Didn't work for me. I had no particular dramas at all, until we got a new batch of the smaller style hp/microsoft branded logitech mice, and I started having problems with aching across my knuckles the result of my hand trying to curl itself up to grip the narrow mouse.
I started using the 3M renaissance mice then. ball ones back then, optical now.. I have the 3m mouse at home and at work, and never another problem with hand pain from mousing.
The hand position that the 3m mouse requires means that you control it with your arm, not your wrist, and so there's quite a learning curve in getting accuracy up to a point where it's comfortable (a few hours at least). Some delicate work like photo retouching or cad is still pretty difficult with this style of mouse, but I keep an regular style mouse plugged in as well, and alternate between the two as required.
I say hope, because if the ministers think that stockpiling this drug will atually help in a pandemic they are more than likely mistaken
The drug companies have quite successfully pwned the tabloid newsmedia in Australia (and I suspect in plenty of other places on the planet) to the extent that every time they feel the need for an injection of cash, they prime the tabloids (newspapers, today tonight, current affair, sixty minutes and all of the similarly unreliable sources) with rumours of an outbreak of something-or-other, then it's all hands on the cash registers as the general public launches into a flurry of panic over whatever is $biohazard of the month.
The best known of the recent efforts has been the meningitis scare here in Australia. The tabloid press/radio/tv has worked the public into a lather, and the drug companies are laughing all the way to the bank. Somehow the bit where the death rate from meningitis and related diseases is exactly the same this year as it was the year before and the year before that while (1) { and the year before that } seems to have been conveniently ignored.
The connection back to the politicians is, of course, that there's nothing a politician likes more than a plethora of panicked punters to pacify, and that's exactly what's happening right now.
What should the thinking Australian do right now? Buy pharmaceutical shares, that's what!
Does anyone recognise (by the nature of the output) what CMS system this MI6 system is using?
(I'm digging about for a CMS system that has some controls over content (approval, etc), is open source licensed, and outputs static content (ie: I don't want cgi generating every page view on the fly). This MI6/SIS site looks like it might be using something like that. Thoughts?)
Methinks this doesn't exactly count as news. Wireless telephones and wireless PC audio devices (what this product really is) have been around in assorted shapes and forms for quite a while.
A company here in Sydney, Australia is selling (to Australia and NZ only, sorry) a combination cordless telephone (ie: it works on the telephone network) and USB PC audio device with drivers that speak Skype. Apparently you choose whether you want POTS (plain old telephone system) or USB audio (and thus, I suspect, not just skype but any voip thing you want to run on your computer) from the keypad on the handset. For the same price as the Linksys one in the Slashdot story (those dollars on the Australian web site are Australian dollars), my money goes with the one that is actually a telephone!:-)
They also have the ZyXel Voice-Over-IP Wifi Phone, a device that speaks 802.11b and SIP out of the box - no proprietary Skype restrictions, it's the real deal. The Zyxel device has been around for quite a while IIRC.
Also, is there any particular reason you're using Proxomitron over Adblock?
Uhm, no partiular reason beyond (a) it's already installed (b) it's worked fine for me to date and (c) I've got my head around building filters for it.
Also, Proxomitron makes for a convenient way to switch proxies (something I do quite frequently to access work content from home, home content from work, etc, etc) without extensive menu diving within Firefox. Now, if there's a quick proxy switching plugin for Firefox, I'm sold!
I've had a quick rtfm, Adblock looks interesting, I'm gonna give it a try. Thanks. (But even if I turn off filtering in Proxomitron, I'm still using it to proxy).
Oh, and proxomitron has a 'debug' window that will pop up and display everything (ie: http + html) that flows through it in both directions - very handy when you're trying to debug some html, or write some code to steal^H^H^H^H^Hinteract with someone else's content.
The product we were interested in was the Dine Dry 450g at the bottom of that 'Menu' page. Regular dry cat food, but with lots of those little dried whole fish, or bits of shredded chicken, mixed in. All the cats in our respective families seem to love it.
My cats have also tried the Dine canned and Dine tray wet food. It's OK, they like it, but they much prefer the Nestle/Purina Fancy Feast Royale tinned food - well, they would, wouldn't they, it's more expensive! (I think my current pair of cats are payback for the easy ride I had with my previous cat - he refused to eat anything but the cheap no-name branded tinned food. These two have a taste for the expensive stuff!)
