Well, for example, the HITECH Act mandated a certain level of encryption for health data, and punishes those who lose data that does not meet the requirements.
Believe it or not, there were and still are health care IT vendors out there that do not use strong encryption, or encryption at all. God forbid that protecting patient privacy isn't monetarily beneficial.
Look, I'll defend the free market as much as the next Slashdotter who voted for Ron Paul. But the reality is you and most people here don't know dick about how the health care system works and what the software is like.
Nice try making this political, but those terrible politicians recently passed a law that requires health care IT to improve. It's called the HITECH act. So you may not be getting innovations and improvements the way you'd prefer, but you'll be getting them nonetheless.
It's more like you decide you want a whole new room dedicated to watching movies, but in order to add that to your current house you'd have to spend tens of thousands of dollars and get approval from city hall and your homeowner's association. Just for a fairly small addition.
So instead you decide to go build a new house the way you like it, from the ground up, and while you're at it you add ethernet outlets into the planning because you always wanted that in your old house but you would have had to take down the drywall in order to get them where you wanted.
Maybe they're purposefully sending incorrect video feeds unencrypted, and this story has been disseminated to lull the enemy into a false sense of security.
I got a warning from PayPal saying that I am getting close to my 'send limit'. I've been using it for probably 6 - 8 years now, and now they're telling me I have to 'confirm' my identity in order to continue using their service. Confirmation requires me 1. giving them my bank account number or 2. getting a PayPal credit card.
Why the fuck would I want to do that? And if it really is for security purposes, why can't I just fax my driver's license?
Vice taxes don't deter vices. They just cause more problems down the line. So now a particular subset of the population not only is addicted, but also is poor and perhaps driven to crime. Taxes are simply a means of revenue in this case, since the demand is inelastic due to addiction.
I write and produce music too, but I don't have the same problem. Then again, I don't mind being distracted from work once in a while, either. There's active listening and passive listening, and I think most people can control their usage. Sometimes when I'm doing something intense, I'll go with silence. When I'm doing more-or-less rote code, I opt for music. Though, that isn't always the case.
Regardless, if your boss has the nerve to tell you to stop listening to music while you work on something that doesn't necessitate social skills, you're probably not a valued employee and should work your way out of the cube or get the hell out of that company.
And they have versions for all the new consoles now. Beautiful Katamari for 360 and Katamari Forever for Wii/PS3. If you played the previous ones, you won't find much new, sadly.
AT&T has learned this before. Back in the dial-up days, I had AT&T internet. And they switched from an unlimited to 20GB per month plan. And I switched to a different ISP. And then they switched back to unlimited, but by that time dial-up was dead.
THIS is probably why they were arrested. They were being noisy and probably annoying the other patrons and wouldn't shut the fuck up.
Yeah, on the surface this looks like a terrible OMG thing, but really, would you have wanted this party in a theater next to you when you paid > $20 (partner, food, children, etc) for the luxury to be there?
The only way I've ever been able to peg my connection is to start three or four Linux ISO downloads from different FTP sites. Just what are people doing with these connections that I'm unable to do with mine?
Porn. Lots and lots of porn torrents.
it's all dick waving from that point going forward.
All of the data isn't globbed into some hidden binary file somewhere that is useless to people trying to move to a new computer or freshly installed OS. Or, god forbid, trying to fix their inoperable GUI OS via a terminal connection. Yeah, there's remote registry editing and probably some command that is half as useful as it should be, but why reinvent the wheel?
I don't fault the original registry developers. It's a good idea in theory, but a clusterfuck in practice. It probably wins the performance battle, but I never really understood why an application needs to poll registry values every second, anyway.
Gnome's got a hybrid registry + conf file solution as well. Me, I just prefer the standard linux free-for-all. You never need to touch most conf files, and you learn the ones you do. One format isn't the best for all apps.
I don't really care if it was light-hearted or not. Associating the two followings, even through satire and jokes, only makes things worse. We all can agree that Scientology is bad. We all can't agree that Catholicism is bad. If we confuse the two, we end up with both in the end. If we focus on Scientology, we all are better off.
You don't start a Scientology debate when Catholicism is in the news, so you shouldn't start a Catholicism debate when Scientology is in the news. It's completely asinine, and it's what the Scientologists want to 'legitimize' their organization. Whether you think the Catholic Church is more or less legitimate is irrelevant.
Well, for the third, you could probably use Junction to link it's Program Files/Whatever/Data directory to somewhere else. I've done this several times with applications that want to write to annoying places. Though, I don't know if you can junction to %HOMEDIR%.
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The star is meant to refer to the asterisk in the name - not to describe the object with the name. Or are you trying to make a cute joke?
I wish cars did this, too. Sometimes driving is just too stressful.
It's called Milorganite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milorganite
Yeah, I find it kind of scary that there's a headband that will sap your brain of heat. That can't be good for your brain, can it?
Still waiting for the devices that run off sugar in the blood stream so we can all stop being fat.
Well, for example, the HITECH Act mandated a certain level of encryption for health data, and punishes those who lose data that does not meet the requirements.
