but not having to support worthless execs means that it is cheaper than that private garbage.
Are you aware of the expense ratios of private and non-profit insurance companies? I'd gather, no, because this information is publicly available, and the range is 3-7%. That's the amount of profit (vs. expense of payouts). So if you want to take the 'yacht cost' out of of those plans you'll save less than that.
Before mouthing off about costs, how about do a little research?
Agreed.
Like the fact that the US spends roughly 2x as much(as a % of GDP) than any other industrialized nation(who all have public health insurance)
Indeed. So perhaps you should look at why this is true. Research how rates are set in the US.
and yet the health outcomes are not any better for all that cash spent.
The medical outcomes are marginally better but cultural factors result in a wash or worse.
Oh I'm sorry, did I use facts with a Republican? My mistake.
Naw, don't worry about that, you're safe. FWIW, I'm a Democrat who cares about actually helping people with real solutions, not trying to incite class envy, but I'm well aware that the fascist RepubliCrats are very happy with the status quo.
And spacecraft because there are rad-hard parts available.
The thing I wonder about is all the years of ARM driving for low power (Intel has done this too) while IBM Power (uppercase) focused on being really fast and powerful for server work. Either they expect to buy a company that has the expertise to reduce Power's power consumption or they expect one of these companies to license the design and do it themselves, though I'm not sure why Power's architecture is better enough than ARM's for such a company to do so.
Are IBM hoping that people migrate to AIX or something? (good luck with that!)
A few days ago on the Fedora homepage was announcement of the full release of Fedora 19 for IBM Power, presumably with Linux 3.10. You can get RHEL 6 if you want support and certainly there are debian and netbsd ports in various states. If there's a market for the hardware, the software is ready.
If it involves targeting highly intelligent people, then you are more or less cutting out noise.
yeah, I'm on a homebuilding forum and the captchas are things like, "the inner stud framing a window is called a" or "the piece of wood that covers the gap between adjacent doors is a", etc.
Basically, if you've ever read a carpentry book, you can come in. If you're just looking to complain about the contractor who installed your kitchen counter, you'll probably not be able to post.
It could still be a "CAPTCHA", though: "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Contractors and Homeowners Apart".
If we allow that the CIA is part of the national security apparatus, rather than a bunch of sociopaths who go around the world screwing everything up for narrow political and corporate interests, then the DEA is absolutely an essential part of the national security apparatus too, as it promotes the high prices that gets the CIA its off-books funding. See also the wrist-slap HSBC got for laundering trillions of dollars of drug money.
Oh, but Nancy Reagan said, "just say no", so none of that can be true. How gullible do they think we are?
The point of insurance is to cover potential expenses that you cannot cover yourself by joining a risk sharing pool.
If somebody at WalMart offers to sell you a $20 insurance policy on a $100 bike, then you're a fool to take it because you can cover the $100 yourself.
If you can't cover the cost of rebuilding your $200,000 house out-of-pocket, then you better have fire insurance on it.
Those things aside, insurance creates an incentive to do good things. If you have smoke detectors and fire extinguishers in your house, then you get a discount. If you have a sprinkler system you get a much bigger discount, but most people don't have the means to add a sprinkler system and they carry other risks, so that's less common.
But in the case of 'cyber insurance' a good insurance company would look to see that machines are patched, that good security practices are followed, and probably would do an outside scan once in a while to verify their risk. That's the kind of system that leads to better behaviors across the board.
If the insurance companies are corrupt, then we have a separate reputation-monitoring problem (I believe we do).
Most heart disease is caused by eating animal products (which humans aren't supposed to eat), lack of exercise, and smoking.
That was considered very wise in 1982. Today we know that the main nutritional problem is excess fructose, which the liver turns straight into triglycerides, which stick to the arterial walls, and form nasty, sticky plaques. But go ahead and guzzle agave nectar - it's pure fructose, vegan, and trendy.:P
Exercise, sleep, low stress, and of course not smoking are also key components to a healthy lifestyle (diet is just one part).
I suppose there must've been some new attacks demonstrated. If it was against OpenWRT and its siblings, then probably I'd like to hear about it. All the other proprietary firmwares are assumed to be vulnerable by everybody who cares. Heck, there are still millions of devices running UPnP on the WAN port out there and "nobody" cares.
Does this mean I can't install Linux or Windows 7 on a UEFI Secure Boot machine? (Newbie here)
It depends. You usually can, in a BIOS-compatibility mode, which most offer. But those can be buggy and/or incompatible. I have a server that can't go over 2GB of RAM in the Xen Dom0 because of lack of support for the UEFI memory space, which is beyond the BIOS compatibility region apparently.
