Holy Crap! FTA: Prosecutors allege Smith had Mach issue about 72,000 prescriptions from July 2004 to about May 2005.
Now, I freely admit that I don't have a clue about how prescriptions are handled, but isn't 72,000 prescriptions just a little much? Would't someone have gotten a touch suspicious that this guy was writing them out at a rate of 1 prescription every 7 seconds? Or is there not enough infrastructure to be able to tell how many a doctor has written?
It obviously had to be done electronically (Or else he would have had to write an awful lot). How does that work? I've only ever had prescriptions that were hand written out by the doctor.
I guess I'm just amazed that it took them that long to realize something was wrong.
Now, I think that some of those theories are completely valid. Commercials in the theaters absolutely piss me off. If I'm going to spend 9 bucks to watch a movie, they better not force me to watch commercials before it. Next thing they'll do is start commercial breaks in the middle of the movies. The cell phones are annoying and I like doing other things more than I like watching movies, but in the end, it comes down to what they are finally realizing. The movies suck. If there weren't any cell phones or commercials and I didn't have anything to do, I still wouldn't go.
FTA: In previous years, he said, "you could still count on enough people to come whether you failed at entertaining them or not, out of habit, or boredom, or a desire to get out of the house. You had a little bit of backstop."
That's amazing, because that's what I always figured they were thinking. And that's the attitude that keeps me away.
Now, I love good special effects as much as the next geek, but, call me old fashioned here, I actually like my movies to have this thing called a plot.
I used to say that I'd just wait for it to come out on video but I won't even waste my time with that anymore. Inevitably, I find myself at the end saying, "Well, there's two hours of my life I'll never get back."
I'll actually deal with the commercials and other annoyances if it means that I can be completely entertained.
It's very slow. Opening it up takes ages. It just says 'loading' in the top of the screen. If you're in another tab, the gmail tab doesn't have the swirling thing to show it's loading, so you don't know whether it's actually loaded or not.
I don't know where you get that it's slow. I see the 'loading' text for 1 maybe 2 seconds and I'm in. I've used it on both IE and Firefox. Perhaps there is something wrong on your system?
And I've never had it open two tabs on me.
FTA: Torvalds explained that a company could decide not to sublicense and call their product "anything MyLinux but the downside is that you may have somebody else who _did_ protect himself come along and send you a cease-and-desist letter."
It's all about whether someone wants or need protection and "not about whether LMI wants the money or not," according to Torvalds.
I don't see anything wrong with this. He is protecting the name and still allowing it to be accessible to your every day developers/programmers.
If a company has more than 1 million in revenue, 5k is pocket change. While 200 dollars is well within range of a couple of guys programming in their basement.
And this also allows some protection for those guys in their basement if someone tries to take their name. They might not have the money for a legal battle, but for 200
bucks they can insure their name.
What kind of a game is this where the creators/admins can't just take the things away from him and give them back? How hard could that possibly be rather than spending the money/manpower to arrest him?
This will probably open some new markets tho. Before too long, someone with real Carpal Tunnel could sell a DNA sample to someone looking to get a big check from their employer.
And once it advances to employment based on how 'smart' your DNA says you are, very intelligent people will be able to sell theirs as well.
Of course, it goes without saying that I'd be able to sell mine...*cough* *cough*
Merely because you don't care about something doesn't automatically mean it isn't newsworthy. There were many things that they did up there, pretty much every day, that was very interesting to me. And there were some things that I didn't care about that I'm sure were very interesting to some other people. I loved the coverage and always looked forward to more shuttle articles.
How do you figure that it makes sense in the winter? At some point, even an hour difference in the winter isn't going to change whether it's dark or not when you leave work.
I completely agree. Any kind of a 'race' between competing militaries usually ends up with new technology that benefits all of us, not just in weapons. That may have been the initial intent, but part of it will involve getting more people into space, or an outpost on the moon, or any number of things. It would be a good thing to have a space race.
All that article really did was prove how powerful Google really is. They should use it as a marketing tool. "Google, so powerful you can find information about ANYBODY!"
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Holy Crap! FTA: Prosecutors allege Smith had Mach issue about 72,000 prescriptions from July 2004 to about May 2005.
Now, I freely admit that I don't have a clue about how prescriptions are handled, but isn't 72,000 prescriptions just a little much? Would't someone have gotten a touch suspicious that this guy was writing them out at a rate of 1 prescription every 7 seconds? Or is there not enough infrastructure to be able to tell how many a doctor has written?
It obviously had to be done electronically (Or else he would have had to write an awful lot). How does that work? I've only ever had prescriptions that were hand written out by the doctor.
I guess I'm just amazed that it took them that long to realize something was wrong.
Oh, I wasn't laughing. I know this has to come. They might cloak it in 'Intermission', but they'll do it to get even more money.
