All that money we pay for medical care seems utterly wasted between the insurance companies and the hospitals.
I think its actually more corrupt than you are guessing.
The cost of medical care, that you pay health insurance to cover, is inflated by the malpractice insurance that the medical professionals have to pay, ie they pass this cost on to the customer.
So the insurance not only get paid twice, they get to dictate the inflation of the medical bills by controlling the cost of malpractice insurance. So the insurers can artificially jack up the cost of medical care and thus artificially jack up the cost of your medical insurance.
One of the problems with the disproportionate cost of medical care in the USA is the huge amount of malpractice insurance that the medical professionals have to pay.
Evidently the reason they have to pay so much for malpractice insurance is because malpractice is a huge problem. If they didn't do so much malpractice maybe the premiums would come down so the costs to the customer would come down and you wouldn't be spending so much for so little!
When you look up in a sky full of stars - all of which belong to the Milky Way Galaxy.... (at least 9,000), and about 4 other galaxies.
And know that with a common telescope we can detect both far more stars within our galaxy (over 100 billion) , AND a whole bunch of other galaxies...
And know that the galaxies form clusters - and cluster contains about 100+ galaxies (often 1000+)....
And know that there are thousands of clusters...
Basically, there are more stars than grains of sand on earth, than water molecules in a drop of water, than seconds in all of humanity's life span.
Yes there's other life out there. Now, whether it's intelligent, still alive, within a reasonable travel/speaking distance of us, that's another story.
This is all great and stuff. But it isn't evidence of the existence of other life.
This is just silly. The Drake equation has always been a joke. It's an extrapolated tautology that the chances for life on other planets are based on the chances for life on other planets.
The worst part about the coverage of this is that the math is claimed to be EVIDENCE that technological civilizations exist on other planets.
Then we would see how well those "iPhone" cases and purses will sell.
Yes, that'll end well. Apple pulls out of the Chinese market, many states in the USA ban Apple products because of encryption. India and Pakistan and many other developing countries follow suit for same reasons. I guess Apple can just dig into their war chest and keep being a company for a few hundred years even without any sales but thats just trololol
The 'Feels like' Temperature is a recent addition to weather forecasts and is largely imaginary.
Are you saying that these ''Feels Like" numbers are what are being used to calculate the global temps?
Not at all.
As human beings we lose heat by sweating. If the air around you is saturated with water vapor sweating does not work. If the air temperature is high enough you will not lose heat and you will die.
I managed to make a typo in the most important line. The command for extracting the ACPI DSDT OSI strings had a mis-spelled path. It should be:
$ sudo strings/sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT | grep -C 2 -i windows
You make my point for me.
I don't have time in my life any more to fuck around with this sort of thing. I'm a technical guy but I don't do computer hobby stuff at home any more, I have a family life. At work I'm a manager, I don't have time to fuck around with my desktop at work either.
I need a desktop environment that I can use to do work, not one on which I have to do work in order to make it functional.
What are these climate-whiners on about this time?
The problem isn't just the temperature, its the humidity. Past a certain humidity you don't lose body heat through sweating. Then you just cook from the excess heat your metabolism generates.
We are on a relatively tech-savvy site, right? Why is there a link explaining what an audiophile is (as if I couldn't have guessed from the context even if I didn't know), but there is no link explaining how the exploit actually works? (It's not mt_rand that's the problem, it's how you seed it) Why do I have to google after reading the summary? What's the point of having editors here at all?!
I'm surprised that the article doesn't include advice like "You can protect yourself from this hack by placing Mpingo disks on your wireless router."
Under Windows, the sound on the monitor stops working after a random period of time, somewhere on the order of an hour. Also, the keyboard randomly ceases to work if plugged into the monitor's USB hub. The same monitor and PC running Debian doesn't have these problems - it's all solid. Additionally, Windows 10 will BSOD at times (usually about once a month) despite all drivers and the OS being at the latest level. Debian on the same machine has never crashed.
If you run a Debian system with supported hardware, I've found it to be very solid.
Thats amazing, I've not yet seen a BSOD in windows 10, its been very solid and reliable.
I wouldn't trust monitors USB hubs for a keyboard though!
I'd love to know why every release of Ubuntu going back to 12 would put it in thermal shutdown at install time. And Linux Mint, and Fedora and CentOS but not Debian 8.
