User: mindsweeper

The real objective - obsfuscate market share #s

On: Microsoft Sends Broken Stylesheets to Opera

I believe that Microsoft's true objective here is to make Opera users set their browser to identify as MSIE.

That way, Microsoft can make people believe that Opera has a lower market share than is really the case.

Lynx must give a great user experience!!!

On: MSN Blocks Mozilla, Other Browsers [updated]

Mozilla is still blocked from Amazon.com, but I can lynx it no problem. Hence they are finally agreeing that lynx gives an awesome user experience.

Re:DUH

On: Security - Logitech Wireless Mice & Keyboards Can Be Sniffed

> I had someone run my card to the limit, and the company just charged me my insurance co-pay. Bango, no problem.

If someone uses your debit card like that, you don't get a single cent back. Just a warning.

--M

Whetstone bars don't make sense

On: More Juicy Dual-Processor Goodness

If you look at the Dual T-bird Whetstone score, it is 85% higher than the Dual PIII score. The ratio of the bars, however, looks to be roughly 3:2.

The Dhrystone score is 58% higher vs. the PII, which is not such an amazing feat considering the clockspeed is 53% higher. --M

They may have the patents, but only in the US...

On: Altavista's Planned Patent Lawsuits

AFAIK, software cannot be patented in Europe. You can copyright code, but not patent the resulting program. The international nature of the internet thus limits the importance of these patents, since the spiders and search engines can be hooked up to the web anywhere in the world.

Re:We have enough foreigners as it is

On: Work Options In The U.S. When Student Visas Expire?

Plus they do not want to integrate into American culture...

Tells you something about American culture, now, doesn't it?

Darwinian rhapsody

On: Techies Rampant on Drugs

If we made drug use mandatory in public schools, we would a few generations from now have a society of people who could deal with drugs. Overdoses are sad, because the victims probably never had access to reliable information about the drugs they were using. Then again, techies shouldn't have any problems finding information...

COMPUTERS SHOULD BE BANNED!

On: Universities Refuse To Ban Napster

Computers allow any monkey to illegally copy and distribute intellectual property. It follows that when a university its students free access to any computer cluster or lab, it is encouraging unlawful activities.

I propose a strict ban on publicly available computer equipment at university and college campuses! Hopefully, the recording industry will soon get what they deserve.