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Comment: Re:Hey! Now we know (Score 2) 858

by TechHSV (#42183875) Attached to: Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science
Even if you're vaccinated you can still get the disease. It just greatly decreases the possibility. Plus not everyone can receive the vaccination due to other medical conditions. So if the kid who traveled was vaccinated, he most likely would not have been infected and it would have most likely meant the others would not have been infected.

Comment: Re:And the unions are pissed... (Score 1) 575

by TechHSV (#40758421) Attached to: Khan Academy: the Teachers Strike Back

Automatic pay raises based on seniority, and not merit... I am all for paying good teachers a lot more.

How do you propose you quantify 'good' teachers exactly? Parent or student recommendations? Doesn't that create and awkward incentive for hot_starting_teacher_01 to give a blow job to little johnny's daddy to make sure she gets a good recommendation?

I've seen this excuse many times before. Are we saying that every single other profession is able to measure performance, except for teaching? Seriously, can we not spend a few months on identifying a way to do some type of qualitative 360 degree review?

Comment: Re:Bad summary: the airline, not the government (Score 2, Interesting) 624

by TechHSV (#39117043) Attached to: Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers
How did this get labeled Insightful? The Federal Government is requiring many Catholic organizations to provide contraception in the policies they provide their employees. Because these organizations pay at least partially for these policies, they are being required to pay for contraception. The slimy move to say it doesn't have to be in the policy, but has to be provided for free it just bull and every one knows it.

Comment: Re:I liked it. (Score 1) 201

by TechHSV (#36506058) Attached to: Review: <em>Green Lantern</em>

Did Hal actually USE the ring for anything interesting? I wouldn't say I'm the biggest fan, but I do have a few of the comics. I don't think a lot of people got that the rings power had to do with imagination, and that Hal's true power wasn't just the ring, but that he used it in such inventive ways. Since that time it seems like he's been reduced to shooting some green death ray from his ring and such instead of problem solving.

I was initially interested in the movie, but had the feeling it wouldn't touch on the theme of using imagination. From the trailers I didn't get that impression either.

He did at least one thing that I thought was pretty clever/funny with the ring, but I don't want to spoil it. It was more than just shooting green lasers.

Comment: I liked it. (Score 4, Interesting) 201

by TechHSV (#36503040) Attached to: Review: <em>Green Lantern</em>
I've been a Green Lantern fan for about 20 years. I can still remember going through the white boxes at the comic book store trying to find any issue that I missed. I liked the movie for what it was. They had to skim and condense many things from the GL lore, but explaining a history that begins at the big bang can really eat into the 2 hours that people will sit through a movie. The OP mentions that the GL Corps is played up to be a big deal and OA as being awesome as bad things. These are freaking awesome things, this isn't the Rascals club house. The cool part about Green Lantern is that imagination and will power can be used to do amazing things. Realizing this as a young geek reading comics was a huge deal for me and many others.

To summarize, I thought the movie was fun enough for your average summer movie goer and did better than expected from the POV of a long time GL fan. I would have liked some more inside type of stuff thrown in (even a mention of Alan Scott), but it was still pretty freaking cool hearing the Oath in a movie.

Comment: Re:slow news day? (Score 1) 211

by TechHSV (#34461106) Attached to: Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned Profile Pages

Seriously - it didn't cross the minds of 12 engineers that everyone who uses facebook has hated every single one of the UI changes - and they still continue to do it?

The fact that they still have millions of users and continue to grow, lends one to believe that not everyone hates their updates. People don't like change and more than that they are terrible at imagining how they will use a something that is vastly different that what they currently do. A good business is able to derive a set of features from their customer's wants, and then design a way to meet those wants. Even when the customer may balk at first. If Facebook stayed with their original UI, someone else would have come into the market and replaced them.

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The Real 'Stuff White People Like' 286

Posted by samzenpus
from the taking-a-closer-look dept.
Here's an interesting and funny look at 526,000 OkCupid users, divided into groups by race and gender and all the the things each groups says it likes or is interested in. While it is far from being definitive, the groupings give a glimpse of what makes each culture unique. According to the results, white men like nothing better than Tom Clancy, Van Halen, and golfing.
Government

Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking 794

Posted by timothy
from the too-stupid-to-live-as-long-as-possible dept.
lord_rotorooter writes "Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn, introduced a bill that would ruin restaurant food and baked goods as we know them. The measure (if passed) would ban the use of all forms of salt in the preparation and cooking of food for all restaurants or bakeries. While the use of too much salt can contribute to health problems, the complete banning of salt would have negative impacts on food chemistry. Not only does salt enhance flavor, it controls bacteria, slows yeast activity and strengthens dough by tightening gluten. Salt also inhibits the growth of microbes that spoil cheese."
Medicine

Federal Deadline Hobbling eHealth IT Rollout 99

Posted by Soulskill
from the you-can't-hold-servers-together-with-red-tape dept.
Lucas123 writes "A federal deadline that begins next year and requires hospitals to prove they're meaningfully using electronic health records will lead to technical problems and data errors affecting patient care, say politicians and top IT professionals responsible for the deployments. Physicians and hospitals have until the end of 2011 to receive the maximum federal incentive monies to deploy the technology. If not deployed by 2015, they face penalties through cuts in Medicare reimbursements. 'I think we have nontechnology people making decisions about technology,' said Gregg Veltri, CIO at Denver Health. 'I wonder if anybody understands the reality of IT systems and how complex they are, especially when they're integrated together. You're going to sacrifice quality if you increase the speed [of the rollout].'"
NASA

Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video 266

Posted by Soulskill
from the new-perspective-on-an-old-tragedy dept.
longacre writes "An amateur video of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion has been made public for the first time. The Florida man who filmed it from his front yard on his new Betamax camcorder turned the tape over to an educational organization a week before he died this past December. The Space Exploration Archive has since published the video into the public domain in time for the 24th anniversary of the catastrophe. Despite being shot from about 70 miles from Cape Canaveral, the shuttle and the explosion can be seen quite clearly. It is unclear why he never shared the footage with NASA or the media. NASA officials say they were not aware of the video, but are interested in examining it now that it has been made available."

Comment: Dev verse Production (Score 1) 605

by TechHSV (#30606888) Attached to: Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights?
Give them admin access to machines on the dev network, but not on the production side. Development shouldn't happen on the production network. Many developers don't realize that when on the production network they can take down the entire network by downloading some crazy app or better yet screwing up code that floods the network. Setup a lab network behind a firewall, then allow ssh traffic and maybe a few other ports to allow controlled remote access. If the developers screw something up, it just takes down their lab network.

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