Too complicated for the average user?

Most of the time, those disk images come with a shortcut to the system applications folder. The folder background will have text saying something like, "To install, drag this (arrow pointing to the application package) to here (arrow pointing to the shortcut)." I have never seen anyone stymied by this.

I don't know - 2001 is sort of in a category of its own, in my opinion. Although , in the Best Picture category, it would have been up against The Lion in Winter. I'm not sure I'd want to go up against that.

(And even The Lion in Winter lost to Oliver! Meh.)

But anyway - Avatar? Seriously?

Look, I liked the special effects as much as the next guy, but for God's sake, it's just not even on the same playing field.

Disclosure: I work for (but do not speak for in any official capacity) a company which provides electronic health software of the type discussed in this article.

Even overlooking the use of pharmacy IT solutions, there is still a lot of room in clinical IT solutions generally to help combat PAEs. For example, software solutions can generate warnings to healthcare professionals when a patient is at a higher than usual risk for particular PAEs. For example, patients under heavy sedation or with loss of sensation are at greatly increased risk for pressure ulcers: a good workflow system can remind nurses to change the patient's position regularly to prevent them from forming.

It's no panacea, but there's still room in this space to do a lot of good. But I agree that the article is misleading as written.

I suppose this was unavoidable once Duke Nukem Forever went gold...

Good news. If you're getting enough exercise, there's a fair amount of research to suggest that you've already mitigated a bunch of health risks that you might otherwise have been prey to if you'd been obese and sedentary.

Also, and apropos to the topic of this article, check out Mike Evans' "visual lecture" on YouTube, called 23 and 1/2 hours.

Red Hat has had a lab-based exam forever. I was certified (RHCE) on RHEL 4, and at the time there was no written component at all: you show up, here's your system, fix it. They gave me a worksheet describing exactly the criteria they would use to check the system, too: when you told the proctor you were ready, he'd run some kind of script, then tell you how far along in the section you had completed successfully. You were allowed to do this as many times as you wanted up until the time limit. The exam took basically all day.

Side note, and file under "I am probably not supposed to mention this": if you are thinking of taking this test, please do not overlook low-level administrative stuff like GRUB maintenance. I observed a guy come in to a system with a misconfigured GRUB. He didn't know how to fix it, and as a result wasn't able to boot the box to fix anything else. Poor guy walked out of the exam after five minutes, having flushed a few hundred bucks down the toilet.

Senator Paul was on his way to a March for Life event, and was departing from Nashville, KN. He was neither detained (although he was prevented from entering a secured area), nor placed under arrest. So I really don't think that there's any violation of section 6 here.

Can we get something clear about this?

Paul wasn't detained. He set off a body scanner, and asked to be rescanned. The TSA said that a rescan wasn't going to do it, and that they would require a pat-down. He refused, and then left.

At no point did the TSA inform him that he wasn't allowed to leave. They prevented him from getting onto the flight for not complying with their security procedures.

I'm no fan of the TSA. But Paul is grandstanding here because the TSA is one of his favorite bete noirs.

What? Are you suggesting that Slashdot moderation was not intelligently designed?

To reiterate what a few other people have already said: a MILS style camera isn't really any easier to use than a DSLR. However, they do tend to be smaller, which can be a big plus when traveling. My main camera is a Canon 5D (first generation), which is a huge brick of a thing. I'm sure I've missed out on getting some great shots because I couldn't be arsed to bring it with me sometimes.

The article you linked to on DPreview is already a better overview than most people on /. are going to be able to provide - just skip to the section on beginner's cameras and pick the one that calls out to you.

But don't do it because DSLRs are big and scary. Every camera you ever have will have the following controls: aperture, shutter speed, ISO. That's 99% of what you need. Go grab a copy of "Understanding Exposure" by Bryan Peterson and the rest will fall into place. (Unless you intend to use external lighting, in which case you've got plenty of time to learn that too.)

I'm surprised to not have seen more "OccupyYourMom" jokes.

"I spent last night occupying your mom. She says hi, by the way."

God help them if they play Skyrim. I swear I'm swimming in wolf pelts, fur boots, and leather bracers.

"I fear that high production values and the inevitable sexualisation of the lead characters that a Hollywood treatment brings will destroy the show."

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Leela!

(Ha, you thought I was going to go with Amy Pond, didn't you? Too easy. Old school, it's how I roll.)

Man, if only there were a way that we could find out... oh, look! The actual plan, as released by his campaign! Here, take a look yourself, it's not like it's that long. According to the announcement on his campaign web site, that's the plan, "in full."

If his explanation to how to continue providing the "core public services of these departments" is in any way materially different from "the private sector," I'll eat my hat.

Why choose?

Cuts totaling $1 trillion during the first year of a Paul Presidency would be achieved by eliminating five federal cabinet departments – the Departments of Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Interior and Education. Cuts of this scale will also be accomplished by a Paul Presidency abolishing the Transportation Security Administration and returning responsibility for security to private property owners, abolishing corporate subsidies, stopping foreign aid, ending foreign wars, and returning most other spending to 2006 levels.

(Note: please don't read this post as an endorsement of the plan.)