The lastest firmware plugs the hole you can use to play around with the linux distro on the router.:(
Re:Insurance isn't for what you think it's for.
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Stealth Inflation
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feel free to not pro-create. Me, I'll be busy giving my kids a not quite so pessimistic view of the world.
S'funny, the world's level of 'fuckedness' is really based on your perceptions.
Insurance isn't for what you think it's for.
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I can agree with a lot of the thoughts on this subject, but people are leaving out a Very Big part of the equation.
Say you're Joe Average. Your family salary is average (say $60,000 a year, combined), with 2.5 kids and a dog.
Joe Average needs a Coronary bypass which conservatively costs $200,000.
Without insurance, Joe Average is dead. With insuance, his outlay is something between $0 and $5000.
Sounds like Joe just won the Lottery. As stated before, my twins and their complicated pregnancy probably would have cost me half amillion dollars out of pocket. As it is, it didn't cost a dime. (well, _maybe_ $200 in co-pays.)
So, Half a million for the birth of two healthy boys. How much has my family paid into insurance? A helluva lot less than that. Perhaps $12,000 over the last 5-10 years.
It's not the annual checkups the insuance covers for you, it's the absolute destruction of all past and future income.
You're not closing the loop. The insurance company then goes back and 're-negotiates' what they'll end up paying the doctor.
I had two babies spend some time in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). One spent two weeks there, and the other spent five. The estimates for the stay were about $5000 _a_day_. Do the math and JUST room and board comes to a cool quarter-mil, not including the doctors, nurses, actual birth, etc. It's easy to figure how the birth of the twins was probably billed out at $400,000+. A figure WE never saw, and most likely a figure the DOCTOR never saw. Estimates that the real costs were about 40% of that were thrown about.
Make you wonder how much critical care would cost if there were no insurance carriers involved. That $150,000 open hear surgery might be closer to $15,000 without the overhead, inflation, and battling for funds.
I still have 16 months left with my contract to Sprint.:(
This dude in the trenches...
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Does IT Matter?
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Is now into Department website activity useage and Intrusion detection...There wasn't a whole lotta that going on in 1997, and your business is pretty hosed without SOME attention being paid to security inside and outside your business walls.
It wasn't the density that was inportant, it was that it required no moving parts. No motors, no lasers, PLUS the density...and it could be stacked (hence the poorly worded 'cubic' dimension they quoted)
Will it be able to find anything interesting outside the solar system
in the next 17 years?
Short answer: No.
Long Answer: "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly
hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down
the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space... " -DNA
That's a believable number. Consider the amount of published data on Kazaa,
or that 45 minutes of raw DV video is roughly 12.5 Gb*. Move 100 of your CD's to
MP3s and you're consuming/creating roughly 3.5 Gb* (or more if you're using
higher than 128kb MP3's). And I'm not evern commentin on pr0n.
(*I said roughly...comment on the comment, not the mathematical precision of
the statement.)
You can use it to a)check the restore feature of your enterprise backup system, and then b) test security patches/system changes on something that closely resembles a production environment.
Doesn't sound useless to me. (But I'm still sticking with VMware.;) )
5 years ago I bought an N70 body and two Nikon D and ED lenses. The results on film were spectacular. The money spent on the lenses was obvious compared to the camera I had before THAT (Canon A-1 and a Tamron crap lens.)
2 years ago I bought a Nikon Coolpix 775 (2mp camera) after running a good 200-250 rolls of film in three years, I dropped to 2 rolls in a year, and one roll last year. The 775 doesn't have the resolution or speed of the film setup, but the benefits suclike instant feedback and instant white balance correction far outweighed the drawbacks.
A few weeks ago I decided to cut bait and sell the film rig. I would have liked to keep the lenses and buy a DSLR body, but for Nikon, you can't touch anything for less than $1500, and I didn't have that kind of money.
Enter the 5400. The 5000 series has ED (Enhanced Dispersion, the same glass the film camera had) is SEALED (no dust on the CCD from changing lenses), had 35mm equivalent 28-120 zoom, and is quite a bit faster than the 775 was. The fact that it's a 5mp camera is something I'm STILL getting my arms around.
It takes STUNNING macro shots: http://www.millerville.cc/macro.jpg (yes, it's sideways, I didn't want to add any noise by jpeging a jpeg)
The best news was, the net cost was $300 after trading in the film rig, and this camera is MORE than adequate for the pics I take. So, sometimes it helps to take a step back and REALLY evaluate the kind of photography you're shooting.
