I would prefer to do it my way -- hooking the computer to my damned cable feed.
The media companies need to buy a clue and figure out that the old distribution models are not dying, but dead.
I hereby theorize that cramming peanuts into your arsehole will cause levitation.
There, now that I've officially theorized this, I can say, "In theory, cramming peanuts into your arsehole will cause levitation." and it's perfectly true.
I theorize that people will stop at no absurdity to defend cramming peanuts into their arseholes. However, I, for one, welcome our new creamy peanut butter-oozing overlords.
From a quick scan of the site, it looks like ths is the most intelligent thing on the entire place. Other projects include "Boobs in a Box," and a straight hookup of a piezo-electric buzzer called "The Headache Machine" with some retard commenting in bad English that it seems "really hard to make."
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People get there because of restrictions in Canada and England that do effectively prohibit purchase of health care by private entities.
Citation please? Don't know about Canada but in the UK there is a thriving private healthcare industry, particularly for elective procedures, for people who don't want to wait to get to the top of an NHS waiting list. Nobody is stopping you paying out of pocket, or indeed for private insurance, if you can afford it.
The difference is, if you can't afford it, you'll still get all the treatment you need. You won't be discharged as soon as you've been stabilized in A&E. And you won't subsequently be bankrupted by medical bills.
And if you can afford it, you still have to pay for everyone else's. Uh, yeah, doesn't sound like socialism to me. Right.
"This virus has no honor! You dishonorable top'aQ! Defend yourself!"
Okay, the opposite question applies: I have a top of the line laptop (for now). What should I be running on it? And if you say Gentoo, give me some kind of make.conf options. The thing is a Centrino 2.
Really? It takes a good five minutes for this machine to boot and stabilize to where it's really usable. Enough that I never shut the laptop down, I just hibernate or put it into stand-by.
Explain that to the socialists (i.e., Democrats).
I'm the opposite, buddy. It doesn't do me a damned bit of good.
You're totally right. This is such a non-story and frankly mildly offensive in how full of himself the scientist is with sweeping comments like that.
As it stands currently, the amount of genetic degenerecy in amino acid coding means that they would easily have those double and tripled coded amino acids switched to something else. They could potentially add another 20-30 new amino acids with absolutely no change in the number or form of the base pairs used.
Its like finding a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, will never exist, and serves no purpose even if it was found. But apparently its equivalent from going to the iron age from the bronze age. Ha!
Yeah, he just synthesized two new DNA base pairs with no corresponding tRNA, meaning that they'll just function as stop codons, which makes them worthless for now. That's in addition to your point. The thing that kills me is that he first article makes the guy just look like a raging buffoon. The New
I have a simpler solution. Get multiple wireless cards in a Linux box, hack your neighbors' wireless networks, and load balance across all of them. ;)
If the ISPs had correctly implemented multicasting in the first place, we wouldn't have this problem.
No, seriously, USB drives or something equivalent. Get an 8GB USB drive and walk around with all your medical information on it. Make a standardized protocol for it. Then when you go to the doctor, you plug it in and sync it. With digital signatures, you could sign each entry (including, for example, an index of the entries with SHA-1 hashes of each entry) so that it's hard to mess with.
I bought five 500GB drives for $150 a piece and stuck the things in a box which is otherwise pretty high-end. If you had an old machine laying around that would accomodate it, you could get four 500GB drives and have a 1.5TB RAID-5 cluster.
In other news, the Ministry of Truth has declared that Ignorance Is Strength. An announcement is expected from the Ministry of Love tomorrow explaining the penalties for those who copy. The Junior Anti-Sex League has, meanwhile, expressed concern that this act may decrease dissemination of pornography, thus leading to more actual sex.
Then they can use ToS/QoS and prioritize traffic. The fact is that the ISPs have deliberately gone out of their way to ignore such modifiers. At the same time, they've forced people who actually use their service to come up with all sorts of roundabout ways to stay under their radar. Other asinine policies like "no servers" (for no reason and with no explanation of what that means) lead to other things like people setting up ssh forwarding from port 25 on some random machine to a port that isn't blocked on their machine, then listing that random machine as an MX host so that they can send and receive email without using the ISP's crap.
The ISPs have grossly oversold their bandwidth, and now they're pissed that people are actually using it. If you offer 7MB/sec, then you should not be surprised when a customer uses 7MB/sec for a month. You can statistically estimate that only x% of customers are going to be doing that, and upgrade your network accordingly. If you can't be bothered to do that and instead want to start cutting people off arbitrarily, then fine: By law, you should be required to advertise "7MB/sec service with 100GB/month bidirectional traffic limit."
