"You know how you remember Elvis? He was found in the toilet with his pants around his ankles and his big fat hairy sweaty king-of-rock-and-roll ass exposed to the world and his final piece of kingly evidence floating in the toilet behind him! Creepy! One of his aids had to walk in and go, 'Damn, Elvis is dead. I'd better flush the toilet. Oh man I should've saved that! I coulda made some money off of that!'" ~ Denis Leary
"...the true test will now be seeing if the patient rejects the new organ..."
The article states that they are using the patient's own cells. IANAD but it would seem that the rejection rate would be about nil.
My step-father is right now in the hospital recovering from surgery to re-construct his bladder after having it removed because of cancer. This is a major break-through that will hopefully help millions of people.
"Why do users refuse to adopt collaboration software?"
Because with most tools you spend more time 'collaborating' than you do actually working. You've got to love the PM's that spend so much time in preparation of a project that they miss the delivery date before even getting the programmers to start writing code.
"I thought we already knew those: world domination."
I thought their goal was to spend all day smoking pot, eating Chips Ahoy, and watching Caliente or Martha. Oh wait, that used to be mine. From what I remember, college was a good thing.
Colonel Sandurz: Prepare to purchase an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition. Dark Helmet: No. No. No. No. Extreme is too slow. Colonel Sandurz: Extreme too slow? Dark Helmet: Yes. We're gonna have to go straight to an Intel Pentium Ludicrous Edition.
You are off topic and it appears trying to troll, so I'll keep this short and sweet.
Corporations are designed to make money, but they are not evil entities. They are just a group of investors, board members, and employees (actual human beings) that are focused on a common goal. Gov't entities are much worse because they're goals aren't to make money (or be efficient) but to spend as much as possible so that they can justify their next fiscal year budget. If you don't use it, you lose it. Plus, they are held much less accountable than private sector people. I know this because I've worked for and with local, state, and federal level jobs.
As far as Medicare part D, I wasn't in the industry when this took effect, but we had plans in the early 90's that were much better then part D. When I wrote proposal software for Medicare supplements, there was only parts A & B and we had a great prescription add-on. Then the fucking gov't stepped in and forced the insurance companies to sale "standardized" (a/k/a shit) medsupps. These so called gov't plans are crap compared to what many companies had before the NAIC got involved. Also, insurance companies can't "horde" money. They are required to have a certain reserve for claims, but it can't be higher than what each state insurance department stipulates. We had regulators and auditors visit use every few days (mainly to justify their cushy gov't jobs). The states even stipulate the maximum profit each company can make for different sectors (life, health, P&C, annuities, health, LTC, DI, etc). This is why mutual companies send back dividends and stock companies send rebates (remember the chance card in the game Monopoly?). It doesn't happen much any more because the actuaries are getting pretty good.
Now as far as universal health care, I lived in Canada for a few years and knew many people who opted to come to the States to get a procedure done rather than having to go through bureaucratic red-tape, bullshit, and waiting periods (not to mentioned substandard care) that they have with their "free" health program. Just go to a strip mall at any northern border town and check out the number of doctor's offices and the number of Canadian license plates in the lot. My sister is a citizen of the UK and she says it is just as bad, if not worse, over there. It took her 6 mos to get her tonsils out. I had my out the next day after catching a cold.
So to get back on topic, the above, plus many other reasons (invasion of privacy, censorship, inefficiency, etc, etc) is why I don't want the government anywhere near my internet connection. They have the ant-Midas touch. Everything the government touches turns to shit.
Don't worry; porn will help revolutionize the "choke point". If there is anything that has influenced corporate innovation and technology advancement, it's the bottom line... and what produces more profit than the promotion of ideas for "choking the chicken"?
Umm...wrong... I worked in the health insurance sector for many years and the problem is government regulations (insurance is regulated by EACH state). The Medicare system IS a government entity. Medicare supplements are the private sector part and they were much better in the early 90's before the government started regulating (under the NAIC) medsupps.
Whoever said that broadband is a service that ALL citizens need. I need HBO, can someone pay for it for me?
In a perfect world we would pay for only what we use. This is not practical to support all necessary infrastructure needs and services.
But I don't think that my tax dollars should be going to my neighbor's teenage son so that he can surf for pr0n. That is not a necessity. Besides, there is already "free-internet" at libraries, schools, social centers, retail stores, etc.
Plus, whenever you get the government involved, it ads layers of bureaucracy, complexity, censorship, and inflated cost. Not to mention the potential loss of privacy and liberty.
No thanks; I don't want any government anywhere near my connection.
Why are you complaining? It sounds like they fixed a user caused problem for free. Sometimes you have to grease the wheels a little to get them to go around.
Slashdot Mirror
"Death to Slash-FUD! Let that be our battle cry."
Nah... I'm sticking with, Not in the Face!
"Come on - tell me no one else thought of that?"
No, I was thinking new show on Fox.
Isn't that how Elvis died?
"You know how you remember Elvis? He was found in the toilet with his pants around his ankles and his big fat hairy sweaty king-of-rock-and-roll ass exposed to the world and his final piece of kingly evidence floating in the toilet behind him! Creepy! One of his aids had to walk in and go, 'Damn, Elvis is dead. I'd better flush the toilet. Oh man I should've saved that! I coulda made some money off of that!'" ~ Denis Leary
"See something good and copy it!"
Microsoft: Innovation Through Imitation
"What's different about NPR's response is that they're not pretending that their old business model will work forever."
