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  1. Off topic, but cheaper, more portable e-bike... on Ask Slashdot: Inexpensive Anti-Theft Vehicle Tracking System? · · Score: 1

    http://yikebike.com/
    I don't have one, as I'm holding off to see what my new job's commute will be like, but it looks pretty interesting to me anyway.

  2. Re:Speaking of which... on Hiding Messages In VoIP Packets · · Score: 1

    Even better, run the command twice, keeping one CD for you and sending the other to your friend!

  3. Re:Castle on Chevy Volt Fire Prompts Safety Investigation For EV Batteries · · Score: 1

    I meant that the bit in the book about using a commercial plane as a weapon lead to the real-life use of 4 planes as weapons on 9/11. Sorry to be unclear.

  4. Re:Amerika! on Icelandic MP To Challenge US Court Ruling On Twitter Privacy · · Score: 0

    Can we move Iceland off the coast of California first? Say around Santa Barbara, or SLO? I like the sound of the culture/politics of Iceland, but not the weather.

  5. Re:Castle on Chevy Volt Fire Prompts Safety Investigation For EV Batteries · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and that story lead to 9/11!! (tongue firmly planted in cheek, btw :-)

  6. Re:Quorum looks a lot like Pascal on Is Perl Better Than a Randomly Generated Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, C, with #define being a textual preprocessing, does make the problem much tougher, but I don't think impossible. As I imagine it, you'd apply the textual substitutions, but you'd have to keep 'annotations' on the tree so you could 'undo' them in the deconversion for editing. Same with comments, either they'd have to become part of the syntax tree, or be kept as 'annotations' to items, and you'd have to 'guess at' (given just the text) to what node in the parsed tree the comment should be attached.
    Another language, like Python? (not familiar enough with it) might not have those problems.

  7. Re:Quorum looks a lot like Pascal on Is Perl Better Than a Randomly Generated Programming Language? · · Score: 2

    I've always felt that version control systems should store syntax trees, but have never had the time to do the work to do that.

  8. Re:Shred? on DARPA: Reconstruct Shredded Docs, Win $50K USD · · Score: 1

    All you really need to reconstruct it is a piece of angel food cake.

  9. But but... on Americas New CIO Wants To Disrupt Government and Make It a Startup · · Score: 1

    Most startups fail.

  10. Re:swingers? on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 1

    From a little googling, there are tests which can identify HPV, but they aren't FDA approved. Something about how to collect the skin cells from a man's penis? I suggest medical grade sand paper... :-)

  11. OT: auto-link Re:HOWTO DD-WRT on Netgear WNDR3700 on Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n? · · Score: 1

    Probably, the tokenizer doesn't recognize (http://www.google.com) because of the lack of space between the paren and the ( http://www.google.com/ )

  12. Re:My car has a fail-safe device... on Jaguar Recalls 18,000 Cars Over Major Software Fault · · Score: 1

    That's what heal-toe (gas&brake) is for... though it's been a long time since I had to do it. My '86 VW Jetta was the last time. My next car was a Subaru with their 'hill-holder' clutch (let it out a tiny bit and it engages something to keep the car from rolling backward).

  13. Re:My car has a fail-safe device... on Jaguar Recalls 18,000 Cars Over Major Software Fault · · Score: 1

    Weirdly, if you check EPA fuel economy estimates on some of the higher mileage small cars (Ford Focus & Fiesta?) the automatics come up with higher mileage, or are very close behind. http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/best/bestworstNF.shtml

  14. Re:swingers? on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 1

    Read the site. They can test the cells in the cervix for HPV because they are localized: "An HPV DNA test, which can find HPV on a woman's cervix, may also be used with a Pap test in certain cases."

  15. Re:Social conservatives amaze me... on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 1

    Or performing oral sex on women, or having penile-vaginal sex with women?

  16. Re:swingers? on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 2

    According to the CDC website, no there is no test to say whether an individual is HPV infected or not.
    Interestingly though it also seems to indicate that the HPV infection can go away of its own accord in time.
    http://www.cdc.gov/std/HPV/STDFact-HPV.htm
    "There is no general test for men or women to check one’s overall "HPV status," nor is there an approved HPV test to find HPV on the genitals or in the mouth or throat."

    and from http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stdfact-hpv-and-men.htm
    "There is no test for men to check one’s overall “HPV status.” But HPV usually goes away on its own, without causing health problems. So an HPV infection that is found today will most likely not be there a year or two from now."

  17. Re:Social conservatives amaze me... on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 2

    It does kill men. Just fewer. It can cause penile, oral and anal cancers in men.

  18. Re:How's about this... on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 1

    How would that help? Ignoring the fact that the evolutionary drive to have sex is way stronger than your discouraging 'tut tut', it'd just delay the day when they got HPV infected and started spreading cancer causing viruses.

  19. Re:Not a troll but.... on Ask Slashdot: GNU/Linux Laptops? · · Score: 1

    heh, my *BSD issues usually result in me writing patches...

  20. Re:Not a troll but.... on Ask Slashdot: GNU/Linux Laptops? · · Score: 2

    Well, before I got laid off, I had ~$6.5K/month take home. So price really wasn't an issue, but quality and lack of hassle was. Being able to walk into the nearby Apple Store and get service, not deal with Windows or picking distros/etc (I run NetBSD on my home server and do Linux & FreeBSD for work, but want my primary system to 'just work') was worth a lot to me.

  21. Re:Petabytes on a budget: 67 TB 1U Server for $8k on Entry-Level NAS Storage Servers Compared · · Score: 1

    Um, make that a 4U server, not 1U...

  22. Re:Purely out of curiosity on Apple's Siri As Revolutionary As the Mac? · · Score: 1

    An ARM processor could do voice recognition. 68K processors (or at least PowerPC) procs did it in the past.

  23. Re:That didn't take too long to fail on iOS 5 Update Available · · Score: 1

    On my Mac right now (running 10.6.8), Software Update is saying I have 3 updates. Safari 5.1.1, iTunes 10.5, and Security Update 2011-006 1.0. Of the three iTunes is the only one which does _NOT_ require a reboot.

  24. Re:umm... on iOS 5 Update Available · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wish you damn whippersnappers would stop using WP7 for Windows Phone 7... I keep having to wonder what the hell Word Perfect has to do with a discussion on cell phones...

  25. Not so simple... on iOS 5 Update Available · · Score: 1

    Not so simple as said in the summary, it requires first updating iTunes to 10.5