I treated it as a clause, to avoid the second half being a sentence fragment, but yeah, the nominative was unclear due to the lack of the comma, which is left out in "modern style guides". People should not rely on English style guides written by people who have not truly learned English.
As I asked another poster, which of the coming features of Obamacare are going to increase rates? I hear this sort of thing a lot, but never any specificity as to what's in the ACA that will increase rates.
This is pretty easy to explain, if you can do percentage math. The medical industry increases profits, the insurance industry instreases profits, and the government gets additional tax revenue.
How it works:
It puts the uninsured, who normally only see a doctor when they go to the emergency room, into the same pool as everyone else by forcing them to buy insurance. This has the effect that the large HMO/Hospital corporations get paid their full asking price for treatment, rather than writing it off at its actual value as a cost of being in the business.
Consider the the case before and after for two people, one insured, the other not, going in for the same $500 worth of treatment:
Result:
Hospital corporations profits: up $600 (= +$600/$1000 = 60%)
Government net tax income: up $400 (= +$400/$0 = infinity%)
That money has to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is your (the collective you) pockets.
This is just the hospitals and the government, and just for emergency care.
Insurance company profits also go up, and they get the multiplier they normally get by charging for medical insurance, malpractice insurance for hospitals and doctors, and liability insurance from hospitals, doctors offices, labs, and medical device, drug, and lab equipment and lab reagent manufacturers.
The current (non-single-payer) plan is basically just a continuation of the AIG/Insurance industry bail-out that was already in progress, and a way of substituting activity for action in order to appear to be doing something.
Note that both Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter both proposed single-payer plans that were shot down by congress (Ted Kennedy was involved in both shootings).
The word you were looking for is redacted. It is only censorship when someone else deletes your content.
I think the use was probably intentional.
Everyone knows that when the people who use the word "redacted" actually publish anything they've "redacted", all you have to do is highlight the entire document and paste it into a text window.
Did you seriously not Google search for "US SIM CARD"?
I had zero problem buying an AT&T GoPhone SIMs for Chromebook 3G modem bringup here at Google.
You can also get T-Mobile as well; whether the data will work on 3G or only on Edge will depend on the frequency bands your phone supports; for example, an iPhone will not do 3G on T-Mobile, unless you know how to hack the radio table, which requires rewriting the baseband firmware in the older phones. Even if you did that, it'd suffer from "you're holding it wrong" connectivity issues, since it antenna are not frequency tuned for that carrier. In case you were wondering:
T-Mobile: UTMS frequency band IV 1700/2100 MHz AT&T: UTMS frequency band II 1900MHz
Also, you should be aware when transporting a "smart" phone between the US and Europe that the firmware loads specifically set the clock frequency for the region. The reason several types of phone were slightly overclocked in Europe, for example, is that the frequency of the CPU happened to harmonically resonate with the common carrier frequency, which meant it tended to interfere with the radio when run on European frequencies for carriers like Orange.
Specifically, we don't actually get more violence because of video games:
Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games, Lawrence Kutner PhD and Cheryl K. Olson ScD "Video Games and Real Life Aggression", Lillian Bensely and Juliet Van Eenwyk, Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 29, 2001 "Video Games and Health", Mark Griffiths, British Medical Journal vol. 331, 2005...any more than we end up with mass comedy in the streets every time they show a Seinfeld or I Love Lucy re-run.
My sister worked for the eBay thought police for several years. Mostly it was offensive images that people replaced on their web site in place of an existing image that someone else linked into an auction page so that they victim had to pay the bandwidth costs for the picture of the picnic table (or whatever), rather than the seller. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking
Apple employees who work with customer data in Final Cut Pro, iMovie, QuickTime, Logic Studio, and Aperture, as well as some other packages get to sign agreements about exposure to offensive material.
Adobe has similar agreements for employees who might be doing work on Photoshop for customer data.
If you're actually in the industry that generates the images in the first place, there are similar agreements.
I was at a startup that did web site reverse proxy caches for a while, and had a similar agreement; you can guess at the sites where you'd want the ability to carry heavy load on a landing page.
if they were just moving the things elsewhere, that would have been done in a different fashion.
they're out of money, out of liquidity - so instead of leaving employees hanging and telling them to come in without knowing if they'll be paid they showed them the door.
