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Comment Re:... Everything? (Score 1) 528

The only reason your company doesn't have your medical information, is becuase they don't want it.
HIPPA is best described as "your medical data is legally available to all and sundery, upon request."

HIPPA does zero for actual patient privacy, but a lot for security theatre, and medical theatre. It also provides an easy way for some people to make a lot of money, doing absolutely nothing.

Comment Re:This is news.... because? (Score 4, Insightful) 89

The issue is that Apple claims that each app is vetted for potential security issues. By most definitions of the term, "fraud" falls under the category "security issue". Consequently, the discovery of even one fraud app means that Apple is not vetting apps in a manner consistent with what they claim.

Comment Re:Mod the parent up! (Score 1) 329

>No cab company charges $30 for a 1-2 mile trip.

Get Uber at the wrong time, and you can pay far more than that.

In cities with mandatory minimum zone charges, crossing the wrong zones can result in a twenty dollar charge, even though one is only going one mile.

Scratch that. In some places, the effective rate is fifteen dollars per mile, or part thereof.

Comment Re:Funny how greed usually bites dumb investors. (Score 1) 329

Aopparently you failed remedial investing 099:
* Appreciation of the asset;
* Income by leasing the asset out;
* A virtually indestructable asset;
* An asset whose costs are 100% tax deductable;
* Low risk;

The only reason Uber and similar firms are a threat to taxis, is becuase they (Uber) currently offer a very rare quality --- good customer service.

Comment Re:Microsoft Windows only (Score 1) 143

The first rule of security is:
_Do not do anything on a computer that has network capability_.

I've been told that Windows2000 was the last version of Windows that did not require calling home at least once a year, in order to function correctly.

I know that Windows7 point blank refuses to run if it hasn't called home in the last 180 days.

Comment Re:Who is the enemy? (Score 1) 117

If China pulls a Ukraine in Asia, it is because the Red Army walked there. This is the only contemporary army that is built on the principle of walking to the battlefield, even if it is on the other side of the world.

If China had a good blue water navy, they would be more likely to pull a Ukraine in Africa, or South America, than Asia.

Comment Re:Use Google-like monopolies to your advantage (Score 1) 174

If the United States calculated the unemployment rate today, the same way they did in 1960, the unemployment rate would be over 25%.

If the United States stays on its current track, by 2050, 70% of the population will be permanently unemployed. A further 21% of the population will spend more than half of their life unemployed.

Comment Re:Consolidation in the Cloud? (Score 2) 166

The CIA has operated a communication intercept station in Mongolia since the early sixties. Whilst its focus is on Russian and Chinese communications, it does pickup, and analyze Mongolian signals.

How can you ensure that those ponies don't pass through the CIA communications intercept station?

Amber

Comment Re:Here's the full story. (Score 1) 682

But with a written custody agreement in CA, he should have called the FBI in CA and reported a parental kidnapping.

You obviously aren't aware of the divorces, where one set of states have awarded custody of the child to one parent, and a different collection of states have awarded custody to the other parent, and a third group of states have awarded custody to one of the grandparents.

Then, just to make things complicated, the custody battle gets extended through the legal system of two or three different countries, preferably on different continents.

Amber

Comment Re:Here's the full story. (Score 1) 682

Take a look at Utah State Law on adoptions.

The mother need not:


  • Be present at the hearing;

  • Be a citizen of the State of Utah;

  • Be a resident of the state of Utah;

The father need not:


  • Be notified of the hearing;

  • Be a citizen of the State of Utah;

  • Be a resident of the state of Utah;

  • Be present at the hearing;

  • Be told the results of the hearing;

  • Be represented by legal counsel;

  • The father can be, and usually is denied all legal rights to the child, but is not denied the responsibilities to the child;
     

The adoptive parent, or parents:


  • Need not be residents of the state of Utah;

  • Need not be citizens of the State of Utah;

  • Have to meet a minimal means test, to legally adopt the child;
    • For the father, imagine the following sequence of events


      • Being told that the child was stillborn;

      • The child is adopted within the state of Utah, without your knowledge, consent, or authorization;

      • Five years later your wages are garnished for failure to pay child support on the adopted child;

      That scenario is fairly close to standard operating procedure, for adoptions in the State of Utah. Especially the point that none of the parties --- adoptee parents, biological father, biological mother --- have any nexus within the state of Utah, or to the state of Utah. Not even members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or any of its splinter groups.

      This is the reason why mothers-to-be that want to be especially nasty to the father of their child, have the child adopted in Utah.

      Amber

Comment Re: 4 years (Score 1) 682

Short of the US being invaded, I can't imagine a draft being put in place. Even then, there could likely be enough volunteers that a draft would not be necessary.

In the United States, the draft was installed during WW2, precisely because there were too many volunteers.

If you can read Japanese, I strongly recommend reading the history of the invasion of the West Coast of the United States, by the Japanese Army. Then ponder on why their chosen strategy would not fail today.

Amber

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