This is exactly the same sort of thing that started the Watergate scandal: breaking into the DNC looking for dirt. This is theft, pure and simple. The fact that it may be a foreign government attempting to influence our elections by using illegally obtained information just might be a bit concerning. So yeah, you should care how they got out.
Makes me wonder if the recent earthquakes put their aim off, possibly requiring recalibration at the sending end. I know this happens to radars after large quakes.
Pre-print here. They used data from the first two runs (Jan-Jun 2010 and Nov 2010-Mar 2011). I can guess why Run 2 ended when it did. The speculation about earthquakes and Fukushima contamination are unfounded.
I don't know if you realize this, but the prostate is extremely easy, if a bit uncomfortable, to access. A lot easier than, say, your pancreas.
Seriously, the doctor checks it with a finger, do you really think it's not near an accessible surface?
Also, this sounds like it could be much, much more targeted, and therefore safer for the patient, than current techniques.
Yes, the prostate is easy to access from the rectum, but that does not make it a good idea to shove a linear accelerator up a guy's ass. Apart from the discoftort caused by the insertion, you'd also burn a large hole in his rectum and cause your patient to need a colostomy bag for the rest of his life. Good work!
Gah. Even worse, the article quotes the physicist talking out his ass about cancer therapy:
“Already, radiation for cancer does something like this but uses a different principal. And it can only shrink tumors near the surface of the skin. But in our case, CPAs may be able to reach a bit deeper.”
Ummmm...no. Not even close. Radiation therapy can "shrink tumors" anywhere in the body, not just near the surface of the skin. Unless he thinks the prostate is near the skin surface. I don't know how much "deeper" he plans on going.
If anyone can tell me what's in THIS plan, I'll give them a cookie.
Right now, I don't know what the hell we're all arguing about. I work in the healthcare field (I can tell you some stories about how absolutely monstrous the insurance companies are), have been paying close attention to this "debate", and I don't know what THIS plan or THAT plan contains. There's been some talk about a public option (which I hear is tantamount to replacing Congress with the Politburo) that's in some versions of the bill and not in others. And apparently a modest proposal to kill all the old people and Stephen Hawking. But other than that, it's all a big blur.
So please enlighten us on what sort of meaningful reforms the Republicans have proposed. Other than their courageous stance against eugenics.
William the Conqueror spoke French, as did most of the Kings of England in the Middle Ages, when they weren't busy dying of dysentery. Richard the Lionhearted, that exemplar of the English Monarchy, spoke only French and spent approximately 20 minutes on English soil in his entire life.
What this has to do with DRM, I don't know. But the fact that we went from there to here says something. What that something is? Again, I don't know. Athesimo bless the internets!
I hope your wife is doing as well as I am. Cancer is truly a bitch.
Protons are an attractive modality of treatment. They offer attractive depth-dose characteristics (see the previous mention of the Bragg Peak), a higher relative biological effectiveness (they kill more cells per unit dose), and do somewhat better on hypoxic tumors (tumors with areas of low oxygen concentration). And I admit, it sure would be a cool toy to have here at work. But...
There are many practical problems with proton accelerators. First is that they are HUGE; the bending magnet is often 10 to 100 times as large as that of an electron accelerator (used to make x-rays). There are not that many hospitals who have the real estate to accommodate such a machine. Because they are so expensive and expansive, most facilities will only be able to afford one such machine. What do you do when it breaks down? Radiation therapy outcomes can be quite sensitive to skipped days and breaks in the scheduled treatment course, which often are every weekday for 6-8 weeks (which is why we are treating patients on both Saturday and Sunday last weekend and this one, to give our patients Christmas and New Year's Day off without compromising their treatment). As for being "crisper and cleaner around the edges," advanced techniques in photon therapy do this pretty darn well. Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy can construct dose distributions with very sharp gradients that are comparable to the distributions achieved by protons.
In the end, until superconducting bending magnets become cheap, or until plasma wakefield proton beams achieve the luminosity necessary to be useful in the clinic, protons will remain a niche market. And honestly, for most cases it would make very little difference to me if I or any of my family were treated with x-rays or protons.
I wonder how many people will post dsimissive comments of the variety, "Because it's not profitable to do so, you moron." I would like to believe that all the very smart people out there who read/post to/. would be able to figure out that the original poster probably already knew that answer. I think a more pertinent question would be:
"How can we convince companies that use Linux in their products that it's in their best interest to support the very geeks who produced Linux in the first place, when any mongoloid (with or without an MBA) can spout out extremely obvious and simple-minded answer that there just aren't very enough Linux users to waste our precious resources on?"
I think a combination of shame and threats to do something like plant malicious code in the kernel. But I grew up Catholic. Shame and threats are all I know.
I've had the same issues with suspending to RAM on my Dell Inspiron 8200. In FC1 suspending and resuming worked well with APM. In FC2, suspend worked, resume *almost* worked (it would resume and the suspend again all by itself; resuming from that then worked). Now in FC3 none of it works. ACPI has never worked.
I've been using RedHat/FC since 5.2. Installing FC3 on my laptop and desktop has removed functionality from the laptop and completely hosed my desktop. I've dallied in Debian and Gentoo, but always went back. FC3 has me seriously considering leaving the Core for good.
I see it running Firefox 1.0PR on Fedora Core 2, although hitting Ctrl-+ and then Ctrl-- (increasing the font size and then restoring it) fixes the problem.
