UV, X-, and Gama-rays are all all both electromagnetic and ionizing. Those properties are not mutually exclusive and ionizing radiation isn't exclusively "bits of atoms flying off".

CRT televisions use high speed electrons to excite phosphors to emit light. As a side effect a small amount of X-rays are emitted. For this reason CRT screens are made of leaded glass. This blocks most, but not all, of the X-rays. So for most of the history of television, watching TV meant being irradiated a small but measurable amount.

Haha, totally missed that, whoops!

You know it's possible to have a v4.12, right?

HL7v3/CDA, however, *is* XML-based. Having both written HL7 parsers and worked with HAPI, I have to say it's much easier to tune your XML stack once and point it at some XSDs.

Neither one is as bad as X12 though :p

Just for a moment imagine that China and and North Korea got together and did some military exercises simulating the invasion of the US off of the California coast. What do you suppose the rhetoric out of Washington would be? I think North Korea's leadership is cruel and evil and totalitarian, but they are not behaving irrationally. They are behaving exactly like any other country would.

Add managing a screaming kid or two and you will appreciate the convenience and added efficiency a dedicated bagger brings to the equation ;)

Whoops, never mind!

Why wouldn't the phishing site just MitM this? Phishing site collects your username, sends your username to bank, gets password screen HTML back with picture and pass phrase, echos picture and pass phrase to you.

Right, but they are utilizing the scientific method to test the quality of published papers, not attempting to verify the utility of the scientific method itself.

The headline should read "Bloggers apply scientific method to validate published findings".

Police can sometimes use illegally obtained evidence if it was obtained by a private citizen whose actions were not directed by the police. That citizen is still liable for the criminal acts they committed to obtain the evidence, but the evidence itself isn't necessarily poison fruit.

What's difficult is prying the sa password out of your DBA's cold, dead, hands :P

Funny thing about those old ATMs with the physical buttons: many times I'd walk into the ATM to find the screen had physically shifted in its housing so those nice physical buttons no longer matched up with the on screen choices. In fact it wasn't uncommon for the buttons to be exactly between the choices. Other times the actual display would be set back and behind such a thick layer of shatter-proof glass that what button lined up with what choice depended on your viewing angle.

The point is that *any* voting machine is going to need proper calibration. A touch screen as an input modality isn't necessarily bad, but you can botch the implementation just like with any other tech.

You're kidding right? My first iPhone had a Nike-branded pedometer app built in that couldn't be uninstalled, only hidden.

Ideally, the systems management team should handle install into staging and production environments. They have worked with the dev team to establish a standard environment. The dev team should take time to understand the environment where the application will be deployed, and the systems team should understand the application well enough to diagnose basic problems.

Unfortunately, in my experience, cost cutting means that the installation and maintenance is done by an IT contractor pulled from a rotating pool in Bangalore who doesn't know how the application works. They usually can't tell a software bug in our code, from a missed firewall configuration step, from bad permissions in the filesystem, from a bad load balancer config... the list goes on. That's when I get pulled in. Of course I don't have permissions to do any useful diagnosis, and they are so fresh out of training they don't know how to execute a TCP dump. ...and that's why I don't do J2EE development anymore :)