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  1. Which $50k medical device would that be? I have a bicameral pacemaker/defibrillator and it only cost me $25k - INSTALLED. And I'm pretty sure your Apple watch isn't equipped to correct your abnormal rhythm if it was necessary. At best it's a device that will tell you what you already know because you felt it, kind of like the light that comes on to tell you you're out of gas.

  2. Most patients can do it too. You don't really need an electronic device to tell you that you don't feel right. On the bright side most abnormal heart rhythms are harmless and quite common as you get older. The ones you have to watch for are the ones associated with effort/exercise, the ones that last more than a few minutes, the ones associated with pain, dizzyness or shortness of breath, or the ones that keep recurring.

  3. Re:SNAP Stock on Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Is Not Afraid of Facebook (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    At least Facebook actually has a business model of sorts.

  4. Re: SNAP Stock on Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Is Not Afraid of Facebook (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    It's going to be a zero dollar stock and people will wish they could still get $5 for it.

  5. Re:But it beats evangelicals' NECROPHELIA on The Vatican Invites World's Leading Scientists To Discuss Cosmology (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    While I agree that less crazy is better than crazy - it's still crazy.

  6. That's ok on FCC Should Prove DDoS Attacks Stopped Net Neutrality Comments (networkworld.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It gets even better when you realize the DDoS attack came from IoT devices all approved and certified by the FCC :)

  7. Re:Pedestrians? on The Intelligent Intersection Could Banish Traffic Lights Forever (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't know how many pedestrians are killed right below the foot bridges here in Latin America, but it's a lot. Good for you if you live in a country where people are educated enough to realize that the foot bridge is there for their safety. Here it's much easier to cut a hole in the fence placed specifically to force people to use the foot bridge, and play Frogger on the highway.

    But then again, sidewalks are advanced technology too. You always see people walking in the street right next to the sidewalk. Simply put - civilization only works when people choose to follow the rules.

  8. Re:Catholics also believe in evolution on The Vatican Invites World's Leading Scientists To Discuss Cosmology (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Informative

    So long as you don't use a condom. But touching little boys is ok.

  9. Re:Just Checking on IT Worker Who Trained H-1B-Visa-Holding Replacement Aims For Congress (computerworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So everyone is happier to pay more for goods and services as long as it's made by the USA?

    Funny how this restaurant that charges $150+ for a dinner for two is just one block from McDonalds in my town. Yet somehow they haven't gone out of business. Pay for crap you get crap. Pay for quality you get quality. The only problem is making sure that the crap salesman isn't trying to pass his shit off as top quality, which is what happens nowadays.

  10. Wait, retail work is hard? lol

  11. Re:The Federal Communications Commission on FCC Says It Was Victim of Cyberattack After John Oliver Show (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, I lost. But you got fucked.

  12. Unity is a great game engine.... oh wait...

  13. The business model being...?

  14. Re:The Federal Communications Commission on FCC Says It Was Victim of Cyberattack After John Oliver Show (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump boy? I'm not even American. I'm glad you dismiss the rape and pilfering of your country as "partisan bickering" instead of oh I dunno, BEING FUCKING OUTRAGED. The other guy says no it was 400 million on the website, as if 400 million is a fair price for a website. You guys are stupid and you get the governments you deserve. The color of the flag makes no difference. You are bought and sold and are too dumb to realize it.

  15. Smoking is not the only cause of lung cancer, by the way. I don't know how many times I've heard patients say "but I never smoked" on receiving their diagnosis. While convincing people to give up smoking is important because it removes a preventable risk factor; early detection is the most important factor, as usual.

  16. I'm glad that the court took the time to define "hate speech" in a clear and concise manner. Right? Or is "hate speech" just defined as "they said something I don't like"?

  17. Re:The Federal Communications Commission on FCC Says It Was Victim of Cyberattack After John Oliver Show (thehill.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yes you're right, only 800 million or so was spent on the ACTUAL website.

  18. Re: Stupid thought experiment is stupid. on Ask Slashdot: What Should Be the Attributes of an Ideal Programming Language If Computers Were Infinitely Fast? · · Score: 1

    SQL is not a programming language. It's a database SEARCH AND QUERY language. It works for doing stuff with and to your data and databases. I would be equally impressed to see someone write a computer program with a clarinet by playing musical notes - music is a language too after all, but that's sort of off the topic.

  19. Re:The Federal Communications Commission on FCC Says It Was Victim of Cyberattack After John Oliver Show (thehill.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    as required by federal guidelines established under Obama:

    This the same Obama who thought it was perfectly ok to spend two billion dollars on a website that hardly ever worked? Yes please tell us how efficient the Obama administration was at doing more with less in the IT world. Federal employees laugh at the fucking law, and smirk in front of Congress when called to account. You really think they take any "guideline" seriously? The US government no longer represents the people.

  20. Re:The Federal Communications Commission on FCC Says It Was Victim of Cyberattack After John Oliver Show (thehill.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's perfectly acceptable for a public agency to scale its system to a realistic workload

    I dare you to look up what they billed the taxpayer for the website and compare it to the workload it can handle. Then let's talk "perfectly acceptable".

  21. Re:Stupid thought experiment is stupid. on Ask Slashdot: What Should Be the Attributes of an Ideal Programming Language If Computers Were Infinitely Fast? · · Score: 1

    Blaming the language for the shortfalls of the programmer. PEBKAC

  22. Shaking my head on Inside Germany's Plan To Kill Online Registrations (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Why yes, lets have ONE centralized repository of user data, force everyone to use it for validation, and put the whole damned thing online. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG.

  23. Re:I don't think you know what that word means. on Intel's Remote Hijacking Flaw Was 'Worse Than Anyone Thought' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Except for the guys whose job it was to subvert the authentication process.

  24. Re:yeah right... on The World's Most Valuable Resource is No Longer Oil, But Data (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    No, data is used to end up owning your car.

  25. Re:Oh that's easy on California Seeks To Tax Rocket Launches, Which Are Already Taxed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody cares about the regulation, because California just regulated themselves out of the space industry. There's nothing special about California that makes people have to launch from there.There are plenty of little islands all over the world much closer to the equator who are just dying for a little industry. If shipping cost is less than California tax, guess what's going to happen.