What's the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)?
IANAL, and have no idea what is in that act specifically, but I would guess it's an act that hasn't really been proven effective in practice or court. It's well and good to pass a law saying you can't discriminate based on your genes, but if insurance companies manage to set a precedent that denying funding for genetic reasons isn't discrimination. If that's airtight in the act, and hopefully it is, then they'll try to find a different loophole. Maybe extremely low caps for how much they'll spend on you if you have, say, huntington's, and they'll get it passed that THAT isn't discrimination. If that is barred by either GINA or is somewhere in healthcare reform if it ever passes, they might get even more creative.
If you have X incurable, expensive genetic disease, you have to go to a specialist for everything. He's in Alaska, kind of a huge backlog, make an appointment now because he's booked through 2020.
Saying there's a new law so there won't be discrimination based on your genes is premature. It's better than no law, but there's still a strong financial incentive for insurance companies to find and exploit every loophole to effectively not spend money on those conditions.
The ACLU backed down because, well, the university is probably violating its licensing agreement with Video Furnace
Frankly, I don't know why the american civil liberties union was sticking their nose into the University of California at Los Angeles' business anyway. I'm guessing they got the acronyms mixed up, which must have been very embarrassing for them at court.
"Your honor, the ACLU feels it's use of video in online courses not only is a fair use, but also we don't even offer courses, nor do we put videos up for said nonexistent courses, so we ask you to dismiss the case."
"Uh, this was a case against UCLA, not the ACLU"
"... We knew that. Just wanted to point out we're not using video. I'll show myself out."
If you read/. often, you'd know Wikipedia is far less free than it used to be. We even have some trolls who post complaints about Wikipedia editors here.
If -YOU- read/. often, you'd know that everyone complains about whatever here. Wikipedia's editor staff is just one topic area of thousands.
The article linked in the article posted here provides some context. He seemed to have been talking about this as a way of preventing cyber attacks, you'd have your license revoked if your computer was compromised and could be used in an attack. MS seems to have been trying to cover their asses: "It's not our fault, if we would just put this intrusive system in place, which has no chance of working, but more importantly would never be funded and never built, then the problem will be solved." The next time a problem with MS products creates a serious problem, they'll say "We told you so! If you had just put up a billion dollars to make the drivers license system, it might not have completely failed, and this could have been avoided! Your fault!"
I worked at Telus (Canadian based Telco) for a while and I can safely say that they foster creativity and innovation. It's actually in their motto type creedo thing, which they bash you over the head with during training.
Small thing, but a company motto to me isn't worth the paper or internet it's printed on. Slasdot's motto is "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters," and I see one of the stories running is "Restaurant Promotes Sex In Its Bathrooms." thing starts off with "As a company, and as individuals, we value integrity, honesty, openness, personal excellence, constructive self-criticism, continual self-improvement, and mutual respect..."
The U.S. government is very corrupt. The government is not about what's sensible, but about who has the most money.
You're not honestly trying to imply that the US is unique in that regard.
The U.S. government has killed or caused the death of more than 11 million people since the end of the 2nd world war. All of that killing was apparently for money.
You're a plant by the government to make those of us who don't trust the government look dumber and more paranoid, aren't you?
The U.S. government has 6 times the percentage of its citizens in prison of any other country in the history of the world.
The politicians are following the citizens on that one. Locking everyone up for minor, non-violent offences is so inefficient, it offends even the most bureaucratic public servants, there are other, cheaper and easier ways of making the uninformed public think you're doing the job you said you would than actually getting "tougher on crime." If you say you're going to get tougher on crime, lock up more people, and build more jails, you're going to eventually piss off your own base because you've spent too much money on it and have to raise taxes.
But now it's become entrenched, if you say to the public "Hey, we really don't need to lock all these people up, this guy stole a blanket and can't pay bail, who cares if he never shows up to court, it's costing us about a thousand dollars a week in taxpayer money to keep him in jail, over a matter of 10 bucks, it's just stupid," then you'll be labeled soft on crime by your opponents, and get thrown out next election.
(not to make you feel sorry for the pols, just saying this isn't the government's choice.)
You see, you can only draw, aim, and shoot so fast. Me, this is about as fast as I can draw my gun and hit anything smaller than a barn.
I don't know, if you watch this video at about 2:55, he shoots twice, hitting two balloons before I could probably put my finger on the trigger. Granted, it's pretty close.
