That might explain things in the US... but then what is going on in the UK where they have a quality single payer system and yet ambulances are spending obscene # of hours outside of hospitals waiting to deliver their sick patients: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22135109
If only there was the option to takeout private medical care in the uk and bypass those waiting lists.....
My 85 grandmother just spent 4 nights in hospital with a water infection. I understand that Americans find it shocking that she didn't spend a penny on this (not that she has many pennies to spend)
Also, the password isn't sent over the wire in cleartext; it's sent as cleartext *inside of the SSL stream*. As in: you need to defeat SSL to read it as a man in the middle. SSH does the same thing.
I tunnel my SSL traffic over an SSH tunnel through an SSTP vpn, what could possibly go wrong?
At least they aren't quartering soldiers in your home, although the fawning over people in uniform that goes on in america means you'd probably just open your doors anyway.
I essentially have, as one of my college roommates was a member of the national guard and had served in Iraq. I have plenty of veteran (and active duty) friends and acquaintances that I would gladly let stay in my house, because they are good people. The whole quartering troops thing was because the people saw the troops as adversaries. Today, it is our government that seems to be our adversary. Our military (the actual guys behind the guns) are the only ones who seem to actually care about the country.
Yeah, that's why they shoot the bad guys, and don't shoot up US Elementary schools. Oh wait
MPLS works over a number of carrier technologies including T1, E1, ATM, Frame Relay, and DSL.
They do (and other technologies. I wonder if you can do MPLS over MPLS. I have 3 days put aside next month for some fiddling with MPLS and VPLS), but as all I get is an ethernet handoff on a piece of fibre, it means that old inefficient technologies like T1/DS3/etc can be bypassed.
From my point of view, I pay $xxx per month, and get a cable in my equipment room, the fibre heads off to somewhere, the ethernet packets are tagged with MPLS and shifted quickly and reliably across multiple high bandwidth links (Say SEA ME WE 4) before landing in my equipment room 6,000 miles away unmolested. I'm not sure what 1tbit intercontinental fibre runs over, I'm sure its very complex and expensive, but that cost is shared amongst 10,000 other customers.
From my point of view as an end user though, I no longer need half a bay of ancient equipment to deliver a 45mbit bearer, I have a fibre landing on my £300 router at each end, I run an IP circuit on a/30 between the two routers, and I drop vlans off each side, and shape as much as I want. The capital cost drops 2 orders of magnitude, the reliability jumps up, the support costs collapse, and the flexibility increases.
Why would I, as a non network service provider, ever think of anything other than an ethernet or IP line?
not a valid comparison, since a business grade symertric medium of course has a premium A T1 compariable line still is $300 month, and plenty of businesses have them for their mission critical traffic. Company I last worked at had 40 Mbit Comcast business line with routed subet, but they still had the T1 backup for email and main web site and replication to offsite DNS. That Comcast line went down or flapped sometimes, but the T1 was always there
Most businesses I've seen are moving to MPLS. We have a T3 we're trying to migrate away from as we can replace it with 2 50mbit mplss and make a 70% saving, and replace the kit with something that is actually supported.
One problem we're having is we have 2 E1 lines on the barer, but you can get E1 over IP converters which look promising.
Because if we ever get to that point, then armed rebellion cannot be far behind.
Ha ha! Yes, sure, just after tonight's all new jersey shore.
Your government ignores the most essential parts of your constitution -- the biill of rights -- they routinely ignore the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 10th, possibly the 7th and 8th and arguably the 9th, and all you do is whine about it.
At least they aren't quartering soldiers in your home, although the fawning over people in uniform that goes on in america means you'd probably just open your doors anyway.
Of course in the UK you're free to engage companies like BUPA to give you private medical care.
The average person in the UK pays $3,433 per year of medical care. The average person in the US pays $8,233
That leaves plenty of money for a £170 pcm ($3600/year) "Comprehensive plan" with BUPA. With a $800 "deducatble" that drops to $2300/year, if you wish.
My previous T410s died, the screen finally gave up the ghost (I'd had two screws/nuts through it to hold it together, but it eventually became too much for the plastic)
Fortunately a collegue had a barely used one from the same era. I ordered him a new one, and took his. Battery life now back up to 5 hours rather than 90 minutes, screen just opens too.
I'm dreading the day this one dies, you just can't get a good laptop any more. The only problem I have with the t410s is the stupid "thinkvantage" button -- what a waste.
Silly question, but... what happens when you want to apply and you don't have a computer ? Surely, by definition, a sizable portion of the population that requires Obamacare doesn't necessarily have the means to have a computer or an internet connection.
