Actually, from what I understand, this range of X-rays has caused behavioral changes in mice. It's unlikely to cause cancer, but it would be irresponsible to simply dismiss all health concerns.

What's it got to do with BP? [dailymail.co.uk] The rig was owned and operated by a company called Transocean. BP (and others) just leased it off them to do the drilling (and no BP employee was involved in the actual work).

That was what I thought at first, but later I heard there was a BP rep on the rig telling the workers to ignore safety concerns. That wouldn't make BP entirely responsible, but it certainly would include them in the blame reasonably.

Last March, Tim Kretschmer, 17, used his father’s 9mm Beretta pistol in a school shooting rampage that left nine pupils and three teachers dead, mostly with execution-style shots to the head

"Execution-style" typically refers to point-blank shots, not "whipping around" and hitting multiple targets in a short amount of time.

No, the founding documents of the USA state that all rights come from the creator. "Copyright" is a law (well, set of laws) created by our society to temporarily (hah!) grant exclusive permission to one entity to copy something. However, that permission is not universal -- fair use and archives are examples of where copyright does not apply.

To me it wasn't so much the printed font, but the lack of all quotation marks which gave the physical text a stark feeling. I have both a printed copy of "The Road" and a Kindle copy, and that starkness came through in both.

My other two cents: The Kindle sucks for any reference type work. I don't like reading newspapers or reference non-fiction because jumping around is awful. This has potential of being solved soon, but now now. The K2 came with a free cookbook that's just painful to use.

However, if you have a straight-though type text which includes most fiction where formatting isn't an issue, then it's a wonderful device. Non-fiction that's mostly text and no graphs that you read through like a plain book is also not bad.

I like having several texts available to read from, and it's in my bag. I think many people have also gotten into reading classic fiction that's out of copyright and freely available. There are lots of good books out there, and I like having them all easily available to read.

    --Lance (Kindle 1 user for 2 years)

Brain perfusion measures blood flow into and out of regions of the brain, using a contrast agent. I don't believe MR can image this. AFAIK CT has a much higher resolution as well.

It's horrifying that a radiation protocol was overridden without safeties in place. Whoever did this should have verified the dose received in the scan by passing film or a detector through the scanner.

With the new protocols for brain perfusion and cardiac scans, the doctors are being careful about radiation exposure. It's a shame whoever did this wasn't.

This is one reason why having an actual immigration policy and enforcing it. Most countries in the world do this, but for some reason the US doesn't.

Yes, FF was entirely motion capture. Which maximized the "uncanny valley" effect. Though it was the best job I'd seen rendering human hair up until that point.

And thus you expose your ignorance. /sarcasm

The Lord of the Rings was not a trilogy. That is all.

(Oh, and I don't have any trouble seeing what Jackson's films were based on. Perhaps you need glasses?)

[Burning Karma]

The problem is that String Theory (or M-theory or Brane Theory, whatever) is a bunch of mathematical models that are cool if you have 11 dimensions, so you have to hand wave about where those 7 dimensions went.

And yet after 20 years of mathematical masturbation, I've yet to see any single prediction from the mathematical models that can be tested.

Not one.

That's not Science folks, that's theoretical mathematics. Which is a perfectly valid academic field, just don't call it physics.

Bottom line, get an unlocked develoopers handset unless you want the cell company and/or Google to tell you what you can and can't run on THEIR hardware.

Except last I heard the dev handset doesn't allow you to install any copy-protected apps.

Nope, I don't work for Amazon or anybody else related. I just think they have something cool.

I don't understand why Amazon doesn't push the fact that this works well with any text or html file is beyond me. Once I realized that fact, I was sold.

That, and it's the built in data cell phone (Whispernet), which makes it that much better than its competitors. The built in web browser is almost unusable, but the store works and is fun for finding a beach read, and each kindle is assigned its own email address. There are lots of times I've put a file in an email (or just hooked up via USB), and was able to read it later somewhere.

People get hung up on the DRM and the lackluster support for PDFs, but I think there are many posters in this topic who are starting to realize that there are other reasons this is a good reader, and that hasn't always been evident in previous Kindle discussions on Slashdot.

    --Lance

I cofounded a company last year and we decided to use Office 2007 since we're consulting with clients.

Wow it's been bad. Office 2007 has been a nightmare (endless bugs--crashing when accepting revisions, randomly moving to the top of the document as I'm paging through it, etc.), and interoperability with clients hasn't been as important as we thought.

I can't wait to use 3.0 in the office.