I often e-mailed site owners/maintainers about this problem and was never successful to have them resolved it.
This is a little bit off-topic, but relevant insofar as getting site owners to change broken content is concerned.
A little while ago, my Mum was having trouble convincing one of our older family members to eat properly. I had recently stumbled across a new type of food in the supermarket that my cats really enjoyed, and so I thought that the old cat might enjoy it too...
So in the course of an email exchange with Mum (I'm Australian, that's how we spell 'Mom'), I figured I'd send her a link to the specific type of cat food I was suggesting...
Well, I couldn't. As it turned out, the company had a web site that was all Macromedia Flash and bells and whistles and glory, and the only way I could point my Mum at the particular product I was talking about would be to say "go to this site, now click on the 'bleh' link followed by the 'foo' link, then scroll down to 'bar'...."... Or I could just not reccomend the product.
As it happened, that was the week I was lecturing my Bachelor of Business students on making sure that money you invest in IT actually benefits the business, don't let the IT department run away with cool toys that don't deliver value to customers, etc, etc (I'm a geek, but somehow I've managed to convince someone to let me lecture business students!!!) and I so I got a bee in my bonnet about it and I emailed the cat food company...
Basically I said look, your web design company sold you on flash because it is pretty and bling bling and looks lovely, but here's a concrete example of how going with flash made your web site sufficiently unuseable that it cost you a sale. I couldn't effectively reccomend your product to my quasi-computer-literate Mum 'cos she would have issues navigating the web site, and I couldn't send her a direct link.
Lo and behold, a month later, the cat food company had a new web site, all standard html with proper workable links that change in the address bar as you work through the site, and now I can send a link to my Mum (and I have).
What's more, the web site loads faster as well!!!
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(As an interesting aside, slashdot seems to have recently updated it's code. I had to turn off all of my adblocking stuff to make the posting page appear as anything but a black background - it's been like that for about a month now (Firefox, The Proxomitron))
but you have to be slightly clever to actually develop the technology
With 'slightly' being the operative word. I've been using a
toothbrush for the past ten years or so that uses this 'technology'. Power from outside the body? woop-di-doo! Any 11 year old with an electric toothbrush and a clue could figure that out in minutes!
(Those electric toothbrushes are sealed units, they use an inductive charging system, a little coil of fine copper wire in the base of the toothbrush, another coil a few millimetres away in the charging base, and a generic rechargeable battery in the toothbrush handle. The last one I pulled apart just had a little NiCd pack in it)
Now that I think of it, I've got a panasonic electric shaver that works the same way.
Is it just me or is Neiman Marcus only famous for the cookie recipe urban myth that has been doing the rounds in various forms since the beginning of time? OK, so I'm from Sydney, Australia, but I've never heard of the company in any other context before this story.
Why should a single buggy application bring down the whole server?
Actually, my impression is that it's not SAP bringing down the server, its red hat enterprise. I had this conversation with a couple of friends yesterday (right after I submitted the same story to slashdot, bah!).
One of them runs a massive application - gigabytes of traffic served per hour at certain times of the year. She commented thus: "xxx and I NEVER had any stability issues with any of the xxx of
xxxxx servers until we moved them to Red hat Enterprise. Since then we've had two kernel panics......."
'course, what is arguably more interesting about this Crest Electronics situation is the reasons that the IT Manager cites for changing. They just seem full of holes to me. Reading between the lines, I reckon this guy came in, didn't like the Linux install, and wanted an excuse to move back to his beloved Microsoft. And who in their right minds lets any mission critical server auto-patch itself, regardless of operating system. That's just utter madness!
My other friend (yes, I have two!) put it best I think, when he said "I hope the guy got a major payout from Microsoft, because such a public display of incompetence makes him unemployable.".
It almost looks like some highschool kid didn't know his geography and just made up names to be funny...
I'm not even American, and I take grave offence at your comments. Kalpana Chawla, Rick Husband, William McCool and their colleagues were astronauts who were killed when Columbia burned and broke up on re-entry (You know, Columbia, the space shuttle).
Whilst naming after not-very-dead-yet people seems to be in conflict with international protocol, I can't think of too many more appropriate names for a group of significant landmarks. Those folks died exploring, doing *exactly* what the Mars missions are about. I'm pleased and proud to hear that significant landmarks on Mars have been named after them.
