Actually- we've got something similar in our own cells- Mitochondria- a symbiotic sub-cellular life form that produces energy (chloroplasts in plants are a competing symbiotic life form that is similar). All he did was twist the word around somewhat and made them more powerful than normal.
I suspect that people who weren't abused as children are really a minority- or at least will be in the future as our idea of what constitutes abuse seems to encompass more stuff every freakin' year.
Either way, I'm not sure how things work in the UK but in the US, if WebMD were to suddenly gain the US Government as a customer, the government would require that WebMD suddenly adapt to a bunch of contractor regulations that they probably aren't following at the moment.
I worked on a HIPPA conversion project- it's pretty darn comprehensive. WebMD already has to have a bunch of regulations covering them.
Blow the issue wide open by writing a letter to the editor of the student newspaper- get the students to lobby about the issue, and the school will be forced into doing the right thing just to avoid mass walkouts of classes or rioting near the admin building.
And that's a *very* good point: For each new best practice, one should add one month to the deadline of any project currently in development, complete with salaries and training time.
I applaud you for your support of that free market provision in WebMD, MH. We don't see eye to eye very often, but in this case, I'm happy we can.
I don't neccessarily support the free market provision in WebMD. I DO strongly support the basic concept of their software: freedom of information that used to be the monopoly of medical professionals. A natural extension of that is their medical records management software, which is regulated to be a bit more locked down than their public face, but still does the job completely adequately.
I also reject reinventing the wheel just to maintain a ludicrous division between private and public industry.
Enron was never a free markat fiasco -- it was a government disaster. Enron was repeatedly given loopholes in the law to use (which were closed AFTER the fact).
True- but I maintain that Enron style loopholes STILL EXIST, and in fact are a natural consequence of the anti-free market consideration of corporations as first class citizens and human beings as second class citizens. Free speech is always louder with money behind it; the amounts of money controlled by corporations will always be larger than any individual can command. Bill Gates may be worth $48 billion in assets- but Microsoft has $56 billion in cash reserves alone.
The more you read about Enron and the other companies that ripped off the investors, the more you see that the State was the biggest predator in the situation. A free market in energy works, except when it is a "free market" as defined by government -- never really free, never really deregulated, and never really opened to competition.
Centralized energy markets have too big of an initial investment to ever be open to competition. The only way to deregulate energy enough to encourage a true free market competition would be to tear down the grid and go back to Edison's original idea of home generated electricity.
Look at government-set-monopoly broadband providers versus dial-up ISPs in terms of price over their history. Look at government-set-monopoly insurance versus free market insurance prices over their history (for example: flood insurance). We can see time and again that any time the State espouses "free market!!!" it is never free, never unregulated, never unfunded. Cronyism, paternalism, preferentialism = uncompetitive.
And for that reason, any hope of a truely free market is nothing more than a pipe dream. As soon as one person grows rich enough to use their profits to hamper competition, government will return.
There's more than one. But I should qualify- different types of corporations are required to show different types of profits. You CAN have a non-profit corporation that is actually banned from showing a profit. You can have a private corporation that only has to show a profit two years out of five without getting investigated as a tax shelter by the IRS. But publically traded corporations that do not show a return on their investment can be delisted by the SEC, or fined for investor fraud. Due to this, most publically traded corporations try very, very hard to have a positive balance on their required quarterly profit/loss reports- usually to the exclusion of any other consideration.
In this case though, I think that they are. In other words, they've already done the job very sucessfully, why reinvent the wheel? I'm usually as against corporations and corporatism as you are, but that's no reason to throw out their work when it does work.
A country-wide site license for Web MD? That's what all of my local hospitals and clinics use- and it already provides a number of ways for communicating perscriptions to the chemists (from printouts to faxes to e-mail).
The bottom line is we're all speculating based on incomplete data, and apparantly it will take a court order to open the voting machine and find out what happened. We can only hope.
We can only hope that the machine actually bothered to record the rest of the data. Machines from other manufacturers (Smartmatic and Diebold) have been shown in experiments to not reveal any evidence of tampering at all- they record the wrong votes exactly the same as they record the correct votes, and there is no way to tell the difference.
If so, it's an interesting Freudian Slip- Native for Nation. Especially since it is certainly the Natives who have been losing their Nation all along- they are the ones most hurt by totalitarian agriculturalist capitalism.
Do people who work with databases large enough to make an alter table run for 3 hours commonly put them on their workstations? Why not run the alter table command on the database server, and play your game on your workstation?
I would hope the later- but the 2^24th bug rebuild I was refering to sure took a long time.
And for this application, I want REALLY targeted adverts. For instance, I'm a bit of a gourmet. I want my phone to report my GPS location to Google's adserver, which I expect will return restaurant ratings to my copy of iNavigator, so that when I'm out on the road and decide to stop for dinner and I hit Menu...Shortcuts...Restaurants I get the 25 closest to me that have three-to-five star ratings, sorted by cusine. Then I can just hit one and have iNavigator lead me to dinner.
Are you ready to recognize that it is crucial for our native to survive as a democracy that we elect people who actually give a crap about stuff like this?
Well, despite the bad grammar, I'll point out that even if you count people like me who are down to around 1/64th of one tribe, 1/16th of another, who would never be recognized by any tribal council or the damed BIA, you'd be hard pressed to find 5 million natives in the entire country. Secondly, democracy has been nothing but a marketing phrase since the Supreme Court took away our citizenship in 1876, and gave it to the corporations instead. So worrying about whether your vote for Jim Johnson, whose campaign was sponsored by Corporation X, will instead go to John Jimson, whose campaign was sponsored by Corporation Y, because of a bad electronic voting machine, you might want to ask why a couple of artificial people (Corporations are legally people) whose sole interest is profit (by law, Corporations must show a profit) would be paying for politicians in the first place.
The sad part is, in Singapore where they have a population over 4000/sq.mile, leaching is nearly impossible to avoid- if you allow your PDA or your notebook to connect automatically in an apartment house, and never actually look at what you're connected to, it's almost certain that it will connect to your neighbors from time to time.
The rest of this discussion thread got lost- please see my JE for a message two after this one for you to reply to. I personally think we've hit upon a *very* important problem in any large economic system, one that perhaps could turn into a neat little.com company for one of us (I don't really have the time).
For many of us in computer science, and a vanishingly small number in the general population, social skills are decidedly NOT biologically programmed at all. Look up Asperger's Syndrome. There is a REASON why some of us decided computer science was our *ONLY* chance of success, and then the Free Traitors went and stole it from us because *THEY* couldn't handle dealing with somebody with no social skills. Social skills are for wimps who can't live with the idea of no human interaction.
A law enforcement official at the technet training I went to asked that very question- and the Microsoft spokesperson recommended *NOT SHUTTING OFF POWER TO THE MACHINE* and using *VISTA'S BUILT IN BACKUP SYSTEM* to make an unencrypted bit level copy of the drive instead. If the machine's been shut off and you don't know the guy's password, moving the drive to another machine will just make the drive appear to be unformatted.
Don't worry there will be a built in backdoor password for decrypting it
Actually, no. In this case the encryption is tied to a key that is built into the motherboard. I'm sure someday we'll have a backdoor into it as it is only a 512MB key, but not soon. The "cheap version" is to store the key on a USB key if your motherboard does not support the hardware- but in that case your computer won't even boot without the USB key.
Still you see no legitime use of encryption besides hiding child pornography?
I see no legitimate use of privacy, let alone encryption. The people who use encryption are usually trying to cheat their fellow man in some way. Of course, since that covers just about any so-called "legitimate" business or government....
Oh my, are you actually inferring that a slashdot coder holds a CS degree? Software engineering is really only helpful on projects that are bigger than just a website.
I can't tell what I was implying without a hierarchial relationship.....:-)
Having said that, I kind of doubt it- even CS degree holders understand enough of the need of strong typing to not use a medium int for something that expands as quickly as a flame war on slashdot!
Slashdot Mirror
Midichlorians
Actually- we've got something similar in our own cells- Mitochondria- a symbiotic sub-cellular life form that produces energy (chloroplasts in plants are a competing symbiotic life form that is similar). All he did was twist the word around somewhat and made them more powerful than normal.
I suspect that people who weren't abused as children are really a minority- or at least will be in the future as our idea of what constitutes abuse seems to encompass more stuff every freakin' year.
