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  1. Re:Speaking as a geek... on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Hehe, yeah. I misread the reply.

  2. Re:Speaking as a geek... on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Nevermind. (open mouth, insert foot)

  3. Re:Speaking as a geek... on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Actually, what he was trying to say is that he is more attracted to technology than he is to girls, not that he is more attracted to technology than girls are attracted to technology.

  4. Re:Where's the buggy-eyed smily when you need it? on Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx · · Score: 1

    Grandparent did not say legal tender, it said legal, and it was quite correct. Scottish notes are not illegal in the UK.

  5. Um on Nanotech Brings Battery Life Extender for Mobiles · · Score: 1

    The mechanical stress causes the partial decomposition of the electrodes and metal particles float within the electrolyte.

    What??

  6. Re:Need for a superuser? on Coyotos, A New Security-focused OS & Language · · Score: 0

    If someone has privilege-granting privileges, they have the ability to grant themselves all the privileges available. Obviously, it is different from a superuser account if all you're concerned about is accidentally doing something you didn't want to do by limiting the power of the account you're currently using, but for security this does nothing.

  7. New levels of access to information on The Naked Corporation · · Score: 1

    ...simply breed a new level of disinformation, not a new level of transparency.

    The worst part of the whole deal is that people really believe that they have a new depth of vision via the web, so they put much more stock in what they read on the internet then they ever would have otherwise. Farewell, critical thought. If it's on the internet, it must be true.

  8. Re:Useful links on Google Cans Comment Spam · · Score: 1

    I don't think having to verify an email address is enough of a time waster to stop many spammers.

    I'm not sure what the relevance of email spammers using their own addresses or not is, but I'd be willing to bet most serious spammers have plenty of disposable email addresses for exactly this sort of thing.

    Also, if you're manually banning people for spamming, you're probably simultaneously removing all of their posts from your forum, in which case you haven't been saved much time by this new link attribute.

    In fact, the only benefit I can see to using a registration/validation system in conjunction with the Google attribute is the elimination of some of the motivation for spammers to use bots on public forums.

  9. Re:Useful links on Google Cans Comment Spam · · Score: 1

    There is nothing to prevent a spammer from registering with an email address.

  10. Re:Useful links on Google Cans Comment Spam · · Score: 1

    More to the point, all those blog and forum links are exactly what make Google great. Without them, even if a page isn't only linked from blogs and forums, those posted links will no longer count as "votes." To me, this seems like a Bad Thing.

  11. You can but... on New Calendar Proposal · · Score: 1

    just make sure it's on a bun with no condiments, or Hank won't be best pleased.

    -michael

  12. Yes, recycled. on Recycling Gone Wrong: The AOL Throne · · Score: 3, Informative

    Common sense might indicate to you that this was the case, and common sense would be completely wrong. While the connotations of the word recycle are generally what you suggest, the denotation may clearly be a synonym for reuse.

    consult:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycle
    http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary& va=recycle&x=0&y=0
    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=recycle
    http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=* &Query=recycle

    -michael

  13. All he needs to do on Interview with a Spampire · · Score: 1

    ...is put the code on a t-shirt.

  14. Boot on Interview with a Spampire · · Score: 1

    ...to the head.

  15. Lindows? Lindows?? on AOL's new Linux PC · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who has seen the Lindows logo? Am I the only one who has noticed that all of the Lindows employees are also Microsoft employees? Are you all insane? It seems abundantly clear to me that Lindows is a Microsoft-created way of getting mainstream would-be linux users to see that deep down, every operating system is really a Microsoft product. You are all going on and on about being wary of AOL, but you should be wary of Lindows itself.

  16. Re:Typical holywood! on Blade Director to Adapt 'Akira' For Western Audiences · · Score: 1

    Actually, the first person accredited for producing "anime" was quoted in the NY Times a while back saying that he took all his inspiration + ideas from that "Mickymouse" company you're badmouthing.

  17. Why don't we... on First, WinModems. Now, WinWiFi. · · Score: 1

    ...start jumping the gun on Microsoft with this kind of stuff? I mean, why doesn't the linux community every come forward to manufacturer's saying "we'll develop software drivers for your hardware so you can 'strip costly electronics,' that will reduce your cost...and we'll do it for free." How could Microsoft possibly respond to that?? (other than a little floundering, sputtering and "uh uh, you can't do that! It's not fair!!") It's time the linux community stopped simply defending the little piece of land we have and started trying to take the whole continent.

  18. Re:Great Advances on ASCI White Detonates The First E-Bomb · · Score: 1

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  19. graphical passwords on Using Images as Passwords · · Score: 1

    I don't know if any of you remember (or knew), but there were several programs for "hacking" AOL which used graphical passwords. ( One the comes to mind had a picture of a girl, a dog, a bird and an arrow and you had to click them in a specific order to unlock the program. )

    Another "innovation" by Microsoft.

  20. or... on Microsoft Kicks Playstation2 out of CeBit. · · Score: 1

    ...you can just bash MS bashing.

  21. copyright on Tackling Open-Source Book Projects? · · Score: 1

    why don't you just copyright the book and then make it freely available, with a statement like "you MAY copy any part of this book without obtaining the permission of the author, provided you give credit" etc etc..

  22. Re:Aw yeah... on 'Indiana Jones 4' Finally A Go · · Score: 1

    Second post, you mean?

    And you said two things...

    1 != 2

    Back on topic,
    Harrison Ford can never be to old to play Indiana Jones...

    *looks forward to IJ4*