Recourse For Poor Customer Service? (Sunday 30th of November 2008 10:45:01 PM)
Eleventypie writes "I am in the Army and currently stationed in Afghanistan. latterly I found
myself without a laptop so I decided to build a studio 17 from Dell. I designed/customized my
laptop on 2008-09-17 and placed my order, which totaled approximately ...
(more)Algorithms Can Make You Pretty (Friday 10th of October 2008 02:30:01 PM)
Caffeinemessiah writes "The New York Times has an interesting story on a new algorithm by
researchers from Tel Aviv health center that modifies a facial picture of a person to conform
to right of attractiveness. Based on a digital library of picture show ...
(more)1 Dead, 3 Injured In Gang Fight At Morongo Casino (CBS 2 Los Angeles) (Sunday 28th of September 2008 08:29:30 PM)
One person died from a stabbing, and three others were injured, in an apparent gang-related
assault at a public artistic event being staged this weekend in a Casino Morongo parking lot,
experts said Sunday. One person was stabbed in the chest, one was ...
(more)Health Tip: Controlling Asthma (Friday 05th of September 2008 12:02:27 AM)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- While some people are more likely to have
asthma, the things
that veritably "trigger" attacks vary from person to
person.
More: - Read the
rest here
...
(more)Reusing and Recycling Code (Saturday 19th of July 2008 08:35:38 PM)
An nameless reader sends us to a writeup about when and how to recycle code, excerpting: "As
developers, once we start separating our code into abstract ontological typologies, we make use
of the human mind's phenomenal ability to work with types. Our ...
(more)Can you work with children if you self harm? Person i know is saying you cant but i thought was discrimation? (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 07:04:46 AM)
Thanks, in advanceIt's nobody elses business if you self-harm outside of working with children.
As long as you're doing what you're supposed to be doing at work, then I don't see why it
would be a problem.I wouldn't want anyone near my children who ...
(more)If a person describes you as...? (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 07:03:48 AM)
subtle, what does that mean?You don't come across really strongly or obviously... If you are
subtle you do not have an annoyingly obvious way about you. I would assume it is almost always
a complimentary thing... unless it is presented to you that you ...
(more)No higher death risk in long-term coffee drinking (Monday 16th of June 2008 10:13:03 PM)
Long-term coffee water fountain does not
appear to boost a person's risk of early death and
may cut a
person's chances of dying from heart disease, as it should be to a
study published
on Monday.
...
(more)Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders Affect Children's Blood Pressure During Sleep (Friday 13th of June 2008 01:00:00 PM)
In the first study to use constant measurements of blood squeezing during overnight sleep, a
experimentation abstract presented at SLEEP 2008, the 22nd Annual Meeting of the associated
person person proficient Sleep Societies (APSS) finds that all severities ...
(more)Drunken Man and Blonde (Monday 02nd of June 2008 01:00:00 AM)
After a really good party a man walks into a bar and orders a drink. Already drunk and
delirious, the man turns to the person sitting next to him and says, "You wanna hear a blonde
joke?"
The person replies, "I am 240 pounds, world ...
(more)A New York Divorce Lawyer died and arrived at the pearly gates. ... (Tuesday 27th of May 2008 08:10:02 AM)
A New York Divorce Lawyer died and arrived at the pearly gates. Saint Peter asks him "What have
you done to merit ingress into Heaven?"The Lawyer thought a moment, then said, "A week ago, I
gave a quarter to a friendless person on the street."Saint ...
(more)Friends quit smoking? You probably will too (AP) (Thursday 22nd of May 2008 09:22:26 AM)
The urge to smoke is contagious, but quitting externally is, too. A team of researchers who
showed that obesity can spread person-to-person has found a similar pattern with smoking
cessation: A smoker is more likely to kick the habit if a spouse, friend, ...
(more)Health Tip: Coping With Alzheimer's (Friday 09th of May 2008 02:01:39 PM)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- It's important for a person diagnosed with
Alzheimer's disease
to continue to perform the daily tasks of life -- as
best as the person can.
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...
(more)Gene blockage may help treat childhood cancer (Monday 14th of April 2008 10:43:44 PM)
Overactivity of a gene called
ODC1 is customer's broker person person with poor natural law of
neuroblastoma, a
common, often fatal cancer seen mostly in young children,
according to
legwork* assemble Sunday at the stars and bars stars and stripes ...
