Really? Have you actually RTFA? "The online post on ESPN said that a shooting would be like the one in Aurora, Colo., where 12 people were killed and 58 were injured in July, authorities said."

That's pretty explicit. There's a line between, "Man I just want to kill someone!" and "Here's how I'm going to do it." We act on these things because they've happened before.

I find that literary works can actually be more rewarding if I have to work to understand and comprehend it. I don't consider myself well-read, but my favorite books were those that required I read and re-read pages to catch the author's meaning. Moreover, most academic concepts that I'm proud to have learned are ones that came with hours of study and concentration.

However, the catchy quote is duly noted. Dead Poet's Society has some equally good ones.

Middle right photo - Pretty sure I've seen that room before. Shortly thereafter I was hitting head crabs with a crowbar.

Yup. We know. http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/09/18/1457243/dice-buys-geeknets-media-business-including-slashdot-in-20m-deal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaSqH8lhB0M

If the slashdot founders are smart, they'll just make dotslash.org if dice eff's up slashdot. Cha-ching another $20 million.

Smooth moves Rob Malda.

My friend recently found a 200+ year old copy of Paradise Lost in a hole-in-the-wall bookstore when he was on London. Certain ones are worth protecting, especially when the works are timeless.

Yes, but no one turns on a tablet and expects to see a windows desktop. Microsoft is too late in the game to keep their OS a major player in the new field of hardware.

The next generation will laugh at our cursors, "my computers" and "recycling bins". We have apple to thank for that.

A statement against mainstream will be worth $200 to some people. I'll just wait until this tech lets me do word processing as fast as a keyboard without making me pay as much as a good gaming laptop is worth.

I think I'm understanding your point more and your concerns in your other comment make a little bit more sense. You're right in saying that there is a lot of potential for harm in technology before we're fully aware of it's implications and there are plenty of historical examples of that. However, it doesn't mean we shouldn't explore technologies that could be extremely effective. It just means we should proceed with caution. If that's your point, then I agree. Researchers should give careful thought to what they're dealing with. Of course diet and exercise is necessary to helping diabetics. Vitamin D may have quite a bit of potential as your sources indicate. However, I do know that without sufficient insulin diabetics can quickly recede into DKA and die. If Vitamin D and other means of treating it can help wean them off of it, fantastic, but in the meantime, diabetics need to take the right medication (insulin in many cases) until they can make the necessary lifestyle changes.

Do a control-F search for "radiation" on any of those articles listed. You will find 0 results. Ultrasound technology has zero radiation. It uses sound waves at frequencies relative to its preferred use. It is used frequently in hospitals every day and it is actually done to AVOID radiation caused by CT scans and X-rays.

Ultrasounds are routinely used to look at human organ systems to evaluate for disease processes. The technology is extremely well-researched and it is considered significantly safer than CT scans or X-rays since it lacks the radiation and has an apparent lack of risks. The ultrasound isn't being done when the medication is administered to the patient's skin. The transdermal medication would be given after the ultrasound treatment has already removed the top layer of skin, therefore there would be no possibility of "modifying" the medications. I don't think ultrasound waves hide in cells and jump out at the last second when the medication is given. Needles come with many risks including introducing bacterial infection. A transdermal method may be very effective and preferred, especially for pediatric patients or adults who have anxiety about needles. If this was marketed at a consumer level one day, it could mean that diabetic patients wouldn't have to poke themselves on a daily basis anymore - which I imagine would be very desirable by millions of people. This tech is worth looking into.

I'm a pre-med student and I work for physicians in an emergency department. I've seen several pretty nifty innovations for administering IV's. In pediatric hospitals, they often use air-pressure needle-free methods of starting IV's and administering medications. To be honest, I'm not sure how they work, but they do exist and instead of having a metallic needle in your arm, it is tough, but malleable plastic. They aren't generally used mainstream in most hospitals yet, especially not in the ER. My guess is that they are more expensive and it may be more difficult to start IV access to an adult vein using needle-free technology. Some benefits though, are a reduction in introducing bacteria to a bloodstream (no potentially contaminated needles) reducing the "scare factor" from having a needle shoved in your arm. One of my close friends is a cancer survivor and he had the technology used on him many times and he said it hurts a helluva lot less than needles. http://www.icumed.com/products/infusion-therapy/needlefree-vascular-access-devices.aspx BTW, thinning needles isn't always helpful, especially if you want to administer drugs quickly (critical care situations).

I agree. I'm all for justice and for protecting our rights, but police who have legitimate warrants to arrest people shouldn't have to worry that they'll get shot when they announce they're coming in. Maybe I'm a little biased since Barrett sounds unnecessarily inflammatory to me.

I think there's a transcript on pastebin if you look through the article. Not sure I'm convinced that it caught all of those words though. They sound pretty unintelligible to me. Moreover, how did they know he was getting handcuffed? For all we know, he may have just seen a light shining in his window and he started having a seizure and began screaming.