Some of the distros have gone hat-in-hand to Microsoft to get their own keys to avoid such issues. That work is leading to verifiable boots, which is a good thing, and Microsoft's spec is supposed to allow people to install their own keys, but I've read that some UEFI implementations don't do that right (more coding mistakes, I'd assume).
Let me know who's declining to install warantless taps and I'll put them on my list of businesses to engage for projects.
For those wondering, Democracy Now carried the Senate hearing a day or two ago with Senator Lahey grilling the Deputy Director of the NSA, who revealed that of all the S.215 intercepts that have happened since 9/11, he could point to only one terrorist plot that maybe (just maybe) would have happened 'but for' the NSA spying. This is the purported benefit of sacrificing the privacy of three hundred million people.
I haven't seen this make the mainstream news yet, at least from the links on the aggregators I read. Oh, but since the spying justification is falling apart, there's going to be a terrorist attack on Sunday.:P
There are car navigation systems that already integrate text messaging. There are people who have been pulled over for watching porn on their vehicle's entertainment system while they drive. Unless you're going to take their phones away, at least if they're doing those stupid things while driving with Glass, their head will be pointed in the right direction. Stupid people are dangerous, but stupid people looking down at their laps while driving are even more dangerous.
sociopaths seem to take power in the government where they tend to do a lot more harm
To work in the government, you have to be OK with forcing people to do things against their will, even if they're harming nobody else. That's a very self-selecting job description.
Now, you want to let them tell businesses how they need to operate too? Think they'll have a moral problem with those businesses paying for special treatment?
I can't believe there are five posts on here that declare 'average' to be 'mean' and then go on to criticize the GP's lack of statistical knowledge.
I think the very first thing on the very first day of my first statistics class was a discussion of mean, median, and mode, and how all three are referred to as 'average' in common parlance, depending on context.
requires more power to edit and it's mostly useless to consumers.
who cares about consumers? Give me a 16K video sensor and then I can zoom or re-crop the video in post and still deliver a nice 4k product. It's simply a matter of the cost of hardware.
Yeah, Google Glass isn't there yet, but I think I'd be safer not looking over to the Tom Tom (when I can see it... can I install the Tom Tom software on Garmin hardware yet?), the radio, or down at the cell phone to see who's calling.
I'm really interested in some of the advanced technologies like road outlines in fog or infrared imaging of wildlife in the road (moose!) that have been demonstrated, and retinal projection of that data just makes so much more sense than building a $4000 windshield that maintains a xenon mist.
I do wonder if we'll get those before autopilots in cars make more sense, though.
When you willingly carry a tracking device, the expectation of privacy is entirely different.
The NJ Court's opinion is that people *don't* willingly carry a tracking device - that that information is incidental to the provision of the service and not part of the customer/provider bargain.
That's how everybody I know views the service they're paying for. And there's no business reason related to the provision of that service for the telcos to retain nonymous location data either, so it's entirely a government intrusion that it exists in the first place (or skulduggerous behavior on the telcos part, but still not related to the provision of service).
One of the interesting parts of/Jones/ was that it included discussion of how modern technology impacts data privacy. The idea that metadata is without protection predates Big Data and modern databases, which dramatically alters how that data can be used. I'm hoping they'll realize that 70's technology informed a 70's opinion and that 10's technology requires a different opinion.
Hotel wireless is universally crappy in my opinion. You either have to pay some ridiculous fee for it ($10 per day), or its so slow and spotty that I'll have trouble Googling restaurants just to find directions.
My experience has been different - the $10/day Hilton has a content filter, traffic shaping and captive portals with DHCP servers that are sometimes down and unreachable. The manager at the La Quinta ordered a DSL connection, plugged in the box that came in the mail and never did anything else, so it works. I sometimes think that the big hotels wish they could get you to agree to an EULA to plug in your shaver to charge. That crap needs to die.
Lately I too have taken to simply tethering my phone to the laptop whenever I'm in a hotel room. The connection is more stable, fast, and never costs extra.
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Ah, good point. Intel is way far ahead in low-power ILP/OOE, but they don't license their architecture, so yeah, there could be a market.
You forgot that an Amber alert has never led to the return of a kidnapped child.
but not having to support worthless execs means that it is cheaper than that private garbage.
Are you aware of the expense ratios of private and non-profit insurance companies? I'd gather, no, because this information is publicly available, and the range is 3-7%. That's the amount of profit (vs. expense of payouts). So if you want to take the 'yacht cost' out of of those plans you'll save less than that.
Before mouthing off about costs, how about do a little research?
Agreed.
