It's happened to me a few times but never hurt my karma.

From the Illinois Times:

Flip a coin and pick a side. Repeat 50 times. Chances are, youâ(TM)ll guess the coin toss more often than drug-sniffing police dogs in Springfield found contraband during traffic stops in 2012.
        Traffic stop data reported by the Springfield Police Department shows the police found contraband in 25 percent of searches prompted by a drug dogâ(TM)s alert. By comparison, guessing a coin toss has a theoretical 50 percent chance of being correct. Despite a 2011 state law that mandated training for drug-sniffing police dogs, Springfieldâ(TM)s canines continue to come up empty in most searches. One Springfield defense attorney believes the dogs represent an erosion of freedom, but the police who work with the dogs say the numbers donâ(TM)t tell the whole story.
        According to data collected from the Springfield Police Department by the Illinois Department of Transportation, Springfield police searched 51 vehicles following alerts from drug-sniffing dogs in 2012. The officers found contraband in only 13 of those searches, a hit rate of just 25 percent. Before 2012, state law didnâ(TM)t mandate IDOT to collect statistics on drug-sniff searches from police agencies, so data from prior years may be inconsistent and may not contain every use of drug-sniffing dogs in traffic stops. Still, the searches that were reported by the Springfield Police Department for past years show the hit rate has never reached 40 percent, and is often much lower.

But these guys missed it.

Unfortunately, it seems to be down right now. Neil told me last night that the internet was messed up all over England. It seems to be a world-wide thing, since some Canadian sites were down yesterday as well.
                I suspect it's Yello's Granny's fault- I think she got him the wrong tube for that starvatron and it's overloading the CIA's big pukatron machine over here in the U.S. 1/29/1999

What you guys are missing is that you're decoding the words on the screen right now. Reading just doesn't feel like decoding, especially if you're any good at it at all.

My daughter is like that with sheet music. Give her a clarinet and sheet music for a song she never heard and she'll just play it. I decode musical notation like a five year old decodes Dr. Suess, she reads music like I read books.

I use to write software, first as a hobby and later compiled PC databases and NOMAD mainframe coding at work (actually, they gave me training then changed my job, I never wrote any production NOMAD). Now I write books in my spare time (which I'll have more of as I'm retiring soon). Even though dBase and NOMAD are very, very similar in the way they operate (think C and C+), I don't think I read NOMAD code like I did dBase or assembly or BASIC, because reading is different than writing.

I keep thinking of the Matrix programmers. "I only see blondes, brunettes, redheads..."

D - its irrelevant because we should learn to adapt and get over ourselves.

It isn't us that is going extinct in our present day extinction level event. We'll live, just not as well. Elephants and blue whales are nearly extinct now; elephants are the biggest animals walking, and blue whales are the biggest animals this planet has ever seen. We've destroyed the elephants' habitats and hunted the blues to their embarrassingly low numbers.

Not since the anaerobic bacteria killed themselves by poisoning the atmosphere with oxygen has any species had a bigger impact on the Earth than modern man.

Rather than "getting over ourselves" we need to start acting like responsible adults rather selfish children.

I wish I'd run across this comment metamoderating, because that moderation is wrong. By no definition of the word is that comment a troll, it's a polite, reasoned opinion.

QWERTYdid not prevent jamming by making people type slower.

I never said it did. QWERTY wasn't designed with speed in mind, it was designed, as you said, to minimize jamming. Dvorak was designed for speed.

I just learned something, thank you!

I've been writing books on this notebook for years. Damned near impossible to touch type on it, I wind up hitting the wrong keys.

I don't use it, but a lot of people do. The windows key works in KDE the same way it does in Windows (or did before 8).

A full suite of programming languages? Kids today are spoiled, what's wrong with assembly? I mean, besides the fact that 8086 assembly is a pain in the ass compared to a Z-80 or 6802?

I like my ten year old Logitech cordless. The key layout is standard but there are extra buttons for media player controls, a scroll wheel, home, back, email keys, etc. It actually was innovative.

When it was new the extra buttons only worked with Windows but apparently someone has made it work in KDE because they've worked on my Linux box for a few years now.

Very few IT departments will let users install anything on "their" computers, which makes sense because otherwise you're going to have security problems.

It isn't my computer at work, it's my employer's. He pays me to use it.

That's something I've wondered about for a long time. Why doesn't alt+n type a chr 164 in a word processor, and shift+alt+n make a chr 165? Straightforward logic, yet the logic is ignored.