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Comment Bad analogy (Score 1) 319

by jpmrst (#33102294) Attached to: Should Professors Be Required To Teach With Tech?

"If you were going to see a doctor and the doctor said, 'I've been really busy since I got out of medical school, and so I'm going to treat you with the techniques I learned back then,' you'd be rightly incensed."

This analogy is lousy. What I don't want to hear from a doctor is "I've poured all my time recently into slick presentations, so I can treat you only with the medical techniques I learned years ago in medical school, but I can explain them in a much less boring way than they were explained to me."

Feed Newsforge: FireFTP: FTP client extension for Firefox (newsforge.com)

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Why bother using a dedicated FTP client when you can use FireFTP? This nifty extension turns Firefox into a full-fledged FTP tool, so you can transfer files back and forth without leaving the browser. FireFTP offers all the features you'd expect from a decent FTP client.

Feed Science Daily: New Medicines For Dogs And Cats May End Up Helping Humans (sciencedaily.com)

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The pharmaceutical industry is going to the dogs -- and the cats -- as people in the United States and other countries devote more income to keeping beloved pets healthy and comfortable, according to a recent article. Just as drug companies are shifting some human health focus to geriatric medications, their animal health divisions are working on products to treat cancer, heart disease and other age-related conditions in companion animals.

Feed Science Daily: Social Skills Programs For Children With Autism Are Largely Ineffective, Study S (sciencedaily.com)

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A meta-analysis of 55 published research studies reveals programs designed to teach social skills to children with autism are failing to meet their goals. The study found that outcomes for social skills training were poor overall, but programs held in normal classroom settings were more likely to result in positive changes than programs held in other environments.

Feed Science Daily: Fine Particulate Matter From Traffic May Influence Birth Weight (sciencedaily.com)

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Exposure of pregnant women to fine particulate matter from traffic may reduce their children's birth weight. Earlier American Studies had already suggested that fine particulate matter might influence the birth weight. This recent study is the first study from Germany and Western Europe and also the first one to suggest so clearly that traffic-related air pollutants have an influence.
Communications

Submission + - Adobe Tackles Photo Forgeries

Submitted by UnanimousCoward
UnanimousCoward writes: Wired has an article about Adobe working on a way to detect photograph forgeries. FTFA:

In a speech in Tel Aviv in December and a blog entry, Reuters CEO Tom Glocer said his company is working with Adobe and Canon to create an "audit trail" that would reveal changes made to an image. Neither Reuters nor Canon would provide details on the plan.
Isn't it fairly simple? It seems to me that a combination camera/photographer digital signature would solve this problem easily. News agencies would pay for this custom-camera technology (since the public won't), and any photograph submitted without the digital signature would be captioned as such. I'm not sure where Adobe comes into the picture since it could just be general digital signature software that verifies the photo...
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Journal Journal: [parenting] 3 months. 1

Journal by FroMan

Yesterday was Ethan' 3 month birthday, not that we celebrated at all, but it is still a day of note. It has been quite exciting to see how he has grown in these few months, and how much he has changed over even this short while.

The List:
1. Diaper changes are not so bad now. He actually enjoys them for some reason now, or has terribley confused himself on when to smile and giggle.
User Journal

Journal Journal: [Z80] It lives! 2

Journal by Alioth

So - last night, I went about further debugging of the ALIAC-2 Z80 board. I first fixed the bad solder joint on the Z80's A15, and then took everything off the board except the Z80 and clock generator (and some of the glue logic, just to stop the remaining inputs of the 74HC14 from floating - the system clock generator is built with one gate of this chip and a crystal, one resistor and two small capacitors).
Television

Senators Smack Down WIPO Broadcast Treaty 100

Posted by kdawson from the read-my-lips-no-new-rights dept.
Tighthead writes "Two influential US senators want the US to support a pared-down version of the WIPO Broadcast Treaty that is still being negotiated. In a letter sent to the US delegation, Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the ranking Republican member, Arlen Specter, expressed their concerns that the Broadcast Treaty 'would needlessly create a new layer of rights that would disrupt United States copyright law.' They instructed the US delegates to work towards a treaty that is 'significantly narrower in scope, one that would provide no more protection than that necessary to protect the signals of broadcasters.' The next meeting of the WIPO Standing Committee will be in June."
Sony

Submission + - Sony to Launch Virtual Universe

Submitted by UmUm~
UmUm~ writes: Capitalizing on the popularity of social networks and online worlds, Sony will launch its own virtual universe and another 3-D game built almost entirely by players. "Home" is a real-time, networked world for the PlayStation 3 in which players create human-looking characters called avatars. They can buy clothing, furniture and videos to play on a virtual flat-screen television in their virtual apartments.
United States

Submission + - CSPAN to adopt Creative Common Styled License

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Trillian_1138
Trillian_1138 writes: "CSPAN, a network in the United States dedicated to airing governmental proceedings, has adopted a Creative Commons style license for all its content. This follows the network claiming Speaker of the House Pelosi's use of C-Span videos on her site violated their copyright . Specifically, "C-SPAN is introducing a liberalized copyright policy for current, future, and past coverage of any official events sponsored by Congress and any federal agency — about half of all programming offered on the C-SPAN television networks — which will allow non-commercial copying, sharing, and posting of C-SPAN video on the Internet, with attribution." The press release should be on the C-SPAN website here but, as of this submission, the link is not functional. The question remains whether videos of governmental proceedings should be public domain by default or whether the attribution requirement is reasonable in the face of easy video copying and distribution."

Comment Re:California rules (Score 1) 1136

by jpmrst (#17108880) Attached to: Detecting Tailgaters With Lasers

No, I don't want a device to tell me about the car in front of me. I'm pretty clear about the car in front of me. I want a device to tell the car behind me about the car behind me.

Seriously: something mounted in the back window like the flat red brake light, hooked up to a radar that measures distance to the next car behind. When something is too close for our distance, it starts flashing "Too close!". If they don't give space, or get closer, it flashes a bit more brightly and quickly after a few seconds.

After a few seconds more, it turns on the rear strobe.

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