They mention the Obama and Bush administrations together since both were pushing electronic records. I think if it were a political attack, you wouldn't see dubya's name on it.
OK, a lot of this came about due to HIPPA, the Health Information Portability and Privacy Act. At the time HIPPA went into effect, private insurance paperwork ('administration costs') for medical costs were running 30-35% of every healthcare dollar spent, while with Medicare, the paperwork costs were only about 3%. It wasn't too bad of an idea, considering we're dealing with the Feds here, and rather visionary at the time. This of course was while the Feds were still directly administering Medicare/Medicaid, before they privatised it out on 'cost-plus' contracts. The intent at the time was to reduce paperwork/administration costs to something comparable to what Medicare was doing, i.e., dirt cheap, to reduce healthcare costs. At the time, it was a good idea.
Standardising medical records and insurance forms along Medicare lines meant the girl in the billing office only needed to really understand one form and how to fill it out, where before, each healthcare insurance company could use their own proprietary form, and change said form at will to delay payment of claims. Hey, this kinda shit happened a lot in the 80's, peaked in the 90's, and basically added the gasoline to the fire that caused HIPPA to happen. Back then, they didn't use your Social Security number as identification, but as an account number for your Medicare and/or Social Security/SSI/disability check and to make sure your Social Security account was properly funded for you. In fact, back then, they even printed on the bottom of your Social Security card 'NOT TO BE USED FOR IDENTIFICATION'. (BTW, that came off your SS card some time ago.) It was cool because they weren't using your SSN for anything else, your credit report and such wasn't indexed by it, and the only way to get somebody's SSN was to steal their wallet and look at their card. Then the laws changed.
Now, your SSN is used for identification. It's tied to your credit report, your SS/Medicare account (which has a seperate account number now), yadda yadda yadda. Kids are issued SSNs at birth, where before, when I was a kid ('Get off my lawn!!!'), you filed for your SSN when you landed your first job or enlisted in the military. You file for your kids, the Social Security Administration would look at you and tell you they had laws in this country against child labor.
Anyways, the intent was to cut healthcare costs by cutting paperwork & administration costs. Then Medicare got privatised. And where they once had 3% admin costs, they were soon up to the 'standard' 30-35% costs of 'regular medical insurance'. The medical insurance companies had standards dammit, and they weren't gonna let Medicare exceed them. Especially not when there was a few billion bucks to be made. What needs to happen is, healthcare should be a government funded monopoly, paid for from your taxes. It's in the government's interest to do this. Access to healthcare means a healthier citizenry, with less time lost from work due to illness. It also means lower healthcare costs overall because little problems get caught before they become big expensive life-threatening/altering problems. See the Chinese 'barefoot doctor' program for further information, and let's marry that concept to a Canadian/UK/Scandanavian model single-pay system.
Keep in mind that to consumers, their operating system is 'free' as well, since they likely bought it from Dell or a big box store, and the cost was tacked onto the price of the machine and then discounted. We used to call this the 'hidden Microsoft tax'. Point is, if nobody comes up to you and says 'You owe $199.95 for the operating system for your computer' when you buy it, they'll think it's 'free'. And back in the day, they even bundled the demo version of Microsoft Works with new computers, as far upstream as XP (I THINK I remember dealing with a brand new XP machine with Works preinstalled from Dell)...
Heh. I modded some BBS software back when I still ran my board on OS9 & a CoCo 3. I had the password database set to 4 bytes: a 3 byte CRC of the passphrase and up to 256 characters in said passphrase. Pretty safe, IIRC.
TMI is ancient technology. Nobody's built one of these things since TMI went online. They built using newer safer designs.
Of course, getting authorisation to shut down, decommission, and dismantle a reactor takes almost as much time, effort, legal fees, and money as building the damned thing in the first place. It's on the order of 4 acts of $DIETY and an act of Congress.
Implemented on Linux, targetted for anyone who used Horde. It's a browser-based app on the client side, everybody is vulnerable to it. Same way with Java-based attacks. Linux users might get hit, but they're just collateral damage.
Sorry, that won't work, either. The trace toxins aquired during the feedstock's life make it more likely to give you cancer. Removing those toxins would cost more than you could afford to buy Soylent Green for, even given economies of scale.
