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by bm98 16y ago
> It also makes me wonder why WSJ published such an apparently ridiculous article. Chua is trying to drum up interest for her new book on the same topic which goes on sale today. Her publisher, Penguin Books, is owned by Pearson PLC.
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by bm98 16y ago
You are incorrect: In the US, two 2009 H1N1 vaccines distributed in multi-dose vials were approved for children >= 6 months. See: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/dosage.htm#table1
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by bm98 16y ago
In most US states, a parent can apply for a religious exemption that will allow them to enroll their child in school without one or more of the required immunizations. Some states even offer "philosophical" exemptions. The National Confere
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by bm98 16y ago
Emacs
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by bm98 16y ago
My company uses IMAP and has some employees who came from jobs with Outlook/Exchange, so we hook them up with Outlook/IMAP in the hopes that they'll be comfortable in that environment. But it's a far cry... it's like moving them to a whole
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by bm98 16y ago
Am I the only one who was struck by how much that exam looks like something produced by LaTeX? http://bm98.posterous.com/did-they-have-latex-in-1869
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by bm98 16y ago
That tall decaf from Starbucks is not just a placebo; it has 20mg of caffeine. See: http://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/brewed-coffee/decaf-pik...
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by bm98 16y ago
Very blurry indeed. See for example, "Predictable Programs in Barcodes": http://repository.upenn.edu/cis_papers/200/ From the abstract: "...In particular, we consider programs for microwave ovens, which provide a basic open API for contro
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by bm98 16y ago
What's with all the return receipts? Do people really use return receipts that much?
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by bm98 16y ago
Firewalls are a good computing analogue to the blowout preventers and crosswalks in Brooks' article. When behind a firewall, people tend to be less careful about security. The acclimation to risk that Brooks talks about is seen in computin
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by bm98 17y ago
As a father of a 1.5 year-old who loves the iPhone, this looks very familiar. But toddlers pick up on all kinds of new things incredibly fast, so I'm not sure this tells us much about the learnability of the iPad for computing novices of a
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by bm98 17y ago
The city is paying some 230 "consultants" an average salary of $400,000 a year for a computer project that is seven years behind schedule and vastly over budget. This is misleading. The figures in the article are based on the hourly rate
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by bm98 17y ago
Second, over-the-air broadcasts are becoming a nearly obsolete technology. Already, 91 percent of American households get their television via cable or satellite. So we are using all of this beachfront property to serve a small and shrinki
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by bm98 17y ago
If Google deletes all of its personally-identifiable data within 48 hours, then the risk to current users of any future privacy policy change is small. The real problem is when a service collects -- and never purges -- data under the guise
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by bm98 17y ago
"Google Public DNS telephone support * 877-590-4367 in the U.S. * 770-200-1201 outside the U.S." Telephone support from Google? At first I thought this might be some kind of joke, but I then called and it's just automated help.
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by bm98 17y ago
Silly newspapers. They want to charge for content but can't bear the thought of losing traffic. So they keep the door open to non-subscribers through Google, and hope subscribers (or potential subscribers) won't find out.
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by bm98 17y ago
When he was 13? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt
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by bm98 17y ago
It already is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout
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by bm98 18y ago
I'm surprised that with all the talk of ethics, no one has mentioned the GNU/Stallman philosophy: those who are unethical are the ones making software but not making it free.