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Comment The answer? (Score -1, Troll) 570

by robyannetta (#18965169) Attached to: Can Technology Fix the Health Care System?
No.

The healthcare system is not broken. You see, humans program the technology. Humans are greedy and cannot survive without money. Humans then program the technology to keep humans just sick enough to make money off them and their insurance. This is why I still have cancer and the healthcare system is still broken.

(I was never bitter until I witnessed the healthcare keep me sick)
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Just my $0.02, take with a grain of salt, your mileage may vary.
Linux Business

Submission + - Dvorak: Is Microsoft Going to Start a Linux War?

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zaxios
zaxios writes: "John C. Dvorak has weighed in on the recent Novell-Microsoft pact. Among his insights: "Microsoft has been leery of doing too much with Linux because of all the weirdness with the licenses and the possibility that one false move would make a Microsoft product public domain at worst, or subject to the GPL at best." But now, "the idea is to create some sort of code that is jammed into Linux and whose sole purpose is to let some proprietary code run under Linux without actually 'touching' Linux in any way that would subject the proprietary code to the GPL." According to Dvorak, it's only a matter of time before Linux is "cracked" by Microsoft, meaning Microsoft figures out a way to run proprietary code on it. I hope Microsoft shares this discovery with VMware, Adobe, Sun, nVidia, et al."
AMD/OSTG

Journal Journal: AMD Offers Graphics Chips for Older Macs

Journal by OSTG Marketing
If you have an older Mac and have been looking for an AMD (ATI) chip, it's your lucky day. "AMD will begin offering the ATI Radeon X1900 graphics chips for the Mac G5 Quad and the Power Mac G5 Dual, which are still powered by PowerPC processors. The new graphics chips, according to AMD, will help Mac users who use the desktops for graphic design, video editing, photo editing, as well as offer better gaming performance."
AMD/OSTG

Journal Journal: Dell unveils AMD based desktop

Journal by OSTG Marketing
Have you heart about Dell's Optiplex 740? It is the first desktop computer based on AMD processors from Dell. "The new AMD Athlon and Ahtlon X2 powered Optiplex 740 targets enterprises. It marks a next step in the system maker's transition to AMD powered systems. Dell on its website touted the Optiplex 740's flexibility and its ability to meet diverse demands that users might have."
Microsoft

Submission + - Novell Gets $348 Million From Microsoft

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Novell has published additional details about its agreements with Microsoft concerning Windows and Linux interoperability and patents. It seems the company is receiving an up-front payment of $348 million from Microsoft, for SLES subscription certificates and for patent cross-licensing. Microsoft will make an upfront payment to Novell of $240 million for SLES subscription "certificates" that Microsoft can use, resell, or distribute over the term of the agreement. Regarding the patent cooperation agreement, Microsoft will make an up-front net payment to Novell of $108 million, and Novell will make ongoing payments totaling at least $40 million over five years to Microsoft.
Privacy

Submission + - The end of net privacy in Brazil

Submitted by DieNadel
DieNadel writes: The Brazilian senate is considering a bill that will make it a crime to join a chat, blog or download from the Internet without fulling identifying oneself first.
If approved, it will be a crime, punishable with up to 4 years of jail time, to disseminate virus or trojans, unauthorizedly access data banks or networks and send e-mail, join chat, write a blog or download content anonymously.
Privacy groups and Internet Providers are very concerned, and are trying to lobby against the bill, but it seems they won't have much success on it.

Anti Videogame Judge Seeks Re-election In Missouri 76

Posted by Hemos from the probably-not-the-best-suited dept.
nevarre writes, "US District Judge Stephen Limbaugh (yes, he IS related to Rush) along with other local judges will be up for retention vote status this November 7th on the Missouri state ballot. You may remember him from his ruling in 2002 that videogames are not a conveyance for ideas and are therefore not protected as 'free speech' even though he felt that stopping fax spam would violate 'commercial speech' protections under the First Amendment."

UK Report Proposes Changes To IP Laws 146

Posted by Zonk from the shaking-things-up dept.
NKJV writes "A new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research, a UK think tank, has some concrete suggestions on how to reform the UK's dated intellectual property laws. The starting point for its deliberations is the notion that knowledge is both a commodity and a public good, and it recommends that the UK move from a model where knowledge is 'an asset first and a public resource second' to one where knowledge is primarily a public resource and secondarily an asset. Is that an anti-business attitude? The report's authors don't think so."

A Security Guide For Non-Technical Users? 274

Posted by Cliff from the advice-that-anyone-can-understand dept.
kin_korn_karn asks: "Like many of you, I am the family IT department. I cannot convince my parents to follow proper PC security procedures. I'm not talking about enterprise-level things such as card swipes and fingerprint scanners, just simple measures like logging off of the PC when it's not in use. They, like many people of their generation, seem to be willing to sacrifice security for convenience, as long as their real data isn't being impacted. I can't seem to get it through to them that it's only a matter of time until they are. Since my own arguments aren't working, I need documented proof to back it up. Can Slashdot offer up some kind of arguments or information that I can use?"
AMD/OSTG

Journal Journal: Dell does its first AMD laptop

Journal by OSTG Marketing
For the first time, Dell has begun selling an AMD laptop . Offering buyers a choice between AMD's entry-level Sempron, the mobile-centric Turion 64, and the dual-core Turion 64 X2 processors, the Inspirion 1501 is aimed at consumers and small businesses. The Inspirion 1501 is the latest addition to Dell's growing portfolio of AMD based products.

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