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Health Insurance When Leaving the Corporate World? 1197

Posted by CmdrTaco from the hey-that-could-be-useful dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I've been working at a large company since I got out of college, so I didn't have to give much thought to getting my own healthcare plan. Now I'm thinking about leaving the corporate world and starting out on my own. I have a family now, so I need to make sure we're going to be covered should anything happen. Researching online turns up horror stories of people trying to get individual healthcare plans, or getting denied coverage on plans they thought they had. Does anyone else have experience going through this and what you've had to deal with, or am I making too big a deal of it?"
Input Devices

Bootstrapping a New Technology? 360

Posted by kdawson from the research-in-motion dept.
djk1024 writes "I've just filed for a patent on a new approach to motion capture that is simple, cheap, easy, accurate, and portable. It's RF-based, accurate to 1 mm, and simple enough that a sophisticated hobbyist could build one in a couple weekends from plans and standard electronics. So now what? I quit my job and have been working on this full-time for the past couple of years; now I'm out of money so can't continue development on my own. I'm also not an electrical or RF guy so I can't carry out my own independent development on the electronics. I'm quite frustrated at this point. I've been in the software development field for over 30 years and have gone through a large number of startups, but always just as the head techie, and always as part of a team. This doing it alone sucks. I would love some advice on how best to go forward."

Comment Re:Wind Event? (Score 2, Informative) 157

by Kompressor (#28517413) Attached to: Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations

Comment Re:I know... (Score 2, Informative) 528

by Kompressor (#28099173) Attached to: Documenting a Network?
Another nice way to get a SYSTEM privileged command prompt is via AT:

Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>whoami
DOMAIN\administrator

C:\>time /t
01:05 PM

C:\>at 13:06 /interactive cmd
Added a new job with job ID = 1

Wait for a minute, and a new command window will pop up.

Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>whoami
nt authority\system

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

This will work on XP and Server 2003 for sure, and doesn't work on Vista. Probably also doesn't work on Server 2008. Depending on how effective your domain administrator is, you might even be able to do this from a regular user account. Be careful who you let run the AT command ;-)

Have fun!

Comment Re:Baby crying (Score 1) 348

by Kompressor (#27913967) Attached to: Baby Monitors Killing Urban Wi-Fi

Commodore,

His baby monitor has just as much right to operate in the frequency bands that routers do. The whole "unlicensed" part means that you can basically do what you want with that portion of the spectrum, so long as you don't intentionally cause interference (AKA run a jammer) and keep your broadcasts under a certain power level. Baby monitors probably don't count as jammers.

And there isn't any laws that say it has to play nice with, or even use the same channels, as 802.11 b/g.

How are your packets more legitimate than his analogue audio transmission?
Space

Sunspot Activity Continues To Drop 435

Posted by CmdrTaco from the see-spot-run dept.
slreboy writes "The sunspot cycle is behaving a little like the stock market. Just when you think it has hit bottom, it goes even lower. The year 2008 was a bear. There were no sunspots observed on 266 of the year's 366 days (73 percent). To find a year with more blank suns, you have to go all the way back to 1913, which had 311 spotless days. Prompted by these numbers, some observers suggested that the solar cycle had hit bottom in 2008. Maybe not. Sunspot counts for 2009 have dropped even lower. As of March 31st, there were no sunspots on 78 of the year's 90 days (87 percent)..."

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