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And the largest portion of that is due to specialty drugs.

In the late 90's with dial-up connections, most ISPs would not do this, hence the search for .su proxies. Today, it is much easier when you can spin up a VM in the cloud and control DNS entries.

Back in the late 90's and early 2000's, there were a set of hacking challenges called the Zebulun Challenges hosted by the site CyberArmy. For the 7th or 8th challenge (Lt. Kernel to Kernel), you had to find a proxy or have an rDNS for your IP that resolved to a .su domain in order to proceed into the simulated system you were trying to hack into.

Walk through some IoT stuff using Stringify or ITTT. Let them help you create what is going to happen. Use the development tools on an Android device to change location to show geo-fencing triggers. Every kid there could use the "silence my phone when I get to school" routine, but you can always get more advanced than that.

Maybe I'm cynical, but this looks more like a data hording scheme than a protect my privacy enhancement. If I use Google to sign in, Google and the app has that data and can monetize it.

Now if I sign in using Apple, they are going to have the data to monetize. They may keep the app from getting my information, but that means that their data is better than someone else's data, so it is more valuable. Also, they are getting app usage statistics that I may have opted out of at the OS level, but they now have due to having the sign in history.

Am I the only one that was expecting a site similar to the Darwin Awards?

I actually use this one all the time. I do a little wood working and if I slice open a finger, I just grab my Rockler CA glue, put some on, squeeze the slice shut and wait about a minute.

If you purchase liquid bandage in a drug store, it is just sterile CA glue.

He is now in jail again for defrauding a 71 year old woman out of £700,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Drewe

I will actually give more credit to the Executive programs because they require prior work experience (normally 5 years). People are much more likely to remember and be able to use the concepts they have learned in class if they can immediately apply them to real world situations that they have been in.

I disagree. If you are building business software, it is very helpful even as a developer.

To add to that value, if you become a team lead and have management responsibilities or have to manage budgets, it becomes even more helpful.

If you are spending $150K on an MBA, you are spending way too much. In Louisiana, LSU's Executive MBA costs under $60K including all books and meals during the program. If you go Southeastern Louisiana University, their Executive MBA program costs around $20K with the same things included. I went to Southeastern for mine, and I found it very useful in moving into the management chain inside of IT.

Then again, as someone above pointed out, I knew why I was getting an MBA. I can teach myself tech, but some of the business aspects are a pain to teach myself so I paid someone else to teach me those.

Honestly, I didn't read the entire article. By the sixth paragraph, I already identified that the author was blaming the use of a tool for bad product management and software development practices.

All of the problems blamed on "javascript" in this article aren't a problem with javascript itself, but the improper usage of certain frameworks in certain circumstances. Using a big bulky framework for an internal application where you know the user is constrained to machines that can perform well with that stack is fine. Using that same framework on a public web application that will also be hit by mobile applications is not. The problem isn't the framework, it is that the product team did not properly vet the performance impacts of the development team's choice of framework or did not properly specify the performance requirements for the product. One other option would be that the governance structure for ensuring that those requirements are met before release was insufficient. Either way, the problem isn't "javascript", but the SDLC processes used to build the software.

Being that this is a civil suit, he has no right to counsel so anything he said can be used against him. Admitting anything was a dumb if he was planning on defending against a lawsuit.

No I do not. I do know that the Windows Phone version communicated directly with Facebook due to network traces I had done back then. It did not use an intermediary. I could see some devices using an intermediary, especially for under powered and "dumb" phones where they may have made a simplified web app that would be usable on their platforms where as the actual Facebook web app would not have been. Think flip phones that had Facebook integration.

I don't know if that happened or not, but the way this article reads is very misleading and several of the vendors that they listed did not actually have access to the data.

I had a Windows phone that used these API's. When Windows Phone 7 came out, Facebook didn't create the Facebook App for that OS, Microsoft did. It looked like what you expected Facebook to have built and it worked like the Facebook App that other platforms had. The whole purpose of the API agreement with Microsoft was to guarantee that the Facebook App they wrote would still work years down the road. Microsoft did not have access to my data. They were allowed to write an app that allowed ME to access my data.