Believe it or not, there were and still are health care IT vendors out there that do not use strong encryption, or encryption at all. God forbid that protecting patient privacy isn't monetarily beneficial.
Look, I'll defend the free market as much as the next Slashdotter who voted for Ron Paul. But the reality is you and most people here don't know dick about how the health care system works and what the software is like.
Nice try making this political, but those terrible politicians recently passed a law that requires health care IT to improve. It's called the HITECH act. So you may not be getting innovations and improvements the way you'd prefer, but you'll be getting them nonetheless.
I didn't mind the funny voice, but the whole thing had an overly misogynistic tone. Killing and raping women is kind of not funny.
It's more like you decide you want a whole new room dedicated to watching movies, but in order to add that to your current house you'd have to spend tens of thousands of dollars and get approval from city hall and your homeowner's association. Just for a fairly small addition.
So instead you decide to go build a new house the way you like it, from the ground up, and while you're at it you add ethernet outlets into the planning because you always wanted that in your old house but you would have had to take down the drywall in order to get them where you wanted.
And if she wins, how exactly does she explain the influx of money to her family?
No, what they should do is use the drones to video tape porn, and then broadcast it unencrypted to my dick.
Maybe they're purposefully sending incorrect video feeds unencrypted, and this story has been disseminated to lull the enemy into a false sense of security.
I got a warning from PayPal saying that I am getting close to my 'send limit'. I've been using it for probably 6 - 8 years now, and now they're telling me I have to 'confirm' my identity in order to continue using their service. Confirmation requires me 1. giving them my bank account number or 2. getting a PayPal credit card.
Why the fuck would I want to do that? And if it really is for security purposes, why can't I just fax my driver's license?
Vice taxes don't deter vices. They just cause more problems down the line. So now a particular subset of the population not only is addicted, but also is poor and perhaps driven to crime. Taxes are simply a means of revenue in this case, since the demand is inelastic due to addiction.
I write and produce music too, but I don't have the same problem. Then again, I don't mind being distracted from work once in a while, either. There's active listening and passive listening, and I think most people can control their usage. Sometimes when I'm doing something intense, I'll go with silence. When I'm doing more-or-less rote code, I opt for music. Though, that isn't always the case.
Regardless, if your boss has the nerve to tell you to stop listening to music while you work on something that doesn't necessitate social skills, you're probably not a valued employee and should work your way out of the cube or get the hell out of that company.
And they have versions for all the new consoles now. Beautiful Katamari for 360 and Katamari Forever for Wii/PS3. If you played the previous ones, you won't find much new, sadly.
AT&T has learned this before. Back in the dial-up days, I had AT&T internet. And they switched from an unlimited to 20GB per month plan. And I switched to a different ISP. And then they switched back to unlimited, but by that time dial-up was dead.
THIS is probably why they were arrested. They were being noisy and probably annoying the other patrons and wouldn't shut the fuck up.
Yeah, on the surface this looks like a terrible OMG thing, but really, would you have wanted this party in a theater next to you when you paid > $20 (partner, food, children, etc) for the luxury to be there?
The people who pay for/organize assassinations rarely go to jail for them.
The only way I've ever been able to peg my connection is to start three or four Linux ISO downloads from different FTP sites. Just what are people doing with these connections that I'm unable to do with mine?
Porn. Lots and lots of porn torrents.
it's all dick waving from that point going forward.
Well, I guess you're correct in one respect.
It's not our fucking fault that management and customers demand sufficiently working code on time rather than perfect code late.
I kind of feel offended by the whole idea that I would personally and deliberately release code that is not perfect in every way. :)
All of the data isn't globbed into some hidden binary file somewhere that is useless to people trying to move to a new computer or freshly installed OS. Or, god forbid, trying to fix their inoperable GUI OS via a terminal connection. Yeah, there's remote registry editing and probably some command that is half as useful as it should be, but why reinvent the wheel?
I don't fault the original registry developers. It's a good idea in theory, but a clusterfuck in practice. It probably wins the performance battle, but I never really understood why an application needs to poll registry values every second, anyway.
Gnome's got a hybrid registry + conf file solution as well. Me, I just prefer the standard linux free-for-all. You never need to touch most conf files, and you learn the ones you do. One format isn't the best for all apps.
I don't really care if it was light-hearted or not. Associating the two followings, even through satire and jokes, only makes things worse. We all can agree that Scientology is bad. We all can't agree that Catholicism is bad. If we confuse the two, we end up with both in the end. If we focus on Scientology, we all are better off.
You don't start a Scientology debate when Catholicism is in the news, so you shouldn't start a Catholicism debate when Scientology is in the news. It's completely asinine, and it's what the Scientologists want to 'legitimize' their organization. Whether you think the Catholic Church is more or less legitimate is irrelevant.
Hmm, how come every Scientology story must have some post diverting attention to Catholicism, trying to lend legitimacy to Scientology as a religion?
Let's stick to the topic at hand, shall we? And that topic is that Scientology apparently enslaved this person.
Well, for the third, you could probably use Junction to link it's Program Files/Whatever/Data directory to somewhere else. I've done this several times with applications that want to write to annoying places. Though, I don't know if you can junction to %HOMEDIR%.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx