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  1. Re:Ok... on Google to Distribute Image Ads, Plans Email List Service · · Score: 1

    That's a good tip, although I don't think the girlfriend would be impressed by it.

  2. Re:Ok... on Google to Distribute Image Ads, Plans Email List Service · · Score: 1

    In Mozilla I right click on an ad and select "Block Images from this Server" ... works great except for flash based ads.

  3. Re:Great... on The Security Risk of Keyboard Clicks · · Score: 2, Funny
    12345? That's the combination on my luggage!

    Ah Spaceballs, what would we do without you?

  4. Whoa flashback! on E3 - Sony Drops PS2 To $149, Shows PSP, Hints At PS3 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Am I the only one who thought this looks just like the Atari Lynx?

    Oh how I miss my Lynx.

  5. Re:Really Good News on DOOM III This Summer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My Unreal Tournament 2004 came with the Linux client. Didn't yours?

  6. Re:It has revolutionized landscaping on Refresh your Memory: Advanced Graphics Algorithms · · Score: 1

    A reference to Serious Sam?

  7. Re:What if you have to buy Windows anyway? on Ask About Running Windows Software in Linux · · Score: 1

    The only value I can see would be if there were no linux solution, and you didn't want to dual boot or couldn't VNC into a remote box (hardware cost could also be factor).

    That leaves a pretty small market, but I'm sure it exists and I don't doubt that there are some in that market which appreciate it.

  8. Re:god google on Putting Google to the Test · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google knows nothing, except where words are placed.

    Wrong! Google knows more than you think.

    For those too lazy to follow the link, type something like 4*5 in google and it will give you the result, or type 100 miles and it will show you how many kilometres that is.

  9. Re:I'm confused on Projected 'Average' Longhorn System Is A Whopper · · Score: 1

    Two to three words: High-definition pr0n

  10. Re:How often do you look at you keyboard? on Flexiglow Illuminated Keyboard · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... as opposed to a flashlight where I have to hold it in my teeth like a metal dildo...

    Where I come from a) flashlights don't vibrate b) dildos don't go in the mouth.

    Sorry, couldn't resist replying to a post like that ;-)

  11. Re:As friggin awsome as it is... on The Politics of the Video Game · · Score: 1

    the Army has been using video games as training utilities for possibly 10 years

    Ten years? Try twenty-four years.

  12. Take that GW Bush on New Science Museum - Now With Real Science! · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please tell me there's an exhibit on evolution.

  13. Re:Hmmm... on First Ten Programs on New Install? · · Score: 1

    You can trim two items off your list by using Trillian.

  14. Re:Already available on Listen to Internet Radio over Wifi · · Score: 1

    Yup. And I believe the latest version of the GLOO software on it lets you read http:// from M3U files so that you can stream internet radio.

  15. Re:Informative? on A New Ice Age? · · Score: 1

    Un partie majeur du changement de climat est la quantite de CO2 dans l'atmosphere (CO2 carbon dioxide est le gas principale de l'effet maison-vert). En calculant comment les niveaux de CO2 peuvent changer, un facteur majeur est l'echange entre CO2 et l'eau par dessus nos oceans; ceci est la parametre cle de tous les models compliquee ...oh bother, just run it through Babelfish yourself.

  16. Re:how private? on VIA Releases Source To Custom WASTE Client · · Score: 4, Informative

    I can't vouche for Padlock, but I've used WASTE and yes, you need a key, and I believe all transmissions are encrypted. Pretty nice really, has an IRC like client and several other little features. I've tried to convince my friends to stop using my ftp and use WASTE instead (its ideal for groups of 50 people) but they've been slow to follow suite. Maybe I can convince them with this software instead.

  17. Re:Do this survey, help SCO's lawyers on Code Copying Survey for Developers · · Score: 1

    Only way to keep SCO lawyers away from you is keep your code private like M$

    Wrong! Do you think IBM's AIX code is open? No, but they got dinged by SCO.

    So much for your theory.

  18. Re:Orleans on Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest · · Score: 1

    I might be wrong, but you should have taken the 401 past Kingston before heading to Ottawa. The Trans-Canada, which I'm guessing you took, is great for gawking at the country side, but won't get you anywhere fast.

  19. Re:Launching from Saskatchewan? on Canadian X-Prize Entry Gearing Up · · Score: 1

    My guess is that since they are only trying to acheive sub-orbital flight, that it doesn't factor into it as much. Burning fuel isn't as much of a concern because there is no need to achieve excape velocity.

  20. Re:How can they do this? on Privacy Complaint Against Google's GMail Service · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Beta tests technical issue not privacy issue.

    That's a narrow view of things. Beta tests are for ANY issues that arrise, whether they be usability or functionality. The likeliness for usability changes to occure as a result of beta testing are much lower than in alpha testing, but they are by no means excluded (they just piss of the developers more).

    And the issue of privacy is certainly a usability issue.

  21. Re:Er... on WinAmp Security Hole Discovered, Patched · · Score: 2, Funny

    I doesn't matter if its the browser being used. But to answer your question , I never used the browser until they started adding streaming video to their library...now 'certain' channels bring up the browser every 60 seconds or so. But I can usually put up with it for the 5-6 minutes that I need.

  22. Re:Whizbang! on Magazine Eyeballs Its Subscribers · · Score: 1

    You sir are a troll. Its the not the execution so much as the idea that was funny. And besides, never heard of a skylight before?

  23. In Communist Russia... on Magazine Eyeballs Its Subscribers · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...magazine reads you!

  24. Re:Hands down. on The Worst Development Job You've Ever Had? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's a really tough way to learn "Never ask before installing software you need."

    I can't stress how much what you said is one of the most important pieces of advice to be given in my life.

    When I was doing a leadership course in the military someone asked if it was okay to do something a certain way, our platoon commander said no, you can't.

    He then explained that in the future, that whenever we came to a decision where we had doubts whether we'd be 'allowed' to accomplish a task a certain way, but knew that if the answer was "no" that it would be a hell of a lot harder to complete the task, then the best solution was to do it anyway, the worst that happens (within reason) is that they say you can't do it again. But if any benefit is gained, then you have just taken the initiative, and benefited from it.

    Seriously, it changed the way I applied myself, and has paid off quite well.

  25. Re:Not to mention on Mars Terraforming Debate · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not to mention [a]ny life we haven't found *yet*.

    I may be "jumping to conclusions" on this one, but do you possibly thing that's what she meant by 'We simply cannot risk starting a global experiment that would wipe out the precious sensitive evidence we are seeking'

    Not only was that in the article, it was in the freakin' post. Anyone who modded you insightful should have the backs of their hands tapped hard with a spoon.