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  1. Re: If only more old hardware was supported. on Can You Install Linux On a 1993 PC? (yeokhengmeng.com) · · Score: 1

    Lynx? No?

  2. Because patients will pay for it on America's Doctors Are Performing Expensive Procedures That Don't Work (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    You can get a stent now and take your chance with the chronic process to follow, risk sudden death syndrome, or you can just fucking die right now. Well maybe not now, but soon. Youâ(TM)ll save a lot of money, however.

  3. Re: Simpsons on Hardly Anyone Wants to Ride the Las Vegas Monorail (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I call the big one Bitey.

  4. Been watching Star Wars for about 30 years. That said, it was a fun film despite the jokes, which I thought was a bit overboard. Anyway, I have come to accept there's nothing truly groundbreaking from them anymore so I just switch the old brain off and sit back and watch the film. Why am I so content with that? Because I have nothing to gain or lose from these films not being a stakeholder. It doesn't fix or ruin my childhood and I don't have a void to fill in my life with it.

  5. Since you donâ(TM)t like it... on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? · · Score: 0

    ... slashdotters will make up some shit that doesnâ(TM)t exist. Because it doesnâ(TM)t exist.

  6. Re:Big pharma to shut this down on Noninvasive Radiation Therapy Halts Deadly Heart Rhythm (nytimes.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's plumbing, this is electricity. Good predictor for arrythmias: being alive. You are either born with it, or you get old enough to develop it. Sure, there are factors that correlate with getting it sooner, but you still get something eventually whether it's SVT or VT.

  7. I'm hearing this thinking "how is this different than personal mileage on my company car?" It isn't, it's a fringe benefit. And if it is a fringe benefit, then it's considered income. At the very least, its taxation should be modified under existing tuition tax law.

  8. ...as my company switches to AWS Workspaces, someone asked me what AWS is. I explained it and summarized: it's a very powerful and capable platform, yet its users are perfectly capable of powerfully shooting themselves in both feet.

  9. Climate change implications? on NASA Discovers Mantle Plume That's Melting Antarctica From Below (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Just curious how this may change the current thoughts on climate change impact on artic ice. TFA is pretty quiet about climate science. Perhaps theyâ(TM)re just scrambling?

  10. No more pestering about Adblock? on Microsoft is Killing Outlook.com Premium (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    Outlook tells me every time I check my email that Iâ(TM)m using Adblock (just in case I forget and get too comfortable I guess). So is that going away?

  11. Digital signatures are foreign to many and rejecte on MasterCard Has Finally Realized That Signatures Are Obsolete and Stupid (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    My company accepts signed PDFs with a digital signature. Itâ(TM)s easy, itâ(TM)s tied to my unified login for email, cloud services, etc. (itâ(TM)s not an extra password to remember). and verifiable. However when an outside company wants something signed they mean they want me to scrawl on the PDF. No problem! I have a stored scrawl I can insert with just a click, center and size it up on the line. Done! Problem is anyone else can do that if they intercepted a copy of the PDF or stole my device.

  12. In other news... on Massive 70-Mile-Wide Butterfly Swarm Shows Up On Denver Radar System (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    ...local high school car washes set fundraising records.

  13. âoeIts not Jeebus...â on Hawaii Approves Telescope On Volcano Sacred To Indigenous People (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    âoe...so you islanders can kick rocks.â

    If it ainâ(TM)t jerbus, officials donâ(TM)t care.

  14. Betteridge's law doesn't apply here on Do Strongly Typed Languages Reduce Bugs? (acolyer.org) · · Score: 1

    Answer is: yes. You take out so many problems handling unexpected type mismatches from the word go. Seems like we hear a lot of stories about PHP being broken because of an unhandled fucked up type.

  15. Easier to drop it off at UPS on Amazon Customers Can Now Return Things For Free At Kohl's Or Whole Foods (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Scan a label, tape it to the box, drop it off at UPS, profit... errr, get a refund shortly after it's scanned. You just have to keep a few Amazon boxes around.

  16. Re:old story about talking cars.... on Ford Disguised a Man As a Car Seat To Research Self-Driving (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    My first car with remote start had pretty good range if you parked strategically. I could start it from inside my building from about 200yds away as long as I had line of sight. Handy on cold mornings. I went out one morning to find a cousin fuckin' redneck wide eyed looking at it. I wished him good morning and started getting in the car and he said "I thought there was a ghost in that car!" He was absolutely serious. People still believe such shit.

  17. Re:Jesus F*ing Christ! on Equifax Had 'Admin' as Login and Password in Argentina (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But they won't. They'll get a $300 fine when adjusted to the average individual's income. Cost of doing business! Let's fuck over some more people!

  18. Step 1 on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With An Old Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    Throw it in the trash.

  19. Re: What do the patients do on FDA Issues Recall of 465,000 St. Jude Pacemakers To Patch Security Holes (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Right and that is a property of the AV node, which involved in AVNRT but not atrial flutter.

  20. Re: What do the patients do on FDA Issues Recall of 465,000 St. Jude Pacemakers To Patch Security Holes (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Generally, the refractory period won't change much from overdrive pacing the atrium. And not all are from re-entry circuits. What is happening is the stimulus from ATP conducts down a pathway while it conducts from the opposite direction, ergo obliterating the propagation and stopping the circuit. It doesn't always work and sometimes a shock is necessary if the device is configured to do so.

  21. Re:What do the patients do on FDA Issues Recall of 465,000 St. Jude Pacemakers To Patch Security Holes (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Some pacemakers -can- overdrive pace patients out of tachy rhythms. I think Medtronic is rolling this out in more pacers after favorable data in a trial of overdrive pacing while charging defibrillators (ICDs) - saved patients a bunch of shocks. Doesn't always work, however, and depends on the mechanism of the rhythm.

  22. Re: They should repeat this study on Roku Is the Top Streaming Device In the US and Still Growing, Report Finds (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Smart TV could kill Roku if they didn't suck. Samsung makes a good dislay, but their smart TV especially sucks and has a very small lifecycle compared to Roku. My first Samsung smart TV doesn't even support Amazon video anymore, yet my first Roku is still chugging along with it. Shit, even my 2016 model Samsung TV smart features suck.

  23. Just google "am I clinically depressed" to find out you're dying.

    Do you ever feel tired? Does your nose ever itch? You have ___________. You're gonna fucking die.

  24. It's not a 1:1 swap on Cord-Cutting Still Doesn't Beat the Cable Bundle (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    So we cut the cord for a few years out of budget necessity. It's not like you call up your cable company, drop their services, and then you pick up right where you left off with your streaming box. You give up services and you may gain some services. Sling used to be a great deal until the orange/blue plans came out (they used to be the same). I found this out trying to watch some Thursday night football... where the fuck is my NFL channel? Oh, for fuck's sake I need to buy a bundle of other channels to watch football? SOUNDS LIKE FUCKING CABLE!!! We ended up going back to cable after we started getting slapped with data overages ($50/mo) and we were basically breaking even at that point.

  25. I don't have such Plex problems.