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  1. Re:Self-inflicted wounds........ by ScentCone · · Score: 1 · on Diebold Demands That HBO Cancel Documentary

    And by "thousands" you mean "about eight"?

    No, I mean "thousands."

    As in, 15,000 with problems, and at least 1,500 so far that are likely fraud. Which is to say, a lot more that "eight."

  2. Re:Or... by mibus · · Score: 1 · on Researchers Find Clue to SIDS Early Detection
    "Current wisdom?" Who is that?


    The American Academy of Pediatrics and researchers who study infant deaths say bed sharing leaves babies vulnerable to being crushed or suffocated and may increase their risk for sudden infant death syndrome, especially if the mother is a smoker. ...

    In advising against bed sharing, the policy statement pointed to numerous studies supporting its case, including one showing that nearly half of 119 infants who died suddenly and unexpectedly during a four-year period in the St. Louis area did so while sleeping with someone else.
    -- http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/living/15 653590.htm

    Also,
        http://www.kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?dn=famil ydoctor&lic=44&article_set=22955
        http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/yourchild/sids.htm
        http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/20033 26657_healthsleep29.html
    etc.

    Google for "co-sleeping" and "baby suffocation" and variants thereof.

    It's really not as simple as it seems to begin with. (I had to go through this when I had my first daughter nearly two years ago... we'd sleep together sometimes, but she was normally in her bassinet rather than our bed).
  3. And in other news by porkchop_d_clown · · Score: 3, Insightful · on U.S. Service Personnel Data Stolen

    Slashdot notices a month-old scandal.

    Thieves steal personal data of 26.5M vets

    Theft of Data Leads to Firings

  4. Pig Diesel is much better. by ScrewTivo · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Bio-diesel Made from Sewage

    Can't beleive this got accepted when my submission yesterday got rejected. here it is Note: 3.5/gal/day of Diesel from 1 Pig!
     
    Once it is rejected you can't recall it, that is not good. But here is the link: UI researcher makes crude oil from pig manure

  5. CIA Secret Prisons vs. Amnesty International by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Captain America vs. The Patriot Act?
    As a card-carrying member of Amnesty International (AI), I was shocked when AI accused Washington of running a Soviet-style gulag. I burned my AI membership card and flushed the ashes down the toilet. After all, AI could not provide any evidence supporting the outrageous claims, and using hyperbole to support human rights damages AI's credibility and the ultimate mission of rescuing victims of brutal (often Chinese) human-rights abuses.

    Then, last month, I read about the stunning news report by the "Washington Post". It reported on CIA-gate: the CIA, with the full approval of the president, has been running a network of secret prisons where enemies of the American nation are interrogated. Although this network is nowhere near the status of the Soviet gulag, the network does put tremendous credibility in the original accusations by AI.

    At times like these, we need a Captain America to fight for truth, justice, and Western values. A network of secret prisons grossly violates the most sacred of Western values.

  6. It's a dead horse, but here ya go. by CrazyDuke · · Score: 1 · on EFF Sues NC Election Board

    FYI, I'm not the grandparent. But, here's a little info.

    Richard J. Daley

    You'll notice it's actually a bipartisan effort, dispite the popular myth of it being a strictly Democrat problem. Regardless, the issue the grandparent is posting about is actually a dead horse, as Daley is no longer in power. His son, Richard M. Daley, however, is. There are rumors of corruption in this Daley's administration as well. Although, I haven't heard anything about voter fraud per se. If I remember correctly, Patrick Fitzgerald has been going after elements of the Daley regieme. This is probably why the Republicans picked him to investigate the Whitehouse treason case.

    If you want current Democrat vote fraud cases, you can look up the Saint Louis cases and the problems in a few counties in West Virginia. Small potatoes compaired to the apparent national and state wide Republican machines, but they exist, regardless.

  7. Best. Mark of the Beast. Ever. by Saint+Aardvark · · Score: 5, Insightful · on Library to Require Fingerprint to Use PCs
    From the non-fing erprint requiring version:

    "Right now we give you a library card with a bar code attached to it. This is just a bar code, but it's built in," said Mark West, the library's deputy director.

    To be fair that does come after this paragraph:

    Naperville library officials said the technology cannot be used to reconstruct a person's actual fingerprint. The scanners, made by Naperville-based U.S. Biometrics Corp., use an algorithm to convert 15 or more specific points into a unique numeric sequence.

    But it's still shockingly cavalier to describe the technology as "just a bar code". I have difficulty understanding a) why this seems like a good idea to anyone, and b) why this gentleman seems incapable of understanding people's worries about a fucking library requiring fingerprints!

  8. Re:Schools use of vouchers.. by JawFunk · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft CA Settlement Claim Forms Hit Mailboxes
    Kudos have to go for the plan to give unused vouchers to the state's schools.

    I only wish they would use that toward Illinois schools, considering 44% just failed to test above the minimum standards for math and reading.