Nice try, though. At least you're thinking ahead...
Thing is, it wasn't the GMO crops that are reputed to give you the cancer. It's the pesticide. Now, class, for 10 bonus points, who didn't know pesticides are dangerous?
On one hand, we have a person who knowingly broke into a computer system to steal documents. On the other, we have a few people who dared to criticize the country's ruler. Are you seriously so disconnected from reality that you think these scenarios are at all comparable?
Oh, ffs, this guy made a shitpile of bogus accounts to download more than 'his fair share' of academic papers utilizing the site's own software. It's not like he figured out how to telnet in, change a root password, or remote mount the whole damned drive on the other computer under his user directory and hoover it clean. There was no 'breaking in'. Stop acting like he's the most knowledgeable 'hacker' since Cap'n Crunch figured out how to finagle free long distance calls. He didn't bypass a thing. The only 'fraud' he committed was lying to a comany about who he was when he created those bullshit accounts. What, he 'intended' to sell the articles to college kids for their theses? What, it's now against the law to lie about your identity to a company?
It is if you also don't provide a real e-mail address, so....
I take it a Yahoo email isn't a real email address? Or a Gmail account?
I've got 4 different Yahoo email accounts, each for seperate things. Which one is my 'real' email address? I also have two Gmail accounts, one for personal, one for work. I also have access to 3 other Gmail accounts for work. Which is the real one?
is it that difficult to figure it out? They will, in theory, offer you some anonymous cloak to protect you're real identity from others, except Google. Google can then provide that information any time any law enforcement or investigative body comes knocking. Nothing more than CYA.
And ad revenue. Can't send you targetted ads if you're anonymous. Hey, corporations pay real money for those ads and they fucking want their money's worth!!
Simple: Have your veritable army of on-staff patent lawyers file it with USPTO.
FTFY.
They'd never allow little guys like you and I to patent such a thing.
Sure they would. Then their invincible army of patent l*wy*rs would rape pillage and plunder you and your family's bank accounts and scam up the patent. Why innovate when you can litigate?
On IRC nobody knew Beth14 a Detective with the NYPD Vice Squad..
Ah, the heady early days of the Internet, where men were men, so were most of the women, and those horny 14 year old virgins wanting to come out to my house to fuck me stupid were FBI agents wanting a quick and dirty arrest...
And how long it takes before we get deliberate slashvertising, not just submissions slipped by the editors, but a deliberate mix of content and ads?
About 20 minutes.
I predict that Sourceforge will die the Real Death real soon now. For some strange reason, I have this feeling that the new regime doesn't care much for open source/GPLed code...
you can get anywhere at walking speed if you or the universe doesn't die in the mean time...
The JOEs ('Just One Earth'ers) claim that since nobody's invented and developed a car, all we'll ever have is walking, and their feet hurt, so we're not going 2 kilometers away, so give up already and finance our $PET_PROJECT_OF_THE_MINUTE. The 'Warpers' say 'Why walk when we're in the process of developing a HumVee?'
Hell, stop requiring schools to teach creationism as science and 'promoting' every single kid in their age group to the next class as part of No Child Left Behind. De-democratize the school systems and let the teachers fucking teach. Then, maybe we wouldn't need H1B visas for people from countries who don't buy into the touchie-feelie-make-them-feel-good-about-themselves-on-the-way-to-the-welfare-office 'educational system' we have here in the US to cover for the lack of trained American technicians.
Trillions? Hardly. At its heyday, NASA's budget was 40 billion. That's a couple orders of magnitude away from a trillion. And that was in the 60's, when we were still struggling to put a man on the Moon. Since then, it's been a max of what, 15 billion a year? Since '62, I doubt NASA has spent half a trillion. You do the math. You provide the cites. Trillions my ass.
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OK, a lot of this came about due to HIPPA, the Health Information Portability and Privacy Act. At the time HIPPA went into effect, private insurance paperwork ('administration costs') for medical costs were running 30-35% of every healthcare dollar spent, while with Medicare, the paperwork costs were only about 3%. It wasn't too bad of an idea, considering we're dealing with the Feds here, and rather visionary at the time. This of course was while the Feds were still directly administering Medicare/Medicaid, before they privatised it out on 'cost-plus' contracts. The intent at the time was to reduce paperwork/administration costs to something comparable to what Medicare was doing, i.e., dirt cheap, to reduce healthcare costs. At the time, it was a good idea.
