Comment Re:So.... (Score 1) 828
He missed a "1" in front of 7,352 when copying.
Comment Plus, it's a 15-years old record. (Score 1) 916
Also, as you probably know, Jeanne Calment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment) was the oldest human being, at 122 years.
And she died in 1997. 15 years ago. 15 years of continuous medical improvement and discoveries, and we still haven't beat the record.
Comment Re:Tough sell (Score 1) 165
The parent make the best point I've seen in a long time.
Comment Expert medical care (Score 1) 536
"Two weeks ago her outlook appeared to improve. In recent weeks, Microsoft had stepped in to help provide expert medical care."
Well, isn't that awkward.
Well, isn't that awkward.
Submission + - British Schoolchildren To Get Programming Lessons (techweekeurope.co.uk)
judgecorp writes: "The British Education Secretary Michael Gove has said that the school ICT curriculum will be scrapped and replaced with programming and real computer science. Britain's schoolchildren have had compulaory ICT (information and communications technology) lessons for some time, but they are hated by staff and pupils alike, amounting to little more than Powerpoint training, using the products rather than understanding the code. There is room for improvement — and the British-designed Raspberry Pi could be part of this, but can the new system break away from the old product-centric regime when it will apparently be sponsored by companies including Google and, er, Microsoft."
Submission + - Europeans needed to create broadband performance m (telegraph.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: The European Commission has launched a project to recruit 10,000 volunteers across Europe to measure the performance of their broadband connection over two years. The trial, believed to be the world's biggest follows similar projects in the US and the UK, run by the EC's partner SamKnows. The data collected will be used to plan the next generation of services. Those interested in signing up to take part can do so at www.samknows.eu
Comment Vehicle Inspection is going to be a hassle (Score 1) 107
Too bad unleaded coal is so expensive at Shell these days.
Comment Re:Still a better prognosis? (Score 1) 521
20 % ? You should stop buying recycled paper condoms. Most often I've seen failure rate between 1 and 5 %, which seems more realistic but still too much to handle. In fact, if I'm going to have a long-term, multi-decades relationship with someone, I'm not going to accept anything higher that 0%. The idea that I'm gambling my live everytime I'm having sex, even if the individual intercourse risks are fairly low, would ruin sex for me.
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