Health care needs to be a right, and the risk or cost spread over everyone, with no one excluded.
What if I don't want health insurance, and am willing to run the risk of getting cancer and dieing because I can't get it treated? Why should I be FORCED to pay for it?
Well, let's look at a hypothetical. Suppose there is some decease that costs a metric shitload to treat, and occurs in 5% of people. The cost of treatment is high enough that this 5% chance increases everyone's monthly premium by $50. If I can prove that I am not genetically predisposed to this decease, then I can lower my health insurance costs by $600/year. Sounds to me like a great benefit to 95% of consumers.
Yes, of course, that's why I only wrote "it _should_ fool most keyloggers, I _guess_"
In this case, most = none. The term "keylogger" doesn't really apply to what that particular realm of software has become. They log a lot more than keystrokes.
So then once you're connected to the VPN in a manner that the attacker can't repeat, you start typing an e-mail that's secret enough that it needs to be protected with a VPN. The keylogger is still recording every one of your keystrokes, so the attacker still has that e-mail. Congratulations, you've been pwned.
RetroGeek perfectly understood the post he was replying to, as well as the flaws in the method described.
I guess the US military is a little more strict about that. If we accidentally brought a cell phone in, all our co-workers gave us crap for the rest of the day (after we took it back out to our car.)
As for telling a high ranking person to ditch their cell phone, I've done it:) I was a very low enlisted rank (3rd lowest of 9 ranks), and I once got to tell a Colonel (5th highest of 10 officer ranks) to leave her phone at the front door. She wasn't too happy with me, but she did listen.
I wish my classes had been like that. I would definitely have paid attention and participated.
In my four years of college, I had one class that was like that: intro to logic. All my friends told me to avoid the class like the plague, because the professor was a hard-core social liberal, and we're all conservatives and libertarians. Fortunately, I ignored their advice and took the class. It was by far the best class I had, and I will always remember that professor.
Good catch!
Ironically, I actually attended and paid full attention in my English classes, even though the professors' expectations on the quality of my papers was really easy to meet.
It was an Intro to Business Programming class, IFS 110, at Northern Kentucky University in the Fall of 2004. The professor was Dr. Manning. Here's his website: http://www.nku.edu/~manningd/
If you know anyone who went through the Information Systems program there, ask them about Duggal. He was even worse.
Maybe you missed where parent said your movements are distracting to others, asshole.
How can any other students see my screen when I'm sitting in the back? And why would they care when NO ONE paid attention in that particular class. Most people just slept.
Not to mention that it's also just blatantly, obliviously, and childishly rude to the lecturer.
And I couldn't care any less. As far as I'm concerned, a professor that DOESN'T KNOW THE MATERIAL HIMSELF is being rude to me, and wasteful of the money I spent to take his damn class.
In one class, we started sending one person in for the first ten minutes while the rest of us sat in the hallway. One time there was a pop-quiz, and the guy inside yelled to us, from his desk, that there was a quiz.
That professor didn't like us.
Did you read the part about the pop-quizzes? In the useless classes where they didn't count attendance, I didn't go. In my world religions class, I literally did not see the professor again after the first month. Luckily he gave take home tests, posted on his website, and allowed us to e-mail our answers.
It's rather difficult to learn something when the professor doesn't know what he's talking about, or just spends the whole time spouting off his political beliefs (and not in a poly sci class.)
I'll stop browsing the web and playing Quake in class when professors start giving a shit and actually forming a coherent lecture. Until then, they're the ones wasting my tuition money, not me.
And has anyone else noticed that this kind of thing only happens in certain classes? I never once saw someone screwing off in my business law class, where the professor actually new what the hell he was doing, and did it well. But in my intro to business programming class, no one ever paid attention. We only even went to class because he gave pop-quizzes.
That's like saying the 13th amendment makes you less free because it takes away your right to hold slaves.
Yes, the 13th amendment makes probable slave owners less free. That doesn't mean that they've lost a freedom they're entitled to, but there is one less thing they are allowed to do.
I think it's pretty clear that we are more free with the 13th amendment than without, and similarly that code is more free with the GPL than without.
You hit on the important distinction there. Some individuals are less free under the 13th amendment, but on the whole WE are more free with it. That is what's important.
Note: I'm not trying to equate the BSD license to slave ownership. I think both BSD and GPL are important, and that it's more a personal choice than anything else. So don't flame me BSD fans:)
I don't remember where I read this, so take it with the appropriate levels of salt.