Here's how you value the intangibles:
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Value the non-material parts of your life: Have kids. Well...if you're the
right kinda person to have kids that is. I've never felt more moved on a
genetic, propagation of the family name level, then when I held my boys for the
first time. It's really an indescribable feeling. And after that, you learn a
LOT of the $hit you thought was important isn't.
Nah, that's what the spare network cable behind the fridge is for...but I need that about twice a year. (uncompressed DV video is BIG!)
Re:Why Wireless?
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#include(You_Are_New_Here_arent_You.h)
If the bandwidth is adequate, you have ZERO cost in moving a wireless office from point A to point B.
Wireless has been a GODSEND in/under/around Hotel conferences (the SANS security conference was REALLY cool: Track 1 was how to hack, Track 3 was how to catch the hackers...the wireless packets came rapidly and were Very Interesting.)
Any traveler with a reasonably secure setup has an office just about anywhere he opens the lid on his laptop.
Why wireless? If you spent ANY TIME with a wireless system? Ever find that Cat5e cable you ran thru the walls at home is No Longer Necessary?
As far as clueless newbies using quicken in an open WLAN, this is still early cutting edge stuff, reguardless of what the Slashdot fanboys say. There's a window of opportunity with wardriving that won't exist in 5 years time. The current firmware for linksys' router now contains WEP, Raduis, WPA+Radius, and WPA pre-shared keys. That's a heckuva lot better than a 56 bit Orinoco Silver card you got two years ago.
Coolest Hack I've seen in awhile
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The Linksys WRT54g basestation/firewall/router/toaster is a MIPS box with 16mb of ram and linux...
This guy's got snort running on it:http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g.html (with a remote nfsmount for logs)
and these guys have info on hackin 'em: http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/Lin ksysWr t54g
Now this is something I was never sure of. I've got a 18-24 month old Rio cd/mp3/wma player that has no way of updating it's software...how does/will it know about WMA9?
I see a song on an album, buy it, think it's cool and have to buy the albom for another $10....there's no way to reconcile that you've already paid $1 for the song.
Oh, and streaming rendezvous(sp?) from onr machine to another borked the firewall/router/basestation/toaster so hard I had to go power cycle it...but I can't blaim iTunes without a little more testing.
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The lastest firmware plugs the hole you can use to play around with the linux distro on the router. :(
feel free to not pro-create. Me, I'll be busy giving my kids a not quite so pessimistic view of the world.
S'funny, the world's level of 'fuckedness' is really based on your perceptions.
I can agree with a lot of the thoughts on this subject, but people are leaving out a Very Big part of the equation.
Say you're Joe Average. Your family salary is average (say $60,000 a year, combined), with 2.5 kids and a dog.
Joe Average needs a Coronary bypass which conservatively costs $200,000.
Without insurance, Joe Average is dead. With insuance, his outlay is something between $0 and $5000.
Sounds like Joe just won the Lottery. As stated before, my twins and their complicated pregnancy probably would have cost me half amillion dollars out of pocket. As it is, it didn't cost a dime. (well, _maybe_ $200 in co-pays.)
So, Half a million for the birth of two healthy boys. How much has my family paid into insurance? A helluva lot less than that. Perhaps $12,000 over the last 5-10 years.
It's not the annual checkups the insuance covers for you, it's the absolute destruction of all past and future income.
You're not closing the loop. The insurance company then goes back and 're-negotiates' what they'll end up paying the doctor.
I had two babies spend some time in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit). One spent two weeks there, and the other spent five. The estimates for the stay were about $5000 _a_day_. Do the math and JUST room and board comes to a cool quarter-mil, not including the doctors, nurses, actual birth, etc. It's easy to figure how the birth of the twins was probably billed out at $400,000+. A figure WE never saw, and most likely a figure the DOCTOR never saw. Estimates that the real costs were about 40% of that were thrown about.
Make you wonder how much critical care would cost if there were no insurance carriers involved. That $150,000 open hear surgery might be closer to $15,000 without the overhead, inflation, and battling for funds.
I still have 16 months left with my contract to Sprint. :(
Is now into Department website activity useage and Intrusion detection...There wasn't a whole lotta that going on in 1997, and your business is pretty hosed without SOME attention being paid to security inside and outside your business walls.
You'll get is when you pay cubic buttloads of cash to hook yourself up. You think that $45 Cable ISP fee is arbitrarily set?
You insensitive clod!
It wasn't the density that was inportant, it was that it required no moving parts. No motors, no lasers, PLUS the density...and it could be stacked (hence the poorly worded 'cubic' dimension they quoted)
have average uptimes of less than a week.... ...or they're running msblast all over the place.
Short answer: No.
Long Answer: "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space... " -DNA
pssst. [slackware-security] apache security update (SSA:2003-308-01)
Sensor indicating north!
