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Comment Re:80386... (Score 2) 338

I'll mark you points if you can open a telnet or ssh connection to a Unix shell account somewhere. Packet drivers and NCSA Telnet would get you there, and you could run a commandline webclient from there.

For another starting point look on http://users.ohiohills.com/fmacall/ or http://sshdos.sourceforge.net/index.html

Your next challenge: do it on an 8088.

Comment Re:Sweet, but the interesting implications are (Score 1) 217

My dad's case was lung cancer -- even though he was not a smoker -- with a 6% survival rate after 5 years. This happened 10 years ago, I realize our understanding of cancer has improved and more options have become available, but your prospects still don't look great. Sad as it may be, your *should* realize fully that your case may *not* be one with a miraculous happy ending.

Comment Re:Sweet, but the interesting implications are (Score 1) 217

On reading back I realize I sound slightly bitter, and I would not want people to just give up hope. My dad's case was lung cancer -- even though he was not a smoker -- with, according to the stats you point to, a 6% survival rate after 5 years. This happened 10 years ago, I realize our understanding of cancer has improved and more options have become available, but your prospects still don't look great.

Comment Re:Sweet, but the interesting implications are (Score 0) 217

My dad died of cancer.

Most stuff "doesn't work". Cancer is a terrible disease that has *some* medicines that prolong life, by a bit, but few real cures. About the only thing that has been proven to work is chemotherapy, and that's a race -- poison the whole body, hope that you *just* out-poison the cancer and the body has enough resources left to recover. Few win the race.

Given that track record, of the "best the pharmaceutical industry has to offer" I can understand the clutching at straws. My dad, towards the end, signed on for some experimental treatment, hoping to at least add a datapoint to the body of knowledge. A large part though, is simply coming to terms with the fact that, yes, if you've been diagnosed with cancer, you will probably die of the disease.

Comment Re:It is like getting customer service... (Score 1) 375

You got a bottle of water? Fly RyanAir.

Great airline if you feel a need to stock up on Irish lottery tickets, sandwiches, cheap perfume, toys. They won't stop paddling you stuff from the second they're in the air until landing sets in.

Those tickets are cheap, but it's incredibly hard to compare their price. The sticker price is not the real price because of "add-on luxuries" -- there's extra fees for online check-in, luggage, paying by creditcard -- and you only get the "final" price once you're 80% thru the booking process.

As a kid, flying felt like a glamorous way to travel. Airports were exotic places you could go to to watch planes come in from foreign lands.

My kids haven't flown yet.

Comment Re:A real problem? (Score 1) 125

Monthly salary for a teaching assistant in Sweden: 19 500 Swedish kronor = 2 835.456 U.S. dollars

(source: http://www.thelocal.se/discuss/index.php?showtopic=14142)

Cost of GPS widget: 25 U.S. dollars

(source: http://www.focalprice.com/ERW21B/Mini_GPS_Personal_Locator_Tracking_Device_Black.html?utm_source=CS&utm_medium=GM_UK&utm_campaign=CS_GM_UK_ERW21B)

If it saves 2 hours a year per child (2835 / month ~= 100 a day ~= US$ 25 for 2 hrs) , it's worth it.

Comment Re:Einstein replied "Check your measurements, son" (Score 5, Informative) 1088

It may still be a consistent measurement fault, but they've repeated it 15000 times. FTFA: "The team measured the travel times of neutrino bunches some 15,000 times, and have reached a level of statistical significance that in scientific circles would count as a formal discovery."

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