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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interesting read Q&A: FBI agent looks back on time posing as a cybercriminal
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Guess when this was written? We are at risk. Increasingly, America depends on computers. They control power delivery, communications, aviation, and financial services. They are used to store vital information, from medical records to business plans to criminal records. Although we trust them, they are vulnerable—to the effects of poor design and insufficient quality control,…
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Seems Internet2, EduCause, and a bunch of other folks want to be the driver (as this whitepaper says) for the ARRA Broadband initiative: The potential for America’s future is limitless if we support the unique innovative strengths of our colleges and universities, working with other public and private sector partners to expand access to and…
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In her remarks, she made lots of references to Mission Impossible (e.g. this message will self destruct). But the only real substance is contained here: It is the fundamental responsibility of our government to address strategic vulnerabilities in cyberspace and to ensure that the United States and the world can realize the full potential of…
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Condon of CNET recounts Thomas Friedman and Chris Savage discussing the policy window currently open for regulating technology: “Reaching the most democratic solutions will require making the Internet policy process as interactive as the Net,” said Nathan James, the program and outreach manager for the Media and Democracy Coalition, an affiliation of consumer, public interest,…
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Actually, this admonition applies to all who say they can deliver a future full of wealth: See, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says the Lord, and who tell them, and who lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or appoint them; so they…
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From CNET (Stephanie Condon). Sen. Jay Rockefeller says: “I regard this as a profoundly and deeply troubling problem to which we are not paying much attention,” Rockefeller said a hearing this week, referring to cybersecurity. So, according to Ms. Condon’s report, Sens. Rockefeller and Snow are drafting legislation to create the Office of the National…
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PIC agreements as a tool to secure cyberspace… at least it’s a private sector approach to a market problem. SecurityFix notes: According to a message posted at TrafficConverter2.biz and its sister sites, the program’s credit card payment processor pulled the plug on them shortly after our story ran.
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CNET’s Declan McCullagh summarizes the discussion of who should be managing cybersecurity (a good article). Part of official Washington’s dissatisfaction with DHS involves disagreements with not just who should handle cybersecurity topics, but what should be done. Security hawks would like the government to have the authority to order around the private sector. Defense hawks…
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Austria wants to give their police “hacking” powers: “Police will also be able to gain remote access to computers for seven days at a time, up to a total of 28 days or longer in exceptional circumstances, to allow them, to undertake forensic off-site examiniation,” Rees said. “This could including cracking codes and searching computers…
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