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  1. I have a gut feeling about this. on Gut Bacteria Can Control Diabetes · · Score: 2, Funny

    Insert spam for gut bacteria pills that cure diabetes here.

  2. Re:Are you sure... on London Installing Largest Free Wifi Network · · Score: 1

    hmmmm If the CCTV cameras are on wireless it shouldn't be too difficult to watch the feeds yourself.

  3. Re:It needs what??? on Almost 1 In 3 US Warplanes Is a Drone · · Score: 2

    Plus, you're forgetting that the military always get the cool toys first. 500MB/s to the user will come to us regular Joe's eventually.

    From whom? Surely not one of the existing ISP's in my area. Oh wait. You probably mean a 500MB cap will come to us regular Joe's. /snark

  4. Re:Best care money can buy helps on How Stephen Hawking Has Defied the Odds For 50 Years · · Score: 1

    Medicaid doesn't actually pay for anything not related to medical care. There are multiple agencies one has to deal with, HUD, Social Security etc...

    Here is a link that shows what is covered by medicaid state by state. Medicaid Benefits: Online Database

  5. Re:Best care money can buy helps on How Stephen Hawking Has Defied the Odds For 50 Years · · Score: 1

    The docs.
    Can I get Medicare if I am under age 65?
    If you are under age 65 and disabled, and have been entitled to disability benefits under Social Security or the Railroad Retirement Board for 24 months, you will be automatically entitled to Medicare Part A and Part B beginning the 25th month of disability benefit entitlement. You do not need to do anything to enroll in Medicare. Your Medicare card will be mailed to you about 3 months before your Medicare entitlement date.

    What We Mean By Disability
    The definition of disability under Social Security is different than other programs. Social Security pays only for total disability. No benefits are payable for partial disability or for short-term disability.

    "Disability" under Social Security is based on your inability to work. We consider you disabled under Social Security rules if:
    You cannot do work that you did before;
    We decide that you cannot adjust to other work because of your medical condition(s); and
    Your disability has lasted or is expected to last for at least one year or to result in death.

    Question: How does the federal government define "disability"?
    The definition of "disability" varies depending on the purpose for which it is being used. Federal and state agencies generally use a definition that is specific to a particular program or service. For example:

    For purposes of nondiscrimination laws (e.g., the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and Section 188 of the Workforce Investment Act), a person with a disability is generally defined as someone who (1) has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more "major life activities," (2) has a record of such an impairment, or (3) is regarded as having such an impairment.
    To be found disabled for purposes of Social Security disability benefits, individuals must have a severe disability (or combination of disabilities) that has lasted, or is expected to last, at least 12 months or result in death, and which prevents working at a "substantial gainful activity" level.
    State vocational rehabilitation (VR) offices will find a person with a disability to be eligible for VR services if he or she has a physical or mental impairment that constitutes or results in a "substantial impediment" to employment for the applicant.

    Who is eligible for Medicare?

    Generally, Medicare is available for people age 65 or older, younger people with disabilities and people with End Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or transplant). Medicare has two parts, Part A (Hospital Insurance) and Part B (Medical Insurance). You are eligible for premium-free Part A if you are age 65 or older and you or your spouse worked and paid Medicare taxes for at least 10 years. You can get Part A at age 65 without having to pay premiums if:

    You are receiving retirement benefits from Social Security or the Railroad Retirement Board.
    You are eligible to receive Social Security or Railroad benefits but you have not yet filed for them.
    You or your spouse had Medicare-covered government employment.

    While most people do not have to pay a premium for Part A, everyone must pay for Part B if they want it. This monthly premium is deducted from your Social Security, Railroad Retirement, or Civil Service Retirement check. If you do not get any of these payments, Medicare sends you a bill for your Part B premium every 3 months.

  6. Re:Best care money can buy helps on How Stephen Hawking Has Defied the Odds For 50 Years · · Score: 1

    You can't qualify for Medicare until you are completely disabled, eg a paraplegic. She would have to be in the last stages of the decease. I'm sorry to hear that.

  7. Re:Best care money can buy helps on How Stephen Hawking Has Defied the Odds For 50 Years · · Score: 1

    They will pay up to an additional $11,000 in living expenses if you live in a certified hospice (nursing home). Finding a home that charges less than $15,000 per year is all but impossible. Most of them take all that is given to you and provide an "all bills paid with restrictions to internally provided medical care" type living environment. They don't pay for trips to the hospital. Also. You have to be completely debilitated, in the last stages of the decease.

  8. Way to hold that liquor on New Research Shows Cognitive Decline Begins At 45 · · Score: 1

    Civil service booze must be weak.

  9. Re:Not all that counts on New Research Shows Cognitive Decline Begins At 45 · · Score: 1

    Well played. Very well played.

  10. Re:Neat! on Raspberry Pi Gertboard In Action · · Score: 1

    And that information should be logged so you can sell the information to advertisers. ...er wait.

