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  1. Re:Lots of folks making jokes on New Study Finds More Post-Surgery Deaths Globally Than From HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria Combined (upi.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Dying on the OR table is extremely rare.
    Anesthesia complications or surgery disasters leading to a direct fatality are 1:100.000 or less.

    Those who succumb on a table usually entered the OR in a dismal condition, actively bleeding, whilst having a cardiac arrest etc etc.

    Post-surgery, that's where the losses occur. Heart attacks, pneumonia, seizures, sepsis.
    Not that all of them can be avoided and everybody's mindset is on minimizing them.

    Your condition prior to surgery is the best predictor

  2. We are the computer on Gut-Brain Connection Could Lead To a 'New Sense' (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    It all becomes clear now.
    And Douglas Adams was so close.
    But it's not the mice controlling our lives, it's the microbes!!

    Tilting outcomes in petridishes all over the world, steering our emotions and hunger.

    We are being scrutinised i'm telling you, like someone with a microscope studies creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. Oh the irony!

    Our gut has a mind immeasurably superior to ours and regard this earth with envious eyes and they slowly and surely are drawing their plans against us!

    cue music......

  3. Re:I still like my first computer... on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Colour??? COLOUR???

    2 bit black and white, 1K Ram, 8k ROM, 64x44 plotting resolution.

    oblig " get off my lawn" quote ;-)

    In 5 minutes someone will top this of course with his punch-card machine

  4. Far cheaper to just stop serving sugar additive on Hospitals May Turn To Algorithms To Fight Fatal Infections (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    https://science.slashdot.org/s...

    Recent development has indicated a popular "harmless" sugar additive as a likely culprit of causing two explosions in the occurrence of two nasty infections. Clostridium being one of them.

      Start tackling that shit as prevention.

    And yes, hand hygiene helps a lot, but is hard to do, as you would need to wash (with soap, not just alcohol) 100 times a day. That would cause a severe disturbance in the biotope on the nurses/doctors hands by itself!.

  5. Of course, every nerd here knows what you mean with all those acronymns

    RAM: Rapid alternating Movements
    ROM: Range of Motion
    IC: Intensive Care
    STEM: S-T-segment elevated myocardial (infarction)

  6. No on Could Cryptocurrency Mining Kill Online Advertising? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    From a pure economical perspective, simply no.

    specialized APU's or GPU rigs will always be magnitudes more efficient than some JS script running in a browser instance.

    so you end up letting 10.000 people pay the same amount in electricity that 1 person could achieve with his specialized rig. The price of electricity and hardware is the limiting factor in coin generation.

    So , is my rig chums along for a year and produces a whole dollar worth of coins, others will have spend 10.000 dollar on electricity, to produce that one dollar.

    For now it seems like "free money" for the site operator, it is not his electricity bill, but others are, and will soon realize the idiocy in this scheme.

  7. So, next to feeling the EM waves of my WiFi router i will soon also be able to hear them.

    I wonder what "they" will tell me to do....

  8. This problem is not going to go away unless.... on South Korean Web Hosting Provider Pays $1 Million In Ransomware Demand (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Word needs te get out, that secret service organizations have started to see this behavior of criminals as a threat to national security / national interests.

    When MI5 / CIA / FSB people start making people wake up with their testicles in a glass on the nightstand, the willingness of talented hackers to go for the "easy" money will decrease. Till then, every talented guy living in a shithole in eastern Uzbekistan will see this method as a way out of his shitty live.

  9. Re: Bogus Health Claims on Anti-Aging Start-Up Is Charging Thousands of Dollars for Teen Blood (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the old days the kidney recipiant would also receive a bloodtransfusion during transplantation. Because it causes a significant immunological depressing effect, limiting rejection.

    Why on earth would repetitive immunological hits be good for you? More likely cause more cancer and infections.

    There are several reasons doctors are very cautious in giving transfusions. Only when there is a clear benefit, it weighs up to the ' costs/risks'.

  10. Re:$11 million dollar pizzas on Bitcoin Price Hits Fresh Record High Above $2,200 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    He bought 2 pizza's

  11. Yet to read the study ( I intend to). And no, i don't consider myself to be part of the "older" physician group ;-)

    The problem with all these large sample studies is the confounding factors and the quality of the data.
    Sure, the said the "corrected for" but did they correct enough for all??? We'll never know. Not until randomized controlled studies are performed, and they'll never will.

    So there is 22.000 patients entered in the analysis. with only 5% in the interesting group, where the "magic" happens leading to this conclusion.

    How complete was the data? is there a confounding factor in incomplete data. (like older physicians not willing to enter certain data out of laziness / disobedience / wisdom?)

    Maybe older physicians are more willing to enter a "palliative / supportive" path rather than trying to rescue this 93 year old lady from imminent death, Maybe some younger doctor blindly does what he/she was taught, and carries her last remaining miserable quality of live days over this 30 day analysis window.

    Be very careful making claims from these kind of studies. Maybe they generate more noise than actual improvement in healthcare.

  12. Now you know why everybody thought you guys played like shit

  13. Another bonus of using Thunderbolt 3 is that you could use an external GPU enclosure (i.e. Razer Core) and add any desktop GPU of your choice to it. Word is they work pretty damn well, though you sacrifice about 15% of the GPU's performance vs a regular desktop setup. (That, and Mac users will struggle to get them to work, but IIRC Apple did that deliberately.)