Yeah. I was living in Ithaca, NY at the time. I remember sitting in the dark, jealous of all those lucky people (literally) across the street who still had power. The jerks.
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This is exactly the same sort of thing that started the Watergate scandal: breaking into the DNC looking for dirt. This is theft, pure and simple. The fact that it may be a foreign government attempting to influence our elections by using illegally obtained information just might be a bit concerning. So yeah, you should care how they got out.
not exactly too far away from Fukushima
Makes me wonder if the recent earthquakes put their aim off, possibly requiring recalibration at the sending end. I know this happens to radars after large quakes.
Pre-print here. They used data from the first two runs (Jan-Jun 2010 and Nov 2010-Mar 2011). I can guess why Run 2 ended when it did. The speculation about earthquakes and Fukushima contamination are unfounded.
I don't know if you realize this, but the prostate is extremely easy, if a bit uncomfortable, to access. A lot easier than, say, your pancreas.
Seriously, the doctor checks it with a finger, do you really think it's not near an accessible surface?
Also, this sounds like it could be much, much more targeted, and therefore safer for the patient, than current techniques.
Yes, the prostate is easy to access from the rectum, but that does not make it a good idea to shove a linear accelerator up a guy's ass. Apart from the discoftort caused by the insertion, you'd also burn a large hole in his rectum and cause your patient to need a colostomy bag for the rest of his life. Good work!
Ummmm...no. Not even close. Radiation therapy can "shrink tumors" anywhere in the body, not just near the surface of the skin. Unless he thinks the prostate is near the skin surface. I don't know how much "deeper" he plans on going.
If anyone can tell me what's in THIS plan, I'll give them a cookie.
Right now, I don't know what the hell we're all arguing about. I work in the healthcare field (I can tell you some stories about how absolutely monstrous the insurance companies are), have been paying close attention to this "debate", and I don't know what THIS plan or THAT plan contains. There's been some talk about a public option (which I hear is tantamount to replacing Congress with the Politburo) that's in some versions of the bill and not in others. And apparently a modest proposal to kill all the old people and Stephen Hawking. But other than that, it's all a big blur.
So please enlighten us on what sort of meaningful reforms the Republicans have proposed. Other than their courageous stance against eugenics.
Wow, I thought dancing was impressive, but this guy has a bird that's in a metal band!
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William the Conqueror spoke French, as did most of the Kings of England in the Middle Ages, when they weren't busy dying of dysentery. Richard the Lionhearted, that exemplar of the English Monarchy, spoke only French and spent approximately 20 minutes on English soil in his entire life.
What this has to do with DRM, I don't know. But the fact that we went from there to here says something. What that something is? Again, I don't know. Athesimo bless the internets!
I hope your wife is doing as well as I am. Cancer is truly a bitch.
Protons are an attractive modality of treatment. They offer attractive depth-dose characteristics (see the previous mention of the Bragg Peak), a higher relative biological effectiveness (they kill more cells per unit dose), and do somewhat better on hypoxic tumors (tumors with areas of low oxygen concentration). And I admit, it sure would be a cool toy to have here at work. But...
There are many practical problems with proton accelerators. First is that they are HUGE; the bending magnet is often 10 to 100 times as large as that of an electron accelerator (used to make x-rays). There are not that many hospitals who have the real estate to accommodate such a machine. Because they are so expensive and expansive, most facilities will only be able to afford one such machine. What do you do when it breaks down? Radiation therapy outcomes can be quite sensitive to skipped days and breaks in the scheduled treatment course, which often are every weekday for 6-8 weeks (which is why we are treating patients on both Saturday and Sunday last weekend and this one, to give our patients Christmas and New Year's Day off without compromising their treatment). As for being "crisper and cleaner around the edges," advanced techniques in photon therapy do this pretty darn well. Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy can construct dose distributions with very sharp gradients that are comparable to the distributions achieved by protons.
In the end, until superconducting bending magnets become cheap, or until plasma wakefield proton beams achieve the luminosity necessary to be useful in the clinic, protons will remain a niche market. And honestly, for most cases it would make very little difference to me if I or any of my family were treated with x-rays or protons.
I wonder how many people will post dsimissive comments of the variety, "Because it's not profitable to do so, you moron." I would like to believe that all the very smart people out there who read/post to /. would be able to figure out that the original poster probably already knew that answer. I think a more pertinent question would be:
"How can we convince companies that use Linux in their products that it's in their best interest to support the very geeks who produced Linux in the first place, when any mongoloid (with or without an MBA) can spout out extremely obvious and simple-minded answer that there just aren't very enough Linux users to waste our precious resources on?"
I think a combination of shame and threats to do something like plant malicious code in the kernel. But I grew up Catholic. Shame and threats are all I know.
Ice makes a pretty good Cerenkov radiator. Just ask the folks on AMANDA and RICE.
I've been using RedHat/FC since 5.2. Installing FC3 on my laptop and desktop has removed functionality from the laptop and completely hosed my desktop. I've dallied in Debian and Gentoo, but always went back. FC3 has me seriously considering leaving the Core for good.
Agreed that it is still annoying.
Yeah. I was living in Ithaca, NY at the time. I remember sitting in the dark, jealous of all those lucky people (literally) across the street who still had power. The jerks.