Most large insurance companies (State Farm, AllState, etc.) have a variety of health insurance offerings ranging from hospitalization-only, to "traditional" comprehensive major medical plans (usually an 80/20 split with the they pay/you pay format plus a deductible) to HMO and HMO-like products. Prices will range from $300-$1,500 per month depending on the type and amounts of coverage. Some states offer small group or community pools where small businesses can band together to form a risk pool for better rates. Most BlueCross/BlueShield plans have small business insurance options, but they will be pricey.
Most of the horror stories involving "I thought I was covered but they said I wasn't" are due to lack of reading the plan requirements for in-network/out-of-network coverages and what doctors and hospitals were part of the plan, what services required referrals or pre-approval. Bottom line: no matter what you buy, make sure you know the details before you do anything, including visit an E.R. or go to your regular doctor for a check-up.
Think of the fun to be had spraying this stuff on the battery terminals of ipods, cell phones and other electronic devices of those you want to annoy. It's a party in can!
Better passwords would have made all the difference in the world. 16 character, mixed case and symbol types would have been enough of a roadblock to prevent them from gaining access. Too many companies are still shipping products that have no intended user access to the command shell with passwords like "Admin", "12345", and the ever-popular "password". It's not like it costs more to have a longer, more complex password.
It's not art, either the cube or the concept. It's a psychological manipulation of economics via ebay, and very most likely not in conformance with ebay's terms (i.e., the 15% kickback to the "artist"), and probably not entirely legal either.
If they eye tracking tech interoperats with the built-in web camera so the device sees what you see (not just want part of the device screen you are looking at) this could be used to delivery data about whatever your are seeing. It could also be used to deliver targeted advertising.
Security is something you do, not just somethings you have. In addition to hardware, software, policy and procedures, security requires discipline, constant vigilance, and flexible adaptability to the changing world around us. If you don't have or aren't willing to acquire the latter three of those aspects of security, the preceding four aren't going to cover your risk.
it looks to me that he actually has a valid complaint, however minor that complaint might be.
Only if you buy into his premise that the name of the PAC is the sole criteria that defines the PACs scope and purpose, and it's not. As for the rest, all she has to do is give money to more than one candidate and she's off the hook. The fact that she's not raised a ton of money is an unavoidable practical defense on her part with regard to that.
It's clearly a parody web site and is protected Free Speech under the 1st Amendment. The complaint shouldn't get any further than an initial hearing and a motion to dismiss by the defendant for lack of merit.
ZFS is supposed to be more fault resilient than other file systems, but at the cost of more intensive cpu usage. I prefer AIX and JFS over anything from Sun.
People were cheating like mad, scripting stuff, etc,
When the vast majority of the game is a point-and-click fest, with very little role-playing activity involved, scripting isn't cheating, it simply expediting the iterative part of the game. Most of the Zynga games I've seen have a certain amount of "crap accumulation" effort to them that is there to do nothing more than prolong the game play, which in turn is to motivate you to engage in their dubious offers for "points" to acquire said crap more immediately. Having the player by-pass the scams by expedite the mouse clicks can't be called cheating by any reasonable, objective measure of the situation.
So your proposed solution is international cooperation and extradition treaties to cover all crimes?
No, not all crime, that would be extreme and unnecessary. My point is dealing with any specific crime perpetrated on country A while in or having relocated to country B is better dealt with via treaty that has been negotiated and ratified by both country A's and B's due process for doing so rather than either or both countries conceding their sovereignty to a police force that will ultimately be under the complete control of neither country.
The real problem is the lack of international cooperation and extradition treaties that would cover not only cyber crime, but crimes of all sorts. Creating a hyper-focused solution for a narrow aspect of a broader problem is only going to create more problems, and ultimately erode more freedoms than the number of crimes it may solve.
I wonder how that line would go over in a project plan? Nowhere in the FAQ does it ever mention actually removing or fixing the Bad Code for which they are willing to sell an Offset. Ironically, if they advocated, promoted, and actually assisted in that effort, their market for Bad Code Offsets would diminish. This smells like something that would have been pitched to the VC's back in the mid-90s as a means of generating revenue until a real product was ready.
The WRONG code is used; it's easier to screw up a code than a plain-English description.
Do you seriously believe that?
Take the phrase "Topiramate-associated acute, bilateral, secondary angle-closure glaucoma". Do you know what happens to treatment, billing, medical procedure preparations and follow-on care instructions if you leave out the work "bilateral" at any part of the process? Having a code that automatically puts the correct description on the billing statements, the patient record, and calls up the appropriate follow-up care instructions for the patient to take home eliminates that one mistake that has a significant cascade across all facets of the patient's hospital stay.
