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The Gupta choice

The Gupta choiceWe are doomed.Why stop at an obesity tax? Why not a risky sex tax? You know, all those questions they ask you when you give blood? (Have you ever, even once, had sex with another man?)We could have a risky behavior tax. Do you...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, thought police, tax, cigarette, obesity tax, fatty, risk

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

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House bill calls for ISPs to block some fake financial sites

Good grief!Now the BIG LETHARGIC Gov is going to tell people what sites they can go to and tell ISP's to block them???GOOD GRIEF! It is out of control, 2010 is coming and these socialist will be sent back home... AHHHH the sound of 1984 is very much alive..and well...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Government, Internet Service Provider, fake financial site, financial

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Survey: IT workers eyeing security certifications

No government healthcareIf the Gov goes with this socialist health_care scheme it will be the end of the free market.With Billions in waste from fraud in medicare/medicade and welfare running rampant with no checks in place.All we need is this community leader telling people we need to go TRILLIONS more...

Tags: security, security certification, survey

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

iHacked: jailbroken iPhones compromised, $5 ransom demanded

... WHAT?Who in their right mind keep a server running with default usernames/passwords on the default port....I doubt that jailbroken iPhones are alone in this. It's possible, specially if iPhones have a ssh server running, that this could happen on non-jailbroken iPhones also.Just one question...Has this person been remanded yet?...

Tags: Smart phones, extortion, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Stinks to be the CIO: The 2010 IT budget may spike to 2006 resource levels

wowOne would think with our new leader money wouldbe flowing with millions of new jobs all overthe place.Since millions have lost jobs since his automakertake overs and giving banks Billions if not trillionsof dollars that went no where.Now free healthcare for all, that is right free withno cost to anyone....

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, evil, reason business, Microsoft Corp., information technology, IT budget

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

McCarran-Ferguson and a cross-state health market

Las Vegas?"But if you?re going to let New Yorkers buy from Vermont why not let them buy from Las Vegas?"Uh, because Las Vegas is NOT A STATE.We are the united states of america and not the united cities of america.I could have written Nevada, trueBut Las Vegas is funnier and...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Vertical industries, Corporate governance, Insurance, Delaware, health care, health insurance

Discussion threads 2009-10-16

Pitch of the day: Analytics PR spiel annoys Phillies fan

First of allThe Phillies will eat the Dodgers starting pitching for lunch, and any person or computer that can't see that doesn't deserve to be talking about baseball. Also it is worth noting that a computer cannot predict the heart, desire, and most of all patience of a real champion...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, public relations, Phillies, Yankees, World Series, baseball, computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Self insured may be biggest winners in health reform

more nonsenseAvoiding insurance companies and creeating death panels are not going to improve the healthcare.The only measures that can relly reform helthcare are in the republican bills that the democrats don't want you to see.Noo thanks"Intervention in maintaining wellness."If by "intervention" you mean "we know what's better for you than...

Tags: Insurance, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, patient, Dana, Obama, health care

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Open source and forced obsolescence

You gutted your own articleFirst, no one forces you to update your software, period. There *are* companies that won't support antiques, and who can blame them? Support costs are very high, especially since one person or team can't be expected to be expert in a dozen different versions of the...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Enterprise resource planning (ERP), obsolescence, open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Lower costs or mandate coverage

More Politics on ZDNET?This is a tech site - please stick to TECH.Pitching this spin is not productive. It's also so one sided as to be laughable.America is a capitalist nation. Let the free market do its job and stop interfering.The marketThe market says policy is important. I...

Tags: Vertical industries, Palin, Carl Rapson

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Harvard study leads liberal pushback

And passing this would be the "first shot" of the next civil war..Passing rubbish like this is whats going to ultimately make this country fall. The federal government, under the 10th Ammendment, has no business telling their citizens that they [b]must[/b] have health insurance. That is a state right and...

Tags: Financial Planning, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, commy, insurance, Harvard, hospital

Discussion threads 2009-09-18

Makers offer little help for lost or stolen devices

Credit card number of thiefI assume that the person using a stolen Kindle must have to provide Amazon with a credit card, in order to buy content (assuming the previous owner's credit card was disabled). If so, that means that Amazon even knows who the thief is.I supposeIf the manufacturers...

Tags: Sales channel, Amazon.com Inc., subpoena

Discussion threads 2009-09-07

10 things you can do while waiting for the Palm Pre to boot

Sorry Jason.....Timed it on my Smart Buy HP laptop with Windows 7 and came out at 2 minutes 6 seconds to boot up, send email, and shutdown. I feel sorry for anyone that can have sex in 30 seconds, I'm sure their woman is not to happy about that...

Tags: Smart phones, Mobile operating systems, Handhelds, Mobile applications, Operating systems, Palm Pre, Pre, Palm Inc., phone

Discussion threads 2009-09-04

Thieves ransack NJ Apple Store in 31 seconds

WowSomething tells me they had this planned out in advance...Who is this reporter?He makes it sound like these guys were criminal masterminds."Throwing a blunt object through the plate glass window like pros."How is that a pro move? "Me pick up brick and throw it through window."Honestly...he picks the brick, he...

Tags: GPS, NJ Apple Store

Discussion threads 2009-09-02

Obama upholds Bush laptop search policy - with new safeguards

Never mindI was going to put something here, but I felt that I would simply be attacked for pointing out that Bush and Obama are more alike than they are dissimilar with regards to personal freedoms.It might just be possible...... that after Obama was sworn in he was shown classified...

Tags: Obama, Bush, new safeguard, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-08-28

Directory: 100 technology experts on Twitter

a few things missing from your listnice list, a little heavy on the zdnet side though (gee, color me surprised). but what the heck is that jr rafael/raphael dude doing on there? have you seen his police record?missing from your list: @eSarcasm geek humor gone wild. fyi, here's a better...

Tags: Twitter Inc., technology expert

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Apple shoots TV commercial for mystery product in 40s diner

Wow, Apple is reaching far back in time to copy innovation this time!!!Normally they content themselves with copying MS innovation 5 years after MS releases it but this time, they are going WAY back in time.The new product is the iWave. You will put your food items inside the iWave...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Leadership, Microsoft Office, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., mystery product

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Stars are aligning to ban U.S. drivers from text messaging

Stars are aligning to ban U.S. drivers from text messagingStars should keep their mouths shut.They're a bad example to all of us anyway. What do they show really? That marriage means nothing? That it's ok to be idolized for not having achieved zip? fff.I'm burned out on stars giving me...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Sarkozy, text messaging, car

Discussion threads 2009-08-03

Ridiculous lawsuit against Amazon

Ridiculous lawsuit against AmazonRE: a quick read of [the TOS] shows that Amazon absolutely [has] the right your claim is ludicrous. The health insurance industry wants to takeyour money until you get sick-- then you're on your own; the creditcard industry reserves the right to change your lending agreement--...

Tags: health insurance industry, Amazon.com Inc., lawsuit

Discussion threads 2009-07-31

Consumer Watchdog blasts Google over privacy

Consumer Watchdog blasts Google over privacyWow. No real surprise there[i]it certainly doesn?t seem that scary to me[/i]Of course not, you've proclaimed that you "Love everything Google does" and think the world of them (but would you fall on your sword, too?)[i]subscribe to the idea that Google collects information to make...

Tags: Government, E-mail, Google Inc., privacy, Consumer Watchdog

Discussion threads 2009-07-11