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  1. Uni is easy, corporate world a little bit harder on Are My Ideas Being Stolen? If So, What Then? · · Score: 1

    at university you just don't publish or use your top ideas. Collect & use them when you graduate. In working life it's more complicated as employment contracts have clauses abut these things, but if you document well that you had the idea before or that you created it on your own time you can cover yourself. Also if the idea has nothing to do with the company's main business or tech they can't argue you invented it during working hours.

  2. Treatment errors kill on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 3, Informative

    around 25% of the patients that die in western hospitals. It's ranked 3 on causes of patient death in hospitals - right after cancer and cardiovascular disease which together account for 50% of deaths. Fatal errors in treatment have been proven to drop to 8% in hospitals using computer technology for managing patients.

  3. Hybrid conversion kits on Fuel Efficiency and Slow Driving? · · Score: 1

    This seemed like an interesting alternative: http://www.poulsenhybrid.com/index.html Other companies already make technically more advanced solutions, but typically for trucks, buses etc.

  4. Re:I love this quote on Jail 'Greedy' Scam Victims, Says Nigerian Diplomat · · Score: 1

    Yes, that makes "fewer" than 0.1%.

  5. Re:I love this quote on Jail 'Greedy' Scam Victims, Says Nigerian Diplomat · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the US it was "only" 0.7% in 2003 according to http://salt.claretianpubs.org/sjnews/2003/04/sjn0304f.html [claretianpubs.org]. But hey that makes 2 million people. Wonder how the rest of the developed world is doing?

  6. Aggressive attitude receives aggressive response on Putin Threatens US Missile Bases In Europe · · Score: 1

    Installing military equipment next to another country's border is an aggressive action - in this case the US is acting aggressively. After all - what would we think if China would start installing missile defense sysstems in Mexico, Cuba and Canada?

  7. Proof of concept on Microsoft Says Free Software Violates 235 Patents · · Score: 1

    I didn't expect to see this day so soon. Microsoft is at last seriously worried about open source. This means that open source sw has proved itself and has reached several milestones in one night - top quality, high acceptance levels with large userbases, hurting commercial competition and it's winning the game.