thompsk - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Gah (Score 1) 577

by thompsk on Monday January 18, 2010 @02:49PM (#30810814) Attached to: Police In Britain Arrest Man For Bomb-Threat Joke On Twitter

Its not point of view that is important here - Just as its not point of view for the AlQuaida terrorists. The ruling world authority has said that they are terrorists and terrorists they are. Guy Fawkes was a terrorist and the above statement is a clear breach of the UK terrorism Act as you are glorifying terrorist acts, which is punishable (without trail) of up to 40 years in Prison - You have been warned !!!! :P

Stimulus Avoids Serious Solutions For Health IT 184

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @05:28PM from the add-just-one-sentence dept.

ivaldes3 writes in to note his post up on Linux Medical News, pointing out the severe shortcomings of the Health IT provisions of the just-passed stimulus bill. "The government has authorized enough money to purchase EMR freedom for the nation. Instead the government appears set to double down on proprietary lock-down. The government currently appears poised to purchase serfdom instead of freedom and performance for patients, practitioners and the nation. An intellectual and financial servitude to proprietary EMR companies for little or no gain. A truly bad bargain."

A Look Back At Kurzweil's Predictions For 2009 307

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @12:42AM from the no-one-expects-the-mule dept.

marciot writes "It's interesting to look back at Ray Kurzweil's predictions for 2009 from a decade ago. He was dead on in predicting the ubiquity of portable computers, wireless, the emergence of digital objects, and the rise of privacy concerns. He was a little optimistic in certain areas, predicting the demise of rotating storage and the ubiquity of digital paper a bit earlier than it appears it will actually happen. On the topic of human-computer speech interfaces, though, he seems to be way off." And of course Kurzweil missed 9/11 and the fallout from that. His predictions might have been nearer the mark absent the war on terror.

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