So non-citizens will receive government-provided healthcare as well, right?
Should work out well for the illegal immigrants, what with not much tax exposure if they play their cards right, and free (to them) healthcare.
A big savings for nations that send us diplomats. Hey, they would be covered too, right?
Help me with this, I think I missed something.
ps - It isn't pleasant, but denying people is pretty much always cheaper than treating them. As that process goes on, it gets nastier and nastier, but if you're into cost avoidance, you didn't much care anyways. Nothing is cheaper than denying people care, if you go all the way.
Are you covered if you aren't actually listed in the system?
Do we cover resident aliens? Am I one? What does the system say I am?
Seriously, the 'everybody's covered' concept doesn't even work in places where 'everyone's covered'. Like Canada for example. I wonder about Germany, though they might. Norway? Wouldn't be suprised. France? Bahaha!
Again, ease up on the naivete. It is nontrivial, and not a certainty, that the system will be accurate at any moment in time.
Um, this is the one agency that SHOULD USE THE SSN!!!
Think about it.
And if they can't keep the reused ones straight, based on date of birth, well, there is no way we can manage anything.
This is not rocket science. If you want to use names, perhaps ya gotta check for duplicates and refer it to a human to do some research and decide which one is the crook and which one is not. Actually, since we should not be denying anyone benefits, you keep paying both until you figure it out.
And this is the Government you want running healthcare? Imagine my suprise if I go to my doctor and he tells me I can't see him. The Government says I'm dead. Or in jail. Or someone else.
And tell me it won't happen. I need the laugh, except your naivete is not the least bit funny. Try harder. Please.
In the U.S., we mostly get our phones subsidized, and this of course increases the costs of the plans.
I wonder how much less expensive it would be to just buy my phone outright. Sadly, I cannot easily experiment with this, because so far as I know, no U.S. carrier offers you a discount for bring-your-own service. If they did, there would be rioting in the streets, as we found out just how much our phones were costing us.
An interesting situation. If we bought phones outright, service would be cheaper. If we could buy our phone outright and get a la carte plans, the difference would probably be embarassing. So we will pay more unless we go totally to unsubsidized phones.
Which would change marketing, phone development and support, and a whole lot of other stuff.
Maybe I should start up an MVNO just like that. I bet I would be crushed like a bug by the incumbents.
If Sony is disabling features to make their laptops more resiliant against malware attacks, can we expect them to offer support and resolution to malware attacks that occur because of their hardware/BIOS?
I bet not. So why not leave alone that which you are not willing to fully support anyways?
On another note, Intel (amd probably AMD) mess with the VT features, scattering them all over the processor product lines. You need a frakking CPA to work through the permutations and find the processor(s) that have all the features and performance you want or will pay for. !Simple. !Friendly. Evil.
I've been through this. It may take 6 months, or a year...
Does your employer have a written policy? If not, you are going to be working somewhere else. Skip this entirely, you are entirely 'at will' and have little recourse without an attorney and filing a case. If you work in a state that permits legal 'at will' employment (Floridan and Maine, for instance), then you are S.O.L and might as well start brushing up your resume for the recovery. But if they do have written policy, and state law requires them to abide by it, you at least have something apporaching a contract, so if you're brave...
First: do you have a genuine HR department at work? If not, your supervisor and/or employer is the one to aim this at, otherwise you are CC'ing HR at every step.
Second: is this important enough to risk getting fired over? If not, stop right here.
Third: Ok, you're in for the long haul. Send your boss/supervisor/employer a written request for time off, minimum 6 months in advance. Since this is August, you are asking for time off around February 2010.
Now; If you get a refusal, book it out another month, March '10. Another refusal? Book it 2 months closer, November '10. In this case, book the first week in November, to avoid Thanksgiving for this year. If you are brave, ask for time off in October 09.
Ok. One of three things is likely to happen:
1. Refused all time off requests. Now you ask politely WHEN you might be able to take some time off. If the answer is after you are going to lose accrued time, then it is off to HR with letter #1 below. If the answer is 'never', same letter.