(more)Health Tip: Treating Head Lice (Wednesday 19th of March 2008 04:02:03 PM)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) - Head lice are tiny insects that live in the
hair. They can be
transmitted from person to person, or by sharing items
such as finery or linens with an
infested person.
...
(more)Group Launches Letter-Writing Campaign To Protect Custom-Made Hormones For Menopause (Thursday 31st of January 2008 02:00:00 PM)
More than 4,000 people during the last three weeks have taken part in a career and
Professionals for Customized Care letter-writing attack that urges members of caucus to protect
the right of pharmacies to sell custom-made hormone tackle to treat diagnostics ...
(more)The New Facebook Ads - Another Privacy Debacle? (Friday 09th of November 2007 10:15:03 PM)
Privacyprof writes "Facebook lately announced a new advertising scheme called 'Social Ads.'
Instead of using celebrities to hawk products, it will use moving picture show of Facebook
users. Facebook might be entering into another privacy debacle. The ...
(more)Confessions Of Sodom (Saturday 27th of October 2007 01:00:00 AM)
One Sunday, a priest asked one of the church janitor if he would cover his specialty shift for
him -- he said it was easy, since he had a sin list inside the booth which listed both sins and
penance. The janitor agreed and ...
(more)Software To Evaluate Facial Expressions Developed (Friday 26th of October 2007 06:00:05 AM)
The scientific know-how Review site has up an article on new os/2 that can do quantitative
analysis of facial expressions, detecting whether a person is smiling. The executive was
developed by the Omron Corporation, and can also estimate a subject's age ...
(more)New Book Empowers People Living With Dementia (Monday 08th of October 2007 10:00:00 AM)
"It's a very come and go disease," writes Cary Henderson, a man with Alzheimer's Disease.
"When I make a blunder, I tend to get opposing about it. I have a sense of shame for not
knowing what I should have known. ...
(more)Health Tip: Understanding Compulsive Overeating (Thursday 04th of October 2007 06:55:23 PM)
(HealthDay News) - Compulsive overeating occurs when a person uncontrollably binges on large
amounts of food. The affected person usually is overcome with enmity of guilt and shame.
More: - Read the rest ...
(more)Health Tip: Caffeine Facts (Monday 01st of October 2007 11:55:47 PM)
(HealthDay News) - Caffeine, the natural individual found in many foods and beverages including
coffee, tea and chocolate, can cause symptoms that can vary widely from person to person.
More: - Read More
...
(more)Wheelchair Controlled by Thought (Friday 07th of September 2007 01:15:09 AM)
Macduffman writes "New rocket engineer reports on another development in interfacing with the
central nervous system. The system "eavesdrops" on signals sent from the brain to the larynx,
so even people who lack the muscular control to vocalize a command ...
(more)Entering Passwords Through Eye Movement (Saturday 01st of September 2007 08:54:18 PM)
Stu Dennison writes "Ars Technica has a post up on a new service called EyePassword.
EyePassword is a system that attempts to mitigate the issues of shoulder-surfing via a novel
approach to user input: no hands required. With EyePassword, a user enters ...
(more)Open Fire! (Tuesday 10th of July 2007 08:00:00 AM)
Peter McKay - everybody knows that coupling exposes a person to new ways of looking at life.
An introverted person could marry into a family of really sociable people, and a person who
grew up in a really argumentative family could, say, learn ...
(more)Casino night to aid two local charities (Asbury Park Press) (Tuesday 31st of July 2007 09:54:17 AM)
TOMS RIVER: A tract dentist is hosting a casino night to raise money for Ocean County Hunger
Relief and Ocean of Love from 6 to 10 p.m. Aug. 16 at the Quality Inn, 815 Route 37
West.Tickets cost $50 per person in advance and $75 ...
(more)Poet Babies Spoof Paris Hilton, Help Selfish London Hyatt (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) (Friday 20th of July 2007 03:30:02 PM)
Can anyone help Paris Hilton become a better person? The Poet Babies, unseen sound of good,
resist that challenge when they meddle with the selfish cosmopolitan London Hyatt and force her
to do what she has never done before: speak to a poor ...
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