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  1. Re:Quick, get the manual! on Smart Battery Tells You When It's About To Explode · · Score: 1

    OIO?

    3 short, 2 long, 3 short. (The old default SMS beep on mobile phones). Realized my gaffe about 10 seconds after I couldn't undo it.

  2. Re:Quick, get the manual! on Smart Battery Tells You When It's About To Explode · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure explosion imminent is 3 long, 2 short, 3 long.

  3. Re:Only 19 days on NASA Eyes Crew Deep Sleep Option For Mars Mission · · Score: 1

    4th and 5th words after the title in the Wikipedia article.

    Used to be you could reference Heinlein without worry that someone would misunderstand.

  4. Only 19 days on NASA Eyes Crew Deep Sleep Option For Mars Mission · · Score: 1

    If they use a Lyle Drive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...

  5. Re:"we have lots and lots of open source around he on Microsoft's Olivier Bloch Explains Microsoft Open Source (Video) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Roslyn should be considered a flagship product (you know, once it's released). It's open source. http://roslyn.codeplex.com/

  6. Re:metrics? on Google I/O 2014 Begins [updated] · · Score: 1

    This is just a guess, but still a reasonable one:

    Google+ Photos has facial recognition (Find My Face). So if google runs their facial recognition software on all photos where the user has set up their phone to automatically upload photos to Google+ and also agreed to the Find My Face feature (or some similar agreement that people generally just click through), that would give them a pretty good approximation of these numbers.

  7. PlayLater? on How Much Data Plan Bandwidth Is Wasted By DRM? · · Score: 1

    Until they get big enough and are sued by everyone suing Aereo, http://www.playlater.tv/ does what you're asking for.

    Records Netflix and Hulu, adding information stating that your account was used to do the recording (so that if something shows up on P2P, you'll get implicated fairly quickly). For movies/shows my kids watch repeatedly, I've found it nicer to just save a copy on my NAS and then stream it to the TV via Plex. The kids know exactly how to do this and typically check Plex before going to Netflix.

  8. Re:14th Amendment on U.S. Court: Chinese Search Engine's Censorship Is 'Free Speech' · · Score: 2

    Like a "map" a "search engine" should not be biased

    I would argue that the whole point of a search engine is to be biased. Google chooses to make their bias "what we think you really wanted plus some ads to earn us money". Baidu makes their bias "The results the Chinese government would prefer that you see".

    Of course, these are my approximations of what their biases are and do not necessarily reflect their actual biases.

  9. Re:not surprising on Edward Snowden's Lawyer Claims Harassment From Heathrow Border Agent · · Score: 1

    and is surprised when that results in an border interrogation?

    Nowhere in TFA did it state that she was surprised. I fully expect that at least half the point of mentioning it was to see how she'd be treated.

  10. Re:None on Ask Slashdot: What Online News Is Worth Paying For? · · Score: 1

    For my local newpaper's website (10 article limit per month), I've set up Chrome to clear all cookies on close. Every now and then I have to close and reopen Chrome to read more articles, but not that often.

  11. As an alternative... on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Convince an ISP To Bury Cable In Your Neighborhood? · · Score: 2

    You could get your subdivision covenants changed to not require all utilities to be underground. Worth weighing the costs of each approach (both monetary and non-monetary).

  12. Re:Git, not Github on Emacs Needs To Move To GitHub, Says ESR · · Score: 1

    Funny enough, the article now has all "Github" items crossed out and replaced by "git"

  13. Re:No longer "on a computer". on Apple Files Patent For Digital Wallet and Virtual Currency · · Score: 1

    Oh, I admit to both not reading the TFA and attempting to go just for funny. (Note my use of the word "attempting")

  14. No longer "on a computer". on Apple Files Patent For Digital Wallet and Virtual Currency · · Score: 2

    Most of this appears to already appears to happen on my android phone (NFC payment via Google Wallet). So apparently something you can already do is now novel if you do it "on an iPhone"?

  15. Re:sounds similar to... on Name.com Resets All Passwords Following Security Breach · · Score: 1

    I'm a name.com (and linode) customer and haven't received jack from them.

