The ideal of amateur competition in the glorious field of sport in the Olympics has been pissed on by a corrupt IOC, rotted by drug scandals, and tainted by athletes competing for nations other than their own for money--not to mention the corporate millions and the politics. I'll be glad when this is over so I can quit hearing about it.
And the way to fix this is to make it illegal to practice medicine outside the public system, so the rich have to live with the same system everyone else does--this includes travel abroad for the purposes of circumvention. Either lots of rich people go to prison for being treated outside the system, or the system gets better.
How many people who would have been able to have been saved in the ER would that change cause to be allowed to die so that their organs can be harvested?
I don't fill out organ donor cards because I'm worried that were I badly injured but able to be saved that I'd be allowed to die so that my organs could be harvested. This is doubly true should blatant (rather than under the table, as might have been in this case) purchase of organs be allowed.
My family can make a decision about organ donation after my death, and know I'd have no problems allowing that. But I don't want any caregivers influenced, consciously or not, by knowing that I've signed a donor card.
There has also been criticism that the firewall doesn't block outgoing connections. I guarantee you if they did do that, firewall manufacturers and "Type A" slashdot readers would be crying anti-trust.
Actually, the "'Type A slashdot readers" would be observing that outbound connections except those made by Microsoft's apps calling home are blocked by default.
I don't think Dave Barry could have come up with a better parody. Let's let them pursue their obvious attempts at indoctrination--they're doing a better job of moving people to the good side than we ever could.
Stop playing games with language. The insurance company is offering an option to people. If you don't like, don't take it.
If you believe that it will remain a realistic option (i.e. not required by law and not requiring paying more than double normal premiums) if it's allowed by citizens and regulators to gain critical mass, you're terribly naive.
You really think this will result in discounts for good drivers? The "proven good drivers'" premiums might dip a little at first, but ultimately, they will use the chilling effect of having this device to increase the money they make from good drivers, while charging a premium for privacy for those who can afford it.
What would I do about pedophiles on the Internet? The same thing we do about them in meatspace. The medium has nothing to do with the problem, and the original argument for more surveillance powers has been repeated ad nauseam to the point that it is not an argument at all.
If a Vonage conversation trapped a paedophile who was grooming children, that's a pretty darn good argument for handing over the evidence. Maybe [the tapping] not legal in some countries, but what about others?
Of course! Think of the children! I expect politicians to trot this out every time they're eroding our rights. I fear for the Republic when ordinary citizens start doing so.
Thanks--it almost sounds like common sense now that I see it in writing. I guess part of it is knowing which crap job to pick, or at least when to leave a crap job that doesn't generate contacts with the right people.
One thing I didn't mention is that with the trend towards centralization of IT, organizational politics demand that if a department needs an "IT professional," that the department must "partner" with IT.
But if the job has a functional title, IT doesn't have to be involved--so the title shift is sometimes an end run around IT's hegemony over the digital domain.
One time, I felt the same way. But I consider providing financial security for myself and my family to be above my requirement for allegiance to geekdom above "teh dumb MBAs."
BTW, I work for a non-profit, not that would make me less of a whore in any way.
That's nice and eloquently written. What I would ask you is how you gained the trust of the first person who gave you the real problem to work on that had the weight of "real money, real esteem, and real contracts" to it. The reason I ask is that there are many young people reading this who could benefit from cracking that problem--and for whom college is currently seen as the best way to crack it.
I consider myself a geek, but have taken a functional title in my workplace. The work I do is still quite technical, but I now supervise a (tiny) staff and have some management responsibilities. I am more involved in the "line of business" but definitely not divorced from geekly things. This gives me the two important things: knowledge of this business and of my workplace I wouldn't have as a "strict" geek, and the abandonment of a title that carries the stench of death associated with the fact that at any time, the job could be sent to India.
Mandrake, just as much as the commercial players, needs to keep releasing updates to generate sales. This cycle contributes to an endless cycle of pointless minor updates and feature bloat.