Now, I think that some of those theories are completely valid. Commercials in the theaters absolutely piss me off. If I'm going to spend 9 bucks to watch a movie, they better not force me to watch commercials before it. Next thing they'll do is start commercial breaks in the middle of the movies. The cell phones are annoying and I like doing other things more than I like watching movies, but in the end, it comes down to what they are finally realizing. The movies suck. If there weren't any cell phones or commercials and I didn't have anything to do, I still wouldn't go.
FTA: In previous years, he said, "you could still count on enough people to come whether you failed at entertaining them or not, out of habit, or boredom, or a desire to get out of the house. You had a little bit of backstop."
That's amazing, because that's what I always figured they were thinking. And that's the attitude that keeps me away.
Now, I love good special effects as much as the next geek, but, call me old fashioned here, I actually like my movies to have this thing called a plot.
I used to say that I'd just wait for it to come out on video but I won't even waste my time with that anymore. Inevitably, I find myself at the end saying, "Well, there's two hours of my life I'll never get back."
I'll actually deal with the commercials and other annoyances if it means that I can be completely entertained.
It's very slow. Opening it up takes ages. It just says 'loading' in the top of the screen. If you're in another tab, the gmail tab doesn't have the swirling thing to show it's loading, so you don't know whether it's actually loaded or not. I don't know where you get that it's slow. I see the 'loading' text for 1 maybe 2 seconds and I'm in. I've used it on both IE and Firefox. Perhaps there is something wrong on your system? And I've never had it open two tabs on me.
One man became so mad with his malfunctioning laptop computer, he threw it into the toilet and flushed a couple of times.
It must have had problems dumping his log file. It was probably stuck in the backside cache...
Wow, when was the last time the US did an experiment for that little money?
Of course, their last one crashed into the desert in a fireball...so perhaps a little extra money could have been put to good use.
It's not part of profit, it's an operating expense. Same has having to purchase hardware, office supplies, advertisements, etc.
Nope, you can still use it.
FTA: Torvalds explained that a company could decide not to sublicense and call their product "anything MyLinux but the downside is that you may have somebody else who _did_ protect himself come along and send you a cease-and-desist letter."
It's all about whether someone wants or need protection and "not about whether LMI wants the money or not," according to Torvalds.
Red Hat doesn't have one because they aren't using 'Linux' in their name. It's Red Hat, Inc.
I don't see anything wrong with this. He is protecting the name and still allowing it to be accessible to your every day developers/programmers.
If a company has more than 1 million in revenue, 5k is pocket change. While 200 dollars is well within range of a couple of guys programming in their basement. And this also allows some protection for those guys in their basement if someone tries to take their name. They might not have the money for a legal battle, but for 200 bucks they can insure their name.
I see many Slashdot articles in the future relating to Tombstone theft and hacking them for linux.
I don't think it's a great advert for the game, but you are right in the attention. In the marketing world, there's no such thing as 'bad publicity'.
What kind of a game is this where the creators/admins can't just take the things away from him and give them back? How hard could that possibly be rather than spending the money/manpower to arrest him?
I actually enjoyed Gattaca, but still very scary.
This will probably open some new markets tho. Before too long, someone with real Carpal Tunnel could sell a DNA sample to someone looking to get a big check from their employer.
And once it advances to employment based on how 'smart' your DNA says you are, very intelligent people will be able to sell theirs as well.
Of course, it goes without saying that I'd be able to sell mine...*cough* *cough*
Actually, I didn't care about your english. I was merely countering your Not Funny comment. Because I really thought it was funny.
That was hilarious! Too bad I don't have any Mod Points...
Merely because you don't care about something doesn't automatically mean it isn't newsworthy. There were many things that they did up there, pretty much every day, that was very interesting to me. And there were some things that I didn't care about that I'm sure were very interesting to some other people.
I loved the coverage and always looked forward to more shuttle articles.
Something like 1 million dollars to transport it back to Florida.
Well I'm glad they made it back safely. Those astronauts are some of the bravest people I know of, along with those in our Armed Forces.
Congratulations Discovery!
I feel the same way every time I read the comments on Slashdot articles.
Sometimes I sit back and think, "I am not dumber for having read this."
I'll do it for 1 Million!
How do you figure that it makes sense in the winter? At some point, even an hour difference in the winter isn't going to change whether it's dark or not when you leave work.
Besides, who appointed the USA to be the supreme ruler of space?
Space is out there, if you don't like it, get yourself up there and rule it first. Those that refuse to step up are the ones appointing us.
I completely agree. Any kind of a 'race' between competing militaries usually ends up with new technology that benefits all of us, not just in weapons. That may have been the initial intent, but part of it will involve getting more people into space, or an outpost on the moon, or any number of things. It would be a good thing to have a space race.
All that article really did was prove how powerful Google really is. They should use it as a marketing tool.
"Google, so powerful you can find information about ANYBODY!"