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  1. Re:Rent a Tesla for $1 on State of Iowa Tells Tesla To Cancel Its Scheduled Test Drives · · Score: 1

    7-11 is (or was) the same way. Back when I worked there ('82-'83), there were company stores (that were also used for training) and franchises.

  2. Re:You know what this means on Breakthrough In LED Construction Increases Efficiency By 57 Percent · · Score: 1

    Apparently, it's more important to know when they're of.

    My TV, my DVD player, and my Blu-Ray player all have an LED that lights up when the device is OFF, and goes dark when the device is ON.

  3. Re:3d printing is legit on How 3D Printers Went Mainstream After Decades In Obscurity · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think those were injection molded.

    You put your money in, it shot plastic into a mold. When it cooled, it popped out of the slot.

  4. Re:Man oh man on Physicists Find Clue as To Why the DNA Double Helix Twists To the Right · · Score: 1

    No, he's putting it into his pocket wrong.

  5. Re:Numbers on Forest Service Wants To Require Permits For Photography · · Score: 2

    You missed the point of his amusement. It's cheaper to pay the fine than to get the permit.

  6. Re:They lost me with their first "prediction". on Sci-fi Predictions, True and False (Video 1) · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry. If her *FIRST* reaction is that Card "invented" it, then to hell with her.

  7. They lost me with their first "prediction". on Sci-fi Predictions, True and False (Video 1) · · Score: 1

    Orson Scott Card was the guy who "invented" the Internet? Hell, it *EXISTED* when he wrote Ender's game.

    And if you're talking about WWW, it was predicted by Vannevar Bush long before then.

  8. Re:List the STL? Seriously? on Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D? · · Score: 4, Informative

    They may actually be looking to see if you're willing to say "I don't know".

    My response would be twofold.

    1) "C++03, C++11, or C++14? The Standards committee added some in each iteration."
    2) "To be honest, I probably can't name them all off the top of my head. I could look them up (for C++03) in my copy of the standard, or use Google to find them all. However, I generally find that vector, list, set and map tend to meet most of my needs. If I need something specialized, I'll look it up."

  9. Re:Dust? on "Big Bang Signal" Could All Be Dust · · Score: 1

    Both. It took an aphrodesiac-laced laxative.

  10. Re: Any news on the first stage landing tests? on SpaceX Launches Supplies to ISS, Including Its First 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    Why am I not surprised that it's Blue Origin (aka Jeff Bezos) who's trolling with a patent on vertical landing?

  11. Re:Alright smart guy on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    That's the ONLY reason I went to 7.

  12. Re:Alright smart guy on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 2

    I believe the 4S is the minimum requirement.

    I'm not getting the "upgrade badge" on my 4.

  13. Re:PHONES YOU IDIOTS on Once Vehicles Are Connected To the Internet of Things, Who Guards Your Privacy? · · Score: 2

    Just because my phone is traveling in a vehicle, does not mean that I am driving or even IN said vehicle.

  14. And now, Mark Hurd can continue spying on Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Steps Down · · Score: 1

    Just on Oracle employees and board members instead of HP.

  15. Re:Redundant on Scientists Twist Radio Beams To Send Data At 32 Gigabits Per Second · · Score: 1

    Because sharks are too unreliable, and you always need a bigger boat than you think you will.

  16. Re:Kudos! on A 16-Year-Old Builds a Device To Convert Breath Into Speech · · Score: 1

    And given the fact that Medicare is aggressively pushing to make augmented communications devices rentals (and something that you can't take to the hospital with you), if it's really $80, then GO FOR IT.

    Hopefully the hardest part is teaching the victim Morse.

  17. Re:HAL 9000 on The Challenges and Threats of Automated Lip Reading · · Score: 1, Funny

    To everyone else: If something along these lines was NOT your first thought, please turn in your geek card.

  18. Re:Start Button ? on Turning the Tables On "Phone Tech Support" Scammers · · Score: 1

    Oh, I LIKE that one!!! I may have to try that.

  19. Re:All doublespeak on U.S. Threatened Massive Fine To Force Yahoo To Release Data · · Score: 2

    I recently visited the Reagan library to take in the baseball exhibit. Since I was there, I took the tour first. It ended with a multimedia presentation that included the quote:

    "Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts."

    While I may not be a fan of the man, I believe he really did try to do that.

    Nowadays? Let's face it, neither Bush nor Obama could say that with a straight face

  20. Re:Just as long as it's not XK-class. on X-Class Solar Flare Coming Friday · · Score: 1

    It's good to be bad.

  21. Re:Copyright violation? on Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots · · Score: 2

    Please. Copyright is to be used *BY* the $BIG_CORPORATIONS against $LITTLE_PEOPLE and $SMALL_BUSINESS, not the other way around.

    That's why $BIG_CORPORATIONS bought the current laws!!!

  22. Re: cram lots of people in a confined space on 3 Recent Flights Make Unscheduled Landings, After Disputes Over Knee Room · · Score: 1

    When I worked for Litton all those years ago, the rules were:

    * Domestic -- you fly coach.
    * International -- you get Business class.

  23. C++03 had one that was corrected in C++11. on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Namely, the >> symbol. Because templates use angle brackets for template parameters, if you had a nested template such as T<int, T1<double> >, you HAD to put the space between the two closing angle brackets. Otherwise the lexer would interpret the two angle brackets as the shift operator.

  24. Re:Infoworld... pass on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Strangest Features of Various Programming Languages? · · Score: 1, Informative

    In C, the first time I saw the size of elements of a struct specified (i.e. int something : 3) it threw me

    Considering that you misunderstand/misunderstood the syntax, I'm not surprised.

    It's not saying it's a 3 byte int, it's saying it's a 3-bit field.

  25. Re:Start your day the clean-shaven way on Firefox 32 Arrives With New HTTP Cache, Public Key Pinning Support · · Score: 2

    I'll never be over Macho Grande.