Perhaps I should volunteer for jury duty...I cannot tell the difference between the letters "i" and "o" apparently.

Remember that juries are made up of the twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Saying programmers don't need advanced math is like saying your doctors don't need to take anything beyond 12 grade high school biology. While emergency room physicians and trauma surgeons need to have a rich knowledge base of the anatomy and physiology of the human body, your ophthalmologist can probably get by without knowing much about cardiac output or fluid resuscitation volumes.

But they still need to know ALL of the human body because their actions, while localized in some fields of medicine, can have effects on other areas of the system.

It's a service. Just like the phone company, janitorial services, accounting, and insurance.

The students and faculty don't clamor for input and transparency on which payroll company the university uses to issue paychecks and work/study payments, and there's something they use every day. Sounds to me like this is a lesson to be learned for a bunch of college brats who can't adjust to change.

"LEDs last 2.5 times as long as LEDs"

Sounds like something a Congressional committee would come up with...

UltraVNC SC is what you need.
Check it out here!

If you're doing this over your residential connection or if you might be in different locations, set yourself up with a dynamic DNS service (such as www.dyndns.org) and create yourself a hostname on there. Build your VNC-SC download to point to that address.

I have mine set up on my family website where they can download it easily so I don't have to drive over to their house every time they can't print.

Perhaps there is a religious reason. Has anyone considered the bird may have been send by God to drop the bread to halt activation of the LHC?

Since it's easier to read a headline than an article, we'll help you out here...

FTA: she was indicted on a single count of identifying a police officer with intent to harass, a felony under state law

Most senators and Michael Jackson wouldn't pass the background check to be a cop, anyway.

Quite frankly, anyone who stalks Michael Jackson (before or after his demise) has enough issues already.

Using your logic, it should be OK for any ordinary citizen to be stalked in a similar manner both while on the job and off.

I'm sure you wouldn't mind a bit if she followed your every move at work, at home, while spending time with your family...and then posting this information online.

Why is it OK when its a police officer?

You've got the number one key right there....never go to bed angry. Or something like that. Geek or non-geek pairing, you're obviously friends already. Remember that. Always. The last argument my wife and I had where we didn't talk to each other afterward was September 9th, 2001. We argued that afternoon and I decided to go sleep at work (firefighter) before an overtime shift the next day. Didn't even say a word...just went to work. Didn't even call her the next day. The next phone call was the morning of 9-11-01 when I told her my FEMA USAR team was being deployed to New York and I was being sent with them. 11 days later, we knew there was NOTHING worth arguing over enough not to remind each other why we were together. We're both paramedics, I'm a firefighter. She's technologically incompetent. I fix things. There is NO WAY to fix a woman. The warranty was up on her birthday.

Hospitals around here go on diversion on a pretty regular basis. We have a system set up to minimize patient risk. Diversion means that the facility is not able to provide timely care to a patient whose condition is not critical, and that patient will receive better, more rapid care at another hospital. Why take an MI to a hospital that is experiencing an IT issue causing orders to be delayed, blood labs to be held up, x-rays to not be delivered in a timely fashion, etc...when we can drive 5 minutes further and the patient will be in the cath lab within 30 minutes? We can still take patients to a hospital on diversion if we don't think they'll make it to the next one OR if that hospital has specialty care that is required (such as a burn unit or hyperbaric chamber).

A hospital being CLOSED is a whole different animal. Here, hospitals have a closed status because they are unable to accept any patients whatsoever. Most recently, we had a hospital closed for 28 hours because a bunch of haz-mat victims left the scene of a hazmat incident and walked into the ED covered in a toxic inhalation chemical.

My fire district implemented a new laptop based Emergency Medical Services reporting system and lets just say, geek that I am, I find myself yearning for the days of old where we used flattened pulverized wood pulp. There's five different ways to affirm you have completed entering data into a field, no way to tab between fields, some numbers must be entered using an on screen keypad using the TabletPC's stylus, and if the data submission button isn't there for whatever reason, the "cancel" button directly under where it should be deletes the whole damned report.
Damn developers should be flogged. Or treated by and ambulance that has to deal with their crappy software.