The US has done its own research: Even within the US, Medicare and Medicaid are much more efficient than the private system.
They just need to expand their own existing systems, while removing the limits that were enacted to deliberately raise the costs of those systems (such as the law preventing them from negotiating with service providers, such as pharmaceutical companies, for cheaper bulk prices.)
In spite of the summary, they aren't "converting" them to WiFi. They are adding WiFi nodes to each box. They will still be public phone booths.
[It seems to me, since phone booths are so rarely used, it would also make sense to convert them to free calls. I would imagine that the "income" from phone booths is vastly less than the cost of collecting money and maintaining the coin-feed systems (over and above the cost of maintaining the phone and booth itself.) This would provide a service to people who genuinely need it, increase utilisation with no added cost (calls over IP are virtually free), while reducing cost in net by eliminating collection.]
If your first thought upon reading the GP's post was that he was saying "that's so flagrantly impractical as to be absurd", it is certain that you have misread it.
It's the difference between the police going into a hotel and presenting a warrant requiring them to show the police their guest list, and the police secretly parking an unmarked van just outside the hotel and recording every visitor/car/etc coming in and out of the hotel grounds without any warrant or notification.
In the former, the hotel knows what is being asked for, and when, and can (if they believe the request unlawful) challenge it in court. (Or challenge the gag clause, as some providers have successfully.)
In the latter, the hotel has no knowledge of what is being done, no control of what information is recorded, and no way to make legal challenges.
Perhaps it doesn't make a huge difference to the guests, but I suspect the hotel cares a great deal.
People were given the freedom to post comments on someone else's website. Many idiots deliberately abused that privilege to attack anyone or anything they didn't like.
And now that privilege is lost, you are actually blaming the website?
Pity there's nowhere else on the internet for anyone to publicly post material except for the comments section of one of the many pop.science magazine websites.
The nature of open source means it MAY be found by others. Sure you have a higher chance and an audit trail but you're making multiple assumptions here:
The difference is that with a closed source OS, if the other devs with access to the code find the backdoor, they can be ordered by the company to STFU or lose their jobs. The NSA only needs to compromise (either legally or illegally) the head of the company and that also gets them every single dev with access to the source.
There's no way for even Linus at his most shouty to completely control what other Linux devs discover. (And, as the previous poster noted, that makes it easy for Linus to tip off another dev on the sly to publicly "discover" and patch the "bug", without exposing Linus to legal issues from not cooperating with the NSA.)
Given the difference between "effortless to compromise" and "insanely difficult to compromise", which would you pick as the safest?
It isn't as if building engines like this is some kind of ancient knowledge that has been lost in the mists of history.
It also isn't something you learn from reading a book. Your workforce has to learn their craft the hard way, taking 5 to 10 years to do it, and you don't really get "good" until year 20. There's no suggestion that Aerojet is taking the necessary steps with the NK-33.
For example, it's not like SpaceX hired dumb engineers who didn't understand rocket science, yet they had to go through multiple versions of engines, and start with the simplest configuration (one engine), and after a decade of development they are still having problems with the fourth version of their engine on their third configuration launcher.
Musk's plan is to built a Saturn V class, three core launcher. But had they immediately started with Falcon XX and Merlin 2, they would have failed. Utterly. Hell, you could have sent the actual blue-prints of the eventual FXX back in time to them, and they would still have failed.
I'd say that the typical '50s sub layout influenced Roddenberry. Lots of similarities in the layout, two forward pilot stations, captain in the centre, sonar, comms and engineering stations around the sides. The ST:TOS Enterprise just had more room to spread out the set, and Roddenberry merged the weapons station into one of the pilot stations.
It's not that they sat, it's that they saw this room and their reaction was to become the General allies, instead of thinking that he's completely delusional.
and then went away and helped NSA's cause and budget in Congress/Committee.
Oops. He did this in the Army's Intelligence and Security Command, he's now been put in charge of the NSA.
(Presumably his new NSA Ultimate Information Dominance Command Centre is all glass and blue high-lights, with pin-lights shining right into people eyes.)
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we can still solve the drug problem if we just drop more bombs on it.
It's the only way to reassure.
The US has done its own research: Even within the US, Medicare and Medicaid are much more efficient than the private system.
They just need to expand their own existing systems, while removing the limits that were enacted to deliberately raise the costs of those systems (such as the law preventing them from negotiating with service providers, such as pharmaceutical companies, for cheaper bulk prices.)
Obama should have named the Reagan Memorial Health Care Act,
More honestly he should have called it the "Heritage Foundation Heath Care Act", since they were the ones who came up with the idea.
NSA doesn't tap wires. They tap fibre.
or unusually high solar activity.
Low.
Lowest numbers of solar storms and sunspots in over a century. Low to the point where an entire sunspot cycle seems to have been skipped.
