Not sure if this would do me any good, but this is why I insist on getting paper bank statements... so at least I have a record of what is in my accounts.
"Single payer sounds a whole lot better..."
Yeah, good luck with that.
I hope Amazon et al shake up the "health care" industry.
Making money on providing medical care should be illegal. It's certainly immoral in my book.
The Europeans have good systems which provide good care at much less the cost than what we all pay. But here in "America First" we've got this huge insurance bureaucracy which is expensive... all for the purpose of improving the bottom line for the insurance companies. So our insurance premiums go in part to pay the insurance companies to work to keep their payouts as low as possible. What a great system for them! What a lousy system for the patients.
So if Amazon et al can come up with a system which delivers better care for less, good for them.
As a lay person I would like to ask the technical readers here: why don't companies with sensitive data encrypt the data in the databases and only decrypt it for processing? Wouldn't that make these thefts of data pointless?
I don't think Bruce Schneier is an idiot, but otherwise, I tend to agree with this. Read Jacques Ellul ("The Technological Society", "The Technological System") to better understand this.
(Sorry, but don't recall where I got the following, but it wasn't that long ago.):
Why care about asteroids possibly hitting the earth?
The odds in your children's lifetime:
"City-killer"-sized - 30% (Larger than the one which hit Russia in 1908.) (There are about a million near-earth asteroids out there about this size. We've located about 10,000 of them.
"World War"-sized - 1% (The chance of your house burning down is less than 1% Do you buy insurance for that?).
"End-of-us-all"-sized -.001%
What is the solution? Detect... and deflect.
On Feb. 15, 2013 a small asteroid hit Siberia. It was about 50 feet in diameter. Explosive effect was about 30 X the force of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
I find myself quite annoyed when someone in public is talking in a loud voice on their cell phone. I feel like yelling in a loud voice, "Yakkity, yakkity, yak,yak yak." But I don't. I'd be contributing to the problem, and besides, someone might pull out a gun and shoot me.
I just read Betty Medsger's "The Burglary," about the burglary of the Media, PA office of the FBI in 1971 by a group of people who named themselves the Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI. J. Edgar Hoover went apoplectic over it, but they never found the burglars. The documents stolen led to the revelation of COINTELPRO, among many other things. The book is also a primer on the history of 20th century surveillance by our government.
A band of rabid communists isn't going to have millions or billions to spend undermining our democracy - such as it is - but the FBI and the NSA do.
So, yeah, I wouldn't worry about those commies... if there are any left.
See http://sentinelmission.org/ for info on an organization already addressing the issue of NEOs.
Also, former astronaut, Rusty Schweickart, gave an excellent talk on this at the Long Now Foundation. I believe an.mp3 file of the talk can be downloaded for free from the Long Now website.
I completely agree with this. The Republicans and Libertarians profess to be really big on 'family' and 'family values'. But they're not: their families and their families' descendants are going to suffer big-time from the policies and practices which since the beginning of the Reagan administration they have been promoting. I think it's all going to be pretty ugly. There's much already that is pretty ugly.
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Will electricians and plumbers be replaced by robots? I wouldn't bet on it.
Not sure if this would do me any good, but this is why I insist on getting paper bank statements ... so at least I have a record of what is in my accounts.
Escape into Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman's Extraordinary Survival During WW II, Author: Games, Sonia
Who Owns the Future, Author: Lanier, Jaron
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality, Author: Lanier, Jaron
Waking Up White, Author: Irving, Debby
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Author: Lanier, Jaron
Jaron Lanier proposed this a good while ago in his book, Who Owns the Future?
Read Jaron Lanier's "Who Owns the Future." (Be sure it's the paperback edition, which has an important Afterword.)
"Single payer sounds a whole lot better ..."
Yeah, good luck with that.
I hope Amazon et al shake up the "health care" industry.
Making money on providing medical care should be illegal. It's certainly immoral in my book.
The Europeans have good systems which provide good care at much less the cost than what we all pay. But here in "America First" we've got this huge insurance bureaucracy which is expensive ... all for the purpose of improving the bottom line for the insurance companies. So our insurance premiums go in part to pay the insurance companies to work to keep their payouts as low as possible. What a great system for them! What a lousy system for the patients.
So if Amazon et al can come up with a system which delivers better care for less, good for them.
I'd love to see just a simple all-electric pickup truck.
Do you suppose Encyclopedia Britannica ever had 1300 editor-writers?
As a lay person I would like to ask the technical readers here: why don't companies with sensitive data encrypt the data in the databases and only decrypt it for processing? Wouldn't that make these thefts of data pointless?
Excellent, excellent book. By Peter Fritzsche
Using a SYM-1 single-board computer.
It was fun, and I learned a tremendous amount about programmming close to the hardware.
This expresses my sentiments exactly.
I read Adler's book years ago, and would definitely recommend it.
NOT SO FAST - Thinking Twice about Technology, by Doug Hill, I highly recommend.
Also reading a biography of Rose Macaulay, by Sarah LeFanu.
I don't think Bruce Schneier is an idiot, but otherwise, I tend to agree with this. Read Jacques Ellul ("The Technological Society", "The Technological System") to better understand this.
Tunnels in an earthquake zone! Brilliant!
(Sorry, but don't recall where I got the following, but it wasn't that long ago.): Why care about asteroids possibly hitting the earth? The odds in your children's lifetime: "City-killer"-sized - 30% (Larger than the one which hit Russia in 1908.) (There are about a million near-earth asteroids out there about this size. We've located about 10,000 of them. "World War"-sized - 1% (The chance of your house burning down is less than 1% Do you buy insurance for that?). "End-of-us-all"-sized - .001%
What is the solution? Detect ... and deflect.
On Feb. 15, 2013 a small asteroid hit Siberia. It was about 50 feet in diameter. Explosive effect was about 30 X the force of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
I find myself quite annoyed when someone in public is talking in a loud voice on their cell phone. I feel like yelling in a loud voice, "Yakkity, yakkity, yak,yak yak." But I don't. I'd be contributing to the problem, and besides, someone might pull out a gun and shoot me.
I just read Betty Medsger's "The Burglary," about the burglary of the Media, PA office of the FBI in 1971 by a group of people who named themselves the Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI. J. Edgar Hoover went apoplectic over it, but they never found the burglars. The documents stolen led to the revelation of COINTELPRO, among many other things. The book is also a primer on the history of 20th century surveillance by our government. A band of rabid communists isn't going to have millions or billions to spend undermining our democracy - such as it is - but the FBI and the NSA do. So, yeah, I wouldn't worry about those commies ... if there are any left.
See http://sentinelmission.org/ for info on an organization already addressing the issue of NEOs. Also, former astronaut, Rusty Schweickart, gave an excellent talk on this at the Long Now Foundation. I believe an .mp3 file of the talk can be downloaded for free from the Long Now website.
I agree.
I completely agree with this. The Republicans and Libertarians profess to be really big on 'family' and 'family values'. But they're not: their families and their families' descendants are going to suffer big-time from the policies and practices which since the beginning of the Reagan administration they have been promoting. I think it's all going to be pretty ugly. There's much already that is pretty ugly.
It's all from global weirding.
Sneakernet is old and slow, but it will never die.
... perhaps they already are ...