One fatal flaw in this cunning plan: Where are you gonna find a tourist to carry it out?
Rhetorical I guess, 'cos no matter what happens wherever, there's still an enormous band of "it couldn't happen go me" numbies travelling the world apparently oblivious to, well, everything (look at the huge number of Australians that still travel to Bali and greater Indonesia despit all the crap that has gone on there in the last couple of years their silly rite-of-passage thing with travelling to Bali with the football club/classmates/etc overrides basic common sense and safety. Go figure!).
I, for one, am not taking such a light view of it. It's specifically incidents like this, and the all-too-common equivalents that occur in the US, that prompt my decision not to travel to the UK or the US. Ever.
As far as I'm concerned, the United Kingdom and the United States of America are just plain dangerous, and not to be touched. Me, I'll stick to travelling around Asia and Oceania - there's lots to see here, and there's nowhere near the levels of official silliness that goes on in Europe and US.
These morons get it in their heads that "Terrorism" and "Patriot" acts are somehow helping, when in fact they're doing exactly what the terrorist groups want them to do - I'm sure it couldn't have gone closer to plan in their (terrorist mobs) wildest dreams.
So be your own mechanic! It never ceases to amaze me how gullible people are when it comes to repairs on, well, anything. Computers, washing machines, cars - they're all incredibly simple from a technical viewpoint, but the punters queue in their droves to pay other people to 'fix' them. And then they complain when they get 'ripped off'.
I'm just a regular geek, no special training or skills, and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times in my adult life (say, in the past 25 yrs) that I've paid a third party to effect repairs on a piece of equipment (car, motorcycles, computers, home appliances, plumbing, electrical wiring, buildings, etc, etc) that I own. I insist that I'm not anyone special, nor doing anything special. I'm just hopping in, figuring out how stuff should work, and making it work.
I figure, if you don't have the balls to take a screwdriver to something, you don't get to whinge and complain when someone else takes your money for fixing it for you!
It is precisely this wide definition that would provide the legal justification for the ACCC shutting down an OS that was clearly not being described properly.
That's all well and good, but you know as well as I do that the ACCC couldn't shut down a loud party in a park.
The 'ACCC', for those not ofay with the name, is the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Officially, they're the "Australian government organisation responsible for ensuring compliance with the Trade Practices Act". Practically, they're an utterly toothless tiger that, well, pretty much just lays around and does nothing really.
Under the former head, Professor Fels, the ACCC took a pretty proactive role, and bounced around banging heads (where deserved) with gusto. Nowadays, it's toothless.
Right now in Australia, for example, we're being utterly rorted by the oil companies. They've somehow managed to set up a situation where a bunch of issues (some real, some just 'excuses') are whereby the price of petrol (gas?) at the pump is skyrocketing, and the oil companies are actually turning a couple of million dollars a day, per company, extra profit. This isn't passing on of costs from higher worldwide oil prices, this is actual rorting. The whole country is screaming out for the government and the ACCC to act by way of investigation and regulation as appropriate. The ACCC is just lying there "oh, er, this really isn't something we can involve ourselves in". FFS, this is the whole reason that the ACCC exists!!!
So yeah, end rant, back on topic... the ACCC has the power to act in a situation over misuse of the Linux name as you describe, but they will not ever actually get off their arses and do something!
This is good news. Nobody can use trademark law to their advantage here in Australia.
Actually, I disagree. I think that this is a huge opening for a competent trademark lawyer to leap in and snap up the term before the (apparent) rightful owner gets its act together and submit a proper trademark application.
I wouldn't look upon this as 'good' or 'safe', I'm thinking dangerous situation.
I don't see any vitriol there. When did Slashdot become a tabloid?
Actually, that smells more like incompetent lawyer than bad government agency. The Australian trademark mob does have a bit of a reputation for being quite firm with registrations - they must be genuine and proper and not half-assed. Any trademark lawyer worth his salt here would know that, and draw up a proper application.
If my students cite Google and Wikipedia as primary sources of reference in the academic papers they submit to me, they fail, and I send them back for a re-write (at their option). Same should apply for trademark applications. What sort of half baked cowboy is this guy?