A content provider in this day & age not trying to screw their end customer? That's inconceivable!
I can just hear my boss now, "Why can't you guys agree upon a plan of action! Hell! Even cockroaches can make group decisions!!"
ICECC's 'Ethical Hacker Certification.'
...that and $6.50 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks.
The Preemptive Slashdot Effect.
"...Microsoft's assertion that PCs may no longer be able to recover from the most aggressive Malware..."
You didn't expect them to say that PCs *are* recoverable if you use an alternative operating system that is not as susceptible to malware, did you?
"...the true test will now be seeing if the patient rejects the new organ..."
The article states that they are using the patient's own cells. IANAD but it would seem that the rejection rate would be about nil.
My step-father is right now in the hospital recovering from surgery to re-construct his bladder after having it removed because of cancer. This is a major break-through that will hopefully help millions of people.
"Why do users refuse to adopt collaboration software?"
Because with most tools you spend more time 'collaborating' than you do actually working. You've got to love the PM's that spend so much time in preparation of a project that they miss the delivery date before even getting the programmers to start writing code.
Don't you mean over there?
Does it run on electricity, or do we have to feed it baby food? What about the waste? Just imagine a beowulf cluster of computer dung.
"I thought we already knew those: world domination."
I thought their goal was to spend all day smoking pot, eating Chips Ahoy, and watching Caliente or Martha. Oh wait, that used to be mine. From what I remember, college was a good thing.
Shouldn't it be... "LOTR Jumps the Watcher in the Water"?
"...what is stopping Google from forming their own publicly-available routed IP network?"
Nothing. More proof the Larry & Sergey have a crysta ball (or at least sold their souls).
Colonel Sandurz: Prepare to purchase an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition.
Dark Helmet: No. No. No. No. Extreme is too slow.
Colonel Sandurz: Extreme too slow?
Dark Helmet: Yes. We're gonna have to go straight to an Intel Pentium Ludicrous Edition.
"Microsoft's Linux-pro, Bill Hilf pulled out"
Doesn't he know that this procedure rarely works? Just ask my son.
You are off topic and it appears trying to troll, so I'll keep this short and sweet.
Corporations are designed to make money, but they are not evil entities. They are just a group of investors, board members, and employees (actual human beings) that are focused on a common goal. Gov't entities are much worse because they're goals aren't to make money (or be efficient) but to spend as much as possible so that they can justify their next fiscal year budget. If you don't use it, you lose it. Plus, they are held much less accountable than private sector people. I know this because I've worked for and with local, state, and federal level jobs.
As far as Medicare part D, I wasn't in the industry when this took effect, but we had plans in the early 90's that were much better then part D. When I wrote proposal software for Medicare supplements, there was only parts A & B and we had a great prescription add-on. Then the fucking gov't stepped in and forced the insurance companies to sale "standardized" (a/k/a shit) medsupps. These so called gov't plans are crap compared to what many companies had before the NAIC got involved. Also, insurance companies can't "horde" money. They are required to have a certain reserve for claims, but it can't be higher than what each state insurance department stipulates. We had regulators and auditors visit use every few days (mainly to justify their cushy gov't jobs). The states even stipulate the maximum profit each company can make for different sectors (life, health, P&C, annuities, health, LTC, DI, etc). This is why mutual companies send back dividends and stock companies send rebates (remember the chance card in the game Monopoly?). It doesn't happen much any more because the actuaries are getting pretty good.
Now as far as universal health care, I lived in Canada for a few years and knew many people who opted to come to the States to get a procedure done rather than having to go through bureaucratic red-tape, bullshit, and waiting periods (not to mentioned substandard care) that they have with their "free" health program. Just go to a strip mall at any northern border town and check out the number of doctor's offices and the number of Canadian license plates in the lot. My sister is a citizen of the UK and she says it is just as bad, if not worse, over there. It took her 6 mos to get her tonsils out. I had my out the next day after catching a cold.
So to get back on topic, the above, plus many other reasons (invasion of privacy, censorship, inefficiency, etc, etc) is why I don't want the government anywhere near my internet connection. They have the ant-Midas touch. Everything the government touches turns to shit.
Don't worry; porn will help revolutionize the "choke point". If there is anything that has influenced corporate innovation and technology advancement, it's the bottom line... and what produces more profit than the promotion of ideas for "choking the chicken"?
I helped worked on it and in those days the gov't left us alone.
Umm...wrong... I worked in the health insurance sector for many years and the problem is government regulations (insurance is regulated by EACH state). The Medicare system IS a government entity. Medicare supplements are the private sector part and they were much better in the early 90's before the government started regulating (under the NAIC) medsupps.
Whoever said that broadband is a service that ALL citizens need. I need HBO, can someone pay for it for me?
In a perfect world we would pay for only what we use. This is not practical to support all necessary infrastructure needs and services.
But I don't think that my tax dollars should be going to my neighbor's teenage son so that he can surf for pr0n. That is not a necessity. Besides, there is already "free-internet" at libraries, schools, social centers, retail stores, etc.
Plus, whenever you get the government involved, it ads layers of bureaucracy, complexity, censorship, and inflated cost. Not to mention the potential loss of privacy and liberty.
No thanks; I don't want any government anywhere near my connection.
"... they agreed to fix it free of charge."
Why are you complaining? It sounds like they fixed a user caused problem for free. Sometimes you have to grease the wheels a little to get them to go around.
Guns don't kill people, robots kill people.