Comment Re:About as much damage as Y2K (Score 2) 176
Wow, with that kind of forward thinking you could run for Congress, or be a pundit!
Hey - I have some land on Mount St Helens that I'd like to sell - want some?
Comment Could be a lot worse... could've been the fax line (Score 2) 158
When I had a new landline number assigned to me 15 years back, we found out the hard way it was the old fax number for a business. Nothing like getting half a dozen calls an hour all day and night, each one a series of high pitched whistles and beeps.
After complaining to the phone company numerous times, they finally gave us a new number after two weeks. Gee, thanks.
Comment Re:An idea (Score 1) 221
Check boardgamegeek.com for local gaming groups in your area. Almost everyone city or county has one...
Comment Re:According to original report it wasn't Enders G (Score 1) 1054
In addition to the link the other poster mentioned, the earliest cite is:
http://www.aikenstandard.com/story/031412-Aiken-County-Schools--3859574
which also mentions a story with a prostitute and a sexual act.
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Comment According to original report it wasn't Enders Game (Score 4, Informative) 1054
The original story reported it a bit differently:
"According to the incident report, a teacher had been reading pornographic material from the Internet to the students in class. One of the stories was about prostitutes having their faces covered with ejaculation."
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Unless this is the writer's cut that my library didn't stock - this wasn't enders game they were reading.
Comment Only Monarch to be on Star Trek too (Score 2) 233
Lesson learned - always find time to cast the Crown Prince to be on your show, you never know when it'll pay off:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmut6FJ1d4M
Now we know what ??? is in step 3: wait for extra to become wealthy king.
Submission + - Cloud fails again - Yahoo! Mail outage (thenextweb.com)
dtolman writes: "Yet another Cloud failure — Yahoo Mail, possibly the largest hosted email service on the web, has been suffering the past few hours with a partial shutdown — possibly related to the rollout of their new mail service (still in beta)"
Submission + - Facebook locking popular pages without warning (thenextweb.com)
raulfragoso writes: "Some popular websites, among them Ars Technica and Redmond Pie, are complaining about Facebook having locked out their pages on Facebook due to alleged copyright infringement. The problem is that Facebook does not state what's the supposed violation neither is willing to answer the requests for explaining the reason of the alleged infringement.
Many user comments in the Ars Technica article ( http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/04/facebook-shoots-first-ignores-questions-later-account-lock-out-attack-works.ars )lead to think that this is happening more often than not."
Many user comments in the Ars Technica article ( http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/04/facebook-shoots-first-ignores-questions-later-account-lock-out-attack-works.ars )lead to think that this is happening more often than not."
Comment Re:M$ fired the guys who had already designed one (Score 1) 203
How could they possibly release that concept? It had too much buzz around it, and if there is one thing MS hates... its being hip.
Comment Re:Intellivision Baseball (Score 1) 492
Great game - only shame about it is the lack of fly vs ground balls. I should really see how much it costs to get the new baseball version they published in the mid-80's... my intellivision console works and still I play it now and then (including baseball - just a few months ago).
What US Health Care Needs 584
Medical doctor and writer Atul Gawande gave the commencement address recently at Stanford's School of Medicine. In it he lays out very precisely and in a nonpartisan way what is wrong with the institution of medical care in the US — why it is both so expensive and so ineffective at delivering quality care uniformly across the board. "Half a century ago, medicine was neither costly nor effective. Since then, however, science has... enumerated and identified... more than 13,600 diagnoses — 13,600 different ways our bodies can fail. And for each one we've discovered beneficial remedies... But those remedies now include more than six thousand drugs and four thousand medical and surgical procedures. Our job in medicine is to make sure that all of this capability is deployed, town by town, in the right way at the right time, without harm or waste of resources, for every person alive. And we're struggling. There is no industry in the world with 13,600 different service lines to deliver. ... And then there is the frightening federal debt we will face. By 2025, we will owe more money than our economy produces. One side says war spending is the problem, the other says it's the economic bailout plan. But take both away and you've made almost no difference. Our deficit problem — far and away — is the soaring and seemingly unstoppable cost of health care. ... Like politics, all medicine is local. Medicine requires the successful function of systems — of people and of technologies. Among our most profound difficulties is making them work together. If I want to give my patients the best care possible, not only must I do a good job, but a whole collection of diverse components must somehow mesh effectively. ... This will take science. It will take art. It will take innovation. It will take ambition. And it will take humility. But the fantastic thing is: This is what you get to do."
Comment Re:Buzz (Score 2, Interesting) 1015
Don't worry - our radio waves are not on their way - they may go out forever, but the weaken too... sorry to say that you'd have to be by Jupiter with a radio telescope to watch our TV. By the time aliens notice the carrier signals, they'll be in our Oort Cloud. They'll notice the oxygen and methane in our atmosphere first...
Comment You wait for perfection, I'll take for good enough (Score 1) 269
Seriously. My chances of dying are 100%. Based off my family history, it'll be cancer instead of heart disease.
So if someone offers me the privilege of continued living for only 50K a year, I'll take it. I wasn't expecting to retire anyway. And I can always decide to step off the carousel at any time by not taking the drugs.
Comment Re:Come to Verizon! (Score 1) 738
True... if you read the fine print though, it basically says no streaming video/audio... downloading (aka - things you would use bandwidth for).
but apparently they have no way of enforcing, so why not get the cheapest plan you can get, and pretend its unlimited?
Comment Re:Come to Verizon! (Score 1) 738
They are advertised... I mean its in the name of the mobile plan - the Verizon mobile plans are called the 250/megs a month plan or 5 gigs a month plan or something like that.
I'm just shocked they weren't enforcing... does that mean we should all get verizon 250/meg a month mobile plan, and use it as much as we want? Wonder how much video can a phone download in a month on a 3G/wireless network...