This Vaio has been a solid performer, heaps of RAM, decent graphics, great CPU with 8 cores.
Try running windows 10 on some of those vaios.. good luck.
Oh I have. Funny thing that. It worked fine at first, then there was an update and the Vaio kept crashing. Windows 10 won't even install on it now. Windows 7 works a charm.
However; note that even older versions of Ubuntu won't install. Linux Mint won't install. Fedora and CentOS won't install.
This post is a joke right? You installed linux then put vmware workstation on top of that? Wtf kind of IT person are you? No wonder you run Windows 10 and like it.
I've found that VMWare workstation is way better than Virtualbox, which is also available for Linux. I have to run Windows guests as well. In a desktop environmenti Its better than KVM, better than Xen. Just better. I guess for the same reasons that Windows or OSX are better, because it has large amounts of money thrown at it and its got more buy-in from various vendors. Probably same reason why the USB cam drops out in Debian 8.
Ok, I gave a Fedora CD to the windows guy at work that manages the desktops. He is always saying how easy it is to install Windows. He grabbed an engineering workstations with a 6 core processor, 128g of ram, and high end graphics card. Put the CD in, it asked him 4 or 5 questions and installed. The whole process took less than 20 min and everything worked including the 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse Pro.
He was in shock and said "That would have taken me 4 or 5 hours with windows!"
He then grabbed one of the older Dell laptops they give out to the office staff and put it in there. It installed in 20 min and recognized everything including the WiFi card. He admitted that he grabbed that laptop because it is a pain to get windows to work on it and was amazed that linux just installed, came up and worked as expected.
So, He was not a Linux Zealot, he was the windows desktop guy. I did nothing but watch, and he did everything.
Linux has come a ling ways in the last 10 years, I have been surprised as just how easy it is to install. You no longer have to be a computer wiz to install it.
And yet I can't install Fedora nor any Ubuntu (I've tried going back to 12) on a Sony Vaio laptop that works fine with Windows. It goes into thermal shutdown during install. Debian 8 installs but fucks up the USB camera.
Passing special parameters at boot for the installer does not count.
What do I use on my desktop at home and work? Windows 10.
Linux is great for servers, especially with virtualization; each VM does one thing and does it well. Theres very little complexity to deal with. The desktop is a whole different thing. There is massive complexity and variation.
Way more software gets installed on the desktop than on a server. Way more hardware gets connected to a desktop. The interactions are incredibly complex.
I had Debian 8 with a USB camera. The camera keeps disappearing. It doesn't with Windows. I had Ubuntu 16 with VMWare workstation. One reboot, no kernel upgrade, VMWare refuses to start. Never had this problem with Windows.
Problems like this are resolvable, you CAN use Linux on the desktop. But the amount of work you have to put in to troubleshoot things like this overwhelms the experience. I don't have time for this at home nor at work. I stick with what works without me having to do a bunch of extra hours.
The value that gets added by a proprietary OS is immense, make no mistake. And the likes of Ubuntu and Fedora really aren't in the same category as Windows or OSX
Out of curiosity, I'm curious if you're right wing.
All I see are companies abusing the hell out of everyone they can get their hands on.
Sell drm'd crap... make it insanely difficult to change companies, offer inferior quality (US is like 50th in bandwidth).
Thankfully.in Canada, the government stepped in and (for example) allow you to take your phone number to any service (cell, home and voip) if you're ever unhappy with the provider. It's ridiculously easy - you don't even need to inform the old company.
I'm not really any wing. And companies abusing the hell out of everyone, thats what hiring someone for cash-only from outside Home Depot avoids, doesn't it? They aren't working for some big faceless corporate that abuses the hell out of them. They work for cash for some ordinary home owner who just needs to get some work done.
As for Canada, try taking some beers from one province to another.
There's a reason each Home Depot has a cluster of undocumented people hanging out just beyond the parking lot: their business model is to sell cheap pre-fab stuff so you can hire cheap labor and do your home at half the cost, and almost the quality of having a pro builder do it.
The only thing standing in the way of productivity and getting things done in places like USA and Canada is obsessive, compulsive government regulation. Layer after layer of rules, regulations, laws, by-laws. Theres no end to it. No one knows where they stand, even the police and cities don't know what they are actually supposed to enforce.
