6 October 2023
This editorial is bonkers. It criticizes Kaiser for controlling medical costs … and tries to use the Kaiser experience as just another reason why ‘single-payer’ does not work.
Single-payer healthcare only works until the reality of rationing bites.
Have they tried to get a referral from United Healthcare lately? Traditional healthcare insurance rations to preserve profits. Business rations resources to make their numbers. Which principle is WSJ applying?
If you thought local news was dead, this opinion piece argues otherwise. Whether this evidence indicates a trend is debatable. However, local news is important for the future of our republic.
I had just finished reading a Bloomberg Headline Story noting that their economists were predicting 160,000 new Jobs in September – a slow down in jobs production. Just as I finished, the numbers were released – 336,000 new jobs.
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Scientific American article discusses the energy requirements for AI via an interview of Alex de Cries, a data scientist and Ph.D. candidate studying the energy costs of emerging technologies. He suggests that sustainability of AI should be included as a risk factor for AI developments. Data centers, whether or not AI is hosted by them,…
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Intel is not making delivery commitments for new supercomputer at Argonne. Energy Department has 10 companies engaged in a research center focused on quantum computing. Jesus pointed out that power corrupts – remember the temptations? OpEd written by former Liberty student notes how power is taught to be valued at Liberty, as she acknowledges: None of…
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Yep — the leading cause of cyber security breaches — per RSA study (tip to BBC): The security vendor RSA revealed that the majority of breaches are actually caused unintentionally by employees. Its survey showed that firms believed 52% of incidents were accidental and 19% were deliberate. “Unintentional risk gets overlooked, yet it’s the most…
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Interesting implications from this post: “Is it going to be the dominant player by default because the Department of Homeland Security is weak and this new unit will be strong?” said James A. Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “That’s a legitimate question, and I think DoD will resist…
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Just one of many implications of the twitter phenomenon per Steven Johnson’s story in Time.
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Declan McCullagh at CNET lays out a history of fed cyber sec since creation of DHS as Obama prepares to report out on the 60 day Cyber Sec review. McCullagh notes we have been here before: If any of this sounds familiar, it should. About a year after President George W. Bush took office, his…
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This article from the Winnipeg Free Press discusses how everyone may play an unwitting role in cyber spy attempts to do damage. Consumers are also vulnerable, said Parry Aftab, chairwoman of anti-virus software maker McAfee’s consumer advisory board. Software on their computers may allow others to steal information, she said. “Many of us who may…
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Robert Scoble compares Google to ant hill. I thought about using a metaphor of a battle ship, like what worked with Gates, but, see, Google is more like an ant farm. Google is more like an ant hill. One powered by 20% time which is how the ants find out where the food is. Heck,…
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Imagine, sharing information to overcome a threat. Post story notes increased cooperation between military, private sectors. “We shared with them the fact that we’ve got a very, very aggressive cyber threat,” said Robert Lentz, a Pentagon official who heads the partnership. The Pentagon soon will seek to amend defense acquisition rules to require cybersecurity standards…
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At least, that is the summary of this article from the BBC: “We have seen some good initiatives from industry on improving the trustworthiness of software. What I am hoping to see from government with this new post is more involvement in standards and education efforts in security.” Benjamin Jun, Cryptology Research “We need to…
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Here’s a book that will relegate Judge Posner to be adjudged as a sure fire liberal: In “Catastrophe: Risk and Response” (2004), he took up the problem of low-probability, high-impact events. The financial meltdown certainly qualifies. In this compact and bracingly lucid volume, he offers a simple, but not simplistic, primer: “a concise, constructive, jargon-…
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New DHS announcement Makes one wonder where cyber sec is going … “I am proud to announce President Obama’s intent to nominate Dr. Tara O’Toole as Under Secretary for the Science and Technology Directorate. Dr. O’Toole is an expert on environmental protection and biosecurity, and brings critical experience in health, safety and technology to the…
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