The study that I think you're referencing was actually linking symmetry and fidelity. They found that if a man's face was a little bit asymmetrical, his wife/girlfriend was measurably more likely to cheat on him than if he had a symmetrical face. The hypothesized explanation had to do with instinctive sexual selection, so there was an undertone of symmetry = beauty, but they didn't spell it out like that.
The summary I read made no mention of how the symmetry of the woman's face effected the man's fidelity.
it's a relatively small network, I've got a thousand other things to worry about.
I'm in the same boat, and I removed ORDB 15 months ago when they first closed their doors. It took me two minutes. Face it, you're either lazy or incompetent.
Couldn't ORDB just not assign an address to relays.ordb.org?
If you took the time to read the other replies, you'd see that they did do this at first. The.org root server was almost taken offline by the deluge of lookups from LAZY ADMINS LIKE YOU!
I'm willing to bet that the most appropriate title would be the "Tim Couch got his feeling hurt by an online troll Bill".
He claims that this is to prevent cyber-bullying (I hate that term) in our schools, but he probably wants to get revenge on the owner of kyvotes.org. It's a website that lists all the bills being debated in the legislature, and gives people the ability to comment on those bills. Considering the extreme ignorance of almost all of our legislators, they get ripped pretty badly. Here's the discussion for this bill: http://www.kentuckyvotes.org/2008-HB-775
Corporations never pay taxes. Their customers do, and they don't even realize it. That's why I believe we need to eliminate ALL corporate taxes at all levels. Each individual person should be able to calculate to the penny how much they pay the government. How much of the cost of your last Windows license went to Uncle Sam? Don't know, do you?
Knowing how well the media reports on any firearm related situation, I wouldn't be surprised if you heard it was a.40 cal Glock shotgun. It's even worse than when they report on technology.
Unfaithful electors are fairly common. There was one in 2004, who put Edwards for POTUS and Kerry for VP. I don't believe it's ever had an effect on the outcome though. Wikipedia has more information.
Have you ever looked at the voting record for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or the Voting Rights Act of 1965? Both of these bills did a lot to advance civil rights in America. For the CRA, 80% of Republicans voted yes, and 60-something percent of Democrats voted yes. VRA: R 84%, D 77%. Oh, and check out the region breakdown for the Civil Rights Act. Maybe you won't be so quick to call yourself a Southern Democrat after seeing that, unless you're proud to identify with racists.
Disclaimer: I'm not trying to say the Republicans are champions of Civil Rights. Far from it, just look at the Patriot Act. But the Democrats aren't any better. If you want truly equal treatment for all, vote Libertarian.
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The point was that protecting just your password is pointless. You have to protect everything, which could very well be impossible.
Almost half of uninsured Americans have household incomes at least twice the federal poverty level. http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba339/ba339.html
What if I don't want health insurance, and am willing to run the risk of getting cancer and dieing because I can't get it treated? Why should I be FORCED to pay for it?
Well, let's look at a hypothetical. Suppose there is some decease that costs a metric shitload to treat, and occurs in 5% of people. The cost of treatment is high enough that this 5% chance increases everyone's monthly premium by $50. If I can prove that I am not genetically predisposed to this decease, then I can lower my health insurance costs by $600/year. Sounds to me like a great benefit to 95% of consumers.
In this case, most = none. The term "keylogger" doesn't really apply to what that particular realm of software has become. They log a lot more than keystrokes.
So then once you're connected to the VPN in a manner that the attacker can't repeat, you start typing an e-mail that's secret enough that it needs to be protected with a VPN. The keylogger is still recording every one of your keystrokes, so the attacker still has that e-mail. Congratulations, you've been pwned.
RetroGeek perfectly understood the post he was replying to, as well as the flaws in the method described.
I guess the US military is a little more strict about that. If we accidentally brought a cell phone in, all our co-workers gave us crap for the rest of the day (after we took it back out to our car.) As for telling a high ranking person to ditch their cell phone, I've done it :) I was a very low enlisted rank (3rd lowest of 9 ranks), and I once got to tell a Colonel (5th highest of 10 officer ranks) to leave her phone at the front door. She wasn't too happy with me, but she did listen.
I wish my classes had been like that. I would definitely have paid attention and participated.
In my four years of college, I had one class that was like that: intro to logic. All my friends told me to avoid the class like the plague, because the professor was a hard-core social liberal, and we're all conservatives and libertarians. Fortunately, I ignored their advice and took the class. It was by far the best class I had, and I will always remember that professor.
Good catch!
Ironically, I actually attended and paid full attention in my English classes, even though the professors' expectations on the quality of my papers was really easy to meet.
