You pay the "big insurance" so that when you get cancer you can get $500,000 of the $2,000,000 medical bills payed before the lifetime maximum is reached. Unless of course your chemo makes you too sick to work, then you'll end up with something more like $20,000 before they cut you off since you couldn't afford the premium. But don't worry as soon as you run out of insurance the hospital will drop your treatment anyway so the bill won't get too terribly high and of course you can escape that through dying from your illness.
When the hell did a 1 in 2 (Men), 1 in 3 (Women) risk of developing cancer during a person's life become an outlier? US healthcare is an abysmal failure for anyone unable to achieve and maintain employment of sufficient quality to leverage available health services. It only works for the healthy middle-class, the independently wealthy, sometimes children, and sometimes elderly.
The pertinent number would be how many people live in poverty but do not qualify for government healthcare. The pertinent number would be how many people would become impoverished should they take on one of these "reasonable" health plans. The pertinent number would be how many people would become bankrupt should their "reasonable" healthcare coverage fall short after suffering catastrophic illness/injury.
You are either myopic or a cold-hearted, selfish bastard who'd sooner step on everyone else's back if it meant a bigger slice of the pie for you. I suspect you are a card carrying member of the SEP.
It is a GUI framework that sits on top of application frameworks, that sits on top of device abstraction layers, that sits on top of the kernel... Just because you stop wrapping the GUI being presented by the browser with it's own GUI doesn't mean that the browser is suddenly the OS. Just because all you as*hats see is a GUI doesn't mean you're 99% of the way to having an operating system once you've cobbled one together. You HTML5/Javascript people are creating a mess just as bad as what the IT marketing departments did the with stupid "Cloud." (TM)
I understand where you are coming from and I'm certain there are plenty of items that shouldn't have been built. That said, most of the infrastructure out there was/is essential to economic development of the country. The Interstate and US highway, as well as the national electric grid are chief among them. We also could very well have afforded to maintain them but for short sighted leaders that misappropriated funds to play cold-war politics. Even now the cost of putting things right, especially when viewed with an eye towards the side-effects of job creation isn't that egregious. All it would take would be to put a halt to the multi-trillion dollar spending the over-grown children in charge of the DoD spend blowing craters in the sand, along with all the other playground pissing contests they claim are vital to the defense of US sovereignty.
Jobs devoted to putting worthless craters in the sand and obliterating infrastructure. How about we stop spending money on destroying sh*t and spend it on building stuff? Roosevelt accomplished some pretty great things by going that direction. Too bad we're still relying on the very same old and now decayed infrastructure he built...
Trouble is, this "publicity" is a bit of a double-edged (multi-edged) sword. But for the publicity these worthless excuses for IT security would go unnoticed and no pressure would be brought to remedy the problem. I'd much rather see these vulnerabilities be exposed by people "in it for the lulz" than those participating in government espionage, organized crime among others things with more nefarious purposes. If these guys would focus on shaming IT security rather than LOINC'ing game servers, PBS, etc. I'd have less of a problem with them.
So they spent a bit more than $100 over ten years on gadgets. $1.5M of which on game consoles. Of course you do remember that the military was using game consoles in super-computer projects. But even if it wasn't for that, what's wrong with having an equipped break room? Aside from the usual DoD waste, I'd be more interested in (and probably troubled by) how much of our tax dollars are being spent on the proverbial "hookers and blow."
You're also assuming that this technology can only be fed strictly off of excrement. The bulk of the "meat" comes from sterilized bacteria. The source of which I'm sure can be much more diverse, and even "farmed". Many strains of bacteria are extremely hardy and feed off of extraordinary things. It may even be possible to engineer strains that can live off of in situ material.
Actually they have C++ but broke their C++/CLI support. No more Intellisense just a dumb IDE with mediocre syntax highlighting. It will still build mind you, but you best be careful what you write as you can no longer rely upon the IDE to assist your graph navigation. One mispelled identifier and you'll be hunting for hours.
But, Microsoft said that was the future and I'm betting big. I just laid off all my.NET developers and hired a bunch of HTML/JavaScripts kids from the local sweat monkey shop. What are you telling me?
If this can be made palatable I suspect there will be some interest at NASA. For any kind of long duration missions this would make for a pretty handy food stuff supplement much like how they're now recycling urine.
and it doesn't stop their use, why would banning their possession stop them? I fail to grasp how anyone can come to the conclusion that someone intent on criminal activities would mend their ways simply because another facet of their operation is made illegal. Guns aren't the problem, network security tools aren't the problem. People are the problem. If you want to solve the problem you're going to have to ban them.
