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  1. Re:So what? on Major Retailers Accused of Selling Fraudulent Herbal Supplements · · Score: 1

    This is the only supplement of these types I have ever used. It sure helps with jet lag.

  2. Re: tfa says carry-on, one-way on United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info · · Score: 1

    Frequent fliers have known this for years - but don't do it if they want to keep their status and award miles.

    However - for infrequent fliers - or fliers who don't care about status or award miles - this is the way to go.

  3. Re:Give me a ping... on Study Shows How Humans Can Echolocate · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. Then I want and had some dark chocolate because someone somewhere said it was good for me.

  4. Re:Simple fix on Apple's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    This is exactly what the Medical Device tax - that was a part of Obamacare - does. Taxes Medical Device Manufacturer's top line, not the bottom line.

  5. Re:That's what happens on Cutting the Cord? Time Warner Loses 184,000 TV Subscribers In One Quarter · · Score: 1

    My local phone company finally started unbundling DSL and land-line, which played a part in our own cord-cutting.

  6. Re:They tried to raise prices 20% unnanounced on Cutting the Cord? Time Warner Loses 184,000 TV Subscribers In One Quarter · · Score: 1

    Wow - TiVo is still around? who knew?

  7. Re:They tried to raise prices 20% unnanounced on Cutting the Cord? Time Warner Loses 184,000 TV Subscribers In One Quarter · · Score: 1

    LOL. If you want actual news, subscribe to your local paper.

    Oh yeah - newspapers. A perfect source for about 1% of yesterday's news.

  8. Re:They tried to raise prices 20% unnanounced on Cutting the Cord? Time Warner Loses 184,000 TV Subscribers In One Quarter · · Score: 1

    We cut the cord 3 years ago November 1st. The only think I really miss is college football - but hey - there is a radio for that! And now that I have Sonos, which I can use to pipe TuneIn throughout the house and listen - it's awesome. Netflix is the only content we pay for on a monthly basis, and it'll be another year before I've watched everything on there I want to see.

  9. Re:Works better for flu on Ebola Forecast: Scientists Release Updated Projections and Tracking Maps · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Thanks Obama! on Hackers Breach White House Network · · Score: 3, Funny

    Weaponized PowerPoint is redundant. Powerpoint has been a weapon against clear thinking, preparing for a meeting, and keeping people interested in what you're saying for a long time.

    And, of course, PowerPoint has already caused the space shuttle to crash. http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

  11. Re:Ho-lee-crap on The Largest Ship In the World Is Being Built In Korea · · Score: 1

    There is a series of articles out there on the Interwebs about a company losing a satellite because they couldn't use the patented Boeing math.

    However - back to the original comment - since you *are* a patent attorney - is the original statement "you can't copyright the math" true? or false? Thanks!

  12. Re:Spam on Gmail? on Ask Slashdot: Why Can't Google Block Spam In Gmail? · · Score: 2

    Totally agree. Maybe once a month a single 'spam' message ends up in my inbox, and maybe 2 or 3 non-spam ends up in my spam folder. But even the ones that end up in the spam folder are from mailing lists or subscriptions. I've never had an actual hand-written e-mail from a person I know, writing to me about something we actually need to discuss, end up in the spam folder.

  13. Re:I feel like we are living in an 'outbreak' movi on After Dallas Ebola Diagnosis, CDC Raises Estimate of Patient's Possible Contacts · · Score: 1

    Finland, Finland, Finland.
    Finland has it all.

  14. Re:Do some research first please? on After Dallas Ebola Diagnosis, CDC Raises Estimate of Patient's Possible Contacts · · Score: 5, Informative

    Saying that something is more lethal doesn't mean the same as saying it kills more people. What it means is that it is more "sufficient to cause death". So, while it's very true that more people have died from H1N1 than from EBOV, EBOV is still far more lethal.

    http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/est... says that between April 2009 and April 2010 there were 61M cases of H1N1 resulting in 12.5K deaths. WHO says that, so far, there are 7192 cases of EBOV in the West African outbreak, and 3286 deaths.

    I'll let you do the math.

  15. Re:More Regulations, Please on Back To Faxes: Doctors Can't Exchange Digital Medical Records · · Score: 1

    Oh - by the way - the government has their own EMR. VistA/CPRS used by the VA.

    It's written in MUMPS too - and can't inter-operate with anything without an act of congress.

  16. Re:You've gotta hand it to him though. on $75K Prosthetic Arm Is Bricked When Paired iPod Is Stolen · · Score: 1

    I find your humorous post quite disarming.

    On a side note, does anyone know if this prosthesis uses an ARM processor?

  17. Re:Your turn soon yankee on Kids With Operators Manual Alert Bank Officials: "We Hacked Your ATM" · · Score: 3

    The day I knew this was inevitable was the day I saw "Made in China" written in Spanish on something from a US company. (Yeah - I could have looked up "Made in China" and put it on here in Spanish, but I don't really care.)

  18. Re:FTA commented, not approved on FTC Approves Tesla's Direct Sales Model · · Score: 2

    What on Earth does the Federal Reserve have to do with any of this?

    In this case I think "The Fed" is short for "The Federales - you know - the mounted police?"

  19. Re:Knowledge on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    So I guess we agree on the fact that there are atheist zealots.

    But we disagree on whether or not atheism is a faith.

    I can go with that.

    So my original comment was: "False. Every "faith" will eventually have it's zealots. Even if that "faith" is atheism."

    And if I change that to: "False. Every set of beliefs (or "everything" or "anything" will eventually have it's zealots. Even if that set of beliefs is athiesm." You'd agree?

  20. Re:Knowledge on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    What do you mean by "holy book" - is that based on a belief that every zealot has, at their disposal, some written manual on which to base their zealotry?

  21. Re:Knowledge on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    False. Every "faith" will eventually have it's zealots. Even if that "faith" is athiesm.

  22. And the next big scam... on OKCoin Raises $10 Million To Become China's Largest Bitcoin Exchange · · Score: 2

    To me this sounds like some guys thinking "Hey - that Mt. Gox Guy set up an exchange and almost got away with bajillions. I bet we can do the same thing without his mistakes..."

    Or - they are dumb enough to want to become a Big Fish in a Small Pond with Poisoned Waters.

    (I'm sure there's some Poison/Poisson joke in there somewhere)

  23. Re:RadioShack's business model on RadioShack To Close 1,100 Stores · · Score: 1

    You've got questions, We've got acne.

  24. Re:ONE independent demo, please on Ford Self-Driving R&D Car Tells Small Animal From Paper Bag At 200 Ft. · · Score: 1

    this

  25. Re:The same thing I do every night on Slashdot Asks: What Are You Doing For Hallowe'en? · · Score: 1

    +1