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  1. Re:My favorite one on Ask Slashdot: What Happened To the Prank Apps That Used To Be Popular? · · Score: 1

    I remember a program like that. It was called "DRAIN.EXE" (floppy version) or "NUDRAIN.EXE" (hard disk). It would print a message about water being detected in the hard drive.

  2. Re:that is like on Reddit Imposes Ban On Sexual Content Posted Without Permission · · Score: 1

    Anthony Wiener released his own dick pics. After that he didn't have the privacy claim.

  3. Re:Play them in my browser on id Software's Original 'Softdisk' Games Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    Surely dosbox has been ported.

  4. Re:Curious on Does Crime Leave a Genetic Trace? · · Score: 1

    The bible says that the sins will be visited on the descendants of the perpetrator.

    This research says that there will be an effect on the descendants of the victim.

  5. Re:So on Report: Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) Scans Your DNS History · · Score: 1

    1) Add a bunch of images with height and width 1, and have src on a suspicious server to your website.
    2) Anybody who visits your site becomes a false positive.

  6. Re:Vegas huh? on Magician Suing For Copyright Over Magic Trick · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgtgOs_OkTU

  7. Re:Doorstops on A Memory of Light To Be Released January 8, 2013 · · Score: 2

    TvTropes refers to this as the ChrisCarterEffect.

  8. Re:Also on Ebert: I'll Tell You Why Movie Revenue Is Dropping · · Score: 1

    There is: http://www.2d-glasses.com/

  9. Re:Misrepresentation of the original research on 4.74 Degrees of Separation on Facebook · · Score: 1

    24 reached him at his home. More reached him at his office.

  10. Re:Innocent until proven guilty? on German Copyright Group To Collect From Creative Commons Event · · Score: 1

    That's in a criminal trial. Copyright can be civil or criminal, so it's "preponderance of evidence".

  11. Re:Got it wrong on The Most Expensive One-Byte Mistake · · Score: 1

    C-style arrays have the property that (array + offset), provided offset is within the array, can be treated as a shorter array of the same type.
    Giving a value within the string special semantics preserves that property; giving a position withing that string special semantics does not.

  12. Re:Pick a number between 1 and 10 on Passcodes Prove Predictable · · Score: 1

    Even with fewer than 10 people, there's a high chance of duplication. 5 people indpendently picking digits from 1 to 10 have a nearly 70% chance of duplication;

  13. Re:Mistake in Summary on No P = NP Proof After All · · Score: 1

    n! can be improved upon; TSP can be done in n^2 * 2^n space and (I think) n^3 * 2^n time, though that's obviously impractical for any large n.

  14. Re:How do you hit the cockpit? on Laser Incidents With Aircraft On the Rise · · Score: 1

    IIRC, anybody who's going to be pointing lasers into the air is supposed to file notice with the FAA; the FAA will notify any pilots who file a flight plan to avoid that area. A stage show will file the permits; small groups may fail to do so.

  15. Re:Heya politicians, judges and media moguls... on US Trials Off Track Over Juror Internet Misconduct · · Score: 1

    I thought that they generally didn't want lawyers on juries anyway.

  16. Re:Great new way to annex your neighbor on Nicaragua Raids Costa Rica, Blames Google Maps · · Score: 1

    I'm reminded of a story from the Crimean War:

    A soldier wrote to his family "Go to _____ store in London, buy me some maps of the Crimea and send them out here. They have better maps than the army gives us."

  17. Re:Heuristic on Bees Beat Machines At 'Traveling Salesman' Problem · · Score: 1

    It's possible to do better than O(N!); there's a straightforward O(N*2^N) algorithm.

  18. Re:When you add/subtract/multiply/divide infinite on Proving 0.999... Is Equal To 1 · · Score: 1

    What happens when x == -1?

  19. Re:This gas can't be transported... on Piezo Crystals Harness Sound To Generate Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    IIRC, if you're using direct current, hydrogen and oxygen are produced at opposite ends of the wire. So separating them is automatic.

  20. Re:Asimov? on Permanent Undersea Homes Soon; Temporary Ones Now · · Score: 1

    Waterclap

  21. Re:Not all data is online on Internet-Caused Mistrials Are On the Rise · · Score: 1

    Odd. The usual example for judicial notice involves a defense attorney using a Farmer's Almanac to put the phase of moon into evidence, and discredit a witness.

  22. Re:LOL on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 2

    Anybody who disables it and gets caught will go to jail.

  23. Re:good grief on 75 Comics That Are Being Made Into Films · · Score: 1

    _The Adventures of Captain Marvel_ was a good serial.

  24. Re:What about a game with a programming mini-game? on Working Calculator Created in LittleBigPlanet · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Sixth Ammedment on Judge Rules Defense Can Get DUI Machine Source Code · · Score: 1

    What about bloodhounds?