Egos are massive and competition is fierce, so asking researchers to admit a mistake or give the competition a short cut is a tall order.
This must depend on the field if it's true anywhere. In biology, you'd have to be the world's biggest ass to act like you've never had an unexpected result. From my limited experience, if you suggest that -most- of your results are completely what you were expecting, I'd suspect you were lying. It seems like on average, every other research presentation I see, by heads of labs included, the presenter admits some of the most interesting data was not what they expected.
The discovery of penicillin was a monumentally important "mistake." Which field are you in that "researchers" think they're better than Alexander Flemming?
People like to win, of course. But if that win is easy to achive, the achivement feels hollow. Anyone could have done it.
Seems to me that developers can often hide how easy a win is, making an easy win feel like an accomplishment. Peggle, like many puzzle style games, doesn't require much skill. A lot of it comes down to knowing the ins and the outs of the game, and chance. After you learn how to play it, you'll make a play that happens to come out well by chance. It's easy to feel like you played that well and have an enjoyable sense of achievement, when really you got lucky... although I guess another way of looking at it is not that your skill is making the ball go exactly where you want it, the skill is playing the odds.
There is another one in the area called "virusporno" which I can only assume is a lot of shared porn in which the actors and actresses have horrible sexually transmitted infections.
My understanding -- as an insider in the field -- is that you are correct. I work in the field of visual prosthetics. There are Phase II clinical trials underway for visual prostheses based on retinal stimulation, and a handful of researchers, like myself, who are looking at alternate approaches that include a more direct brain interface.
Then what are you doing posting on slashdot!?! There's 10 million at stake! If you're really so close, get back in the lab and make yourself a multi-millionaire!
Yeah, right. Since when have facts ever got in the way of a 'good' conspiracy theory?
That was probably sarcasm on the part of JamJam. Also, should is not the same as will, although I would argue the debate -should- have ended when it became clear this was bogus science. He may also have meant "debate" as in "scientific debate" (again though, that was over before now) wheras the "debate" in the non-science sector will continue. Like how the question as to whether or not "macro-evolution" happened was over a hundred years ago in terms of scientific debate, but some idiots want to keep arguing until we all give up, admit we were wrong, affirm that their God rules, and give huge tithes to their church. Or something like that, I don't really know what they're after. Publicity maybe, which is what I think the anti-vaccination crowd is after, since their ringleader's career of taking off her clothes is over and her acting career never really went anywhere.
The trick is finding the truth in the whirlwind of lies and deceit.
The truth appears to be that the peer-reviewed study that is the basis for arguments that autism is linked to vaccines... isn't valid. Against that are numerous studies which did not find a link, and clear and obvious health problems with not vaccinating children. Specifically brain damage, blindness, death.
So basically the "don't vaccinate your kid" side now only has old playboy models and paranoia going for it. Forgive me if I think the "whirlwind of lies and deceit" is actually all on one side of the "debate."
Or entire -train- cars. In europe, they all seem to be coated in stupid spray paint logos from lazy taggers.
Several organisations are said to be testing the product, including a train company in Britain, which is using liquid glass on both the interior and exterior of the train,
I'm guessing they're hoping this will prevent idiots from vandalizing trains, since why would you care about dirt being on your freight train. Then again, shipping companies might not care much about vandalism anyway.
Seriously though, I've been wondering why there have been so few vulnerabilities on the iphone.
Me too. I guess my days of carelessly visiting untrustworthy but hott websites on my iphone and then clicking on whatever popups came up without bothering to read it are over.
It's a fetish, alright? I like clicking on buttons while looking at pictures of goats. Don't judge me.
Now cue "It's not a bug / a missing feature / an intentionally and pointlessly broken function / restriction put there by business interests to get you to spend more money for shit you already own, it's a feature" in 3...2...1...
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What's the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA)?
IANAL, and have no idea what is in that act specifically, but I would guess it's an act that hasn't really been proven effective in practice or court. It's well and good to pass a law saying you can't discriminate based on your genes, but if insurance companies manage to set a precedent that denying funding for genetic reasons isn't discrimination. If that's airtight in the act, and hopefully it is, then they'll try to find a different loophole. Maybe extremely low caps for how much they'll spend on you if you have, say, huntington's, and they'll get it passed that THAT isn't discrimination. If that is barred by either GINA or is somewhere in healthcare reform if it ever passes, they might get even more creative.
