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  1. Re:There's this really cool app that... on Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Ahead of Phone Tracking ? · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be so sure. Anyhow, I prefer to wrap the phone in tinfoil as well to make sure.

  2. Re:There's this really cool app that... on Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Ahead of Phone Tracking ? · · Score: 2

    Discharge what?

    The capacitors in the power supply circuitry.

  3. Re:HUD on Lawmakers Seek To Ban Google Glass On the Road · · Score: 1

    Which states?

  4. Re:Energy per user on Facebook's Oregon Data Center Uses As Much Power As Entire County · · Score: 4, Informative

    28,000,000 / 800,000,000 = 0.035 Watts/user

  5. Re:I'd pay it on Rumors of Hulu's Subscription Plans · · Score: 1

    Sigh. iPlayer is not free, it requires a tv license.

  6. Re:Horribly misleading on New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space · · Score: 1

    Science is always estimating and averaging, within a defined confidence.

  7. Re:What can be done? Nothing. on What Can Be Done About Security of Debit Cards? · · Score: 1

    LloydsTSB have returned all money I have had stolen from me via Debit Card fraud within 2-3 days.

    Perhaps the answer is: change bank.

  8. Re:Is it cold under that wet blanket? on A New "Medical Lab On a Chip" For Every Home? · · Score: 1

    Yay for over-sensitive/under-specific testing of a healthy population for relatively rare diseases?

  9. Re:Fishies! on Grounded Russian Nuclear Sub Photographed With Sonar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't understand your logic. Hot lightbulbs are bad for moths but they're still attracted to them.

  10. Re:Politial speech influenced 6 yrs old chid. on Sergey Brin On Google and China · · Score: 1

    Let's see how long it takes for this incorrect opinion to get moded down!

    FTFY

  11. Re:Metric Everywhere on Astronauts Having Trouble With Tranquility Module · · Score: 1

    It's already happened in virtually all industries outside of the US.

  12. Re:Court order served against fictional characters on UK Court Order Served Over Twitter, To Anonymous User Posing As Another · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Modding down to bury an inconvenient truth doesn't change that truth but does make you look foolish"

    Modding is anonymous, no one looks like anything.

  13. hello world on Building an Apple-1 From Scratch — Just Like Woz · · Score: 1

    His Hello World program had a bug, good job!

  14. Re:these are not pranks! on The Outing of Pranknet · · Score: 1, Troll

    This.

  15. Re:100 miles with or without A/C? on Nissan Unveils All-Electric LEAF · · Score: 1

    Open the windows to let in the 100+ air, you mean?

  16. Re:Linus on Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" · · Score: 1

    If you're head swells when you hear someone ask how many eggs are in a dozen, you're setting a very low bar for yourself.

  17. Re:Before the arguments start? on Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum · · Score: 3, Funny

    Which do you prefer, angry torrenters' pitchforks or RIAA's pitchforks?

  18. Re:Canada eh! on Incandescent Bulbs Return To the Cutting Edge · · Score: 1

    I think gas is the most economic way of heating a house, however.

  19. Re:Don't need to jailbreak for wallpaper/ring tone on iPhone 3GS Finally Hacked · · Score: 1

    The 'Convert to AAC...' option (or whatever it was called) has been removed from iTunes 8.2.

    Maximum length for a ringtone is 40 seconds, btw.

  20. Re:Which is It? on HIV/AIDS Vaccine To Begin Phase I Human Trials · · Score: 2, Informative

    Of course not. No more than the common cold is the same thing as the enterovirus that causes it.

    Common cold is most commonly caused by rhinovirus.

  21. Re:No such thing as free lunch... on English Market Produces Energy With Kinetic Plates · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You are dumb.

  22. Re:Microsoft is too big to fail on Microsoft Sets Record With Monster Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Dude. You must have a pretty good life to be able to get so worked up about this.

    http://xkcd.com/386/

  23. Re:Scary Good or Scary Bad? on Microsoft Sets Record With Monster Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Nobody gives a shit

  24. Re:That reminds me (off topic) on How Google's High Speed Book Scanner De-Warps Pages · · Score: 1

    Video lag is the main issue.

  25. Re:Yes. on Online Storage For Lawyers? · · Score: 1

    Illegal, yes. But the mitigating circumstances would be overwhelming.