I'd be an asshat for it, but it's pretty easy to deprive people of stock options the same way that the PGE/Enron thing played out with no discernible profit to the operating company that was left after the dust settled from which to reclaim damages. "Sorry guys, we are victims too!". I was pretty screwed that way once, but that was once too many.
You derez the current company to zero your debts then rerez as a new company that buys the old company's assets at fire sale prices to claim a tax loss on the old company holdings while transferring ownership to the new company at a new basis price.
This is pretty much "offload debt to the employees while protecting the named investors" 101.
The only place this doesn't work is real estate, and for that you have an LLC per property to keep yourself on the "I didn't sell the property, I sold the company that owns the property, so the property tax should not go up" side of things (Hi Kaiser family trust! Send me money K PLZ THX!).
WWII started because WWI ended with a big FUCK YOU to Germany.
...that the current European financial crisis is because WWII ended with a big FUCK YOU to Germany? The Deutsche Bundesbank is the most influential member of the ESCB. Just saying...
Good to see at least one other person commenting that grasps the reality. Government has the exclusive power to use violence and imprisonment, and writes the laws and determines who is breaking them. The government has the power to do a "Darth Vader" - "I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further." and has done so in the past.
Except for terrorism, of course. For terrorism, the power is non-exclusive, and anyone can opt in, even if wielded as if by an idiot with a wiffle-bat.
"If I have not seen further it is by standing on ye chests of prone midgets"
To be completely fair, if you have something patentable in your business or operational model, and you patent it, said root company would have the option of buying you out or losing the functionality driving people to their service in the first place, leaving you room to make a similar service with your patented components intact and drive them under. For the most part, Twitter add-ons do not add significant value to Twitter.
The retirement wasn't over fuel efficiency, since if you were paying to fly that fast, you'd pay a premium anyway. According to Wikipedia: "As a result of the type’s only crash on 25 July 2000 and other factors, its retirement flight was on 26 November 2003."; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
Fuel is not cited as one of the factors. It might well have been retired for that reason in the current cost climate, and fuel economy prevented them being purchased by airlines after the 707, 747, and DC-10, but they were profitable up to the day they were retired.
"I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design:-)" - Andy Tanenbaum
Bjarne Stroustrup himself, in the chapter 18 of his book The Design and Evolution of C++, frowns on the use of preprocessor and wishes to eliminate it completely.
So Stroustrup complains about Kernighan and Ritchie's work, Torvalds complains about Stroustrup's work, and Tanenbaum complains about Torvalds work...
It's the circle of life: everyone who has ever written a line of code has someone who will complain about that line.
They monetize a published number by publishing a directory, publishing reverse directories, publishing area directories for use in direct marketing, and so on. Forget that there are laws about these things being used to actually call you without your permission or a preexisting business relationship, since anyone who buys the drivetories from them is a business partner, and therefore entitled to call you.
What they are saying is that they are making some value $X, where $0 $X = $60 off of this process, and by asking to be unlisted, you cost them this additional profit they would otherwise be able to make by publishing your number in various ways. My guess is that on average it's pretty close to what they are charging, in order to keep it legally defensible should some consumer go lawyer-happy on them.
Sorry, but nope; the aspect ratio won't change, even if the resolution does.
The new iPhone and iPad resolutions were chosen to make old software scale up and new software scale down without leaving ugly black bands down the edges. In addition, all the content in the iTunes store is scaled to fit without leaving your movies with the same aspect ratio as they were intended to be shown.
The big screw up Android has made, and continues to make, is that there is no uniform resolution and scaling to make content portable between devices; this include applications, as well as video and other media. There's no incentive to compete for the same parts with everyone else making an Android device by picking a specific ratio/ratio+integer resolution multiplier: the vendors want product differentiation and vendor lock-in, whereas for the iDevices, there's an intent to create an ecosystem.