Perhaps, but almost certainly these are simply foolish youths with poor impulse control and a lack of sound judgement. They are the "me too" effect coming off of Anonymous victories and publicity. They view things as but merely another video game and do not recognize the consequences of their actions.
LulzSec is destroying any benefit that groups like Anonymous might provide. I could get behind, or at least understand acts done in the name of social justice. Fighting despotic regimes, exposing fraud, supporting the little guys' struggle against the corporations, etc.. But a bunch of "me too" juveniles on a power trip indiscriminately attacking for the sake of amusement is dishonorable and destroying any support the public, even governments might have had for Anonymous type groups. No one in a position to take measures against these actors will bother making a distinctions, no one is going to wink and nod at the "good guys" now. Everyone, regardless of affiliation or motivation is going to be lumped into same bag and treated at public enemy #1. Worse, government are going to make rash decisions, put together poorly considered legislation that will adversely affect innocents.
Silverlight a subset of.NET may have a dubious future since many of the problems it addresses parallel what HTML5/JS also address. Even so I doubt--especially given previous promises for Silverlight 5, the existing developer base and existing apps--that it's the end of the road. At most we may see much of its underpinnings simply compile to HTML5/JS but no one is going to start pulling the run out from under anyone. Further, no one is really in agreement on what HTML5 is supposed to be. Each vendor has their own idea and the W3C has given up on even really having a traditional specification. We're in the middle of yet another round of browser wars. Everyone is going to end up with their own implementation that is mostly but not nearly compatible enough with everyone else. Traditional GUI technologies aren't going anywhere because no one has a compelling enough replacement. Not only is HTML5/JS inferior GUI technology, but it lacks even the cross-platform compatibility that would even make it worth considering the sacrifice.
What people are also failing to grasp is that.NET has very little to do with presentation. Yes there are ASP.NET, Win Forms, and WPF but that is but a small portion of what makes up all that falls under the umbrella of.NET. An auto manufacturer isn't going to throw away their cars because someone created a new type of carburetor that fits a few more engine types than theirs. This whole issue is nothing but a bunch of nonsense with ignorant people flailing their arms and screaming like crazy people over things they don't know anything about.
Slashdot Mirror
You pay the "big insurance" so that when you get cancer you can get $500,000 of the $2,000,000 medical bills payed before the lifetime maximum is reached. Unless of course your chemo makes you too sick to work, then you'll end up with something more like $20,000 before they cut you off since you couldn't afford the premium. But don't worry as soon as you run out of insurance the hospital will drop your treatment anyway so the bill won't get too terribly high and of course you can escape that through dying from your illness.
When the hell did a 1 in 2 (Men), 1 in 3 (Women) risk of developing cancer during a person's life become an outlier? US healthcare is an abysmal failure for anyone unable to achieve and maintain employment of sufficient quality to leverage available health services. It only works for the healthy middle-class, the independently wealthy, sometimes children, and sometimes elderly.
The pertinent number would be how many people live in poverty but do not qualify for government healthcare. The pertinent number would be how many people would become impoverished should they take on one of these "reasonable" health plans. The pertinent number would be how many people would become bankrupt should their "reasonable" healthcare coverage fall short after suffering catastrophic illness/injury.
You are either myopic or a cold-hearted, selfish bastard who'd sooner step on everyone else's back if it meant a bigger slice of the pie for you. I suspect you are a card carrying member of the SEP.
Just one of the 50% of Americans with no concept of a future that might impact them the same way it impacts others.
It is a GUI framework that sits on top of application frameworks, that sits on top of device abstraction layers, that sits on top of the kernel... Just because you stop wrapping the GUI being presented by the browser with it's own GUI doesn't mean that the browser is suddenly the OS. Just because all you as*hats see is a GUI doesn't mean you're 99% of the way to having an operating system once you've cobbled one together. You HTML5/Javascript people are creating a mess just as bad as what the IT marketing departments did the with stupid "Cloud." (TM)
I understand where you are coming from and I'm certain there are plenty of items that shouldn't have been built. That said, most of the infrastructure out there was/is essential to economic development of the country. The Interstate and US highway, as well as the national electric grid are chief among them. We also could very well have afforded to maintain them but for short sighted leaders that misappropriated funds to play cold-war politics. Even now the cost of putting things right, especially when viewed with an eye towards the side-effects of job creation isn't that egregious. All it would take would be to put a halt to the multi-trillion dollar spending the over-grown children in charge of the DoD spend blowing craters in the sand, along with all the other playground pissing contests they claim are vital to the defense of US sovereignty.
If that were the definition, but it's not...
Jobs devoted to putting worthless craters in the sand and obliterating infrastructure. How about we stop spending money on destroying sh*t and spend it on building stuff? Roosevelt accomplished some pretty great things by going that direction. Too bad we're still relying on the very same old and now decayed infrastructure he built...
