Baloney. You were either lucky, not paying attention, or still on your mom's plan. I remember premiums rising rapidly under Clinton, Bush and Obama. There was no difference in the rate of increase. It was (is) huge yearly increases under all recent administrations. I know this because I paid the premiums.
However, since one example is not a statistic there is fact check:
https://www.factcheck.org/2015...
Forbes article?
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Will Townsend is a Moor Insights & Strategy senior analyst covering networking infrastructure and carrier services
When did slashdot become a press release peddler?
"By shutting out legitimate nonprofit activity, PayPal shows itself to be morally bankrupt.'"
Interesting turn. PayPal takes unilateral action for whatever reason - just the same as Manning took unilateral action for his own reasons.
PayPal decided for itself that they wanted to restrict funds for Manning's defense. They did not confer with Manning, his supporters, or his family.
Bradley Manning decided for himself that he should release thousands of classified documents. He didn't confer with any other American. He just decided for himself.
interesting...
Apparently there is no monopoly here on "moral bankruptcy."
He commutes to Sunnyvale three or four days a week on the Gulfstream IV corporate jet that he and Mr. Daly bought from Warner Brothers when they resigned in 1999.
A Gulfstream IV to commute from LA to Sunnyvale? They is a jet that is being completely underutilized. Good they own it and not Google, or else it could be considered a miss-used corporate asset.
Why not a Citation jet? It's cheaper and build for that kind of "short" commute. The G IV is for crossing continents and oceans.
Disclaimer: I only read 1/2 of the first page because I found the article rather boring.
Very often ground level winds are significantly less severe than winds above even 50ft. Also, it's not the speed itself that is a problem, but the change in speeds that proves very dangerous - particularly close to the ground.
Any winds, steady or gusting, have a huge impact on fuel usage. One day I may be able to get to a destination on 1/2 a tank of fuel, then the next day a full tank won't be enough. This means that each time, before someone gets into the aircraft, somebody has to do a calculation to determine if there is enough fuel to reach the destination.
This could be done by onboard computers connected electronically to a private weather service where the airplane determines a course that includes a fuel stop.
However, my flying experience is such the weather is more often not as predicted. Moreover what if the said personal pilot is "in a rush?" Can he/she then by-pass the onboard computer because he/she knows better what the weather will be like?
My point is that it will never be as easy as jumping into your personal aircraft and heading to the movies with your girlfriend. This will always be more complicated than driving. Thus there is more chance for a novice to kill themselves as well as innocents on the ground. This means that the over-all costs will never come down enough to make a flying machine an anybody-can-do-it personal transporter.
I could go on but I'll stop here. I have to get back to work.
In a car you can drive through a summer thunderstorm with very little risk of losing your life. In a light aircraft it's a very different story, and no Inventor/NASA technology seems to address this.
They say you don't need a pilots license to fly one of these below 400 feet in unrestricted airspace. Well...I'm afraid that all the important places in the world (NYC, DC, Seattle, Paris, London, etc) are already surrounded by miles of restricted airspace from the ground up to around 7000 feet (it's been a while, so give or take a few thousand).
That being said this may revolutionize air charter/air taxi services. To use this technology for air charter/air taxi there may be a need for relaxing of aviation regulations for the air taxi route, but nothing like the regs that will have to be thrown out to make this a true personal transportation vehicle for anybody.
>>The problem is politicians no longer view people as their electorate, instead they view complex algorithms of where to spend money on advertising as the equation to get elected.
>You're right, dammit. And it's hard to fix; it verges on darwinism: If they can get an advantage using methods like you describe, then they are selected, and it reinforces itself. How can you fix something like that? Any attempts at leveling the field are usually subverted and exploited.
Oh for Christ's sake...
Could you please put an end to your silly over-simplifications, and actually get involved with the issues?
