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  1. positively false? on Paul Graham on Fighting Spam · · Score: 1

    I'd unsubscribe if I could get my inbox to lose weight now. What a sexy way to get university diplomas removed from naked redheads!

  2. how about an electric porsche convertible? on Alternative-Fuel Vehicle Recommendations? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This one seems to fit the bill, but it just blows away the others in the style department. Too bad that breathy carburated engine sound is replaced with, well, nothing...

    http://www.renewables.com/ElectricSpyder.htm

  3. Re:Heres a thought... on Web Designers Ignoring Standards and Support IE Only · · Score: 1

    uh, because there used to be 12 people running this website (3.5 MM hits/month) and now there are 2 of us. We hardly have time to do things ONCE.
    So, here are the few hard and fast rules:
    I STILL do all my testing on NN 4.7, because it sucks like electrolux, and craps the bed over the slightest infraction. If it works there, it works everywhere.
    Mozilla, IE, Opera...works for you, sorry if I make you download a flash plug-in. It's better than me having to implement 16 different permutations of DHTML.
    K-whatever...sorry, you people are on your own. The annoying thing is, our site USED to work fine in K-meleon and Konqueror, and at some point in the last year, they just stopped working. I know OUR core site code didn't change.
    oh yeah, and it works in lynx :)

  4. hm, my head weighs 10 pounds, my hand: less than 2 on Review of Hands Free Mouse · · Score: 1

    ...and this is supposed to save work?

  5. visorphone has most of these features, for "free" on The Handspring Treo In Real Life · · Score: 2, Informative

    >>For the past year, I have searched for a single device that could replace my cellular telephone, PDA, and pager

    I've had a visorphone for over a year now, and it satisfies all of the above criteria, except for the pager. Though you can run sms, yahoo im, and though I've never tried it, you could probably run finger while telnetting. A little bulky, but not much more than a visor with a box of matches stuck to it. Besides you can get a cheap visor for $99 and the phone for "free" with contract. (As opposed to $450 for a treo). Plus you can plug in other modules when not in use as a phone.

    Web access is about as satisfying as eating soup with a screwdriver, but in an emergency, it works.

  6. Re:Read the article! It's for customers on DoubleClick Gets Into Spam · · Score: 1

    I might be inclined to agree with you, except that I recieved a dartmail message this morning, asking me to vote on my favorite model for their new cologne...this is not something I ever signed up for. If it's coming from amazon, you can be damn sure that Amazon will sign their name to it...

  7. would you die for encrypted email? on Civil Liberties And The New Reality · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget that in world war II, the government /asked/ us not to travel and to ease up on certain kinds of foods to save resources for the troops. We also suspended production of automobiles, among other things. No one is proud of what happened to Japanese and German-Americans, but please, I'm talking about something completely different: let's not forget that war is all about sacrifices, and I think trading a little privacy for safety is a perfectly fair tradeoff.

    I'm sick of that bullshit 'if we change our way of life then the terrorists have won' bullshit too. Newsflash people: it's all changed, you'll never sprint through an airport 8 minutes before takeoff.

    Thank god the crybabies who consistently misquote Jefferson and Franklin's thoughts on liberty and safety didn't have pseudo-intellectual message boards back in WWII...you think Franklin and Jefferson foresaw this?...Quit quoting them. I repeat, it's all changed.

    I personally don't think the government has the resources to really 'profile' each of us based on an analysis of our emails and communications, not to the extent that say, a corporation does. Sure, they'll flag our files if we quote the Koran and talk shit in chat rooms, but really, that's just going to catch the sloppy terrorists...and so what if they do keep files on us? We enjoy more freedom and liberties than practically anyone on the planet, and we're worried that this is a prelude to McCarthyism? Please. Go visit any other country in the world and let me know if they have a better plan.

    A family friend (in his 50's) lives in Norway and he is a reservist who happened to be trained in Planning and Management in case of a national emergency (the reasoning is that he's too old to actually fight). He's been called up! A wealthy successful man with kids, and he doesn't mind a bit doing this to protect his way of life...yet here we all are, debating as to whether or not every human has an inalienable right to hushmail.

  8. eweek recently put php on top on The Fastest Web Language On The 'Net? · · Score: 2

    In the last 6 months or so, eweek had a shootout between scripting languages...php spit out 61 pages per second, i believe, putting it on top in the speed category, above asp and jsp. can't seem to find the article on their site tho...