In the 21st century, what could be more ridiculous than checks? Little pieces of paper upon which incredibly sensitive information is printed in a font from the punch-card era of computing. Sign your name and, voilà, the paper becomes money!Aside from the obvious security problems, checks don’t fit well into today’s digital buying-and-selling infrastructure. For checks, verification depends...
The New Old Age Blog: For the Elderly, Lists of Tests to Avoid
Label: HealthThe Choosing Wisely campaign, an initiative by the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation in partnership with Consumer Reports, kicked off last spring. It is an attempt to alert both doctors and patients to problematic and commonly overused medical tests, procedures and treatments.It took an elegantly simple approach: By working through professional organizations representing medical specialties,...
DealBook: In Europe, Risks and Opportunities
Label: BusinessBERLIN – Is Europe a risk or an opportunity?As its economies struggle, private equity managers offer differing views about the region.Speaking at the SuperReturn conference in Berlin, Henry R. Kravis, co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, said Europe was an attractive market, particularly the Continent’s southern countries, which have been hit by high unemployment and meager growth.“I like Spain,...
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Race for L.A. city controller heats up
Label: World A previously low-profile race for Los Angeles city controller has begun to heat up as opponents of City Councilman Dennis Zine...
The Strange Beauty of Historic Computers Brought Back From the Dead
Label: TechnologyWhen you open the door and walk into the room, it even smells like the 1960s. It reminds you of the old garage where your grandfather kept his twin Chevrolet Corvairs. But those aren't cars you smell. Those are computers.
This is the "1401 Room" on the first floor of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California — the room where Robert Garner and his motley crew of amateur technicians have...
Cellar victim Kampusch raped, starved in film of ordeal
Label: LifestyleVIENNA (Reuters) – A new film based on the story of Austrian kidnap victim Natascha Kampusch shows her being repeatedly raped by the captor who beat and starved her during the eight-and-a-half years that he kept her in a cellar beneath his house.Kampusch was snatched on her way to school at the age of 10 by Wolfgang Priklopil and held in a windowless cell under his garage near Vienna until she escaped...
Global Health: After Measles Success, Rwanda to Get Rubella Vaccine
Label: HealthRwanda has been so successful at fighting measles that next month it will be the first country to get donor support to move to the next stage — fighting rubella too. On March 11, it will hold a nationwide three-day vaccination campaign with a combined measles-rubella vaccine, hoping to reach nearly five million children up to age 14. It will then integrate the dual vaccine into its national...
DealBook: Regulators Block Ryanair’s Latest Attempt to Buy Aer Lingus
Label: BusinessBRUSSELS — The European Commission on Wednesday blocked the third attempt by Ryanair to take over Aer Lingus, saying the tie-up of the two Irish airlines would damage competition and raise prices on air routes to Ireland.The decision was widely expected after Ryanair — the largest budget carrier in Europe — said earlier that the commission would prohibit the deal, worth about 700 million euros or...
The Ugly, Corrupted, Brilliant Games of Michael Brough
Label: Technology I’d never heard of Michael Brough when I downloaded his iPhone game Corrypt, and my first impression of it wasn’t entirely positive. It had stark, surrealist pixel graphics and very little animation. After solving the first couple of simplistic puzzles, I found myself hopelessly stuck on an early challenge involving lots of boxes in a cramped room. Frustrated, I quit the game and quickly forgot...
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