darkspaten

Good luck building up tolerance; I found it to be a lot easier than I thought it might be. I was given a few Ghost Pepper seeds in the Spring and prior to the last Fall harvest I worked up to a tolerance of about two tablespoons of chopped peppers. However, like any tolerance, once you do this 'lesser' peppers such as habanero cease to have much impact.

And the most oft-repeated phrase in Ecclesiastes is, "Eat, drink, and be merry"

The torque is very nice, I traded in a `09 370Z for a Volt and have found my driving style adjusted more conservatively (with a side benefit of less speeding tickets.)

I've leased a Volt for 12+ months now and consumed < 30 gallons of gasoline in that time. My chief complaint is not about the car, but about the lack of metered charging stations. The charging stations in my area (of which there are a fair number) are flat rate $2.50 regardless if I require $0.05 or $0.90 (my max residential rate charge expense) of energy or whether I'm parked for 5 min or 500 min.

I'm unable to produce the research link, ATM, however I attended a presentation many years ago on the uniqueness value of this data. In the presentation the researchers demonstrated >80% confidence interval determining an exact individual from: (1) gender, (2) birth year, and (3) zip code. I recall the interval was for zip codes with the greatest population density, implying that more confidence was readily achievable in less populated zip codes.

> or people that travel a lot, that 300 grams (.6 pounds) - is a deal breaker

I travel for business quite a bit (20-50,000 airmiles/year) and I traded in a 13" MBA for a 15" rMBP upon its release.

For me, it was an easy deal to exchange the laptop weight differential through unnecessary clothes or travel accessories for this gorgeous display and added (dev) computing power.

> Ok, I want to fund a project, not propose it. How do I do that?

I'm very interested in this, too. I've just begun using elance to find FreeBSD coders. I have a six-figure budget for various projects in the next three months. I would love to have some great projects coded and returned to the community, but finding vetted, high-quality FreeBSD coders hasn't been easy (on myself as an executive.) It would be most helpful if an organization, like the FreeBSD Foundation , were able to offer me an avenue to fund projects of interest to my organization (and the community.)

I've received some deliverables from a marketing team which uses the following service for just such a purpose (at a nice premium) @ https://www.meltwater.com/products/meltwater-news/online-med...

> Besides, if you're in technology, you shouldn't be investing in tech companies.

I find that to be an odd maxim. Certainly one should limit exposure to acceptable risk tolerance… say 10-15% of portfolio; however, being in the industry we have significant insight into trends, viability, capital allocation, reputation, market forces, etc. Why wouldn't we leverage that knowledge for investment? When most CIOs were mocking AAPL, the stock was in the low $100s, it was a great time to invest for anyone who spotted the early trend.

Reminds me of the RSA response to their extreme compromise. Even quite some time after the incident the EVP & Chairman, Art Coviello, only would state how close "on the tail" they were to the perpetrator(s) thanks to their technology & skill. They're still a viable security organization, so apparently the market was easily able to disregard the core issues.

I offer a corollary, "Employees follow leaders, not managers."

At one time I considered leaving a company I believed strongly in, due to an immediate manager with which I didn't work well. However, I looked higher in the organization to the leader(ship) I believed in and decided to stay. I'm glad I did, because the management problem rectified itself soon enough and now I follow good leaders and learn from a great mentor.

Although not expressly in the linked content, I believe the change apropos beyond healthcare providers is the change for cloud providers (SaaS, storage, etc.) Now, companies which store Protected Health Information (PHI) in the cloud are considered business associates of the healthcare provider. In turn, the companies are now regulated entities & will be required to meet the security & privacy standards of patient data. No longer is a storage provider considered an unassociated 'conduit.' This is a significant change for healthcare providers and all their (remote) technology partners. Ideally, this will create the regulatory impetus sufficient to prevent your healthcare providers from transitioning over to relatively insecure services such as Gmail for sensitive patient data.