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  1. Re:Keep spreading lies on Downadup Worm — When Will the Next Shoe Drop? · · Score: 1
    > Very simple and bypasses popup blockers (at least the ones I have on).

    use noscript plugin with firefox.

  2. Tabbing, grouping? Gmail is broken... on Users Being Migrated To New Version of Hotmail · · Score: 1

    We've had multi-level threads, in elm and mutt for decades now. Gmail gives you one thread per conversation but not real threads -- mutt for instance gives you as many threads as there really are, ie two replies to mail #1, each spawns a new thread both linked to the first one. Just like outlook. Even IMDB or slashdot discussion boards ahve better threading than gmail threads. Also with gmail how do I get to a non-threaded mode? For all my mail? Or use threading by reply-to rather than by subject so that when someone changes the subject it doesn't start a new thread? For a long time user of mutt, gmail is pretty much unusable. yahoo and hotmail and the rest are just abominations in terms of UI.

  3. Re:Seen it! on Wal-Mart's Data Obsession · · Score: 2, Funny

    > According to Google:
    > 1 year = 52.177457 weeks

    You need google to say that?

  4. It is bogus Re:Votes by IQ on 3D Election Results Map by County · · Score: 1

    That election breakdown is bogus. When the IQ of a _diverse_ population (for eg, a state) averages significantly far from 100, in this case from 85 to 115, alarm bells should ring.

    A simple google search reveals that this stuff was first posted after Bush/Gore and is modified for Bush/Kerry : "The person responsible for the hoax appears to be a guy named Robert Calvert who posted the data to a Mensa newsgroup back in 2002. Presumably he did make the data up."

    And this: http://www.sq.4mg.com/stateIQ-income.htm has more realistic IQ figures (and 2003 salaries), ranging between a more believable 94 and 104.

  5. Re:I was modded down as troll for saying this on 3D Election Results Map by County · · Score: 1

    That election breakdown is bogus. When the IQ of a _diverse_ population (for eg, a state) averages significantly far from 100, in this case from 85 to 115, alarm bells should ring. A simple google search reveals that this stuff was first posted after Bush/Gore and is modified for Bush/Kerry : "The person responsible for the hoax appears to be a guy named Robert Calvert who posted the data to a Mensa newsgroup back in 2002. Presumably he did make the data up." And this: http://www.sq.4mg.com/stateIQ-income.htm has more realistic IQ figures (and 2003 salaries), ranging between a more believable 94 and 104. -- One should always keep an open mind, but not so open that one's brains fall out. --Bertrand Russell

  6. punctuation on What Makes a Good Web Design? · · Score: 1
    capital letters are more difficult to read than lowercase, use them sparingly

    However, putting everything in lower case is a BAD idea. There is a reason why punctuation exists...

  7. Re:Not nominations, but one OS to rule them all on 13 Nominations to Rule Them All · · Score: 1
    >> - This CD, - I stammered, - How, how on earth did it come to me?

    Oh that's simple, the good wizards at AOL had to hide it at the end of the anti-trust war and fearing what it would do to them, they mixed it with their millions of 1000 Free Hours Version 7.0 disks which no-one should have opened anyway..

  8. Re:New kernel? Time to whore. on Kernel 2.5.3 Released · · Score: 1

    > Did I miss anything? Umm.. How about : Dumb list summarising all possible respon.. Oh wait, forget it..

  9. Re:another tactic? on Lawsuits Against Spammers · · Score: 3, Funny

    >We could add something like (not real numbers):
    >>>> MAIL From: 250 ... Sender untrusted, please
    >give prime factor of 34576184516935692342934759132
    >to continue

    >Personally, I do not know the feasibility of this
    >angle, although I am sure some expert with be
    >willing to point out the flaws.

    Flaws like the fact that 2 suffices in the example? Too good to pass up :)