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  1. Re:Use Humor on How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages? · · Score: 1

    Great story, thoroughly enjoyed that one! Let's see what's next.

  2. Re:I say everyone on Chilean Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day · · Score: 1

    The Fast-food culture in US blows their bodies up, the square-cube law even applies, ie 'mass is increased by the cube of the multiplier'. It's like sumo wrestlers times a thousand! US will rip mother earth a new one if they jumped all at once! Don't do it!

  3. Re:Wait ... you mean ... on Advanced Social Skills For Humanoid Robots · · Score: 1

    You posting as AC proves that they already have better social skills than you.

  4. Re:bleach is great but focus on antibiotics on Spray-On Liquid Glass · · Score: 1

    You can drink it when highly diluted as a water purifier.

    At a dilution of 8 drops of bleach to 3.8 liters (1 gallon) of water, that ratio should give you some idea of how 'harmless' it is, for us organics at least. -- http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw000/faq/emerg.html

  5. If a self-aware AI thought hard enough on Can Curiosity Be Programmed? · · Score: 1

    'Curiosity is the desire to create or discover more non-random, non-arbitrary, regular data that is novel and surprising...'

    ... and that curiosity overlapped, like so many ill and broken human brains, into the realm of murder... Skynet!

  6. Re:I might look into this on Interview With the Founder of a Video Game Rehab Clinic · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... And if they offer their course online?

  7. Re:This wouldn't be a problem except... on Designing the Computer UIs In Movies · · Score: 1

    MY screens looks like those in the movies, folding proteins and analyzing DNA is pleasurable daily fun... I run Linux by the way.

  8. Re:No more working for the man on IT Job Satisfaction Plummets To All-Time Low · · Score: 1

    True! Well I sure feel the vampire fangs of 'management' draining any love I had for IT. The only hope I have left is using my skills in an Indie gaming company :)

  9. Re:Good on Shuttleworth To Step Down As Canonical CEO In 2010 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Remember, Mark injected the 'usability' factor while the development community kept focus on technical issues. You can't scapegoat a prominent individual in a community project, because it's everyone involved that counts, even if they don't have a face on a blog somewhere.

    Take for example the various Karmic regressions that left many users upset...
    Me: "Sadly proprietary drivers make it hard for developers to create solid GNU/Linux drivers. Did you test your hardware on the beta? User feedback helps squashing bugs, before the final release."
    User: "Um... No, why should I? It should just work."

    That's not Mark's fault, or lack of decision on his part, but a real-world technical problem FOSS faces in the fight against, well, Free Open Source Software.

    That will only happen when we shift from "Who's fault is it" to "What can I do to help?".

  10. That was really Rong of her to do that! on Subverting Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    No seriously this is no raughing matter ^.^

  11. Re:That's gotta hurt... on Subverting Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    For sure, but that's why the piercing feels so good.

  12. Re:Nobody gives a shit about you on Augmented Reality and Privacy · · Score: 1

    Well said Sir. Also to those who "never really cared about online privacy", expect bad things to come your way (read: FB Fails)

  13. I prefer legal torrents anyway. on Mininova Removes All Copyright-Infringing Torrents · · Score: 1

    GPL (and all related FOSS licenses) is the best shit in the world. For everything else I'll pay the artist their dues. Simple. Don't be a Cheap-skate.

  14. Re:Definitely questions for... on Australian Govt. Proposes Internet "Panic Button" For Kids · · Score: 1

    I like those options. Plus its not like life had a panic button before the net existed!

  15. It's distributed intertube computing on Astronomers Invent "Galaxy Game" · · Score: 1

    They get the young ones interested in exploring the universe (I'd loved this 10 years ago!), a lil better than being productive on joecartoon. Those gerbils are too damn cute though...

  16. Re:Is that supposed to be news?? on New Attack Fells Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    Especially national banks, approving new major versions is a painful process, talking from experience. better them than me. So much for their secure delayed upgrade security model.

  17. Re:Opera Password Manager on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    The FF master password encrypts your saved passwords using 3DES. But make sure you use a strong master, try crack your own to see how secure it is.

  18. Re:FORMULA! Aren't we supposed to be geeks? on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    The formula method works great for me too.

    For system logins I use a non-formulated password though, in those cases a memorized pass-phrase combined with mnemonics to switch alphas with numerics.

    To ensure I don't forget my new pass-phrase after a change, I write down a single word as a reminder.

  19. Re:Simple on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    To match minimum requirements, you need upper and lower case characters. Use Password1234.

  20. Re:Professionalism on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    Commercial projects *are* maintained more professionally, since they have the dollars to throw at testers. For gawd's sake man, Microsoft even bought Steven Spielberg for their XBox Project Natal promo.

  21. Re:indeed on Some Early Adopters Stung By Ubuntu's Karmic Koala · · Score: 1

    I love new releases, but restrict them to test rigs or virtual machines; this goes for other OS's too.

  22. What if... on D&D On Google Wave · · Score: 1

    Tarantino used Wave to collaborate in writing Pulp Fiction?

  23. Who's with me? on D&D On Google Wave · · Score: 1

    We don't care if it's reworking old technologies, we have to evolve with the technology! And Google seems to love taking up that role, great job and welcome to the future!

  24. Second Birthday? I'm not complaining! on The Internet Turns 40, For a Second Time · · Score: 1

    Any reason to have more cake, is a good reason!

  25. Re:For a second time? on The Internet Turns 40, For a Second Time · · Score: 1

    Math Fail!