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  1. Re:View the ads or find another webmail on Yahoo Mail Forcing Ads Through Adblock? · · Score: 1

    Everybody with Rogers already pays for access to their webmail through Yahoo. Should we all have to look at ads too?

  2. Re:Insulin Resistance on Near-Complete Cure For Diabetes In Two Years? · · Score: 1

    Until recently, neither was neurology, you know.

  3. And what about RC3 Downloads? on Firefox 2 Downloads Top 2 million in 24 Hours · · Score: 2, Interesting

    After all, I never downloaded the final release since I already had RC3 and nothing changed.

  4. Re:might wanna check your extensions first on Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early · · Score: 1

    The dev-build of TMP works fine in FF 2.0 for now. Been running it since RC1 and it has all the features it had before. It's on the author's home page.

  5. Re:Publicity stunt on Canadian Music Stars Fight Against DRM · · Score: 1

    Well, for one thing, many artists are under contract to the labels, so saying 'Just start your own' doesn't really work.

  6. Re:Great! on Canadian Music Stars Fight Against DRM · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now, now. The Canadian government has apologized for Celine Dion on several occasions.

  7. Re:Futurama returns on Futurama Returns · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh my, yes.

  8. Re:Interesting side note on Boing Boing Threatened By Software Creator · · Score: 3, Informative
    It's a shame that the terms of their 'contest' explicitly exclude the problems that have been noted, isn't it? They say that there should be permanent HARDWARE damange to the drive, not damage to the OS that renders the drive unusable.

    Their 'contest' is crap. Has nothing to do with the problems. It's a whitewash.

  9. It will be available when people can buy it. on A Look at Photonic Clocking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, really. As soon as it gets anywhere near a point where there's a large-enough market for it, it'll be sold. Witness the present collection of chips - do you *really think that the majority of people using computers need a P4 at >3 GHz? No, they don't. The minute the niche market of gamers (and, yes, it'll be gamers) who can afford it is large enough, it'll hit the market.

  10. Re:Technical Hitch for the Australian Version on Google's New Personalized Homepage · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't feel bad, the Canadian page is doing the same thing. And everyone knows that you have to work to dislike Canadians...

  11. Obviously this came from another dimension... on New Round of Lawsuits in Preparation for Oscars · · Score: 1
    "Traditionally the films that are rewarded by Oscar voters at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are those that take thematic and commercial risks."

    They're not talking about our Oscars. How do I get to this other plane where the Oscars mean something?

  12. Re:no fair! on Firefox News Roundup · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is another area in which Firefox is superior to IE. Everyone just open 15 tabs, one for each link. IE would require 15 windows for an equivalent /.ing. Firefox: making it easier to set web servers on fire.

  13. Re:Idiots unite on DVD-Watching Driver Charged with Murder · · Score: 1

    As long as the drivers keep dumbing themselves down, we'll have to dumb down the laws just to keep pace.

  14. Re:My Take on 9/11 on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1

    And I believe that the point was actually that with any *full* recount of Florida, Gore would have been elected.

  15. Re:Joseph Goebbels would be proud on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1
    The irony (no doubt unintentional) in your statement is staggering. You claim that the 'loony left', as the 'remnants of its (the Soviet Union's) fifth column' is the one trying emotional manipulation?

    If you have a rebuttal to the facts, let's see it.

  16. What Fahrenheit 9/11 Says About the Saudi Flights. on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1
    The flights left when planes were being allowed to fly again, based on the finding in the 911 Commission draft report.

    No distortion of facts there, except for that done by those who claim Moore's film is saying something that it is not.

  17. Re:Dishonest on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 1

    Sorry, that should be 'FAA', obviously.

  18. Re:Dishonest on Fahrenheit 9/11 Discussion · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, Moore did not claim that the Bin Ladens were let out during the lockdown. He says they flew out on the 13th, which was when the FCC was starting to let planes get off the ground again. Regardless, they were the close family members of the main suspect and were shipped out with no serious questioning about the crime, in direct contravention of all normal police policy. Also, seeing as members of the family were seen with OBL late in the 90s, that hardly indicates that he was disowned.

  19. Re:If you can stand waiting... on How To Avoid Viruses At Windows Install Time? · · Score: 1

    Or (and this won't help now, but I recommend it to those who may have this issue in the future) you burn SPx (whatever's latest) to a disc and also avail yourself of Autopatcher.

  20. Re:Adblock on Mozilla Project Officially Releases Firefox 0.9 · · Score: 1

    When I went from 0.8 to 0.9RC1, then to 0.9, I didn't have to do anything to Adblock. It's odd, because there's been a *lot* of people for whom it stopped working completely, but mine is still just chugging along. It was working even before I installed the 'Show Old Extensions' extension.

  21. Envy is a terrible thing. on Muscle Cars And Smokin' Chips · · Score: 2, Funny
    Ehhh.

    He's just jealous because his box crashes on Irrelevant Benchmark Number 6 Epsilon. Mine gets pi. If he put all his chips in a circle and insulated them with rare unguents from the East it'd work.

  22. Re:Not Like Any Asimov Story on I, Robot Trailer Available · · Score: 1
    It looks like they took some of the background from the 'I, Robot' stories and then combined that with a very loose reworking of some of 'The Caves of Steel'.

    Shame they didn't just get a good screenwriter/director combo to make 'The Caves of Steel' for real.

  23. The Earth has developed a slight orbital problem. on I, Robot Trailer Available · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's Isaac Asimov, spinning in his grave.

  24. Re:Off Topic, But.... on Build Your Own Lava Lamp · · Score: 1
    Ha HA! Not only do I have a lava lamp and a girlfriend, but she's the one that encouraged me to buy it!

    And she wasn't a geek before she met me. So there.

  25. Re:Put a submarine up against it any day on USS Ronald Reagan Commissioning Tomorrow · · Score: 1
    Canada already did, some years ago in North Atlantic excercises. That was before the Victoria class subs - it was an Oberon class that waltzed into the middle of CVN America's battle group, dumped two or three torpedoes into it and then slipped away.

    Canada is known world-wide for the quality of its submarine personnel. Now, if only we had the equipment...