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Comment: Only Monarch to be on Star Trek too (Score 2) 233

by dtolman on Tuesday August 09 2011, @11:24AM (#37033872) Attached to: $1.5 Billion Star Trek Theme Park Coming To Jordan

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.

Cloud fails again - Yahoo! Mail outage-> 0

Submitted by

dtolman

on Thursday April 28 2011, @12:56PM

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)"
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Facebook locking popular pages without warning-> 0

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raulfragoso

on Thursday April 28 2011, @12:32PM

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."
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Comment: Re:M$ fired the guys who had already designed one (Score 1) 203

by dtolman on Wednesday April 20 2011, @08:50AM (#35879866) Attached to: Microsoft: No Tablets Until It's Distinctive

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

by dtolman on Wednesday July 28 2010, @02:25PM (#33060380) Attached to: Our Video Game Heritage Is Rotting Away

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

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 21 2010, @01:15AM
from the velluvial-matrix dept.

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

by dtolman on Sunday April 25 2010, @09:22AM (#31974182) Attached to: Don't Talk To Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking

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

by dtolman on Wednesday April 21 2010, @08:12AM (#31921658) Attached to: Anti-Cancer Agent Stops Metastasis In Its Tracks

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

by dtolman on Thursday April 08 2010, @06:59PM (#31783888) Attached to: Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down"

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

by dtolman on Thursday April 08 2010, @02:31PM (#31780772) Attached to: Verizon CEO Says "We Will Hunt Heavy Users Down"

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...