Standardising medical records and insurance forms along Medicare lines meant the girl in the billing office only needed to really understand one form and how to fill it out, where before, each healthcare insurance company could use their own proprietary form, and change said form at will to delay payment of claims. Hey, this kinda shit happened a lot in the 80's, peaked in the 90's, and basically added the gasoline to the fire that caused HIPPA to happen. Back then, they didn't use your Social Security number as identification, but as an account number for your Medicare and/or Social Security/SSI/disability check and to make sure your Social Security account was properly funded for you. In fact, back then, they even printed on the bottom of your Social Security card 'NOT TO BE USED FOR IDENTIFICATION'. (BTW, that came off your SS card some time ago.) It was cool because they weren't using your SSN for anything else, your credit report and such wasn't indexed by it, and the only way to get somebody's SSN was to steal their wallet and look at their card. Then the laws changed.
Now, your SSN is used for identification. It's tied to your credit report, your SS/Medicare account (which has a seperate account number now), yadda yadda yadda. Kids are issued SSNs at birth, where before, when I was a kid ('Get off my lawn!!!'), you filed for your SSN when you landed your first job or enlisted in the military. You file for your kids, the Social Security Administration would look at you and tell you they had laws in this country against child labor.
Anyways, the intent was to cut healthcare costs by cutting paperwork & administration costs. Then Medicare got privatised. And where they once had 3% admin costs, they were soon up to the 'standard' 30-35% costs of 'regular medical insurance'. The medical insurance companies had standards dammit, and they weren't gonna let Medicare exceed them. Especially not when there was a few billion bucks to be made. What needs to happen is, healthcare should be a government funded monopoly, paid for from your taxes. It's in the government's interest to do this. Access to healthcare means a healthier citizenry, with less time lost from work due to illness. It also means lower healthcare costs overall because little problems get caught before they become big expensive life-threatening/altering problems. See the Chinese 'barefoot doctor' program for further information, and let's marry that concept to a Canadian/UK/Scandanavian model single-pay system.
Keep in mind that to consumers, their operating system is 'free' as well, since they likely bought it from Dell or a big box store, and the cost was tacked onto the price of the machine and then discounted. We used to call this the 'hidden Microsoft tax'. Point is, if nobody comes up to you and says 'You owe $199.95 for the operating system for your computer' when you buy it, they'll think it's 'free'. And back in the day, they even bundled the demo version of Microsoft Works with new computers, as far upstream as XP (I THINK I remember dealing with a brand new XP machine with Works preinstalled from Dell)...
I'm a grandfather and I run Linux, you insensitive clot!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I ain't foolin', either!
Heh. I modded some BBS software back when I still ran my board on OS9 & a CoCo 3. I had the password database set to 4 bytes: a 3 byte CRC of the passphrase and up to 256 characters in said passphrase. Pretty safe, IIRC.
Sounds like you've missed 99% of the election coverage here in the US.
Lucky you.
TMI is ancient technology. Nobody's built one of these things since TMI went online. They built using newer safer designs.
Of course, getting authorisation to shut down, decommission, and dismantle a reactor takes almost as much time, effort, legal fees, and money as building the damned thing in the first place. It's on the order of 4 acts of $DIETY and an act of Congress.
Implemented on Linux, targetted for anyone who used Horde. It's a browser-based app on the client side, everybody is vulnerable to it. Same way with Java-based attacks. Linux users might get hit, but they're just collateral damage.
Guess I'm one of those lucky few. I don't use Sophos OR Windows for my computing needs.
:D
So far, there have only been a couple 'proof of concept' viri for Linux. Nobody's figured out a way to pry any money away from us yet.
Considering all the people I know that still want to stay with XP no matter what, it doesn't surprise me at all.
Sorry, that won't work, either. The trace toxins aquired during the feedstock's life make it more likely to give you cancer. Removing those toxins would cost more than you could afford to buy Soylent Green for, even given economies of scale.