So this kind of thing is actually essential in these societies. Much like bribery and corruption are essential in many 3rd world countries; without it you just don't get any business done at all.
> So I guess it's not Intel, but Intel pushers that want this.
Dunno. Intel must be making a handsome sum on HDCP chips which is, basically DRM over HDMI. So the pattern is already there. It's one of those "win-win-lose" constellations, where you are the "lose".
That one of two wolves and a sheep deliberating on what's for dinner.
What the wolves don't know is that the 'sheep' is actually a mesonychid
If that information is what is on the drive you can bet your bottom dollar that if he gives up the password the drive would be proven to contain nothing but the foulest CP ever. No one would lament that he was placed in general population the night before his trial and his cell mates, violent men serving life sentences without the chance of parole, who were brutally sexually abused as children, had somehow been misinformed that he was child rapist.
A stretch, I know, but a system where this is even remotely plausible has too much power.
Throw in the fact that his identity is, for now, being concealed by the courts... they may be worried about something like this.
What if the drive does NOT contain child porn but DOES contain information incriminating him of something completely unrelated? Would the government be allowed to use that other information?
The coolest outcome would be if the drive contains evidence of major crimes by the Philadelphia police department going all the way to the top and that he finally does relent and hands over the password to the feds.
so just plant a hd full of rando bits and finger someone.
They could just claim they don't know the password. Please note that the suspect in this case has NOT used that defense. He has instead said that the government has no right to compel him, whether he knows the password or not. He appears to be standing on principle, which is admirable.
and his identity is being concealed by the government which makes it hard for people to rally around him.
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All that money we pay for medical care seems utterly wasted between the insurance companies and the hospitals.
I think its actually more corrupt than you are guessing.
The cost of medical care, that you pay health insurance to cover, is inflated by the malpractice insurance that the medical professionals have to pay, ie they pass this cost on to the customer.
So the insurance not only get paid twice, they get to dictate the inflation of the medical bills by controlling the cost of malpractice insurance. So the insurers can artificially jack up the cost of medical care and thus artificially jack up the cost of your medical insurance.
We spend so much money for so little.
One of the problems with the disproportionate cost of medical care in the USA is the huge amount of malpractice insurance that the medical professionals have to pay.
Evidently the reason they have to pay so much for malpractice insurance is because malpractice is a huge problem. If they didn't do so much malpractice maybe the premiums would come down so the costs to the customer would come down and you wouldn't be spending so much for so little!
When you look up in a sky full of stars - all of which belong to the Milky Way Galaxy.... (at least 9,000), and about 4 other galaxies.
And know that with a common telescope we can detect both far more stars within our galaxy (over 100 billion) , AND a whole bunch of other galaxies...
And know that the galaxies form clusters - and cluster contains about 100+ galaxies (often 1000+)....
And know that there are thousands of clusters...
Basically, there are more stars than grains of sand on earth, than water molecules in a drop of water, than seconds in all of humanity's life span.
Yes there's other life out there. Now, whether it's intelligent, still alive, within a reasonable travel/speaking distance of us, that's another story.
This is all great and stuff. But it isn't evidence of the existence of other life.
This is just silly. The Drake equation has always been a joke. It's an extrapolated tautology that the chances for life on other planets are based on the chances for life on other planets.
The worst part about the coverage of this is that the math is claimed to be EVIDENCE that technological civilizations exist on other planets.
Then we would see how well those "iPhone" cases and purses will sell.
Yes, that'll end well. Apple pulls out of the Chinese market, many states in the USA ban Apple products because of encryption. India and Pakistan and many other developing countries follow suit for same reasons. I guess Apple can just dig into their war chest and keep being a company for a few hundred years even without any sales but thats just trololol
The 'Feels like' Temperature is a recent addition to weather forecasts and is largely imaginary.
Are you saying that these ''Feels Like" numbers are what are being used to calculate the global temps?
Not at all.
As human beings we lose heat by sweating. If the air around you is saturated with water vapor sweating does not work. If the air temperature is high enough you will not lose heat and you will die.
I managed to make a typo in the most important line. The command for extracting the ACPI DSDT OSI strings had a mis-spelled path. It should be:
$ sudo strings /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT | grep -C 2 -i windows
You make my point for me.
I don't have time in my life any more to fuck around with this sort of thing. I'm a technical guy but I don't do computer hobby stuff at home any more, I have a family life. At work I'm a manager, I don't have time to fuck around with my desktop at work either.
I need a desktop environment that I can use to do work, not one on which I have to do work in order to make it functional.
114 is a cold day for a Tucson summer.
What are these climate-whiners on about this time?
The problem isn't just the temperature, its the humidity. Past a certain humidity you don't lose body heat through sweating. Then you just cook from the excess heat your metabolism generates.
And where are you going to get all that fresh water as supplies dry up?
The melting ice is pretty rich in fresh water
We are on a relatively tech-savvy site, right? Why is there a link explaining what an audiophile is (as if I couldn't have guessed from the context even if I didn't know), but there is no link explaining how the exploit actually works? (It's not mt_rand that's the problem, it's how you seed it) Why do I have to google after reading the summary? What's the point of having editors here at all?!
I'm surprised that the article doesn't include advice like "You can protect yourself from this hack by placing Mpingo disks on your wireless router."
http://www.shunmook.com/text1....
I understand that. How can everyone upload more than they download?
These are audiophiles so what they probably do is download something thats only 128bps then re-encode it to 256bps then upload the improved tracks.
What's this "CD" thing you speak of?
Cross Dresser. This is an LBGTQ issue you insensitive clod!
The same thing is true of Windows, though.
I have a dual boot Windows 10/Debian 8 system.
Under Windows, the sound on the monitor stops working after a random period of time, somewhere on the order of an hour. Also, the keyboard randomly ceases to work if plugged into the monitor's USB hub. The same monitor and PC running Debian doesn't have these problems - it's all solid. Additionally, Windows 10 will BSOD at times (usually about once a month) despite all drivers and the OS being at the latest level. Debian on the same machine has never crashed.
If you run a Debian system with supported hardware, I've found it to be very solid.
Thats amazing, I've not yet seen a BSOD in windows 10, its been very solid and reliable.
I wouldn't trust monitors USB hubs for a keyboard though!
"Sony... that explains everything doesn't it?"
It explains nothing to me. Torvalds has used Viaos on and off over the years. http://www.businessinsider.com...
Do you know something the rest of us don't?
I'd love to know why every release of Ubuntu going back to 12 would put it in thermal shutdown at install time. And Linux Mint, and Fedora and CentOS but not Debian 8.
This Vaio has been a solid performer, heaps of RAM, decent graphics, great CPU with 8 cores.
Try running windows 10 on some of those vaios.. good luck.
Oh I have. Funny thing that. It worked fine at first, then there was an update and the Vaio kept crashing. Windows 10 won't even install on it now. Windows 7 works a charm.
However; note that even older versions of Ubuntu won't install. Linux Mint won't install. Fedora and CentOS won't install.
This post is a joke right? You installed linux then put vmware workstation on top of that? Wtf kind of IT person are you? No wonder you run Windows 10 and like it.
I've found that VMWare workstation is way better than Virtualbox, which is also available for Linux. I have to run Windows guests as well. In a desktop environmenti Its better than KVM, better than Xen. Just better. I guess for the same reasons that Windows or OSX are better, because it has large amounts of money thrown at it and its got more buy-in from various vendors. Probably same reason why the USB cam drops out in Debian 8.
Ok, I gave a Fedora CD to the windows guy at work that manages the desktops. He is always saying how easy it is to install Windows. He grabbed an engineering workstations with a 6 core processor, 128g of ram, and high end graphics card. Put the CD in, it asked him 4 or 5 questions and installed. The whole process took less than 20 min and everything worked including the 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse Pro.
He was in shock and said "That would have taken me 4 or 5 hours with windows!"
He then grabbed one of the older Dell laptops they give out to the office staff and put it in there. It installed in 20 min and recognized everything including the WiFi card. He admitted that he grabbed that laptop because it is a pain to get windows to work on it and was amazed that linux just installed, came up and worked as expected.
So, He was not a Linux Zealot, he was the windows desktop guy. I did nothing but watch, and he did everything.
Linux has come a ling ways in the last 10 years, I have been surprised as just how easy it is to install. You no longer have to be a computer wiz to install it.
