Comment Re:yep (Score 1) 671
How can you possibly describe a law whose specific purpose is to set up markets of private insurers to offer their plans to the public as "no market"? That doesn't even pass the laugh test!
Are you saying that requiring coverage for contraception and keeping kids on the program until they are 26 raised the rates by 15%. I think your employer is feeding you a line of BS.
So you really think that by next year, there will not be more people covered by health insurance (i.e. the "intended end" of Obamacare)?
I am confused. Are you arguing that ACA shouldn't be implemented, because the current system provides better access to some people by way of making it difficult or impossible for other people to see doctors?
That the best system is that some people get great medical care and others get none, as opposed to all getting good medical care?
In Georgia, apparently. In New York, you get the same 5 points on your license regardless of whether it is a phone or a dedicated GPS -- so long as it is not mounted. If it is mounted on the dash, then you can fiddle with it. (see http://www.safeny.ny.gov/phon-ndx.htm)
Of course, that doesn't make sense either.
But efforts to stop texting while driving make boatloads of sense in general.
Or use backuppc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BackupPC). Does it all for you with a nice web-based front end.
Pain in the ass to set up, but once it is up and running, works flawlessly. Saved my ass a few times.
Are you one of the naive idiots that believes calling someone a "naive idiot" helps bring them around to your point of view?
I can remember paying $300 for 4 MB of RAM once. I needed to upgrade for 4 MB to 8 MB so my slackware 3.0 would run better. Then Windows 95 came out later that year with bigger RAM requirements for your basic Wintel box. RAM prices fell through the floor. Sure, computer parts prices are always going down, but the drop in RAM prices was especially steep (I can remember for obvious reasons
I will give that a try. BTW, the Verizon guy at the VZW store said that my 3 Mbs product was the highest speed they offered at my location, even though I had previously gotten mail offers to increase to 7 Mbs. And again, I am only 2 blocks from the CO.
This.
I was in a VZW store and was surprised about a broken cell phone when a salesman came up to talk to me about home internet (surprised since I know VZW is only half owned by Verizon). He actually wanted to know if I was interested in FIOS, but I told him I knew it wasn't offered in my neighborhood.
I then proceeded to tell them the tale about my Verizon DSL service. I am only two blocks from the CO (short copper loop), and have had it for several years (the nerd that I am, before that I had ISDN as it was fastest available at that time). Speed was great. I got letters in the mail asking if I wanted to bump my service up to 7 Mbs from the 3 I had subscribed to, but I didn't bite since I never seemed to be waiting on anything unless I was DL'ing a new Ubuntu distro or something (I don't watch much video or TV).
Recently, even listening to 128 kbs internet radio streams started pausing to buffer. Sometimes I get 1 Mbs in verizon's speed test. I spent an hour with an Indian fellow on the phone for tech support and he said he at the end he would have to escalate it and nothing ever happened.
After telling this tale of woe to the guy in the VZW store, I was floored when he then proceeded to try to sell me on either a mobile hotspot (!!! sure, I'll never need more than a gig or two a month, right....) or, get this, to sign up with a cable company.
Friggin' unbelievable. Meanwhile, still stuck with a ~1 Mbs DSL connection that used to be very very fast. Something fishy is going on here.
you have to be using it in your hands
Yes, that's my point. We actually have a car that can control the old i-things through the car stereo (a Hyundai Sonata). However, with a slashdot ID of 15368, I need to use the linux-based Android devices you insensitive clod!
But seriously, I believe the new i-things don't work with the car controls since the lightning connector doesn't support the telnet/ssh access that the old connector allowed, even with an adaptor. And furthermore, I think even if you had such a car and an old i-thing, most people still just prefer to point and click the i-thing.
Under New York State law you cannot use a hand-held mobile telephone or send a text or an email while you drive. If you use a hand-held mobile telephone while you drive, except to call 911 or to contact medical, fire or police personnel about an emergency, or use a device to text or send email, you can receive a traffic ticket and pay a maximum fine of $100 and mandatory surcharges and fees of up to $85.
In 2013, several changes are being made to the penalties for these violations as described below.
Increased Driver Violation Points
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By my reading, this says you can't even use your cell phone to play music through bluetooth or use google maps navigation. Or does "use a hand-held mobile telephone" mean "make a phone call". I suppose it may depend on the mood of the cop who pulls you over?
What do you think?
Yeah, I was reading this in the dead-trees paper over breakfast this morning and as soon as I got to the part about GPS being a part of the internet I stopped, figuring this guy obviously had no clue what he was talking about.
Or are you saying that IT staff / firemen / doctors should never go to movies?
Yes. My wife is a doctor and she doesn't go to the movies when she is on call for exactly this reason!
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