Of course if you've ever worked in a hospital or other medical facility, or worked for an insurance company or other related third-party, you'd already have known that.
You'd be better off with relatively "dumb" software, almost like a wiki, that lets you efficiently handle arbitrary text and arbitrary data blobs
You couldn't be any more incorrect if you tried. The majority of data generated and used in a hospital is of a well-known classified type: personal information like name and address; medical indexing information like diagnosis codes and procedure codes that convey paragraphs of standard information with a simple alpha-numeric designator; drug names and dosage instructions; and yes, insurance and billing information. The non-text data like MRI, X-Ray, and other imaging have been cast into industry-standard data formats. The problem is most decidedly not the data, either in its volume or diversity, but with perspective.
Hospital Admins making short-term management decisions need a different view of the data than do the doctors, who need a different view than the folks in finance making long-term budget decisions, who need a different view than the billing department making immediate cash-flow-impacting decisions. What should be one of the primary goals of any medical software, that of providing the correct perspective for the given audience, is often lost in the attempt for software companies to produce an all-things-to-all-people suite of applications. The apps may or may not inter-operate as advertised, and (in my limited experience, having worked at one hospital) fall short of meeting the need for proper perspectives of the data.
A wiki of data would be the worst of all worlds, as the one of the functions a wiki completely fails at is providing customized perspectives of data sets. Sure, you can specifically link related data, but there's no way of presenting that link as being a strongly coupled relationship or weak one, or something in-between. There's also no way of prioritizing the data: all of the data is all equal, all of the time, to all people. Wiki's are wonderful frameworks for presenting reference data, but horrible frameworks for dealing with procedural data. And like it or not, a hospital setting is nothing more than a venue for never-ending processes.
My previous two employers paid a stipend of a set amount to salaried employees who were on call. One place did it quarterly, the other bi-monthly with the regular pay check cycle. My current employer has an "unofficial" comp-time policy for on-call. But unlike the other two, also has a corporate bonus program, for which things like being on pager duty are supposed to be taken into consideration.
Slashdot Mirror
Most large insurance companies (State Farm, AllState, etc.) have a variety of health insurance offerings ranging from hospitalization-only, to "traditional" comprehensive major medical plans (usually an 80/20 split with the they pay/you pay format plus a deductible) to HMO and HMO-like products. Prices will range from $300-$1,500 per month depending on the type and amounts of coverage. Some states offer small group or community pools where small businesses can band together to form a risk pool for better rates. Most BlueCross/BlueShield plans have small business insurance options, but they will be pricey.
Most of the horror stories involving "I thought I was covered but they said I wasn't" are due to lack of reading the plan requirements for in-network/out-of-network coverages and what doctors and hospitals were part of the plan, what services required referrals or pre-approval. Bottom line: no matter what you buy, make sure you know the details before you do anything, including visit an E.R. or go to your regular doctor for a check-up.
Think of the fun to be had spraying this stuff on the battery terminals of ipods, cell phones and other electronic devices of those you want to annoy. It's a party in can!
So my theory is that it's a conspiracy against conspiracy theorists.
As outlined in "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
changing IP address ranges, guessing passwords
Better passwords would have made all the difference in the world. 16 character, mixed case and symbol types would have been enough of a roadblock to prevent them from gaining access. Too many companies are still shipping products that have no intended user access to the command shell with passwords like "Admin", "12345", and the ever-popular "password". It's not like it costs more to have a longer, more complex password.
It's not art, either the cube or the concept. It's a psychological manipulation of economics via ebay, and very most likely not in conformance with ebay's terms (i.e., the 15% kickback to the "artist"), and probably not entirely legal either.
If they eye tracking tech interoperats with the built-in web camera so the device sees what you see (not just want part of the device screen you are looking at) this could be used to delivery data about whatever your are seeing. It could also be used to deliver targeted advertising.
They are using Outlook/Exchange like a BBS that sends in digest mode only.
Security is something you do, not just somethings you have. In addition to hardware, software, policy and procedures, security requires discipline, constant vigilance, and flexible adaptability to the changing world around us. If you don't have or aren't willing to acquire the latter three of those aspects of security, the preceding four aren't going to cover your risk.
He could have bought an Official Red Ryder, Carbine-Action, Two-Hundred-Shot, Range Model Air Rifle.
And then shot his eye out.
it looks to me that he actually has a valid complaint, however minor that complaint might be.
Only if you buy into his premise that the name of the PAC is the sole criteria that defines the PACs scope and purpose, and it's not. As for the rest, all she has to do is give money to more than one candidate and she's off the hook. The fact that she's not raised a ton of money is an unavoidable practical defense on her part with regard to that.
'The fear is that if you pursue computer science, you will be stuck in a basement, writing code. That is absolutely not the reality.'"
