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  1. Re:Curiosity Question on US Healthcare Records Offered For Sale Online · · Score: 1

    If this hack was made on systems which were accessible from the Internet, why the frack were they accessible from the Internet in the first place??

    Bwahahaha, How the fuck do you think we submit claims to your insurance company for reimbursement? Sure some stuff goes out over some vendor's private protocol over the internet, but most goes through the insurer's website. I can go to Delta's, log on and if your a Delta subscriber, find you and down load all of your Explanations of Benefits for the last 5 years as PDF; the judges love when we are suing for non-payment.

    Most Healthcare workers are functionally computer illiterate, an encrypted zip will send them into fits.

  2. Re:Where do I sign up? on US Healthcare Records Offered For Sale Online · · Score: 1

    Sure you can fix that by suing the Bastard in the Court that charges $5.00 a page for copying their court transcripts; we charge $15.00 for records copy from our dental office, the Hospital charged me $150.00 when they managed my MD's office.

  3. To me, the most important aspect of aether was is a universal reference frame. Galactic North would certainly imply one.

    I'm thinking you meant Universal North rather than Galactic. A blackhole conserves mass, charge and angular momentum, so who knows maybe the Universe does as well and we're all just a blackhole in an unknowable Omniverse and there really is universal north.
    Might be interesting to see if Galactic rotations have a statistical bias.

  4. Re:What is this I don't even on Physicists Confirm a Pear-Shaped Nucleus, and It Could Ruin Time Travel Forever (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Time is an attribute of how the human mind/brain perceives the universe. There is no way of untangling the psychology of perception from the study of physics at the quantum level.

    That's true of all of it, every psychological model of the universe breaks down, everything is just varying mass, velocity and charge. in reality it's all jabberwocky to wrap our minds around to maintain sanity.

  5. Re:What is this I don't even on Physicists Confirm a Pear-Shaped Nucleus, and It Could Ruin Time Travel Forever (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with white holes is that the matter had to come from somewhere and if you smoke just the right amount of pot it makes sense that the matter would come from the black holes.

    Perhaps the hole is only black on the outside if you smoke just the right amount of pot.

  6. Re:That's the state of the universe then... on Physicists Confirm a Pear-Shaped Nucleus, and It Could Ruin Time Travel Forever (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    And, nuclei vibrate.. so the universe is a vibrating buttplug.
    I'm not sure that revelation would get you a Nobel Prize. ;)

    It might if there was a practical application, what could one do with a vibrating universal buttplug?

  7. Re: Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No he was talking about using Artillery to replace the gap in capability between A10's Combat Air Support role and what the F35 is estimated to be able to pretend it can do 15 years from now; that is if they can fix the software enough so more than half of them can lift their sorry asses off the ground.

    We don't need flying unicorns farting rainbows, we need an aircraft that pounds ground targets like the hammer of Thor.

  8. Re:Complete B.S. on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The problem with jamming radar is it's very difficult, and it's kind of like sticking a homing beacon on your ass, Track-on-Jam has been available for half a century.

  9. Re:Why are we still using Human Pilots? on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Because when we automate war and remove the risk of losses on our side, it becomes too easy to just throw more robots into a situation.

    Then it becomes a matter of who has the resources and resolve to build enough robots to win, kind of like the Cold War where Reagan's defence build-up caused the Soviet Union's teetering economy to collapse trying to keep up.

  10. Re:Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If they are planning on going down the totally autonomous route they might as well totally redesign the fighter as there's no need for a cockpit aned most of the safety stuff that goes with it. Once we've completely got rid of all the dead weight we had in there for the pilot then we can truly bow down before our robot overlords.

    We've decided as a society that we don't want autonomous robots shooting at humans, without a human giving the command to shoot.

    UC's Cohen added, 'Alpha would be an extremely easy AI to cooperate with and have as a teammate.
    'It could continuously determine the optimal ways to perform tasks commanded by its manned wingman, as well as provide tactical and situational advice to the rest of its flight.'

    So what I'm seeing is one meatsack in a formation of pawns designating targets and authorizing ordnance release.

  11. Re: Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Plus, most missiles don't actually have that much maneuvering capability. They are usually solid-fuel boosters so you can't throttle the thrust significantly and their tiny winglets are more to keep them stabilized than to help them turn (in fact, most missiles only have an initial boost and then glide the rest of the way to their target). I

    The bird I worked on the Hawk hit mach 2.4 and the G limiters were set north of 9Gs, good luck with that. Russian Missile in that era didn't have G limiters and a hard jink on the stick would break them in half, they also didn't self-destruct on power lose or end-of-flight so missing the target meant a live warhead hit the ground. The Hawk launched from a zero length launcher so it's zero to Mach time was insane. The only possible escape from a HAWK was to stay deep in the weeds and hope you get lost in the ground clutter. Stay high and you'll turn into pilot jelly trying to out manoeuvre it, you might beat the Radars, but beating the bird was unlikely. That was 40 years ago, hard to imagine what can be done today

  12. Re: Unsurprising on AI Downs 'Top Gun' Pilot In Dogfights (dailymail.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    As far as other weapons we don't exactly strife people in fields very often. Usually you employ long range artillery to soften up a target like that.

    You say that like an Air Force Puke, I suppose you also think the F35 can replace the A10 too! Truth is the fight we are most likely to be forced into is more like another Afganistan than a WW III get used to it.

