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  1. Not so fast on Health Care Providers Failing To Adopt e-Records, Says RAND · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It has been my experience that every health care provider that I have dealt with that offers electronic records, also charges you an "administrative fee" to get a copy of said records at over $1 per page (regardless if it is an electronic document emailed to you).

    Need an example? Altoona Regional Health System

  2. Re:BASIC on Book Review: Super Scratch Programming Adventure! · · Score: 2

    Simple. Trying to teach a 3-4 year old to type lines of code when they can't even spell their name/recognize words will be a mountain of a task that isn't necessary to teach logic concepts like programming

  3. Re:so? apple is still selling less product on The Strange Math of Apple's Alleged Massive iPhone 5 Order Cuts · · Score: 1

    "Grow" is non synonymous with "increase". Why do you folks keep insisting it is?

  4. Re:Excercise and diet on Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Fit In the Office? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Why do you even need a gym? Or wait for the weekends? Instead of standing around the water cooler, do as many pushups as you can when you have 30 seconds. Do the same before every urination break (you'll work really hard really fast). You will spend literally minutes a day, yet be in better shape than the 99%.

  5. Re:fix it later on Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity? · · Score: 1

    I have worked in QA and have done just that

    Aha! No wonder your bias. Your do YOUR job, but these code monkeys can't bothered to do theirs! Right.

    You can't ship a product that can't compile. When a deadline needs met to ship a product (or you get fired), you make sure before anything else that it will compile. It doesn't matter if you see an obvious corner case where your SuperFunction() will fail improperly. It doesn't matter how well that function works if you can't even ship the product. Ok, you got it to compile and there is some time. Does it even run? Does it remotely do what it is supposed to do? If it fails, are these corner cases or an impediment to using the software in general? Fixing a bug on the spot is almost never an appropriate use of time or resources. I'm glad you are part of the QA team

  6. Re:fix it later on Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity? · · Score: 1

    So it is like a credit card, but with time

  7. Re:Why are we quoting the AAPS? on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1

    Medicine is moving further and further into the realm of "If you are happy, you will get better!" Ever seen Cymbalta prescribed for pain? It's an anti-depressant and has 0 influence to your pain receptors. Welcome to Psycosomania! Everything is in your head!

  8. Re:Why are we quoting the AAPS? on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1

    Comparing DO's in general to this organization isn't reasonable. The AOA is just a different path than the AMA. They both are perfectly qualified set of legal doctors. A DO has to do ALL of the training that an MD does. However, a DO is more likely to be able to amputate your leg to save your life in the middle of a car wreck scene than an MD

  9. Re:paranoid mode engaged ! on Hiding Secret Messages In Skype Silences · · Score: 1

    You aren't thinking of the protocol layers involved. At the top there is the "valid voip packet", which encapsulates everything. Next layer down you have an ID layer. Is it silence or is it waveform data? Silence, great. Next layer, for how long? 70 bytes isn't unreasonable.

  10. Re:Woohoo on C Beats Java As Number One Language According To TIOBE Index · · Score: 1

    Have you ever experienced VB6?

  11. Re:Bureaucracy tending towards opression... on TSA 'Secured' Metrodome During Recent Football Game · · Score: 2

    I'' do it. Vote me in as President and I'll do it

  12. Re:One-Eyed folks? on How Google Glass Is Evolving As It Heads For Release To Developers · · Score: 1

    Today officially marks the future! Grab your robot eyes today!

  13. Re:There was a sci fi book ... on How Google Glass Is Evolving As It Heads For Release To Developers · · Score: 1

    I think the (broken) logic is one "causes" many others to commit crime x, while the other is one instance of committing crime x. Like the difference with inciting a riot and being a single rioter.

  14. Re:Doesn't matter on Origin of Neil Armstrong's 'One Small Step' Line Revealed · · Score: 1

    This is one of those moments you imagine coming up in conversation many times, in which you have been working on a zinger for quite some time. It is a lot of rehearsal and a little part of the moment

  15. Nothing to explain on Autonomy Chief Says Whitman Is Watering Down HP Fraud Claims · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Someone is lying

  16. Re:i wont buy hardware like that on Free Software Foundation Campaigning To Stop UEFI SecureBoot · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm pretty sure your shift key is broken. Possibly, your comma key as well

  17. Grub? on Free Software Foundation Campaigning To Stop UEFI SecureBoot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hasn't Ubuntu made GRUB a SecureBoot boot loader? How isn't this sufficient?

  18. Re:nah, you are reading it wrong on The L.A. Times Names Its Favorite Flops of the Year · · Score: 1

    News business just has to talk

    Someone needs to learn the difference between data and information

  19. Re:4G is missing. LTE on The L.A. Times Names Its Favorite Flops of the Year · · Score: 1

    Car analogy. It is like buying the next year model of your favorite car, that regardless the engineering differences, gets the same gas mileage/performance at the previous years model. Except for in terms of a car, the lifetime of which it exists matters. In the case of a cell phone, it is a disposable computer

  20. Re:Facebook IPO on The L.A. Times Names Its Favorite Flops of the Year · · Score: 1

    I want an MS Surface. But $200 is all I'm going to pay.

  21. Re:It has to be said. on New IE Vulnerability Used In Targeted Attacks; IE9, IE10 Users Safe · · Score: 1

    In my experience, the dependency came from the promise of Microsoft supporting their "web platform" moving forward. Then everyone was "YOU EXPOSED THE WHOLE SYSTEM OF COM LIBRARIES TO THE SCRIPTING ENVIRONMENT!!!!", so they started trying to please that crowd with nonsense like ActiveX killbits. You can't please everyone.

  22. Re:Titan of its generation (and replaced too early on In Japan, PlayStation 2 Ends a 12-Year Run · · Score: 1

    It didn't matter that it had underpowered hardware that was known for pain a pain in the arse to develop for

    It mattered a whole hell of a lot. It threw developers back to the days of the (S)NES, where you had to develop your own development tools to actually create something that is usable. The video RAM limitation alone was a massive drawback to development, so much so, I can name two studios that eventually folded because development time targeting the PS2 was insurmountable with a small shop.

  23. Re:oh come on on The Most Unique Viruses of 2012 · · Score: 2

    mciSendString is an enormously valuable and deprecated API call that ties right into the Windows video codec stack. It has its legacy back in the 16 bit era, but I can't think of a better high level video API that is so simple, yet powerful. The mess comes from the COM interface being exposed so casually

  24. Re:Flunked out of college twice on Ramanujan's Deathbed Conjecture Finally Proven · · Score: 2

    I wonder what would happen if US colleges (or even earlier in our educational system) let students have free reign, and really specialize

    It is called M.I.T.

  25. Re:Guy was so smart it's scary. on Ramanujan's Deathbed Conjecture Finally Proven · · Score: 2

    Quite the contrary. It hits close to home, but there is strong correlation that that creativity and mental illness are hopelessly linked. The implication is that those who can reason outside of accepted boundaries are those who create revolutionary thoughts