I shoulda tho't o' that! -- & Asymmetrical Health Care

Update: We now have "asymmetrical health care" -- out of Quebec. My gosh. Is Canada a country . . . or a series of special interests, special provinces, special deals with whoever shakes the Prime Pinata-in-need-of-votes . . . special asymmetrical medical care and private medical / health care. Note, Quebec has a Charter; the Canadian Charter was not adequate to the province of asymmetrical . . . whatever. Check the latest news for this health care story.

Let's see, what groups have been developing private health services that will be able to spring into action suddenly? Check their network; follow the friends. Follow the $$$.

Unrelated? Appointing the justices who have been instrumental in changing Canada, along with the government, belongs to the PM/PMO and not to Parliament, no matter in what politically acceptable language the protests are couched when this is mentioned. Does he influence provincial appointments?




I shoulda tho't o' that!

Do you ever notice that just after you have had reason to check your pc's security, you get an offer from the ubiquitous company which controls your operating system--at least the vast majority of OS's--and guess what? That advertisement in your email is offering to sell you better security.

What a $$$ generating gig! First, develop the OS, then make sure there are enough back doors--front doors?--to compromise security, make money from security companies selling fixes / patches / advice / anti-virus / firewalls / et cetera, "the full catastrophe".

ID theft translates into revenue for some -- Credit agencies reaping fees for reports, scores and tracking -- "Worries about data security are translating into revenue opportunities for the nation's three biggest credit reporting agencies" Liz Moyer, Forbes, June 8, 05 via MSNBC/MSN.com

A new focus on protecting personal information, prompted by several recent disclosures by banks and other companies of lost or stolen data — the most recent being Citigroup's loss of confidential information on 3.9 million customers — stands to benefit all three credit-reporting agencies in the form of new fees for credit monitoring and fraud detection.[. . . . ]

Aside from all the other information of interest,

Search: Sales pitch goes on

Many free credit reports still aren't free



You might be interested in checking a post yesterday which mentions "Defectors & Spies", the particular post entitled "China Diplomat: Beijing Running Spy Ring". Also, within the last week, I have posted on visitors to my pc--hackers with evil intent, I assume. Funny, the plethora of them that emanate from China and China Railway. Why? What is their problem?



I suppose the following is unrelated . . . but I wonder if anyone else notices this kind of persist 'visiting', not from Canadians nor Americans, just from IP addresses which seem to be from Asia, and particularly, China. Do you suppose they want to be free . . . or to control information flow. Just go online and, after a bit, check. While not my definitive list, today's roll call includes:

61.232.0.0 - 61.237.255.255
CHINA RAILWAY TELECOMMUNICATIONS CENTER
Beijing,P.R.China

222.168.0.0 - 222.169.255.255
CHINATELECOM-JL
CHINANET Jilin province network
Jilin Telecom Corporation
No.518,Changchun Street,Changchun,130042,Jilin
China

61.152.156.0 - 61.152.159.255
SHANGHAI-GLOBAL-NET
Shanghai Global Network Co., Ltd.
China

222.240.0.0 - 222.247.255.255
CHINANET-HN
CHINANET Hunan province network
China Telecom


Again, my blessings on all the dear computer nerds I know. Please hack H*** out of the *&^(*&%$ -- and give them a bit of their own back. (Some thoughts are unprintable.)

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