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  1. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    Wrong you need a room that is scrubbed of CO2 and remains scrubbed of CO2. What happens then is that you get an ever decreasing level of O2 in the air and consequently the blood stream.

    As control of breathing is regulated by the level of dissolved CO2 in the blood in the absence of CO2 in the air breathed with decreasing levels of O2 you will gradually loose conciousness due to hypoxia but not feel the panicking urge to breath.

    This is how drowning works *ONCE* the lungs are filled with water. As water can dissolved large amounts of CO2 (1:20 by volume) you again get inadequate O2 supply without the urge to breath as there is no CO2 buildup in the blood stream.

    Simply pushing them into a room filled with N2 will lead to am immediate shortage of breath and panic breathing.

  2. Re:Um... on "Squishy Joints" May Have Helped Dinosaurs Grow To Giant Sizes · · Score: 2

    No some, possibly even most dinosaurs are the same size as mammals. A small number of species of dinosaurs grew to be bigger than the largest land based mammals.

    It's all bogus anyway as the largest known animal to ever exist is a mammal, namely the Blue Whale.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale

  3. Re:One more rule: on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 2

    PCL support works in the absence of PostScript support as well.

  4. Re:Printable DVDs on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 1

    That would be the exception to the rule of don't use inkjets, but one could of course just use a lightscribe drive which is how I tackle the issue.

  5. Re:My best advice: ***AVOID INKJETS*** !!! on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 2

    Yeah and I am sure you don't take your vaccinations either because they are also dangerous.

  6. Re:My two rules of printing on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 2

    No it's lack of ethernet port means that it has to be hooked up via USB and complicates the matter if you have more than one device that might want to use the printer. Even if you only have a single device, if it is a laptop mucking about hauling the laptop to the printer to plug in the USB to print something out just sucks. Also my laser printers have way outlasted the computer devices so bear that in mind. In fact the only reason for my upgrade was to switch to a colour laser multifunction so I could ditch the scanner and colour inkjet.

    While you could use a Raspberry Pi as a print server, why bother messing about like that and just buy a printer with an ethernet port to begin with.

  7. My two rules of printing on Ask Slashdot: Best SOHO Printer Choices? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Rule1: You brought an inkjet and use it heavily, it would have been cheaper to buy a laser in the long run.

    Rule2: You brought an inkjet and rarely use it. You now spend so much on cleaning the heads that a laser would have been cheaper in the long run.

    I have in the past owned an inkjet, these days if I want a photograph printing, I use an online photographic printing service and get my prints delivered to my door printed on real photographic paper. By the time you factor in the cost of the printer, inks and paper it works out just the same for a better result.

    Also anything without a ethernet port is a piece of junk not worth considering.

  8. Re:Type 1 v Type 2 diabetes on Finnish Team Makes Diabetes Vaccine Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Citation for that please. Type 2 diabetes is very much linked to diet, and you don't have to be fat either.

  9. Re:Upload Speeds on BT To Test Huawei 1Gbps Broadband Over Copper · · Score: 1

    Standard FTTC in the UK is either 10 or 20Mbps upload depending on your package. It is the primary I upgraded.

  10. Re:One Gbps over copper wire? on BT To Test Huawei 1Gbps Broadband Over Copper · · Score: 1

    If you don't believe there are ducts for all new properties then you are simply ignorant of the facts. Perhaps this Openreach (the arm of BT that is responsible for the infrastructure) document for developers can disabuse you of your ignorance.

    http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/network/developingournetwork/documentationandinformation/buildersguide/downloads/developers_guide.pdf

    Short story is that everything is ducted and has been for many years.

  11. Re:One Gbps over copper wire? on BT To Test Huawei 1Gbps Broadband Over Copper · · Score: 1

    I don't know about that, my house, my parents house and my sisters house all have overhead into the property. However anything built in the last thirty years just about anywhere outside really remote rural locations will most likely be underground but fully ducted.

    Now the real question is why if you want FTTP and have an existing duct for copper do BT insist on a new duct for the fibre being laid???

  12. Re:The govenment should just double spending. on Shutdown Cost the US Economy $24 Billion · · Score: 1

    Wrong the US federal deficit decreased every year from 1998 to 2001. Basically all the time Bill Clinton was in power the deficit came down till it was in surplus which then increased continuously while he was in office.

    But hey don't let facts get in the way of your beliefs. I would note that the USA's total debt and current deficit as a percentage of GDP are not the disaster area that some would make out. For example the USA's total debt as percentage of GDP is very similar to Germany for example.

