Medicare-PartD.com Highlights Changes in 2009 Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans (Friday 14th of November 2008 06:45:01 PM)
Medicare Part D decree drug plans are modification again in 2009 and Medicare-PartD.com
released their online PDP-Compare tool to help comprehensive medical insurance beneficiaries
quickly see how their current 2008 health plan Part D plan changes in ...
(more)iGoogle Users Irate About Portal's Changes (Monday 20th of October 2008 05:00:01 AM)
Bhhenry sends in an InformationWeek report on a recent unannounced change in the iGoogle
portal. Quoting: "Google insists that its revised iGoogle personalized home page generates
better 'happiness metrics' than the old design, but a vocal group of users ...
(more)Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project? (Monday 06th of October 2008 07:30:01 AM)
Darkeye writes "I'm facing a hard dilemma and looking for opinions. I've been contributing
heavily to an open source project, making consequential changes to code guild and quality, but
the work is unfinished at the moment. Now, a company is approaching ...
(more)Research Finds Carbon Dating Flawed (Thursday 11th of September 2008 08:15:01 AM)
Eldavojohn writes "New experimentation funded by the national Science ground at the teaching
hospital of Miami is showing that carbon dating (the 13C/12C ratio used to infer age) in the
ocean can only be trusted up to 150 million years ago. From the primary ...
(more)Abuse of painkillers can predispose adolescents to lifelong addiction (Thursday 11th of September 2008 01:52:00 AM)
No child aspires to a life span of addiction. But their brains might. In new fishing
expedition* to appear online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology today, Rockefeller health
center researchers reveal that minor brains exposed to the painkiller OxyContin ...
(more)Opposable Thumbs and Upright Walking Caused By "Junk DNA" (Monday 08th of September 2008 05:30:01 AM)
Quinnlynn writes "A group of inquest scientists at Yale discovered that the llc.cite this
source roget's ii: the new thesaurus of opposable thumbs and upright walking in humans is due
to changes in the genome in the areas still classified as "junk DNA." ...
(more)Nuclear Decay May Vary With Earth-Sun Distance (Friday 29th of August 2008 05:45:01 PM)
KentuckyFC writes "We've long thought that nuclear decay rates are constant inconsiderate of
ambient temperature (except in a few special cases where beta decay can be influenced by
puissant drawing fields). So that makes it hard to explain two puzzling ...
(more)Programmer's File Editor With Change Tracking? (Saturday 26th of July 2008 01:45:01 AM)
Passionfingers writes "My art users regularly have to tweak large (>32MB text) data files
manually. Overlords charged with verifying the aforementioned changes have requested that the
little people be if with a new file editor that will track changes ...
(more)Changes Changes Changes Fear Excitment Changes (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:01:08 AM)
I've had my eyes open for a window to San Diego for a while now, even before I met Tess. I've
been poking around San Diego's Time Warner Division for a job lately to try to see if it would
be possible for me to ...
(more)Brian Aker On the Future of Databases (Wednesday 04th of June 2008 06:15:02 PM)
Blackbearnh recommends an hearing with MySQL supervisor of technical lore Brian Aker that
O'Reilly Media is running. Aker talks about the merger of MySQL with Sun, the challenges of
foreseeing databases for a SOA world, and what the next decade will bring ...
(more)Patent Chief Decries Continued Downward Spiral of Patent Quality (Monday 21st of April 2008 07:00:04 PM)
Techdirt is reporting that Jon Dudas, head of the US Patent Office, is lamenting the
postgraduate work quality drop in patent submissions. Unfortunately, while this problem is
finally getting the attention it deserves, the changes being implemented don't ...
(more)New UK Initiative - Make Science Easier (Wednesday 29th of August 2007 06:39:28 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "Examiners in the UK have been told to make science 'easier'. From
next year 70% of the paper must consist of 'low demand' questions in the form of heterogeneous
choice or similar answers. Currently this type of question makes ...
(more)Interstellar Dust Could Be "Alive" (Friday 17th of August 2007 09:24:54 AM)
Reezle writes "An national team has naked that, under the right conditions, particles of
inorganic dust can become organized into helical structures. These structures can interact with
one another in ways that are usually associated with organic compounds ...
(more)Wii update provides minor menu changes, could brick modded consoles (Tuesday 07th of August 2007 04:18:00 PM)
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It's that time again folks -- the moment when you're rushing
out of the house, but you make the oh-so-wise decision to head in even later rather than
leaving that glowing Wii unattended. Today, Wii owners in Europe, Japan, ...
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