  13. Re:it's the mindset on Wisconsin's Prison-Sentencing Algorithm Challenged in Court (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    My state has found that the statistics are very sound when compared to the entire Offender population. The Dept of Parole and Probations calculates the scores and make a recommendation to the Presiding Judge who passes sentence based on the recommendation and His/Her professional judgement. If the Judges sentence varies significantly from recommendations, the rationale is given during sentencing. This allows for both showing individuals compassion where indicated while inhibiting unduly harsh sentences for others due to prejudices.

  14. Re:That's the whole point! on Woman Wins $10,000 Lawsuit Against Microsoft Over Windows 10 Upgrades (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    An other thing is she was a commercial user, not all commercial users are allowed to update their computer's software due to support contracts, it might even be a violation of Federal Regulations such as an FDA 501(K) facility.

  15. Could you not just remote in and stop it? Surely if you're tech savvy enough to remote into anything you'd be aware of this issue and want to nip it in the bud.

    I'm not sure, first he may have had no reason to remote in at that time and secondly not every dialog box is accessible remotely in every version of Windows as a security feature. I know in windows10 I've had to sit there and click Ok and enter the Administrator password for support because they couldn't focus on the dialog box remotely.

  16. ms has fucked up it

    Truer words were never spoken.

    Oh No, that shit has been said a lot; WindowsME, Windows Vista, Windows 8.0/8.1 come to mind as a few examples among many.

  17. Most freedom movements were condemned as terror attacks by the evil incumbents. Question for you. Were google supporting Trump instead of Hilary, would it bother you that they're censoring things?

    Yes even though I hate Killary, I don't want my search engine to become part of the echo-chamber. I don't want my search engine to tell me what it thinks I want to see, I want what I ask for.

  18. In order to get whitelisted, you have to reveal the Domain MX record and IP address officially to the State Department, then it becomes very hard to sneak some shit under the table because you've just turned the table top into glass. A big part of the NSA mission is cyber-security, the first part of cyber-security is preventing unauthorized intrusions, the second part is knowing what was taken, and available to be taken to minimise the impact to national security when the inevitable happens. Clinton was trying to keep her "Personal" secret and having the NSA take interest in her "personal" server isn't conducive to keeping Who and What your emailing secret.

  19. This is probably the reason that Clinton was using her own email server: the government email systems sucked because they were run by incompetent people.
    Does this "excuse" Clinton? I don't know. But at least she did what she needed to do to get shit done, which is more than what you can say about many people in government.

    FTA

    "We should talk about putting you on State e-mail or releasing your e-mail address to the department so you are not going to spam." Clinton replied, "Let's get [a] separate address or device but I don't want any risk of the personal [e-mail] being accessible."

    The implication is the clintonemail.com was never whitelisted because she didn't want the "department" (unclear if that meant the State Department or the IT Department of the State Department) to know she was using clintonemail.com and it failed spam check; the scary thing is the amount of effort put into avoiding "personal being accessible". Magic eight ball says she was afraid if the State Department officially knew she was using clintonemail.com, then the NSA would have been sucking up all of that content, and actively targeting clintonemail.com. This has got to be more than "Dr. appointments" and "Pickup Milk on the way home", she was not "getting shit done" she was "getting shit done in secret" and it was very posibly a voilation not only of law, but probably unconstitutional;

    No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

    and the Clinton Foundation has emolument written all over it.

  20. If your a business operating as a going concern then no the bank has little to lose, when a chargeback occurs it just get taken out of your current payments with an explanation and a service fee. A while back we had a rash of refunds and chargeback so the credit provider sent a representative out to have a chat with us, we explained that a consultant instituted some business practices had caused problems with buyers remorse and clients not fully comprehending what they were agreeing to. We fired the consultant and reverted some of the practices that were causing problems, our discount rates and transaction fees went up for a 6 month probationary period, and are now back to normal.
    Now if a business isn't operating as a going concern the bank can really get hurt because the current payments may stop at any time. Businesses that sell tangible goods from a brick and mortar store get better rates because the risks are lower; an internet porn sites rates are very high because they get a lot of chargebacks on there intangible digitally delivered goods, so the risks are very high. Game keys are also an internet intangible.

  21. Re:What about outside New York? on New York Criminalizes the Use Of Ticket-Buying Bots (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Be careful, some laws says something like "It is Illegal for anyone to ... " and some say "It is Illegal for anyone in the United States to ... " , so you might want to consult an Attorney for specific guidance.

  22. Re:easily exploitable software? on New York Criminalizes the Use Of Ticket-Buying Bots (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You mean like limiting tickets per transaction to something reasonable like 6 and locking a credit card number for 5 minutes? 5 minutes would be an eternity when whole tours sell out in 10 minutes.

  23. Re:But will they pursue charges? on New York Criminalizes the Use Of Ticket-Buying Bots (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    Seems like if your advertising the sales of tickets for a 14,000 seat venue, and only 1,000 seats were available to the general public, there most be some kind of Unfair Trade Practice or False Advertising. New York is a pretty liberal state, one would think that a state that would have Clinton as its Senator would have very strong regulations for Consumer protection. North of the border, The Tragically Hip's whole Canadian farewell tour sold-out in minutes, so there is a lot of angst in Canada over the same thing as well.

  24. Re:Float? Not quite. on Tesla Model S Floats Well Enough To Act As a Boat, According To Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    Dude you want something like This, if you can't pull a water-skier what good is it?

  25. Re:Nothing new on Tesla Model S Floats Well Enough To Act As a Boat, According To Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    My VW mini-motorhome had a piece of PVC Drain Pipe to replace the rusted out heat duct, worked like a champ! You could also get electric boaster-heaters so the windshield would defrost before you got to work in the morning.