Daily Archives: February 8, 2010

China Heralds Bust of Major Hacker Ring

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Follow this link to the story on the Wall Street Journal. Let me know if this link should break.

China heralded a major bust of computer hackers to underscore its pledge to help enhance global online security, with state media saying officials had shut what they called the country’s largest distributor of tools used in malicious Internet attacks.

I am beginning to wonder if my suspicion mentioned in the comment of the post More On Chinese Computer Hacking may have been true, that the recent stories of Chinese government hacking have been propaganda put out by the west.

Let’s Finish The Job On Health Reform

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Follow this link to the request to take action to help finish the job.

Follow this link to the USA Today story Medical expenses have ‘very steep rate of growth’

I followed the suggested action and put the following comment on the Worcester T & G comment board for a news story about health care reform:

Health care spending rose to an estimated $2.5 trillion in 2009, or $8,047 per person — and is now projected to nearly double by 2019.

So the government’s spending of $1 trillion over ten years to get some control of health care spending seems a lot smaller when you consider that we are already on a path to spend $25 trillion to $50 trillion over the next 10 years on health care.

When anybody touts a single number with the intention of getting you to gasp at how large it is, you always have to ask, ‘Compared to what?’