Consider that there's no reason to have vendor loyalty to a particular device vendor when all your content purchased from the last device you bought from them looks like crap on the new device. Apple, on the other hand, is all about the ecosystem: they could care less if your content was portable, as long as you are viewing it on a device you bought from Apple, and hey, having multiple devices from Apple means you have more reason to spend money in the iTunes/iApps store than you did when you owned half as many Apple devices.
Just having a warning for when you use a typedef type in place of an int or vice versa, or a typedef type of a struct or union whose first element matched the type of the parameter its being used in place of would be a huge improvement.
At one point in time, I went through the Mac OS X kernel and dealt with the functions that were supposed to be returning an errno_t value mixing in integers and other values not originally in the errno value range, but later in the range. Being able to typedef an enum to an errno_t and then having the compiler squawk when someone interchanged the value with an int would have been incredibly useful, not to mention fixing a metric buttload of HFS bugs that had to be fixed relatively manually instead.
The way LLVM works, this would be rather trivial (but the request has been outstanding to the Apple LLVM people for 3 years now); I'm told that adding it to gcc would be more difficult because it attempts to dealias things like simple typedef types as early as it can, and the metadata necessary to do warnings (or enforcement, for the -Werror case) is lost before the place it would need to be chacked.
They've lost money in 14 of the last 16 quarters. A reduction in the number of devices being developed (they did 27 new phones last year) and a move away from low end devices both mean that less people and locations (they are cutting ~30 locations) are necessary. According to the article, those being let go are being given generous severance packages.
The move to high end devices should not be surprising to anyone in the US, but might surprise Europeans, who are used to paying full cost out of pocket for phones, rather than getting a new one issued to you each time you re-up on a 2 year contract, as is done in the U.S..
In general, low end phones are largely fungible commodities, meaning substiting one for another has low or no marginal costs. Staying in the down market is why Nokia is getting beaten in total phones shipped by Samsung these days. See this article from April:
What part of "wireless" implies WiFi frequencies or protocols? The Medtronic Minimed Paradigm insulin pump, and the Deltec Cozmo, Animas Ping, Insulet OmniPod, Accu-chek Spirit Combo, and Sooil DiabecareIIS pumps all communicate wirelessly (one via infrared) and a couple will adjust dosing automatically based on an unencrypted wireless signal from a glucose meter (basically: lie about the glucose level to the pump until it empties its 200 dose unit cartridge into the wearer, or lie about it so they don't get any insulin whatsoever).
http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/08/defcon-excuse-me-while-i-turn-off-your-pacemaker/ A similar turn-off attack on Legend RF controlled pacemakers was shown at Defcon in 2008, and which demonstrated the ability to pull out HIPAA protected information from the device itself, including the identity of the patient, the doctor, the diagnosis, and the pacemaker instructions.
"“Individually identifiable health information” is information, including demographic data, that relates to:
* the individual’s past, present or future physical or mental health or condition, * the provision of health care to the individual, or * the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to the individual,
and that identifies the individual or for which there is a reasonable basis to believe it can be used to identify the individual."
I agree that it's possible to design such a system; I do not agree that medical device vendors have designed their systems in that way. Generally, they were probably more concerned with making working medical devices rather than information security, since that's the problem right in front of them. See also:
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FTFY. Send it in quarters, please.
Compaq made the most shitty PCs in the universe when they existed. Naturally, they were bought by HP, because HP likes shitty computers.
Clearly, you have never used a DEC Rainbow 100. Given its joint heritage, the only things you could be certain about it were:
(1) You could disassemble it completely with a ball point pen and a dime
(2) The serial port was never going to work
I treated it as a clause, to avoid the second half being a sentence fragment, but yeah, the nominative was unclear due to the lack of the comma, which is left out in "modern style guides". People should not rely on English style guides written by people who have not truly learned English.
As I asked another poster, which of the coming features of Obamacare are going to increase rates? I hear this sort of thing a lot, but never any specificity as to what's in the ACA that will increase rates.
This is pretty easy to explain, if you can do percentage math. The medical industry increases profits, the insurance industry instreases profits, and the government gets additional tax revenue.
How it works:
It puts the uninsured, who normally only see a doctor when they go to the emergency room, into the same pool as everyone else by forcing them to buy insurance. This has the effect that the large HMO/Hospital corporations get paid their full asking price for treatment, rather than writing it off at its actual value as a cost of being in the business.
