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http://webcache.googleusercont... or http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx...

Actually at the time this story was submitted to Slashdot and posted to the front page, the rods had not been located.

The story was updated after the rods were found but Fox didn't mention that they had changed the story, given the story a different headline, and kept the whole story at the same URL. Normally when a story changed this substantially, the news organization publishes a new story, or at least notes that the story has been updated or corrected.

Here is the cached version of the story and the headline at the time it was submitted as a story to Slashdot.

http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=radioactive+rods+fox+news&d=1094018597270&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=d977f9e4,d2527ef2

FedEx Searching for Radioactive Shipment That Vanished Between N.D. and Tenn.

Actually at the time this story was submitted, the rods had not been located.

The story was updated on the Fox News Site after the rods were found but they kept the original URL.

Here is the cached version of the story at the time it was submitted as a story to Slashdot.

http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=radioactive+rods+fox+news&d=1094018597270&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=d977f9e4,d2527ef2

FedEx Searching for Radioactive Shipment That Vanished Between N.D. and Tenn.

By Diane Macedo

Published November 26, 2010

| FoxNews.com

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - FedEx reports that a shipment of radioactive rods used in medical equipment has vanished while being sent from North Dakota to Tennessee.

FedEx spokeswoman Sandra Munoz says the rods, which are used for quality control in CT scans, were being returned to their manufacturer in Knoxville, Tenn., from a hospital in Fargo, N.D. Three shipments left the hospital earlier this week, but only two arrived at their destination.

"We're looking for that third one," Munoz told FoxNews.com.

Based on tracking information, FedEx is focusing its search in the Tennessee area, Munoz said, but as a normal precaution the company alerted all of its stations "in the event that it got way late and went to another station by accident."

The rods are incased in a metal container called a pig that Munoz says is roughly 10 inches tall and weighs about 20 pounds.

"As long as people do not try to open the metal container they will not be exposed to any remaining radiation," she said.

But Fox News Medical Contributor Dr. Marc Siegel says if someone does open the container it could pose some serious health risks.

"I don't believe it has the degree of radiation that, if it were opened, your skin would suddenly slop off. But the concern would be, if this got opened inadvertently and someone didn't know what it was and then was repeatedly exposed to it over several days, it could cause a problem with radiation poisoning," Siegel said. "The people that use this equipment in a hospital use protective shielding with it."

The lesson here, he says, is that active medical material must always be transported in a way that ensures that the general public cannot get access to it.

"Medical devices should not be FedEx'ed. They should be sent under a special service," Siegel said. "There are courier services and several other ways to do that without getting into the general pool. I think that was a mistake that's not generally the way medical supplies are sent.

"If FedEx wants to be involved in transporting medical materials, it should be completely separate and with all kinds of checks and balances so this can't happen," he added.

Munoz says FedEx follows a series of regulations when transporting objects like the rods in this shipment. This was no exception.

"There are regulations on how this type of equipment has to be packaged, the quantities that can be shipped, and we were all within the regulatory requirements," she said.

From http://www.tuaw.com/2010/07/12/apple-drops-consumer-reports-discussion-threads-down-memory-hole/

If you were looking for a message thread on Apple's support forums pointing to Consumer Reports' article 'not recommending' the iPhone 4, it's not there any more. Apple's support forum moderators deleted the thread. Bing cached it.

If it happened once, maybe you'd say it was a glitch. But what if it happened twice? Three times? Four times, five, six?

Why should they? Perhaps to prove thet are a reputable company that listens to its customer base and learns from their mistakes?

FTA

Cached article on bing

All it seems to be is people trying to let others know about the article.

Linkedin profile is gone

For limited values of "gone," of course.

"Another appeal to authority" - by SanityInAnarchy (655584) ninja@slaphack.com> on Wednesday June 02, @03:56PM (#32436418)

First of all, it's actually an "appeal to an INCORRECT authority" in LOGIC -> http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=%22appeal+to%22+and+%22incorrect+authority%22&d=4832907750084657&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=c163bdbb,ed2a044b

Appeal to Authority - An authority is appealed to and it is an incorrect authority

(Which you certainly are in an INCORRECT authority, as you have no PHD in English on the note of critique of my writing style here, not that's it's my "last will & testament" or a paper for a grade in English class here either etc./et al & apparently the same holds true as far as your authority in Computer Sciences as well).

Also? Well, Appeal to Authority is a perfectly valid argument form if the person cited indeed an expert in their field saying things that people of similar expertise would also say, & compared to you, as far as CSC, CIS/MIS is concerned? Well, I am that CORRECT authority. How so?

You're obviously no authority on this subject as I suspected, since you fail to produce a PHD in English to your name/credit, nor do you obviously possess one in CSC, CIS, or MIS either (of which I have a degree in the first, & concentrations/minors in the latter from 2 degrees).

As far as LOGIC is concerned, which I took in academia & did pretty well in? Well, I wonder if you even have (though this is off topic, I am fairly certain you haven't, & you are trying to go "off topic" to 'defend yourself' now, in meandering in that direction).

However, you've now gone SO FAR OFF TOPIC? It's not worth conversing with you anymore... Especially after your Ad-Hominem attacks complete with name calling directed my way here, nigh constantly at this point, along with your accusing me of posting as others now!

(LMAO - in computer oriented topics? I don't have to resort to that, as I've actually done the degree work (which yes, included LOGIC as part of the requirements on the CSC degree work, but then, I don't think you know that because you have not DONE it yourself)... & I have nearly 2 decades of this type of work on MANY levels professionally (sometimes to even 'great acclaim' per the partial lists I showed you - so, on this topic, the one this post's about? I surely am far more of an authority than you are, & it showed as I just annihilated each technical point you tried to make, & others even saw my points in them)).

APK

P.S.=> If you haven't noticed? Others here are not exactly "taking your side" in case you haven't noticed, so, I'll let them "do the talking/be the judges" here is all, since you've gone way off topic... "too, Too, TOO EASY!"... apk