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Comment Re:holy shit! (Score 1) 145

Really? So Android has no bugs/exploits in it? The various phone vendors that add their own code to the Android base also didn't introduce any bugs/exploits? And let me guess, the linux kernel has never had an exploit fixed?

ALL software has this problem. Open Source means it is much easier to bring them to light instead of depending on a proprietary vendor's announcement. Open Source does not mean the software doesn't have bugs/exploits.

Medicine

Cheap Incubator Backpack Could Reduce Infant Deaths 76

Boy Wunda writes "In just one six-month period in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2006, 96 newborn babies who were in need of medical care died before they could get help. In many developing nations, these deaths could be prevented simply by providing better ways for medical responders to transport infants properly over rough terrain and keep them alive until they can reach hospitals and clinics. Now, a group of Colorado State University seniors has designed and filed a patent for a medically equipped incubator backpack unit that they believe can reduce baby deaths in medical emergencies both in the United States and in newly industrialized nations."
Censorship

Google Stops Ads For "Cougar" Sites 319

teh31337one writes "Google is refusing to advertise CougarLife, a dating site for mature women looking for younger men. However, they continue to accept sites for mature men seeking young women. According to the New York Times, CougarLife.com had been paying Google $100,000 a month since October. The Mountain View company has now cancelled the contract, saying that the dating site is 'nonfamily safe.'"

Comment Re:4th Amendment (Score 2, Informative) 352

As far as I know, you can refuse to walk through the scanner, they will pull you to the side for extra security scanning.

If you're lucky, they are not understaffed that day and you get a good TSA employee and can get through the extra process with only a minumum of hassle.

Or, you can get some TSA employee having a really bad day who is pissed of that (s)he now has to deal with you and it will could forever and be a pain in the ass.

Comment Re:Desktop access. Really? (Score 1) 180

which is awesome until you need to launch that one single GUI app and due to enterprise level policies you can't run an Xserver of some type on your Windows desktop in order to tunnel the display back to your PC.

Personally, I think remote admin cards on the servers (ala Dell DRAC) or KVM consoles you can hit remotely via a browser are a better choice since it is just like you are the physical keyboard/monitor and can access BIOS, your RAID cards, etc.

Comment Re:Anti-Union (Score 1) 178

State is paying the contractor company $120/hr for IT employees....the employee is not making $120/hour (unless said employee is a self-employed consultant under contract as opposed to being a W-2 employee w/ a contractor agency).

My company charges around $96/hr to the government for my services. I am definitely not making that much per hour.

Comment Re:Del Toro (Score 1) 325

two huge reasons I loved the 1st movie: the Balrog scene, and the scene where Borimir becomes a human pin cushion. I liked the book version of Borimir's death better, but the way it was modified for the screen worked. Oh, and Gandalf.

My only major complaint is they let the elves speak native and used subtitles but had all the other non-humans speaking English. They should have had the other races speaking native as well.

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