Like the fact that the US spends roughly 2x as much(as a % of GDP) than any other industrialized nation(who all have public health insurance)
Indeed. So perhaps you should look at why this is true. Research how rates are set in the US.
and yet the health outcomes are not any better for all that cash spent.
The medical outcomes are marginally better but cultural factors result in a wash or worse.
Oh I'm sorry, did I use facts with a Republican? My mistake.
Naw, don't worry about that, you're safe. FWIW, I'm a Democrat who cares about actually helping people with real solutions, not trying to incite class envy, but I'm well aware that the fascist RepubliCrats are very happy with the status quo.
And spacecraft because there are rad-hard parts available.
The thing I wonder about is all the years of ARM driving for low power (Intel has done this too) while IBM Power (uppercase) focused on being really fast and powerful for server work. Either they expect to buy a company that has the expertise to reduce Power's power consumption or they expect one of these companies to license the design and do it themselves, though I'm not sure why Power's architecture is better enough than ARM's for such a company to do so.
Are IBM hoping that people migrate to AIX or something? (good luck with that!)
A few days ago on the Fedora homepage was announcement of the full release of Fedora 19 for IBM Power, presumably with Linux 3.10. You can get RHEL 6 if you want support and certainly there are debian and netbsd ports in various states. If there's a market for the hardware, the software is ready.
If it involves targeting highly intelligent people, then you are more or less cutting out noise.
yeah, I'm on a homebuilding forum and the captchas are things like, "the inner stud framing a window is called a" or "the piece of wood that covers the gap between adjacent doors is a", etc.
Basically, if you've ever read a carpentry book, you can come in. If you're just looking to complain about the contractor who installed your kitchen counter, you'll probably not be able to post.
It could still be a "CAPTCHA", though: "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Contractors and Homeowners Apart".
engaging in politics - that could work.
That system is what has led us to the present day. It's time to evolve a replacement.
If we allow that the CIA is part of the national security apparatus, rather than a bunch of sociopaths who go around the world screwing everything up for narrow political and corporate interests, then the DEA is absolutely an essential part of the national security apparatus too, as it promotes the high prices that gets the CIA its off-books funding. See also the wrist-slap HSBC got for laundering trillions of dollars of drug money.
Oh, but Nancy Reagan said, "just say no", so none of that can be true. How gullible do they think we are?
The point of insurance is to cover potential expenses that you cannot cover yourself by joining a risk sharing pool.
If somebody at WalMart offers to sell you a $20 insurance policy on a $100 bike, then you're a fool to take it because you can cover the $100 yourself.
If you can't cover the cost of rebuilding your $200,000 house out-of-pocket, then you better have fire insurance on it.
Those things aside, insurance creates an incentive to do good things. If you have smoke detectors and fire extinguishers in your house, then you get a discount. If you have a sprinkler system you get a much bigger discount, but most people don't have the means to add a sprinkler system and they carry other risks, so that's less common.
But in the case of 'cyber insurance' a good insurance company would look to see that machines are patched, that good security practices are followed, and probably would do an outside scan once in a while to verify their risk. That's the kind of system that leads to better behaviors across the board.
If the insurance companies are corrupt, then we have a separate reputation-monitoring problem (I believe we do).
Before you know it, IP with be severely weakened and all of us will have increased standard of living - except for the poor poor billionaires!
Look, if we don't run our society according to everything that seemed like a good idea in 1781, nothing will ever get invented.
Most heart disease is caused by eating animal products (which humans aren't supposed to eat), lack of exercise, and smoking.
That was considered very wise in 1982. Today we know that the main nutritional problem is excess fructose, which the liver turns straight into triglycerides, which stick to the arterial walls, and form nasty, sticky plaques. But go ahead and guzzle agave nectar - it's pure fructose, vegan, and trendy. :P
Exercise, sleep, low stress, and of course not smoking are also key components to a healthy lifestyle (diet is just one part).
I suppose there must've been some new attacks demonstrated. If it was against OpenWRT and its siblings, then probably I'd like to hear about it. All the other proprietary firmwares are assumed to be vulnerable by everybody who cares. Heck, there are still millions of devices running UPnP on the WAN port out there and "nobody" cares.
Their kids site is almost entirely done in Flash. I assume they're comfortable with doing fixed-layout stuff - kinda like TV, I guess.
Amazon sells so much that they can't be bothered to sort or categorize it themselves.
That sounds very 2005. Try searching for 'Xeon CPU' in Computers...
