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  1. Re:Recipe for disaster? on Artificial Heart Recipient Has No Pulse · · Score: 1

    The AED will only shock when it analyzes the electrical pulses to be within certain patterns like Ventricular Fibrillation, et al. The manual ones rely on a trained person doing the same analysis.

    With an electrical heart, the pattern generated would not look anything like vfib or vtach, so no shock would be warranted.

    Unlike TV and movies, you do not shock on asystole.

  2. Re:Any systems depend on a pulse on Artificial Heart Recipient Has No Pulse · · Score: 1
    We all know how important stretching is before exercise...now the arterial walls will become stiff!

    So does she have a systolic pressure all the time or a diastolic one all the time? Will this disqualify her from the tour de france?

  3. Re:Any systems depend on a pulse on Artificial Heart Recipient Has No Pulse · · Score: 2, Informative
    First-aid personnel cannot declare anything. Even a paramedic cannot diagnose. Once you start CPR or rescue breathing, you cannot stop until relieved by higher medical authority or too exhausted to continue.

    I would bet that an EMT, nurse, or doctor would realize something's going on in the chest upon auscultation of the apices, and in a triage situation you don't bother with the non-breathers until the bleeders are taken care of.

  4. Re:Waste MORE time!? on Obama Makes a Push To Add Time To the School Year · · Score: 1

    strong enough work ethic can make up for any lack of innate ability

    ymmv

  5. bad idea... on Porn Surfing Rampant At US Science Foundation · · Score: 5, Insightful
    no, not using gov't computers for porn. that's fine by me...

    that the guy almost used a "think of the children" defense for his actions. now THAT's fucked up.

    these young women are from poor countries and need to make money to help their parents

  6. consider me bedazzled. on Hardware Hackers Create a Cheaper Bedazzler · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    that ladyada is one funny looking dude.

  7. Re:containment theory... on Iran's Nuclear Ambitions · · Score: 1
    The nation without money would not last long in a cold war. In fact, you could say that the prosperity of a nation is dependent upon its supply of capital. See also, Colbert.

    The fact that it backfired MIGHT be haunting us, but it wasn't a sin. You are also asserting that today is WORSE off because of our actions, which is impossible to prove either way.

  8. Re:containment theory... on Iran's Nuclear Ambitions · · Score: 0
    "sins" huh?

    There are no countries in heaven. So countries don't get any points for doing what is "right".

    Countries only exist here on earth. So countries only get credit for doing what is "necessary".

    If overthrowing a government of another nation (like Mohammed Mosaddeq's) is in the best interests of YOURS, you'd probably better do it.

    Unintended consequences, things backfiring, hindsight and all... no one knows for sure what will happen.

    The US didn't invent the "balance of power" game, don't hate the player.

  9. containment theory... on Iran's Nuclear Ambitions · · Score: 3, Funny

    sanction them all, let the UN sort 'em out.

  10. Re:or how to... on How To Save $1 Trillion a Year With Open Source · · Score: 1

    broken window much?

  11. Pools Closed.. on AIDS Vaccine Is Partially Successful · · Score: -1, Troll

    Everyone has AIDS!
    AIDS AIDS AIDS!
    AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS!
    Everyone has AIDS!


    And so this is the end of our story
    And everyone is dead from AIDS
    It took from me my best friend
    My only true pal
    My only bright star (he died of AIDS)


    Well I'm gonna march on Washington
    Lead the fight and charge the brigades
    There's a hero inside of all of us
    I'll make them see everyone has AIDS


    My father (AIDS!)
    My sister (AIDS!)
    My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS AIDS AIDS!)
    The gays and the straights
    And the white and the spades

    Everyone has AIDS!
    My grandma and my dog 'ol blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS)
    The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
    C'mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
    We gotta break down these baricades, everyone has
    AIDS! x 20

  12. Re:Let's treat this on $2,000 Bribe Bought Password To DC P.O. System · · Score: 2, Informative

    actually, she just sold the District of Columbia's tubes for a pittance. my only regret is that she didn't sell the entire city.

  13. Re:makes you wonder... on $2,000 Bribe Bought Password To DC P.O. System · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please cite a case where affirmative action has helped a white guy get a job in DC.

  14. yes, but... on Video Surveillance System That Reasons Like a Human · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...does it run racial profiling?

  15. Re:Had a chuckle at this. on The Perils of Ramming Products Down IT's Throat · · Score: 1

    dealing with idiots and broken junk

    oh. ):
    *shoots self in head*

  16. Re:Ska? on SKA Telescope To Provide a Billion PCs Worth of Processing · · Score: 1

    ska: punk for band geeks.

  17. Re:stupidity on Burglar Logs Into Facebook On Victim's Computer · · Score: 5, Funny

    are 2.7^15 to 1 against

    Coincidentally, 2 954 312.71 is the phone number of the Islington Flat where a cleaning crew supervisor learned that he had lost a contract.

  18. Re:While you're at it.. on Security / Privacy Advice? · · Score: 1

    syrup of ipecac should only be administered under order of a physician. it's fallen out of favor because you only throw up around 85% of your stomach contents and about 15% of people don't throw it up at all.... and it's a cardiotoxin....so all the non-puked ipecac starts to poison you. so you would be poisoning them. besides, the smell would give it away.

  19. how about on (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    netstumbler?

  20. Re:How about: Write zeros to the disk? on Ten Ways To Destroy a Hard Disk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Using this logic, all hard drives are capable of infinite capacity.

  21. Re:huge jump in sales of screen cleaning products on Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market · · Score: 1

    that is finger-friendly

    so much for a better mousetrap. ):

  22. Re:Touch vs. Tablet and hype on Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market · · Score: 1

    Well... this depends on the burn rate of the tablet market. If windows 7 burns tablets faster than sound could travel thru the same tablets (imagine they are lined up, end to end), then windows 7 would be detonating the tablet market. The hip kids would say the tablet market is "blowing up". If windows 7 burns slower than that, then it merely "deflegrates" the tablet market. This market can still "blow up", but only if packaged as a pipe bomb.

  23. Re:A note to everyone using one or someone elses on Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market · · Score: 1

    But then you are susceptible to IRDA hacking.

  24. Re:Poorly Marketed Sector on Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market · · Score: 1

    Maddox?

  25. Re:meh on New Hitchhiker's Guide Book "Not Very Funny" · · Score: 1

    David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day is one of the few examples where an entire book of humor seems to work fine. But he's just telling stories that happen to be funny, not packing a book full of jokes to fill pages.