Consider the the case before and after for two people, one insured, the other not, going in for the same $500 worth of treatment:
Before:
Hospital cost: $500
Patient(I) charge: $1000
Patient(U) write-off: $500
Hospital gross profit: $1000 (direct) + $500 (write off)
Hospital profit after 20% tax: $1000 * (1 - 0.2) = $800 (net) +$200 (tax credit) = $1000 (total net)
Government net tax income: $0
After:
Hospital cost: $500
Patient(I) charge: $1000
Patient(I) write-off: $1000
Hospital gross profit: $2000 (direct)
Hospital profit after 20% tax: $2000 * (1 - 0.2) = $1600 (net) = $1600 (total net)
Government net tax income: $400
Result:
Hospital corporations profits: up $600 (= +$600/$1000 = 60%)
Government net tax income: up $400 (= +$400/$0 = infinity%)
That money has to come from somewhere, and that somewhere is your (the collective you) pockets.
This is just the hospitals and the government, and just for emergency care.
Insurance company profits also go up, and they get the multiplier they normally get by charging for medical insurance, malpractice insurance for hospitals and doctors, and liability insurance from hospitals, doctors offices, labs, and medical device, drug, and lab equipment and lab reagent manufacturers.
The current (non-single-payer) plan is basically just a continuation of the AIG/Insurance industry bail-out that was already in progress, and a way of substituting activity for action in order to appear to be doing something.
Note that both Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter both proposed single-payer plans that were shot down by congress (Ted Kennedy was involved in both shootings).
The word you were looking for is redacted. It is only censorship when someone else deletes your content.
I think the use was probably intentional.
Everyone knows that when the people who use the word "redacted" actually publish anything they've "redacted", all you have to do is highlight the entire document and paste it into a text window.
Sounds wonderful. I think I'll stick to running, the gym and my kayak.
I can see running in the gym; how do you run in a kayak?
Did you seriously not Google search for "US SIM CARD"?
I had zero problem buying an AT&T GoPhone SIMs for Chromebook 3G modem bringup here at Google.
You can also get T-Mobile as well; whether the data will work on 3G or only on Edge will depend on the frequency bands your phone supports; for example, an iPhone will not do 3G on T-Mobile, unless you know how to hack the radio table, which requires rewriting the baseband firmware in the older phones. Even if you did that, it'd suffer from "you're holding it wrong" connectivity issues, since it antenna are not frequency tuned for that carrier. In case you were wondering:
T-Mobile: UTMS frequency band IV 1700/2100 MHz
AT&T: UTMS frequency band II 1900MHz
Here's the full list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS_frequency_bands
Also, you should be aware when transporting a "smart" phone between the US and Europe that the firmware loads specifically set the clock frequency for the region. The reason several types of phone were slightly overclocked in Europe, for example, is that the frequency of the CPU happened to harmonically resonate with the common carrier frequency, which meant it tended to interfere with the radio when run on European frequencies for carriers like Orange.
He doesn't know how to use the three sea shells!
It's generally a conscious effect.
Specifically, we don't actually get more violence because of video games:
Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games, Lawrence Kutner PhD and Cheryl K. Olson ScD ...any more than we end up with mass comedy in the streets every time they show a Seinfeld or I Love Lucy re-run.
"Video Games and Real Life Aggression", Lillian Bensely and Juliet Van Eenwyk, Journal of Adolescent Health, vol. 29, 2001
"Video Games and Health", Mark Griffiths, British Medical Journal vol. 331, 2005
My sister worked for the eBay thought police for several years. Mostly it was offensive images that people replaced on their web site in place of an existing image that someone else linked into an auction page so that they victim had to pay the bandwidth costs for the picture of the picnic table (or whatever), rather than the seller. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking
Apple employees who work with customer data in Final Cut Pro, iMovie, QuickTime, Logic Studio, and Aperture, as well as some other packages get to sign agreements about exposure to offensive material.
Adobe has similar agreements for employees who might be doing work on Photoshop for customer data.
If you're actually in the industry that generates the images in the first place, there are similar agreements.
