Comment Re:Politics are in everything in life (Score 1) 427
Agreed, upvote, "like", disseminate widely.
One can only claim to be "apolitical" if one exists in the upper reaches of unassailable privilege.
Comment Re:I call BS (Score 1) 176
Im talking about MERCHANT ACCOUNTS. For processing credit card transactions.
Comment I call BS (Score 2) 176
Try finding a merchant account with a bank (not a new fangled Web 3.0 deal like Square) that doesn't specifically write their "web" app to specifically *only* work with IE on Windows. There are lots of other examples of extranet "applications" that are written w/ MS libraries that depend on IE
Feed The Register: Microsoft patents Wish Lists (theregister.com)
Just what you always wanted
Microsoft has been granted a patent for electronic Wish Lists. The patent, 7,315,834, was filed in April 2005 and granted on New Year's Day.
Feed New York Times: CES to Showcase Wireless HDTVs (nytimes.com)
At least three dueling wireless technologies for high-definition TVs will be on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which starts Monday.
Feed New York Times: A Lucky Strike for Netflix? (nytimes.com)
Netflix could be a beneficiary of the writers’ strike, as TV viewers fill their empty lives with DVDs.
Feed Science Daily: Internists Say They Prescribe Placebos On Occasion (sciencedaily.com)
In the first study examining American physicians' use of placebos in clinical practice in the 21st century, 45 percent of Chicago internists report they have used a placebo at some time during their clinical practice.
Investors, "Beware" of Record Companies 301
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Motley Fool investment Web site warns investors to beware of 'Sony, BMG, Warner Music Group, Vivendi Universal, and EMI.' In an article entitled 'We're All Thieves to the RIAA,' a Motley Fool columnist, referring to the RIAA's pronouncement in early December in Atlantic v. Howell, that the copies which Mr. Howell had ripped from his CDs to MP3s in a shared files folder on his computer were 'unauthorized,' writer Alyce Lomax said 'a good sign of a dying industry that investors might want to avoid is when it would rather litigate than innovate, signaling a potential destroyer of value.'"
Comment Hepatitis B/C HIV lab (Score 1) 1716
I had to install some robotics equipment in a contained lab. There was a whole procedure for suiting up (including booties and a puffy hat), many rules about what to do and not do inside and then a whole procedure for leaving (disposal of the suite, scrubbing down, etc.). I had to get a vaccination for HepB, which requires constant updates (and is one of those painful globulin injections). No vaccine for HepC or HIV though obviously.
There was a definite incentive to get the H/W and S/W right because I did not want to have to come back.
There was a definite incentive to get the H/W and S/W right because I did not want to have to come back.
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The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
