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  1. Re:What would the little kid say? on What's the Point of IT Certifications? · · Score: 1

    Being someone with a CCNA and a medical degree i would have to disagree with the parent. The length of time taken and the level of knowledge required would be similar for the MB ChB (MD in american speak) and the CCIE. Just different systems to work on with less clearly defined instructions for the MD just my £0.02

  2. old news? on Hitachi Predicts 3D Hard Disks by Year's End · · Score: 2, Informative
  3. Re:Heart Conditions? No problem! on Games That Shoot Back · · Score: 1, Interesting

    omg
    an option to remove your fibula
    that would be extremely painful and i don't see how removal of a legbone is gonna help you when your heart has stopped

  4. always going to have to pay on Internet Providers Band Together to Fight Evil · · Score: 0

    the worrying bit is the "revenue-generating service" of identifying and stopping DDOS mentioned in the ManagedServices bit of the website
    it's like, either pay the bad dewds to not dos you or pay your telco to stop it happening when it does

  5. Re:stagnate on UK to Privatize Radio Spectrum? · · Score: 0

    it was determined that Railtrack was not carrying out its job correctly and seized back the UK rail network after having a UK court agree, placing it in control of a public company called Network Rail

    and the difference between railtrack and network rail is the name. Anything else? The same people are in charge after all, apart form some dude form Arthur Andersen who is a member of the Auditing Practices Board. When i think of Arthur Andersen i think of good auditing practice.

    http://www.networkrail.co.uk/companyinformation/bo ard/execdirect.htm

    and, just for kicks, check out the google search and spot the handy url for network rail.

    http://www.google.com/search?q=network+rail

    Like most things in Britain nowadays this is just spin on top of bullshit.

  6. any mirrors on To Mars and Back in Ninety Days · · Score: 0

    /.ed within 6 minutes of the post :-)

  7. good on Biomimetic Robots: A Photo Gallery · · Score: 0

    they can do everything outside whilst we sit in our watertight houses with the CO2 scrubbers on full

  8. coz we so good at the human virus strategies on Assessing Internet Viruses Like Human Epidemics · · Score: 1, Insightful

    we are about 30 years overdue for an influenza pandemic. The last one in 1918 killed more people than the first world war. When it comes it will come from asia due to the juxtaposition of poultry, pigs and humans allowing a significant change in the antigens covering the flu (antigenic shift rather than drift)
    Therefore we would expect the health professionals in Hong Kong to be pretty good re surveillance, minimising spread etc.
    No
    When SARS came out it was the medics that caught it and spread it and died from it.
    The difference between SARS and influenza is that if one person with SARS coughs in a room containg 1000 people then 7 people will be infected, with influenza it is 700 people that are infected.

    I wish people would stop drawing parallels between IT systems/procedures and medicine. Please remember that health professionals have been BSing the people for hundreds of years and are quite good at it.
    If we use medical models of infection control in IT then we are all fscked

    Dr mikieboy MB.ChB.

  9. what dya mean retro on Digital Generation, Analog Retro Chic · · Score: 0

    i got a couple of these when they came out http://www.aopen.nl/Products/MB/AX4B-533Tube.htm and the output stage is very nice to listen to, prolly becouse of the lovely even order harmonics

  10. what on Early Warning For Microsoft Premium Customers · · Score: 0

    like iDefense do u mean

  11. and it could be silent too! on AMD to Demo '8-socket' Dual-Core Opteron System · · Score: 0

    those nice people at zalmantech.com have created a completely silent case for a 4way opteron so you can have power and silence for the correct amount of $$ http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/free/NC/NEWS/20040716/ 147359/

  12. Re:Backpedalling we a'go... on SCO Says 'Linux Doesn't Exist' · · Score: 0

    to break your duck is to score a point, to get off zero points.
    comes from cricket in that if you get "out" before you score any points then you are "out for a duck" if you get "out" on your first ball then it is a "golden duck"

  13. Re:I'll say it once again: on SF Author Robert J. Sawyer Looks at 2014 · · Score: 0

    and how far would you go to get your flying car
    eh?

  14. looking for revenue streams on WAP is Dead, Long Live WAP · · Score: 0

    the itu got caught off guard by the popularity of sms and feel that they undercharged for it. now they have the debts from the 3g grab the money auctions in the uk and are trying any way they can to get people to use their cellular charge per meg bandwidth. Pictures didn't tempt people so here is new WAP to encourage us all to forget about those pesky bills and keep these poor starving telco businesses in profit.

  15. as opposed to ... on Fewer Computer Science Majors · · Score: 4, Funny

    about 75% of the worlds lawyers. maybe that why sco in such a pickle

  16. Re:Hmm (ex wife, but seriously...) on Living Without a Pulse · · Score: 1

    err the pressure/flow on teh venous side of the system has very little correlation in terms of quality with the arterial side as it has passed through the *MASSIVE* volume that is the capillary system. Indeed venous blood return from your legs relies more on muscle action than anything else. That's why the valves are their to keep the flow one way. These folk 'll just die without some form of pump and the blood flows in arteries constantly anyway, it's rate of flow pulsates but should never drop below positve to zero, unless your dead of course