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  1. Re:Asshole blogger can has publicity stunt on Cybercriminals Has Heroin Delivered To Brian Krebs, Then Calls Police · · Score: 1

    Usually? Are you trying to say getting set up in this manner is a common occurrence where you live?

  2. Re:Does BR even rate having a sequel? Explain plea on Green Lantern Writer To Pen Blade Runner Sequel · · Score: 1

    I don't really like Blade Runner either. The book is great, though.

  3. Re:Rev. 1 hardware, people on Google Glass Is the Future — and the Future Has Awful Battery Life · · Score: 2

    I don't mean to defend GP's assertion, but this strikes me as irrelevant. Apple now is a very different company than Apple then.

  4. Re:The best reason for DRM on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Reasons For DRM? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I didn't mod it down, but it's at least partially nonsense, and obvious nonsense at that. Ask any linguist why English stopped changing 20 years ago and they'll laugh you out of the room.

  5. Re:A troy ounce is 31.1 g on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: 2

    I'm sure everyone's lied before, but not everyone "pulls pranks". I never have. Why would I? They seem asinine to me.

  6. Re:In a word? YES! on Ask Slashdot: Do You Move Legal Data With Torrents? · · Score: 1

    Raffinate?

  7. Re:Boost Sucks on Comparing the C++ Standard and Boost · · Score: 1

    But the average jQuery download per page is amortized across many downloads, making the average smaller than the file size. It's very common to link to, for example, http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.min.js or http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js, which the client is likely to have cached already.

  8. Re:Bad ergonomics on Ask Slashdot: Monitor Setup For Programmers · · Score: 1

    This is the point I came here to make. Looking to the side all the time is bad, but so is looking up all the time!

    The OP needs to solve a different problem.

  9. I felt a little sick after reading this summary. on Intercontinental Mind-Meld Unites Two Rats · · Score: 1

    [...] the first step towards constructing an organic computer that uses networks of linked animal brains to solve tasks.

    Doesn't this make anyone else a little uneasy? It doesn't sound terribly ethical to me...

  10. Re:Bi-annual != biennial on Ubuntu Developer Summits Shifting Online, Increasing Frequency · · Score: 2

    The OED says biannual is twice a year and biennial is every two years. That appears to be the opposite of what you're claiming.

  11. Re:Online Advertising Response on Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think whether or not it's newsworthy is decided by its effects, not how much effort it takes to implement.

  12. Don't leave your fingers on the home row. on Ask Slashdot: Keyboard Layout To Reduce Right Pinky/Ring Finger Usage? · · Score: 1

    Pianists move their hands around. So can you! Keeping your fingers on the home row isn't particularly ergonomic or efficient. Typing is like playing an instrument: just keep your wrists relatively straight and relaxed and type with whichever fingers seem most natural. If you don't want to use your pinky, just move your hand over a little and hit a key with your ring finger. If you don't want to use your ring finger either, move over a little further and use your middle finger instead. As long as you stay relaxed and keep your posture relatively neutral, you can hit any key with any finger you want.

    Take frequent breaks. Shake out tension with your wrists hanging limp at your sides. Go for walks. No matter how ergonomic or neutral your posture, it's not healthy to stay in the same position forever; no matter how relaxed you try to be, you'll build up some tension over time. Just listen to your body: if something hurts, stop. Take care of yourself. Simple as that.

  13. Re:Awesome on Driver Trapped In Speeding Car At 125 Mph · · Score: 5, Informative

    Note that seizures range from symptoms as minor as deja vu or a brief lapse in awareness (that you might not even know you had) to full-body thrashing and flailing with the potential for both physical and mental injury.

    The article doesn't specify what he went through. My guess is that it was toward the middle of the spectrum: too small, and he might not have even been aware he had a seizure; too large, and he probably wouldn't have survived the ordeal.

    (Other people have already brought up the possibility that the seizures were responsible for the problem, so I'll leave it at that.)

  14. Re:Treason on Missouri Legislation Redefines Science, Pushes Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    More to the point, it would be unethical. Even if it were legal, it would still be wrong for them to do it.

  15. Re:HTMLMediaElement is ALREADY part of HTML on W3C Declares DRM In-Scope For HTML · · Score: 1

    That ship sailed for the web a long, LONG time ago.

  16. Everyone asking questions all day on Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity? · · Score: 1

    Working "core hours", then having those hours taken up by answering questions from random employees about random subjects all day, then having to do all of one's actual work at night to make up for it.

  17. Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    It did take on a new meaning, then lose that meaning. I'm not sure how best to characterize that meaning, but I do have evidence it existed. From the Oxford English Dictionary:

    âb.b Of troops: Properly disciplined. Obs. rareâ"1.

    ÂÂÂ1690 Lond. Gaz. No. 2568/3 We hear likewise that the French are in a great Allarm in Dauphine and Bresse, not having at present 1500 Men of regulated Troops on that side.

    (Yes, Slashdot will probably have munged a few of those characters. It's a copy + paste from the electronic edition.)

    At any rate, I disagree that it's strange for a word to gain a new meaning and lose that new meaning. It doesn't require extraordinary evidence because it's simply not that unusual. Note however that the word never lost its old meaning, so it didn't "revert"; it merely lost the new meaning.

  18. Re:Not as silly as it sounds on How Do You Give a Ticket To a Driverless Car? · · Score: 2

    Driverless sandworms?

  19. Re:SEC on Google+ Chief Grounded From Twitter By Larry Page · · Score: 1

    Actually, no. Twitter has protected tweets which are viewable only by approved followers, as well as direct messages viewable only by sender and recipient. There are, in fact, people who use Twitter without posting any public messages at all.

    I don't really understand what point you were trying to make with this public/private distinction, but I thought I'd correct the factual error.

  20. Re:New features on Google Nixes Some Calendar Features and Other Software Offerings · · Score: 1

    I signed up for gmail in 2004, never used it, and it became a Google Plus account. I didn't create a profile, mind you. It just happened.

  21. Re:Great... on Electrical Grid Hum Used To Time Locate Any Digital Recording · · Score: 1

    More like notches on the fundamental and harmonics as necessary.

  22. Re:disney hasn't created new characters? really on How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation · · Score: 1

    Well, yes, but it's more accurately a copy of a copy. It includes lots of elements taken from what they *directly* copied which were not present in Hamlet.

  23. Re:pine & on Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? · · Score: 1

    I recommend realpine.

    By the way, I refer to realpine as pine, and I suspect at least some other people do the same. It feels like referring to vim as vi. It's less precise, to be sure, but it doesn't feel wrong.

  24. Re:No, it won't gain a strong following. on In Calculator Arms Race, Casio Fires Back: Color Touchscreen ClassPad · · Score: 1

    Octave is also sufficient for some people. (Me!)

  25. Re:Product Quality change? on In a Symbolic Shift, IBM's India Workforce Likely Exceeds That In US · · Score: 1

    My experience interviewing candidates in the U.S. is that most engineering grads in general are pretty bad at what they do. Of course, that might just be because HR filters out anyone worthwhile.