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  1. Re:Flaming Skis on Medical Billing Codes For Injury Via Turtle Among Thousands Created by New Law · · Score: 1

    Even better:

    V9027XA Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning water-skis, initial encounter
    V9027XD Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning water-skis, subsequent encounter
    V9027XS Drowning and submersion due to falling or jumping from burning water-skis, sequela

  2. What's the backup system? on United Pilots To Use iPads For Navigation · · Score: 0

    What's the backup system? Google Maps on the copilot's iPhone?

  3. Figures on Researchers Report Spike In Boot Time Malware · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I suppose the Tea Party will try to make this Obama's fault as well.

  4. Re:How exactly do you define..? on Humanoid Robot Wakes In Space, Tweets · · Score: 1

    I believe they also came up with things like Duc Tape, velcro, and plastics.

    It's called "duct" tape, as in, "air conditioning ducts" (as in those rectangular stainless steel air conduits used in forced air HVAC systems), and it existed long before there ever was a shuttle -- nevermind space -- program.

  5. Life's first breeding ground? on World's Oldest Fossils Found On Australian Beach · · Score: -1, Troll

    So Eden, then?

  6. Wait, wait on Argentina Censors Over a Million Blogs · · Score: 1

    There are a MILLION blogs on this one pair of websites? How many readers could they possibly have?

  7. Re:Then learn the language better, stupid on C++ 2011 and the Return of Native Code · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... to clean up non-memory resources like file handles, GDI handles, etc held within your objects.

    IMHO, it's easier to get this right using RAII with C++ than with any of the toy languages (e.g., Java, .NET), all of which require explicitly freeing, destroying, releasing (or whatever) resources from each and every code path that may exit a given scope.

  8. Re:So you were one of the 35% on 35% Consumers Want iPhone 5... Sight Unseen · · Score: 1

    ... the only people who would buy it sight-unseen and price-unkown and without knowing what the voice/data package will cost appear to be people who put their faith, willingly, in an untried product without doing any sort of critical analysis or bothering to look around to see what else is available.

    Or maybe they just don't know any better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg

  9. Go Figure on Sony Insurer Suing To Deny Data Breach Coverage · · Score: 1

    I wonder how many Zurich American executives' kids were affected by the outage?

  10. Re:First Post on Sheikh Carves His Name In Desert So It's Visible From Space · · Score: 1

    That's picking nit. It's certainly visible via a satellite, which is in fact orbiting in space.

  11. Re:Google+ on Google+ Runs Out of Disk Space, Swamps Users With Notifications · · Score: 1

    So how about an invite?

  12. Re:Ask apple for a refund on NYT Update Breaks iPad App, Annoys Subscribers · · Score: 1

    Then what? Pay for the app again later when the it's been fixed? Apple will get its commission twice.

  13. Re:Wow ... on NYT Update Breaks iPad App, Annoys Subscribers · · Score: 1

    Many people get it without paying $20/month. Home Delivery Subscribers automatically get online access included free with the subscription price (which, BTW, was not raised when NYT put up the paywall). Android devices were unaffected by this change, BTW. Only the Apple Fanboys.

  14. Re:Uhhh... on Android App Quality Pathetically Low Says Developer · · Score: 2

    when my iPhone friends play with my phone they are pretty much always impressed.

    When your iPhone friends play with a block of wood, they're pretty much always impressed too. Don't give that too much weight.

    Only if it has an Apple logo on it. Otherwise the fanbois will say that Apple could make superior wood blocks.

    The people I know with iPhones tend to be more technologically challenged than those in my circle with Android phones, IMHO. While it may not be a statistically significant sample, the fact that someone went to the trouble of making this animation leads me to believe I might not be the only one who thinks so.

  15. Re:AMP? on Microsoft Demos C++ AMP At AMD Developers Summit · · Score: 1

    Go figure. I thought it meant asymmetrical multi-processing (as opposed to SMP - symmetrical multi-processing).

  16. Re:Meh ... on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 1

    I am waiting for the ability to remotely stamp out flaming bags of doggy poop.

  17. "I was gobsmacked" says the mother on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 1

    Kind of gobsmacked myself, but since Verizon Wireless doesn't use SIM cards in the US, I don't feel so bad for not thinking of it first.

  18. Re:Mouseover; see littlegreenfootballs; ignore on Palin Fans Deface Paul Revere Wikipedia Page · · Score: 1

    ... but when captured by the British he also warned them that the colonists were ready to face them.

    Warning? Or threatening?

    You say tomato ...

  19. Re:Gold Dust! on What's Killing Your Wi-Fi? · · Score: 1

    Pixie dust is odorless and colorless (so it won't aggravate your parents), and has the added advantage of not requiring fans (it disperses itself and stays suspending in the air). Finally, a tiny bit goes a long, long way, (so it's way cheaper). One thing that takes getting used to, though, is everyone being in a great mood. And finding a source is fairly difficult -- but worth it. :)

  20. Re:Camel Book on Book Review: Camel In Action · · Score: 2

    There can be only ONE!

  21. Re:store twice, then pop?? on Woz and the RCA Character-generator Patent · · Score: 1

    Could someone explain to me why we store twice before popping??

    One for the shape and the other for the color.

    Ah, but this was in the days of the Apple ][, for which anyone who ever did any any graphics programming would know that the location of a pixel (i.e., next to which other pixel) could affect the color. So, in a certain limited sense, the shape WAS the color.

    I tend to agree with Dan East above, that this was probably Woz's speaking style.

  22. Re:Finally on Robotic "Tongue" Lets You French Kiss Over The Internet · · Score: 1

    A way for the Slashdot crowd to get a french kiss.

    Perhaps the only way, for some...

  23. "Don't Be Evil" Redux on Chrome Feature Helps Shield Websites From DDoS Attacks · · Score: 2

    Finally, some positive news about Google. Let's see how they muck it up now.

  24. Re:Eliza ? on Can't Get a Real Girlfriend? Get a "Cloud" Girlfriend · · Score: 2

    Based on TFA, they'll be employing real people to put words in the mouths of virtual women.

    Perhaps, but they may not be real women.

  25. Re:Ornithopters are so cool... on Flying Robot Bird Unveiled · · Score: 1

    I was thinking more of something like the Honeywell Micro Aerial Vehicle:

    http://www.honeywell.com/sites/portal?smap=aerospace&page=mav_video&theme=T8

    No, I think an enemy would definitely notice one of these.