2. Refused all requests, told to ask for some other time. Start in from October and go on to either you lose accrued time or they say yes. If they refuse all time past wehen you lose it, go to letter #2.
3. Any request is magically granted. Ok, you will wait until you take your time off or the time comes and they deny you the time, which is when you go to letter #3.
Letter #1: You write to HR/boss/whoever, stating that you have asked for time off and been denied, and have been denied time past when you will lose accrued time off. You request payment. If they deny it, next letter...
Letter #2: You write to your HR/Boss/ETC, explaining that you must take time off or lose it, and set dates you will take time off. Make them say no in advance. When the time comes, and they say 'hey, you can't go', you will either say 'ok', forfeit your plane tickets etc, or say 'I'm gone'. You probably are GONE. Don't be suprised when your badge doesn't work .
Letter #3: You'll be writing this one to point out that you asked for time, granted it, and then it was cancelled no fault of yours. You'll be asking for either payment or carryover. Good luck. You are probably working for jerks, and you are now on the way out the door.
Bottom line? How important is this? Get a lawyer if it is important, and if your state even allows the suit. A decent lawyer will tell you in 2 minutes if you have a case or not. An ethical one will tell you almost immediately if you have any standing at all.
I was once the 'key man' for a small company for 7 years - no vacations, 60+ hr work weeks, >70,000 miles travelling per year. I asked the boss for a week off. He nearly choked on his tekka maki. Well,I got a week off, though I had to drive 45 minutes in the opposite direction from vacation and take 90 minutes to fix a small problem on Monday, and on Thursday I got a frantic page (they started on Tuesday, I ignored it until Thursday night) that I had to be back Friday morning for a 10:00am meeting, 4 hours away from my vacation. I took it. Meant $12M and 5 years' business, my bosses kids' college, his wife's boobs, and my 401K. Kinda had to. Then I trained my substitute. I got my next vacation 3 years later. Never again. There are other ways to make a living.
Murdoch wants to renegotiate? or what, he'll shut off Amazon and possibly violate his existing contract?
Crap, journalism is indeed a game. Like basketball players, they lack the will to honor their agreements if they think they can get a buck more.
Let him. I already pay for my news, Rupert. I pay about $1.51/day for news - my Internet connection. When I subscribed to paper news papers, I paid that much for a WEEK! And you didn't have that good a paper back then, either.
As in preferring to show you results first that either bought the placement, or buy ads and so bought the placement 'second-hand', so to speak.
Sorry, but this is so not really much news, and not very unique, and predictable. I'm suspicious of all search results, and being in the top 2 or 3, for me, is sort of like meeting the new, gorgeous, humpable supervisor and making them prove themselves - on the assumption that they are somebody's squeeze, and got the job via a horizontal interview. I hate it, and try to hide it. And yes, sometimes perfectly incompetent people get the job cause they interview great and not because they 'knew' somebody. I even get search results that are genuinely useful and appropriate. Sometimes. And everybody is entitled to try to make a buck.
Call me cynical. It suits me better than being taken advantage of naively.
Of course it's alpha code, no promises by the team, WiFi doesn't work on the EE701, the only platform they've tried to install on, webkit doesn't work, etc.
'Running' seems to mean something different to you than to me. I want more than the Settings screen.
And I don't doubt it will get ported over. Just not useful right now. Not running' in any useable way.
But hopes up, boys, we'll just rip the Acer distro apart and do it all nice and clean.
"Google's Android software source code has been offered up for those looking to create applications on MIPS32 chips, which are different from Intel's x86 "
As if this has anything to do with anything. Android never ran on x86. Who cares...
No, we dont catch every possible scenerio here, either, but we do try very, very hard. Knowing one of the coders in Intel's RAID drivers groups, he goes crazy with stuff. And he just writes Linux drivers. I do not envy him - this past year, every bug he's had to fix has been caused by someone else's code. Someone not writing Intel drivers. And he gets slammed every time for bad testing, as if he can test all the rest of the kernel team's stiff, NTM every fly-by-night Chinese hardware outfit. They're killing him.
