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Submission + - Gmail's 'Unsubscribe' Tool Comes Out Of the Weeds (itworld.com)

itwbennett writes: Starting this week, a new, clearly marked 'unsubscribe' link will appear at the top of the header field in marketers' emails. Previously only appearing for a small percentage of users, the feature will now be made available for most promotional messages with unsubscribe options, Google said on Thursday. Email recipients do not need to take action for the links to appear.

Submission + - UK Surgeon Implants a 3-D Printed Pelvis

An anonymous reader writes: Neat story out of Britain, with a strange delay in its circulation, but good news about long-term success for the patient involved, and for others who might benefit from similar procedures: three years ago, surgeon Craig Gerrand (he's got a cool handle on Twitter, too) successfully printed and implanted an artificial pelvis (actually, about half of one) into a patient suffering from a rare form of cancer. Other techniques were ruled out, because the patient would be losing so much bone. So, after careful scanning, additive printing with titanium was used to create the replacement: 'In order to create the 3-D printed pelvis, the surgeons took scans of the man’s pelvis to take exact measurements of how much 3-D printed bone needed to be produced and passed it along to Stanmore Implants. The company used the scans to create a titanium 3-D replacement, by fusing layers of titanium together and then coating it with a mineral that would allow the remaining bone cells to attach.'

(Tags: medicine, surgery, UK, cancer, threed, materials ... )

Comment Teaching is a social "science" (Score 5, Insightful) 264

Teaching as a discipline is one of many social sciences,
but since it's not a true science, there is no pressure to
create quantitative measures for any of their components.
No rigor, no quant, and you leave it up to individual motivations
as the driving forces.
Result, as the article states, easier classes mean higher grades.
Higher grades means better teacher evaluations.
Better evaluations means easier job and more money.
Result - grade inflation.
It seems obvious now, so we shouldn't be surprised.
The real question should be this: when can we expect the bubble to burst?

Comment Brilliant hack! (Score 5, Interesting) 163

There was a time, before we all lost our minds to Pong, Asteroids and Zelda (yes, I go way back) where we also spent time taking our world apart and figuring out how to make it better.

Oona rocks! She should be rewarded somehow.

BTW - the end of the article finally explains how a megahertz signal found its way onto the audio track.

Comment Just wait till it hits YOUR discipline (Score 3, Interesting) 182

Watson isn't about organizing information, it's about thinking enough to arrive at a conclusion.

Even today, my 84 year old father has learned how to gather information off the web. A child learns to do it in minutes. Imagine what Watson will be able to glean in seconds.

Finally, imagine Watson as a programmer. Optimum code - self debugging - as much documentation as you want - and perhaps the biggest asset - the ability to adjust the scope every time the customer changes their mind, without complaining.

Skynet? No, I'm thinking more like Colossus, the Forbin Project.

Comment Re:Is it "VILLAGE IDIOT" day on Slashdot? (Score 1) 103

Then again, AC, Science means you spend a lot of time replicating the obvious. Obviously, /. is beneath you. Don't visit.
I don't read most of the articles, or posts for that matter. There was something about yours...
You claim slashdot owners don't post anti-President Obama (correct address by the way) because of a hidden political agenda. Yet they are willing to post your comments.
Please, reply and post your own links to FACTS backing up your CLAIMS about how the spacecraft was painted. I'm going to love seeing how NASA interprets a cthulu creature. I hoping for something in high heels.

Comment Disband NASA and create new institutions (Score 1) 97

NASA is filled with bureaucrats and lifers. I know a lot of them personally. I think they're all great, and give our world more bang for my buck than any other agency (sorry NSA).

Look at what Musk is doing by riding herd over his people - he fires them when they can't perform - and guess what? SpaceX performs.

Time to create a government agency (or two) whose sole purpose is to get a colony going on the moon. Maybe another agency for unmanned exploration. And that's it. The aeronautical functions can be let loose to the private sector.

Maybe we should call it, Starfleet?

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