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  1. Re:Health Care vs. Health Insurance on Almost 100 Million People a Year 'Forced To Choose Between Food and Healthcare' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Part of the "care and maintenance of your body" should include, at the very least include annual check-ups and routine blood work. Part of the problem now is that people without insurance cannot afford to see a family doctor and learn they have a medical issue that can be easily (and usually more cheaply) treated and instead learn years on down the line they have a serious health condition.

  2. Re:Who bothers with a console? on Microsoft Outlines the Upgrade Procedures For Xbox One X (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    On the PS3, Sony didn't have a mandate - they left it up to the developer/publisher.

  3. Re:Waiting For Medical Droids. on Credit Suisse Deploys 20 Robots Within Bank (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Please describe the nature of the medical emergency.

  4. Re:Stupid Cons on Xbox One S is the Best Xbox You Might Not Want To Buy (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure somebody will do it just for the hell of it - picture quality be damned. Kinda like playing Fallout: New Vegas on an old TV.

  5. Re:Rulemakers changing the rules on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    These aren't government backed student loans, from the article:
     

    My mother, who co-signed some of the loans, is dead. The banks that made them have all gone under.

  6. Re:CarPlay supports hardware buttons and knobs on GM To Offer Apple CarPlay and Android Auto API In Most 2016 Vehicles · · Score: 1

    FWIW, I have a '14 Cruze with a touch screen. Every interface element on screen can also be done with physical buttons and knobs.

  7. Re:"second screen" innovation on The PlayStation Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    The Turbo Graphix-16 (Called the "PC Engine" in Japan) used small "HuCards" for games. The TurboGrafx-CD (PC Engine CD in Japan) was a CD add-on that allowed games to be played off of CDs. There was the Turbo Duo which was a combination unit.

  8. Re:what a coincidence on New Treatment Stops Type II Diabetes · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of Type 1 Diabetes where this is for Type 2.

  9. Re:It's a complete game changer on Injectable Nanoparticles Maintain Normal Blood-sugar Levels For Up To 10 Days · · Score: 1

    s/tables/tablets/g

  10. Re:It's a complete game changer on Injectable Nanoparticles Maintain Normal Blood-sugar Levels For Up To 10 Days · · Score: 1

    As a Type 1 diabetic:
    I can already eat whenever I want.
    I bolus my insulin for the amount of carbohydrates I'm eating, so I don't have to keep eating to compensate.
    I don't need to wake up in the middle of the night to test my glucose - if I wake up in the middle of the night and feel low, I will test and have a glucose table if necessary.
    I do check before I go to the gym, especially if I'm feeling low - again, I take a glucose tables or two if required.

  11. Re:My theory on Windows 8 Killing PC Sales · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope, Speed Holes

  12. Re:Need for speed! on Mozilla To Enable Click-To-Play For All Firefox Plugins By Default · · Score: 1

    And... nobodies thought of i.

    ..except Chrome already does this.

  13. Re:first on Have a Wi-Fi-Enabled Phone? Stores Are Tracking You · · Score: 1

    On Android, if you look at the advanced Wi-Fi settings you can have it turn off Wi-Fi when the screen is off, which is what I do help conserve battery life.

  14. Re:how about on Replacing Windows 8's Missing Start Menu · · Score: 2

    Vista wasn't really that bad post-SP1.

  15. Re:Not surprising... on AMD64 Surpasses i386 As Debian's Most Popular Architecture · · Score: 2

    I haven't seen 64-bit versions of Windows (Vista and 7) having any problem running 32-bit applications. What I have noticed is that a number of older applications utilize 16-bit installers which 64-bit versions of Windows won't run, but many times those will lay down 32-bit executables and libraries that the OS handles fine.
     
    As an aside, I run the 64-bit version of Debian at home and I haven't had any issue running 32-bit applicaitons, assuming ia32-libs is installed (Wouldn't be a bad idea to install this by default (a la SUSE) or at least prompt during the install).

  16. Re:Priorities on Could a Category 5 Hurricane Take Down East Coast Data Centers? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Well considering the amount of web sites and services that have "Login with Facebook" these days...
     
    (Yeah yeah, the slashdot/tech knowledgeable crowd either uses per site login option or avoids those sites)

  17. Re:Prediction on Valve Software Launches Linux Blog, Confirms Work On Steam Client for Linux · · Score: 1

    Technically the Source engine already has an OpenGL renderer since they ported those games (and Steam) to OSX .

  18. Re:Only now? on Xbox 360 Kinect Said To Add Internet Explorer Browsing · · Score: 1

    I believe that Saturn had a web browser before that (and the company that built that one went on to develop the Dreamcast's browser).

  19. Re:Just now? on Xbox 360 Kinect Said To Add Internet Explorer Browsing · · Score: 1

    Does the PS3 browser support HTML 5? It's been forever since I tired to browse YouTube on my PS3, but I thought at one point most of the videos didn't work because they required a newer version of Flash (which, from what I remember, hasn't been updated in ages).

  20. Re:Oh really? on Xbox 360 Kinect Said To Add Internet Explorer Browsing · · Score: 1

    Since when is a gold account required for buying Live Arcade and indie games? Almost all of demos are available for silver members as well, though some have/had timed exclusivity to gold members (which is BS in my opinion)

  21. Re:Or... on Why You Don't Want a $99 Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    If he never rides it, does it matter where he bought it or for how much?

  22. Re:Astronomers are so funny on 13-Billion-Year-Old Alien Worlds Discovered · · Score: 1

    ..but where is Tom with the weather?

  23. Re:Lifelong immunosupression on Drug-Free Organ Transplants From Unrelated Donors · · Score: 1

    As somebody who had a kidney transplant, I really wish that was the case. I also wish that the immunosuppressants were less expensive (even with insurance).

  24. Re:Mildly frustrating but awesome hardware. on PSVita Released In the USA and Europe · · Score: 1

    While I agree with what you're saying, it should be noted that the Xbox 360 does support SD cards if it's plugged in to a USB adaptor (and obviously formatted as FAT). Also, not to long ago, Microsoft finally added the ability to use a standard USB flash drive as a storage devices for game saves and downloads.

  25. Re:A Linux game company that wasn't troubled? on Linux Game Publishing CEO Resigns · · Score: 1

    Minecraft is a multiplatform game written in Java. In other words, they did no Linux work..
     
    When you run Minecraft in Linux and do an update, it mentions that it's pulling down the Linux specific updates.