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Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @07:49PM from the type-A-negative-personality dept.

trianglecat writes "The not-for-profit agency Canadian Blood Services has a section of their website based on the Japanese cultural belief of ketsueki-gata, which claims that a person's blood group determines or predicts their personality type. Disappointing for a self-proclaimed 'science-based' organization. The Ottawa Skeptics, based in the nation's capital, appear to be taking some action."

Comment Re:Fixes problems misguided people think C++ has. (Score 3, Insightful) 831

by rusty on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @06:50AM (#30058228) Attached to: Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language

> Stop trying to replace C++ with a language that does not fulfill every aspect C++ covers.

Err, no (how did this get +5?) C++'s entire problem stems from the attempt to Be All Things. A far better approach is to design something that does one part of things well, and interoperates with C like everything else so you can glue stuff together.

They've subtracted, not added. This is the Right Thing to have done.

Rusty.

Submission + - Firefox closing in on Explorer in SMB market

Submitted by thefickler on Sunday March 11, 2007 @08:17AM

thefickler writes: Mozilla's Firefox browser is closing in on Internet Explorer's market leading position in the small-to-medium business (SMB) market, according to a survey by Toronto-based online time tracking and billing provider, FreshBooks, of 140,000 of its SMB customers. Firefox's browser market share was up by 1.35 percent in February 2007 to 38.95 percent while Internet Explorer's share dropped by 0.73 percent to 56.95 percent

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