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Does good Betsy McCaughey exist?

all very interesting, but...Is ZDnet now a health-oriented web site? Should we start looking forward to more political articles?A Ph.D. is a doctorate[i]"When McCaughey uses the title ?Dr.,? it?s based on her Ph.D from Columbia. ... to refer to her as ?Dr. McCaughey,? is to endorse a deception."[/i]Sorry, Dana, but...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, SECURITY, Betsy McCaughey, deception, good Betsy McCaughey, doctorate, health care

Discussion threads 2009-09-08

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Companies to offer free foreign travel for their sick

Wow, a great way to force our overpaid doctors to compete. Doctors should have a comfortable life, but, they do not need to earn 100x what they do in other countries.and if there are complications?If a US citizen travels abroad for a procedure and returns home, who will treat any...

Tags: Financial Planning, insurance

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Comcast rakes in the dough; Continues to poach voice customers

Comcast rakes in the dough; Continues to poach voice customersWhy, just Why?Why would anyone willingly subject themselves to becoming Comcast customers? Where I live even DSL is not available so my only choice is Comcast and they are terrible, their customer service is terrible, their installers are unreliable and they...

Tags: INTERNET, Cable, Network technology, TVs, Broadband Internet, comcast, Comcast Corp., voice customer

Discussion threads 2009-08-06

One week with my Palm Pre-cious reveals the good and bad

One week with my Palm Pre-cious reveals the good and badWaiting for the apple haters to jump on pre...like they did to the iphone.I've read a lot of Pre reviews and everyone agrees; useless keyboard, no auto correction or completion, inconsistent interface, and poor battery life.The apple haters jumped all...

Tags: Keyboards, Engineering, Pre, Apple iPhone, Palm Pre-cious, Palm Inc., battery, apple hater, keyboard

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Technological transmogrification: the evolution of language

Technology is an ever-growing and developing social construction - from the Archimedes screw to the Blu-ray disk. Not only with technology, our language has evolved to a point where entirely new dialects and words have been plucked out of nowhere and thrust into everyday life; unlike Icelandic which is one...

Tags: Word, Virus, Meat Product, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Windows, Viruses And Worms, Spam, Security, Handhelds, Operating Systems, Software, Spam And Phishing, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-05-23

MI5 searches for emerging tech scientists

The domestic intelligence service for the United Kingdom, MI5, have recently advertised for a chief scientific adviser, which would take on the role similar to that of 'Q' in the James Bond films. Whilst science fiction and well-written novels can take advantage of such a serious role, the Security Service...

Tags: Job, Advisor, National Security, Investment, Recruitment & Selection, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-04-26

Barbara Liskov wins 2008 Turing Award

I don't tend to report or blog much about various scientific awards that get handed out over the year. However, this one is worth a quick note since Barbara Liskov co-wrote one of the canonical college texts on programming Abstraction and Specification in Program Development and has had a...

Tags: Award, Programming Language, Programming, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Leading Turkish Seismic Research Institution Achieves High Performance With Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008

Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Bogazici University, is providing postgraduate and doctorate education under the Earthquake Engineering, Geophysics and Geodesy departments and encompassing earthquake observation, research and application services within a single, integrated body. The institution is conducting a TUBITAK financed research project on the behavior of structures under...

Tags: High-performance, Institution, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Leadership, Software, Management

Case studies 2009-02-17

No student should go without (at least) two monitors

Forget that I'm a journalist for a moment, because no matter how much I try, I'm a student first until I finish my doctorate. I have recently discovered the joy of having dual monitors and my life has never been as sweet as a result. For the...

Tags: Monitor, Student, Desktops, Hardware, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-29

Phishers as street-level drug dealers

Phishers as street-level drug dealersIf you have an opportunity to make a buck, would you?Phishing is still free money. With very little skills and resources needed, the opportunity still exists. The problem is, it's much more easily tracked with the exchange of bank accounts and such. I...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, SECURITY, minimum wage, phishing

Discussion threads 2009-01-12

Doctor shortage could derail reform

Doctor shortage could derail reformAre you nuts?Chiropractors may be fine for a sore back but they also think allergies can be treated by spinal manipulation. Nurses do not have the training to prescribe the correct antibiotic for the patient's condition, the correct dose of insulin, the best antihypertensive. ...

Tags: Financial Planning, Medical Schools, insurance, physician, Doctor shortage, patient

Discussion threads 2008-12-23

Dissertation cheats: the dark, corrupt slice of the Internet

The Internet is slowly becoming a rubbish tip for junk, useless information, knitting patterns and videos of blind Scottish men being hit in the nuts with a baseball. Because nothing on the web really ever disappears, we can see into the looking glass of the past. Over the last few...

Tags: Essay, Web Site, Web Site Development, Web Technology, E-mail, Internet, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-12-10

If you don't think Wikipedia is a worthy resource, make it better

If you don't think Wikipedia is a worthy resource, make it betterReally, Wikipedia can be all that you use for quick assignments. Sure,for a full research paper, there should be other sources. But, kids can learn a whole lot more if they do not spend as long looking for information....

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikipedia IS, worthy resource

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

UK CS graduates more likely to be unemployed

Zack Whittaker was on compassionate leave when this was posted; posted offline and scheduled to release during this week. People over the years have said to me, "computers are the future; you'll end up getting a great job with wads of money." I'm not a money person,...

Tags: Computer Science, Computer, Productivity, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-08-20

Virtual e-learning: the end of university?

Virtual e-learning: the end of university?i disagree[i]Nowadays, a university degree or doctorate doesn't guarantee you a job at the end of your course, whereas "learning as you work" is becoming more and more popular.[/i]As far as I understand it, University places have gone up considerably since the 80s (source: old...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, University Place, job, e-learning

Discussion threads 2008-07-10

Virtual e-learning: the end of university?

University places are increasing more and more as the years go by, whilst e-learning and "in-house training" becomes the norm within business. Universities UK has reported that 70% of all incoming undergraduate students make up of 18-20 year olds, and is expected to drop dramatically from the beginning of the...

Tags: University Place, E-learning, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-10

Latvian University Implements New E-Learning System to Help Distance Learners

The Latvian University of Agriculture's IT faculty - founded in 2001 - offers educational qualifications in IT at bachelors, masters, and doctorate levels for campus-based and distance learners. The IT faculty at the University of Agriculture in Latvia wanted a modernised e-learning environment to support both classroom and distance learners....

Tags: Information Technology, E-learning, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2008-07-01

Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment?

Is Microsoft slow to the punch on SOA, or just waiting for the right moment?They are waiting for the right time to pounce. Right now, they want to slowSOA as much as possible, to keep the money rolling in for the twin cash cows, but, there will come a time...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Middleware, Microsoft Corp., XML, Microsoft Office, OOo, Web-Stack, SOA, MSOffice-OOXML, OOo team

Discussion threads 2008-06-24

Better products or just better marketing?

Oregon State University is reporting a significant increase in Mac usage among its faculty, according to MacNN. While the article focuses on OSU, there seems to be a growing trend to look someplace other than Vista when purchasing new computers. Water-cooler conversations with other faculty at my high...

Tags: Marketing, Apple Macintosh, Oregon State University, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., PC Ad, Desktops, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Identifying a face from a single picture

Law enforcement officers around the world can be happy today. A computer scientist and PhD candidate from the Umeå University in Sweden has developed algorithms that give a computer the possibility of recognizing a face, even if only one picture exists in the database used to identify criminals or suspects....

Tags: Algorithm, Database, Face Recognition, Column, Image, Illumination, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-01-29