Comment Re:BooHoo (Score 4, Informative) 789
I have to agree. I'm not a cell phone guru by any measure, but only offering the discount rate every two years seems to be a fairly standard term in my experience.
Comment relakks (Score 1) 461
Isn't this what relakks already is? I thought the same guys the run TPB run relakks and relakks is nothing but an encrypted VPN, right?
Comment Re:Evidence-based medicine (Score 1) 1064
I would argue you survive because you have students who are willing to pay to be taught by you, not the other way around.
You made an educated decision, I would guess, when you decided to do what you did. That was your decision, live with it.
Comment Re:Evidence-based medicine (Score 1) 1064
Please. A significant number of MD's do other things that purely practice clinical medicine, such as research. Plus, many PhD's never really contribute in any meaningful way to society or their field of practice. "A few years of residency" can range from 3 years to 7 or even 10 years depending on the training.
One year of residency is much more time consuming and stressful than any PhDs I've known. I'm not trying to make this a PhD vs MD rant, you did that, I'm just trying to point out some gross exaggerations and factual errors in your comment. I have quite a few PhD friends I have nothing respect for, actually. They agree you're making some way over-the-top gross exaggerations.
Submission + - RIAA's Sherman Attacks NewYorkCountryLawyer 4
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "When questioned by a journalist on the viability of the RIAA's "making available" theory of copyright law, Cary Sherman, the organization's Chairman and CEO, responded by saying "It basically comes down to, who ya gonna believe, Ray Beckerman, or the Register of Copyrights?". Beckerman (alias NewYorkCountryLawyer on Slashdot) replied on his blog "I'm sure my readers know what the correct answer to the question is. Question: Who are you going to believe, Ray Beckerman, or the Register of Copyrights? Answer: Neither. I'm going to read the statute and believe what the statute says"."
Submission + - Linux patent lawsuit
DustDevil writes: Linux vendors Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc. are being sued for patent infringement by IP Innovation LLC and Technology Licensing Corp.
Computerworld Article
Patent 5,072,412
Computerworld Article
Patent 5,072,412
Submission + - Alzheimer's disease as form of diabetes (physorg.com)
Atzanteol writes: Insulin, it turns out, may be as important for the mind as it is for the body. Research in the last few years has raised the possibility that Alzheimer's memory loss could be due to a novel third form of diabetes.
Submission + - kuro5hin DOS attack
An anonymous reader writes: Over the weekend, the Kuro5hin diary section has been subject to extensive crapflooding and page widening. Speculation focuses on either disgruntled former users or a mentally ill Canadian hacker. K5 admins are aware of the DOS crapflood, but have done little to stop it.
Submission + - Vote on `.xxx' Internet Address Nears
BOOM~ writes: Online pornographers and religious groups are in a rare alliance as a key Internet oversight agency nears a decision on creating a virtual red-light district through a ".xxx" Internet address.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which has already rejected similar proposals twice since 2000, planned to vote as early as next week on whether to approve the domain name for voluntary use by porn sites.
Submission + - Spammer that sued Spamhaus now sued for spamming
Dave Q. Lintard writes: e360 Insight, the Illinois-based mass mailer suing Spamhaus for calling it a spammer, is being sued in California for spamming.
David Linhardt, individually, and his firm e360 Insight are among the defendants in a lawsuit brought by William Silverstein, an aggrieved spam recipient. Bargaindepot.net, a firm which shares offices with e360 Insight, is also named in the suit.
Submission + - Hans Reiser stands trial for murder, no bail money
mtaht writes: "Announced today: Hans Reiser to stand trial for murder. He's too broke to make bail, so will remain in jail (hopefully doing something productive) until the jury trial starts May 7th.
To me, the evidence — with one notable exception — seems far more flimsy than in the OJ Simpson case. Trace samples of blood in the home? How many times have you bled in your house over the last 4 years? If your wife had gone missing, and you knew from watching hundreds of tv shows who was usually investigated — wouldn't a normal person (geek) that otherwise had had no encounter with the law previously — buy a book or two on the subject? (admittedly, pre-patriot act, I'd have got mine from the library). If innocent, would you get annoyed at being trailed everywhere and start playing games with the cops? Since when did washing your car "frequently" become evidence of a crime?
Still... what did you do with the damn car seat, Hans?"
To me, the evidence — with one notable exception — seems far more flimsy than in the OJ Simpson case. Trace samples of blood in the home? How many times have you bled in your house over the last 4 years? If your wife had gone missing, and you knew from watching hundreds of tv shows who was usually investigated — wouldn't a normal person (geek) that otherwise had had no encounter with the law previously — buy a book or two on the subject? (admittedly, pre-patriot act, I'd have got mine from the library). If innocent, would you get annoyed at being trailed everywhere and start playing games with the cops? Since when did washing your car "frequently" become evidence of a crime?
Still... what did you do with the damn car seat, Hans?"
Feed Wikipedia Shakeup: Resignations (wired.com)
Submission + - The illusion of 'net neutrality'
frdmfghtr writes: IHT is running an opinion piece on 'net neutrality.' Christopher Wolf writes about the harm of net neutrality legislation, ending with:
The astonishing growth of the Internet has been due to a "hands off" policy, with the marketplace and existing laws creating the parameters rather than rigid regulatory edicts whose adverse side-effects could well be severe. Let's hope lawmakers and policymakers keep that in mind.
Feed The Media Equation: All the World’s a Story (nytimes.com)
Assignment Zero, a new online journalism experiment, will use the combined reporting efforts of readers to tell the world a story.
Submission + - New info on CD lifetimes
Jeff1946 writes: "One of the science fair entries I judged this week was on the use of CDs to archive data and the expected lifetime. The students did accelerated lifetime testing at 80C to determine the failure rate of the cyanine dye on which is written the data. They didn't have enough time at 80C to detect any failures. Of more interest to me and /. folks is conversations they had with people at NIST and the Library of Congress. The students learned that CDs lifetimes have greatly improved due to metal stabilizers being added to the dye and it is now reasonible to expect no degradation for at least 50 years if the CD is kept at room temperature away from bright light. They also were told that DVD-Rs are much more prone to degradation. Another tidbit they learned was the least reliable part of a CD is near the outer edge due to the fact that the dye is spun onto the CD and may not coat it as well there. My take away from this is that is probably a good idea to copy any older CDs with valuable data to new ones."