  11. Re:Best care money can buy helps on How Stephen Hawking Has Defied the Odds For 50 Years · · Score: 1

    Medicare only pays if your 65 or older and is a supplimental insurance program. This will help you calculate the out of pocket costscalc info Medicaid has a limit specific to the level of disability and is dependant on the state you live in and your "countable resources". The medicaid process is:

    1) loose everything until you no longer own more than $2,000 in assets.
    2) file.
    3) wait 6 months.
    4) receive a maximum of $20,000 in total medical, foodstamps, transportation (bus ticket), and living expenses (nursing home) per year.
    5) show that you are actively looking for a job.

  12. Re:Best care money can buy helps on How Stephen Hawking Has Defied the Odds For 50 Years · · Score: 3, Informative

    Long version: $3,000/y medicaid, $6,000/y food stamps, and a free bus ticket. This is assuming he/she doesn't have a job. If they have a job the employers insurance company has to pay up to $3,000/y. They are out of pocket for medical expenses above $3,000/y either way.

    Short version: In a word fuckt.

  13. People asked questions? on Why Freemium Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    If you've done anything more than once you know people don't read what you post. I suspect his real anger is the number of people using the service for free compared to those that paid. Just in case someone else goes on one of these ventures...

    The geek in the family uses it for free. He/She then tells brothers, sisters, grandma, and grandpa. He/She tells them the process. Those people then pay. The he/she that asked questions and got back, "It is in the beautiful FAQ I lovingly wrote. IOW Please feel free to go fuck yourself.", never send info up the chain.

  14. Re:Bandwidth? on German Hackers Propose Uncensorable Global Grid — With Satellites · · Score: 1

    A television satellite is nothing but a repeater.

    Someone needs to invent a reflector. Something where both clients could beam signals at while interpreting the signals from the other client. It would be a mater, pun intended, of using the correct material to reflect the specific wave length. The problem then becomes knowing the amount of energy needed by both clients to make up the loss in signal when it hits the reflector, the efficiency of the reflective material, and a good timing system to know your looking at the same object at the same time. It is a damn shame light waves wont work for a distributed system. There are already plenty of satellites that can be used to reflect light in space already. Of course, you would have to pin point the object with both clients and both clients would have to know what time they are "seeing" the object in a much more accurate way. Hell, you could use an airplane if your timers were good enough.

  15. Re:hmm... I don't know. on RIM's Playbook On Clearance · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the other two not on my list.

  16. Re:hmm... I don't know. on RIM's Playbook On Clearance · · Score: 1

    I must be confusing it with openqnx. Does it still require a Blackberry phone for email apps and the like?

  17. hmm... I don't know. on RIM's Playbook On Clearance · · Score: 1

    No removable storage, you'll probably have to root it to maintain it, and it still cost $299. Did anyone get X to build on QNX yet? Oh wait. It isn't open source any longer. Or it was, then it wasn't, now it is, or is it?

  18. Re:Antivirus as a sign of failure on Fake Antivirus Scams Spread To Android · · Score: 1

    IMHO that is where the went wrong. UID and GID separation sucks. They need true sandbox separation, chroot.

  19. Who writes this crap? on Insiders Call HP's WebOS Software Fatally Flawed · · Score: 1

    Since when has a renderer been the be all end all of an OS? Show the code. I got $20 saying someone in the FOSS can replace it without heavy lifting.

  20. Re:Since when was PC gaming ever viable? on Crysis 2 Most Pirated Game of 2011 · · Score: 2

    XBox made up 57% of the sales, 29% for PS3 and PC only 14%

    Of what? Of 1,000 copies? 1 million copies? They won't come out and say how many units were sold. IMHO it is because the number sold swamps the number downloaded.

  21. Re:Since when was PC gaming ever viable? on Crysis 2 Most Pirated Game of 2011 · · Score: 1

    True. Console gamers are the people willing to buy a game site unseen. Publishers of shitty games have learned, PC gamers download the game first and won't buy it if it sucks. Publishers that fill games with DRM bullshit are next to leave. They force PC gamers to download the crack to be able to play it without the annoyance of online registration and CD hunting.

  22. Re:This is the wrong statistic on Crysis 2 Most Pirated Game of 2011 · · Score: 1

    Agreed. If they would have posted sales, and it showed fewer than the number of downloads, it would have been worth the read. I'm tired of this, "It was downloaded 1 million times, which would have brought sales to 20 million units instead of 19. We were Robbed of a giga billion dollars!" bullshit. Sure, a million people got to find out if the game was shit before plunking down $60 bucks. Maybe a few 10 thousand liked it but didn't buy it. Do these shit tards know what $60 bucks is worth to someone these days? ZOMG .019% of the people playing the game didn't pay for it. Take your $12,000,000,000 in sales and get on with life.

  23. Linking DLL's from the net. Nice! on Same Platform Made Stuxnet, Duqu; Others Lurk · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the video at 11:16'ish he says, "it is loading the dll from the net". Essentially Windows allows an attacker to build executables from library sources, disguised as icon containers, located anywhere on the net. Priceless!

  24. Re:Divide? on New Group Paves Way For 2012 Online Primary · · Score: 1

    +1 insightful, had i not posted before seeing it.

  25. Re:Internet = Ticket to Democracy on New Group Paves Way For 2012 Online Primary · · Score: 1

    Congress is pure genius compared to the vast majority of American non- voters.

    FTFY