Do you take lessons from the BOFH?
Pornography steals a woman's innocence,
Can you point to a woman's innocence? I really want to know how somebody "steals" an immaterial object.
Either way, I'm not sure how things work in the UK but in the US, if WebMD were to suddenly gain the US Government as a customer, the government would require that WebMD suddenly adapt to a bunch of contractor regulations that they probably aren't following at the moment.
I worked on a HIPPA conversion project- it's pretty darn comprehensive. WebMD already has to have a bunch of regulations covering them.
Blow the issue wide open by writing a letter to the editor of the student newspaper- get the students to lobby about the issue, and the school will be forced into doing the right thing just to avoid mass walkouts of classes or rioting near the admin building.
And that's a *very* good point: For each new best practice, one should add one month to the deadline of any project currently in development, complete with salaries and training time.
I applaud you for your support of that free market provision in WebMD, MH. We don't see eye to eye very often, but in this case, I'm happy we can.
I don't neccessarily support the free market provision in WebMD. I DO strongly support the basic concept of their software: freedom of information that used to be the monopoly of medical professionals. A natural extension of that is their medical records management software, which is regulated to be a bit more locked down than their public face, but still does the job completely adequately.
I also reject reinventing the wheel just to maintain a ludicrous division between private and public industry.
Enron was never a free markat fiasco -- it was a government disaster. Enron was repeatedly given loopholes in the law to use (which were closed AFTER the fact).
True- but I maintain that Enron style loopholes STILL EXIST, and in fact are a natural consequence of the anti-free market consideration of corporations as first class citizens and human beings as second class citizens. Free speech is always louder with money behind it; the amounts of money controlled by corporations will always be larger than any individual can command. Bill Gates may be worth $48 billion in assets- but Microsoft has $56 billion in cash reserves alone.
The more you read about Enron and the other companies that ripped off the investors, the more you see that the State was the biggest predator in the situation. A free market in energy works, except when it is a "free market" as defined by government -- never really free, never really deregulated, and never really opened to competition.
Centralized energy markets have too big of an initial investment to ever be open to competition. The only way to deregulate energy enough to encourage a true free market competition would be to tear down the grid and go back to Edison's original idea of home generated electricity.
Look at government-set-monopoly broadband providers versus dial-up ISPs in terms of price over their history. Look at government-set-monopoly insurance versus free market insurance prices over their history (for example: flood insurance). We can see time and again that any time the State espouses "free market!!!" it is never free, never unregulated, never unfunded. Cronyism, paternalism, preferentialism = uncompetitive.
And for that reason, any hope of a truely free market is nothing more than a pipe dream. As soon as one person grows rich enough to use their profits to hamper competition, government will return.
There's more than one. But I should qualify- different types of corporations are required to show different types of profits. You CAN have a non-profit corporation that is actually banned from showing a profit. You can have a private corporation that only has to show a profit two years out of five without getting investigated as a tax shelter by the IRS. But publically traded corporations that do not show a return on their investment can be delisted by the SEC, or fined for investor fraud. Due to this, most publically traded corporations try very, very hard to have a positive balance on their required quarterly profit/loss reports- usually to the exclusion of any other consideration.
In this case though, I think that they are. In other words, they've already done the job very sucessfully, why reinvent the wheel? I'm usually as against corporations and corporatism as you are, but that's no reason to throw out their work when it does work.
A country-wide site license for Web MD? That's what all of my local hospitals and clinics use- and it already provides a number of ways for communicating perscriptions to the chemists (from printouts to faxes to e-mail).
And yet- the HDTV remake of STTOS and Star Trek New Voyages Direct-To-The-Web episodes are some of the best Star Trek I've ever seen.
I think Direct-To-DVD itself is a passing fad- I'd be for a website that allowed downloads in a variety of formats to subscribers instead....
The bottom line is we're all speculating based on incomplete data, and apparantly it will take a court order to open the voting machine and find out what happened. We can only hope.
We can only hope that the machine actually bothered to record the rest of the data. Machines from other manufacturers (Smartmatic and Diebold) have been shown in experiments to not reveal any evidence of tampering at all- they record the wrong votes exactly the same as they record the correct votes, and there is no way to tell the difference.
