Brutal, Painful Death, Just a Mouse Click Away
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Morally duplicitous torture porn: how else to describe âUntraceable,â a bleak, rain-washed horror thriller.
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In my most recent Times column, I reviewed macro software that automates common tasks on your Mac or PC. I opened the article with a reference to a 1986 M.I.T. study, which concluded that people are less productive with computers, not more. And as a joke, I concluded the story with this: âThe bottom line: [...].
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Microsoft is applying for a patent for an operating system that starts out crippled.  You must pay to do things like take the throttle off network speed, disk access, install drivers, install software, and more.  Trust me, I rarely even visit Groklaw, even if this is my second consecutive blog entry with a link to a Groklaw article. My VarLinux.org readers posted the article, A Brave New Modular World, and I had to share it.
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Life hardens us and art desensitizes us. Is the culture of violence turning us into creatures without empathy? Commentary by Tony Long.
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By Lisa Kim Bach  By LISA KIM BACH  REVIEW-JOURNAL  The soft side of a killer isn't usually seen in a courtroom.  Many of them apparently save that for cyberspace.
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Comedian Jerry Lewis was once in so much pain that he regularly contemplated suicide. A "pain pacemaker" implanted in 2002 now enables him to trigger electronic impulses through his spine to his brain that eliminate the pain.
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Tycho:  Penny Arcade Armadeaddon continues - into territory more horrifying than you could possibly imagine.
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It may be time to stop defining death purely in medical terms, an academic argues.
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COMMENTO                                          La morte del processo
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In 2001, the Netherlands became the first (only?) country in the west to permit "mercy killings". The law only allows such killings in very particular circumstances - a doctor can terminate the life of a person who was in great pain and had no hope of recovery. In addition, the law requires the informed consent of the patient.   A hospital in the Netherlands has asked to dispense with that annoying part about consent - and the equally annoying part about pain.
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If youâve ever felt as though you canât keep up with the pace of life, well, it could have been worse. You could have been a computer disk.
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A surreal nightmare of gleaming surfaces and razor-sharp edges, âThe Bothersome Manâ unfolds in a sterile city where nothing is quite as it seems.
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The progress of Parkinson's disease (PD), or any brain-wasting disease, is painful to watch in oneself or in a loved one.
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At Christopher Newton's execution by lethal injection last month, it took 90 minutes and at least 10 stabs of the needle for the execution team to find a vein. The procedure was so drawn out the staff paused to allow Newton a bathroom break.
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Waiting for subjects to die is a somber part of the oncology clinical trial process.
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Some are unusual but compelling, while others are rather gruesome.
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The next batch of painful Jackass stunts is coming to a computer screen near you.