Does this mean I can't install Linux or Windows 7 on a UEFI Secure Boot machine? (Newbie here)
It depends. You usually can, in a BIOS-compatibility mode, which most offer. But those can be buggy and/or incompatible. I have a server that can't go over 2GB of RAM in the Xen Dom0 because of lack of support for the UEFI memory space, which is beyond the BIOS compatibility region apparently.
Some of the distros have gone hat-in-hand to Microsoft to get their own keys to avoid such issues. That work is leading to verifiable boots, which is a good thing, and Microsoft's spec is supposed to allow people to install their own keys, but I've read that some UEFI implementations don't do that right (more coding mistakes, I'd assume).
Let me know who's declining to install warantless taps and I'll put them on my list of businesses to engage for projects.
For those wondering, Democracy Now carried the Senate hearing a day or two ago with Senator Lahey grilling the Deputy Director of the NSA, who revealed that of all the S.215 intercepts that have happened since 9/11, he could point to only one terrorist plot that maybe (just maybe) would have happened 'but for' the NSA spying. This is the purported benefit of sacrificing the privacy of three hundred million people.
I haven't seen this make the mainstream news yet, at least from the links on the aggregators I read. Oh, but since the spying justification is falling apart, there's going to be a terrorist attack on Sunday. :P
Google Glass will
Google Glass could.
There are car navigation systems that already integrate text messaging. There are people who have been pulled over for watching porn on their vehicle's entertainment system while they drive. Unless you're going to take their phones away, at least if they're doing those stupid things while driving with Glass, their head will be pointed in the right direction. Stupid people are dangerous, but stupid people looking down at their laps while driving are even more dangerous.
sociopaths seem to take power in the government where they tend to do a lot more harm
To work in the government, you have to be OK with forcing people to do things against their will, even if they're harming nobody else. That's a very self-selecting job description.
Now, you want to let them tell businesses how they need to operate too? Think they'll have a moral problem with those businesses paying for special treatment?
Exhibit A: Wall Street.
Exhibit B: K Street.
I'm not a Lizard Theorist.
That's cool bro, I don't know very much about arachnids myself.
What?
have vision like 20/15. It doesn't last, and "half" the population isn't any where near it.
hrm, I've been contact-lens corrected to 20/15 for the past 28 years.
Basic stats fail.
I can't believe there are five posts on here that declare 'average' to be 'mean' and then go on to criticize the GP's lack of statistical knowledge.
I think the very first thing on the very first day of my first statistics class was a discussion of mean, median, and mode, and how all three are referred to as 'average' in common parlance, depending on context.
requires more power to edit and it's mostly useless to consumers.
who cares about consumers? Give me a 16K video sensor and then I can zoom or re-crop the video in post and still deliver a nice 4k product. It's simply a matter of the cost of hardware.
Yeah, Google Glass isn't there yet, but I think I'd be safer not looking over to the Tom Tom (when I can see it ... can I install the Tom Tom software on Garmin hardware yet?), the radio, or down at the cell phone to see who's calling.
I'm really interested in some of the advanced technologies like road outlines in fog or infrared imaging of wildlife in the road (moose!) that have been demonstrated, and retinal projection of that data just makes so much more sense than building a $4000 windshield that maintains a xenon mist.
I do wonder if we'll get those before autopilots in cars make more sense, though.
When you willingly carry a tracking device, the expectation of privacy is entirely different.
The NJ Court's opinion is that people *don't* willingly carry a tracking device - that that information is incidental to the provision of the service and not part of the customer/provider bargain.
That's how everybody I know views the service they're paying for. And there's no business reason related to the provision of that service for the telcos to retain nonymous location data either, so it's entirely a government intrusion that it exists in the first place (or skulduggerous behavior on the telcos part, but still not related to the provision of service).
One of the interesting parts of /Jones/ was that it included discussion of how modern technology impacts data privacy. The idea that metadata is without protection predates Big Data and modern databases, which dramatically alters how that data can be used. I'm hoping they'll realize that 70's technology informed a 70's opinion and that 10's technology requires a different opinion.
Hotel wireless is universally crappy in my opinion. You either have to pay some ridiculous fee for it ($10 per day), or its so slow and spotty that I'll have trouble Googling restaurants just to find directions.
My experience has been different - the $10/day Hilton has a content filter, traffic shaping and captive portals with DHCP servers that are sometimes down and unreachable. The manager at the La Quinta ordered a DSL connection, plugged in the box that came in the mail and never did anything else, so it works. I sometimes think that the big hotels wish they could get you to agree to an EULA to plug in your shaver to charge. That crap needs to die.
Lately I too have taken to simply tethering my phone to the laptop whenever I'm in a hotel room. The connection is more stable, fast, and never costs extra.
Me too, though I often pay for data.