Women always pay more for their health, this are some information you should like to know about it…

Women between the ages of 18 and 55 -- you -- shell out 25 to 50 percent more than men for identical health insurance. Ludicrous, we know.

But last Tuesday the health-care industry offered to help a sister out by not charging women higher premiums than men. (This is after insurers said in November that they would accept all customers, regardless of illness or disability, if Congress required all citizens to have health coverage. In March, they took the next step and offered to stop charging higher premiums to sick people.) But like all good things, there's a catch: We'd all have to buy our own insurance as a way to avoid a universal health-care system.

Doctor, Doctor Give Me the News

At a Senate hearing earlier this month, Karen M. Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans, claimed her trade group would close the gap in coverage costs for women if they purchased individual insurance. The gesture comes as a defense against the Obama administration's proposed universal health-care plan, which would have the government and the insurance industry competing for clients.

Obviously, there are pros and cons to both sides. Under a universal health-care plan, people worry about the quality of health care or having to wait months for a doctor's visit. (Just ask our neighbors to the North about their government-run system.) But it'd be free*. Without the creation of a universal health-care plan, you'd be paying monthly fees for insurance whose quality you'd be able to select.

Here's to Your Health

Why do women pay more for health care? Because we take better care of ourselves. Keep reading after the jump.

From the NY Times article:

"In interviews last fall, insurance executives said they had a sound reason for the different premiums: Women ages 19 to 55 tend to cost more than men of the same age because they typically use more health care, especially in the childbearing years. Moreover, insurers said women were more likely to visit doctors, to get regular checkups, to take prescription medications and to have certain chronic illnesses."

Yep.

If you're a 30-year-old woman in Florida, for example, Blue Cross Blue Shield will charge you $109 to $133 a month under its Cover Florida plan. A man of the same age would only pay from $92 to $116. We'll let you fantasize about what you could do with that extra $40 a month if only you hadn't been born a girl.

And sadly, high insurance is keeping many women from being covered. A new study by the Commonwealth Fund further confirms the scary trend. About 70 percent, or 63.8 million, of working-age women in the U.S. have no insurance, too little insurance, have medical debt or skimped on care because of costs. Just 59 percent, or 51.9 million, of working-age men are in a similar boat.

 

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What is Clickjacking, something similar to cracking, hacking? Here is what should You know about this new method of hijacking of clicks on the internet.

What if you reached to grab a newspaper out of a news stand and you found a rock in your hand instead? How about opening the front door to a grocery store and ending up on a boat?

This sounds like a Matrix movie, but the virtual equivalent of this is real and poses one of the most serious new risks on the Internet, according to Jeremiah Grossman, chief technology officer and co-founder of Whitehat Security.

"Most exploits (like worms and attacks that take advantage of holes in software) can be patched, but clickjacking is a design flaw in the way the Web is supposed to work," Grossman said. "The bad guy is superimposing an invisible button over something the user wants to click on...It can be any button on any Web page on any Web site."

The technique was used in a series of prank attacks launched on Twitter in February. In that case, users clicked on links next to tweets that said "Don't Click" and then clicked on a button that said "Don't Click" on a separate Web page. That second click distributed the original tweet to all of the Twitter user's followers, thus propagating itself rather quickly.

At the time, Grossman called it a "harmless experiment," but the potential for harm by an attacker who isn't just having fun is huge.

In a demo at CNET offices on Thursday, Grossman showed how someone could launch a clickjacking attack using Flash to spy on someone by getting them to turn on their computer Web cam without knowing it. (Grossman also appeared on CNET Live to talk about clickjacking.)

Like the name suggests, clickjacking is the hijacking of your click, unbeknownst to you. A victim may not even know that the click has been redirected, which means there could be clickjacking attacks going on that no one knows about yet.

Clickjacking attacks are accomplished by creating something called an iFrame that allows a browser window to be split into segments so that different items can be shown on each. This code is inserted into the target Web page and is invisible to the end user. When the end user's cursor clicks on the section of the page where the malicious iFrame is hiding, the attack is launched to do whatever the attacker desires.

An attacker could hide an iFrame under any innocent link on any Web page--a headline on The New York Times or a "digg this" button on Digg, for instance--and when the victim clicks on the link, the cursor is actually clicking on the hidden iFrame.

In the Web cam demo, the iFrame created contains a Flash pop-up window that asks the user to grant permission to have the Web cam turned on. When the victim clicks the link, the Web cam is turned on and secretly begins recording everything the user does in front of the computer.

One of the scariest things about clickjacking is the potential for abuse. An attacker could spy on you by turning on your Web cam or microphone, direct you to a Web page with malicious content that is downloaded onto your computer, or even rig it up so you end up clicking "buy" instead of "cancel" on an e-commerce site.

Another thing that makes clickjacking so serious is that there really is very little that end users can do to protect themselves, Grossman said.

In the Web cam scenario, the best defense is probably to put a post-it note or other item over the Web cam lens and to disable the microphone in the software, he said. Flash Player 10 provides some protection by preventing anything from obscuring the security permissions dialogue box, he said.

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For all You who need Vista SP2, here a short news about tools and guidance that will ship in SP2. It will be available in the coming weeks on the Download Center (DLC) and also through Windows Update and WSUS.

On April 28th, we announced the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. SP2 includes all updates that were released since SP1. It also includes support for new types of hardware and other technology improvements. For more information on the changes with SP2, see the notable changes document on TechNet.

Here’s a short list of the tools and guidance that’s available for SP2:
· If you’re managing systems that connect directly to WU, you can use the updated Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit to prevent WU from offering SP2 to your client computers.
· For more information about SP2, refer to the SP2 Frequently Asked Questions on TechNet.
· For help with deployment related questions, you should read this blog post on the Windows team blog.

We hope this information helps you prepare to deploy SP2

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I want more inbound links and also i need to be indexed in about 1 month, how?

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Perhaps shocking to many, this certified SEO firm achieved such magnitude of link popularity surge and search engine rankings just by using 5 "so-called" basic Internet Marketing strategies but certainly with a tweak of its unique web promotion marketing concept:

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There must be an order, sequence and purpose in launching a successful and effective website promotion campaign. A productive and cost-effective Internet marketing is not just another submission to press agencies, article and bookmarking sites or the thousands of web directories. There is a process to apply and integrate those various basic web promotion methods. What, when and how you strategically launch each of those 5 standard Internet marketing strategies in an orderly sequential manner underlines the basis of SearchMarketingSales Web Promotion Marketing model.

All it takes is just 1 month and a discipline approach towards Internet marketing. Any webmasters can acquire such massive inbound links and all links indexed in a flash.

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