Just found the old list of patents out IP lawyers for Broadcast com were going to file but never got around to under Yahoo. Not saying they all would have been granted, but if you ever need prior art in this area, here you go lol. Potential broadcast.com Patent Applications January 4, 1999 1. Geographic IP Identification Technique for pin-pointing the geographic location of a static IP device by triangulating routes taken by IP packets and building a database of IP addresses and DNS names. 2. Hybrid Networks A commercial network of unicast and multicast enabled networks that terminates at a single point and which enables digital content to be distributed in a one-to-many fashion across multiple networks from a single initiation point. 3. Multi-Network Multicast A commercial network of multicast enabled networks that terminates at a single point and which enables digital content to be distributed in a one-to-many fashion across multiple networks from a single initiation point. 4. Reverse Auction Online auction mechanism in which a buyer who desires to purchase goods defines that desire, along with a maximum price that s/he will pay.  Potential sellers then respond by offering their goods at  a price below any previous bidders and at or below the designated maximum price.
 5. Audio Ad Delivery Software techniques for parsing files served by web server and acting upon text to perform functions such as audio ad rotation and synchronized audio ad/pop-up URL scripting. 6. Web Server Reporting System Software techniques for reporting on very large web server of files across multiple web servers in order to comply with industry-standard web server reporting practices. 7. Commerce Payment Gateway Integration Modular software routines for interfacing with a variety of payment getaway vendors (e.g. Mpact, Cybersource) for pay-per-view/listen and for traditional e-commerce. 8. Streaming Server Parsing And Reporting Software techniques for reporting on very large streaming server log files across hundreds of streaming servers. 9. Streaming Authentication System Custom database and related Software routines that extend RealAudio's 5.x implementation of user and player authentication. 10. Web Page Generation System Set of databases and scripts for automatically generating website sections such as CD Jukebox, Radio Stations, AudioBooks, etc. 11. Live Events Management System Custom data base and web-based system for managing daily events by collecting data on each event and "publishing" collected data to various groups as needed. 12. Automatic Content Promotion Set of scripts that run against live event databases and generate files for publishing to Yahoo!, Real Networks, and CMP. 13. Telephony-Based Content Publication System that allows people to call into a voice-mailbox and leave messages which are then automatically encoded into multimedia content and hosted on a website.

Actually, some form of Universal Care could be cheaper, offer better care, and be less bureaucratic. But the Democrats think if you just write the legislation, that makes it so. It doesn't Because other countries do it, it must be easy for us to do it. Problem in this country is no one really knows what medical care or drugs cost. Everything related to the cost of care has been made intentionally opague. It's a business strategy at every step. Every healthcare contract has a confidentially clause. Hospitals don't know how to allocate costs to determine their true cost If you don't know what the cost of what the government wants to buy from you, and the government doesn't know what the fully burdened cost they will pay is. And we don't know how high end hospitals can offer the same level of care at Medicare pricing. Etc etc etc And of course every insurance company and big hospital system will tie up the legislation in courts for decades. Ideology is not a strategy. Until there is transparency so a budget can be attempted , and the influence of the huge HC conglomerates is diminished , universal healthcare isn't achievable.

One of the reasons the PBM lobby is running a new PR ad campaign to improve its image is that @mcuban has exposed the opaque business of the health care conglomerates.

Ro, you just gave a nice little stump speech. Congrats. I'm talking about how AI can be used to make government more efficient, less expensive and provide an option, where it makes sense , to private enterprise. Enabling more of the revenue you collect from taxpayers to go directly to the people who need it. Ask your GenZ and neediest constituents, if AI could reduce spending in your state and improve the quality of services offered, with some percent of those savings being deposited in their bank accounts annually, would they approve of the government using AI ? You know the answer. By focusing on technology that can allow government to provide better services at a lower cost, which AI will be in a position to enable, only then can you help provide for people who need help and support. AI is new, and not easy to implement. Which is why your state and the federal government should be creating programs to give new grads, who know or can learn AI, jobs to work with existing staff to find ways to decrease costs and improve efficiency. It's an investment that will pay off. And as far as all the things you want to subsidize, from homes to childcare to healthcare , you could take every dollar from every billionaire and trillionaire in your state and probably every state and territory, leave them broke and then eat them, and it wouldn't cover for a year, the cost of what you want to do But Since I know healthcare, let's start there and see how serious you are about Medicare for All ? Who runs it and how do you choose that person? Right now the proposed legislation from jayapal and sanders says ," at the discretion of the Sec of HHS" What do you think would be happening right now if that had been passed ? I'll tell you the same thing I tell Republicans who think removing government and regulation from any market will make that market bigger and more efficient ... Ideology is not a strategy

The reason they will negotiate is that the hospital takes on all the risk of non payment for your deductible, coinsurance and copay. They don’t get any money from the insurance company until they get your money to cover your deductible, then CO’s insurance and always your copay. So they will negotiate (even though in some cases the insurance companies say they can’t ). They will take what they can get , or finance your payments. Then , they can try to get money from the insurance company The hospitals have become subprime lenders that just want to get paid. Btw what they don’t get paid, they will take credit for and report to show they are meeting their community service requirements. So always negotiate. They will gladly take a dollar today to get insurance money in 90 days

Just had a hospital bill me $7800 for a short ER visit to reset a dislocated finger for my son. They sent multiple bills, then adjusted to $490 without me asking. When I called to negotiate they offered $415 if I paid right then, which I did. Crazy.