I was at a startup that did web site reverse proxy caches for a while, and had a similar agreement; you can guess at the sites where you'd want the ability to carry heavy load on a landing page.
if they were just moving the things elsewhere, that would have been done in a different fashion.
they're out of money, out of liquidity - so instead of leaving employees hanging and telling them to come in without knowing if they'll be paid they showed them the door.
I'd be an asshat for it, but it's pretty easy to deprive people of stock options the same way that the PGE/Enron thing played out with no discernible profit to the operating company that was left after the dust settled from which to reclaim damages. "Sorry guys, we are victims too!". I was pretty screwed that way once, but that was once too many.
You derez the current company to zero your debts then rerez as a new company that buys the old company's assets at fire sale prices to claim a tax loss on the old company holdings while transferring ownership to the new company at a new basis price.
This is pretty much "offload debt to the employees while protecting the named investors" 101.
The only place this doesn't work is real estate, and for that you have an LLC per property to keep yourself on the "I didn't sell the property, I sold the company that owns the property, so the property tax should not go up" side of things (Hi Kaiser family trust! Send me money K PLZ THX!).
WWII started because WWI ended with a big FUCK YOU to Germany.
...that the current European financial crisis is because WWII ended with a big FUCK YOU to Germany? The Deutsche Bundesbank is the most influential member of the ESCB. Just saying...
Thanks for that.
Good to see at least one other person commenting that grasps the reality. Government has the exclusive power to use violence and imprisonment, and writes the laws and determines who is breaking them. The government has the power to do a "Darth Vader" - "I have altered the deal. Pray I do not alter it further." and has done so in the past.
Except for terrorism, of course. For terrorism, the power is non-exclusive, and anyone can opt in, even if wielded as if by an idiot with a wiffle-bat.
My master made me this collar. He is a good and smart master and he made me this collar so that I may speak. Squirrel!
"If I have not seen further it is by standing on ye chests of prone midgets"
To be completely fair, if you have something patentable in your business or operational model, and you patent it, said root company would have the option of buying you out or losing the functionality driving people to their service in the first place, leaving you room to make a similar service with your patented components intact and drive them under. For the most part, Twitter add-ons do not add significant value to Twitter.
If you implement filtering, then the first time "something bad" gets through, be prepared to be the fall-guy.
The retirement wasn't over fuel efficiency, since if you were paying to fly that fast, you'd pay a premium anyway. According to Wikipedia: "As a result of the type’s only crash on 25 July 2000 and other factors, its retirement flight was on 26 November 2003."; see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
Fuel is not cited as one of the factors. It might well have been retired for that reason in the current cost climate, and fuel economy prevented them being purchased by airlines after the 707, 747, and DC-10, but they were profitable up to the day they were retired.
"I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-)" - Andy Tanenbaum
Bjarne Stroustrup himself, in the chapter 18 of his book The Design and Evolution of C++, frowns on the use of preprocessor and wishes to eliminate it completely.
So Stroustrup complains about Kernighan and Ritchie's work, Torvalds complains about Stroustrup's work, and Tanenbaum complains about Torvalds work...
It's the circle of life: everyone who has ever written a line of code has someone who will complain about that line.
They monetize a published number by publishing a directory, publishing reverse directories, publishing area directories for use in direct marketing, and so on. Forget that there are laws about these things being used to actually call you without your permission or a preexisting business relationship, since anyone who buys the drivetories from them is a business partner, and therefore entitled to call you.
What they are saying is that they are making some value $X, where $0 $X = $60 off of this process, and by asking to be unlisted, you cost them this additional profit they would otherwise be able to make by publishing your number in various ways. My guess is that on average it's pretty close to what they are charging, in order to keep it legally defensible should some consumer go lawyer-happy on them.
Sorry, but nope; the aspect ratio won't change, even if the resolution does.
The new iPhone and iPad resolutions were chosen to make old software scale up and new software scale down without leaving ugly black bands down the edges. In addition, all the content in the iTunes store is scaled to fit without leaving your movies with the same aspect ratio as they were intended to be shown.
