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  1. I agree but... on Berman Confirms Star Trek Prequel Film Project · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It would be a painful five years. On the other hand, they could update the special effects and the physics to match real technology that will exist then. I'd like to see a Star Trek that operates under more real physical laws. I'd also like to see one set in San Fancisco, at Star Fleet command.

  2. NO slashcode on shared hosting on Best Weblogs for Personal Websites? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I tried this - did not work. Don't dream about it without root access to the server. Better yet, have the server in your bedroom so you can work on it around the clock for a few weeks. I gave up and went with PHP-nuke, despite the inferior moderation system.

  3. Local Chiropractors on Getting Treatment for Carpal Tunnel? · · Score: 0

    One chiropractor near where I live likes to give patients with kidney stones lots of olive oil. He claims the resulting large green feces are the stones.
    I recomend visiting your primary care physician first, then getting a referal to a hand specialist.
    It does sound from your other post as though you may have a neck problem. It could also be that your hand problem causes the headaches. Or your job just makes you sick.

  4. Placebo Effect! on Getting Treatment for Carpal Tunnel? · · Score: 0

    I would get a second openion before trying something like that.

  5. Many apps don't work either. on Linux's Achilles Heel Apparently Revealed · · Score: 0

    I run Mandrake 9.1 and artsd. It took me several tries to get a working driver. As it is, many applications, including sound players, IM Clients, and Opera, do not play sound. Fortunately KDE, Kit, and XMMS work fine, so I am mostly covered. Who else has these issues? A fix? Note on Opera: The new mail sound does work. Just none of the others.

  6. I do that. on Paid To Spam · · Score: -1

    With my mailing list, which is not spam. But same idea. Anyone who doesn't?

  7. In the schools I have attended... on How Safe are Government Computers? · · Score: -1

    There have been everything from machines that run only 5.5 inch flopies (elemenerary school) to Windows 98 Beige boxes to fast Windows XP Dells. I think the oldest ones are all gone now. It seems that nearly all of the Windows 98 boxes are infected with malware. That's probably because no students are allowed to use the XP boxes regularly, and all the teacher's grading and attendance software is on the 98 boxes.

    Interesting thing about the school's method of preventing data theft/corruption: store all sensitive data on 3.5 inch flopies and clone a new hard drive if the box won't boot at all. There's also some no-name antivirus software. All the attempts at cracking by students that I have observed ended in miserable failure, mostly because the 98 boxes don't have the Microsoft Visual Studio runtime installed.

  8. Meditalk on Your Privacy and Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 3, Informative

    Meditalk is the name of the software used for the dictation system. It's real time, so the doctor can check for errors while he talks. The buigest problem with it was the support contractor (Not Quincy Systems) who forged a singnature on a document.

  9. Second post and dinner on Your Privacy and Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    I was trying to get second post - and go to dinner. If you think my spelling is bad, you should just see the average doctor's hand writing. That's why they have their work printed by a machine. As I clarified in another post, the transcription is voice recognition, not typing or check boxes, and he speaks directly into the computer's microphone, so it's in real time.

  10. Hey! You figured it out! on Your Privacy and Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    Yes, I did mean voice recognition, which none of the other people who replied seem to have noticed. It is highly reliable, but it does make the occasional mistake. Even when it does make a mistake, the doctor is there reading the transcription as he speaks, so he can fix it.
    There's a regular competition in the office among the doctor's asistants where they attempt to decrypt errors caught by the doctors.
    The reason my father and his partners switched to the automated system was that the transcriptionist they had was falling way behind on her typing. She was even outsourcing it to Virginia!
    Some doctors, of course, have the worst possible problem; They don't bother to do their dictations at all. One doctor in my community was a year behind on dictations when he was arrested for selling prescription drug samples. He's also been acused of conspiracy to comit arson, among other things. Right now, he's in house arrest. (Soft sentance, in my openion, for defrauding large amounts of money from drug companies).

    Now, don't let me get started on the local vote buying politicians: "I didn't know there was nothing wrong with a little moonshine..." - arested for selling illegal alchohol and possesion of a weapon of mass distrution.

  11. Transcriptionist on Your Privacy and Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 0, Interesting

    All docters should have their computers transcribe their dictations like my father does.

  12. It's not exponential. on Testing Relativity · · Score: 1

    I took a chart from Star Trek in Sound and Vision, a site which is now defunct, and put the modern unit values/warp values into my calculator, and used the various least squares regression functions. They told me that the Next Generation warp numbering system does not fit a linear, quadratic, cubic, quartic, logarithmic, exponential, trigonometric (duh) or power equation. Instead, they are based on the maximum speeds of certain ships.
    Note that the word asymptote is not appropriate. I think you meant limit. An example of an equation with a limit of 10 is
    f(x)=(-x)/(x-10)

  13. Example, Please? on Testing Relativity · · Score: 1

    Can you name an inconsistancy? I have no idea if you are right, realy, and I would like to know.

  14. Except in Hawaii. And some teritories. on Testing Relativity · · Score: 1

    But most slashdotters don't live there either.

  15. You most likely are on Testing Relativity · · Score: 0

    "full or crap."
    Lunch time was hours ago, if you live in the United States, as do most slashdoters.

  16. 11 Demensions on Testing Relativity · · Score: 1

    The article says that 11 demensional space is one of the theories competing to be the "Theory of Everything". I thought high dememsional space (11 or 13 demensions) was widely accepted.

  17. Scientists think Einstein was wrong? on Testing Relativity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The article implies that Einstein's relativity is incorrect, in the opinions of most scientists. I'm no physicist, but I would say that most scientists are trying to build onto Einstein's relativity and show that it agrees with Quantum Mechanics: Therefore, they think it is correct.

  18. Wikipedia on SVG And The Free Desktop(s) · · Score: 1

    All of Wikipedia is a victim.

  19. Encryption on Data Security on Windows Machines? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Could you incript the particular files that are sensitive, so that by the time a cracker decrypted them, they were useless? This wouldn't work for a database that was accessed constantly without code editing, but for most applications, it would work well. WinPT was the first application I found, but there must be many of them.

  20. Opera - Last Page on What's Your Browser Start Page? · · Score: 1

    I have Opera set to display the pages that were open when Opera last closed... that way, my browsing sessions are endless. I do have a fixed home page, which is cesdep.org. I guess that counts as Personal and Customized.

  21. Clarification on Starting Your Own Community Driven Website? · · Score: 1

    I'm running PHP-Nuke, MySQL, CPanel, GNUMailman, on shared hosting from Eryxma. I also have an IRC channel at irc.freenode.net. I think my main difficulty is getting the target audiance to see it. Other students don't go through the internet systematically the way I do.

  22. Not my way on Starting Your Own Community Driven Website? · · Score: 1

    Apparently, you shouldn't do it the way I have been doing it: Site for Students. So far, it's a community of about three students.

  23. Re:Complication: What about students? on Tech Work in the Boonies? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't want to work with the existing staff at my school system. First, everything is proprietary, and would be difficult to convert. Second, they attempt to censor web access. Third, they are incompetent. Students with almost no technecal knowlege are always finding security holes and exploiting them. Most of the computers carry malware of some type. If anything goes wrong, the staff just clones a new drive without any attempt to prevent a repeat.

  24. Complication: What about students? on Tech Work in the Boonies? · · Score: 1

    What about young people like me, who not only live in small towns, and have the added disadvantage of no work expiriance? I was going to submit this, but it looks like I was beaten.