My son needed a surgery for craniosynostosis, that would be best performed at age 3 months. My husband was just in the process of changing insurance due to a new job, and we had chosen Kaiser until the pediatrician warned us that Kaiser didn't have a surgeon qualified to do that surgery, that we'd have to wait until he was 6 months and have a much riskier surgery. Fortunately, the paperwork hadn't gone through, so we made some urgent changes and got Blue Shield. The surgeon covered by them happened to be the one who pioneered the endoscopic version of the surgery my son needed.
This surgery meant a significantly shorter recovery time, and no blood transfusion. One night in the hospital was required, a second allowed at my request. The version for six months olds would have required a blood transfusion, much more time in the hospital and a more difficult recovery. I'm ecstatic we didn't go Kaiser.
Same here. Folders make my searches faster because I know which part of my inbox the email should be in. They also let me check the emails I'm interested in at the moment, so the stuff I don't need to pay attention to at the moment is out of my way.
That's what I was wondering too. Hotels and such aren't creating the technology alleged to be infringing. They bought it in good faith. If you're going after someone who infringed on your patent, you go after the one who actually infringed. I only hope the judge in this case has enough sense to see this, throw the case out and massively fine the trolls.
The problem I have is that schools don't always just cut music, art and PE. My neighborhood school didn't bother teaching science or social studies to my second grader most of the school year. Kids did one lesson in each of those subjects, and those only after state testing was done. The rest of the year the class only worked on math and language arts, in an effort to get the school's test scores up. I'd say they would have been smarter to broaden the education and include all the subjects they were supposed to teach. They even had the frigging textbooks in the class - they just never used them. Workbooks came home at the end of the school year untouched except that single lesson.
It didn't surprise me at all that we got a notice the following year that the school would be closed and replaced by a charter school due to poor performance. I'm really hoping the charter school does better. They've chosen a tough program, and now have to do a full curriculum to comply with the program they'd like to become a full part of. They're just a candidate school now, but have to teach a foreign language starting in kindergarten, social studies, science, and my kids tell me they do get art now.
I do know how hard it is to fit a full curriculum into a school day. I did an online charter school with my daughter for third grade which required art and either music or a foreign language in addition to the usual. It was tough to get it all done some days, but other days we could finish quite early. Not at all the same as running a class of 20-30 students, of course.
Same here. I don't check my emails much, but the infected spam rate is atrocious right now. Overall spam is about normal, I think, but more of them have infected attachments.
Thank you. I'm not so fond of carbon footprint as a measure, but it really annoys when they talk about the entire footprint of an activity of a person without mentioning the resting footprint. Certainly you'll use more energy during an activity, but it's not necessarily a bad thing. Shall we all become slugs on the couch, afraid to move because it might increase our carbon footprint? Oh wait, what about the footprint of the couch?
I know what you mean about "too hot." One of my daughter's friends has rarely been able to come over to play this summer because it's too hot pretty much every day. Seems to be anything over 85 or so counts.
My kids get kicked out of the house almost no matter the weather. Not that I have to kick them out often, since most days they're headed out to catch lizards, dig in the yard or do I don't know quite what. I've had to wash serious mud off them with a hose before letting them inside a few times. Pretty sure that stuff should just be part of being a kid, and mostly it's not that risky, just messy.
Too true. This is why I liked my college professor who describes parenthood as raising future adults, not children. I want my kids to keep growing up. They get better as they get more mature. Sure, babies, toddlers and on down the line are fun, but seeing kids grow up is much more fun than treating them as younger than they are. They're people, not my personal toys.
Why not is a great question. My sisters and I played in the canyon behind our house often. Lots of fun and since this was well before cell phones, we carried a whistle in case help was needed. We only gave up on the canyon when poison oak took over all the good paths.
Too true. I'd love for my kids to have seen some of the playgrounds I played in as a kid. Much more challenging than most of what they see now.
