But hospitals are forced by the government to eat the costs when an uninsured person shows up in the ER, and you can't choose beforehand whether you'll ever need a trip to the ER.

This is remarkably similar to Medicare and Medicaid, which wouldn't have half the budget problems they do if people would stop stealing cash out of the coffers to pay other debts.

Hey, don't be mad. He didn't actually make any specific claim. He just reports- and you decide. That's all I'm sayin'.

Mod parent up. There is no direct threat to users, and this measure was taken out of an overabundance of caution. Lastpass does keep all of its passwords encrypted, and what they noticed was a potential attempt at brute force (dictionary) hacking, trying to guess people's passwords. If you have a strong password, your account is just as safe as it ever was.

Personally, this is exactly why I dislike Sony. I think that Sony doesn't take enough heat, because they're still regarded as the Walkman Gods, for whatever reasons. Competing companies take more flak, which results in better products.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole Black holes are about as theoretical as evolution.

Or, when we say time didn't exist before the Big Bang, what we literally meant was that we thought no data could possibly have survived from any previous universe. Given that we couldn't ever know a previous universe, we then have to assume for all practical purposes that time started at the moment of the Big Bang. Now that we think something can survive the Big Bang, it is once again meaningful to imagine that time also existed before the Big Bang.

No. A singularity is the point at which *known* science breaks down. The math comes out with a bunch of infinities. But if gravity inside a singularity was infinite, we would have been pulled in a long time ago. So we know there's some kind of science to what happens inside a singularity, and we can even make very accurate predictions about what will happen to singularities based on initial mass and spin and so forth. We're just not sure yet how we're going to stick an instrument in there to get good measurements.

Amateur here, but methinks.... 1) You mean how the universe is made out of matter instead of antimatter? The truth is we don't know, and we're only just starting to come up with some good guesses. 2) Pose that a different way- why haven't antimatter black holes changed everything into antimatter? (Morbo: Black holes do not work that way!) 3) Anti-matter has exactly the same properties of matter (we think, so far). If the universe were made out of antimatter instead of matter, we would have just named the terms the other way around.

Some current research papers even argue the second derivative- the data in inconclusive enough that there may be in the range of 30% probability that the expansion is slowing, depending on how you run the numbers. (The universe is still expanding faster and faster, but instead of expanding runaway exponentially faster it may be falling back to linear, which could then slow down).

You know what's interesting? The next generation of Americans won't know the term "pre-existing", as it applies to insurance. That usage has become an artifact of our time.

The gaffe there was that backwards compatibility was on the of the key features that Sony execs were saying made PS3 superior to 360. Or you could point to the boomerang controller, which got scrapped after Nintendo showed the Wii. Or claims of the system running games in 1080p at 120fps standard. Or that it would ship with dual HDMI ports. Or that Playstation 2 would ship with America On-Line internet. Or...

Another phrasing: Remind me how many hundreds of thousands of people have been slaughtered by our armed forces since 9/11, versus how many people were actually killed in the attacks? We've done more damage to the Middle East (and ourselves) than they did to us.

$2 says your "consent" is buried in the TOS.

Yeah, SCOTUS just ruled (after Congress voted) that companies can decide you don't get to file a class action suit, forcing you into single arbitration instead. And with AT&T as a model, they don't really have to notify you, they just have to pose an updated EULA that says "continued use of this service...". So individual citizens are now a lower social caste than corporations, basically.