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And the olympic competitors of antiquity were naked. Sometimes that'd be a plus, sometimes a minus.
The ideal of amateur competition in the glorious field of sport in the Olympics has been pissed on by a corrupt IOC, rotted by drug scandals, and tainted by athletes competing for nations other than their own for money--not to mention the corporate millions and the politics. I'll be glad when this is over so I can quit hearing about it.
And the way to fix this is to make it illegal to practice medicine outside the public system, so the rich have to live with the same system everyone else does--this includes travel abroad for the purposes of circumvention. Either lots of rich people go to prison for being treated outside the system, or the system gets better.
How many people who would have been able to have been saved in the ER would that change cause to be allowed to die so that their organs can be harvested?
My family can make a decision about organ donation after my death, and know I'd have no problems allowing that. But I don't want any caregivers influenced, consciously or not, by knowing that I've signed a donor card.
Actually, the "'Type A slashdot readers" would be observing that outbound connections except those made by Microsoft's apps calling home are blocked by default.
I don't think Dave Barry could have come up with a better parody. Let's let them pursue their obvious attempts at indoctrination--they're doing a better job of moving people to the good side than we ever could.
A "shepherd" would certainly be an appropriate mascot, for we American sheep have willingly forfeited our rights.
You must have forgotten the decimal point in the last entry in your table.
If you believe that it will remain a realistic option (i.e. not required by law and not requiring paying more than double normal premiums) if it's allowed by citizens and regulators to gain critical mass, you're terribly naive.
You really think this will result in discounts for good drivers? The "proven good drivers'" premiums might dip a little at first, but ultimately, they will use the chilling effect of having this device to increase the money they make from good drivers, while charging a premium for privacy for those who can afford it.
Finally--someone gets it. A "discount" for having the device is really a surcharge for not having it.
What would I do about pedophiles on the Internet? The same thing we do about them in meatspace. The medium has nothing to do with the problem, and the original argument for more surveillance powers has been repeated ad nauseam to the point that it is not an argument at all.
Of course! Think of the children! I expect politicians to trot this out every time they're eroding our rights. I fear for the Republic when ordinary citizens start doing so.
Logging of metadata isn't new. Endpoint logging has been stored on AMA tapes for decades with POTS. Yes, including local calls.
No problem. I enjoy posting here mostly because of the occasional blunt honesty :).
+1, Ecclesiastes. There is indeed nothing new under the sun, and we will continue to make the same mistakes.
Thanks--it almost sounds like common sense now that I see it in writing. I guess part of it is knowing which crap job to pick, or at least when to leave a crap job that doesn't generate contacts with the right people.
But if the job has a functional title, IT doesn't have to be involved--so the title shift is sometimes an end run around IT's hegemony over the digital domain.
BTW, I work for a non-profit, not that would make me less of a whore in any way.
That's nice and eloquently written. What I would ask you is how you gained the trust of the first person who gave you the real problem to work on that had the weight of "real money, real esteem, and real contracts" to it. The reason I ask is that there are many young people reading this who could benefit from cracking that problem--and for whom college is currently seen as the best way to crack it.
I consider myself a geek, but have taken a functional title in my workplace. The work I do is still quite technical, but I now supervise a (tiny) staff and have some management responsibilities. I am more involved in the "line of business" but definitely not divorced from geekly things. This gives me the two important things: knowledge of this business and of my workplace I wouldn't have as a "strict" geek, and the abandonment of a title that carries the stench of death associated with the fact that at any time, the job could be sent to India.
Mandrake, just as much as the commercial players, needs to keep releasing updates to generate sales. This cycle contributes to an endless cycle of pointless minor updates and feature bloat.
Not if you're logged in when you do it--your moderation will be undone if you post AC in a thread you moderated if you're logged in. Of course, I'm $rtbl'd, so it doesn't matter anyway.
The state AGs are too busy taking campaign money from the copyright cartel and sending threating letters to "P2P companies" to worry about spyware.