My wife and I pay punitive insurance premiums. My mother deals with Medicare weekly. I'm not unaware of the problems.
We are engaging in a discussion not of how to pay for healhcare, but of what role the Federal government should play. Massachusetts did this at the state level. Should we empower our Federal government to do this?
My personal opinion is no, both because the Federal solution is certainly going to be more expensive and questionably sufficient, and it is an unconstitutional exercise. States are not so limited. But are state solutions workable?
Pure B.S. Citations, please, beyond anectdotal stories of hospitals violating the law.
Bear in mind that in much of the world people die of disease or injury because they have no access to healthcare at all. Not just no money, but no transportation, no healthcare at all within reach. In the U.S., if you're sick and you can get to a hospital, you will be cared for. And you can probably hitch a ride to the hospital, with the police if no one else. Tell people in most of the underdeveloped world that they aren't denied health care because they have no money. And step back, lest they smack you.
Wow. A single source of energy is your proof that our climate not a closed system? By that definition, yes it is unless you consider the solar system to be the 'system' we are considering, in which case it is virtually closed. External inputs are gravity, relatively infinitesimal radiation, and damned few rocks. Let's set aside Creation as an input for the sake of argument.
Solar radiation is the single greatest influence on our climate. Imagine turning off the Sun. How long before Earth becomes too cold to sustain life? Double the Sun's output, how long before Earth's surface becomes untenable for life as we now know it?
I'm no scientist, nor trained, but you don't seem to have made a valid point. n Our climatic system had bertter include the Sun, or you're playing with magic, and that was largely disproven back in the 1600s or so, wasn't it?
Wow. A single source of energy is your proof that our climate not a closed system? By that definition, yes it is unless you consider the solar system to be the 'system' we are considering, in which case it is virtually closed. External inputs are gravity, relatively infinitesimal radiation, and damned few rocks. Let's set aside Creation as an input for the sake of argument.
Solar radiation is the single greatest influence on our climate. Imagine turning off the Sun. How long before Earth becomes too cold to sustain life? Double the Sun's output, how long before Earth's surface becomes untenable for life as we now know it?
I'm no scientist, nor trained, but you don't seem to have made a valid point. n Our climatic system had bertter include the Sun, or you're playing with magic, and that was largely disproven back in the 1600s or so, wasn't it?
That's crazy talk. Put it inside the TV and you can always update the software, for instance an Android implementation would let you just update... no, wait...
Oh, just update the apps as needed... no, wait...
Oh, just trade in the TV, the manufacturer will recycle it... no, wait...
"Windows is also secure now a days, and I haven't had a single malware in like 10 years."
Your experience is atypical, even for users that are diligent about their anti-virus.
If you haven't used anti-virus software in 10 years, then not being infested means you have done relatively little with your computer. More power to you, but this is bad advice and a bad example.
And Windows, by Microsoft's own admissions, is not 'secure'. Better, but not totally. 'also secure' is a meaningless statement, if not naive.
Seeing as metals have significant security issues also, this makes as much sense as, well, it doesn't make sense. Change one token for another?
Anything the least bit tangible can be stolen, even data. Seeing as data snatch-and-grabs are all the rage, how banks can escape the fate of some other outfits that should by their very definition be more secure escapes me. It's a cat-and-mouse game. For banks, the goal may be to prevent break-ins, but the best result is probably to detect them quickly, perhaps even as they are being conducted.
Me? I'm obviously not a security porofessional, but I would add some honeypots to my systems and watch the assailants do their work. Even then, the real threats are users and their often failed practices. I'm beginning to use phrases for passwords, since random stuff is too hard to manage, 'clever' passwords aren't, and at work I now have multiple passwords that expire more frequently than 15 days. A token would be interesting, but impractical for 50,000 users in our environment. and that's just the internal stuff.
Whine all you want, but I was dead against the Ribbon until I had to use it.
Ribbon is functional. It works. It's NOT worse than menus from Office 2003 etc, it's genuinely different, and it just works.
I'm not a Microsoft shill, just calling out as it is. If you're still convinced the ribbon is so bad, you have the freedome to go back to an older version of TheGIMP.
And good riddance. Get off it. And get a name. Pussy.
Certainly makes it a lot simpler for the script kiddies to help you make use of your Pi/Gert, eh?
I'm much more interested in Arduino for blinkenlights. All sorts of gizmos out there to Wifi your video to whatever, like wallwart PCs. And they are no more or less secure than the distro they got running.
Of course, for $25-50, you can cheaply find out you don't care to code securely after all, unless you are already, in which case this is cheap cycles for ya. Wax on...
You assume that our government is adequately maintaining the roads. That's not only not obvious to me, but our Glorious President did, back in 2009, pretend to make a huge push for public works projects.
No real discussion of why these projects weren't being done before. Seems like we fail to keep the roads up, unless they are near something important.
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My wife and I pay punitive insurance premiums. My mother deals with Medicare weekly. I'm not unaware of the problems.
We are engaging in a discussion not of how to pay for healhcare, but of what role the Federal government should play. Massachusetts did this at the state level. Should we empower our Federal government to do this?
My personal opinion is no, both because the Federal solution is certainly going to be more expensive and questionably sufficient, and it is an unconstitutional exercise. States are not so limited. But are state solutions workable?
I'm missing your point. She had options? Why was going home unacceptable?
Pure B.S. Citations, please, beyond anectdotal stories of hospitals violating the law.
Bear in mind that in much of the world people die of disease or injury because they have no access to healthcare at all. Not just no money, but no transportation, no healthcare at all within reach. In the U.S., if you're sick and you can get to a hospital, you will be cared for. And you can probably hitch a ride to the hospital, with the police if no one else. Tell people in most of the underdeveloped world that they aren't denied health care because they have no money. And step back, lest they smack you.