No. You'll be sitting in a cube, reading and posting to slashdot.
It's clearly a parody web site and is protected Free Speech under the 1st Amendment. The complaint shouldn't get any further than an initial hearing and a motion to dismiss by the defendant for lack of merit.
ZFS is supposed to be more fault resilient than other file systems, but at the cost of more intensive cpu usage. I prefer AIX and JFS over anything from Sun.
It's just Eliza repackaged
The laws of thermodynamics are against you.
And art deco was in the 20's and 30's.
People were cheating like mad, scripting stuff, etc,
When the vast majority of the game is a point-and-click fest, with very little role-playing activity involved, scripting isn't cheating, it simply expediting the iterative part of the game. Most of the Zynga games I've seen have a certain amount of "crap accumulation" effort to them that is there to do nothing more than prolong the game play, which in turn is to motivate you to engage in their dubious offers for "points" to acquire said crap more immediately. Having the player by-pass the scams by expedite the mouse clicks can't be called cheating by any reasonable, objective measure of the situation.
...it's a paid placement
As long as demand is greater than supply, price will increase.
So your proposed solution is international cooperation and extradition treaties to cover all crimes?
No, not all crime, that would be extreme and unnecessary. My point is dealing with any specific crime perpetrated on country A while in or having relocated to country B is better dealt with via treaty that has been negotiated and ratified by both country A's and B's due process for doing so rather than either or both countries conceding their sovereignty to a police force that will ultimately be under the complete control of neither country.
The real problem is the lack of international cooperation and extradition treaties that would cover not only cyber crime, but crimes of all sorts. Creating a hyper-focused solution for a narrow aspect of a broader problem is only going to create more problems, and ultimately erode more freedoms than the number of crimes it may solve.
From the "Bad Code FAQ":
Offsetting bad code also provides a salve to your conscience.
I wonder how that line would go over in a project plan? Nowhere in the FAQ does it ever mention actually removing or fixing the Bad Code for which they are willing to sell an Offset. Ironically, if they advocated, promoted, and actually assisted in that effort, their market for Bad Code Offsets would diminish. This smells like something that would have been pitched to the VC's back in the mid-90s as a means of generating revenue until a real product was ready.
man microwave
The WRONG code is used; it's easier to screw up a code than a plain-English description.
Do you seriously believe that?
Take the phrase "Topiramate-associated acute, bilateral, secondary angle-closure glaucoma". Do you know what happens to treatment, billing, medical procedure preparations and follow-on care instructions if you leave out the work "bilateral" at any part of the process? Having a code that automatically puts the correct description on the billing statements, the patient record, and calls up the appropriate follow-up care instructions for the patient to take home eliminates that one mistake that has a significant cascade across all facets of the patient's hospital stay.
Of course if you've ever worked in a hospital or other medical facility, or worked for an insurance company or other related third-party, you'd already have known that.
You'd be better off with relatively "dumb" software, almost like a wiki, that lets you efficiently handle arbitrary text and arbitrary data blobs
You couldn't be any more incorrect if you tried. The majority of data generated and used in a hospital is of a well-known classified type: personal information like name and address; medical indexing information like diagnosis codes and procedure codes that convey paragraphs of standard information with a simple alpha-numeric designator; drug names and dosage instructions; and yes, insurance and billing information. The non-text data like MRI, X-Ray, and other imaging have been cast into industry-standard data formats. The problem is most decidedly not the data, either in its volume or diversity, but with perspective.
Hospital Admins making short-term management decisions need a different view of the data than do the doctors, who need a different view than the folks in finance making long-term budget decisions, who need a different view than the billing department making immediate cash-flow-impacting decisions. What should be one of the primary goals of any medical software, that of providing the correct perspective for the given audience, is often lost in the attempt for software companies to produce an all-things-to-all-people suite of applications. The apps may or may not inter-operate as advertised, and (in my limited experience, having worked at one hospital) fall short of meeting the need for proper perspectives of the data.
A wiki of data would be the worst of all worlds, as the one of the functions a wiki completely fails at is providing customized perspectives of data sets. Sure, you can specifically link related data, but there's no way of presenting that link as being a strongly coupled relationship or weak one, or something in-between. There's also no way of prioritizing the data: all of the data is all equal, all of the time, to all people. Wiki's are wonderful frameworks for presenting reference data, but horrible frameworks for dealing with procedural data. And like it or not, a hospital setting is nothing more than a venue for never-ending processes.
My previous two employers paid a stipend of a set amount to salaried employees who were on call. One place did it quarterly, the other bi-monthly with the regular pay check cycle. My current employer has an "unofficial" comp-time policy for on-call. But unlike the other two, also has a corporate bonus program, for which things like being on pager duty are supposed to be taken into consideration.