My daughter's old school very, very briefly had a zip line in their playground. Must have been in there just a couple weeks during the summer before school started, because I never saw it in one piece. Got taken down when a girl broke her arm on it shortly after the new playground opened. It's still a better playground than most, but it made me sad to find out my kids had missed out on the zip line. Unfortunately, the school had to go with what their liability insurance wanted them to do.
Current school is far more protective, and their playground is pathetic, and sometimes closed for over a week due to rain on one day. And yes, that no running rule applies on any pavement.
Too true. Especially if you don't learn after an infection or so, paying someone to fix it is just what you deserve. Malware's out there. Be ready to deal with it.
While I don't see the point to adding a new law in this case, as I would expect the right to privacy to be enough, I also don't see how a law saying you can't spy on the people renting a computer from you is a big hoop for a business to leap through. Not like it's hard to avoid installing this sort of program.
My husband's computer had a virus along these lines a year or two ago, hijacking Google results, and that thing was tough to get rid of. Not a single malware scanner found it. I simply noticed because he complained his computer wasn't working right, and the usual scanner wasn't fixing it for him. Neither was any other scanner I tried, and I tried a bunch. Not one so much as detected it, but the changed search results showed that something was going on. I had to do a reinstall on his computer too.
Found it his computer probably got infected because he kept going back to a site his scanner warned him was infected, and he'd ignored the warning. *headdesk* I think he knows better than to make that mistake again, but there are reasons why I don't like him using my computer. You'd think the previous discussions we'd had about malware would be enough... I hope he finally has that lesson down.
Going to have to keep that Sysinternals suite mentioned elsewhere in mind. He's not the only problem child in the family, although I have most relatives pretty well trained now.
That's horrible, and they would probably do the same to my oldest, who is incredibly imaginative and insists that fairies are real. The little fluttery type with wings, not the other sort. I wouldn't consider drugging her out of being herself.
My school had a late bus too, southern California. The way schools are cutting buses in my area now, however, I don't know how such things would be worked.
Same here. I'm thinking this would take access after school at the school for kids who don't have internet at home, or some sort of program to lend computers and pay for basic internet access in the home.
Not the same thing at all, but my daughter's online charter school did just that. Computers were loaned for the school year, and a check sent to subsidize a part of our internet access costs. Pretty nice program to ensure that kids could do the program even if it was hard for their parents to afford such things.
It sounds great to me too. My daughter already deals with the frustration of being ahead of most of her classmates, and while my son has just finished kindergarten, I suspect he's going to have the same issue soon enough, as he picks this stuff up really fast. I've actually thought about having them go through the early arithmetic videos a bit this summer as review, rather than just doing the occasional practice problems (very occasional, just enough to help them remember more over the summer). If the school isn't going to use it, it may be a decent parental tool, even though it means more time studying for the kids.
Precisely. Just think how much had to be memorized before the printing press was invented. It's something of an ongoing process, although these days it's rather different sorts of information we need to have.
It definitely does sometimes, but not so much that I'd get "inside wiring" personally, and I worked for the phone company for about a year more than 10 years ago. Got people calling to get that added to their bill often enough because they had just reported a problem that might involve their inside wiring. Some people would push it pretty hard. A few years after I left that job, had a case where my phone line was crossed with someone else's, and they tried to see me on inside wiring for that one. It was quite obviously an outside issue, so of course I had no interest in it.
I assume it's the same as when I worked for the phone company, more than 10 years ago, but the other hard part for a lot of customers was understanding that they had to call the company that put the charge on the bill to cancel it most times. Regular customer service phone company employees couldn't do it, although removing the charges wasn't a big deal so long as the dollar amount wasn't huge. It was amazing how long some of these charges could be put on before someone caught on, and then expected all of them to be removed, months later.
It really pays to review your bills every month. Very simple to do, and then you know what it should look like.