I can't even say 'ext4', he just goes insane. Though he chuckles when I whisper 'ReiserFS', and opens another beer.
Does it ever annoy you when on second down an NFL linebacker tackles a running back behind the line of scrimmage and comes up pumping his fist in the air, as if he single-handedly won the Super Bowl?
Does it ever bug you when a major league soccer player scores into an empty net and runs the field with their shirt over their head, as if the Copa Mundial is theirs, alone, for eternity?
And in both cases, they are merely doing their job to expectations?
We're so ill-served by coporations that when one just does the right thing, we celebrate it as a happening. So much so that we even celebrate when one would offer to fix a problem they know about, have avoided a complete resolution to, and decries their supposed technological brilliance and superior engineering.
I do this too. My new Bluetooth headset is fritzed. I was honestly suprised the company didn't even squeak, but asked me to mail it back for a new one. I was gassed. Then I realized, hey, they should do that, it was about 3 weeks old. Well, we'll see.
My wife's friends, who sell this medallion that supposedly shields you from EM radiation, especially WiFi and cell radiation, have been calling and emailing everyone they know quoting this incident and going on about how we M U S T H A V E T H I S P R O T E C T I O N .
Um, weren't the Aliens found on a planet being terraformed? Remember, shooting up the guaranteed a big bang and everybody loses, including the Company.
And the beacon, wasn't that the terraformers asking for help, or warning off any rescuers? A distress beacon, I thought.
So the freighter charges in to save the day, not being told of the Aliens, which the Company wanted to monetize. See how stupid that sounds? Sending in amateurs was a safe bet to get an Alien back. They didn't account for Ripley.
Of course the second flick has the Marines going in all frosty on another bug hunt. Typical gyrenes. And Ripley deals the Aliens both times. Not much help from the androld except at the end, being a company machine and all. He spent all his time entertaining the Marines and trying to get someone infected and on the way back to Earth, as if that was so hard to do. Damn that Ripley. I bet they did bill her.
Crap, I got a memory like a sieve and I remember that... cmon guys, get the details right, ok?
Since most laptops come with Windows, and, well, you get my drift...
oh, that's right, those aren't BIOS rootkits, nevermind. Makes all the difference.
Though I don't much care if my nachine is compromised in pre-execution or later. All the same crap to me.
I wonder if the bad guys have bothered to monitor LoJack transmissions for cars. At least you'd know where the cops are, and could plan to be elsewhere...
1. I was blocking Limewire (and Kazaa, etc.) traffic for clients with substantially less security exposure for years and years. Most P2P networks are just hives of viruses, malware, exploits, illict file sharing, and worse. My clients pretty much expected it. Of course, blocking Webshots gots people a little hot, but they get over it.
2. Any bets that the actual culprit was a security wonk, figuring they were smarter than the rest of the world? Very few of the 'security' folk I've worked with actually practiced what they preached. And most either wandered from job to job, or lasted only until the first noticeable breach. One of my former clients made the news a few months ago, because someone was putting USB keys into their corporate servers. Even the PKI repository. Apparently they thought a free utility they got from a friend at a user group was really useful. Not.
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So non-citizens will receive government-provided healthcare as well, right?
Should work out well for the illegal immigrants, what with not much tax exposure if they play their cards right, and free (to them) healthcare.
A big savings for nations that send us diplomats. Hey, they would be covered too, right?
Help me with this, I think I missed something.
ps - It isn't pleasant, but denying people is pretty much always cheaper than treating them. As that process goes on, it gets nastier and nastier, but if you're into cost avoidance, you didn't much care anyways. Nothing is cheaper than denying people care, if you go all the way.
Oh. So are you covered if your dead?
Are you covered if you're in prison?
Are you covered if you aren't actually listed in the system?
Do we cover resident aliens? Am I one? What does the system say I am?
Seriously, the 'everybody's covered' concept doesn't even work in places where 'everyone's covered'. Like Canada for example. I wonder about Germany, though they might. Norway? Wouldn't be suprised. France? Bahaha!
