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  1. Re:Why not both? on ITU To Choose Emergency Line For Mobiles: 911, or 112? · · Score: 1

    Yes, and to any skilled politician the answer is blindingly obvious, compromise on 512, the average--except of course that leaves room to argue that it should be rounded down to 511 instead of up ;-)

    Living in Austin, TX, I can say that would be... interesting. Especially since we're getting a new overlay area code in 2013, so we'll be forced to do 9-digit dialing (or will it be 10-digit dialing?), and have to punch in 512 for every local call. Well, except to new numbers from the new area code, that is.

  2. Re:Prior use on ITU To Choose Emergency Line For Mobiles: 911, or 112? · · Score: 1

    since the only time you'd start with a 1 is when dialing the NANP country code followed by an area code, or when dialing the emergency services, or when butt-dialing a number unintentionally.

    Fixed that for you.

    Yes, any number can be butt dialed, but using only one digit (999) or adjacent digits (112) is a lot easier to butt-dial than opposing digits (911). Then again, I've heard that there are phones out there which will dial an emergency number when you smash a bunch of buttons, under the dodgy assumption that it must mean you're really in trouble when you can't coherently dial a number.

  3. Re:Really? on Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam · · Score: 2

    It was basically a bad college amateur film, which had been badly overdubbed with the random nonsensical "Mohammed" lines. It was so bad that you could easily tell which lines were the overdubs because the sound quality was better than the original audio. To repost that crap is less an insult to Islam than it is an insult to the intelligence of the public.

  4. Re:Very little details on Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You · · Score: 2

    Via a botnet through the pwned Windows computer also in the house?

  5. Re:NOT a robot on Parrot Drives Robotic Buggy · · Score: 1

    I was not expecting the autonomous parking. It was extremely cool. And extremely creepy, too.

  6. Re:One angry bird on Parrot Drives Robotic Buggy · · Score: 1

    It's just one step toward him being able to pilot a helicopter.

    I'm not too sure about that. I mean, he could control the cyclic with his beak, and the anti-torque with his feet, but how would he control the collective and the throttle without hands?

  7. Re:Progressing in space on SpaceX Awarded First Military Contract · · Score: 1

    give me a sample return mission from the surface of Titan

    I'm sure it would be fun trying to make a rocket thruster that can take off from a moon with a hydrocarbon-based atmosphere at cryogenic temperatures. Imagine what it would take just to test that the rocket will work at all!

  8. Re:Skip the Moon too..Mars and Beyond. on Apollo Veteran: Skip Asteroid, Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Seriously, accelerating large masses to those sorts of speeds, even in space where there's greatly reduced friction, is significantly beyond what we can do now.

    Don't forget about DEcelerating those large masses, too. I mean other than percussive deceleration, of course, since that's a bit too messy to be of much use.

  9. Re:Sure, "in seconds" on Maker of Hackable Hotel Locks Finally Agrees To Pay For Bug Fix · · Score: 2

    disassembling the face of the lock

    Are you talking about the hack?

    Nope. There's an exposed barrel jack on the bottom of the lock. You can make the hack device into the shell of a whiteboard marker, then just push it up the hole.

    Also, no marks or splinters like a crowbar would leave behind.

  10. Re:GIVE THAT OLD SHIT AWAY MAN !! GIVE IT AWAY !! on Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New? · · Score: 1

    When the zombie apocalypse comes, a Model M will be second only to a shotgun as a means of self-defense.

  11. Re:Mike Rowe? on Hagfish Slime Could Make Super-Strong Clothes · · Score: 1
  12. Re:Zeppelin NT on Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion · · Score: 2

    I'm still waiting for Zeppelin XP. (But I think I'll stay away from Zeppelin Vista and Zeppelin 8.)

  13. Re:Airship Ventures Out Of Business on Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion · · Score: 1

    After a quick ctrl-F of TFA, it seems that in the comments someone BUT OUR PRECIOUS HELIUMS! claimed that the price of helium was why they went out of business. Then someone else NO U said that wasn't the reason, it was something else.

  14. Re:Too bad...it was a great game on City of Heroes Reaches Sunset, NCsoft Paying the Price · · Score: 1

    Here's a hint Blizzard...the act of healing should NOT draw aggro.

    Carebear casual. Seriously, some guy is beating on you, and every time you hit him back, some asshole wimp wearing a bunch of white shit keeps healing him? Wouldn't you want to give that other guy a nice hot cup of STFU if you were the monster?

    FWIW, FFXI also causes aggro from healing. I wouldn't know if it works the same way as WoW because I've never played that. FFXI has both long-term hate that only decays as the monster gets to work out his anger issues on you, and short-term hate that decays automatically, for when you do something particularly annoying to the monster, shit like excessive healing or spamming spells. If you keep it low and slow, you won't annoy it enough to turn, but if you drop a massive cure bomb, you gonna get smacked. I've tanked more than a few times as White Mage, some of them intentional.

  15. Re:They could have at least handed it off to someb on City of Heroes Reaches Sunset, NCsoft Paying the Price · · Score: 2

    the appearance of NCSoft not being able/willing to understand the Western market

    So instead, they closed it and removed all doubt.

  16. Re:EVIL MAID! on The Trouble With Bringing Your Business Laptop To China · · Score: 1

    And she love your laptop long time sucky sucky.

  17. Re:Horrible summary of article on First Direct Image of DNA Double Helix · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall that DNA strands themselves coil into a helix (I guess you could call it a "meta-helix"), and from the spacing vs the width in the picture, I'm going to guess that's what they actually imaged.

  18. Re:Colorful Language? on NASA: Curiosity Has Found Plastic On Mars · · Score: 1

    That's the warranty period. Spirit and Opportunity only had a 90 day warranty because JPL purchased them at Radio Shack.

  19. Re:While you're at it... on DOE Wants 5X Improvement In Batteries In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Get real. It needs to shit BACON cheeseburgers.

  20. Re:Making babies on DOE Wants 5X Improvement In Batteries In 5 Years · · Score: 2

    Sure, the first one may be eight months late, but being only 8 months behind schedule is pretty good for a government project.

  21. Re:As we all know, on Syria Drops Off the Internet Grid · · Score: 1

    Skynet is becoming sentient?

  22. Re:unconsidered candidate on Critic Cites Revenge of the Sith As "Generation's Greatest Work of Art · · Score: 2

    And how about Miyazaki? (Hmm, are we seeing a trend here?)

  23. Re:It's the submitter's fault. on A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers · · Score: 1

    Not as a user, the guy has been writing software for 20 years and complains about poor design and bugs? Nerval's Lobster should clean up his own house.

    Pay more attention to what you are complaining about. NL is just the guy who crossposts stuff over from SlashBI. (He used to submit a lot of not-news-for-nerds crap that never got posted, but seems to have gotten a lot better in the past few weeks.) The guy you are complaining about is in the linked article.

  24. Re:Hey Slashdot Editor! on The World Falls Back In Love With Coal · · Score: 1

    And what about hydro power? There's DHMO all over the place at hydro power plants!

  25. Re:Ads are stupid on Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? · · Score: 1

    In the '60s and earlier, programs were "sponsored by" the advertisers. Now the content is just a substrate with which to push advertising.