    They're being a bit slow about it. Just received my email.

  16. Re:Why is it a software problem or gap? on Baseball Software Can't Score What Jean Segura Did Friday · · Score: 1

    So instead of being on first, he should have gotten second then I guess by reading that. Thanks for the clarification.

    Based on the latest update, this is very accurate. http://espn.go.com/mlb/blog/_/name/stark_jayson/id/9196879/new-twist-milwaukee-brewers-shortstop-jean-segura-baserunning-madness Rule 7.01 (see above for link) states that

    Rule 7.01 Comment: If a runner legally acquires title to a base, and the pitcher assumes his pitching position, the runner may not return to a previously occupied base.

    Which the update article states should be interpreted as: Segura shouldn't have been allowed to go back to first, specifically because Segura was on second when the play started. Therefore, at the end of the play, Segura isn't entitled to first base.

    One could also argue that the comments about Segura being out of the baseline are accurate, given that he shouldn't have been allowed to go back to first.

    This all assumes that the new article has the correct rules interpretation. MLB hasn't stated their official position yet.

  17. Re:Why is it a software problem or gap? on Baseball Software Can't Score What Jean Segura Did Friday · · Score: 1

    It was stupid officiating by the umpires why would somebody assume that the score keepers or software would need to account for this? They should have correctly called them both out because they were both tagged presumably.

    Both were tagged when both were standing on second at the same time. By rule (7.03), the trailing runner is out.
    http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/runner_7.jsp

  18. Re:Aren't you out automatically if u go off basepa on Baseball Software Can't Score What Jean Segura Did Friday · · Score: 1

    The way a baseball infield is designed , the home team dugout is aligned on the right side of the field with first and second base, the visiting team is aligned on the left side of the field with second and third base.

    In MLB, there is no requirement for home vs away dugouts. The Brewers' home dugout is by first base. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugout_(baseball)#Teams_and_ballparks_with_home_dugouts_on_the_first_base_side

  19. Trading Places on Trader Pleads Guilty To Illegal Purchase of Nearly $1B In Apple Stock · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was going to suggest that the trader stick to frozen concentrated orange juice, but I see that it was down that day too, so it wouldn't have worked.

  20. Re:Feinstein is an idiot. on Senator Feinstein: We Need Video Game Control · · Score: 1

    Best comment in the entire thread!

  21. Re:Oblig xkcd on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that any robot apocalypse that resulted in high human casualties would also create high numbers of zombies. Now the big question is when the robot apocalypse causes the zombie apocalypse, which side comes out ahead?

  22. Re:I picked up an unlocked iPhone4s last month... on AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. · · Score: 1

    T-mobile is horrible because the minutes expire after a year and it costs roughly 20 cents/min.

    This is mostly incorrect. I am currently on my second smartphone on a T-mobile pay-as-you-go plan. I buy minutes $100 at a time, making them $0.10 a minute. Text messages also $0.10 (picture messages $0.25). Once you've spent $100, minutes expire after 1 year. However, if you buy more minutes, that restarts the 1 year timeline on all of your minutes. Right now, my pay-as-you-go plan costs me about $10 a month.

    The reason T-mobile might be a terrible option: Coverage. I don't have a problem, but some of my coworkers live in more rural areas and have tried T-mobile and not been happy.

  23. Re:Real killers? on John McAfee Launches Blog, Offers $25K Reward For "Real Killers" · · Score: 1

    O.J. was/is still in jail. However, the whereabouts of the person or persons who killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman is currently unknown.

  24. Re:Coming Soon... on Getting Small UAVs To Imitate Human Pilots Flying Through Dense Forests · · Score: 1

    Nice to know you guys have a proper sense of humor. Of course, given that your video predates my comment by a couple of months, I should probably have been modded redundant. I'll give myself a break since the link wasn't directly accessible from any of the links in TFS.

  25. Coming Soon... on Getting Small UAVs To Imitate Human Pilots Flying Through Dense Forests · · Score: 4, Funny

    To the second moon of Endor.