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Comment Re:My experience (Score 1) 190

I may be an idiot with this assumption but if your provider is violating a mandate set by the FCC and they charge you saying your contract lets them impose whatever restrictions they want couldn't you simply bring them to small claims court and recoup the costs since their own contract is in violation of the FCC's regulation?

Comment Windows Developers (Score 1) 330

"Hey guys, we really blew the mission with Vista but we hit the nail on the head with Windows 7. Now, instead of continuing the trend seen with XP and 7 where we made huge improvements lets do something very bizarre, edgy and hip. What could possibly go wrong?"

Comment Reverse Lawsuit (Score 1) 388

Clearly you trademark your name so that when they try and pursue a lawsuit you claim they are using your trademarked name without permission within all of their legal documents and any media coverage of such. Such a defense is as crazy as the idea that you can't call a product by its marketed name "IF" you give it away for free.

Comment It comes with a test source (Score 1) 277

Every geiger I have used in my life (which have been a lot) have come with a test source (Cs-137 disc) attached to the side. Maybe this is a Canada thing or a Ludlum thing but yeah they SHOULD come with a Cs-137 calibrated disc. Else you could find some fiesta dinnerware which is slightly radioactive, I think orange is the greatest emitting.

Comment Re:That could be extremely useful. (Score 4, Interesting) 73

MRI shows anatomical changes and thus until there are gross physical changes in the brain you won't be able to detect such disease processes. MRI is wonderful for brain imaging, as it can differentiate between gray and white matter better than any other modalities but given the cost per scan, time required per scan and long queue of higher priority patients (stroke, head trauma, etc) it isn't effective given its low sensitivity. While I am biased towards Molecular Imaging a lot of focus has been on Pittsburgh compound B for imaging amyloid plaques. This type of imaging has the advantage of being extremely sensitive and specific however the cost and availability are even greater than that of MRI. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners aren't widely available and where they are it is mainly reserved for oncology. Many theories for Alzheimer's disease exist but given the evidence linked to beta-amyloid mechanisms I don't think the missing link is some unknown mechanism but rather no cost effective way of dealing with it considering preventative treatments exist but are limited and no intervention exists to reverse the effects. That and there are a number of non-Alzheimer's dementias that people are less aware of.

Comment Disposable Endoscopes already exist (Score 1) 132

Pill sized disposable endoscopes already exist, though much larger than this. Most combine some sort of light with them as well because without it they are fairly useless. This won't perform anything novel when it comes to endoscopy but rather has more potential patient compliance as well as novel imaging of smaller pathways rather than just upper and lower GI. (Example: http://www.wolfsonendoscopy.org.uk/capsule-endoscopy-information.html)

Comment Re:Free market (Score 2) 185

Lung x-rays? I work in healthcare and have no idea what this "lung x-ray" you speak of even is. I am assuming you are referring to MRI techniques. In any case realize there are plenty of cost effective alternatives for lung imaging, from plain film chest x-rays to CT (with or without pulmonary angiography) and nuclear ventilation with either xenon or aerosols. The if cost increased there wouldn't be fewer people getting treated, they would simply just go to alternate modalities of equal worth.

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