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Comment Re:But not to give them a chance to correct it fir (Score 0) 404

" why the guy does not let MS know about the bug" The entire point of all this to me is that MS should know about the bug and all the others. It's their job to know. Who is ultimately responsible at MS for mistakes such as this? No one? How many people must that company have who test their products for security vulnerabilities?

Comment 1st solution, community college for 2 years (Score 0) 668

and then finish at a state school. Making sure it's a state CC with lower tuition get all the Gen Ed out of the way there. Not everyone has to or will go or has the study skills to go to a four-year school right out of high school. If you're God's next gift to medicine, science, engineering, etc.......the scholly $$$ will be there. But for the mortals there's nothing wrong with a solid two years of study at a good community college.

Submission + - New device can extract DNA with full genetic data in minutes (washington.edu)

vinces99 writes: Imagine taking a swab of saliva from your mouth and, within minutes, having your DNA ready for genome sequencing. A new device from University of Washington engineers and a company called NanoFacture can extract human DNA from fluid samples in a simpler, more efficient and environmentally friendly way than conventional methods. It will give hospitals and labs a much easier way to separate DNA from human fluid samples, which will help with genome sequencing, disease diagnosis and forensic investigations.

Comment Administrative costs are once again kept hidden. (Score 0) 659

I simply cannot believe how any discussion of healthcare in the U.S. carefully avoids the swelling of the ranks of MBA/MSN level workers. Medical bureaucracy in the average U.S. hospital is a constantly growing drain on the financial resources but still seen as critical as any ER nurse or surgeon. We've created a kind of entitlement system where an MBA level job in the ranks of administration is off limits when budget cutting time comes around. Much easier to agonize over the cutting of janitors or kitchen workers to make the numbers work. HIPAA is another cost on the system kept under wraps. How many jobs in the average 100+ bed hospital deal only with HIPAA compliance, generating not one dime of revenue for their organization. And letting many HIPAA violations go unrecognized and/or unpunished to boot.

Comment Re:House Republicans (Score 0) 522

That's funny, when the GOP barely won in the past, they've always immediately claimed mandates and so forth. Yet that apparently only work FOR them. Well fuck them, they don't get to arbitrarily decide when the majority votes means something. Besides, they've only won the popular vote 1 time out of the last 6. Ideally the GOP will waste away to be a footnote of craptastic corrupted idiocy in the future.

And you don't understand how the U.S. government is supposed to work. Let's examine ACA. That was passed by a majority of both houses of Congress, who in turn were elected by their citizens. The President signed it. It was upheld by the Supreme Court. Yet the GOP, the butthole of politics, tries at every step to kill or unfund it.

What EXACTLY do republitards suggest as a mechanism to running a democracy, if this MOST OBVIOUSLY constitutional method of passing and enacting laws, is apparently not good enough? Republitards don't believe in the legitimacy of government, except when they control all branches. So fuck them again, scumbags that they are.

And as for voting, yeah, lots of people don't vote. Makes us kind of hypocritical when we invade other countries for bullshit reasons, mostly having to do with beefing up profits and defense contractors that the previous VP was head of, under the theory we're bringing them freedom and democracy. Those same unassailable values that various dumbasses here don't bother to use?

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Comment This is nothing new at all. (Score 0) 684

I have an uncle now in his 80's who dumbed himself down in high school in the 1940's to avoid bullying. And this was in small town Midwest. Podunk USA if there ever was. This man was intelligent enough to take on the most challenging academic path there was but he didn't want to appear overly smart to his peers for fear of getting picked on and beat up. Nothing new under the sun here.

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