And no, "anybody has a computer these days" is not an answer. I know plenty of people who don't have enough to feed themselves, let alone buy a computer - let alone one that's recent enough to cope with plugins that invariably tell you "your operating system / browser is not supported anymore, please upgrade." every 6 months.
In the Philippines, guards are hired everywhere, and I mean everywhere. They cost no more than $3/day and they will guard your shop or whatever you tell them to guard with a gun, possibly a shotgun or automatic rifle. People normally don't mess with these folks, particularly when they are in malls, at every store and so on... Of course, you can't do the same in the US because paying a guard $3/day is unrealistic with high minimum wage laws (they still survive just fine over there btw).
Food over there costs 50 cents a day Rent over there costs 25 cents a day Things are cheaper.
Pay someone $600 a year in the U.S. and they will die.
Bribing over there is very common, even I have done it to get papers processed faster.
If you're british, that's now illegal. If you employ someone that then bribes on your behalf, that's still illegal. Doesn't matter how common or essential it is. There is a defence about (i.e. if you're at a checkpoint - even an official one - and the guy with the AK47 is demanding a "window cleaning tax" or something to let you past, pay away)
a) Doesn't work (for reducing offenses, it's great for revenue)
It needn't be money. In England, the fine isn't that much money (£60), but if you are caught four times in three years (for small excesses) you are then banned from driving. The more severe the offence the more quickly you can lose your license. If you've not had a license for long it's also easier to lose, and you might be required to pay for more lessons.
Yet in England I drove up to Cumbria on Sunday and the satnav hit 95mph. There's very few police patrols around.
Cameras will catch people breaking (an arbitrary) speed limit of 70mph (assuming they don't have false plates), but they won't catch the tailgater at 69 in the fog with no lights on.
You missed the point. No one wants slower traffic. They want fewer muggings (in the given example).
Noone wants slower traffic, but many people want fewer accidents (currently running at about 11x 9/11 per year), and many of those think that lower speed limits are the way to do it.
However that's beside the point. In the U.S. your community has a direct influence on the local police department, as you appoint the head directly via a direct election. You have more of a say than when you appoint the president -- both because the political machine is smaller scale, and because you actually vote directly.
Get enough people to vote for a police chief that will put patrols on the street and you win. This should be easy if everyone wants fewer muggings.
America is great -- you are effectively a shareholder in the police corporation. If the majority of shareholders want to change direction, they can.
Not our fault your office is located in South Africa.
I have many offices. Some have 100mbit connections coming out their ears (Tokyo, HK, Singapore, Washington). Others struggle to get 10 (Kabul, Nairobi)
Beiruit is probably the only office which can't get 10mbit connection. The average is far higher.
10 Mb/s upstream is not that unusual these days. And many botnets are way bigger than 10000 bots. Even if each bot has just 2 Mb/s upstream, you only need 50000 Bots. And botnets are not limited to infecting computers on home user connections. Infecting 100 servers on 1 Gbit/s connections is also enough.
Certainly isn't, I've got that in my office in South Africa, which as far as the internet goes is about as backwater as you can get in a G20.
Thanks to university where I had to switch between terminals using US keyboard layout and PCs using UK I learned pretty quickly that @ and " switched places. \ was a pain, but not as bad as ~ or `.
My current laptop has US keyboard set because it has US keycaps (and Cyrillic for some reason) but every other device in the house with a keyboard (8 and counting) is UK. Doesn't bother me at all.
I don't mind the fact that US keyboards are wrong (:p), it's the fact the only way to enter \ on this type of setup is to hit the Alt-numeric keypad
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You know what the British DON'T believe in? Toothpaste!
Thank you folks, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to try out our delicious Potato Bar.
I did believe in it, but then the TSA confiscated it.
That might explain things in the US... but then what is going on in the UK where they have a quality single payer system and yet ambulances are spending obscene # of hours outside of hospitals waiting to deliver their sick patients: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22135109
If only there was the option to takeout private medical care in the uk and bypass those waiting lists.....
My 85 grandmother just spent 4 nights in hospital with a water infection. I understand that Americans find it shocking that she didn't spend a penny on this (not that she has many pennies to spend)
Also, the password isn't sent over the wire in cleartext; it's sent as cleartext *inside of the SSL stream*. As in: you need to defeat SSL to read it as a man in the middle. SSH does the same thing.
I tunnel my SSL traffic over an SSH tunnel through an SSTP vpn, what could possibly go wrong?
$17 trillion in debt....
Nothing else, even a shutdown or default is undermining the dollar worse than running $1+ trillion deficits.
And if we don't stop, the government shutdown will eventually become PERMANENT. How much will that cost the economy folks.