Slashdot Mirror
My son needed a surgery for craniosynostosis, that would be best performed at age 3 months. My husband was just in the process of changing insurance due to a new job, and we had chosen Kaiser until the pediatrician warned us that Kaiser didn't have a surgeon qualified to do that surgery, that we'd have to wait until he was 6 months and have a much riskier surgery. Fortunately, the paperwork hadn't gone through, so we made some urgent changes and got Blue Shield. The surgeon covered by them happened to be the one who pioneered the endoscopic version of the surgery my son needed.
This surgery meant a significantly shorter recovery time, and no blood transfusion. One night in the hospital was required, a second allowed at my request. The version for six months olds would have required a blood transfusion, much more time in the hospital and a more difficult recovery. I'm ecstatic we didn't go Kaiser.
Same here. Folders make my searches faster because I know which part of my inbox the email should be in. They also let me check the emails I'm interested in at the moment, so the stuff I don't need to pay attention to at the moment is out of my way.
That's what I was wondering too. Hotels and such aren't creating the technology alleged to be infringing. They bought it in good faith. If you're going after someone who infringed on your patent, you go after the one who actually infringed. I only hope the judge in this case has enough sense to see this, throw the case out and massively fine the trolls.
The problem I have is that schools don't always just cut music, art and PE. My neighborhood school didn't bother teaching science or social studies to my second grader most of the school year. Kids did one lesson in each of those subjects, and those only after state testing was done. The rest of the year the class only worked on math and language arts, in an effort to get the school's test scores up. I'd say they would have been smarter to broaden the education and include all the subjects they were supposed to teach. They even had the frigging textbooks in the class - they just never used them. Workbooks came home at the end of the school year untouched except that single lesson.
It didn't surprise me at all that we got a notice the following year that the school would be closed and replaced by a charter school due to poor performance. I'm really hoping the charter school does better. They've chosen a tough program, and now have to do a full curriculum to comply with the program they'd like to become a full part of. They're just a candidate school now, but have to teach a foreign language starting in kindergarten, social studies, science, and my kids tell me they do get art now.
I do know how hard it is to fit a full curriculum into a school day. I did an online charter school with my daughter for third grade which required art and either music or a foreign language in addition to the usual. It was tough to get it all done some days, but other days we could finish quite early. Not at all the same as running a class of 20-30 students, of course.
Same here. I don't check my emails much, but the infected spam rate is atrocious right now. Overall spam is about normal, I think, but more of them have infected attachments.
Nah, just buy carbon credits to make up for the horrifying, horrifying things your breath does to the atmosphere.
Thank you. I'm not so fond of carbon footprint as a measure, but it really annoys when they talk about the entire footprint of an activity of a person without mentioning the resting footprint. Certainly you'll use more energy during an activity, but it's not necessarily a bad thing. Shall we all become slugs on the couch, afraid to move because it might increase our carbon footprint? Oh wait, what about the footprint of the couch?
Great. Last thing I need is my kids bringing home another dragon.
I know what you mean about "too hot." One of my daughter's friends has rarely been able to come over to play this summer because it's too hot pretty much every day. Seems to be anything over 85 or so counts.
My kids get kicked out of the house almost no matter the weather. Not that I have to kick them out often, since most days they're headed out to catch lizards, dig in the yard or do I don't know quite what. I've had to wash serious mud off them with a hose before letting them inside a few times. Pretty sure that stuff should just be part of being a kid, and mostly it's not that risky, just messy.
Too true. This is why I liked my college professor who describes parenthood as raising future adults, not children. I want my kids to keep growing up. They get better as they get more mature. Sure, babies, toddlers and on down the line are fun, but seeing kids grow up is much more fun than treating them as younger than they are. They're people, not my personal toys.
Why not is a great question. My sisters and I played in the canyon behind our house often. Lots of fun and since this was well before cell phones, we carried a whistle in case help was needed. We only gave up on the canyon when poison oak took over all the good paths.
Too true. I'd love for my kids to have seen some of the playgrounds I played in as a kid. Much more challenging than most of what they see now.