In spite of the summary, they aren't "converting" them to WiFi. They are adding WiFi nodes to each box. They will still be public phone booths.
[It seems to me, since phone booths are so rarely used, it would also make sense to convert them to free calls. I would imagine that the "income" from phone booths is vastly less than the cost of collecting money and maintaining the coin-feed systems (over and above the cost of maintaining the phone and booth itself.) This would provide a service to people who genuinely need it, increase utilisation with no added cost (calls over IP are virtually free), while reducing cost in net by eliminating collection.]
If your first thought upon reading the GP's post was that he was saying "that's so flagrantly impractical as to be absurd", it is certain that you have misread it.
It's the difference between the police going into a hotel and presenting a warrant requiring them to show the police their guest list, and the police secretly parking an unmarked van just outside the hotel and recording every visitor/car/etc coming in and out of the hotel grounds without any warrant or notification.
In the former, the hotel knows what is being asked for, and when, and can (if they believe the request unlawful) challenge it in court. (Or challenge the gag clause, as some providers have successfully.)
In the latter, the hotel has no knowledge of what is being done, no control of what information is recorded, and no way to make legal challenges.
Perhaps it doesn't make a huge difference to the guests, but I suspect the hotel cares a great deal.
People were given the freedom to post comments on someone else's website. Many idiots deliberately abused that privilege to attack anyone or anything they didn't like.
And now that privilege is lost, you are actually blaming the website?
dissent effectively silenced
Pity there's nowhere else on the internet for anyone to publicly post material except for the comments section of one of the many pop.science magazine websites.
The highest grossing opening day for any film was $91m in the first 24 hours for the last Harry Potter movie.
You are comparing Avatar's total earnings with GTAV's first 24 hours. Avatar made about $200m on its opening weekend.
The games industry makes Hollywood look stupid and small.
The nature of open source means it MAY be found by others. Sure you have a higher chance and an audit trail but you're making multiple assumptions here:
The difference is that with a closed source OS, if the other devs with access to the code find the backdoor, they can be ordered by the company to STFU or lose their jobs. The NSA only needs to compromise (either legally or illegally) the head of the company and that also gets them every single dev with access to the source.
There's no way for even Linus at his most shouty to completely control what other Linux devs discover. (And, as the previous poster noted, that makes it easy for Linus to tip off another dev on the sly to publicly "discover" and patch the "bug", without exposing Linus to legal issues from not cooperating with the NSA.)
Given the difference between "effortless to compromise" and "insanely difficult to compromise", which would you pick as the safest?
I hope more developers have a spine as stiff as yours.
It's the only thing that can carry the load of his enormous balls.
Yeah, but in a space suit.
There's no Hope, no Cash and no fucking Wonder.
[Or however, that joke went.]
It isn't as if building engines like this is some kind of ancient knowledge that has been lost in the mists of history.
It also isn't something you learn from reading a book. Your workforce has to learn their craft the hard way, taking 5 to 10 years to do it, and you don't really get "good" until year 20. There's no suggestion that Aerojet is taking the necessary steps with the NK-33.
For example, it's not like SpaceX hired dumb engineers who didn't understand rocket science, yet they had to go through multiple versions of engines, and start with the simplest configuration (one engine), and after a decade of development they are still having problems with the fourth version of their engine on their third configuration launcher.
Musk's plan is to built a Saturn V class, three core launcher. But had they immediately started with Falcon XX and Merlin 2, they would have failed. Utterly. Hell, you could have sent the actual blue-prints of the eventual FXX back in time to them, and they would still have failed.
The US Space Shuttle and USSR Buran proved conclusively that resusable spaceplanes are hugely wasteful.
Not really, since neither of them was really reusable, more vaguely refurbishable, and both were prototypes with no development path.
If you are symptomatic, you should refrain from all connections until fully treated.
[sigh] So much for "Universal".
WFT is that chair in the middle of the GeoEye meeting-room table?
The need the CRTs because the flat panels wouldn't explode when overloaded.
I'd say that the typical '50s sub layout influenced Roddenberry. Lots of similarities in the layout, two forward pilot stations, captain in the centre, sonar, comms and engineering stations around the sides. The ST:TOS Enterprise just had more room to spread out the set, and Roddenberry merged the weapons station into one of the pilot stations.
It's not that they sat, it's that they saw this room and their reaction was to become the General allies, instead of thinking that he's completely delusional.
It's that this fake set actually worked on them.
and then went away and helped NSA's cause and budget in Congress/Committee.
Oops. He did this in the Army's Intelligence and Security Command, he's now been put in charge of the NSA.
(Presumably his new NSA Ultimate Information Dominance Command Centre is all glass and blue high-lights, with pin-lights shining right into people eyes.)