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Comment ... because physicians are all always up to date?? (Score 2) 200

by wiswaud on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @12:04PM (#47099999) Attached to: Wikipedia Medical Articles Found To Have High Error Rate

Seriously - how many physicians, even among the specialists, keep themselves up to date on the latest research? Many of them do, many of them are passionate, geeky about what they do, and in their spare time they'll be reading up on the latest research, they'll go to conferences, etc., like a passionate geeky programmer would. But many, and i'd say most, just don't. Their knowledge is whatever they were taught. And that wasn't necessarily the state of the art at the time they graduated - that depends on how up to date their *teachers* were.
So, yeah, wikipedia might be misleading; it might be out of date in certain places - in many places, even. But i don't necessarily think your physician will be more up to date. And i'm not sure how to fix that, either, because they *should* be!

Computerized Election Results With No Election 433

Posted by kdawson on Sunday July 19, 2009 @02:28PM from the why-bother-with-mere-tampering dept.

_Sharp'r_ writes "In Honduras, according to breaking Catalan newspaper reports (translations available, USA Today mention), authorities have seized 45 computers containing certified election results for a constitutional election that never happened. The election had been scheduled for June 28, but on that day the president, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted. The 'certified' and detailed electronic records of the non-existent election show Zelaya's side having won overwhelmingly."

Spacecraft Buzzes By Mercury 62

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 06, 2008 @08:57AM from the it's-time-to-buzz-the-planet dept.

Riding with Robots writes "The robotic spacecraft MESSENGER is making its second fly-by of the first planet today, skimming just 200 kilometers above the surface. The fly-by will reveal portions of the planet that have never been seen before, but the main purpose of the maneuver is to prepare for an orbital insertion in 2011. The mission site offers extensive information, along with the first pictures that are already arriving on Earth, with many more expected in the coming hours and days."

Comment config management (Score 1) 152

by wiswaud on Wednesday December 13, 2006 @09:05AM (#17221536) Attached to: Who Owns Deployments - Dev or IT?

in bigger companies, it's a CM team that handles these things. neither dev nor it can do the deployment. CM will testify that the release has been tested (which can be done by a testing group in dev, or a test department), and they will have a handle on everything that is installed right now and has ever been. They have the final word on whether something should be deployed. They build the packages going to the clients, if need be. And you can always go to them and ask "where's the code that's running right now?".
they'll also keep track of what documentation corresponds to what. you usually can't trust the developpers for things like that.

you need a CM team, even if they're not full-time CM.

Journal Journal: Xubuntu 6.06 on a Thinkpad 380XD

Journal by gtmaneki on Thursday December 07, 2006 @05:20PM

The electric acid grandma test: My mother has been wanting to get on the Internet and send emails for a while now. Since neither she nor I knew if she'd like having a computer, I wanted to get something cheap. And since she didn't have a lot of space to spread out, a laptop was preferable. Looking through the classifieds, I found someone selling an IBM Thinkpad 380XD computer for $100: PII 233 MHz, 95 MB RAM, CD-ROM and floppy drives, and a USB port. Not bad for a starter system where

Journal Journal: Waiting for the spark

Journal by Ayato on Wednesday January 07, 2004 @01:52AM

Tell me...

What can you do when the big hand grabs you tight by the throat and the little hand gives you a kiss?

What can you do when the right hand gives you all you can eat and the left hand takes all that it can ?

It's hard to understand...
Breathe in, breathe out...

A few hours grace before the madness begins again... school in 7:15 hours....

Journal Journal: Flipping the coin, one more time since it's all I can do

Journal by Ayato on Friday December 19, 2003 @03:41AM

As I'm flipping the yes-no coin I found next to my Sméagol figurine, Johny expects me to believe in his "I saw the Devil last night and we drank Jagermeister together" story. What the f*** is wrong with him? Yizzint the fizzle, nor the schizzles or the whizzles, must be the schiznit yizzal!

I'm tired!

Exams are over, and you know who I'll be hunting down next semester ;) (watch-out f00, the codermaster will get your arse ;)

Journal Journal: I'm sick of those nightmares ;(

Journal by Ayato on Tuesday December 09, 2003 @02:03AM

I'm sick of those nightmares...
I'm sick of being alone...
I'm sick of school and all the work...
I'm sick of not being able to work on my engine...
I'm sick of not doing anything that I want...
I'm sick of expecting more from others...
I'm sick of sleeping alone...
I'm sick of waiting for something to happen...
I'm sick of being me...

Journal Journal: The Twelve Ladies Of Hope - Molly

Journal by Ayato on Friday December 05, 2003 @02:30AM

Molly,

I remember the cameleon's smile like it was yesterday. Breath of milk, feet of feathers, chest of silk: you get the picture. I enjoyed her presence in every way. She was the energy that I needed to survive in the jungle. She was the 7th string. She'd run the World with her left hand while she'd hold mine with her right. Molly gave it all away (not as much as Alice, but still). She'd cast the pearls aside from the life of need and would come into my life forever.

Journal Journal: Another day dreaming about the past

Journal by Ayato on Tuesday December 02, 2003 @09:25PM

As the tightrope walker creates fear in the minds of the spectators, Alice fills me up with dreams and good reasons to not let the thin rope go...

Journal Journal: What time is it again ?

Journal by Ayato on Monday December 01, 2003 @03:03AM

Silly Sally and Even Steven didn't show up to the rendez-vous. I guess they were too busy, working on something more important. Now, for those of you that keep asking questions, here's an easily justified proof that nowadays, people forget their dues. It really pisses me off... Besides, I think I'm not the only one who's pissed when similar situations happen. I think we all are. Are we intelligent enough to say: what can we learn from these mistakes? Actually, I think the Human being tends to

Comment Wetware (Score 1) 665

by Mattzilla on Wednesday April 09, 2003 @08:50AM (#5692472) Attached to: Favorite Science Fiction word for All of Us

Who is it that created the Software and the Hardware...US the *Wetware*... I always liked this little gem, as found in Ender's Game.

Comment Backdoor options! (Score 1) 401

by Nony on Friday July 12, 2002 @04:00PM (#3873041) Attached to: The Power of Palladium

Microsoft Palladium is just another reason for not doing a secure OS correctly. Why do a software company need to put restriction in the hardware for privacy and security? BSD is one of the most secure OS and it doesn't use this kind of technique to achieve it. Why don't they (MS) code a secure OS that won't need any hardware restrictions?

I think one of the thing that make Windows insecure is that it's running under Admin rights most of the time. Why don't they forbid administrator to log in and instead ask for admin password before installing new hardware, software that needs admin rights or for changing system files. This way scripts or viruses won't be able to corrupt the system without the admin password. This technique work quite well for many other ( Unix base system ) OS . At some point, MS needs to rewrite the kernel completely to be able to achieve this and with 40 billions dollars I think it's doable. But with the way they used to code I understand why they don't want to start it over.

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