    Mind the number of PCI lanes to the Thunderbolt 3!! Manufacturers tend to use just 2, not enough for decent external graphics.

  14. But....... on Surface Laptop Can Be Switched To Windows 10 Pro For Free Until 2018 (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    does it run Linux?

    Only really relevant question here

  15. I'm no stomach specialist, but to my knowledge GERD is caused by mechanical malfunction of the LES. This sphincter is not designed to close for 100%. Some reflux is physiologic. Some patients are extremely sensitive for this reflux and develop symptoms.

    So maybe it is more the local reaction to the small amount of acid than the volume of acid content.
    Much debate concerning the pathophysiology to my knowledge.

    Also the enormous difference worldwide in the incidence. Most likely caused by diet and posture. It is not that the Romans complained that 25% of the adult population suffered from heartburn. (excluding those Bachus worshipers).

  16. First:
    It is unwise to immediately and completely change ones medications or prescription habits just based on one study. These large observational multivariate studies are always hindered by bias, though trying hard to compensate for them.

    On the other hand, these kind of findings should not be ignored.

    Proton pump inhibitors are already known for a long time to cause trouble. The article already mentions several, like the bacteria get a change of growing in the changed environment of the stomach, a defensive barrier is removed, certain vitamins and drugs need the acidity to get absorbed etc etc. Kidney issues are also not news. Other weird side effects, like I'll never forget a patient with an extreme hypomagnesia, like 0.10 mmol/l or so. She did not feel well.

    But not forget the number of patients who have gained significant quality of life and the reduction of severe gastric bleeding. Remember the time where Bilroth gastrectomies were as common as cholecystectomies. The two week maximum advise for the over the counter drugs is because of the risk of patients masking a serious condition like malignancies.

    But there is no denying that most people at some point start their PPI for some discomfort, and continue to swallow them for the rest of their lives. (Ideal drug for pharmaceutical companies.) The majority should just quit them, change their food habits and posture and get on with their lives.

    The use of these drugs should be reserved for those who really need them. Right now it is prescribed more or less as a luxury drug

  17. The president elect had been formally elected by the electoral college.

    Testing him now will not change that.

  18. Whats up with those dumb editors on slashdot. Can't they just explain what this stuff is??
    Not everybody around here just happens to know what this "Flash" is (catchy name BTW)

    According to wikipedia it is some type of programming language mostly used for animations and online games.
    Apparently it was quickly abused by millions of hackers and douchy advertising lowlifes so it quickly became obsolete for a large part of western civilization.

    Good to see all those bright people sticking with their dream to make something great and still updating this old stuff.

  19. Re:Sensitive enough to pick up heartbeat on Earthquake-Sensing Mobile App 'MyShake' Detects Over 200 Earthquakes Large and Small (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    With the phone on your belly, i assume you'll measure the pressure wave through the abdominal aorta.

    For the heart, i would suggest a specific spot on the thoracic wall, where an "Ictus Cordis'" can be felt.
    (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex_beat)

  20. A while ago, i stumbled on this ad.
    Its for micro usb, but surely it could be made for usb-c as well. Thier target is phone chargers, so weight inertia shouldn;t be an issue.

    http://www.dx.com/p/wsken-micr...

  21. Took them long to start building something of for on Vladimir Putin Is Replacing Microsoft Programs With Domestic Software (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    themselves,

    Would you feel comfortable if the White House, Wallstreet, DOD, DOJ, Police, Universities and Congress ran a complete Chinese software stack? Chinese routers, OS, Firewalls, Office, Mail, antivirus, etc etc.?

  22. Best would have been to feed the phisher wrong information and observe the results. You need to see where the information goes beyond this moron. Getting him slapped for it is of minor importance. Could have used the news article from the FBI with the enclosed malware to trace the real IP's

    Standard Intelligence Agencies practice i would say.

     

  23. I'm getting old. on Intel Launches Flurry of 3D NAND-Based SSDs For Consumer and Enterprise Markets (hothardware.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What amazes me most, but is probably because i'm getting old is:

    looking at the announcement, it seems like the SATA drive is just an obligatory part of the line-up. Its all M.2 and PCIe.

    Sure, SATA is getting old quickly and starts to become the bottleneck, but the way this is going, motherboards will soon have some SATA port somewhere for the occasional DVD / old spinning drive, and M.2 for the rest. Did i just recently buy my last SATA drives to fill up my NAS? I'm not planning on buying more for the next couple of years.

    Man, i remember buying my first ATA drive. And i was late to the party, it already was a stunning 20MB (imagine how many WP files were needed to fill that sucker up to the rim). And man, that thing was fast as lightning! ;-)

  24. suttle difference on Peter Thiel Is Interested In Harvesting The Blood Of The Young (gawker.com) · · Score: 1

    Most likely the mice from the experiment were inbred. So no trouble mixing blood.

    After transfusion of 10 human donors you are likely going to develop antibodies.

  25. Just in Time !! on iPhone 7 To Start at 32GB Storage, Says WSJ (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone at Apple must have realized that it wouldn't look good when competitors were to have more RAM than iPhone would have in storage Flash. (OnePlus 3 having 6G, likely to start a race to the top)

    So Yes, it was time to raise the minimum amount of storage.