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  1. Re:Throwing money at the cradle!?!?! on Maine School District Gives iPad To Every Kindergartner · · Score: 1, Insightful

    why can't schools just get by on redistributing free material and then working off that?

    Liberals would refuse because then they can't waste shitloads of money to make themselves look like they're doing something for the little people.

    Conservatives would refuse because then they can't rewrite history to remove Thomas Jefferson.

  2. Re:Right to opt out on New Sony PSN ToS: Class Action Waiver Included · · Score: 1

    mail in a form if you don't want them to share your information with marketers

    Form? What form?

    Better send that form certified if you want to prove that they got it.

    Of course, then they'll say they threw away your grandmother's banana bread recipe that you mailed them for some reason.

  3. Re:Beaver Attacks? on Medical Billing Codes For Injury Via Turtle Among Thousands Created by New Law · · Score: 1

    S21.059 (Open bite of unspecified breast (since you didn't say left or right)) + W53.81XA (Bitten by other rodent, initial encounter)

    The complete list of the current american version (ICD-10-CM, 2011 edition) can be downloaded from the CDC. The hierarchical organization that makes it possible to answer your question is fairly well explained at the wiki page here. Injury (Sxx) -> Thorax (S2x) -> Superficial injury (S20) etc. Causes of Injury (Vxx-Xxx) -> Unintentional act of living creature (W5x) -> Rodent (W53) etc. Unfortunately wikipedia uses the 2007 WHO website version of ICD-10, and doesn't go into as much detail as the ICD-10-CM guide published by the CDC does.

  4. Re:Just crowd-source it on IBM's Watson To Help Diagnose, Treat Cancer · · Score: 1
  5. Re:"Science" at its worst on How Killing the Internet Helped Revolutionaries · · Score: 1

    it's only slightly better than always predicting revolutions whenever you want to make a prediction.

    By this time tomorrow we will have a revolution. Another one shortly after that. In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that the world will undergo 7 revolutions this week alone.

  6. Re:I'd like to take this time to patent.... on Patent Reform Bill Passes Senate · · Score: 1

    you don't have to pin down exactly what the patent would protect.

    You say that, but here in reality, we have a troll suing iApp makers for a "buy now" button infringing on their "two way customer feedback" patent. If any of these little iApp makers had the quarter million bucks to defend themselves, the patent would probably go down in flames.

    It basically boils down to "You published/provisionally patented 'A' but our patent is on 'B', which your product also just happens to do but you didn't describe in your provisional patent, therefore you are infringing." If you actually had a product on sale and doing 'B' before the priority date on their patent, you'd have a pretty solid defense. That and a quarter million bucks will win the lawsuit.

  7. Re:Certs are broken. on Apple Finally Removes DigiNotar Certs In Safari · · Score: 1

    There are 2 types of MitM attacks on SSL:

    You forgot #3:
    - ship your customers an installation CD which helpfully updates your certificate store with ISP-provided CA certs. AT&T did this at one time, I declined to install the cert despite the warning from the installer that if I didn't click OK on the popup I would not be able to configure the modem/router (configured it just fine, thanks).

    Of course, this is a much riskier version since if they actually attempted to use that CA, everyone who rejected the install would be immediately aware of it.

  8. Re:Apple needs to explain its delay on Apple Finally Removes DigiNotar Certs In Safari · · Score: 1

    It's pretty easy to figure out the logic behind this one, actually. There were known fraudulent google certs, known fraudulent Windows Update certs and known fraudulent mozilla.org certs faked. Were there any apple.com certs?

  9. Re:flip side on Power Demand From US Homes Expected To Fall For a Decade · · Score: 1

    This will cause utilities everywhere to raise rates so that they can cover fixed costs

    To anyone thinking the above poster might need to adjust their tinfoil hat: This is not theoretical. Nor is it isolated. Nor is it even particularly new.

  10. Parent post is misleading on Power Demand From US Homes Expected To Fall For a Decade · · Score: 1

    Over the next decade, experts expect residential power use to fall, reversing an upward trend that has been almost uninterrupted since Thomas Edison invented the modern light bulb.

    From 2000 to 2010, the growth rate slowed to 2 percent. Over the next 10 years, demand is expected to decline by about 0.5 percent a year

    Assuming they're talking about the "growth rate" declining, in 4 years of 0.5% decline, the growth rate will be 0%, and the remaining 6 years will be negative.

  11. Re:Of course they're overpriced. on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Setting aside that we're getting off topic since hearing aids aren't covered by a lot of insurance companies, insurance companies want prices to be high (since their contracts get them out of paying full price). They want you to be scared of the ER bogeyman. Your trip to the emergency room could cost you TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS (oooOOOoooo). Buy our insurance now! For only $10k/yr, we'll pay half your ER trip, (after the first $5k deductible and subject to your unconscious body being taken by in-network ambulance drivers to an in-network hospital where you are seen by in-network doctors and treated with in-network drugs). Whatta deal!