A strong argument could and should be made that every employer should be required to offer all employees stock in the same manner the CEO receives annual stock awards or options, warrants ,etc Whatever percentage of salary/earnings the CEO gets in shares, so should every employee

Who do you have your insurance with ? Was it in network or out network hospital ? And as a rule, never pay the EOB you get. Always negotiate it. Tell them you can’t afford it and need help with payments. They will work with you

So 2024. What both parties miss is that AI can be a great government vs business equalizer. If government hires people willing and able to learn how to use the same AI available to everyone, from any number of domestic model makers, it has the opportunity to serve Americans, adequately at worst, more productively and effectively , if done well and transparently The more efficient government is, the harder companies have to work to outperform it. That makes for more opportunity. What both parties have to realize is that the problem that will accelerate in this new world is crony capitalism. Both parties excel at giving our taxpayer money to their friends. Like all new technologies, AI will create new pockets of wealth that will try to buy our politicians. From both parties. The more transparency we require in government, the more we respect the right of the people to challenge that largesse, the more we restrict the ability of politicians to receive dark money , and reward their friends, the better the quality of life will be across the country. Whether you like it or not, AI has changed everything, except , our government , our politics and our politicians. Which have not changed at all. So here we are. Talking about parties and politicians that are thinking in the past. Like it’s still 2024. That’s a problem for all of us.

The reason anyone gets insanely rich is almost always because of the stock market. It certainly how @elonmusk did. And the reason they get rich from the stock market, is because 150m Americans decided they wanted to own shares of stocks directly, or through their retirement plans, or through other approaches as a way of building their net worth and trying to create a better life for themselves. One Hundred Fifty Million Americans. About 60% of adults. Effectively believing that @elonmusk and many billionaires could make them wealthier and help them achieve a better life. If you want @elonmusk , and most billionaires to no longer be that rich, convince those 150m to sell their stocks, funds, ETFs whatever. Of course you would wipe out the net-worth of most of those people, and everyone else’s savings, as the markets crashed and brought down the economy and created the worst depression we have ever seen. Alternatively There are ways to improve healthcare access and eventually make it available to all. To start - If you want @elonmusk and all billionaires to improve healthcare for everyone , ask them to stop doing business with the enormous healthcare conglomerates and to work directly with transparently priced care providers. It’s the behemoth HC conglomerates that make HC so bad for so many. (Check my timeline for more detail) Removing them would push the cost of healthcare down for everyone. Their corporate decisions impact our healthcare cost and availability. Of course if they do that, not only would our HC costs go down , and the quality of care for their employees and the entire country go up But They would see their corporate cash flow increase dramatically and we would have more millionaires, billionaires and maybe even another trillionaire when that cash flow moved from the big health care conglomerates to their bottom line, so would the net worth of the 150 million American adults that own public stocks Capitalism is better than socialism because 150m Americans can influence exactly what happens in this country.

Employers don’t know the price of medical care from big hospitals. Employers don’t know how much their insurance company pays those hospitals or providers for that same care If you don’t know the price, and you don’t know what your insurance company paid for that care. How do you know if what your employer should be paying the insurance company for that care ? You don’t. Spread pricing from insurance conglomerates is an enormous tax on employers. Direct Contracting is the answer. It most cases, it costs so much less, the employer can eliminate the employee out of pocket cost ! And The hospital/provider will make more money with the insurance conglomerate out of the middle. Costpluswellness.Com for direct contracts you can use.

15 years ago today, the Mavericks won a championship unlike any we'll probably see again. An aging core. One superstar. A playoff path through Portland, Kobe's Lakers, OKC and the Heat's Big Three. It may have started with four simple words from @mcuban to Dirk: "I believe in you." Read about it in my new article for @DMagazine and share your memories below... dmagazine.com/sports/2026/06…

My 2 cents on the last layup. There is no way any ref can keep up with that play and get in good position to make the call. Fox is too fast. We can argue whether Fox should have shot it or played for the foul. But we should also ask whether the official should have known that each team had a challenge left. So by calling a foul, the video review would allow them to get the call right I’m not blaming the ref for not taking this approach. Sprinting to get a look at the play was hard enough. But it would have been the right move The NBA should consider letting the refs ask for a challenge when they can’t get a good look at a play in the last two minutes. We often are asking them to do the impossible, like trying to sprint as fast as Fox on a breakaway When there is so much at stake, the refs want to get it right as much as everyone else does Trust the ref to use this only when needed and the game will be better for it

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

This isn't accurate. Most people have deductibles, anda higher out of pocket max. During the deductible phase, you absolutely pay out of pocket and should be able to price shop, and count against your deductible the best price you can find. Where the shopping analogy falls apart is AFTER you hit your deductible and OOP max. Then you can spend other people's money on your care. Distorting the entire market

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