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> Hopefully someone can pick up the slack and donate to this great project.
Yeah, someone ought to do something about that
(Note to Americans with mod points: that's sarcasm, kthxs)
Didn't work for me. I had no particular dramas at all, until we got a new batch of the smaller style hp/microsoft branded logitech mice, and I started having problems with aching across my knuckles the result of my hand trying to curl itself up to grip the narrow mouse.
I started using the 3M renaissance mice then. ball ones back then, optical now.. I have the 3m mouse at home and at work, and never another problem with hand pain from mousing.
The hand position that the 3m mouse requires means that you control it with your arm, not your wrist, and so there's quite a learning curve in getting accuracy up to a point where it's comfortable (a few hours at least). Some delicate work like photo retouching or cad is still pretty difficult with this style of mouse, but I keep an regular style mouse plugged in as well, and alternate between the two as required.
*sniff *sniff* Who farted?
The drug companies have quite successfully pwned the tabloid newsmedia in Australia (and I suspect in plenty of other places on the planet) to the extent that every time they feel the need for an injection of cash, they prime the tabloids (newspapers, today tonight, current affair, sixty minutes and all of the similarly unreliable sources) with rumours of an outbreak of something-or-other, then it's all hands on the cash registers as the general public launches into a flurry of panic over whatever is $biohazard of the month.
The best known of the recent efforts has been the meningitis scare here in Australia. The tabloid press/radio/tv has worked the public into a lather, and the drug companies are laughing all the way to the bank. Somehow the bit where the death rate from meningitis and related diseases is exactly the same this year as it was the year before and the year before that while (1) { and the year before that } seems to have been conveniently ignored.
The connection back to the politicians is, of course, that there's nothing a politician likes more than a plethora of panicked punters to pacify, and that's exactly what's happening right now.
What should the thinking Australian do right now? Buy pharmaceutical shares, that's what!
(I'm digging about for a CMS system that has some controls over content (approval, etc), is open source licensed, and outputs static content (ie: I don't want cgi generating every page view on the fly). This MI6/SIS site looks like it might be using something like that. Thoughts?)
A company here in Sydney, Australia is selling (to Australia and NZ only, sorry) a combination cordless telephone (ie: it works on the telephone network) and USB PC audio device with drivers that speak Skype. Apparently you choose whether you want POTS (plain old telephone system) or USB audio (and thus, I suspect, not just skype but any voip thing you want to run on your computer) from the keypad on the handset. For the same price as the Linksys one in the Slashdot story (those dollars on the Australian web site are Australian dollars), my money goes with the one that is actually a telephone! :-)
They also have the ZyXel Voice-Over-IP Wifi Phone, a device that speaks 802.11b and SIP out of the box - no proprietary Skype restrictions, it's the real deal. The Zyxel device has been around for quite a while IIRC.
Uhm, no partiular reason beyond (a) it's already installed (b) it's worked fine for me to date and (c) I've got my head around building filters for it.
Also, Proxomitron makes for a convenient way to switch proxies (something I do quite frequently to access work content from home, home content from work, etc, etc) without extensive menu diving within Firefox. Now, if there's a quick proxy switching plugin for Firefox, I'm sold!
I've had a quick rtfm, Adblock looks interesting, I'm gonna give it a try. Thanks. (But even if I turn off filtering in Proxomitron, I'm still using it to proxy).
Oh, and proxomitron has a 'debug' window that will pop up and display everything (ie: http + html) that flows through it in both directions - very handy when you're trying to debug some html, or write some code to steal^H^H^H^H^Hinteract with someone else's content.
Yes, yes he did.
The product we were interested in was the Dine Dry 450g at the bottom of that 'Menu' page. Regular dry cat food, but with lots of those little dried whole fish, or bits of shredded chicken, mixed in. All the cats in our respective families seem to love it.
My cats have also tried the Dine canned and Dine tray wet food. It's OK, they like it, but they much prefer the Nestle/Purina Fancy Feast Royale tinned food - well, they would, wouldn't they, it's more expensive! (I think my current pair of cats are payback for the easy ride I had with my previous cat - he refused to eat anything but the cheap no-name branded tinned food. These two have a taste for the expensive stuff!)
This is a little bit off-topic, but relevant insofar as getting site owners to change broken content is concerned.