My daughter's old school very, very briefly had a zip line in their playground. Must have been in there just a couple weeks during the summer before school started, because I never saw it in one piece. Got taken down when a girl broke her arm on it shortly after the new playground opened. It's still a better playground than most, but it made me sad to find out my kids had missed out on the zip line. Unfortunately, the school had to go with what their liability insurance wanted them to do.
Current school is far more protective, and their playground is pathetic, and sometimes closed for over a week due to rain on one day. And yes, that no running rule applies on any pavement.
Too true. Especially if you don't learn after an infection or so, paying someone to fix it is just what you deserve. Malware's out there. Be ready to deal with it.
While I don't see the point to adding a new law in this case, as I would expect the right to privacy to be enough, I also don't see how a law saying you can't spy on the people renting a computer from you is a big hoop for a business to leap through. Not like it's hard to avoid installing this sort of program.
My husband's computer had a virus along these lines a year or two ago, hijacking Google results, and that thing was tough to get rid of. Not a single malware scanner found it. I simply noticed because he complained his computer wasn't working right, and the usual scanner wasn't fixing it for him. Neither was any other scanner I tried, and I tried a bunch. Not one so much as detected it, but the changed search results showed that something was going on. I had to do a reinstall on his computer too.
Found it his computer probably got infected because he kept going back to a site his scanner warned him was infected, and he'd ignored the warning. *headdesk* I think he knows better than to make that mistake again, but there are reasons why I don't like him using my computer. You'd think the previous discussions we'd had about malware would be enough... I hope he finally has that lesson down.
Going to have to keep that Sysinternals suite mentioned elsewhere in mind. He's not the only problem child in the family, although I have most relatives pretty well trained now.
That's horrible, and they would probably do the same to my oldest, who is incredibly imaginative and insists that fairies are real. The little fluttery type with wings, not the other sort. I wouldn't consider drugging her out of being herself.
My school had a late bus too, southern California. The way schools are cutting buses in my area now, however, I don't know how such things would be worked.
Same here. I'm thinking this would take access after school at the school for kids who don't have internet at home, or some sort of program to lend computers and pay for basic internet access in the home.
Not the same thing at all, but my daughter's online charter school did just that. Computers were loaned for the school year, and a check sent to subsidize a part of our internet access costs. Pretty nice program to ensure that kids could do the program even if it was hard for their parents to afford such things.
It sounds great to me too. My daughter already deals with the frustration of being ahead of most of her classmates, and while my son has just finished kindergarten, I suspect he's going to have the same issue soon enough, as he picks this stuff up really fast. I've actually thought about having them go through the early arithmetic videos a bit this summer as review, rather than just doing the occasional practice problems (very occasional, just enough to help them remember more over the summer). If the school isn't going to use it, it may be a decent parental tool, even though it means more time studying for the kids.
Precisely. Just think how much had to be memorized before the printing press was invented. It's something of an ongoing process, although these days it's rather different sorts of information we need to have.
They're not lying, they're marketing. There's a difference. /sarcasm
That was my thought too. "Leaks" are too easy a way to build hype. They aren't going to let Google play in the social space without them.
I had that exact situation with SBC once too. It was ridiculous.
It definitely does sometimes, but not so much that I'd get "inside wiring" personally, and I worked for the phone company for about a year more than 10 years ago. Got people calling to get that added to their bill often enough because they had just reported a problem that might involve their inside wiring. Some people would push it pretty hard. A few years after I left that job, had a case where my phone line was crossed with someone else's, and they tried to see me on inside wiring for that one. It was quite obviously an outside issue, so of course I had no interest in it.
I assume it's the same as when I worked for the phone company, more than 10 years ago, but the other hard part for a lot of customers was understanding that they had to call the company that put the charge on the bill to cancel it most times. Regular customer service phone company employees couldn't do it, although removing the charges wasn't a big deal so long as the dollar amount wasn't huge. It was amazing how long some of these charges could be put on before someone caught on, and then expected all of them to be removed, months later.
It really pays to review your bills every month. Very simple to do, and then you know what it should look like.