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Our Medical System

Saturday, January 25th, 2003

Not sure how I feel about this…



Doctor to a young man, just 27 years old. “I have bad news, good news, and bad news.”


First the bad news. You have a terminal disease. Without treatment, you will die.


Now the good news. There’s a drug that will hold back the disease. Unless there’s a cure, you will have to take it for the rest of your life.


Now the bad news. The drug costs $700 per month. Your insurance will cover it. But if you get fired or laid off, eventually you will have to pay for it out of your own pocket, or die.


This is a real story.

[Scripting News]

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Another JWZ Rant…

Saturday, January 25th, 2003

An excellent Jamie Zawinski rant on Linux usability. [Scripting News]

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MS SQL Worm…

Saturday, January 25th, 2003

Yet another reason that I prefer Linux for most things…



MS SQL Server Worm Wreaking Havoc [Slashdot]

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Cell Portage

Saturday, January 25th, 2003

Friday: Cell Portage. Reuters reports that cell service operators want telephone phone portability — but only if it applies to both wireless and landline phone numbers. It’s hard to argue that that’s a bad thing. The cell industry cites a huge cost — $1 billion in this article — at providing full wireless number portability, or allowing their customer to keep their phone numbers when they switch providers. It’s a road to hell, of course, because the cell companies are already engaged in mutually assured destructive commerce in which the discounts they charge pretty much are guaranteed to lose them money. Add the ability to switch and retain numbers, and you’ll see the kinds of migrations that are typically associated with species of birds. It doesn’t have to be this way: the companies have all failed to learn the lesson of the race to the bottom. They’ll all wind up bankrupt or albatrosses around parent companies’ necks or serving their customers horribly. But that’s what happens when the only differentiator they can think of is price and Catherine “expose that flesh” Zeta-Jones versus the “can you hear me guy” guy … [GlennLog]

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Four Sisters Merlot

Monday, January 20th, 2003

I highly recommend it…

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Oh Christ!

Monday, January 20th, 2003

calling all First Amendment lawyers!. SBC is shaking down websites which have navigation in a separate frame. This is an open-and-shut case! Web sites are· [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog]

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Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Monday, January 20th, 2003

Interesting that this was today’s New York Times Editorial, as I just re-read Dr. King’s letter today…



The Faithful’s Wayward Path. Dr. King’s famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” was not addressed to civil rights advocates or segregationists, but to church leaders. By Juan Williams. [New York Times: Opinion]

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Mitnick’s Interview on Slashdot

Monday, January 20th, 2003

This should be entertaining…



Ask Kevin Mitnick [Slashdot]

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