If so, it's an interesting Freudian Slip- Native for Nation. Especially since it is certainly the Natives who have been losing their Nation all along- they are the ones most hurt by totalitarian agriculturalist capitalism.
Do people who work with databases large enough to make an alter table run for 3 hours commonly put them on their workstations? Why not run the alter table command on the database server, and play your game on your workstation?
I would hope the later- but the 2^24th bug rebuild I was refering to sure took a long time.
Not just anybody can put their names in- you need to be supported by the corporations to get nominated.
Did you miss: "I had at least eight or nine people who said they voted for me, so something is wrong with this picture," Wooten said.
It's not just one vote that is missing- but 8 or 9- so in reality 45 people voted, 9 votes were lost....
And for this application, I want REALLY targeted adverts. For instance, I'm a bit of a gourmet. I want my phone to report my GPS location to Google's adserver, which I expect will return restaurant ratings to my copy of iNavigator, so that when I'm out on the road and decide to stop for dinner and I hit Menu...Shortcuts...Restaurants I get the 25 closest to me that have three-to-five star ratings, sorted by cusine. Then I can just hit one and have iNavigator lead me to dinner.
Are you ready to recognize that it is crucial for our native to survive as a democracy that we elect people who actually give a crap about stuff like this?
Well, despite the bad grammar, I'll point out that even if you count people like me who are down to around 1/64th of one tribe, 1/16th of another, who would never be recognized by any tribal council or the damed BIA, you'd be hard pressed to find 5 million natives in the entire country. Secondly, democracy has been nothing but a marketing phrase since the Supreme Court took away our citizenship in 1876, and gave it to the corporations instead. So worrying about whether your vote for Jim Johnson, whose campaign was sponsored by Corporation X, will instead go to John Jimson, whose campaign was sponsored by Corporation Y, because of a bad electronic voting machine, you might want to ask why a couple of artificial people (Corporations are legally people) whose sole interest is profit (by law, Corporations must show a profit) would be paying for politicians in the first place.
The sad part is, in Singapore where they have a population over 4000/sq.mile, leaching is nearly impossible to avoid- if you allow your PDA or your notebook to connect automatically in an apartment house, and never actually look at what you're connected to, it's almost certain that it will connect to your neighbors from time to time.
The rest of this discussion thread got lost- please see my JE for a message two after this one for you to reply to. I personally think we've hit upon a *very* important problem in any large economic system, one that perhaps could turn into a neat little .com company for one of us (I don't really have the time).
For many of us in computer science, and a vanishingly small number in the general population, social skills are decidedly NOT biologically programmed at all. Look up Asperger's Syndrome. There is a REASON why some of us decided computer science was our *ONLY* chance of success, and then the Free Traitors went and stole it from us because *THEY* couldn't handle dealing with somebody with no social skills. Social skills are for wimps who can't live with the idea of no human interaction.
A law enforcement official at the technet training I went to asked that very question- and the Microsoft spokesperson recommended *NOT SHUTTING OFF POWER TO THE MACHINE* and using *VISTA'S BUILT IN BACKUP SYSTEM* to make an unencrypted bit level copy of the drive instead. If the machine's been shut off and you don't know the guy's password, moving the drive to another machine will just make the drive appear to be unformatted.
Don't worry there will be a built in backdoor password for decrypting it
Actually, no. In this case the encryption is tied to a key that is built into the motherboard. I'm sure someday we'll have a backdoor into it as it is only a 512MB key, but not soon. The "cheap version" is to store the key on a USB key if your motherboard does not support the hardware- but in that case your computer won't even boot without the USB key.
Still you see no legitime use of encryption besides hiding child pornography?
I see no legitimate use of privacy, let alone encryption. The people who use encryption are usually trying to cheat their fellow man in some way. Of course, since that covers just about any so-called "legitimate" business or government....
Oh my, are you actually inferring that a slashdot coder holds a CS degree? Software engineering is really only helpful on projects that are bigger than just a website.
I can't tell what I was implying without a hierarchial relationship.....:-)
Having said that, I kind of doubt it- even CS degree holders understand enough of the need of strong typing to not use a medium int for something that expands as quickly as a flame war on slashdot!