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  1. B key on Ask Slashdot: Do You Press "6" Key With Right Or Left Hand? · · Score: 1

    On my keyboard, the "B" key is much more ambiguous than the 6 (excluding the number pad, of-course).

  2. Pollo on Polio Causes Global Health Emergency · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else read the title and think the post would be about some global food recall?

    On my screen, with the font slashdot uses for titles (and with my eyes) I can't distinguish i and l.

  3. Re:Knows and Presumes are not the same thing on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    Yea, that's not fair.

    I'm sure there were many people that liked and used Michael Jackson way before Facebook. Nobody ever questioned their sexuality...

  4. Re:Huh? on Cellphone Privacy In Canada: Encryption Triggers Need For Warrant · · Score: 2

    I think he was confusing the court system with the nine levels of hell.

  5. Re:Malda's single point of failure on Rob Malda Casts a Jaded Eye at Amazon's Silk · · Score: 1

    At first read, I swear that last sentence said "Ass to the Fire".

    I sure hope there's not an app for that.

  6. Re:What makes this good? on DISH Network Unveils Movie Streaming Service · · Score: 1

    I'm confused by this comment.

    For existing Dish Network subscribers it is an additional $10. This includes streaming and DVDs by mail.

    Ignoring blu-ray and games, a comparable Netflix subscription, with the current pricing, would be $7.99 + $7.99 = $15.98. This is already more expensive and doesn't include the $2 that Netflix charges for blu-ray, and whatever value you want to assign to the option of renting games.

    The DVD by mail selection is actually pretty similar between Netflix and Blockbuster. Maybe Netflix still has some obscure titles that aren't carried by Blockbuster, but the demographic that are interested in those is pretty small. Blockbuster, on the other hand, has access to the mainstream new-releases much sooner than Netflix.

    Maybe I'm missing something, but the value there seems very apparent.

  7. Novel Idea. on Bill Gates Looks to Reinvent the Toilet · · Score: 1

    How about a system where the excrement passes through a mesh, or screen if you will, that supplies an electric charge to produce ozone (the system could be gravity fed). Add in a natural way to produce chlorine, and you have a simple system to kill bacteria and other organisms. We can call it the "Poo Screen of Death."

  8. Re:PET/MRI and statistics are poor bed partners on Cell Phone Use Tied To Changes In Brain Activity · · Score: 2
    I believe the parent was referring to the PET scan used to determine brain activity.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission_tomography#Safety

  9. this is new? on Time-Shifting For The iPod · · Score: 2, Informative

    looks like there have already been other programs designed to do this with itunes radio http://homepage.mac.com/swithers/iblog/C784421780/ E1012504207/ it seems like it should work with more than just the radio since it simply records audio being broadcast to the computer. Is this different is some way?