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  1. Re:Buffer overflow on Stroustrup Says New C++ Standard Delayed Until 2010 Or Later · · Score: 1

    But we are no longer in the 1970s

  2. Re:How about a REAL C++ feature.... on Stroustrup Says New C++ Standard Delayed Until 2010 Or Later · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because this is obviously the language's fault.

  3. Here lies teh internets on iPhone App Predicts IPv4 Doomsday · · Score: 1

    1.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.254

  4. Re:Jumping the gun? on Touchpad Patent Holder Tsera Sues Just About Everyone · · Score: 1

    Try blindly texting with a touch screen. With few mistakes.

  5. Re:PDA on Touchpad Patent Holder Tsera Sues Just About Everyone · · Score: 3, Informative

    In the patent itself they use the Palm Pilot as an example of the technology difference. The PDA is a touch screen device with visual cues guiding your touch. The patent is for blind operation via a touch surface, distinguishing commands my motions or patterns. The patent exempts computers and distinctly applies itself to portable media/entertainment devices.

  6. Jumping the gun? on Touchpad Patent Holder Tsera Sues Just About Everyone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't see home some of the media players fit into this patent for "blind operation via touchpad"
    For example, the iPod - The click wheel visually navigates on-screen. The controls are physical buttons underneath the touchpad. Maybe for the fastforward/rewind motions, but its hard to get there blindly if I recall. You still need visual feedback to use it.

  7. Re:Excuse me? on Scientists Turn Used LCDs Into Medicine · · Score: 1

    ...I don't think the big issue was the 'glue' they are extracting is it?

    Nope, the glue PVA is apparently non toxic and quickly decomposes

  8. What? on Scientists Turn Used LCDs Into Medicine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So they are just salvaging the non-toxic readily bio-degradable glue from the panels?
    Then what happens to the rest of the toxic non bio-degradable materials they claim will be prevented from entering the landfills/incinerators?

  9. Re:Really? This is the world's first? on World's First 3D Webcam Tested · · Score: 1

    Devolve?

  10. Re:Really? This is the world's first? on World's First 3D Webcam Tested · · Score: 1

    No, you got it. I happen to have red/cyan glasses on my desk and it seems the two cameras aren't even in sync (noticed when panning)

    Oh, and that girl still looks flat.

  11. This is nothing novel. on PC Invader Costs a Kentucky County $415,000 · · Score: 1

    Malware has been installing proxies and/or phoning home for years. (backdoors to direct-connect to/through your machine, instant messaging keystrokes).

  12. Re:Rain isn't causing those accidents on New Zealand Creates Safety Billboard That Bleeds When It Rains · · Score: 1
    Just copy-pasta the arcicle already.

    today about 66% of the world's people live in right-hand traffic countries and 34% in left-hand traffic countries. About 72% of the world's total road distance carries traffic on the right, and 28% on the left.

  13. Re:Misleading on New Zealand Creates Safety Billboard That Bleeds When It Rains · · Score: 1

    "Oh, your kid will be fine. Once it stops raining they'll be their old self again!"

  14. Old news on You, Too, Can Learn Echolocation · · Score: 1

    I remember watching a show on discovery about this many years ago, they'd have special clickers in their hand that sound like a bottle cap with the tampering pop up depressed. They showed off blind people walking without poles, identifying object around them. And some people riding bikes too! Even a live demonstration of a man who has never used the method before navigating an unfamiliar room just be clicks.

  15. Re:Must be the heat on Land Rover Unveils "World's Toughest Phone" · · Score: 1

    Then you shouldn't be on Slashdot. Though I am very surprised a non-apple phone made the headlines.

  16. Re:Bay Splosions! on Comic Artist Detained For Script Containing 9/11 Type Scenarios · · Score: 1
  17. It MUST be MiniUSB on Standard Cellphone Chargers For Europeans · · Score: 0

    Otherwise you would need 2 adapters to plug into the wall and the computer at the same time. It only makes sense to use 1 connector to handle both -- and that is probably so obvious that it won't be done.

  18. Re:Double edged sword on New Lithium-Air Battery Delivers 10 Times the Energy Density · · Score: 1
  19. Re:So, to draw a parallel on Another Question Of Search Engine Legality and Infringement · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes.
    In HS I showed out net admin that I could access anyone's private doc folder - across multiple campuses. I wasn't caught, I explicitly showed it to the proper authorities. I got suspended and my computer privileges revoked.

    Apparently you are better off doing wrong than good.

  20. Re:Coder's block on How To Get Out of Developer's Block? · · Score: 1

    This is why you work from the first error down

  21. Re:NASA forgot low tech approaches? on Stuck Knob Causes Serious Window Damage To Atlantis · · Score: 1

    I'd think any kind of abrasive tool (a saw is an abrasion tool) would cause a lot of vibration.

  22. Re:FP? Really? on How To Get Out of Developer's Block? · · Score: 1

    Ditto :-/

  23. Bore tehm to sleep? on Iran Tries To Pacify Protesters With Lord of The Rings Marathon · · Score: 1

    People will just turn this on, go bored out of their minds and start rioting the broadcast stations

  24. And now the punch line of the article? on 15-Year-Old Invents Algae-Powered Energy System · · Score: 3, Informative

    "The algae-powered system hasnâ(TM)t yet been built..."

  25. Re:sony did this with the PSP on Panasonic Begins To Lock Out 3d-Party Camera Batteries · · Score: 1

    They already do this in their camcorders, I got gypped on a battery from ebay that I tested fine, but the camera said "compatible battery only" or "infolitium only". Luckily the seller explicitly stated this battery would work on my model so i had a claim