Always good to lift the skirt. Some things never change. And the damage was done back then. Today the bad guys are doing what works today .
How they use their signatures and heuristics to detect threats is of great use to attackers. Thinking otherwise is naive.
Wow. A single source of energy is your proof that our climate not a closed system? By that definition, yes it is unless you consider the solar system to be the 'system' we are considering, in which case it is virtually closed. External inputs are gravity, relatively infinitesimal radiation, and damned few rocks. Let's set aside Creation as an input for the sake of argument.
Solar radiation is the single greatest influence on our climate. Imagine turning off the Sun. How long before Earth becomes too cold to sustain life? Double the Sun's output, how long before Earth's surface becomes untenable for life as we now know it?
I'm no scientist, nor trained, but you don't seem to have made a valid point. n Our climatic system had bertter include the Sun, or you're playing with magic, and that was largely disproven back in the 1600s or so, wasn't it?
Wow. A single source of energy is your proof that our climate not a closed system? By that definition, yes it is unless you consider the solar system to be the 'system' we are considering, in which case it is virtually closed. External inputs are gravity, relatively infinitesimal radiation, and damned few rocks. Let's set aside Creation as an input for the sake of argument.
Solar radiation is the single greatest influence on our climate. Imagine turning off the Sun. How long before Earth becomes too cold to sustain life? Double the Sun's output, how long before Earth's surface becomes untenable for life as we now know it?
I'm no scientist, nor trained, but you don't seem to have made a valid point. n Our climatic system had bertter include the Sun, or you're playing with magic, and that was largely disproven back in the 1600s or so, wasn't it?
That's crazy talk. Put it inside the TV and you can always update the software, for instance an Android implementation would let you just update... no, wait...
Oh, just update the apps as needed... no, wait...
Oh, just trade in the TV, the manufacturer will recycle it... no, wait...
Yeah. External box. Right.
If you have an HDTV, the standard interface is marked HDMI.
As Jay Leno quipped years ago, when WAP was making it possible to show pr0n on your cell phone:
"I was hoping to keep at least ONE hand on the wheel".
We'll be hoping to keep at least one EYE on the road pretty soon. Like I need to know when that bridge up ahead was built. Sheesh.
GUI-less servers aren't unique or new. Most (virtually all?) of them just don't happen to run Windows.
Sounds like he's wanting to run a terminal server or virtualize and use remote access.
Either that, or he is indeed in the weeds.
Make a machine that completely prevents theft of alteration. Then these tokens are secure. Maybe.
"Windows is also secure now a days, and I haven't had a single malware in like 10 years."
Your experience is atypical, even for users that are diligent about their anti-virus.
If you haven't used anti-virus software in 10 years, then not being infested means you have done relatively little with your computer. More power to you, but this is bad advice and a bad example.
And Windows, by Microsoft's own admissions, is not 'secure'. Better, but not totally. 'also secure' is a meaningless statement, if not naive.
Seeing as metals have significant security issues also, this makes as much sense as, well, it doesn't make sense. Change one token for another?
Anything the least bit tangible can be stolen, even data. Seeing as data snatch-and-grabs are all the rage, how banks can escape the fate of some other outfits that should by their very definition be more secure escapes me. It's a cat-and-mouse game. For banks, the goal may be to prevent break-ins, but the best result is probably to detect them quickly, perhaps even as they are being conducted.
Me? I'm obviously not a security porofessional, but I would add some honeypots to my systems and watch the assailants do their work. Even then, the real threats are users and their often failed practices. I'm beginning to use phrases for passwords, since random stuff is too hard to manage, 'clever' passwords aren't, and at work I now have multiple passwords that expire more frequently than 15 days. A token would be interesting, but impractical for 50,000 users in our environment. and that's just the internal stuff.
Tthere is no perfect security.
And you paid, what, $150 for your Cisco? That buys you the cable for the one of drone's antennae.
Just one antenna.
You do get what ya pay for, sometimes.
True dat.
"Ribbon - Designed by programmers,"
- Citation needed
Whine all you want, but I was dead against the Ribbon until I had to use it.
Ribbon is functional. It works. It's NOT worse than menus from Office 2003 etc, it's genuinely different, and it just works.
I'm not a Microsoft shill, just calling out as it is. If you're still convinced the ribbon is so bad, you have the freedome to go back to an older version of TheGIMP.
And good riddance. Get off it. And get a name. Pussy.
Certainly makes it a lot simpler for the script kiddies to help you make use of your Pi/Gert, eh?
I'm much more interested in Arduino for blinkenlights. All sorts of gizmos out there to Wifi your video to whatever, like wallwart PCs. And they are no more or less secure than the distro they got running.
Of course, for $25-50, you can cheaply find out you don't care to code securely after all, unless you are already, in which case this is cheap cycles for ya. Wax on...
You don't drive behind me.
I SOSOSO want a 2nd Gen CRX HF or SI. Out here in the desert, these last well if you can get one that hasn't been riced on.
Of course I'll be splattered like a bug if I get rear-ended, but hey, fun while it lasts.
Aren't cars primarily entertainment?
Taxing gas *is* taxing carbon.
Sheesh.
Don't you get that anyways, from better fuel efficiency?
You assume that our government is adequately maintaining the roads. That's not only not obvious to me, but our Glorious President did, back in 2009, pretend to make a huge push for public works projects.
No real discussion of why these projects weren't being done before. Seems like we fail to keep the roads up, unless they are near something important.