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  1. Re:well, i'm looking for the clearance sales on RadioShack Near Deal To Sell Half of Its Stores, Close the Rest · · Score: 1

    Mod Parent up. I came to post this exact same story when I tried to vulture my local Circuit City.

  2. Waze data is so old it tells you where cops WERE on Police Organization Wants Cop-Spotting Dropped From Waze App · · Score: 1

    but not at all where they are. This is a non-issue that just makes the USNSA look like under-informed tools. But, by all means! Keep protesting this!

  3. Re:This has been know for a while... on Astronomers Record Mystery Radio Signals From 5.5 Billion Light Years Away · · Score: 0

    Never?! Get used to it! :)

  4. Re:Speed Metal is love on Astronomers Record Mystery Radio Signals From 5.5 Billion Light Years Away · · Score: 1

    as someone who saw Carcass and Obituary in Nov, and who is about to see Napalm Death (and Voivod, and Black Crown Initiate, and Ringworm, and ...)... WTF does your post have to do with anything?

    OH!

    You're saying that these intense, but short, broadcasts are examples of interstellar speed metal; a-la Napalm Death's sub-second song "You Suffer" ... ?

    then say so!

  5. Re:This has been know for a while... on Astronomers Record Mystery Radio Signals From 5.5 Billion Light Years Away · · Score: 3, Insightful

    don't be a hater; it's a solid "B" effort from the parent-post. You can argue it down to a "C", but that's as far as you'll get. Lulling the reader into submission (your complaint about it taking too long) is an actual STRATEGY. Are you familiar with how certain readers can gloss over typos? That's what our beheaderaswp is using as a trapping action. Now you can also argue that the barb "never going to give" isn't worth burying with the lead-up, but while humor bursts from the unexpected there is also a joy in the familiar. I'm sorry if this attempt isn't up to your standards, but it hits the standard.

  6. Re:Who supports it on Exploring Some Lesser-Known Scripting Languages · · Score: 1

    Sounds like I should change my business cards to: "Den Mother of Infantile Cretins."

  7. Flawed conclusion on Unbundling Cable TV: Be Careful What You Wish For · · Score: 1

    Sure, Airlines have unbundled extras from the basic ticket. But the article then makes a gigantic leap to dissatisfaction with said airlines, without showing any work or proof that the complaints are at all related to the fees for said services!

  8. Re:Lots of QWERTY... no cyrillic? on The Personal Computer Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain · · Score: 1

    thus the invention/"work around" of Translit and Volapuk encoding.

  9. Re:Current system assumes only so many users..... on You're Doing It All Wrong: Solar Panels Should Face West, Not South · · Score: 1

    Spoke with a friend in NJ, and apparently they used to get on the order of $700 an SREC! Highest I've ever seen was $180? something like that. And as part of the estimate for ROI when I had my 7.2kw array installed, they modeled SRECs as falling off completely in the next year or so (*I'd have to dig that document out... and that sounds like effort).

  10. Re:Read the fine print. on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 1

    M and T bank.

  11. According to FCPA, both individual and company on Hewlett-Packard Pleads Guilty To Bribing Officials in Russia, Poland, and Mexico · · Score: 1

    If my FCPA training is worth anything, both you and your company can be on the hook for fines and jail time. But I don't know what the specifics are with this case.

  12. Re:Ada? on Unpopular Programming Languages That Are Still Lucrative · · Score: 1

    hunh? it's the same language, but now there's tagged types (aka polymorphic, inheritable objects). String manipulation is still as much a nightmare as it's always been.

  13. Ruby and the default blank array on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    catches every newb screwing around with hashes!

  14. Ada and abstract generic tagged type instances on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 1

    specifically with regards to accidentally freezing types. You've got to declare stuff with similar signatures to get your instances all nice and defined. But if you put something on the wrong line or do things in a different order... YOU'VE BROKEN IT!

  15. Re:It's a load of crap on News Aggregator Fark Adds Misogyny Ban · · Score: 1

    oh wait, are you HONEST? got it, then!

  16. Re:What constitutes sexism? on News Aggregator Fark Adds Misogyny Ban · · Score: 1

    as a long time Farker*, what will constitute sexism will be the sniff test.

    It's basically "if you aren't in the clique and know the moderators, your post will be scrutinized for context. If you're in the clique, you'll get a pass unless you are actively harassing someone in a thread."

    So the enforcement will be like all enforcement; subjective and prone to favoritism, But, to be fair, this is their club so they can make the rules.

    *-I'm getting a kick out of all these replies!

  17. Re:Southwest Boarding Policies on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    that's the other thing... $25 would have made this a non-issue.

  18. Awesome and effective advertising on Report: Watch Dogs Game May Have Influenced Highway Sign Hacking · · Score: 1

    Ubisoft must be lapping this up! You can't pay for advertising this good! Congrats!

  19. Yeah, can someone fill in ANY blanks on this story on Physician Operates On Server, Costs His Hospital $4.8 Million · · Score: 2

    Let's ignore how the IT dept should have some kind of network traffic scans to see this stuff, how the heck does a non-admin do something like this? And I'm not attributing it to malice, I'm sure this guy "meant well" and in the process managed to screw everything up. Otherwise, I'm going with "scapegoats" for 1000, Alex.

  20. Yo dawg, We heard you like rollercoasters on Duo Sneak an Oculus Rift Onto Roller Coaster For a Wild Ride · · Score: 4, Funny

    so we put you in a VR rollercoaster while you were on a real rollercoaster so you can coast while you coast!

  21. Ye Olde "drill bit through the platters?" on Where Old Hard Disks (with Digital Secrets) Go To Die · · Score: 1

    If you make a couple of holes with a 1/4" titanium bit, is there anything salvageable? Or is this service really marketed for the paranoids?

  22. wait... That doesn't protect against AIDS?! on Where Old Hard Disks (with Digital Secrets) Go To Die · · Score: 1

    Guess I need to find a new General Practitioner! >:(

  23. Re:Painkillers are effective _because_ of the euph on Animal Drug Investigation Reveals Pet Medication Often Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up. Sometimes it isn't about "curing" diseases, it's about comforting the patient.

  24. methimazole? on Animal Drug Investigation Reveals Pet Medication Often Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    Transdermal methimazole works a treat, too!

  25. Re:The gear makes better photographs.. on How One Photographer Is Hacking the Concept of Time · · Score: 2

    no no, watch 42nd street. That's the magic. The photos are junk.