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Feed Science Daily: Improving Doctor-patient Communication Yields Significant Health Benefits (sciencedaily.com)

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A simple tool can improve the effectiveness of communication between doctors and patients about prescribed medications and result in dramatic improvements in health and safety. The new communication tool involves a computer-generated weekly calendar with color images of the medication to be taken each day, combined with instructions written in English and in a patient's native language if the patient does not speak English.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Microsoft bows to pressure - extends XP

Journal by Lightlord
BBC reports that, customer demand has forced Microsoft to extend the shelf life of Windows XP by five months. Microsoft was scheduled to stop selling the six-year-old operating system on 30 January 2008 to leave the field clear for Vista.

Now the date on which many sellers of XP will no longer be able to offer it has been lengthened to 30 June 2008. Microsoft said the change was to help those customers that needed more time to make the switch to Vista.
Editorial

Submission + - GOP Main Contenders: "We're Not Racist. Honest (functionalisminaction.com)

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IConrad01
IConrad01 writes: "From Functionalism In Action: Joke of the Day — GOP Top Contenders: "We're Not Racist. Honest!":

Sometimes, it becomes painfully true that stereotypes are created for a reason. Despite a strong and republican sentiment, Thursday, September 27th's Republican Presidential debate was missing four people: Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney, and John McCain. What was different about this particular debate? It was held by a race/minority interest group.
[...]
In case you missed it, you can find video and audio of the debate here.
"
Education

Journal Journal: Hate crime victim finds assailant on Facebook

Journal by rfc1394
A Washington, D.C. student of Georgetown University has been arrested on suspicion of a hate crime, in which he allegedly beat up another man because the victim was gay. Channel 4 reports that the victim - who also goes to the same school - recognized the alleged assailant, because of his profile and photos on Facebook.
Editorial

Submission + - Death 'Raises Questions' About Gene Therapy (functionalisminaction.com)

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IConrad01
IConrad01 writes: "Not too long ago, a woman died tragically and unexpectedly. Her name was Jolee Mohr. A detailed report can also be found here. In short, she died of a fungal infection that became developed, acutely, the day after she received her second injection of a gene-therapy trial viral vector for rheumatoid arthritis. This death is tragic. But given that it was a trial, and that the company involved is doing everything in its power to act responsibly, do we really need to "question" Gene Therapy, or is this just luddist activism encompassing one family's tragic loss? Watch this video, and form your own opinions."
The Internet

Submission + - Does the Slashdot moderation system still work? 1

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An anonymous reader writes: Recently I have noticed a trend among my posts on Slashdot: Very few of them are ever moderated in any way. I can insightful, informative, funny or trolly, but only a lucky few posts ever stray from the default score. In my current post history, two posts out of 24 have gotten any moderation. Browsing through threads shows a similar trend: There's hardly anything but "Score: 1" out there.

So, is there any use for a moderation system where most posts are never affected at all? And as a question for the admins, what is the current ration of moderations to posts? It would seem to be far below 1 at the moment, and this does not seem a very good state of affairs.
Displays

Submission + - The display I want on my desk (fsix.com)

Submitted by kingtut7
kingtut7 writes: A company called fs[ix] (pronounced physics) recently released a new 45" monitor. It is actually three monitors in one (20" center and two 17" sides) making one super-wide screen. It plugs in with one DVI or VGA connection. (Note: It splits the resolution up into three blocks, so make sure you have a really good graphics card). This would be nice for the day to day work — and awesome for games because of the surround effect. It is going for $1,795 direct from fs[ix]. Now I just need to convince my boss that it needs to be on my desk.
Music

Submission + - Apple's aims to stop second-hand iPod trading (cnet.co.uk) 4

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: CNet is running a story that highlights how Apple's apparently generous offering of free iPod engraving, is actually an effort to curb any resale of used iPods. This stops any second-hand trading and forces buyers to seek brand-new models, full-price, directly from Apple. One commenter notes that this engraving also voids any option of replacement iPods through AppleCare.
Space

New Nuclear-powered Spaceship Design Revealed 285

Posted by CowboyNeal from the goes-to-eleven dept.
Iddo Genuth writes "A U.S. based company introduced an innovative propulsion system that could significantly shorten round trips from Earth to Mars (from two years to only six months) and enable future spaceships to reach Jupiter after one year of space traveling. The system, which may dramatically affect interplanetary space travel is called the Miniature Magnetic Orion (Mini-Mag Orion for short), and is an optimization of the 1958 Orion interplanetary propulsion concept."
GNU is Not Unix

Submission + - SFLC Files First Ever U.S. GPL Violation Lawsuit (softwarefreedom.org)

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mrcgran
mrcgran writes: "The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed the first ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on a violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL) on behalf of its clients, two principal developers of BusyBox, against Monsoon Multimedia, Inc. BusyBox is a lightweight set of standard Unix utilities commonly used in embedded systems and is open source software licensed under GPL version 2."
The Internet

Submission + - Intel Releases Mashups for the Masses (intel.com)

Submitted by News_and_info
News_and_info writes: Intel has just released a mashup tool that is supposed to make it easy for anyone to create mashups. There is some training that you can do on it, but it really is easy to use. I see it more as a rudimentary semantic browser. You can sign up for it through the link in the story. By the way, when did Intel become a software company?
Space

Submission + - Fully Time-Deteministic Java (javolution.org) 1

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Jean-Marie Dautelle
Jean-Marie Dautelle writes: "For cost reasons the national space agency is more and more interested in using Java for safety-critical missions. Until recently the lack of a time-predictable standard library has been a major hurdle to Java adoption in that particular field. It is no more the case as demonstrated by this AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) paper presented the first day of the Space 2007 conference (Long Beach, CA) and introducing the first fully time-deterministic (and open-source) library for Java: Javolution!"
Toys

Submission + - How to build a time machine 1

Submitted by
sbate
sbate writes: "My 7 year old son has asked for a Time Machine for Christmas. He is serious. He knows I could build one if I really wanted to so I need some help. I have a lot of PVC pipe in the back yard and as much Vermiculite as I can carry. I also have some crystals. What I need is a good place to start.

Thanks"

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