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Comment: Influenza vaccination has been shown highly effect (Score 5, Informative) 851

by joostje (#42517099) Attached to: Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flu_vaccine#Benefits_of_vaccination Influenza vaccination has been shown highly effective in health care workers (HCW), with minimal adverse effects. In a study of forty matched nursing homes, staff influenza vaccination rates were 69.9% in the vaccination arm versus 31.8% in the control arm. The vaccinated staff experienced a 42% reduction in sick leave from work (P=.03).[33] A review of eighteen studies likewise found a strong net benefit to health care workers

Comment: gold standard for responsible mailing (Score 4, Informative) 345

by joostje (#42275959) Attached to: Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist
Yes, verified opt-in is one requirement. But if you don't want to be marked as sender of SPAM, you should also make it *very* simple to unsubscribe. I know I've subscribed to a few lists, and at first read the emails, then ignored them, and eventually thought "should unsubscribe". But if that unsubscribing is difficult, I'll just hit "spam" in gmail (or whatever). I don't see the emails and more, and the sender gets blocked as spammer.

Comment: Re:Missing option (Score 1) 525

by joostje (#42018273) Attached to: My relationship to military service:

They were flying too low and based on maps that did not mention the new aerial tramway. They were court martialed in the U.S.A., acquitted, then trialed a second time and were sentenced to a short prison time.

The second time however they were sentenced for found guilty of obstruction of justice and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman for having destroyed a videotape recorded from the plane, so the parent is right in saying they were never sentenced for killing 20 people.

Comment: Warrant for looking at your house with IR? (Score 3, Interesting) 451

by joostje (#41828055) Attached to: Supreme Court Hearing Case On Drug-Sniffing Dog "Fishing Expeditions"

same as they need a warrant to use a thermal imaging device to search for grow houses

Really? I see you are right, but that does sound strange to me, living in the Netherlands. Here it's a standard way for the police to track down the growers (even though selling small quantities is half-legal here).

Comment: Re:List of their patents (Score 1) 171

by joostje (#41522409) Attached to: Patent Troll Goes After Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM, Others

5,978,791 - Data processing system using substantially unique identifiers to identify data items, whereby identical data items have the same identifiers

"Substantially unique" - I love that.

It could be the identifier is a hash - there is some chance of collision, so cannot be guaranteed to be unique.

Comment: Re:The internet is full. Go away. (Score 5, Informative) 241

by joostje (#41338103) Attached to: RIPE Region Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses

The problem with this is, IPv4 addresses are not rare. They're not anything like rare. There are approximately ten thousand times as many of them as are actually needed.

Well, with only 32 bits of address space, that's only 4,294,967,296 possible addresses, and there are already more people on the planet. We do need more.

Stay the curse.

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