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Meteorite Destroys Warehouse In Auckland, NZ 278

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 14, 2008 @02:06AM from the creative-excuse-for-the-late-night-set dept.

vik writes "According to local media, multiple eye witnesses are reporting that a meteorite crashed into a warehouse in Auckland, New Zealand last night, setting it on fire. The warehouse roof was destroyed but no nearby buildings were damaged and there was only one minor casualty — a man who happened to be inside the building at the time. The fire service have not yet made an official announcement."

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Doctor Performs Amputation By Text Message 242

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @08:50PM from the l33t-5ki11z dept.

Peace Corps Online writes "Vascular surgeon David Nott performed a life-saving amputation on a boy in DR Congo following instructions sent by text message from a colleague in London. The boy's left arm had been ripped off and was badly infected and gangrenous; there were just 6in (15cm) of the boy's arm remaining, much of the surrounding muscle had died and there was little skin to fold over the wound. 'He had about two or three days to live when I saw him,' Nott said. Nott, volunteering with the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, knew he needed to perform a forequarter amputation requiring removal of the collar bone and shoulder blade and contacted Professor Meirion Thomas at London's Royal Marsden Hospital, who had performed the operation before. 'I texted him and he texted back step by step instructions on how to do it,' Nott said."

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Comment Ask about their mistakes (Score 5, Insightful) 835

by scarpa on Wednesday November 19, 2008 @05:29PM (#25823847) Attached to: Interviewing Experienced IT People?

Ask them to talk about the mistakes they've made or project failures they've been a part of.

If they claim it's never happened, or it wasn't their fault, etc, then they probably are lying or stupid.

If they can explain the failure, why it happened and how they've avoided the same thing in subsequent projects you've probably got a good one.

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Violent Games 'Almost' As Dangerous as Smoking 545

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday November 28, 2007 @07:28PM from the just-wow dept.

Via Voodoo Extreme, a Reuters report on some very 'interesting' research into violent games. A study out of the University of Michigan has apparently found that 'exposure to violent electronic media' is almost as dangerous to our society as smoking. "'The research clearly shows that exposure to virtual violence increases the risk that both children and adults will behave aggressively,' said Huesmann, adding it could have a particularly detrimental effect on the well-being of youngsters. Although not every child exposed to violence in the media will become aggressive, he said it does not diminish the need for greater control on the part of parents and society of what children are exposed to in films, video games and television programs."

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Submission + - Hybrid mesh replaces polygons to display 3D/CAD (diginfo.tv)

Submitted by

dk3nn3dy

on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @02:00AM

dk3nn3dy writes: "Japanese company Digital Process, have developed VridgeR, software which uses DVX, a special rendering technique that doesn't use polygons, and can display massive, highly complex models (for example whole cars or planes which would normally require millions of polygons to be displayed with precision) using standard hardware. 20GB of aircraft CAD data can be loaded onto less than 1GB RAM with complete mathematical precision. English video news story here."

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