In the US (Maybe Canada? I don't know) it's the Uniform Commercial Code Council:
http://www.uc-council.org/
controls distribution of UPC/EAN numbers now called: GTIN
Definition: GTIN is an umbrella term used to describe the family of numbers that identify trade items (products and services). GTINs consist of four identification numbers that are 8, 12, 13, or 14 digits in length. For example, the U.P.C. on a product encodes a 12-digit GTIN
As a previous poster has said companies are assigned a corporate prefix (that is no longer of fixed length). An item code can then be attached to that prefix by a manufacturer, as well as discontinued.
No one has ever shown me any sort of evidence, argument or reason, of any sort, why this would be any more of a fear to customers of open source software
Good question.
Stolen proprietary code will be defended by big budget lawyers and marking departments that will negate the impact on the corporations bottom line.
How will open source negate an actual violation?
I read Browns response to Tanenbaum and he makes a good point. How will open source user's be assured that they won't be pulled into court because of some actual or alleged stolen code?
I don't think for a second that he even came close to making the case that LINUX is stolen MINUX code. However, Brown's larger point is scary. Given SCO's suite this could be a big hairy monster hanging over opensource for quite some time.
We in the Open Source community need to face up to the possibility that some of us may be cheating and contributing code that we don't have a legal right to contribute.
Complain about how Microsoft gets away with stealing code. Complain about SCO having a business plan based on lawsuits. But, we need to think about this: We (the open source community) may be getting off light. There may be a time when someone contributes something that they did not have a right to, when it will be obvious, and when it will be all over the NYT.
"So what you're saying....We don't meet your criteria for understanding how the government "works". Therefore TIA and MATRIX are paranoid illusions?"
Given that this topic has elicited posts with quotes like "American anti-terror jihad," and then those same posts are mod'd up to +5, I have to say that yes...your paraphrase is correct.
When it comes to Journalism - What's difference between fair and objective? I don't think a journalist, or anyone can be objective, because there is too much slippery-slope human stuff to overcome. The most they can be is fair, so I think of them as one and the same.
To me "America anti-terror jihad" just isn't a fair assessment of the motivations and current state of America's anti-terror efforts.
I'm not arguing I'm honestly curious about your reply.
Since when has The Register been the source of objective commentary on American Society and Government.
How does "American anti-terror jihad" constitute objective (or at least fair) journalism such that this post rates a +5?
I'm beginning to think that/. is fast becoming a bastion of the ill-informed who couldn't be bothered with learning how their own government actually works, but having plenty of opinion (and fantastic imagination) on what it's doing wrong.
I always discounted this sort of solution because any electrical device on board must have a circuit breaker. How do the designers get around someone just turning off this "navigational aid?"
What information? The article states that "some people" are asking questions about the legitimacy of the SARs statistics in the US.
Who's asking these questions?
Article just expects one to take it at face value that the Canadian Health care system is better than the US and this is why these "people" are asking questions.
What good does that do anybody? Doesn't tell anyone shit.
You need to learn to be a more critical reader of so-called news. Just because a reporter from a non-big media outlet theorizes questions that are critical of the US doesn't give it more legitimacy. You and the other morons who mod'd this up to a 5.
I am in agreement with everyone in the world having a say in matters inside and outside their borders, and I am also sympathetic to your point about the Palestinians.
However, it's not a political issue either, because there are all manner of folk who feel a certain way about things, are listened to, then ignored, because the majority, or the powerful, did not agree with their point of view.
Bin Laden's original beef was with US Troops on Saudi soil. He was able to get an audience with King Faud. The King listened then ignored. Then Laden spoke a little louder. We listened, then threw a dozen $800K missiles at some tents...Now we are missing 3000 souls, two greate buildings, and are stuck doing rebuilding Afganistan (and doing a half-assed job too).
Christ, Timothy McViegh wrote, what, one maybe two letters to the editor before he started blowing stuff up.
BL, and McViegh are like an unethical salepeople who see taking no for an answer as failure - only with a different sales pitch and a different product.
Everyone, including psycho crack-pots, Palestinians, and you and I, want to be listened to. The difference, when it comes to WMD, is in those who can take no for an answer and those who can't.
