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Submission + - Thanks anti-vaccination idiots: measles are back in NYC (thedailybeast.com)

sandbagger writes: NYC may have to deal with a measles problem. New Yorkers are urged to make sure all household members, including young children, are vaccinated. To date, there have been four hospitalizations as a result of this outbreak. Vaccinations are in part a victim of their own success because people look around and see no polio or measles and so figure why bother? How do YOU think we can get through to the anit-vaxxers?

Submission + - Top U.S. Scientific Misconduct Official Quits in Frustration With Bureaucracy (sciencemag.org)

sandbagger writes: The director of the U.S. government office that monitors scientific misconduct in biomedical research has resigned after 2 years out of frustration with the “remarkably dysfunctional” federal bureaucracy. Officials at the Office of Scientific Integrity spent “exorbitant amounts of time” in meetings and generating data and reports to make their divisions look productive, David Wright writes. He huge amount of time he spent trying to get things done made much of his time at ORI “the very worst job I have ever had.”

Submission + - Jurassic Park software house Soft Image now extinct (fxguide.com)

sandbagger writes: The 1990s are now ancient in terms of computing and computer graphics imagery. Softimage enjoyed a long and beloved history in CG and VFX production, beginning life as the Softimage Creative Environment and used by ILM in many of its early landmark productions. Microsoft bought the company and sold it to Avid, which eventually transferred it to Autodesk. An obit is on FXGuide.

Submission + - One in ten Americans thinks HTML is a type of sexually transmitted infection (latimes.com)

sandbagger writes: It looks like technical writers won't be unemployed any time soon. The ignorance of many Americans appears to be appalling according to a recent survey reported on by the LA Times. The study by coupon site VoucherCloud involved 2,392 men and women 18 years of age or older. The participants were not told that the study was specifically looking into their knowledge of tech terms. They were presented with both tech and non-tech terms and were asked to choose from three possible definitions. Speaking for myself, knowledge of technical terms appears to be a perfect vaccine against sex.

Comment Re:Egon's sexuality (Score 1) 136

The thing is, the film needed a character like Winston to be a straight man. He's the stand in for the audience to whom things are explained since he doesn't have the knowledge of the other characters who were the scientists. Watson served that function in Sherlock Holmes.

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