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Comment My mom took something like this (Score 1) 323

Capecitbine after a few passes through the liver becomes 5-Fluorouracil or 5-FU, which is the drug she took.
It played hell on her hands & feet and for several years she had no prints on her hands or feet.
It really sucks your hands & feet are very raw/chapped all the time, just moving them could cause bleeding cracks to form; its just miserable.

Comment So we're back to ..... (Score 1) 350

Client Server/Cloud architectures. Remote/shared computing is great for some things, but not others, the load per user is just too high. Modern FPS & MMORPG gaming, video, audio processing, are examples that would be "challenging" to move into the cloud. I suppose you could download plugin's & applets etc, but the data sets for some things just seem to require local processing & storage.

Comment Bear Grylls (Score 1) 349

He's drank his own urine after storing it in a snake skin for a few hours in the desert. One of the most horrifying moments I've seen on television really. If he can do that, the I suspect that drinking highly filtered urine, is just fine. I suppose though if you were drinking it on a daily basis then one might want to have it slightly more purified than what Bear drank.

Privacy

The Hidden Secrets of Online Quizzes 136

LegionKK points out a story on PC World, sending along this excerpt: "Ultimately, deciding whether you should take an online quiz comes down to a question of trust: Are you comfortable putting your information — personal or financial — into the owner's hands? Remember, even if you don't directly input data, it can be passed along. Such is the case with Facebook, where just opening an application automatically grants its developer access to your entire profile. And don't assume that the developer isn't going to use the information within. [...] The ads can follow you long after you click away, too. Just look at RealAge, a detailed quiz that assigns you a 'biological age' based on your family history and health habits. The site, a recent investigation revealed, takes your most sensitive answers — those about sexual difficulties, say, or signs of depression — and sells them to drug companies looking to market medications."

Comment Re:Work Experience, then your masters. (Score 1) 834

Be careful about this plan if you really want the degree. This was my idea and its amazing how real life will keep you from going back for a long time. Especially if you get married & have a kid, all of a sudden the good pay check you're earning now will be much more important that the possibly better paycheck you'll earn tomorrow. Even finding the time /money to do an online masters later on may be rather tough while taking care of your other responsibilities

Comment While 1 cargo ship belches out... (Score 1, Redundant) 223

pollution equal to 50 million cars annually. Just 15 of these ships = the entire worlds auto output (SO2/SoX) There are 19,000 ocean going cargo ships, granted of various sizes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping-pollution.

While I'm not complaining about making car emissions cleaner lets start looking at making some of the current big offenders cleaner.

Comment Re:Sounds like an inside job. (Score 1) 325

Hum, $10M in small unmarked bills.
Lets assume you mean 20's, the largest bill most people carry around. $10M is 500,000 bills. Now its about 454 bills per lbs so we're looking at 1101.32lbs of money. Can't just grab a suit case and run off with it can you? For comparison then for 50's you need 200,000 or 440.5lbs & 100's 100,000 of them for 220.25lbs. None of these are simple to transport without a vehicle.

I'm not even going to bother with figuring an even split of 1's 5's & 10's.

Oh, alright, I will:
Here's an even split by bill count:
One would need 625,000 of each bill; 1, 5 & 10 to get to $10M or 1.875M bills which weighs 3955lbs.

If you wanted an equal value for the lowest three denominations which would be ~$3.3M of each denomination which works out to ~4.33M bills or 9544.8lbs. Though you'd need to substitute an extra fiver for half of a ten since it won't quite divide up evenly like this.

In a nutshell though, cash for this kind of transaction would be a tad unwieldy unless you went with 100's even then its not easy to carry around for most people. A wire transaction is the way to go and ass soon as the money is there start moving it around splitting it up in various ways to hide the trail, etc.

Comment Re:Not good enough. (Score 5, Informative) 370

It appears that they are referring to a CD or DVD like product not a hard drive.
From the article:
 
In G.E.â(TM)s approach, the holograms are scattered across a disc in a way that is similar to the formats used in todayâ(TM)s CDs, conventional DVDs and Blu-ray discs. So a player that could read microholographic storage discs could also read CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs. But holographic discs, with the technology G.E. has attained, could hold 500 gigabytes of data. Blu-ray is available in 25-gigabyte and 50-gigabyte discs, and a standard DVD holds 5 gigabytes.

Comment Re:But if it works based on clicking links... (Score 1) 133

People typically assume they're much smarter than they really are. You, reflecting the FBI's technique realize there are several issues that could limit its success. However, that they do it, obviously it has worked, & given the propagation vectors of a typical internet worm, the successes seen by various phishing scams indicates to me that they'd likely have some success even if they sent out an email with the program as an attachment for the person being surveiled to run even if it indicated in the From address that it was from surveillance_program@fbi.gov

Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - D&D co-creator Dave Arneson Dies

BigGar' writes: MINNEAPOLIS — Dave Arneson, one of the co-creators of the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy game and a pioneer of role-playing entertainment, died after a two-year battle with cancer, his family said Thursday. He was 61.

Arneson and Gary Gygax developed Dungeons & Dragons in 1974 using medieval characters and mythical creatures. The game known for its oddly shaped dice became a hit, particularly among teenage boys. It eventually was turned into video games, books and movies. Gygax died in March 2008.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/19144683/detail.html

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