Nice try, though. At least you're thinking ahead...
They got the cancer form the pesticide not the GMO corn.
Thing is, it wasn't the GMO crops that are reputed to give you the cancer. It's the pesticide. Now, class, for 10 bonus points, who didn't know pesticides are dangerous?
Christ, everything can give you cancer.
Oh for the love of god...
On one hand, we have a person who knowingly broke into a computer system to steal documents. On the other, we have a few people who dared to criticize the country's ruler. Are you seriously so disconnected from reality that you think these scenarios are at all comparable?
Oh, ffs, this guy made a shitpile of bogus accounts to download more than 'his fair share' of academic papers utilizing the site's own software. It's not like he figured out how to telnet in, change a root password, or remote mount the whole damned drive on the other computer under his user directory and hoover it clean. There was no 'breaking in'. Stop acting like he's the most knowledgeable 'hacker' since Cap'n Crunch figured out how to finagle free long distance calls. He didn't bypass a thing. The only 'fraud' he committed was lying to a comany about who he was when he created those bullshit accounts. What, he 'intended' to sell the articles to college kids for their theses? What, it's now against the law to lie about your identity to a company?
The problem is, he's in the United States. Around here, you only get the justice you can mortgage your daughter's virginity for.
It is if you also don't provide a real e-mail address, so....
I take it a Yahoo email isn't a real email address? Or a Gmail account?
I've got 4 different Yahoo email accounts, each for seperate things. Which one is my 'real' email address? I also have two Gmail accounts, one for personal, one for work. I also have access to 3 other Gmail accounts for work. Which is the real one?
Or a reaction to the upcoming budget sequestering.
Newton was right. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Not to worry, citizens, fusion is still $DECADES away!
is it that difficult to figure it out? They will, in theory, offer you some anonymous cloak to protect you're real identity from others, except Google. Google can then provide that information any time any law enforcement or investigative body comes knocking. Nothing more than CYA.
And ad revenue. Can't send you targetted ads if you're anonymous. Hey, corporations pay real money for those ads and they fucking want their money's worth!!
In the USA, Google fsck YOU.
(Apologies to the Russians, but I'm afraid they've fallen behind us again.)
We must not allow the Russians to win the search engine war! We cannot afford a search engine gap!! [/drstrangelove]
How oh HOW is this patentable?
Simple: Have your veritable army of on-staff patent lawyers file it with USPTO.
FTFY. They'd never allow little guys like you and I to patent such a thing.
Sure they would. Then their invincible army of patent l*wy*rs would rape pillage and plunder you and your family's bank accounts and scam up the patent. Why innovate when you can litigate?
On IRC nobody knew Beth14 a Detective with the NYPD Vice Squad..
Ah, the heady early days of the Internet, where men were men, so were most of the women, and those horny 14 year old virgins wanting to come out to my house to fuck me stupid were FBI agents wanting a quick and dirty arrest...
About 20 minutes.
I predict that Sourceforge will die the Real Death real soon now. For some strange reason, I have this feeling that the new regime doesn't care much for open source/GPLed code...
you can get anywhere at walking speed if you or the universe doesn't die in the mean time...
The JOEs ('Just One Earth'ers) claim that since nobody's invented and developed a car, all we'll ever have is walking, and their feet hurt, so we're not going 2 kilometers away, so give up already and finance our $PET_PROJECT_OF_THE_MINUTE. The 'Warpers' say 'Why walk when we're in the process of developing a HumVee?'
Hell, stop requiring schools to teach creationism as science and 'promoting' every single kid in their age group to the next class as part of No Child Left Behind. De-democratize the school systems and let the teachers fucking teach. Then, maybe we wouldn't need H1B visas for people from countries who don't buy into the touchie-feelie-make-them-feel-good-about-themselves-on-the-way-to-the-welfare-office 'educational system' we have here in the US to cover for the lack of trained American technicians.
Trillions? Hardly. At its heyday, NASA's budget was 40 billion. That's a couple orders of magnitude away from a trillion. And that was in the 60's, when we were still struggling to put a man on the Moon. Since then, it's been a max of what, 15 billion a year? Since '62, I doubt NASA has spent half a trillion. You do the math. You provide the cites. Trillions my ass.