Tamas was joking: not to connect Vdd pins to ground. But for your smiley I
supose you are also joking.

Anyway, it is always better to use protecting resistors connected in serial
to all unused pins.

2009/9/15 Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com>

> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Olin Lathrop <olin_piclist@embedinc.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Just don't ever tied unused Vdd pins to ground ;-)
> >
>
> LOL! What's wrong with that? :-)
>
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