That's a believable number. Consider the amount of published data on Kazaa, or that 45 minutes of raw DV video is roughly 12.5 Gb*. Move 100 of your CD's to MP3s and you're consuming/creating roughly 3.5 Gb* (or more if you're using higher than 128kb MP3's). And I'm not evern commentin on pr0n.
(*I said roughly...comment on the comment, not the mathematical precision of the statement.)
You can use it to a)check the restore feature of your enterprise backup system, and then b) test security patches/system changes on something that closely resembles a production environment.
;) )
Doesn't sound useless to me. (But I'm still sticking with VMware.
5 years ago I bought an N70 body and two Nikon D and ED lenses. The results on film were spectacular. The money spent on the lenses was obvious compared to the camera I had before THAT (Canon A-1 and a Tamron crap lens.)
2 years ago I bought a Nikon Coolpix 775 (2mp camera) after running a good 200-250 rolls of film in three years, I dropped to 2 rolls in a year, and one roll last year. The 775 doesn't have the resolution or speed of the film setup, but the benefits suclike instant feedback and instant white balance correction far outweighed the drawbacks.
A few weeks ago I decided to cut bait and sell the film rig. I would have liked to keep the lenses and buy a DSLR body, but for Nikon, you can't touch anything for less than $1500, and I didn't have that kind of money.
Enter the 5400. The 5000 series has ED (Enhanced Dispersion, the same glass the film camera had) is SEALED (no dust on the CCD from changing lenses), had 35mm equivalent 28-120 zoom, and is quite a bit faster than the 775 was. The fact that it's a 5mp camera is something I'm STILL getting my arms around.
It takes STUNNING macro shots: http://www.millerville.cc/macro.jpg
(yes, it's sideways, I didn't want to add any noise by jpeging a jpeg)
The best news was, the net cost was $300 after trading in the film rig, and this camera is MORE than adequate for the pics I take. So, sometimes it helps to take a step back and REALLY evaluate the kind of photography you're shooting.
Value the non-material parts of your life: Have kids. Well...if you're the right kinda person to have kids that is. I've never felt more moved on a genetic, propagation of the family name level, then when I held my boys for the first time. It's really an indescribable feeling. And after that, you learn a LOT of the $hit you thought was important isn't.
After using an Powerbook to infect an entire Alien invasion fleet, bent on the takeover of planet earth, wattaya gonna do for an encore?
Nah, that's what the spare network cable behind the fridge is for...but I need that about twice a year. (uncompressed DV video is BIG!)
#include(You_Are_New_Here_arent_You.h)
If the bandwidth is adequate, you have ZERO cost in moving a wireless office from point A to point B.
Wireless has been a GODSEND in/under/around Hotel conferences (the SANS security conference was REALLY cool: Track 1 was how to hack, Track 3 was how to catch the hackers...the wireless packets came rapidly and were Very Interesting.)
Any traveler with a reasonably secure setup has an office just about anywhere he opens the lid on his laptop.
Why wireless? If you spent ANY TIME with a wireless system? Ever find that Cat5e cable you ran thru the walls at home is No Longer Necessary?
As far as clueless newbies using quicken in an open WLAN, this is still early cutting edge stuff, reguardless of what the Slashdot fanboys say. There's a window of opportunity with wardriving that won't exist in 5 years time. The current firmware for linksys' router now contains WEP, Raduis, WPA+Radius, and WPA pre-shared keys. That's a heckuva lot better than a 56 bit Orinoco Silver card you got two years ago.
The Linksys WRT54g basestation/firewall/router/toaster is a MIPS box with 16mb of ram and linux...
n ksysWr t54g
This guy's got snort running on it:http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g.html (with a remote nfsmount for logs)
and these guys have info on hackin 'em:
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/Li
(I'm lazy, look out for the spaces)
Taps AC on shoulder.
Dija happen to notice all those OpenSSH issues damnear everybody BUT BSD had a few weeks age?
Now this is something I was never sure of. I've got a 18-24 month old Rio cd/mp3/wma player that has no way of updating it's software...how does/will it know about WMA9?
I see a song on an album, buy it, think it's cool and have to buy the albom for another $10....there's no way to reconcile that you've already paid $1 for the song.
Oh, and streaming rendezvous(sp?) from onr machine to another borked the firewall/router/basestation/toaster so hard I had to go power cycle it...but I can't blaim iTunes without a little more testing.
Nope. None. I've noticed a slowdown when visualization is turned on, but that's it. (AMD XP 2Ghz+, 512 Mb RAM.)
Further, iTunes is the first pay service I've felt the desire to install and buy music from.