And Comcast's ridiculous units of measure here wouldn't hold up in any court I know of when someone sues their ass for breach of contract and deceptive business and marketing practices.
I'd rather the government not base their decision on whether to come in guns blazing on something as ridiculous as whether my heart rate is increased above some theoretical average at the time.
The reality is that hospital equipment and airplane navigation equipment don't malfunction when presented with a modern cellular telephone. Maybe they did back in the early days, but speaking as someone who deliberately (fuck the signs) uses one in the ICU all the time, it does NOT interfere. (ObSpecificity: Sprint PCS phone.)
Actually, it's the precise reason I haven't bought a CD or DVD since the RIAA and MPAA, respectively, started this little anti-fair-use jihad of theirs.
Here's an example: I subscribe to HBO. HBO shows, say, "Superman Returns." I can watch it legally on HBO. I can record it and rewatch it. The MPAA is arguing that I can't "context shift" that material so that I can watch it when I'm stuck on call at work. (Doctor. Lots of down time in the middle of the night.) What has the MPAA lost? Nothing. What has HBO lost? Nothing, because I already subscribe to that channel.
Now, I can see the MPAA's argument if I don't subscribe to any of the "premium" channels and am doing this, but regardless of HOW I get the material, I'm paying to view it. Frankly, the more the MPAA argues these points, the greater the chance that people like me are just going to stop subscribing to the "premium" channels in the first place. They've already done great strides for this with CableCard. (i.e., I'd love to record my favorite programs to my PC, then load them on my laptop and watch them during down time. Unfortunately, idiotic encrypted QAM prevents that.)
The same goes for the RIAA. If it's "fair use" that I record a song off the radio, then how is it any different if I obtain said recording through a different means? Sure, I *could* go set up a recording rig and hook it to an FM receiver. I have the equipment to do it. In that case, I have the content, and it's "fair use." So if I obtain it through different means, it's the same data. How is that not "fair use?"
That's just it, isn't it? Claiming of territory in space is governed by some UN treaty as I recall. But that doesn't matter. If I go and somehow colonize Mars right now, I'm vulnerable to anybody who might want to take it from me. The only solution is to arm Mars to defend it, at which point any aggressor can either fight and lose, or fight and lose far more than Mars is worth to them. Either case makes it illogical to try and capture Mars, and therefore they have to work with Mars, not just invade it.
This is precisely why the world politica is divided into two groups: Nuclear and non-nuclear powers. If a country is a nuclear power, the rules change, because that country can inflict substantial damage to you, more than the country itself is probably worth.
Now, all they need to do is miniaturize the frickin' beam generator so that it can be mounted on the frickin' head of a frickin' shark.
He should just violate copyright and post the software to The Pirate Bay and let people have a crack at it (pun intended).
No, they just take a shit and it fits in with what's on most of the Internet already.
Here's my story, eerily similar to what others have posted here:
I have a machine at home which is (primarily) a Linux server with about 2.5TB of hard disk space situated in a RAID-5 array. The processor is a AMD X2 5000+, and it has 4GB of RAM in it and a top of the line Nvidia video card. (Why did I buy this? As a research data and number crunching box for bioinformatics, and I had the forethought when I bought it to go ahead and get a decent video card. The drives only cost me something like $750 total.) I also have a 42" plasma TV and cable service from the local company. When I bought this, I wasn't quite aware of all the cable card crap. What I figured, naively, was that if I subscribe to cable, I could get a TV card and MPEG encoder, and use my machine as a MythTV box when it wasn't otherwise occupied.
So I move, and sign up with the local cable company. It's then that I find out that I have to either go through the Cablecard mess, or use their sub-shit TV-top PVR, because their channels are encrypted and I can't just plug the feed into a capture card. The only reason for them to do this is to restrict people recording their shows, but their PVRs and the DVRs that use the Cablecard do that anyway. So what is the point?
So the result? Sure, I watch the channels (obviously, or I wouldn't be paying for them). I watch the video-on-demand. But when I want to keep a long term copy of something (read: fair use) or record it so I can watch it during my long nights on call when sometimes nothing happens, I have to pirate the damned thing off the Internet -- precisely what they were trying to PREVENT. I would prefer to do it my way -- hooking the computer to my damned cable feed.
The media companies need to buy a clue and figure out that the old distribution models are not dying, but dead.
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I theorize that people will stop at no absurdity to defend cramming peanuts into their arseholes. However, I, for one, welcome our new creamy peanut butter-oozing overlords.
From a quick scan of the site, it looks like ths is the most intelligent thing on the entire place. Other projects include "Boobs in a Box," and a straight hookup of a piezo-electric buzzer called "The Headache Machine" with some retard commenting in bad English that it seems "really hard to make."