The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
To Bring Healthcare Prices Down, Consumers Must Demand Price Transparency
http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/03/20/to-bring-healthcare-prices-down-consumers-must-demand-price-transparency/
The biggest thing to understand is that for our health care costs to drop by 30% that means that the often insane profits that the industry makes has to …
One in 50 School-Aged Children in U.S. Has Autism: CDC
Significant increase in the prevalence of the condition over the past five years, researchers say
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2013/03/20/one-in-50-school-aged-children-in-us-has-autism-cdc
Personally I find this report totally bogus on a number of fronts. That the …
Expose A Blatant Security Hole In AT&T’s Servers, Get 3.5 Years In Jail
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130318/23033422370/expose-blatant-security-hole-ats-servers-get-35-years-jail.shtml
I didn’t look beyond this article, so it is entirely possible that it is slanted so in favor of the accused that a balanced view would …
Some progress on my vanity patent… The application was submitted last Friday, though I am not totally clear if this is a provisional patent (sort of like a place holder and only gets you established for priority (if you …
The Internet is a surveillance state
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/16/opinion/schneier-internet-surveillance/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
I kinda doubt this is news to any of my reader(s), but there is no privacy any more. Even if you want to live in a shack in the wilderness like the Unibomber …
Are we over-diagnosing mental illness?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/16/health/mental-illness-overdiagnosis/index.html?hpt=hp_bn13
‘Normal’ is continually redefined by society. However, society’s mental illness is now being defined by for-profit organizations who stand to make billions of dollars by having ‘normal’ defined in such a way that the …
Stop Blaming Trolls for the Patent Problem
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/03/stop-blaming-the-trolls-or-we-wont-be-able-to-fix-the-patent-system/
I talked about my ideas for patent reform before, but didn’t mention so-called patent trolls. Generally speaking (to me) these ‘trolls’ are not really gaming the system but are doing …
Live-Blogging Senate Hearing Tomorrow, When J.P. Morgan Chase Will Be Torn a New One
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/live-blogging-senate-hearing-tomorrow-when-j-p-morgan-chase-will-be-torn-a-new-one-20130314
I have complained off and on about this idiotic ‘too big to fail’ crap for years (now we have “too big to jail” …
So I happen across this article:
Scientists Publish Controversial Paper About Extra-Terrestrial Life on Meteorites
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/scientists-publish-controversial-paper-about-extra-terrestrial-life-meteorites
and think to myself, “that is quite interesting that there should be such ‘definitive’ evidence of extraterrestrial life and I am only finding out …
Management/Success/Leadership: Mostly Bullshit
http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/managementsuccessleadership_mostly_bullshit/
Scott Adams sometimes has very thought provoking things to say. Sometimes it is just bla bla bla (I am quite guilty of the same), but, as is said, the broken clock is right twice a day, …