Again, ease up on the naivete. It is nontrivial, and not a certainty, that the system will be accurate at any moment in time.
Um, this is the one agency that SHOULD USE THE SSN!!!
Think about it.
And if they can't keep the reused ones straight, based on date of birth, well, there is no way we can manage anything.
This is not rocket science. If you want to use names, perhaps ya gotta check for duplicates and refer it to a human to do some research and decide which one is the crook and which one is not. Actually, since we should not be denying anyone benefits, you keep paying both until you figure it out.
And this is the Government you want running healthcare? Imagine my suprise if I go to my doctor and he tells me I can't see him. The Government says I'm dead. Or in jail. Or someone else.
And tell me it won't happen. I need the laugh, except your naivete is not the least bit funny. Try harder. Please.
How much did you pay for your phone?
In the U.S., we mostly get our phones subsidized, and this of course increases the costs of the plans.
I wonder how much less expensive it would be to just buy my phone outright. Sadly, I cannot easily experiment with this, because so far as I know, no U.S. carrier offers you a discount for bring-your-own service. If they did, there would be rioting in the streets, as we found out just how much our phones were costing us.
An interesting situation. If we bought phones outright, service would be cheaper. If we could buy our phone outright and get a la carte plans, the difference would probably be embarassing. So we will pay more unless we go totally to unsubsidized phones.
Which would change marketing, phone development and support, and a whole lot of other stuff.
Maybe I should start up an MVNO just like that. I bet I would be crushed like a bug by the incumbents.
If Sony is disabling features to make their laptops more resiliant against malware attacks, can we expect them to offer support and resolution to malware attacks that occur because of their hardware/BIOS?
I bet not. So why not leave alone that which you are not willing to fully support anyways?
On another note, Intel (amd probably AMD) mess with the VT features, scattering them all over the processor product lines. You need a frakking CPA to work through the permutations and find the processor(s) that have all the features and performance you want or will pay for. !Simple. !Friendly. Evil.
Just a thought...
I've been through this. It may take 6 months, or a year...
Does your employer have a written policy? If not, you are going to be working somewhere else. Skip this entirely, you are entirely 'at will' and have little recourse without an attorney and filing a case. If you work in a state that permits legal 'at will' employment (Floridan and Maine, for instance), then you are S.O.L and might as well start brushing up your resume for the recovery. But if they do have written policy, and state law requires them to abide by it, you at least have something apporaching a contract, so if you're brave...
First: do you have a genuine HR department at work? If not, your supervisor and/or employer is the one to aim this at, otherwise you are CC'ing HR at every step.
Second: is this important enough to risk getting fired over? If not, stop right here.
Third: Ok, you're in for the long haul. Send your boss/supervisor/employer a written request for time off, minimum 6 months in advance. Since this is August, you are asking for time off around February 2010.
Now; If you get a refusal, book it out another month, March '10. Another refusal? Book it 2 months closer, November '10. In this case, book the first week in November, to avoid Thanksgiving for this year. If you are brave, ask for time off in October 09.
Ok. One of three things is likely to happen:
1. Refused all time off requests. Now you ask politely WHEN you might be able to take some time off. If the answer is after you are going to lose accrued time, then it is off to HR with letter #1 below. If the answer is 'never', same letter.
2. Refused all requests, told to ask for some other time. Start in from October and go on to either you lose accrued time or they say yes. If they refuse all time past wehen you lose it, go to letter #2.
3. Any request is magically granted. Ok, you will wait until you take your time off or the time comes and they deny you the time, which is when you go to letter #3.
Letter #1: You write to HR/boss/whoever, stating that you have asked for time off and been denied, and have been denied time past when you will lose accrued time off. You request payment. If they deny it, next letter...
Letter #2: You write to your HR/Boss/ETC, explaining that you must take time off or lose it, and set dates you will take time off. Make them say no in advance. When the time comes, and they say 'hey, you can't go', you will either say 'ok', forfeit your plane tickets etc, or say 'I'm gone'. You probably are GONE. Don't be suprised when your badge doesn't work .
