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  1. Re:Are you nervous? on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    I got Global entry too. I love it when there is no customs form to fill out or long lines for an immigration stamp. My interview was reasonable, but I am middle aged and married a long time. Any reasonable person would realize pretty soon that I am not a risk.

  2. Re:I knew freedom had a price on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    It's a "buck 0 5"

  3. Thomas Edison's Labs!! on Ask Slashdot: Science Sights To See? · · Score: 1

    In New Jersey there is a National Park dedicated to Thomas Edison the inventor. http://www.nps.gov/edis/index.htm It is highly recommended!

  4. Re:Water can kill you too on Can the Hottest Peppers In the World Kill You? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oxygen is good for people at 21% concentration. At 100% it causes toxic effects in the body especially in the lungs. Prolonged breathing of 100% Oxygen would be fatal. 100% Oxygen at pressures above atmospheric can rapidly kill technical Scuba divers. So just like DiHydrogen Monoxide is a potentially fatal chemical so is Oxygen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity

  5. Some doctors in my hospital do cancel elective sur on Do Sleepy Surgeons Have a Right To Operate? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am an anesthesiologist. When I am on overnight call I am always off the next day. Our group of Anesthesiologist strongly believes this is the right thing to do. On overnight call I don't come in until 3pm because 24 hours it too tiring. The motto of the American Society of Anesthesiologists is "Vigilance" You can not be vigilant if you are sleep deprived. On several occasions I have seen heart surgeons who are up at night with emergencies call off scheduled, elective cases in the morning. Perhaps we just have a good bunch of surgeons here, but all of the OR team (nurses, perfusionists, Anesthesiologists...) think it is the right thing to do.

  6. Re:WTF? on AVG 2011 Update Causes Widespread Problems For 64-Bit Windows · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sure they are tested. The problem ONLY occurs on rebooting. Who ever has to reboot a Windows computer?

  7. Re:Free Legal care! on Lawyer Is Big Winner In Webcamgate Settlement · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Here is a well thought out argument for what a government takeover of the legal industry would be like http://www.singlepayerlegal.org/

  8. Re:Windfall profit tax on Lawyer Is Big Winner In Webcamgate Settlement · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Like!

  9. Re:Irony on Lawyer Is Big Winner In Webcamgate Settlement · · Score: 1

    The money came from the kids! They would have had the extra $425,000 if the lawyers didn't take the cut.

  10. Free Legal care! on Lawyer Is Big Winner In Webcamgate Settlement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where is the call for the US governemt to take over Legal care?
    Isn't legal care a right? Isn't $425,000 a big bill to be paid?
    Where are the liberals and the Democrats in calling for Lawyers to be paid like Doctors?
    How about a system of free legal care for everyone with lawyers paid according to a scale set by the governemnt? Spying on kids = $8,000 fee, not $425,000.
    Unlike Obamacare, this really could save taxpayers money.

    I just wish Congress did unto lawyers what they do unto doctors.....

  11. Re:So let me guess.. on World's First Transcontinental Anesthesia · · Score: 1

    Nice!

  12. Re:Encrypted and validated data stream? on World's First Transcontinental Anesthesia · · Score: 1

    I am an Anesthesiologist in the US. Yes, in the US most of those tubes are put in by the Anesthesiologist. People tend to think of Anesthesiologists as being experts in giving drugs to make someone sleep. That is actually easy to do. The problem is keeping them breathing and the ABCs: Airway, Breathing, Circulation. People don't usually die from drug overdoses, they die from lack of oxygen to the brain because they stop breathing. THE experts in keeping the airway open and keeping someone breathing are Anesthesiologists. I could give a person a synthetic narcotic that is 100x as potent as Heroin and give them a 100 fold overdose and keeping them alive would be easy for me: just breathe for the patient until the drug wears off. Developing some kind of remotely controllable robot to keep a moving 400 pound (in the US we have many obese patients) patient's airway open would not be easy. Another other difficult problem would be nerve blocks: remotely advancing a needle to just outside the spinal cord, or just into the left brachial plexus seems like a difficult job to do by remote control. So cool use of a remote connection, but I'm not worried that I'll be outsourced anytime soon. I will be physically present at 2am putting that epidural in your back for your labor pains.