Oh, and might I add, that the Democrats are punks because all they do is kick the bucket down past the next election.
And the Republicans are punks because all they did was kick the bucket down past the next election?
In my country, 20% of my income goes to health care, and everyone finds it normal.
It's the Americans that are weird.
17.9% of American GDP goes on health care, or an average $7,960 per person per year
Compare to Canada, which is 11.4% and $4,314 per person per year
At least they aren't quartering soldiers in your home, although the fawning over people in uniform that goes on in america means you'd probably just open your doors anyway.
I essentially have, as one of my college roommates was a member of the national guard and had served in Iraq. I have plenty of veteran (and active duty) friends and acquaintances that I would gladly let stay in my house, because they are good people. The whole quartering troops thing was because the people saw the troops as adversaries. Today, it is our government that seems to be our adversary. Our military (the actual guys behind the guns) are the only ones who seem to actually care about the country.
Yeah, that's why they shoot the bad guys, and don't shoot up US Elementary schools. Oh wait
MPLS works over a number of carrier technologies including T1, E1, ATM, Frame Relay, and DSL.
They do (and other technologies. I wonder if you can do MPLS over MPLS. I have 3 days put aside next month for some fiddling with MPLS and VPLS), but as all I get is an ethernet handoff on a piece of fibre, it means that old inefficient technologies like T1/DS3/etc can be bypassed.
From my point of view, I pay $xxx per month, and get a cable in my equipment room, the fibre heads off to somewhere, the ethernet packets are tagged with MPLS and shifted quickly and reliably across multiple high bandwidth links (Say SEA ME WE 4) before landing in my equipment room 6,000 miles away unmolested. I'm not sure what 1tbit intercontinental fibre runs over, I'm sure its very complex and expensive, but that cost is shared amongst 10,000 other customers.
From my point of view as an end user though, I no longer need half a bay of ancient equipment to deliver a 45mbit bearer, I have a fibre landing on my £300 router at each end, I run an IP circuit on a /30 between the two routers, and I drop vlans off each side, and shape as much as I want. The capital cost drops 2 orders of magnitude, the reliability jumps up, the support costs collapse, and the flexibility increases.
Why would I, as a non network service provider, ever think of anything other than an ethernet or IP line?
not a valid comparison, since a business grade symertric medium of course has a premium A T1 compariable line still is $300 month, and plenty of businesses have them for their mission critical traffic. Company I last worked at had 40 Mbit Comcast business line with routed subet, but they still had the T1 backup for email and main web site and replication to offsite DNS. That Comcast line went down or flapped sometimes, but the T1 was always there
Most businesses I've seen are moving to MPLS. We have a T3 we're trying to migrate away from as we can replace it with 2 50mbit mplss and make a 70% saving, and replace the kit with something that is actually supported.
One problem we're having is we have 2 E1 lines on the barer, but you can get E1 over IP converters which look promising.
Because if we ever get to that point, then armed rebellion cannot be far behind.
Ha ha! Yes, sure, just after tonight's all new jersey shore.
Your government ignores the most essential parts of your constitution -- the biill of rights -- they routinely ignore the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 10th, possibly the 7th and 8th and arguably the 9th, and all you do is whine about it.
At least they aren't quartering soldiers in your home, although the fawning over people in uniform that goes on in america means you'd probably just open your doors anyway.
For some reason people want health care that won't bankrupt them. They look at what citizens of other industrialized nations get and want the same.
You mean eight hour waits in ambulances to game national healthcare system metrics, going to the US for treatment to avoid waits, and crackdowns on treatment for immigrants? Americans don't want the first, the second is redundant, and Obamacare will probably rule out the third.
Of course in the UK you're free to engage companies like BUPA to give you private medical care.
The average person in the UK pays $3,433 per year of medical care. The average person in the US pays $8,233
That leaves plenty of money for a £170 pcm ($3600/year) "Comprehensive plan" with BUPA. With a $800 "deducatble" that drops to $2300/year, if you wish.
http://www.foxnews.com/images/385241/3_21_ape450.jpg
NSFW: Shows nipplage.
NSFW, is fox "news"
My previous T410s died, the screen finally gave up the ghost (I'd had two screws/nuts through it to hold it together, but it eventually became too much for the plastic)
Fortunately a collegue had a barely used one from the same era. I ordered him a new one, and took his. Battery life now back up to 5 hours rather than 90 minutes, screen just opens too.
I'm dreading the day this one dies, you just can't get a good laptop any more. The only problem I have with the t410s is the stupid "thinkvantage" button -- what a waste.
Understand that every line of code you write may/will be maintained by somebody else. Architect/Design/Write/Test accordingly.
