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  1. I Have Seen Smart Tags! on "Smart Tags," Round Two · · Score: 1

    I am an unemployed dot.commie, and a few weeks ago I answered an ad for a one day gig testing software for browsers. It turned out to be a form of smart tag. In this case, I think it was not what MS may be up to: they looked like they worked for advertisers.

    In any case, what was added was squiggly, colored lines beneath keywords tht related to the advertisers' interests. If you right-clicked the special mark, it offered to take you to a site of the advertiser. They were annoying, for sure. But they were ignorable, also for sure.

  2. Re:Tora! Tora! Tora! on Review: Pearl Harbor · · Score: 1

    It *was* good. I also liked Midway,
    nd for the Doolittle thing, it's been done, a real oldie
    Thirty SecondsOver Tokyo, Van Johnson and June Allyson. I do love old b&w war movies
    and they are hard to find in video stores, if they are on video at all.
    and they can be accurate too

    as an early teen i lived on an air force base in the mid-fifties, and saw an airborne division do an invasion on manouvers.

    look just like the movies, as did the old buildings on the base

    bob

  3. Re:There is no right answer on Techies Saying No To College · · Score: 1

    I have long thought that it might be a good idea to train a person just out of hs to do a job, with the promise of a good education later in life, like around the midlife bump. I think I was too callow at 18 to appreciate Oedipus Rex.