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Comment Fiber to 5G (Score 1) 18

It'll be interesting to see how the big ISP's use this as an opportunity to grab billions more for rolling out fiber whilst simultaneously grabbing billions more for substituting fiber plans for a plan to roll out 5G towers, while they submit billions in tax write-offs for how hard they've tried - but haven't been able to - rollout either of those. Minus the expense of hiring lobbyists to make sure no one can get either fiber or 5G without a 5 year service plan that includes ESPN. OH! And commercials. Lots and lots of commercials.

Comment Re: Certainly Influential. (Score 1) 248

ROTFLMAO! "Then, dream the impossible dream and just keep on fucking off." That made me laugh so hard I had to dig out my password to slashdot so I could make sure to not post anonymously to thank you for that amazing, technicolor gem. I'm stealing it, sewing it on pillows, and sending those pillows snail-mail style to the deserving. Thank you sir. Thank you.

Comment The book you need (Score 2) 114

"Managing Enterprise Content" by Ann Rockley (with Pamela Kostur and Steve Manning). ISBN 0-7357-1306-5 (that's the one I have on my desk right now, not sure if there's a newer one).

It's an easy read, well written and with a sense of humor [note: it's a technical book on ..managing enterprise content. So it's not like "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" easy... it's just not "gouge your eyes out after the first chapter" hard], and covers EVERYTHING you haven't thought of. And that most everyone here hasn't thought of. And everything I've forgotten after reading it. Chapter 1 alone will explain the very problem you just described, why it's bad, and why everyone does it.

Seriously - one time through that book has saved me on documentation questions (where to put it, how to organize it, how to write it...) time after time. And I still don't use 90% of what was in it. This is the book that you will read one time, and the concepts stick with you - and save your ass. And make you look like a rock star. A weird, librarian kind of rock star, that isn't fantastically awesome like a real rock star, but that seems to know how to use the dewy decimal system with that extra panache, rock star. People will forget all about it a couple of minutes after checking out their books, but for that one second when they find what they need when they need it and it's all because of you... you'll be the rock star.

Still - your life will be easier.

Education

Kansas Adopts New Science Standards 868

porcupine8 writes "The Kansas State Board of Education has changed the state science standards once again, this time to take out language questioning evolution. This turnaround comes fast on the heels of the ouster given this past election to the ultra-conservative Board members who originally introduced the language. 'Science' has also been re-redefined as 'a human activity of systematically seeking natural explanations' (the word 'natural' had been previously stricken from the definition). If you'd like to see the new standards, a version showing all additions and deletions is available from the KS DOE's website (PDF)."
Biotech

Submission + - Bionic eye could restore vision

MattSparkes writes: "A new bionic eye could restore vision to the profoundly blind. A prototype was tested on six patients and "within a few weeks all could detect light, identify objects and even perceive motion again. For one patient, this was the first time he had seen anything in half a century." The user wears a pair of glasses that contain a miniature camera and that wirelessly transmits video to a cellphone-sized computer in the wearer's pocket. This computer processes the image information and wirelessly transmits it to a tiny electronic receiver implanted in the wearer's head."

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