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  1. second language on Driving While Distracted More Dangerous Than Supposed · · Score: 1

    in this case, driving, which is learned long after a person grasps a native language -- takes a neural hit. The obvious solution: learn a second language after you learn to drive, and use that second language while driving.
  2. auto-type on Best Way To Avoid Keyloggers On Public Terminals? · · Score: 1

    Some tools like Password Safe have an auto-type feature that will populate user/password fields for you. I have no idea if keyloggers would intercept that kind of "typing".

    You still have to type your master password to get into Password Safe, but ofcourse that one is stored on a USB stick that you carry around with you.

  3. Re:Oh come on! on Mass Effect's Aftermath · · Score: 1

    I could code the entire Mass Effect inventory system in a day Do it. I dare you. You'll learn something.
  4. Re:How?? on Identity Theft Skeptic Ends Up As Fraud Victim · · Score: 1

    legal leggings They finally made leggings illegal?! Awesome!
  5. 'Extreme Safety' driving on 'Extreme Security' Web Browsing · · Score: 5, Funny

    I do the same thing when I have to go somewhere. I have two cars, one that's reliable, and one rusty piece of crap that's ready to fall apart any minute. When I need to go somewhere important, I take my reliable car so I know I won't die before I get there. When I just need to take a quick trip to the grocery store, I take my junk car and just cross my fingers.

  6. Re:hhooppee tthheeyy ffiixx tthhiiss ssoooonn on Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust · · Score: 1

    +++ ATE0

  7. Re:Not just about the shirts on Best Buy Hands Out Cease & Desist Letters for Christmas · · Score: 1

    Of course the slashdotted article mentions that little "prank". Too bad the summary doesn't.

  8. Not just about the shirts on Best Buy Hands Out Cease & Desist Letters for Christmas · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm sure Best Buy isn't just after them for having blue shirts. This is more likely a form of "payback" for the embarrassment that Improv Everywhere caused Best Buy in 2006 when 80 people showed up at a NYC Best Buy dressed in blue polo shirts and khakis. (Flickr and YouTube coverage.)

  9. Re:What's the number? on Turkey Day Chemistry in the Kitchen · · Score: 3, Informative

    1-800-222-1222

    (I know you were being +2 Funny, but still...)

  10. Re:Not yet on Two Companies Now Offering Personal Gene Sequencing · · Score: 1

    Aren't all genetic diseases by definition pre-existing conditions?

  11. Re:Hapland, on What Are The Best Free Games Online? · · Score: 1

    Also... If you're on slashdot, you've probably already heard of Notpron There's also the similar(ly frustrating) Weffriddles.
  12. Re:The "Space Race" on China Launches First Moon Orbiter · · Score: 3, Funny

    You must be new here.

    (And by "here" I mean planet Earth.)

  13. Re:A child?? I must have turn the logo the wrong w on David Pogue Reviews the XO Laptop · · Score: 2, Informative

    The skull and crossbones is the child. See the website.

  14. Re:So, did Kerry ever actually answer the question on University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally · · Score: 1

    Who asks three questions in a row? What kind of person would do that? Do you think that would make for an easy-to-follow and to-the-point answer?

  15. Re:So, did Kerry ever actually answer the question on University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally · · Score: 4, Informative

    Judging by the video, Meyer isn't even interested in any answers. He just keeps rambling on and doesn't even wait for Kerry to respond. After reading the blurb, I felt sorry for him. After watching the video, I don't anymore.

  16. Will work with... on Wii Zapper To Have Zelda Pack-In Title · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course the Wii Zapper will "work with" those games. The Wii Zapper is nothing but a molded shell to hold your actual controller(s).

    The real question to ask is whether a game will work with the Wii Zapper. Some games may require independent movement of the nunchuck and remote (think: pumping the nunchuck to reload a shotgun while still keeping perfect aim), which would not be possible with the two tied together in the same cradle.

  17. Re:Waiting to take the battery out? on Turned Off iPhone Gets $4800 Bill from AT&T · · Score: 1

    The iPhone features a built-in rechargeable battery that is not intended to be user-replaceable, similar to existing iPods. Once the battery reaches the end of its life time the phone will need to be returned to Apple and replaced for a fee.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphone#Miscellaneous

  18. Alternate links on Companies Offer AAA Games For 'Free' · · Score: 1

    Alternate links, including one for Ghost Recon can be found here: http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?thread id=597322

  19. Re:OOXML has failed, but it isn't over. on If This Was a Month Ago, OOXML Would Be Over · · Score: 2, Interesting

    MS bugs (like thinking that 1900 was a leap year I hate to defend Microsoft, but this one is starting to bother me. As stated on this page, 1900 being treated as a leap year isn't a bug introduced by Microsoft. Rather, it's a feature added to be backwards compatible with a bug in Lotus 1-2-3.

    Yes, there are still plenty of things that Microsoft did/does wrong, but at least watch out where you point the finger with this one.
  20. Re:Excellent! on Finally We Get New Elements In HTML 5 · · Score: 1
    A combobox can be achieved per the Web Forms 2 specification using a datalist element:

    For the text, email, url, date-related, time-related, and numeric types of the input element, a new attribute list is introduced to point to a list of values that the UA should offer to the user in addition to allowing the user to pick an arbitrary value.
  21. Re:Excellent! on Finally We Get New Elements In HTML 5 · · Score: 3, Informative
    multi-file-select is included in Web Forms 2, which is the "forms" part of HTML 5:

    The min and max attributes apply to file upload controls (input elements of type file) and specify (using non-negative integers) how many files must be attached for the control to be valid.

  22. Good news everyone! on Smarter Teens Have Less Sex · · Score: 1

    They simply got the correlation->causality conversion wrong. This study shows that having sex makes you stupid!

  23. Re:Ms. Feldman needs to STFU and GBTW. on Emoticons in the Workplace · · Score: 1

    perky people.

    (I hate perky people.)

  24. Re:pfft on "Spam King" Pleads Guilty in U.S. Federal Court · · Score: 1, Informative

    That was not funny.

  25. No on Who's Trading Your E-mail Addresses? · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, he's not. He's on first, though.