If you have X incurable, expensive genetic disease, you have to go to a specialist for everything. He's in Alaska, kind of a huge backlog, make an appointment now because he's booked through 2020.
Saying there's a new law so there won't be discrimination based on your genes is premature. It's better than no law, but there's still a strong financial incentive for insurance companies to find and exploit every loophole to effectively not spend money on those conditions.
The ACLU backed down because, well, the university is probably violating its licensing agreement with Video Furnace
Frankly, I don't know why the american civil liberties union was sticking their nose into the University of California at Los Angeles' business anyway. I'm guessing they got the acronyms mixed up, which must have been very embarrassing for them at court.
"Your honor, the ACLU feels it's use of video in online courses not only is a fair use, but also we don't even offer courses, nor do we put videos up for said nonexistent courses, so we ask you to dismiss the case."
"Uh, this was a case against UCLA, not the ACLU"
"... We knew that. Just wanted to point out we're not using video. I'll show myself out."
If you read /. often, you'd know Wikipedia is far less free than it used to be. We even have some trolls who post complaints about Wikipedia editors here.
If -YOU- read /. often, you'd know that everyone complains about whatever here. Wikipedia's editor staff is just one topic area of thousands.
You certainly godwon that one.
The article linked in the article posted here provides some context. He seemed to have been talking about this as a way of preventing cyber attacks, you'd have your license revoked if your computer was compromised and could be used in an attack. MS seems to have been trying to cover their asses: "It's not our fault, if we would just put this intrusive system in place, which has no chance of working, but more importantly would never be funded and never built, then the problem will be solved." The next time a problem with MS products creates a serious problem, they'll say "We told you so! If you had just put up a billion dollars to make the drivers license system, it might not have completely failed, and this could have been avoided! Your fault!"
I worked at Telus (Canadian based Telco) for a while and I can safely say that they foster creativity and innovation. It's actually in their motto type creedo thing, which they bash you over the head with during training.
Small thing, but a company motto to me isn't worth the paper or internet it's printed on. Slasdot's motto is "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters," and I see one of the stories running is "Restaurant Promotes Sex In Its Bathrooms." thing starts off with "As a company, and as individuals, we value integrity, honesty, openness, personal excellence, constructive self-criticism, continual self-improvement, and mutual respect..."
The U.S. government is very corrupt. The government is not about what's sensible, but about who has the most money.
You're not honestly trying to imply that the US is unique in that regard.
The U.S. government has killed or caused the death of more than 11 million people since the end of the 2nd world war. All of that killing was apparently for money.
You're a plant by the government to make those of us who don't trust the government look dumber and more paranoid, aren't you?
The U.S. government has 6 times the percentage of its citizens in prison of any other country in the history of the world.
The politicians are following the citizens on that one. Locking everyone up for minor, non-violent offences is so inefficient, it offends even the most bureaucratic public servants, there are other, cheaper and easier ways of making the uninformed public think you're doing the job you said you would than actually getting "tougher on crime." If you say you're going to get tougher on crime, lock up more people, and build more jails, you're going to eventually piss off your own base because you've spent too much money on it and have to raise taxes.
But now it's become entrenched, if you say to the public "Hey, we really don't need to lock all these people up, this guy stole a blanket and can't pay bail, who cares if he never shows up to court, it's costing us about a thousand dollars a week in taxpayer money to keep him in jail, over a matter of 10 bucks, it's just stupid," then you'll be labeled soft on crime by your opponents, and get thrown out next election.
(not to make you feel sorry for the pols, just saying this isn't the government's choice.)
You see, you can only draw, aim, and shoot so fast. Me, this is about as fast as I can draw my gun and hit anything smaller than a barn.
I don't know, if you watch this video at about 2:55, he shoots twice, hitting two balloons before I could probably put my finger on the trigger. Granted, it's pretty close.
That means it'll add to the deficit
By this, do you mean to imply there's a tax cut hidden in there somewhere?
Egos are massive and competition is fierce, so asking researchers to admit a mistake or give the competition a short cut is a tall order.
This must depend on the field if it's true anywhere. In biology, you'd have to be the world's biggest ass to act like you've never had an unexpected result. From my limited experience, if you suggest that -most- of your results are completely what you were expecting, I'd suspect you were lying. It seems like on average, every other research presentation I see, by heads of labs included, the presenter admits some of the most interesting data was not what they expected.
The discovery of penicillin was a monumentally important "mistake." Which field are you in that "researchers" think they're better than Alexander Flemming?
