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Comment Its a start, but not enough. (Score 4, Insightful) 13

This protection should extend to ALL biometric and health related data, including medications or anything else protected by doctor patient info.

There should be no way that this information should EVER be bought or sold without EXPRESS CONSENT ever.

The question is how long will it take before we elect leadership that is capable of doing the job of representing people, not payola.

Comment Re:oh the irony (Score 2, Insightful) 41

Get a degree in education and eliminate jobs in that field at the very same time.

That's as ridiculous as outlawing abortion while refusing to increase funds to foster or educate unwanted children. Then, prioritizing the orphans' right to own automatic weapons once they age out of Juvie.

Only Texas messes with Texas..

Comment Re:Selling to diversify isn't wrong (Score 1) 96

There's nothing better than a diversified portfolio...

Having enough surplus cash to spare that diverse portfolios don't actually impact ones lifestyle is pretty good, in and of itself.

Its like getting to play roulette all day with the house's money...because you are the house.

Comment Re:They found bagholders (Score 1) 96

why are insiders selling?

A few insiders collected their millions and that is all that matters.

That certainly is all that matters to those with the options.

It hilarious how "insider trading" is illegal, unless its the Chief Executives in a highly publicized massive sell-off that negatively impacts everyone that now owns stock.

Ain't capitalism great how it incentivizes unethical behaviors that look almost like inside trading, but without Martha Stewart?

Comment Re:That is an astounding churn rate (Score 1) 21

In the course of 5 years 90% of the customers who's records were leaked are no longer customers?? 10% retention?

And 73 million customers? That's around 20% of the US population.

AT&T are really doing bad if all of this is true.

Absolutely. When you do the math, clearly most customers were there for the free cell phone, because it sure as hell ain't the network or customer service that's worth sticking around. That deal with Apple early on may account for the trend in those numbers, overall. That and the fact their customers die of old age.

Comment Wow. I have nothing snarky to say. (Score 0) 26

Maybe I'm just getting soft, but usually a few paragraphs of journalism reporting on the response of a major insurance company gets me very riled up.

Not this time. There may be more to this story, but it sure looks like a major insurer did the right thing for everyone involved. Kudos.

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