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Comment Re:Statistics (Score 1) 125

I was thinking the same thing. In the Marines if we had a rifle checked out of the armory we had better have it at hand at all times. if you wanted to take a leak you slung it over your shoulder, one guy made the mistake of leaning it against a tree and of course along comes the officer. He regretted that mistake for a long time. I think if every cop/DHS knew they would lose their pay or rank or even fired for misplacing it then they would be very careful.

Comment Re:9 nines (Score 2, Informative) 287

Well I was a UPS Driver for about 5 years and routinely got requests for packages to be rerouted to a person's work address. Have you tried that?

Most of our residential deliveries were done after our business deliveries and pickups so we would be there when somebody was home. Now and then you would have a good day and get your residentials done before pick ups, but rare. Some of my customers that I could trust would leave signed notes for me to leave in a secure location (IE left a key to the gate, a big wooden box built specifically for packages) but realize the driver pays for that package if it is left against UPS policy. Yes if you leave a signed note and the Center says its not a safe place for a driver release and you still do it and it becomes a claim then it comes out of the driver's pocket.

Have you tried to talk to your neighbor? We would do that too if asked, but try to call the 1-800 number and tell them to route to the neighbors address or your work would be the best bet.

Comment Re:building bad clinical systems is harder (Score 1) 398

yeah it works alright but it doesn't mean it works good. We just adopted this system and I honestly don't see a time savings, not for the doctor and not for the staff.

What I told my boss when I started to get to know the program was it's as if they said "Ok we're all done we have an EMR product, oh wait we need a lab component" and 5 minutes later they had a lab component. The typical response I get is "well it solves some problems like chasing down doctors to get them to give you a Diagnosis code" but what they aren't seeing is the paperwork I have to do later when the doctor used a code that is never covered and it was denied.

My best example of the lack of forethought in the programming is I have to type in 'yellow' and 'clear' for every urine I examine. A drop down box would save me so many keystrokes in a day, but it's electronic so it must be better.

Bottom line they bought a system that solved some problems but created whole new ones where none existed before.

/. car analogy: I complained about a car with no brakes so they gave me a car with brakes but no steering.

Comment AdBlock Plus (Score 3, Informative) 387

This is the main reason I use Adblock Plus. If the advertisements weren't so annoying then I wouldn't mind them, there are a few text ads I don't block because they aren't intrusive at all. But when I see flash based ads that yes could have been done with HTML or JavaScript then I block those immediately.

Comment Its blank (Score 1) 496

but I use an add-on called Morning Coffee so that with the click of a button it loads all the tabs I want. Currently it's set at 5 pages, news, slashdot, email etc... the one add on I always install on my new machines after ad-block of course.

Submission + - IPhone now plays DOOM! (gizmodo.com)

anglico writes: id's classic shooter has finally been (officially) ported to the iPhone. And thanks to oversight from John Carmack himself, there are a number of improvements that make it worth a purchase even for Jailbreakers. Carmack says he loves that players port Doom to every device imaginable, but he's disappointed that there's rarely any real effort to build a new, functional control scheme on platforms without a keyboard and mouse.That's why he personally developed the controls for the iPhone version, and according to early reviews, the iPhone can now play Doom. Users are saying controls as good as you would expect from Carmack. Not to mention the other enhancements like 24-bit lighting.

Submission + - Discovery of 'cancer-proof' rodent cells (physorg.com)

anglico writes: PhysOrg.com — Despite a 30-year lifespan that gives ample time for cells to grow cancerous, a small rodent species called a naked mole rat has never been found with tumors of any kind—and now biologists at the University of Rochester think they know why.

The findings, presented in today's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that the mole rat's cells express a gene called p16 that makes the cells "claustrophobic," stopping the cells' proliferation when too many of them crowd together, cutting off runaway growth before it can start. The effect of p16 is so pronounced that when researchers mutated the cells to induce a tumor, the cells' growth barely changed, whereas regular mouse cells became fully cancerous.

Mars

Submission + - Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars trip (physorg.com)

anglico writes: Starting in 2010, an international crew of six will simulate a 520-day round-trip to Mars, including a 30-day stay on the martian surface. In reality, they will live and work in a sealed facility in Moscow, Russia, to investigate the psychological and medical aspects of a long-duration space mission. ESA is looking for European volunteers to take part.

Comment Re:What's a blogger? (Score 1) 310

I think the difference is if you buy something from a company (IE: Newegg)and post online that you like it, that is your opinion, especially if there is a forum that allows negative feedback as well. If you were to create a website/blog that talked about that product and they had happened to give you the product I think you would be subject to the new restrictions.

Comment HUH? (Score 1) 278

If you have that kind of money to waste on this 'addiction' cure wouldn't it be cheaper to just hire a therapist? I just can't see how somebody would pay that much to cure what so many generations survived without? We'll say it's a teenager forced by their parents to go here, it would still be cheaper to just take time off of work and supervise the kid for a long period of time. Maybe the parent will learn something in the process that probably got their kid 'addicted' in the first place.

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