BTW: The Palestinians' case is the difference between hope for the future, and hopelessness. Not that fact that they can't take no for an answer like BL, and McViegh.
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Baloney. You were either lucky, not paying attention, or still on your mom's plan. I remember premiums rising rapidly under Clinton, Bush and Obama. There was no difference in the rate of increase. It was (is) huge yearly increases under all recent administrations. I know this because I paid the premiums. However, since one example is not a statistic there is fact check: https://www.factcheck.org/2015...
Forbes article? POST WRITTEN BY Will Townsend Will Townsend is a Moor Insights & Strategy senior analyst covering networking infrastructure and carrier services When did slashdot become a press release peddler?
"By shutting out legitimate nonprofit activity, PayPal shows itself to be morally bankrupt.'" Interesting turn. PayPal takes unilateral action for whatever reason - just the same as Manning took unilateral action for his own reasons. PayPal decided for itself that they wanted to restrict funds for Manning's defense. They did not confer with Manning, his supporters, or his family. Bradley Manning decided for himself that he should release thousands of classified documents. He didn't confer with any other American. He just decided for himself. interesting... Apparently there is no monopoly here on "moral bankruptcy."
He commutes to Sunnyvale three or four days a week on the Gulfstream IV corporate jet that he and Mr. Daly bought from Warner Brothers when they resigned in 1999.
A Gulfstream IV to commute from LA to Sunnyvale? They is a jet that is being completely underutilized. Good they own it and not Google, or else it could be considered a miss-used corporate asset. Why not a Citation jet? It's cheaper and build for that kind of "short" commute. The G IV is for crossing continents and oceans.
Disclaimer: I only read 1/2 of the first page because I found the article rather boring.
Now, perhaps, they will get some dates.
Started a project that sounded like a good idea. Hey! Wait a minute! This is work!
They probably still don't know the difference between writing code and delivering software to another human being.
Very often ground level winds are significantly less severe than winds above even 50ft. Also, it's not the speed itself that is a problem, but the change in speeds that proves very dangerous - particularly close to the ground. Any winds, steady or gusting, have a huge impact on fuel usage. One day I may be able to get to a destination on 1/2 a tank of fuel, then the next day a full tank won't be enough. This means that each time, before someone gets into the aircraft, somebody has to do a calculation to determine if there is enough fuel to reach the destination. This could be done by onboard computers connected electronically to a private weather service where the airplane determines a course that includes a fuel stop.
However, my flying experience is such the weather is more often not as predicted. Moreover what if the said personal pilot is "in a rush?" Can he/she then by-pass the onboard computer because he/she knows better what the weather will be like?
My point is that it will never be as easy as jumping into your personal aircraft and heading to the movies with your girlfriend. This will always be more complicated than driving. Thus there is more chance for a novice to kill themselves as well as innocents on the ground. This means that the over-all costs will never come down enough to make a flying machine an anybody-can-do-it personal transporter.
I could go on but I'll stop here. I have to get back to work.
In a car you can drive through a summer thunderstorm with very little risk of losing your life. In a light aircraft it's a very different story, and no Inventor/NASA technology seems to address this. They say you don't need a pilots license to fly one of these below 400 feet in unrestricted airspace. Well...I'm afraid that all the important places in the world (NYC, DC, Seattle, Paris, London, etc) are already surrounded by miles of restricted airspace from the ground up to around 7000 feet (it's been a while, so give or take a few thousand). That being said this may revolutionize air charter/air taxi services. To use this technology for air charter/air taxi there may be a need for relaxing of aviation regulations for the air taxi route, but nothing like the regs that will have to be thrown out to make this a true personal transportation vehicle for anybody.
>You're right, dammit. And it's hard to fix; it verges on darwinism: If they can get an advantage using methods like you describe, then they are selected, and it reinforces itself. How can you fix something like that? Any attempts at leveling the field are usually subverted and exploited.
Oh for Christ's sake...
Could you please put an end to your silly over-simplifications, and actually get involved with the issues?
Mentor? Where can I get one of them?