People like to win, of course. But if that win is easy to achive, the achivement feels hollow. Anyone could have done it.
Seems to me that developers can often hide how easy a win is, making an easy win feel like an accomplishment. Peggle, like many puzzle style games, doesn't require much skill. A lot of it comes down to knowing the ins and the outs of the game, and chance. After you learn how to play it, you'll make a play that happens to come out well by chance. It's easy to feel like you played that well and have an enjoyable sense of achievement, when really you got lucky... although I guess another way of looking at it is not that your skill is making the ball go exactly where you want it, the skill is playing the odds.
There is another one in the area called "virusporno" which I can only assume is a lot of shared porn in which the actors and actresses have horrible sexually transmitted infections.
My understanding -- as an insider in the field -- is that you are correct. I work in the field of visual prosthetics. There are Phase II clinical trials underway for visual prostheses based on retinal stimulation, and a handful of researchers, like myself, who are looking at alternate approaches that include a more direct brain interface.
Then what are you doing posting on slashdot!?! There's 10 million at stake! If you're really so close, get back in the lab and make yourself a multi-millionaire!
All have non default ssids and passwords.
Yes, for example in my neighborhood there is a "dontstealmyinternet," which doesn't require a password, and a "freewifi" which does. I find that odd.
Uhm, what do you think a fucking diamond is? Chopped liver?
Well, no... when you put it like that...
untold amounts of geeks' fantasies never being fulfilled
Yeah, but the untold amounts of simpsons references should cancel some of that out.
What if heavy internet usage is caused by being depressed rather than causing it?
That would be a link, as in "Heavy internet use linked to depression."
My favorite is, "We have no idea what the side effect is of this vaccine in 10 or 20yrs."
What do they say when you point out the side effects of the diseases are well known, will happen a lot sooner than 10 years, and include encephalitis, retardation, blindness, and death?
The vaccine-autism debate should now end.
Yeah, right. Since when have facts ever got in the way of a 'good' conspiracy theory?
That was probably sarcasm on the part of JamJam. Also, should is not the same as will, although I would argue the debate -should- have ended when it became clear this was bogus science. He may also have meant "debate" as in "scientific debate" (again though, that was over before now) wheras the "debate" in the non-science sector will continue. Like how the question as to whether or not "macro-evolution" happened was over a hundred years ago in terms of scientific debate, but some idiots want to keep arguing until we all give up, admit we were wrong, affirm that their God rules, and give huge tithes to their church. Or something like that, I don't really know what they're after. Publicity maybe, which is what I think the anti-vaccination crowd is after, since their ringleader's career of taking off her clothes is over and her acting career never really went anywhere.
The trick is finding the truth in the whirlwind of lies and deceit.
The truth appears to be that the peer-reviewed study that is the basis for arguments that autism is linked to vaccines... isn't valid. Against that are numerous studies which did not find a link, and clear and obvious health problems with not vaccinating children. Specifically brain damage, blindness, death.
So basically the "don't vaccinate your kid" side now only has old playboy models and paranoia going for it. Forgive me if I think the "whirlwind of lies and deceit" is actually all on one side of the "debate."
Or entire -train- cars. In europe, they all seem to be coated in stupid spray paint logos from lazy taggers.
Several organisations are said to be testing the product, including a train company in Britain, which is using liquid glass on both the interior and exterior of the train,
I'm guessing they're hoping this will prevent idiots from vandalizing trains, since why would you care about dirt being on your freight train. Then again, shipping companies might not care much about vandalism anyway.
Seriously though, I've been wondering why there have been so few vulnerabilities on the iphone.
Me too. I guess my days of carelessly visiting untrustworthy but hott websites on my iphone and then clicking on whatever popups came up without bothering to read it are over.
It's a fetish, alright? I like clicking on buttons while looking at pictures of goats. Don't judge me.
::cue "see, Apple isn't perfect" comments::
See? Apple isn't perfect!
Now cue "It's not a bug / a missing feature / an intentionally and pointlessly broken function / restriction put there by business interests to get you to spend more money for shit you already own, it's a feature" in 3...2...1...
To sum up the article for those too lazy to read it
A chinese guy works a day job, works as a hacker at night. Likes to stay anonymous and take money from people's bank accounts.
I guess the fact that this is a chinese guy is shocking to some new york times readers?
It makes people passive.
It's working, I find myself not really caring enough to bother googling it before I say you are full of it.