A little while ago, my Mum was having trouble convincing one of our older family members to eat properly. I had recently stumbled across a new type of food in the supermarket that my cats really enjoyed, and so I thought that the old cat might enjoy it too...
So in the course of an email exchange with Mum (I'm Australian, that's how we spell 'Mom'), I figured I'd send her a link to the specific type of cat food I was suggesting...
Well, I couldn't. As it turned out, the company had a web site that was all Macromedia Flash and bells and whistles and glory, and the only way I could point my Mum at the particular product I was talking about would be to say "go to this site, now click on the 'bleh' link followed by the 'foo' link, then scroll down to 'bar'...."... Or I could just not reccomend the product.
As it happened, that was the week I was lecturing my Bachelor of Business students on making sure that money you invest in IT actually benefits the business, don't let the IT department run away with cool toys that don't deliver value to customers, etc, etc (I'm a geek, but somehow I've managed to convince someone to let me lecture business students!!!) and I so I got a bee in my bonnet about it and I emailed the cat food company...
Basically I said look, your web design company sold you on flash because it is pretty and bling bling and looks lovely, but here's a concrete example of how going with flash made your web site sufficiently unuseable that it cost you a sale. I couldn't effectively reccomend your product to my quasi-computer-literate Mum 'cos she would have issues navigating the web site, and I couldn't send her a direct link.
Lo and behold, a month later, the cat food company had a new web site, all standard html with proper workable links that change in the address bar as you work through the site, and now I can send a link to my Mum (and I have).
What's more, the web site loads faster as well!!!
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(As an interesting aside, slashdot seems to have recently updated it's code. I had to turn off all of my adblocking stuff to make the posting page appear as anything but a black background - it's been like that for about a month now (Firefox, The Proxomitron))
With 'slightly' being the operative word. I've been using a toothbrush for the past ten years or so that uses this 'technology'. Power from outside the body? woop-di-doo! Any 11 year old with an electric toothbrush and a clue could figure that out in minutes!
(Those electric toothbrushes are sealed units, they use an inductive charging system, a little coil of fine copper wire in the base of the toothbrush, another coil a few millimetres away in the charging base, and a generic rechargeable battery in the toothbrush handle. The last one I pulled apart just had a little NiCd pack in it)
Now that I think of it, I've got a panasonic electric shaver that works the same way.
Is it just me or is Neiman Marcus only famous for the cookie recipe urban myth that has been doing the rounds in various forms since the beginning of time? OK, so I'm from Sydney, Australia, but I've never heard of the company in any other context before this story.
Actually, my impression is that it's not SAP bringing down the server, its red hat enterprise. I had this conversation with a couple of friends yesterday (right after I submitted the same story to slashdot, bah!).
One of them runs a massive application - gigabytes of traffic served per hour at certain times of the year. She commented thus: "xxx and I NEVER had any stability issues with any of the xxx of xxxxx servers until we moved them to Red hat Enterprise. Since then we've had two kernel panics......."
'course, what is arguably more interesting about this Crest Electronics situation is the reasons that the IT Manager cites for changing. They just seem full of holes to me. Reading between the lines, I reckon this guy came in, didn't like the Linux install, and wanted an excuse to move back to his beloved Microsoft. And who in their right minds lets any mission critical server auto-patch itself, regardless of operating system. That's just utter madness!
My other friend (yes, I have two!) put it best I think, when he said "I hope the guy got a major payout from Microsoft, because such a public display of incompetence makes him unemployable.".
I'm not even American, and I take grave offence at your comments. Kalpana Chawla, Rick Husband, William McCool and their colleagues were astronauts who were killed when Columbia burned and broke up on re-entry (You know, Columbia, the space shuttle).
Whilst naming after not-very-dead-yet people seems to be in conflict with international protocol, I can't think of too many more appropriate names for a group of significant landmarks. Those folks died exploring, doing *exactly* what the Mars missions are about. I'm pleased and proud to hear that significant landmarks on Mars have been named after them.
WTF is an 'abber'? I've nfi what you're on about. I'm a fifth generation Australian born Australian of English / Scottish / Welsh descent.
One fatal flaw in this cunning plan: Where are you gonna find a tourist to carry it out?
