This isn't really new news as shown by this article from 2005. It talks about Wal-Mart's problems with some of it's 360 kiosks causing problems with their wireless inventory system.
I have a friend who works as a dispatcher for a 911 center.
If they get a call from a cell phone, and that person hangs up, they call them back to determine the problem. If they can't get them, there's not much they can do, since they don't have an address for the call.
You wouldn't use a bunch of 2GB flash drives in an array. You'd use a Solid State Drive which uses less power and generates less heat. They're available for consumers now, but the price is quite high and you don't get a lot of storage yet.
How did this get modded interesting? There are multiple broken systems that comprise the US healthcare system as a whole. Overpriced medication, high-cost surgery, high-cost malpractice insurance and, lastly, profit-maximizing, bureaucratic insurance companies. If you form a low-cost insurance company, you are attempting to fix one of these facets. However, your company will go under rather quickly due to the fact that the charges to your insured will be the same.
The numbers being given by other posters are that insurance companies eat about 30% in bureaucratic overhead, and that health insurance costs about $1,500 a month for a normal family that isn't on a large group plan (corporate, medicare, etc.). Say you are able to lower your overhead down to 2%. You can lower that monthly payment to $1,170. That $1,170 is the bloat from the rest of the system. It's around what you'd have to charge to keep your company afloat. Less than that, and you'd need to be subsidized by some other source.
Now I may be building my own straw man here, because those monthly numbers aren't going to be the same for everyone. But, even if you cut that number down to $500/month, that's still out of the reach of a lot of families. Which is why so many go without insurance in the US. This is also why someone hasn't just come out with some cheap, national health care company as you suggest. Because it wouldn't survive.
Why bother chasing the problem around. You've complained to the responsible person. If the problem is not resolved, do the one thing that a bank will actually care about; take your money somewhere else.
You should check the licensing agreement. In general, Microsoft's licensing agreements grant downgrade rights to the most recent previous version of the same software.
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm. Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad. Homer: Thank you, dear. Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away. Homer: Oh, how does it work? Lisa: It doesn't work. Homer: Uh-huh. Lisa: It's just a stupid rock. Homer: Uh-huh. Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you? Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
I don't see how it's going to hurt the RIAA much to pay the fees of the small time lawyer the mother likely hired to defend her from a whole law firm of RIAA goons.
Radio waves (which RADAR uses) are simply light waves. Radar works by bouncing the waves off an object. If this device refracts the light in such a way that it pass around the object without reflecting off of it, then the radio waves would not be able to return a signal to the radar station.
I would find it unlikely that there would be much code from the unofficial patch in the MS patch. As I understand it, the Ilfak patch simply disables the function call that allows for the exploit. That's not really going to work for MS as the function is part of WMF and will probably still need to work in order to not break apps that use it. They'll have to try to find a way to get the function to work but without being overly vulnerable.
Besides, if you want you can look at the code for the Ilfak patch, it's included with the install and put in Program Files/WindowsMetafileFix. It's only a couple hundred lines. Any "significant" chunk of the patch would most likely be the whole patch.
Personally I cannot blame American companies for doing something like this - after all, they are running a business.
Yes you can. Corporations should not be granted carte blanche just because they are trying to make a buck. In fact, we have all sorts of laws in America to prevent companies from doing unethical things.
What if, instead of selling the copy you made, you put it up for free, with an advertisement next to it that generates revenue? Is there really a difference?
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His wife? http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/07/12/024254/melinda-gates-pledges-560-million-for-contraception
Distribute 90% of the CxO's salaries across the work force?
Further reinforcing my decision to never click on a bit.ly link.
Most aren't. But transporting them to the middle of nowhere along with people to properly administer them is.
This isn't really new news as shown by this article from 2005. It talks about Wal-Mart's problems with some of it's 360 kiosks causing problems with their wireless inventory system.
I have a friend who works as a dispatcher for a 911 center.
If they get a call from a cell phone, and that person hangs up, they call them back to determine the problem. If they can't get them, there's not much they can do, since they don't have an address for the call.
"Further, in cases where Intel outperformed AMD in power efficiency, the servers were configured with smaller larger memory sizes."
It's all so clear dark to me now...
You wouldn't use a bunch of 2GB flash drives in an array. You'd use a Solid State Drive which uses less power and generates less heat. They're available for consumers now, but the price is quite high and you don't get a lot of storage yet.
How did this get modded interesting? There are multiple broken systems that comprise the US healthcare system as a whole. Overpriced medication, high-cost surgery, high-cost malpractice insurance and, lastly, profit-maximizing, bureaucratic insurance companies. If you form a low-cost insurance company, you are attempting to fix one of these facets. However, your company will go under rather quickly due to the fact that the charges to your insured will be the same.
The numbers being given by other posters are that insurance companies eat about 30% in bureaucratic overhead, and that health insurance costs about $1,500 a month for a normal family that isn't on a large group plan (corporate, medicare, etc.). Say you are able to lower your overhead down to 2%. You can lower that monthly payment to $1,170. That $1,170 is the bloat from the rest of the system. It's around what you'd have to charge to keep your company afloat. Less than that, and you'd need to be subsidized by some other source.
Now I may be building my own straw man here, because those monthly numbers aren't going to be the same for everyone. But, even if you cut that number down to $500/month, that's still out of the reach of a lot of families. Which is why so many go without insurance in the US. This is also why someone hasn't just come out with some cheap, national health care company as you suggest. Because it wouldn't survive.
Why bother chasing the problem around. You've complained to the responsible person. If the problem is not resolved, do the one thing that a bank will actually care about; take your money somewhere else.
If ever there was a time for the haha tag, this is it.
You should check the licensing agreement. In general, Microsoft's licensing agreements grant downgrade rights to the most recent previous version of the same software.
Sure, Dell and HP sell non-Windows systems, but what about all those other vendors out there?
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm.
Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
Ignore me, I'm blind and can't even read the summary right apparently.
I don't see how it's going to hurt the RIAA much to pay the fees of the small time lawyer the mother likely hired to defend her from a whole law firm of RIAA goons.
Radio waves (which RADAR uses) are simply light waves. Radar works by bouncing the waves off an object. If this device refracts the light in such a way that it pass around the object without reflecting off of it, then the radio waves would not be able to return a signal to the radar station.
Can I sue?
You must be an American living abroad.
Segmentation fault: Core dumped.
Even in your broad generalization you leave out the one important part. The end-user gets to decide whether or not to turn the kid filter on.
I would find it unlikely that there would be much code from the unofficial patch in the MS patch. As I understand it, the Ilfak patch simply disables the function call that allows for the exploit. That's not really going to work for MS as the function is part of WMF and will probably still need to work in order to not break apps that use it. They'll have to try to find a way to get the function to work but without being overly vulnerable.
Besides, if you want you can look at the code for the Ilfak patch, it's included with the install and put in Program Files/WindowsMetafileFix. It's only a couple hundred lines. Any "significant" chunk of the patch would most likely be the whole patch.
Personally I cannot blame American companies for doing something like this - after all, they are running a business.
Yes you can. Corporations should not be granted carte blanche just because they are trying to make a buck. In fact, we have all sorts of laws in America to prevent companies from doing unethical things.
$sys$Johnson is going to be mad when he doesn't get elected.
General Number Field Sieve? That sounds complicated, they should just try:
for ( n = 2; n sqrt(num); n++ )
if (num % n == 0)
return n;
Took me a minute. Now I just need some opterons. I can taste the prize already!
What if, instead of selling the copy you made, you put it up for free, with an advertisement next to it that generates revenue? Is there really a difference?