    If insurance companies wanted to make medicine cheap, they could invest in drug development, invest in new treatments for expensive diseases, invest in more hospitals, and so on.

  12. Re:reinstall montly on Monthly Ubuntu Releases Proposed · · Score: 1

    Those names hardly inspire confidence for use in a production environment.

    Good. At least you have been warned. Now consider a rolling release where this month the distro decided that everyone should use Unity.

  13. Re:I'd like to take this time to patent.... on Patent Reform Bill Passes Senate · · Score: 1

    enough to invalidate any patent that tries to block the same invention.

    That's where the "lawyereze" comes in. Is my "I invented a banana peeler" provisional patent the same thing as "1) a device for peeling elongated fruits utilizing a metallic thingamabobber 2) Claim 1 wherein the thingamabobber is made of plasic 3) Claim 1 wherein the thingamabobber is made of magma 4) ..."?

  14. Re:Self Signed Certificates on GlobalSign Suspends Issuance of SSL Certificates · · Score: 1

    There's also Perspectives which asks "notary servers" what certs they've seen at that site over time so you can compare what other people are seeing. Of course, this requires that you be able to reach a notary server outside of your network, which may not always be possible.

  15. Re:Nothing to surprising on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    Capitalism (free markets in their most-free form) actually recognizes and utilizes greed to promote the system.

    Only until the next quarter, but I'll take my golden parachute at the end of this one.

  16. Re:Nothing to surprising on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    But we need to realize that all the main forms of economic policy, in their pure, distilled form, fall apart because of human nature.

    That's because all of them write their scripts for some actor named Rational, but whoever this Rational guy is, he's never been in any movies worth seeing.

    Maybe if they got some A-list actors on board they'd have a hit. Or at least someone willing to show their tits.

  17. Re:Cowboy Bebop reference on Paralyzed Patients Control Robot With Brain Waves · · Score: 1

    I think Angelic Layer is a much better anime reference for this subject, given that the entire story is about playing fighting games using mind-controlled toy robots so that the inventor can use the technology to help his girlfriend(?) walk again.

  18. Re:Mismanagement on USPS Losing Battle Against the E-mail Age · · Score: 2

    Only a few short years ago, the USPS was boasting of profits and windfalls. It's present demise is clearly not due to email, but rather it is due to mismanagement.

    Yep. Now if only Congress would stop passing laws telling it what to do and how to do it, it might be able to manage itself. Bonus points if Congress repeals the laws they already passed.

  19. Re:Did this remind anybody else... on Xbox 360 Reset Hack Yields Unsigned Code Execution · · Score: 1

    a core security requirement is a "fail to deny" reaction to any illegal input that cannot be processed.

    Well, in this case it clearly fails to deny it.

  20. Re:Gmail etc. HOW?? on European Firms Assisted Gaddafi's Internet Monitoring Regime · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure in 2008 gmail was like everyone else, using an SSL login page then returning a non-encrypted firesheepable session id that was used on non-encrypted pages afterwards.

  21. Re:Symptom of a larger problem on Measles Resurgent Due To Fear of Vaccination · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering if I will hear about the real effects of these vaccinations 10 years down the road

    The first measles vaccine was licensed for use in the U.S. in 1963

    source

    [MMR] was licensed in 1971 and the second dose was introduced in 1989.

    wiki

    Well, I suppose at least we'll find out about the "real effects" of these vaccinations before we get cheap fusion power in 20 years down the road. I'm looking towards getting my flying car in 5 years though.

  22. Re:Paging Darth Vader on Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager · · Score: 1

    You have to create a custom ribbon. It gets added to the ribbons that are already there so you have to choose it from the menu at the top. I had to do this for Office, since I couldn't find any other way to edit an email that I had received to add notes without having to forward it to myself as a new message.

    And I actually discovered the scrollwheel thing today, on accident. I think someone over there was thinking "well, if your mouse was already where the button was going to appear, rather than moving the mouse up to the menu and clicking on the right ribbon, then moving back, you can just use the scrollwheel and click the button without moving so far" without thinking "gee, is anyone going to know where the buttons they can't see are?"

  23. Re:From Wikileaks @twitter on There's Been a Leak At WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    Looks like they took their PR training from the best.

  24. Re:Paranoid much? on Protecting a Laptop From Sophisticated Attacks · · Score: 1

    When it comes to security, the question is not "are you paranoid?", it's "are you paranoid enough?". Sure, for most people, the answer is "yes", but this is a useful resource nonetheless.

    If I ever end up having to move a file of social security numbers or medical records on a portable device, I'll definitely be referring to this and choosing an appropriate level of paranoia.

  25. Re:Harmless fun on Protecting a Laptop From Sophisticated Attacks · · Score: 1

    It's preferable to playing with guns and pretending he's The Terminator

    As long as he only blows out their kneecaps, they'll live.