The big screw up Android has made, and continues to make, is that there is no uniform resolution and scaling to make content portable between devices; this include applications, as well as video and other media. There's no incentive to compete for the same parts with everyone else making an Android device by picking a specific ratio/ratio+integer resolution multiplier: the vendors want product differentiation and vendor lock-in, whereas for the iDevices, there's an intent to create an ecosystem.
Consider that there's no reason to have vendor loyalty to a particular device vendor when all your content purchased from the last device you bought from them looks like crap on the new device. Apple, on the other hand, is all about the ecosystem: they could care less if your content was portable, as long as you are viewing it on a device you bought from Apple, and hey, having multiple devices from Apple means you have more reason to spend money in the iTunes/iApps store than you did when you owned half as many Apple devices.
Any chance of just adding -Wtypedef-types?
Just having a warning for when you use a typedef type in place of an int or vice versa, or a typedef type of a struct or union whose first element matched the type of the parameter its being used in place of would be a huge improvement.
At one point in time, I went through the Mac OS X kernel and dealt with the functions that were supposed to be returning an errno_t value mixing in integers and other values not originally in the errno value range, but later in the range. Being able to typedef an enum to an errno_t and then having the compiler squawk when someone interchanged the value with an int would have been incredibly useful, not to mention fixing a metric buttload of HFS bugs that had to be fixed relatively manually instead.
The way LLVM works, this would be rather trivial (but the request has been outstanding to the Apple LLVM people for 3 years now); I'm told that adding it to gcc would be more difficult because it attempts to dealias things like simple typedef types as early as it can, and the metadata necessary to do warnings (or enforcement, for the -Werror case) is lost before the place it would need to be chacked.
They've lost money in 14 of the last 16 quarters. A reduction in the number of devices being developed (they did 27 new phones last year) and a move away from low end devices both mean that less people and locations (they are cutting ~30 locations) are necessary. According to the article, those being let go are being given generous severance packages.
The move to high end devices should not be surprising to anyone in the US, but might surprise Europeans, who are used to paying full cost out of pocket for phones, rather than getting a new one issued to you each time you re-up on a 2 year contract, as is done in the U.S..
In general, low end phones are largely fungible commodities, meaning substiting one for another has low or no marginal costs. Staying in the down market is why Nokia is getting beaten in total phones shipped by Samsung these days. See this article from April:
http://www.asymco.com/2012/04/12/how-samsung-beat-nokia/
What part of "wireless" implies WiFi frequencies or protocols? The Medtronic Minimed Paradigm insulin pump, and the Deltec Cozmo, Animas Ping, Insulet OmniPod, Accu-chek Spirit Combo, and Sooil DiabecareIIS pumps all communicate wirelessly (one via infrared) and a couple will adjust dosing automatically based on an unencrypted wireless signal from a glucose meter (basically: lie about the glucose level to the pump until it empties its 200 dose unit cartridge into the wearer, or lie about it so they don't get any insulin whatsoever).
http://www.startribune.com/business/128427593.html?refer=y
Demonstrated at Black Hat in 2011: wireless forced shutdown of the device.
http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/08/defcon-excuse-me-while-i-turn-off-your-pacemaker/
A similar turn-off attack on Legend RF controlled pacemakers was shown at Defcon in 2008, and which demonstrated the ability to pull out HIPAA protected information from the device itself, including the identity of the patient, the doctor, the diagnosis, and the pacemaker instructions.
Your friend in the other room already told us everything. This is your chance to come clean and maybe get a lighter sentence.
"“Individually identifiable health information” is information, including demographic data, that relates to:
* the individual’s past, present or future physical or mental health or condition,
* the provision of health care to the individual, or
* the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to the individual,
and that identifies the individual or for which there is a reasonable basis to believe it can be used to identify the individual."
I agree that it's possible to design such a system; I do not agree that medical device vendors have designed their systems in that way. Generally, they were probably more concerned with making working medical devices rather than information security, since that's the problem right in front of them. See also:
http://www.massdevice.com/news/update-insulin-pump-hacker-outs-medtronic-company-responds
Note that this is the same company (Medtronic) that manufactures two of the pacemakers he was blogging about wanting data from.