Letter #3: You'll be writing this one to point out that you asked for time, granted it, and then it was cancelled no fault of yours. You'll be asking for either payment or carryover. Good luck. You are probably working for jerks, and you are now on the way out the door.
Bottom line? How important is this? Get a lawyer if it is important, and if your state even allows the suit. A decent lawyer will tell you in 2 minutes if you have a case or not. An ethical one will tell you almost immediately if you have any standing at all.
I was once the 'key man' for a small company for 7 years - no vacations, 60+ hr work weeks, >70,000 miles travelling per year. I asked the boss for a week off. He nearly choked on his tekka maki. Well,I got a week off, though I had to drive 45 minutes in the opposite direction from vacation and take 90 minutes to fix a small problem on Monday, and on Thursday I got a frantic page (they started on Tuesday, I ignored it until Thursday night) that I had to be back Friday morning for a 10:00am meeting, 4 hours away from my vacation. I took it. Meant $12M and 5 years' business, my bosses kids' college, his wife's boobs, and my 401K. Kinda had to. Then I trained my substitute. I got my next vacation 3 years later. Never again. There are other ways to make a living.
"and the bank suggests voiding the check and filing or discarding it"
Dumb as a blade of grass. Void the check, void the deposit, smart.
I am *so* in the wrong business.
What is this, the NBA?
Murdoch wants to renegotiate? or what, he'll shut off Amazon and possibly violate his existing contract?
Crap, journalism is indeed a game. Like basketball players, they lack the will to honor their agreements if they think they can get a buck more.
Let him. I already pay for my news, Rupert. I pay about $1.51/day for news - my Internet connection. When I subscribed to paper news papers, I paid that much for a WEEK! And you didn't have that good a paper back then, either.
A pox on you. There are other sources.
And tyrants as always don't much like anyone else's freedom.
All the more reason to oppose tyranny. Wherever it is found.
Now to get the Internet to recognize tyranny as damage and route around it...
Seems like Google isn't a quick on the draw. Or Google doesn't much care if Bing has its fun.
What's the saying, never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained as incompetence. Or sloth.
Something like that. I should Google that, huh?
As if Google doesn't return 'tainted' results.
As in preferring to show you results first that either bought the placement, or buy ads and so bought the placement 'second-hand', so to speak.
Sorry, but this is so not really much news, and not very unique, and predictable. I'm suspicious of all search results, and being in the top 2 or 3, for me, is sort of like meeting the new, gorgeous, humpable supervisor and making them prove themselves - on the assumption that they are somebody's squeeze, and got the job via a horizontal interview. I hate it, and try to hide it. And yes, sometimes perfectly incompetent people get the job cause they interview great and not because they 'knew' somebody. I even get search results that are genuinely useful and appropriate. Sometimes. And everybody is entitled to try to make a buck.
Call me cynical. It suits me better than being taken advantage of naively.
Of course it's alpha code, no promises by the team, WiFi doesn't work on the EE701, the only platform they've tried to install on, webkit doesn't work, etc.
'Running' seems to mean something different to you than to me. I want more than the Settings screen.
And I don't doubt it will get ported over. Just not useful right now. Not running' in any useable way.
But hopes up, boys, we'll just rip the Acer distro apart and do it all nice and clean.
Then again, maybe not... Maybe just Android...
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology/2009/07/30/acer-android-netbook-back-on-track-115875-21558985/
"Google's Android software source code has been offered up for those looking to create applications on MIPS32 chips, which are different from Intel's x86 "
As if this has anything to do with anything. Android never ran on x86. Who cares...
Is this a cost issue, or a thoroughness issue?
No, we dont catch every possible scenerio here, either, but we do try very, very hard. Knowing one of the coders in Intel's RAID drivers groups, he goes crazy with stuff. And he just writes Linux drivers. I do not envy him - this past year, every bug he's had to fix has been caused by someone else's code. Someone not writing Intel drivers. And he gets slammed every time for bad testing, as if he can test all the rest of the kernel team's stiff, NTM every fly-by-night Chinese hardware outfit. They're killing him.
