I always had to find a resident or nurse to get simple stuff like bandages from those stupid things.

In other news, these were in the OR's with the good stuff like propofol. Whoops.

"You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

Just didn't want anyone to think I was some government counteragent!

How does he know that the NSA hasn't hired more informaticists in the past 10 years? If I read TFA correctly, he's been out for over a decade. I kind of doubt he's privy to top secret (or higher) information like that, although civilians are granted security clearances too sometimes.

I'm not saying he's wrong, I'm just not clear on HOW he knows what he's saying is accurate. Just so you know, I'm not fan of Patriot Act or the NSA's "hoovering" of data, meta or otherwise.

Sounds like someone's jealous of not getting pie at work today!

(Currently gobbling slices of both pecan pie and apple pie!).

And what are the power requirements for those 4TB drives again?

The Pi drive, aside from the quasi-humorous capacity, was meant to be low power for the low power Raspberry Pi.

In what way was that comment SJW? If anything, this guy is giving SJW's a bad name!

Emo kid: Whatever. Everyone dies eventually anyway...

Ah, I see. I was thinking a computer engineer as someone like my friend who went to GA tech and took a bunch of actual hard-core engineering courses, as opposed to my other friend who got a ivy-league CS degree, vs me who majored in history and really likes computers as a hobby, and working towards turning it into a real jerb.

I would be surprised by how many computer engineers don't know much about hardware. I wouldn't be surprised if you'd said coders, developers, managers, etc. Computer engineers, though!?

Why is "fix" in quotes? Are you suggesting most plumbers are incompetent? Are you suggesting they are unethical and not fixing the leak? Either way, that's an argument for an increase in more properly trained plumbers. Based on my quick googling, there does seem to be a demand for plumbers. It's not rocket science, but it is a skill/trade and occasionally you have to deal with shit (literally and figuratively, unlike figuratively for most of us).

Maybe they should stick a few vocational classes in the college prep track. You know, for well-roundedness?

Not only do doctors and nurses not need to know ICD9/10 codes, the vast majority do not know them. It was not taught to me ever in 4 years of med school and 3 years of residency. If a doctor ever uses a code, it's from the CPT set.

The article highlights an interesting idea. However, one concern is that most sunscreens (except total blocks like zinc oxide and titanium dioxide-pasty stuff) are composed of biologically active compounds that absorb photons. They degrade quite quickly in a hot environment (typical advice is reapply every 2 hours in the sun-mostly for wearing off). For most cosmetically acceptable sunscreens they would need an environmentally protective device to keep them from degrading quite quickly. You probably shouldn't leave sunblock in a car on a hot day, or use them past expiration as they are in the unusual group of topicals that really do loose potency.

To get to your comments... Well, I'm not so sure Google is the best way to get medical info, but here's what I came up with (I'm not a dermatologist, but I am an MD).

These studies looked to see how much of the TiO2 penetrated the skin and got into blood (none to very little), but only after relatively short exposures (paywalls ahead):
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/a...
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi...
http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.o...
http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.o...

This one looked at "sub-chronic" exposure (2, 4, and 8 weeks):
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...

Lastly, this one looked at the effects from TiO2 in makeup and while TiO2 wasn't toxic to cells, hitting it with UV radiation caused some free radical formation, whatever that means for tumorogenesis:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

Bottom line: Sunblock is probably safe and at this point is definitely better for you than constant sunburns.

I agree it's pretty neat, but do they have this data in a more readable form? As in one, that doesn't have a million cartoon images interspersed with one sentence? I don't mean to be a crank, but I found it difficult to read. Even more so than the regular site!

You do realize that new accounts don't get mod points right away, right? That's to prevent exactly what you're describing. I would wager most of the modding up or down was done by relatively established slashdotters with sufficient karma.

http://slashdot.org/moderation...

(scroll up to "Who")