The NY Times article makes it sound like Microsoft was allowed access to my data. They were not. They were allowed to create an app that had access to an API so I could access my data from the Windows Phone device.

The NTSB always includes whether drugs or alcohol potentially played any role in an accident and puts it in their reports for all parties. This isn't a smear tactic, just standard practice because they are trying to determine all contributing factors.

I'm pretty sure that this would drop the volume of the 0-100hz range to half the volume since we dropped the amplitude to 1/2 and shifted. Any sound system with loud subwoofers would be able to detect the difference, but woofer only systems would probably leave the modification mostly undetectable.

These types of programs do exist in most insurance companies in the United States. Predictive analytics against claims and clinical data to do early intervention care management is a common thing here.

That said, the company has to make sure that only the people that have a clinical need to access the data have access. So the developers would probably use a de-identified data set to write and test the program. Only the clinicians (care management and disease management nurses) would have access to the identified data so they can contact the patient to offer care.

Thank you so much for #7. I'm in management now, but even during my 10 years of development, I had this same view. Maybe that comes from a work ethic drilled into my on a farm when I was a kid, but when I think about what I get paid for sitting inside, in the A/C, typing at a computer and then compare that to farm work, I pretty much remember that I am still privileged just to have this opportunity.

Absolutely. Dave Ramsey's approach is probably my favorite. Basically, don't buy it if you don't have the money for it. https://www.daveramsey.com/

Nope

When i was still in college, I would use Google Docs + Dia. Google Docs has really good shortcut keys for doing outlines and anything drawn on a board, I was able to replicate using Dia (again, using the shortcut keys). I'd export the Dia drawings to png, add then to the Google Doc, and at the end of class, publish it directly to a Blogger site that was setup to share the notes with the rest of the class.

Today, I do use OneNote almost exclusively because I'm not sharing the notes and they auto sync across my devices. Having OneNote open on my desktop, open the same note on my phone, take a picture of a white board and insert it, let the sync happen, and it is on my laptop is a very common scenario for me.

Chosen by God from R. C. Sproul.

It explains the sovereignty of God in salvation very well. It is one of the best explanations of Reformed Theology that I've found that is meant for a non-seminary student.

https://www.amazon.com/Chosen-God-R-C-Sproul/dp/0842313354/

Nothing about this supports a Russian attribution.

There is a format to the code that allows any code to indicate initial vs. subsequent. It is important for looking for first visit cure vs. multiple visits to cure a condition.

Unfortunately, we don't have a "I'd rather only have engaged people vote anyway"-cracy because the get out the vote crowd will bus in people with the bribe of a free lunch.

I never claimed I wanted a pure democracy...

If every politician is a liar, then why don't you run for office? If all of the honest people that complain that politicians are dishonest actually got off their butts and started taking over their local governments, then you wouldn't have that problem. Almost all of the state and federal politicians have started at local levels, especially the congressmen.

The issue is that it is easier to say they are all corrupt than it is to go out, do the homework, speak to the candidates, and then determine which ones mean what they say.

Instead of complaining about the system, why don't you learn the system and then do something about it.

We don't have a democracy in the United States. We have a representative republic. There is a big difference.

Not being involved in the political process just completely removes any influence you have on the process and the outcomes. However, if your belief is that not voting is the right thing to do, then by all means, please abstain from voting. I'd rather only have engaged people vote anyway.

EDIT/Clarification: We don't have a pure democracy in the United States. We have representative democracy and a republic as pointed out below.

Recently, my wife and I took over the youth group at our church. When going through some of the materials, there were references to the same stories in different gospels. Each gospel had specific details that the others may not have. The youth were having to flip back and forth in their bibles to find all of the details.

This lead me to realizing that having the stories side by side would make their bible study much simpler. Over about a weeks time, I through together para-gospel.com and hosted it on Azure.

I figured I'd post here for comments on making it better and also incase someone else would find it useful.