Definition: GTIN is an umbrella term used to describe the family of numbers that identify trade items (products and services). GTINs consist of four identification numbers that are 8, 12, 13, or 14 digits in length. For example, the U.P.C. on a product encodes a 12-digit GTIN
As a previous poster has said companies are assigned a corporate prefix (that is no longer of fixed length). An item code can then be attached to that prefix by a manufacturer, as well as discontinued.
Good question. Stolen proprietary code will be defended by big budget lawyers and marking departments that will negate the impact on the corporations bottom line. How will open source negate an actual violation?
I don't think for a second that he even came close to making the case that LINUX is stolen MINUX code. However, Brown's larger point is scary. Given SCO's suite this could be a big hairy monster hanging over opensource for quite some time.
We in the Open Source community need to face up to the possibility that some of us may be cheating and contributing code that we don't have a legal right to contribute.
Complain about how Microsoft gets away with stealing code. Complain about SCO having a business plan based on lawsuits. But, we need to think about this: We (the open source community) may be getting off light. There may be a time when someone contributes something that they did not have a right to, when it will be obvious, and when it will be all over the NYT.
Opensource needs to get an answer to this fast!
Dude, can you get rid of the run-on sentences? You use commas like periods, which makes your thought process very hard to follow.
...being an Executive Editor and all.
"So what you're saying....We don't meet your criteria for understanding how the government "works". Therefore TIA and MATRIX are paranoid illusions?"
Given that this topic has elicited posts with quotes like "American anti-terror jihad," and then those same posts are mod'd up to +5, I have to say that yes...your paraphrase is correct.
When it comes to Journalism - What's difference between fair and objective? I don't think a journalist, or anyone can be objective, because there is too much slippery-slope human stuff to overcome. The most they can be is fair, so I think of them as one and the same. To me "America anti-terror jihad" just isn't a fair assessment of the motivations and current state of America's anti-terror efforts. I'm not arguing I'm honestly curious about your reply.
Since when has The Register been the source of objective commentary on American Society and Government. How does "American anti-terror jihad" constitute objective (or at least fair) journalism such that this post rates a +5? I'm beginning to think that /. is fast becoming a bastion of the ill-informed who couldn't be bothered with learning how their own government actually works, but having plenty of opinion (and fantastic imagination) on what it's doing wrong.
I always discounted this sort of solution because any electrical device on board must have a circuit breaker. How do the designers get around someone just turning off this "navigational aid?"
What information? The article states that "some people" are asking questions about the legitimacy of the SARs statistics in the US. Who's asking these questions? Article just expects one to take it at face value that the Canadian Health care system is better than the US and this is why these "people" are asking questions. What good does that do anybody? Doesn't tell anyone shit. You need to learn to be a more critical reader of so-called news. Just because a reporter from a non-big media outlet theorizes questions that are critical of the US doesn't give it more legitimacy. You and the other morons who mod'd this up to a 5.
I am in agreement with everyone in the world having a say in matters inside and outside their borders, and I am also sympathetic to your point about the Palestinians.
However, it's not a political issue either, because there are all manner of folk who feel a certain way about things, are listened to, then ignored, because the majority, or the powerful, did not agree with their point of view.
Bin Laden's original beef was with US Troops on Saudi soil. He was able to get an audience with King Faud. The King listened then ignored.
Then Laden spoke a little louder. We listened, then threw a dozen $800K missiles at some tents...Now we are missing 3000 souls, two greate buildings, and are stuck doing rebuilding Afganistan (and doing a half-assed job too).
Christ, Timothy McViegh wrote, what, one maybe two letters to the editor before he started blowing stuff up.
BL, and McViegh are like an unethical salepeople who see taking no for an answer as failure - only with a different sales pitch and a different product.
Everyone, including psycho crack-pots, Palestinians, and you and I, want to be listened to. The difference, when it comes to WMD, is in those who can take no for an answer and those who can't.
BTW: The Palestinians' case is the difference between hope for the future, and hopelessness. Not that fact that they can't take no for an answer like BL, and McViegh.