  13. Re:probably a bit ignorant here on Methane-Trapping Ice May Have Triggered Gulf Spill · · Score: 1

    BP made about $10 billion in the past 1/2 year: http://www.bp.com/extendedgenericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7061409 They will not be happy to spend 1/2 a year's profit on the cleanup. If they have 100 rigs operating, each with a 1% chance of a $10 Billion loss, they are losing 1/2 their profit.

  14. Re:Except you still miss the point on The Desktop Security Battle May Be Lost · · Score: 1

    I'd rather administer The Cluefull family running Windows 98 than the Clueslesses on OpenBSD. I agree 100% with what you said.

  15. SSD not spinny disk on Rugged Laptop/Tablet Suggestions, 2010 Version? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The 2 things that fail on computers are hard disks and fans. I wonder if a really low power cpu could run without sucking dust in if a cpu cooling fan wasn't needed much.

  16. Re:Works very simply on Iraq Swears By Dowsing Rod Bomb Detector · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly! Iraq uses US supplied money to buy the stuff and half the price goes to the pocket of the official via a rebate.

  17. I Don't think they have been proven yet. on Reliability of PC Flash SSDs? · · Score: 1

    I LOVE my flash drives in my desktop (OCZ) and Thinkpad (Samsung) I'd hate to go back to legacy spinny storage, but I had 2 USB flash drives crap out recently. A 32GB OCZ and a 1GB no name recently failed without being abused. I would be hesitant to place consumer ssds where there is no backup in place or where replacement is an issue. The CFL reliability story is apropos: it is easy to slap a 10,000 hr rating on a bulb or a 1,000,000 hr MTBF rating on a SSD. In the real world, it might not work that way.

  18. Where is the call for Free Legal Care in the US? on Professor Wins $240K In Fair Use Dispute · · Score: 1

    Sheesh! She could get a heart bypass and a bone marrow transplant for that much! Why don't people call for a single government payer for legal care? Isn't legal care a right? Why do people get bent out of shape when health care costs out of pocket but not legal care?

  19. 20 years of asking what works: on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have been an Anesthesiologist for 20 years. I have been fascinated when I see 80 year olds who have been married for 50+ years and they still care about each other. Whenever I have a couple like that, who tearfully kiss goodbye before surgery, I ask what the secret is to being married >50 years. The consistant pattern of advice I find is two things: 1) Be easygoing, compromise. 2) Make each other laugh. I don't know how many times I've heard "He makes me laugh" with people who are married >50 years. So do you make her laugh? Does she make you laugh? Is she willing to compromise a little if you want to do something she isn't in to?

  20. Re:Complete FAIL for eveyone, including law enforc on Scammer Plants a Fake ATM At Defcon 17 · · Score: 1

    Not funny. It's actually a very good point!

  21. Anesthetic gases are found in the air too on Study Shows Cocaine And Other Drugs In Spanish Air · · Score: 1

    There is a natural concentration of ~300pp billion of Nitrous Oxide in the atmosphere according to this reference at Encyclopedia of Earth: http://www.eoearth.org/article/Nitrous_oxide

  22. PETA says to call it on Let's Rename Swine Flu As "Colbert Flu" · · Score: 1

    The Cute Kitty Flu.

    So we won't kill the poor little bugs.
    Viruses have rights and feelings too!

  23. Didn't block for me? on Amazon Culls "Offensive" Books From Search System · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used a fresh browser session so I waasn't logged in and I searched for Brokeback Mountain and the Filly and found them both.
    Did they change policy?

  24. Re:Addictive and of little medical use. Schedule I on Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal · · Score: 1

    No medical use would be schedule I
    Caffeine has medical uses: to stimulate respiratory drive in neonates and also to lower seizure threshold for
    electoconvulsive therapy.

  25. Anesthesiologist uses it IV on Beware the Perils of Caffeine Withdrawal · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am an anesthesiologist. I regularly see people who drink 6 cups a day and have to go without food or water before surgery.
    Intravenous caffeine is available as a drug and I will give it to patients in a dose of 250-500 mg. to prevent bad withdrawl headaches.
    If a heavy coffee drinker has his last coffee at 8pm and goes without until he wakes from surgery 18 hours later he will probably have a withdrawl headache.

    Interestingly, IV caffeine is also used to lower the seizure threshold in electroconvulsive therapy for depression. It promotes a longer seizure.