If the insurers get together and set up a minimum requirement for the middle the costs would go down quickly. I'd say that at the minimum records should only be accessible via the intranet, with all machines able to access the intranet being company issued (BYOD is moronic). If internet access is allowed on the same machine it should only be through a virtual machine.

For financial and medical institutions the cost of a scheme like this should be negligible. My sister works for a bank and at least they have finally started agreeing with me a little, to work at home they now all use company issued laptops with smart card based VPN. She used to do it on her own laptop ...

"Stop having people program C that do not know how to program securely in C"

Unfortunately we need more than handful of programmers ... we need the less able programmers, but we can't trust them with C.

A fact abundantly clear for 2 decades, yet C persists ... billions of dollars of unnecessary damages.

That's how they do it in third world countries, in civilized countries you just get a nice job after you leave office or family members get big contracts for their companies.

If the Republicans still don't want the presidency because the responsibility for the next economic collapse has to be put on socialism I think she has a good shot ... hard to find someone less electable, and if the Democrats push forward Clinton they need a real stinker.

"Freedom of speech does not give you the right to say or do anything you want."

True, but we can call Mohammed a child rapist with legal impunity ... and apparently in Texas you can do it without needing to fear Muslims as well.

Sure, if the law was that we could have BBQs on any private property EXCEPT churches then I'd agree ... we should start including Churches.

If you want to troll Jews though, all you need is animal slaughter regulations.

You kill the ones who get so comfortable around humans that they start seeing them as prey.

Give me a Kickstarter to make this a bimonthly event in Texas and you'll have my money.

There are very few Maroccan kids from secular households. They are Muslims in the same way most Catholics are Catholics.

They play along with the charade once in a while, they come from a Muslim household and once they grow up they get more serious about the charade.

If the market is more efficient when trade is slowed down so most participants can interpret the available information then what is the value of HFT?

With Peak Fossil Fertilizers and population growth it might not be such a good idea to put all those nutrients on the bottom of the ocean. You need to sequester the carbon without too much other valuable stuff.

The high RPM SAS drive business is just kept running to supply a few left over suckers ...

What that intrinsic value might be is anyone's guess.

My guess, the price of gold denominated in rolls of toilet paper will plummet by multiple orders of magnitude if society collapses ...

Bitcoin doesn't need centralized power, but it does allow it ... and has created it.

You use bitcoin at the mercy of the majority miner.

You need fiat money to pay taxes, there are people with guns who make you pay taxes.