Comment Yep the fire Marshal and the town (Score 1) 371
Agree with Daniel
Call the fire marshal, and the town, I am sure there are codes regarding instillation of something like that.
US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s 144
bleedingpegasus sends word that the US Air Force will be grabbing up 2,200 new PlayStation 3 consoles for research into supercomputing. They already have a cluster made from 336 of the old-style (non-Slim) consoles, which they've used for a variety of purposes, including "processing multiple radar images into higher resolution composite images (known as synthetic aperture radar image formation), high-def video processing, and 'neuromorphic computing.'" According to the Justification Review Document (DOC), "Once the hardware configuration is implemented, software code will be developed in-house for cluster implementation utilizing a Linux-based operating software."
Submission + - Manditory H1N1 Vaccine for Health workers suspende (wgy.com)
lunatick writes: The controversial mandatory swine flu vaccine for health care workers in NY has been suspended While the reason for the suspension was stated as a shortage of the Vaccine a connection was found Showing State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines, M.D. and/or his wife may directly profit from the sale of the vaccine Within hours of that connection being questioned on a radio show and the podcast being distributed the announcement was made suspending the order. The health care community of NYS is petitioning the State Attorney general to investigate the connection.
Submission + - Windows 7 Download Emails Land in Spam Folders
robot256 writes: Like many users, I pre-ordered Windows 7 from the Microsoft Store months ago for $XX. I waited all day for the download instruction email, only to discover it in my Gmail SPAM folder. A warning to everyone waiting for their downloads: check your spam folder before cursing Microsoft. This is one M$ email you don't want to miss!
Submission + - Microsoft's Win7 Student Edition fiasco (microsoft.com)
Nimey writes: It seems that many people who have bought the $30 student edition of Windows 7 have received a broken installer that will not create a bootable DVD image. The problem seems to be related to extracting a 64-bit version of 7 on a 32-bit version of Windows.
In other news, the Pirate Bay has several editions of Windows 7 available in .ISO format, which need a license key (which we paid our $30 for) to work anyway.
In other news, the Pirate Bay has several editions of Windows 7 available in
Submission + - Judge rejects sheriff's suit against Craigslist (yahoo.com)
jjohn24680 writes: A federal judge has thrown out a local sheriff's lawsuit accusing the online classified group Craigslist of facilitating prostitution. Links back to Slashdot article in March.
Comment Panic over nothing. (Score 1) 541
The point isn't whether the flu vaccine is necessary or not. The point is you are mandated to get it if you work in a NYS article 28 facility (section 205 of the NYS public health law specifically) you are forced to get this shot if you want to keep your job. This includes care agencies, Hospitals, Nursing homes etc...
Is the vaccine safe, who knows? They just started clinical trials. This is the problem Health care workers are being forced into the clinical trial. I know for a fact that it is not FDA approved yet, and because it is a vaccine for a "pandemic" disease it is allowed to bend the rules of acceptable ingredients. The mercury content of the vaccine is higher than normally allowed. available here While a healthy male may have no problem with this, how about a pregnant female? Some of the ingredients are known to worsen thyroid conditions . The problem is no one really knows what will happen.
Also why mandate the swine flu shot but not the regular flu shot. 12% of people die from the flu every year (CDC reports) yet as of June of 2009 the swine flu has about a 6% mortality rate (Again CDC reports).
This disease is less deadly than most other strains of the flu yet there is panic over it. The big deal is while the normal flu may put you out of commission for 3 days the swine flu can knock you out for 6 days to 2 weeks.
The CDC is not mandating health care workers get the shot, only NYS is. Plus you have to sign multiple wavers that you won't sue anyone should you end up sick from it. Basically you are given the choice of playing Russian roulette or lose your job. You have a 1 in 6 chance of getting the bullet but if you get the bullet your chances don't matter you are stuck with the reality. A lot of the people educating people on the Vaccine when asked if they will get it, turn around and say no. How can they truthfully educate people on how safe this vaccine is if they refuse to get it?
I know in Manhattan on Oct 13 an injunction is being filed by PATRICIA FINN on behalf of all health care workers, and it may go class action suit if the injunction is approved.
Fyi I just gave a lecture on swine flu and have a ton more info if any one wants it, most of it is available off CDC websites though.
Comment Re:amazing how this news keeps changeing (Score 1) 183
Paramedic.
If they take the place down I will be very disappointed. It's nice to be able to look at history almost every day.
Comment amazing how this news keeps changeing (Score 5, Interesting) 183
I work across the street from his old lab (on Tesla st no less) The place is in serious disrepair, but it would be nice to see it preserved. His transmission towers are in wreckage all over the DEC property on the south side of 25a in rocky point.
Last I heard 1 week ago the museum was a go, guess things change.
Comment Re:This isn't news...been this way since before 19 (Score 1) 243
I had a few friends that worked for Babages back in the early 90's They did the same all the time. Again the management wanted them to take them home and play them so they could advise customers on it.
They had all the equipment in the back to reseal the games and CD's so no one would know.
Submission + - Holding Companies advertised responsible for spam
lunatick writes: "I have been getting a ton of spam on my forums. Despite e-mail activation, image text input, auto-banning anyone that trys to input a webpage I get an average of 20 new sign ups a day and 2 actually activate and post Spam. I added a $1000 per day advertisement fee for the forums as a TOS, but how do i enforce this. I tried billing 1 company and was slapped with a harassment threat. I obtained the address through a whois lookup. Does anyone in the /. community know of any legal president for holding the advertised companies/websites liable for the spam of the advertising companies they hire?"
