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  1. Re:We already know soda drinkers are fat on Is the Can Worse Than the Soda? · · Score: 1

    This should be fairly easy if you start looking at diet soda drinkers. There are few calories in diet soda.

  2. I know I'm not supposed to RTFA, but can someone take a website seriously that has a hit counter on the bottom?

  3. If you do any web development, these browser stats control how much testing and effort you have to spend supporting various browsers. IE unfortunately is difficult to work with as the "standards" they choose to implement often work differently than the standards that Firefox, WebKit and others use.

  4. Re:Standard practice? on LinkedIn Password Leak: Salt Their Hide · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think everyone fails to keep this in perspective.
    This is LinkedIn, not your bank, not the government, nothing important.
    If you use the same password on some bunk website as important things, then you deserve what you had, but if, for some reason, I used the same password for slashdot as LinkedIn, and someone hacks my slashdot, whatever. The thing to really worry about is what these companies do with all of our personal information.

  5. Re:When people abuse prices go up on Best Buy Scans Drivers License For Returns — No More Allowed For 90 Days · · Score: 1

    If you buy enough, usually you get on the store's special list (i.e. Best Buy Silver Premier). One of the benefits of those memberships (which is free, just comes with buying a new TV more often than I should), is a relaxed and extended return procedures.

  6. Re:Lifelong immunosupression on Drug-Free Organ Transplants From Unrelated Donors · · Score: 4, Informative

    My father-in-law lived more than 20 years after a liver transplant and required medication to prevent rejection. I believe the initial anti-rejection drug changed a few years after the implant, but he still was required to take daily medication.

  7. Flight door... on US Air Force Buys iPads To Replace Flight Bags · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about when they have to turn them off when the flight door is closed?

  8. Re:You COULD care less? on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 1

    I try to avoid absolutes. Even when you think you've got it all, there's still some left.

    http://www.dailywritingtips.com/could-care-less-versus-couldnt-care-less/

  9. Old Timers on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've been doing a lot of interviews lately, and as long as you can demonstrate you have the skills necessary to complete the work in the job, I could care less how long since you've had an "actual job." Though, I'm not sure how much HR screening goes on before I see any resumes. The hard part is just coming up with a good way to demonstrate that you have the necessary skills. The last applicant we hired brought a laptop with him and was showing us parts of a cool project he'd been working on, there isn't a much better way to show of your skills than to talk intelligently, then just show off what you can do. Good luck!

  10. Technical Debt on Java Apps Have the Most Flaws, Cobol the Least · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In today's agile world, who gets time to maintain technical debt. How does paying technical debt ever give your app that new feature that your marketing department is pushing for -- to have out by tomorrow. I think the rules have changed in how companies push their software development organizations to deliver software. That may be the biggest reason that quality is different than it was. That and the other programs have been worked on forever.

  11. Re:Due process on NYTimes Sues US Gov't To Know How It Interprets the PATRIOT Act · · Score: 1

    No.
    "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation"

    http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/pdf/con016.pdf

  12. Re:Not justice on Jury Acquits Citizens of Illegally Filming Police · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The DA should have dropped these charges.

  13. Everybody panic-Ionizing & Non-Ionizing Radiat on Brain Cancer Worries? Look Up Your Phone's SAR · · Score: 2

    I'll worry when someone proves non-ionizing radiation causes cancer.

    http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/ionize_nonionize.html

  14. Re:Good Move on Google Incrementally Dropping Support For Older Browsers · · Score: 1

    It'll probably just make them use The Bing instead.

  15. bleh on Huffington Post Fights Back Against NY Times Paywall · · Score: 1

    Is it possible to just not be in the mood for all of these April fools shenanigans?

  16. Save Lives on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    Next they'll be saying it's okay to grope my junk to save lives...

  17. Good Riddance on Is the Number Up For the Residential Phone Book? · · Score: 1

    Mine goes straight from my porch to the recycling bin. What a waste of resources. Glad they're moving forward.

  18. Re:No Delete Option... on Facebook Adds Delete Account Option · · Score: 1
    It just goes counter to the parent post. I had deactivated my account about a week ago. I reactivated it to try to delete it. And the link you posted requires you to log into Facebook to see it, odd.

    See delete account

  19. No Delete Option... on Facebook Adds Delete Account Option · · Score: 1

    I don't see the delete option on my account. It just allows deactivation.

  20. Re:How much oil... on New Estimates Say Earth's Oceans Smaller Than Once Believed · · Score: 1

    Just enough so everything dies...

  21. How much oil... on New Estimates Say Earth's Oceans Smaller Than Once Believed · · Score: 1

    How much oil would it take to pollute 320 million cubic miles of seawater?

  22. Cut the cord on US Unable To Win a Cyber War · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If an attack was serious enough, we could just start disengaging connections to outside the US, then start dealing with the aspects that were attacking from inside the borders. This is probably mostly government propaganda to make the US look weaker than it really is.

  23. Re:Hang on... on Student Arrested For Classroom Texting · · Score: 1

    Here is the link to the start of the report notes if people want to read it. A fun read. The next buttons to flip pages aren't apparent on the side.

    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0217092samsung1.html

  24. No link demonstrated... on Court Rules Autism Not Caused By Childhood Vaccine · · Score: 1

    This demonstrates some of the problems when the media picks up on these things. The CNN article states cnn.com:

    However, "the medical and scientific communities ... have found no association between vaccines and autism."
    "Hopefully, the determination by the Special Masters will help reassure parents that vaccines do not cause autism," the statement said.

    A ruling on a court case doesn't necessarily convince me one way or the other on this. They aren't experts running experiments publishing their findings, they're examining the presented documentation, by both sides of an issue. I'm surprised that the mass media took the time to even present an article with this kind of finding; they're usually good at stirring up muck, but not pointing out when they were wrong.
    I will wait for science to show me that the risks of potential side effects are outweighed by the benefits provided from these vaccinations. Until then, show me the MMR.