How is this a problem? Isn't science supposed to be used to find out *why*, given science has been used to prove that (eg) homeopathy *does* work?

I work at a telemedicine company and can tell you that our clients (including hospitals, clinics, and mobile first responder units) have found plenty of use for internet access. We act as a central store for medical information, so each client has already uploaded case history for their patients, and it is available to first responders in the field. It is not world-wide, and not every EMS agency is hooked up to it. However, those who are hooked up (generally via their preferred wireless provider) sure seem to get a lot out of the service. If the patient is unconscious and, as you said, you've got much bigger problems, every bit of information is primary to keeping them alive.

As for conferencing with doctors - that's not crazy; it's enlightening. Because you don't want to fidget with Skype and a webcam, we also offer a preconfigured setup with HIPAA-compliant, business-grade Skype, a hi-res camera with a monitor. Push a button and your patient sees a qualified doctor who sees them. You're supposed to be deciding a course of action? How about if your patient *might be* having a stroke, and the medicine to save their lives has a 50% chance of killing them if they're *not*? Now imagine you're 4 hours from the nearest doctor certified to diagnose a stroke (which they can do with a panned, tilted, zoomed-in view of the patient and their eyes and limbs, alongside their medical history).

The paramedics you work with aren't architects or engineers. They shouldn't be using CAD. They should be using a PACS. What you felt like you needed is limited by what you've thought you could get. The OP believes s/he could get more, so leave it to the engineers here to offer the solution instead of saying there is no need for one.

On the topic of no-brainers, from the summary: "your details are encrypted, and hidden"
Also: "Even we can't access them."
Also: "the network grows away from the site infrastructure, it becomes autonomous and decentralized, opaque to observers"
Perhaps those in their "right mind" might notice the relevance of these statements and stop trolling do degrade the value of said statements.

When you care more about telling this difference rapidly, then you'll let starve those who take their time to fashion traps, bows, and arrows.

And thus, when they succeed, they won't feel like sharing with you either...

What if a person's primary motive involving school is more about knowledge, learning, experience in the field of their interest? A scholar puts learning as their prime objective. Lacking the means to get a degree, such a person goes out and learns anyway, which is easily done with the freedom of information now available. Such a spirit isn't strengthened, but rather crushed by spending years (before, during and after college) to pay for classes that teach you first how to double-click for 6 months, then how to use obsolete programming concepts for the next few years, all the while demanding that you spend all your time showing your work (literally showing their work, not yours) when you've harbored the ability to solve 4=X+2 without rewriting the equation.
Yes, it helps to know the fundamentals, but if you spend many years collecting/paying/repaying tens of thousands of dollars to learn, shouldn't classes be designed to actually teach you more than they are now made to convince everyone else that you're taught?

Did your coach point out that the man with a plan tends to beat genius by subverting it? Edison stole most of his patents, worked men like Tesla into the ground, and made his name by self-promotion and marketing of ideas that he adopted and adapted from genuine geniuses. Most people don't know this because they read the hype, not the content. These people end up in HR.

If being intelligent isn't enough, perhaps the planning man ought to give intelligence more credit instead of taking it for himself and sharing it only with those who do things more for show than for intent.

I am a scholar, self-taught to learn, which is why I don't fit in today's schools. They are created to give you something to show, to recite, to convince yourself that you can do with ease what you can't quite comprehend, with conceptual learning only as a side-effect. They teach to the past, showing you how geniuses in the field have manifested a process, and telling you not to do what they did, but how you can work through their process because you presumably lack the genius to make a process better. Meanwhile, the present of information (so long as it's free) and innovation (so long as it's seen) goes at a quicker pace.

Fortunately, these phones provide more chips than just transceivers, plus a few backup transceivers on different wavelengths to boot.

Hundreds of functions available, and you say an arbitrary, presumed limitation of one external interface makes all other freedoms moot?

*NO* phones require "new every 2" plans, and not every provider even requires a contract. You want to save some money up front, that's your choice. With the N900 in the US, you needn't be concerned about that contractural obligation.

*coughcoughcoughMAEMOcoughcough*

What? Did someone say something? Must have been one of those smaller companies that gave up on the top-end Symbian OS and dove in for a real, open, competitor for Android.

Nokia is small, right?

Yeah, just like Gmail, and we all know how unsuccessful that was.

Being president is his accomplishment.

Being black isn't.

The more you mention race as a factor for (even positive) discrimination, the longer racism continues.

Granted, his race did make it more challenging due to the inherent existence of racism. You'll notice, however, the man with the accomplishments hasn't been focusing on his skin color. That was done by people like you, and southern hillbillies.

That all depends on who is deeming the importance. If it's the few, massive, greedy corporations who own and maintain the infrastructure while lobbying to create our laws, then "how can we profit on this" easily exceeds the latter.

Do you listen to FM radio? ClearChannel has ensured that every station is the same music over and over, commercials are synchronized between stations, and "new stuff" isn't necessarily "good stuff". My 16GB (non-iPod) player holds more music than I hear repeated in a week over the local FM station always playing in the office. Still, I'm all for FM staying around (so long as as there is public radio for NPR and the likes), but I don't think we have to worry about its demise anytime soon.

Something the size of a roomba can spread viral videos of what you do at home, alone, with your Stay Puft Marshmallows, man.

OR instead of adding new hardware to their embedded machines they could... you know... remove some check marks from their kernel.

Sometimes it's better still to have an enormous set of potentially buggy and half-written code which is available for modification at the whim of a basement developer. There's a reason why we ask, "but does it run Linux??" regarding every hardware project. Many would rather the hope that they (or one of thousands across the world) can build those features. It's better than the hope given by a corporate entity about a locked-down device. It took millions of complaints over a year to get the iPhone's hardware features usable in the software. The Verizon Razr (ie) didn't have such hope. A brick with a bootloader gives more hope for 30-year-old functionality (copy/paste) than does the most impressive new gadget if its true owners forbid lessees from running a few lines of code.