  13. Re:My spider sense in tingling.... on British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care · · Score: 2

    I am caught between moderating this down or providing the real answer. Basically any one who thinks that National Insurance has anything to do with the NHS is a uninformed idiot.

    Of course if you had read the link you provided you would actually understand that...

  14. Re:DOUBLEPLUS on British Police Foil Alleged Mall Massacre Copycat Plot · · Score: 1

    Wrong the deadliest school massacre occured in Russia and was carried out by extremist Islamist terrorists.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan#Beslan_school_hostage_crisis

    I guess in good old parochial USA that didn't manage to make the news because it happened in a foreign country.

  15. Re: We don't bother with sidearms, we use BIG GUNS on British Police Foil Alleged Mall Massacre Copycat Plot · · Score: 1

    Firearms have been carried by police at British airports ever since

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_and_Vienna_airport_attacks

    Nothing to do with the IRA whatsoever.

  16. Re:British police rarely carry weapons on British Police Foil Alleged Mall Massacre Copycat Plot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Really for most of my lifetime the terrorist problem in the United Kingdom was expatiated by the U.S.A. harbouring convicted terrorists and refusing to extradite them back to the U.K. while all the time allowing said terrorist groups to raise money. In that respect 9/11 was a huge boon because all of a sudden the U.S.A. realized that it could no longer support such terrorist activities.

  17. Re:Really? on Massive New CT Scanner Assesses Car Crash Data · · Score: 1

    Note you can of course move the electron beam using magnetic fields and have a ring of target material around the subject to be imaged.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_beam_tomography

    That said there is a large amount of expertise in mechanically swept x-ray CT, and it would be perfectly possible to scale it up to truck sized.

  18. Re:jerk on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    There are these things called after market modifications. My car has had it's standard radio replaced with one that has Bluetooth and the car was first registered on the road in 2003.

    Here is a thought, if you want to use these features then get your car equipped with Bluetooth, otherwise stop using them...

  19. Re:Very limited indeed on A C++ Library That Brings Legacy Fortran Codes To Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    All of which can be programmed as matrix based, using the inbuilt matrix operations of the language (Fortran 90 or later) and which I would expect the compiler to parallelize for me without me doing anything.

  20. Re:No, I'm taking MY word for it. :-) on A C++ Library That Brings Legacy Fortran Codes To Supercomputers · · Score: 1

    I would just hope that my Fortran90 or better compiler did all that matrix stuff which is built into the language parallel for me automatically without me needing to lift a finger.

    I would have thought that any scientific code in Fortran with obvious parallelism would have had any had matrix stuff re factored into the built in language matrix syntax ages ago, and would be a recompile away. I guess I must be missing something where scientific code with significant parallelism can't be expressed in matix form...

    Anything that cannot be done this way is surely handled by coarray Fortran which is part of the 2008 standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-array_Fortran

    I am sure your project is useful, but I fail to see why you would not adopt more standard approaches.

  21. Re: and so meanwhile... on Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL? · · Score: 1

    Go back further to when MySQL got momentum and Postgres did not do SQL *AT ALL*. Want a free database that did SQL, well MySQL was at one point your *ONLY* choice.

  22. Re: and so meanwhile... on Will Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn Stay With MySQL? · · Score: 0

    How did MySQL get such critical mass?

    That's easy and everyone posting answers is dead wrong. MySQL got critical mass because it was the ONLY FREE database that did SQL. Back in the dim and distant past there was mSQL which was only free for open source applications, MySQL which was free and did SQL but was rather rubbish and Postgres which was also free but did not do SQL, but QUEL instead.

    Development on MySQL picked up to the point where it was a competitor and there was a transition away from mSQL to MySQL with Postgres being ignored because it did not do SQL. By the time the query engine in Postgres had been replaced with SQL and stabilized to something useful MySQL had gained the momentum and the rest is history.

  23. Re:Interesting on Here Come the Chromebooks, As Google and Intel Cozy-Up On Haswell · · Score: 2

    You can always get the HP Chromebook which has a 14" screen. Same resolution as the 11" Samsung Chromebook so everything is "bigger" and provides a workable "large print" option.

  24. Re:Pathetic on SSD Failure Temporarily Halts Linux 3.12 Kernel Work · · Score: 1

    They have. You use something like inotify or a DMAPI enabled file system generate a queue of things that need to be backed up and constantly run through it. To get good performance however is going to cost $$$

  25. Re:Mammoth burgers on Study Suggests Weather and Not Hunting Killed Off Wooly Mammoths · · Score: 1

    Wrong, allowing your self to become domesticated is the key to genetic success. So for example horses which are not widely eaten are doing well. On the other hand zebra's which are virtually undomesticatable not so much.