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HealthCare.gov Can't Handle Appeals of Errors 208

Posted by samzenpus from the that's-some-good-work-there-lou dept.
PapayaSF writes "The Washington Post reports that roughly 22,000 people have claimed they were charged too much, steered into the wrong insurance program, or denied coverage, but the HealthCare.gov website cannot handle appeals. They've filled out seven-page forms and mailed them to a federal contractor's office in Kentucky, where they were scanned and entered, but workers at CMS cannot read them because that part of the system has not been built. Other missing aspects are said to have higher priorities: completing the electronic payment system for insurers, the connections with state Medicaid programs, and the ability to adjust coverage to accommodate major changes such as new babies. People with complaints about mistakes have been told to 'return to the Web site and start over.'"

Comment Re:you do know... (Score 1) 503

Perhaps it's the company which develops the user interface that wants to foist this "one size fits all" model on people, because:

1. They simply don't want to have to keep up with development for both, in terms of effort and cost.

2. They want to herd everyone into a walled garden, so content can all be monetized (in their favor).

3. They want to herd everyone into a walled garden, so the OS can control the machine without having to ask too many questions about it.

Comment Re:Great plan Nintendo (Score 1) 129

by tripleevenfall (#46121483) Attached to: Nintendo Could Base Comeback On Improving Peoples' Health

It's no coincidence that Wii Fit was successful because it appealed widely to people who are not young children.

Nintendo seems to have positioned themselves somewhere between LeapPads and the other gaming systems - a platform for kid-safe, ultra-casual gaming.

The latest console was a flop. They've been behind the curve on hardware since two (three?) console generations ago. They have no real properties that they haven't had since the 1990s.

It's hard to think of why you'd be interested in Nintendo if you were > age 10, unless you are interested in Mario or Pokemon

Comment Re:Liar, liar pants on fire! (Score 4, Insightful) 71

Well, there are numerous parties we can blame here. Certainly the NSA, but what about the advertising companies? They build leaky software, and they make their money by harvesting information you don't know you're sending or don't wish to be sending to them anyway.

Shouldn't these fly by night outfits that serve ads on the internet and trade in your personal information have some responsibility to protect it?
Data Storage

Facebook Puts 10,000 Blu-ray Discs In Low-Power Storage System 153

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the 2002-wants-its-backup-solution-back dept.
itwbennett writes "Facebook said last year that it was exploring Blu-ray for its data-center storage needs, and on Tuesday it showed a prototype system at the Open Compute Project summit meeting in San Jose, California. It designed the system to store data that hardly ever needs to be accessed, or for so-called 'cold storage' (think duplicates of users' photos and videos that it keeps for backup). The Blu-ray system reduces costs by 50% and energy use by 80% compared with its current cold-storage system, which uses hard disk drives, said Jay Parikh, Facebook's vice president of infrastructure engineering." It's a prototype, and they're also evaluating low power flash as another alternative to keeping seldom accessed data on hard drives.
Government

Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him 383

Posted by timothy from the put-your-hands-together dept.
Trailrunner7 writes "A group of six Congressmen have asked President Barack Obama to remove James Clapper as director of national intelligence as a result of his misstatements to Congress about the NSA's dragnet data-collection programs. The group, led by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), said that Clapper's role as DNI 'is incompatible with the goal of restoring trust in our security programs.' Clapper is the former head of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and has been DNI since 2010. In their letter to Obama, the group of Congressmen calling for his ouster said that he lied to Congress and should no longer be in office. 'The continued role of James Clapper as Director of National Intelligence is incompatible with the goal of restoring trust in our security programs and ensuring the highest level of transparency. Director Clapper continues to hold his position despite lying to Congress, under oath, about the existence of bulk data collection programs in March 2013. Asking Director Clapper, and other federal intelligence officials who misrepresented programs to Congress and the courts, to report to you on needed reforms and the future role of government surveillance is not a credible solution,' the letter from Issa, Ted Poe, Paul Broun, Doug Collins, Walter Jones and Alan Grayson says." "Misstatement," of course, being the favorite euphemism for "lie."

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