It was an Intro to Business Programming class, IFS 110, at Northern Kentucky University in the Fall of 2004. The professor was Dr. Manning. Here's his website: http://www.nku.edu/~manningd/
If you know anyone who went through the Information Systems program there, ask them about Duggal. He was even worse.
How can any other students see my screen when I'm sitting in the back? And why would they care when NO ONE paid attention in that particular class. Most people just slept.
And I couldn't care any less. As far as I'm concerned, a professor that DOESN'T KNOW THE MATERIAL HIMSELF is being rude to me, and wasteful of the money I spent to take his damn class.
In one class, we started sending one person in for the first ten minutes while the rest of us sat in the hallway. One time there was a pop-quiz, and the guy inside yelled to us, from his desk, that there was a quiz. That professor didn't like us.
Did you read the part about the pop-quizzes? In the useless classes where they didn't count attendance, I didn't go. In my world religions class, I literally did not see the professor again after the first month. Luckily he gave take home tests, posted on his website, and allowed us to e-mail our answers.
It's rather difficult to learn something when the professor doesn't know what he's talking about, or just spends the whole time spouting off his political beliefs (and not in a poly sci class.)
I'll stop browsing the web and playing Quake in class when professors start giving a shit and actually forming a coherent lecture. Until then, they're the ones wasting my tuition money, not me.
And has anyone else noticed that this kind of thing only happens in certain classes? I never once saw someone screwing off in my business law class, where the professor actually new what the hell he was doing, and did it well. But in my intro to business programming class, no one ever paid attention. We only even went to class because he gave pop-quizzes.
Yes, the 13th amendment makes probable slave owners less free. That doesn't mean that they've lost a freedom they're entitled to, but there is one less thing they are allowed to do.
I think it's pretty clear that we are more free with the 13th amendment than without, and similarly that code is more free with the GPL than without.You hit on the important distinction there. Some individuals are less free under the 13th amendment, but on the whole WE are more free with it. That is what's important.
Note: I'm not trying to equate the BSD license to slave ownership. I think both BSD and GPL are important, and that it's more a personal choice than anything else. So don't flame me BSD fans :)
I don't remember where I read this, so take it with the appropriate levels of salt.
The study that I think you're referencing was actually linking symmetry and fidelity. They found that if a man's face was a little bit asymmetrical, his wife/girlfriend was measurably more likely to cheat on him than if he had a symmetrical face. The hypothesized explanation had to do with instinctive sexual selection, so there was an undertone of symmetry = beauty, but they didn't spell it out like that.
The summary I read made no mention of how the symmetry of the woman's face effected the man's fidelity.
Hopefully you've learned your lesson about using a third-party service for mission-critical applications without paying attention.
I'm willing to bet that the most appropriate title would be the "Tim Couch got his feeling hurt by an online troll Bill".
He claims that this is to prevent cyber-bullying (I hate that term) in our schools, but he probably wants to get revenge on the owner of kyvotes.org. It's a website that lists all the bills being debated in the legislature, and gives people the ability to comment on those bills. Considering the extreme ignorance of almost all of our legislators, they get ripped pretty badly. Here's the discussion for this bill: http://www.kentuckyvotes.org/2008-HB-775
Corporations never pay taxes. Their customers do, and they don't even realize it. That's why I believe we need to eliminate ALL corporate taxes at all levels. Each individual person should be able to calculate to the penny how much they pay the government. How much of the cost of your last Windows license went to Uncle Sam? Don't know, do you?
Knowing how well the media reports on any firearm related situation, I wouldn't be surprised if you heard it was a .40 cal Glock shotgun. It's even worse than when they report on technology.
Unfaithful electors are fairly common. There was one in 2004, who put Edwards for POTUS and Kerry for VP. I don't believe it's ever had an effect on the outcome though. Wikipedia has more information.
Have you ever looked at the voting record for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or the Voting Rights Act of 1965? Both of these bills did a lot to advance civil rights in America. For the CRA, 80% of Republicans voted yes, and 60-something percent of Democrats voted yes. VRA: R 84%, D 77%. Oh, and check out the region breakdown for the Civil Rights Act. Maybe you won't be so quick to call yourself a Southern Democrat after seeing that, unless you're proud to identify with racists.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#By_party
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act#Vote_count
Disclaimer:
I'm not trying to say the Republicans are champions of Civil Rights. Far from it, just look at the Patriot Act. But the Democrats aren't any better. If you want truly equal treatment for all, vote Libertarian.