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Waterboarding is torture....Period

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:50:50 GMT

clipped by: Barry_1066
clipper's remarks: Ever read 1984? Double speak and New Speak seem to have come to reality and with domestic spying *blinks* well G. Orwell would find his novel parallels frightening.

What next? The constitution is not being followed, international law broken, treaties trounced, what next -- oh yea Iran.

Clip Source: www.motherjones.com

Having been subjected to them all, I know these techniques, if in fact they are actually being used, are not dangerous when applied in training for short periods. However, when performed with even moderate intensity over an extended time on an unsuspecting prisoner – it is torture, without doubt. Couple that with waterboarding and the entire medley not only “shock the conscience” as the statute forbids -it would terrify you. Most people can not stand to watch a high intensity kinetic interrogation. One has to overcome basic human decency to endure watching or causing the effects. The brutality would force you into a personal moral dilemma between humanity and hatred. It would leave you to question the meaning of what it is to be an American....

Tags: waterboarding, politics, political, torture, bush, chaney

Doctors use vodka drip to save dying man

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:18:39 GMT

clipped by: Deepti

Clip Source: www.hindustantimes.com

Australian doctors in a far-north Queensland hospital saved the life of an Italian tourist by putting him on a drip-feed of vodka to flush out the poison he had drunk in a suicide attempt, local media reported Wednesday

"The patient was drip-fed about three standard drinks an hour for three days in the intensive care unit," physician Todd Fraser said Tuesday. "The hospital's administrators were also very understanding when we explained our reasons for buying a case of vodka."

Fraser told Australia's AAP news agency that the 24-year-old was brought to Mackay Base Hospital after drinking antifreeze, a chemical compound that can cause renal failure and is often fatal.

He was administered pharmaceutical-grade alcohol as an antidote to the poison. Supplies soon ran out and had to be topped up from the local shop. The Italian made a full recovery.

Tags: doctor, vodka, suicide, attempt, drip, hospital

British Army tests invisible tanks

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:12:15 GMT

clipped by: rj3sp

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Army tests James Bond style tank that is 'invisible'

New technology that can make tanks invisible has been unveiled by the Ministry of Defence.

In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.

The new technology uses cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto a tank.

Tags: invisible, tanks

Should news sites be free?

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:17:47 GMT

clipped by: Brett Nelson
clipper's remarks: More food for thought in a world of splintering media.

Clip Source: www.slate.com

Why You Didn't Pay To Read ThisShould newspaper Web sites really be free?

The New York Times' retreat from a subscription model is widely portrayed by online commentators as a humiliating and belated acceptance of the inevitable. But Matthew Gentzkow, an economist at the University of Chicago, recently published research that suggests that there has been no expensive mistake. Both the subscription model then and the advertising model now were likely to have been reasonable choices. Free online access makes more sense now not because of some fundamental law of online economics, but because the online advertising market has matured.

Tags: newspapers, internet, economics

Great tips for optimizing your computer

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:42:15 GMT

clipped by: kennedyhouse
clipper's remarks: a fantastic collection of tips and tricks. Make sure you scroll to the bottom of each tip page to open the appropriate link to view the detailed instructions.

104 general tips

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1681

Clip Source: www.pcstats.com

Beginners Guides: 104 Tech Tips for Windows XP

Windows Interface Tips (1-20)

Computer Maintenance and Troubleshooting Tips (21-46)

Computer Security Tips (47-54)

WindowsXP Shortcut Tips (55 - 63)

Disk and Storage Management Tips (64 - 67)

Cool Tweaks, Toys and Experiments (68 - 90)

Networking and Internet Tips ( 91- 104)

101 Tech Tips and 99 Performance Tweaks,

Tags: xp, help, tutorials, computer help

Dangerous to Start Over

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:01:34 GMT

clipped by: asardar
clipper's remarks: Joel hits it again about why one needs to be careful if presented with the idea of restarting from scratch. Most times it will be a losing proposition.

Clip Source: www.joelonsoftware.com

Well, yes. They did. They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:

They decided to rewrite the code from scratch.

There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. And here is the interesting observation: they are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming:

It's harder to read code than to write it.

It's important to remember that when you start from scratch there is absolutely no reason to believe that you are going to do a better job than you did the first time. First of all, you probably don't even have the same programming team that worked on version one, so you don't actually have "more experience". You're just going to make most of the old mistakes again, and introduce some new problems that weren't in the original version.

Tags: software development