Trouble is, this "publicity" is a bit of a double-edged (multi-edged) sword. But for the publicity these worthless excuses for IT security would go unnoticed and no pressure would be brought to remedy the problem. I'd much rather see these vulnerabilities be exposed by people "in it for the lulz" than those participating in government espionage, organized crime among others things with more nefarious purposes. If these guys would focus on shaming IT security rather than LOINC'ing game servers, PBS, etc. I'd have less of a problem with them.
If this was Minecraft someone would wander by, grab and handful of those pretty blue wires and rip them out.
So they spent a bit more than $100 over ten years on gadgets. $1.5M of which on game consoles. Of course you do remember that the military was using game consoles in super-computer projects. But even if it wasn't for that, what's wrong with having an equipped break room? Aside from the usual DoD waste, I'd be more interested in (and probably troubled by) how much of our tax dollars are being spent on the proverbial "hookers and blow."
I was kind of wondering what happened yesterday. I mean seriously, a whole day without a Bitcoin story!
but not cops? Why can we gather evidence of animal abuse by videoing farmers, but we cannot gather evidence of human abuse by law enforcement?
You're also assuming that this technology can only be fed strictly off of excrement. The bulk of the "meat" comes from sterilized bacteria. The source of which I'm sure can be much more diverse, and even "farmed". Many strains of bacteria are extremely hardy and feed off of extraordinary things. It may even be possible to engineer strains that can live off of in situ material.
That's just a bunch of S*** Helping Incite Torment
Actually they have C++ but broke their C++/CLI support. No more Intellisense just a dumb IDE with mediocre syntax highlighting. It will still build mind you, but you best be careful what you write as you can no longer rely upon the IDE to assist your graph navigation. One mispelled identifier and you'll be hunting for hours.
But, Microsoft said that was the future and I'm betting big. I just laid off all my .NET developers and hired a bunch of HTML/JavaScripts kids from the local sweat monkey shop. What are you telling me?
these guys?
Or ... brains of mush.
If this can be made palatable I suspect there will be some interest at NASA. For any kind of long duration missions this would make for a pretty handy food stuff supplement much like how they're now recycling urine.
and it doesn't stop their use, why would banning their possession stop them? I fail to grasp how anyone can come to the conclusion that someone intent on criminal activities would mend their ways simply because another facet of their operation is made illegal. Guns aren't the problem, network security tools aren't the problem. People are the problem. If you want to solve the problem you're going to have to ban them.
Perhaps, but almost certainly these are simply foolish youths with poor impulse control and a lack of sound judgement. They are the "me too" effect coming off of Anonymous victories and publicity. They view things as but merely another video game and do not recognize the consequences of their actions.
LulzSec is destroying any benefit that groups like Anonymous might provide. I could get behind, or at least understand acts done in the name of social justice. Fighting despotic regimes, exposing fraud, supporting the little guys' struggle against the corporations, etc.. But a bunch of "me too" juveniles on a power trip indiscriminately attacking for the sake of amusement is dishonorable and destroying any support the public, even governments might have had for Anonymous type groups. No one in a position to take measures against these actors will bother making a distinctions, no one is going to wink and nod at the "good guys" now. Everyone, regardless of affiliation or motivation is going to be lumped into same bag and treated at public enemy #1. Worse, government are going to make rash decisions, put together poorly considered legislation that will adversely affect innocents.
Silverlight a subset of .NET may have a dubious future since many of the problems it addresses parallel what HTML5/JS also address. Even so I doubt--especially given previous promises for Silverlight 5, the existing developer base and existing apps--that it's the end of the road. At most we may see much of its underpinnings simply compile to HTML5/JS but no one is going to start pulling the run out from under anyone. Further, no one is really in agreement on what HTML5 is supposed to be. Each vendor has their own idea and the W3C has given up on even really having a traditional specification. We're in the middle of yet another round of browser wars. Everyone is going to end up with their own implementation that is mostly but not nearly compatible enough with everyone else. Traditional GUI technologies aren't going anywhere because no one has a compelling enough replacement. Not only is HTML5/JS inferior GUI technology, but it lacks even the cross-platform compatibility that would even make it worth considering the sacrifice.
What people are also failing to grasp is that .NET has very little to do with presentation. Yes there are ASP.NET, Win Forms, and WPF but that is but a small portion of what makes up all that falls under the umbrella of .NET. An auto manufacturer isn't going to throw away their cars because someone created a new type of carburetor that fits a few more engine types than theirs. This whole issue is nothing but a bunch of nonsense with ignorant people flailing their arms and screaming like crazy people over things they don't know anything about.
Did you really have to remind me of those? Shame on you!