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Comment This is well known (Score 5, Informative) 499

Its not some sort of secret, it has been disclosed by the Fed in their annual reports as required by law.

FORTUNE -- The bailout of the financial system is roughly as popular as Wall Street bonuses, the federal budget deficit, or LeBron James in a Cleveland sports bar. You hear over and over that the bailout was a disaster, it cost taxpayers a fortune, we didn't really need it, it didn't work, it was a failure. It has become politically toxic, which inhibits reasoned public discussion about it.

But you know what? The bailout, by the numbers, clearly did work. Not only did it forestall a worldwide financial meltdown, but a Fortune analysis shows that U.S. taxpayers are coming out ahead on it -- by at least $40 billion, and possibly by as much as $100 billion eventually. This is our count for the entire bailout, not just the 3% represented by the massively unpopular Troubled Asset Relief Program. Yes, that's right -- TARP is only about 3% of the bailout, even though it gets about 97% of the attention.

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/07/08/surprise-the-big-bad-bailout-is-paying-off/ Fortune Magazine Article

Comment Tablet maybe... terrible book reader though (Score 1) 194

If you look at the spec's, it claims "up to" an 8 hour battery life with airplane mode, which is drastically shorter than current eInk based technology (I routinely get 25-30 hours of reading out of a nook easily with airplane mode on).

It is also backlit, which contributes to insomnia for those who read late at night or in bed (see La Times).

I'd love to see a color, eInk based technology, but if I wanted a tablet instead of a ebook reader, I'd buy one. They both have their places, but LCD screens are not a substitute yet.

Comment What's the benefit for general use? -- Why do it? (Score 1) 138

This is an expensive test with a fairly high side effect profile. On top of which, a positive result leaves the doctor and patient with no change in treatment options. Since Alzheimer's is an uncureable disease, early diagnosis doesn't accomplish anything. Neuro-Psychological tests (DRS-2) have very high accuracy in diagnosing the disease in late-early and moderate staged disease. The real question is... we have a positive (or negative) result, so how does this change our proposed treatment. The answer is it doesn't.

That being said, this is a significant advance for research purposes, which should allow for double blind studies without needing an autopsy.

Comment Re:Ramifications (Score 1) 289

Assets are only deductible to a charity at the lower of cost or FMV. The labor could not be considered a cost in the computation of the asset. Regardless, even if the labor was deductible, the person would have to claim above the line income on that labor (ie... I earned 5000 and then donated 5000 to charity). This will always result in a worse case than not deducting the labor or recognizing the income (there are some very small situations where this isn't the case, but not applicable to 99% of situations).
Medicine

Submission + - Salesforce.com buys Electronic Medical Records (wsj.com)

sgent writes: "Salesforce.com has bought a minority stake in Practice Fusion — an electronic medical record company. Slashdot has recently had some significant debates over the use of the cloud by physician practices (see yesterday's Slashdot) and thought this should be brought to light. Apparently Practice Fusion already uses the cloud for their clients, and now will transfer it to Salesforce. It will also allow Salesforce to get into the soon to explode EMR market — which was funded with $30 billion in the recent stimulus package."
Censorship

Submission + - AT&T Censors 4chan server 13

An anonymous reader writes: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/94pf2/att_is_now_blocking_all_access_to_img4chanorg/ Details how img.4chan.org (home of the notorious /b/ — "Random" image board) is being actively blocked by AT&T. According to the scant details available on 4chan and Reddit there are reports that img.4chan.org has become inaccessible from California to Texas and some reports claim as far east as Connecticut. Supposedly this is to stop a ring of pedophiles, but as one Reddit poster said it best "First the came for the pedophiles and I was not a pedophile..."
Disturbing news indeed.

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