I can't even say 'ext4', he just goes insane. Though he chuckles when I whisper 'ReiserFS', and opens another beer.
I'm glad I'm not in that line of work.
"The idea behind truly open standards"
They are talking about open standards. You all are talking about open source.
Different things.
Carry on.
Does it ever annoy you when on second down an NFL linebacker tackles a running back behind the line of scrimmage and comes up pumping his fist in the air, as if he single-handedly won the Super Bowl?
Does it ever bug you when a major league soccer player scores into an empty net and runs the field with their shirt over their head, as if the Copa Mundial is theirs, alone, for eternity?
And in both cases, they are merely doing their job to expectations?
We're so ill-served by coporations that when one just does the right thing, we celebrate it as a happening. So much so that we even celebrate when one would offer to fix a problem they know about, have avoided a complete resolution to, and decries their supposed technological brilliance and superior engineering.
I do this too. My new Bluetooth headset is fritzed. I was honestly suprised the company didn't even squeak, but asked me to mail it back for a new one. I was gassed. Then I realized, hey, they should do that, it was about 3 weeks old. Well, we'll see.
Already did that. And that.
Like I wrote, my memory is a sieve.
It was an alien ship beacon at first, that found the Aliens?
Oh, yeah, and they went and tried to terraform the planet. Smooth move. Ripley was kinda amazed/astonished/angry at that.
Crap, crap, crap. I gotta go rent those and brush up.
My wife's friends, who sell this medallion that supposedly shields you from EM radiation, especially WiFi and cell radiation, have been calling and emailing everyone they know quoting this incident and going on about how we M U S T H A V E T H I S P R O T E C T I O N .
Pus. Can I beat this guy down? Please? Please?
Um, weren't the Aliens found on a planet being terraformed? Remember, shooting up the guaranteed a big bang and everybody loses, including the Company.
And the beacon, wasn't that the terraformers asking for help, or warning off any rescuers? A distress beacon, I thought.
So the freighter charges in to save the day, not being told of the Aliens, which the Company wanted to monetize. See how stupid that sounds? Sending in amateurs was a safe bet to get an Alien back. They didn't account for Ripley.
Of course the second flick has the Marines going in all frosty on another bug hunt. Typical gyrenes. And Ripley deals the Aliens both times. Not much help from the androld except at the end, being a company machine and all. He spent all his time entertaining the Marines and trying to get someone infected and on the way back to Earth, as if that was so hard to do. Damn that Ripley. I bet they did bill her.
Crap, I got a memory like a sieve and I remember that... cmon guys, get the details right, ok?
Since most laptops come with Windows, and, well, you get my drift...
oh, that's right, those aren't BIOS rootkits, nevermind. Makes all the difference.
Though I don't much care if my nachine is compromised in pre-execution or later. All the same crap to me.
I wonder if the bad guys have bothered to monitor LoJack transmissions for cars. At least you'd know where the cops are, and could plan to be elsewhere...
My cell phone voicemail (T-Mobile) take just shy of 5 seconds to start playing back a message, if I have any.
I'm pretty sure most systems let you use short form prompts or longer. You need to be able to configure it.
If you are living on the defaults, you are being screwed everywhere, not just on your cell phone bill.
1. I was blocking Limewire (and Kazaa, etc.) traffic for clients with substantially less security exposure for years and years. Most P2P networks are just hives of viruses, malware, exploits, illict file sharing, and worse. My clients pretty much expected it. Of course, blocking Webshots gots people a little hot, but they get over it.
2. Any bets that the actual culprit was a security wonk, figuring they were smarter than the rest of the world? Very few of the 'security' folk I've worked with actually practiced what they preached. And most either wandered from job to job, or lasted only until the first noticeable breach. One of my former clients made the news a few months ago, because someone was putting USB keys into their corporate servers. Even the PKI repository. Apparently they thought a free utility they got from a friend at a user group was really useful. Not.