So does the "Eating too quickly" reminder. That one is called "choking on your food"

These "solutions" all seem to be moving away from the idea of being aware of yourself. A cheaper, and more beneficial solution would due to take up a program of meditation.

If you don't understand that 3, 4 or 5 is the right passing score then you should have studied harder *+&

* For the humor impaired, please try and find the joke in there before you mod me down.
+ For the math impaired - yes there is a joke in there
& For the humor AND math impaired, what the hell are you on /. for?

Pilot: US Government Claims Of Plane Wi-Fi Hacking Wrong And Irresponsible

You missed the third and most important reason in TFA

Early on I saw a guy with a cast on his leg using one at an airport, and thought it was a great use.

Now days all I see them used for are segway based city tours or "try a segway" sideshow events at the local state fair.

You can't control what other people say or do. But you can control how you react to it.

And labeling people who disagree with you as "hammerheads" is not a good reaction.

Those "Yammerheads" are your revenue source.

Is there any other language that has something comparable to LINQ?

There was a case in Australia* with an a gaming machine based on a horse race scenario. Someone started winning big on it, and when the investigation was done it was discovered that when the game was not actively being played, it displayed a "demonstration" game .. that turned out to be the next real game that would be played (or some such). So all you had to do was to wait until the demo came on, then then when it finished, bet on the horse that one the demo.

A perfect example of stupidity in the place of malice. So while your reasoning is potentially valid (and with a nod to Dennis Ritchie and his paper on trusting compilers), there is a broader set of reasoning to be against electronic gaming.

* Writing from memory because I can't be bothered hitting google.

Did you ever use OS-9 from Microware? (not to be confused with OS 9 from Apple)

Back in the day I ran OS-9 on a Tandy Co-Co and had a fully multi-user, pre-emptive multitasking system* running on a 6809E, 8 bit, sub 2MHz CPU. Later on I worked with a variety of industrial computers running OS-9 on 68K based systems and they worked just fine.

* I will give you that I only ever fired up the graphical desktop all of once just to see if it worked. After that I stayed in the command line.

Yes, I've hurd that before.

In both of the last elections there were a bunch of high profile people who claimed they would leave the US if Obama was (re-)elected. But when push came to shove they stayed in the US.

I'm betting that people like you will be making the same vociferous claims, and like those other people will stay in the country regardless of who wins the election. Lets face it, if you were so dis-enamored with the country that you are going to leave, then basing your decision to stay or go on something that only comes around once every 4 years is basically a crock of shit. If you are going, then you are already gone.

Of course it is, even slashdot doesn't want Beta now!

How do you know that the two "men" weren't really two transgendered women, who haven't yet requested various departments (DMV etc) to change to their gender, so officially are still female?

But those 3 extra words take up space on the newspaper page that could have been used for something else (advertising?). Yeah I know I read this off a web-page, but the editors of said page would have been educated old skool and are happy to cut out superfluous words.

I only get that effect when I shake my head from side to side as I read the sentence.