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  1. Re:Yes, and it's called LifeWings on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I guess that varies from country to country. Over here, nurses are pretty much responsible for every care related task. Sometimes assisted by some teenage guy doing his alternative service for conscientious objectors.

  2. Re:Yes, and it's called LifeWings on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm sorry, you're right.

    "worse" was the wrong word. "less qualified in the actual medical stuff"

    Nurse support staff, as the other poster named ist.

  3. Re:Dear God Yes on Time To Discuss Drug Prohibition? · · Score: 1

    can anyone think of much worse jobs than collecting Frog Sperm??????

  4. Re:Yes, and it's called LifeWings on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nah. Mostly we could even do with worse ones. Many of the tasks of a nurse don't require special training. (Like handing that glas of water to the woman that can't reach it, making sure that guy doesnt faint on his way to the toilet and falls to the floor out of reach of the alarm button.) On the other hand, a ringing buzzer may also be a sign of an emergency. So every buzz (service and alarm are indistinguishable) has to be answered as soon as possible.

    So for five simultanious alarms, you need five people, not a single better one.

  5. Re:Yes, and it's called LifeWings on Saving 28,000 Lives a Year · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a hopeless lack of process in the medical industry. They need a good solid dose of ISO9001 or CMMI.

    Or simply more nurses.

  6. Re:In the Wild West.... on Who Protects the Internet? · · Score: 1

    If someone breaks into my home and threatens me or my family with a weapon, they die.

    Zymergy shot first!!

    Thats *your* fallacy. You're assuming that you get a chance to shoot first.

    Classic gun-control fallacy. The world does not work that way. People do not work that way. Deterrence works.

    Deterrence works, but leads to an arms race.

    It'll work as long as there are unarmed homeowners, as they will be "burglars choice" (easier targets). But as soon as everyone has a gun... do you really thing burglars will be extinct? No.. they'll just keep on trying to break into your house (without tripping any alarm) and shoot you while you're still sleeping. Better safe than sorry, you understand.... It's not their fault.. you forced them to do so, to protect themselves.

  7. Re:Mod me down, but you know I'm right on Florence Nightingale, Statistical Graphics Pioneer · · Score: 1

    I think Nightengale and Curie (and let's not forget Franklin) realized that the only way to be taken seriously in fields dominated by men was undeniable achievement.

    Psst... It's the ONLY way to be taken seriously. Even for men.

    I wouldn't want to cram a history textbook full of people without undeniable achievment.

  8. Re:Just a note... on Florence Nightingale, Statistical Graphics Pioneer · · Score: 1

    You're saying I could be a male Rosa Parks by refusing to leave a womans sauna??

  9. Re:It's good to see some people are getting it... on Monty Python Banks On the Long Tail Via YouTube · · Score: 1

    Monty Pythons Complete Waste of Time.

    I's time for a HiRes-Version of it. (at least PAL-Resolution) :-)

  10. Re:I bought the kit on Guitar Hero World Tour Equipment Problems, Subscription Possibilities? · · Score: 1

    Maybe get a blister on your little finger, maybe get a blister on your thumb.

    Hey what did you expect? Money for nothing?

  11. Re:It's a lifting body on ESA Unveils Re-Entry Module · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bmcage needs to look into what lifting bodies are

    Those things that almost killed Steve Austin?

  12. Re:Wireless = less secure on D.I.Y. Home Security · · Score: 1

    Light helps when you keep the publicly viewable portions of your property illuminated. My home has three lights around it.

    Exactly. It's not about light, but visibility.

  13. Re:An idea on The Gym Arcade · · Score: 1

    Spin class...

    like.. beeing shouted at while excercising?

  14. Re:Cue the "where are MY games" whining on The Gym Arcade · · Score: 1

    So they want a lot more games, they also want them to be very intense, to take them off of the stress of the day, they don't want short games like a lot of the Wii games

    But those are the ones to take the stress away. Nothing better to relax than a few rounds of Dr. Mario online. OTOH, Trying to remember what Storyline and Questhooks you left behing in Zelda 3 weeks ago when you last found the time to play IS stress.

    I'm still waiting for a "Story Arc Recap"-Feature for Games.

  15. Re:Wireless = less secure on D.I.Y. Home Security · · Score: 1

    Lights that keep vulnerable areas lit at night help allot, so do motion lights.

    Be carefull with that. It may backfire into actually helping them to break in. Good lighting, no suspiscious flashlights neccessary... IIRC ther was an article a few months back with schools reducing vandalism by removing lighting. Those punks dont want to hang out where its too dark.

  16. Re:Wireless = less secure on D.I.Y. Home Security · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then he has a high res camera for the backdoor where they will more than likely enter since it's easy to get into.

    Instead a HiRes-Cam.. wouldnt he better invet that money into a stronger backdoor? you know.. like.. with a lock?

  17. Re:They're back? on Behind the Cogent-Sprint Depeering · · Score: 1

    There should have been a car somewhere in that analogy.. besides that, it's a good one.

  18. Re:Awwww on EA Forum Ban Will Now Mean EA Game Ban · · Score: 1

    I took it that you meant you can just download music and movies from The Pirate Bay or some P2P network when you don't like the DRM/license/whatever, which would violate copyright law. If you meant something else then I apologize.

    Thats what he said. You wont be treated as a criminal without reason anymore...

    They'll treat you as one anyway.
    http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/7JIlrMoFdsM/article.pl

  19. Re:Misunderstanding... on EA Forum Ban Will Now Mean EA Game Ban · · Score: 1

    WE are?

    Just speak for yourself...

  20. Re:Alfresco/Sharepoint on Study Shows Social Networking At Work Is Good · · Score: 1

    where can I get this Facebook-Thingy? :-)

  21. Re:You're Right, Of Course on Should You Break TOS Because Work Asks You? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's not different at all, but I think it's a bit unfair to blame someone else for "just following orders" instead of getting fired (or in front of a firing squad). Would you live up to your own expectations - if you were in the SAME SITUATION?

    And then there are different kinds of "orders". IANL, so can I be sure that my interpretation of the TOS is the right interpretation at all? So.. why not get the legal department CYA?

    (Wow.. pretty much mixing things up here... So here's my CMY: I know that understanding legalese and testifing at the Nürnberg Trials are NOT comparable at all. I was just trying to get back to the main topic.)

  22. Re:Not how trademarks work on Feds Target "Mongols" Biker Club's Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    +1 insightful

    but in most people opinion over here, it's also *not* a human right to insult someone.

    and I think the question, if some right includes the right to abuse that right, is probably beyond the scope of /.

    so I fully understand both viewpoints.

  23. Re:Vigilante Justice ala Slashdot Anyone? on Handling Caller ID Spoofing? · · Score: 1

    you mean "on motorcycles".

    http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/3jWUpMLwifM/article.pl

    But you wont be able to recognize them anymore.

  24. Re:Not how trademarks work on Feds Target "Mongols" Biker Club's Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    Nah. It's just that showing these insignias is widely seen as an insult to all the victims of that regime. And so there is no need to cover insult under "free speech".

  25. Re:Not how trademarks work on Feds Target "Mongols" Biker Club's Intellectual Property · · Score: 1

    We should call this the TAFKAP-Strategy