Rhetorical I guess, 'cos no matter what happens wherever, there's still an enormous band of "it couldn't happen go me" numbies travelling the world apparently oblivious to, well, everything (look at the huge number of Australians that still travel to Bali and greater Indonesia despit all the crap that has gone on there in the last couple of years their silly rite-of-passage thing with travelling to Bali with the football club/classmates/etc overrides basic common sense and safety. Go figure!).
I, for one, am not taking such a light view of it. It's specifically incidents like this, and the all-too-common equivalents that occur in the US, that prompt my decision not to travel to the UK or the US. Ever.
As far as I'm concerned, the United Kingdom and the United States of America are just plain dangerous, and not to be touched. Me, I'll stick to travelling around Asia and Oceania - there's lots to see here, and there's nowhere near the levels of official silliness that goes on in Europe and US.
These morons get it in their heads that "Terrorism" and "Patriot" acts are somehow helping, when in fact they're doing exactly what the terrorist groups want them to do - I'm sure it couldn't have gone closer to plan in their (terrorist mobs) wildest dreams.
So be your own mechanic! It never ceases to amaze me how gullible people are when it comes to repairs on, well, anything. Computers, washing machines, cars - they're all incredibly simple from a technical viewpoint, but the punters queue in their droves to pay other people to 'fix' them. And then they complain when they get 'ripped off'.
I'm just a regular geek, no special training or skills, and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times in my adult life (say, in the past 25 yrs) that I've paid a third party to effect repairs on a piece of equipment (car, motorcycles, computers, home appliances, plumbing, electrical wiring, buildings, etc, etc) that I own. I insist that I'm not anyone special, nor doing anything special. I'm just hopping in, figuring out how stuff should work, and making it work.
I figure, if you don't have the balls to take a screwdriver to something, you don't get to whinge and complain when someone else takes your money for fixing it for you!
Are you in the habit of taking your pet cat to tradeshows and product planning meetings? (I know *I* am, but this isn't about me!)
I can see just one major flaw: You didn't read TFA, so you're babbling on about something that has absolutely nothing to do with the matter at hand.
Nah, don't worry, they'll never catch on.
That's all well and good, but you know as well as I do that the ACCC couldn't shut down a loud party in a park.
The 'ACCC', for those not ofay with the name, is the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Officially, they're the "Australian government organisation responsible for ensuring compliance with the Trade Practices Act". Practically, they're an utterly toothless tiger that, well, pretty much just lays around and does nothing really.
Under the former head, Professor Fels, the ACCC took a pretty proactive role, and bounced around banging heads (where deserved) with gusto. Nowadays, it's toothless.
Right now in Australia, for example, we're being utterly rorted by the oil companies. They've somehow managed to set up a situation where a bunch of issues (some real, some just 'excuses') are whereby the price of petrol (gas?) at the pump is skyrocketing, and the oil companies are actually turning a couple of million dollars a day, per company, extra profit. This isn't passing on of costs from higher worldwide oil prices, this is actual rorting. The whole country is screaming out for the government and the ACCC to act by way of investigation and regulation as appropriate. The ACCC is just lying there "oh, er, this really isn't something we can involve ourselves in". FFS, this is the whole reason that the ACCC exists!!!
So yeah, end rant, back on topic... the ACCC has the power to act in a situation over misuse of the Linux name as you describe, but they will not ever actually get off their arses and do something!
Actually, I disagree. I think that this is a huge opening for a competent trademark lawyer to leap in and snap up the term before the (apparent) rightful owner gets its act together and submit a proper trademark application.
I wouldn't look upon this as 'good' or 'safe', I'm thinking dangerous situation.
Actually, that smells more like incompetent lawyer than bad government agency. The Australian trademark mob does have a bit of a reputation for being quite firm with registrations - they must be genuine and proper and not half-assed. Any trademark lawyer worth his salt here would know that, and draw up a proper application.
If my students cite Google and Wikipedia as primary sources of reference in the academic papers they submit to me, they fail, and I send them back for a re-write (at their option). Same should apply for trademark applications. What sort of half baked cowboy is this guy?
No, it doesn't actually. I tested it out over an extended period of time. I get more mod points if I don't metamoderate. Go figure.
Oh, and the grandparent is still a troll! :-)
... not even a very good troll.
The name/password pair I got from BugMeNot.com worked fine to get past the 'registration required' crap at washingtonpost.com.