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I have the 'address bar' as part of my taskbar. In there, you can type './' and Windows will open C:\Documents and Settings\[user]. It's a shame it doesn't work from Start Run or from a Windows Explorer address bar, but the address bar on my taskbar is usually where I start when I want to browse the web or the local filesystem.

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Though I agree with you, I personally feel that the birth of theism is based on an innate human trait of Anthropomorphism.

I'd suggest that this goes hand-in-hand with the development of the Human brain (and ego). Trying to understand the world based on understanding ourselves (we do this because we have that in mind as a goal).

A lot of people do this without thinking - talking to things as if they were human ("Come on, car, please start!") or inferring human traits ("This computer hates me!"), although amusing, seems a very natural thing to do.

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Actually, no. I was wondering what on earth Google and Novell had to do with Aids growth...

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

It's a track from his Scary Monsters album, not a line of DVD's promising 'barely legal' actresses!

Shame...

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Do monkeys with brain pattern X always choose apple juice? But monkeys with brain pattern Y always choose grape juice? And monkeys with brain pattern Z always choose orange juice?

Eh, not quite. Perhaps in a theoretical situation where the entire environment is identical, then yes, I (personally) would think that the same choice would be made. But consider what the brain computes upon - results of past 'choices' surely must be a huge key to future decisions.

I'd think indirectly-linked past experiences have a strong bearing on future decisions if outcomes are more random (which may explain picking ponies over blackjack). If somebody grew up around horses, they may feel more comfortable in computing odds or recognising key traits that help them to pick a likely winner (and tweak future decisions based on the results).

I'm far from an expert, but cognitive science appeals to me because a great deal of it makes perfect sense, especially in this context.

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

No, you're right. Only Opera scales images and CSS as standard. I prefer using the CTRL+Mousewheel shortcut to do the same thing.

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

As usual, the specs are misleading (but everybody should expect that anyway - it's nothing new, certainly not for hard drive manufacturers).

From the Spec Sheet:
"One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity."

That said, I'm a Seagate fan when it comes to hard drives. Lovely and quiet, and I've never had one fail yet (touch wood).

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

I wouldn't have thought it would even be that complicated. Just run a series of projectiles being fired from the same location, along the same trajectory, targeted at the same point on the vehicle.

The front 4 or 5 projectiles (depending on the rate of recognition and firing rate from the tank) would be decoys, and the last in the series would be a nice, heavy shell (or whatever). Each decoy would get closer and closer because the system wouldn't see the next projectile until after it had destroyed the preceeding one.

Finally, the defense system doesn't have enough time to respond to the real attack.

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Mind you, an (unskilled) opponent with a tool or weapon tends to rely on it - giving them a mindset of having only one attack, whereas a skilled, 'unarmed' opponent has 9 or more... :)

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Perhaps. But with regards to Usenet, that's exactly what X-No-Archive is for.

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Ah, you forgot Sperm Donor! Quite possibly the easiest (and cheapest) way to pad out the gene pool :)

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

It's not supposed to have a scrollbar at all. The parent div (or html or body - I haven't checked the source for a while) is given a property of overflow: hidden.

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Yep, and it's much nicer to use. Live.com seems to flicker a bit with all those CSS :hover styles.

Oh, and http://www.google.com/ig works in Opera :) Now, if only they'd fix Gmail...

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Oh, I don't know. Some people's lives are just fun to read about.

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Perhaps, but it's hardly likely to retain any great amount of liquid after a fall. If that were the case, we'd all be using plastic cups with heavy bases.

The point was, the mug was still functional after the fall. You could go and make another coffee. Just be more careful this time... :)

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

I... uh... that is... uhm...

Jesus Christ :(

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Although I enjoyed The Office, it never raised much more than an idle chuckle. His two stand-up videos (Animals and Politics), on the other hand, truly are brilliantly funny, and are amongst the funniest things I have ever seen.

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

The worst of it is that security is non-existent. They use the old '?page=page1' in the url to switch content.

Oh and if I see one more person use PHP native sessions I am going to kill that motherfucker.

Do you have any examples of the alternatives? On the whole these methods seem very straightforward (and I use the first method myself) but I'd very much like to learn alternate, more secure ways of doing this kind of thing, especially as they are the most common ways to access and deliver content.

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Hang on... are you suggesting that it's the germs' influence that causes the sneeze?

I'm pretty sure that by the time you're sneezing and coughing and your nose is running, the cold has pretty much run its course. These actions are just your body's way of getting the junk out after it's dealt with it.

Whilst sneezing is beneficial to the germ, I find it difficult to believe that it was the germ's influence.

I may be wrong, of course. It's early and I'm hungover.

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Hey, I can't run HL2 with 4xAA on SLI 6600GTs, even though they're overclocked.

Well, not without it looking like a slideshow, anyway.

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onedotzero
the.digital.feed

True, but how many companies can afford these experts? Assuming they charge (partly) by time spent on trying to crack a site, presumably not many small to medium-sized companies will pay for a full range of techniques.

In which case, an updateable boxed package may be something they would find value in. If they pass that and still get cracked, then perhaps it would be time to call in the big boys.

Presumably this kind of tool is also part of the toolset of security experts? I don't know, but it seems like it would be a logical starting point.

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Wow, and full speed transfer, too! I've never downloaded from a single source at over 500KBps before :D

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onedotzero
the.digital.feed

...which reminded me of this image, just posted over at B3ta...

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Exactly right. Most common colds are transmitted via door handles and telephones.

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Whereas I recommend Opera to everybody :)

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

I could think of other visuals for these screens.

Might make extra work for the cleaners, though...

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onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk

Well, apart from using a custom hosts file, you can write extensions in Opera. Just tell it to load up user javascript. There are plenty of scripts at UserJS and, while it doesn't have the huge following that FF Extensions have, there is a script that'll block Embeds, Objects and Iframes (which I use).

onedotzero
thedigitalfeed.co.uk