This does not mean a comment saying "HA HA -- good luck finding out what this does. I haven't got a clue!"
Have you never done a write() and wondered where the data you sent to disk went?
If it's anything like the rest of my data I'm pretty sure it went to /dev/null
No problem, just read it back from /dev/random
Seek time's a bitch though
I'm confused, I thought that nobody wanted obamacare?
Silly question, but... what happens when you want to apply and you don't have a computer ? Surely, by definition, a sizable portion of the population that requires Obamacare doesn't necessarily have the means to have a computer or an internet connection.
And no, "anybody has a computer these days" is not an answer. I know plenty of people who don't have enough to feed themselves, let alone buy a computer - let alone one that's recent enough to cope with plugins that invariably tell you "your operating system / browser is not supported anymore, please upgrade." every 6 months.
Do you have libraries in america?
Fusion achieved. Sometimes we are awesome creatures, congrats to all involved.
And not a minute too soon.
We achieved nuclear fusion 62 years ago. Fitting it's only just turned up on slashdot.
Vulcanized rubber
Spock's birth control?
In the Philippines, guards are hired everywhere, and I mean everywhere. They cost no more than $3/day and they will guard your shop or whatever you tell them to guard with a gun, possibly a shotgun or automatic rifle. People normally don't mess with these folks, particularly when they are in malls, at every store and so on... Of course, you can't do the same in the US because paying a guard $3/day is unrealistic with high minimum wage laws (they still survive just fine over there btw).
Food over there costs 50 cents a day
Rent over there costs 25 cents a day
Things are cheaper.
Pay someone $600 a year in the U.S. and they will die.
Bribing over there is very common, even I have done it to get papers processed faster.
If you're british, that's now illegal. If you employ someone that then bribes on your behalf, that's still illegal. Doesn't matter how common or essential it is. There is a defence about (i.e. if you're at a checkpoint - even an official one - and the guy with the AK47 is demanding a "window cleaning tax" or something to let you past, pay away)
a) Doesn't work (for reducing offenses, it's great for revenue)
It needn't be money. In England, the fine isn't that much money (£60), but if you are caught four times in three years (for small excesses) you are then banned from driving. The more severe the offence the more quickly you can lose your license. If you've not had a license for long it's also easier to lose, and you might be required to pay for more lessons.
Yet in England I drove up to Cumbria on Sunday and the satnav hit 95mph. There's very few police patrols around.
Cameras will catch people breaking (an arbitrary) speed limit of 70mph (assuming they don't have false plates), but they won't catch the tailgater at 69 in the fog with no lights on.
You missed the point. No one wants slower traffic. They want fewer muggings (in the given example).
Noone wants slower traffic, but many people want fewer accidents (currently running at about 11x 9/11 per year), and many of those think that lower speed limits are the way to do it.
However that's beside the point. In the U.S. your community has a direct influence on the local police department, as you appoint the head directly via a direct election. You have more of a say than when you appoint the president -- both because the political machine is smaller scale, and because you actually vote directly.
Get enough people to vote for a police chief that will put patrols on the street and you win. This should be easy if everyone wants fewer muggings.
America is great -- you are effectively a shareholder in the police corporation. If the majority of shareholders want to change direction, they can.
Not our fault your office is located in South Africa.
I have many offices. Some have 100mbit connections coming out their ears (Tokyo, HK, Singapore, Washington). Others struggle to get 10 (Kabul, Nairobi)
Beiruit is probably the only office which can't get 10mbit connection. The average is far higher.
10 Mb/s upstream is not that unusual these days. And many botnets are way bigger than 10000 bots. Even if each bot has just 2 Mb/s upstream, you only need 50000 Bots. And botnets are not limited to infecting computers on home user connections. Infecting 100 servers on 1 Gbit/s connections is also enough.
Certainly isn't, I've got that in my office in South Africa, which as far as the internet goes is about as backwater as you can get in a G20.
You totally missed the part about not within our current technical ability.
No, not within the laws of physics.
There's nothing stopping us running a tube through the earth from one side to another, removing the air, and using a laser to cut down on latency.
We'd have to disprove relativity to use quantum entanglement as a means of communication
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=612 et. al
Thanks to university where I had to switch between terminals using US keyboard layout and PCs using UK I learned pretty quickly that @ and " switched places. \ was a pain, but not as bad as ~ or `.
My current laptop has US keyboard set because it has US keycaps (and Cyrillic for some reason) but every other device in the house with a keyboard (8 and counting) is UK. Doesn't bother me at all.
I don't mind the fact that US keyboards are wrong (:p), it's the fact the only way to enter \ on this type of setup is to hit the Alt-numeric keypad