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Comment Re:First World Problems (Score 1) 1110

I agree, a lot of the pain described in the video IS just due to change anxiety.

He does make some good points though. There are no visual cues on how to pull up the 'charm bar', get to the control panel, and close metro apps. Sure, all of those things are easy enough once you know how to do them, but it takes experimentation by moving the mouse around a bit (or poking the touchscreen in the right place) to find them. It shouldn't be that hard.

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Submission + - The Typewriter Makes a Comeback (failuremag.com) 2

An anonymous reader writes: Last year a pair of documentary filmmakers set out to do a movie on “the last generation of typewriter repairmen” — see: (The Typewriter in the 21st Century), only to discover that typewriter shops are busier than they have been in decades, thanks to typosherians and the rise of the typosphere. Will the geeks who are driving the movement stay interested? Typewriter repairmen say yes.
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Submission + - Cancer-Detecting Smart Bra Could One Day Surpass Mammograms in Accuracy (ecouterre.com)

fangmcgee writes: Reno-based First Warning Systems is working on a new bra that could detect if you are developing breast cancer. Integrated sensors and a data controller regularly monitor your breasts and can watch for irregularities which may signal the growth of tumors. Tests so far are showing that the bra is far superior and may be able to detect cancerous growth up to 6 years sooner than self-exams or mammograms.

Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 293

Unfortunately measuring exposure is difficult. If 40 kids of 1000 get sick, you can _claim_ it is 96% effective, but if only 100 of the 1000 kids were actually exposed to the disease then the vaccination is far less effective than you think.

And the non-vaccinated kids don't magically get the disease from nowhere to infect the others. Whatever exposes the disease to them would likely expose the vaccinated kids too.

I'm not anti-vaccination, but this myth that unvaccinated kids somehow carry every disease all the time and cause everyone else to get sick doesn't help the pro-vaccination case.

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