And yet I can't install Fedora nor any Ubuntu (I've tried going back to 12) on a Sony Vaio laptop that works fine with Windows. It goes into thermal shutdown during install. Debian 8 installs but fucks up the USB camera.
Passing special parameters at boot for the installer does not count.
linux on the desktop is imminent
I've been with Linux since 1992. No kidding.
What do I use on my desktop at home and work? Windows 10.
Linux is great for servers, especially with virtualization; each VM does one thing and does it well. Theres very little complexity to deal with. The desktop is a whole different thing. There is massive complexity and variation.
Way more software gets installed on the desktop than on a server. Way more hardware gets connected to a desktop. The interactions are incredibly complex.
I had Debian 8 with a USB camera. The camera keeps disappearing. It doesn't with Windows.
I had Ubuntu 16 with VMWare workstation. One reboot, no kernel upgrade, VMWare refuses to start. Never had this problem with Windows.
Problems like this are resolvable, you CAN use Linux on the desktop. But the amount of work you have to put in to troubleshoot things like this overwhelms the experience. I don't have time for this at home nor at work. I stick with what works without me having to do a bunch of extra hours.
The value that gets added by a proprietary OS is immense, make no mistake. And the likes of Ubuntu and Fedora really aren't in the same category as Windows or OSX
Out of curiosity, I'm curious if you're right wing.
All I see are companies abusing the hell out of everyone they can get their hands on.
Sell drm'd crap... make it insanely difficult to change companies, offer inferior quality (US is like 50th in bandwidth).
Thankfully.in Canada, the government stepped in and (for example) allow you to take your phone number to any service (cell, home and voip) if you're ever unhappy with the provider. It's ridiculously easy - you don't even need to inform the old company.
I'm not really any wing. And companies abusing the hell out of everyone, thats what hiring someone for cash-only from outside Home Depot avoids, doesn't it? They aren't working for some big faceless corporate that abuses the hell out of them. They work for cash for some ordinary home owner who just needs to get some work done.
As for Canada, try taking some beers from one province to another.
There's a reason each Home Depot has a cluster of undocumented people hanging out just beyond the parking lot: their business model is to sell cheap pre-fab stuff so you can hire cheap labor and do your home at half the cost, and almost the quality of having a pro builder do it.
The only thing standing in the way of productivity and getting things done in places like USA and Canada is obsessive, compulsive government regulation. Layer after layer of rules, regulations, laws, by-laws. Theres no end to it. No one knows where they stand, even the police and cities don't know what they are actually supposed to enforce.
So this kind of thing is actually essential in these societies. Much like bribery and corruption are essential in many 3rd world countries; without it you just don't get any business done at all.
> So I guess it's not Intel, but Intel pushers that want this.
Dunno. Intel must be making a handsome sum on HDCP chips which is, basically DRM over HDMI. So the pattern is already there. It's one of those "win-win-lose" constellations, where you are the "lose".
That one of two wolves and a sheep deliberating on what's for dinner.
What the wolves don't know is that the 'sheep' is actually a mesonychid
If that information is what is on the drive you can bet your bottom dollar that if he gives up the password the drive would be proven to contain nothing but the foulest CP ever. No one would lament that he was placed in general population the night before his trial and his cell mates, violent men serving life sentences without the chance of parole, who were brutally sexually abused as children, had somehow been misinformed that he was child rapist.
A stretch, I know, but a system where this is even remotely plausible has too much power.
Throw in the fact that his identity is, for now, being concealed by the courts... they may be worried about something like this.
What if the drive does NOT contain child porn but DOES contain information incriminating him of something completely unrelated?
Would the government be allowed to use that other information?
The coolest outcome would be if the drive contains evidence of major crimes by the Philadelphia police department going all the way to the top and that he finally does relent and hands over the password to the feds.
so just plant a hd full of rando bits and finger someone.
They could just claim they don't know the password. Please note that the suspect in this case has NOT used that defense. He has instead said that the government has no right to compel him, whether he knows the password or not. He appears to be standing on principle, which is admirable.
and his identity is being concealed by the government which makes it hard for people to rally around him.
The following comes to mind:
https://xkcd.com/538/
Sure it's not a hammer, but incarceration sounds like a reasonably persuasive wrench...
He's a cop. Its a federal detention center. He's being accused of child porn crimes.
Its probably already worse for him in there than being pounded with a wrench.