User: noz

Re:Communist China != Soviet Russia

On: Chinese Professor Sues Google, Yahoo Over Search Exclusion

Thank you everybody.

Are you here all week?

terroristsdream

On: Protecting Online Identity Through Cryptography

To the asshole who tagged the article `terroristsdream': terrorism is not an excuse to erode our right to privacy. Fuck off.

Two-tiers?

On: Millions in Middle East Lose Internet

Maybe they're opposed to network neutrality?

Re:And it;'s not even an actual lease

On: Microsoft 'Open Value Subscription' is None of the Above

there'd be a potential tax advantage for the buyer

That could be strategically absorbed by Microsoft over the next few years.

I don't get it

On: McAfee Worried Over "Ambiguous" Open Source Licenses

Are they worried because they've used GPL licensed code in their products?

Interaction Design

On: GUI Design Book Recommendations?

Read Interaction Design. Learn. Prosper.

Re:Skewed

On: Gen Y Hits the Library the Most -- But Not For Books

It's a joke Boris.

Skewed

On: Gen Y Hits the Library the Most -- But Not For Books

... about 47 percent of Americans didn't visit a library even once last year.

And they took the survey in front of libraries so the group of library users is over represented. ( :

Re:Smart Thinking

On: Wii Hacked for Better Homebrew Games

I never really heard about any interesting XBox homebrew ...

Mate at the very least you'd be interested in Super Mario War. Like most homebrew games: not the sexiest graphics, but suprisingly good, and fun.

So only censor the children?

On: Australian Government To Mandate Internet Filters

If people equate freedom of speech with watching child pornography, then the Rudd-Labor Government is going to disagree.

Then I'm sure they will censor only the child pornography. ;-)

Edit Wikipedia

On: Graph Shows Fraud in Russian Elections

I guess the people who have rigged the vote have never heard about Correlation Cofficient.

Oh they have. They just edited Wikipedia first to make it sound absurd.

Leap of faith

On: Monkeys and Cognitive Dissonance

It's a bit of a jump to compare the selection of M&Ms by colour to the motives of revisionist historians.

Re:No CC

On: Court Strikes Down Age Verification For Adult Sites

Eminem has some very tasteful shots at parents.

Get aware, wake up, get a sense of humor
Quit tryin to censor music, this is for your kid's amusement
(The kids!) But don't blame me when lil' Eric jumps off of the terrace
You shoulda been watchin him - apparently you ain't parents

Maybe...

On: First Details of Windows 7 Emerge

Maybe then someone at Microsoft will know how their process scheduler works.

50 Cent

On: Canadian Mint Claims Rights To Words "One Cent"

Will they sue 50 Cent fitty times?

Purpose of Appendix Believed Found

On: Purpose of Appendix Believed Found

It contains your soul?

Warranty agreement

On: Retailer Refuses Hardware Repair Due To Linux

Forget what the management "has been told" or "tells you": find the warranty papers and see if it says anything about voiding warranty for systems with changed operating system.

Throw the legal papers in his face; hit him on the head with the broken laptop; and then tell him to fix it.

Re:What about Mail Merge?

On: Word 2007 Vs. Open Office 2.3 Writer

Remember, suckiness is in the mouth of blower.

I really like the way Word 2007 moved the menus all around and put pretty colours on the screen. They obviously pulled all the stops in development costs!

Re:Believe in evolution?

On: Putting Anti-Evolution Candidates On the Spot

Intelligent design is a thesis.

Tell the monkeys to stop throwing theses.

The real question is...

On: A Campaign to Block Firefox Users?

What's the best ad blocker add-on/plug-in for Firefox?

Noob question: Email

On: Tales of Conversion - Using Ubuntu at Work

Last time I tried I could not get Mozilla Thunderbird to work with a modern Microsoft Exchange server. Is this possible? (I suspect that the server supports multiple protocols only at this work site they disabled POP3 and IMAP and enabled only the Microsoft proprietary protocol.)

4 different OSes

On: A CIO's View of Ubuntu

Do you know how much EDS will charge to support that? ;-)

3 words

On: Merely Cloaking Data May Be Incriminating?

Trust your govenment.

Re:makes no sense

On: Hotmail Delivers Far Fewer Emails with Attachments

Conspiracy theory is the sophistication of the ignorant.

And Britney Spears once said, "I'm like the ocean because I'm deep." What's your point?

Meh

On: Marketing Yourself as an IT Jack-of-All-Trades?

You don't have 3 years .NET experience with RUP and Agile development methodologies. Forget it.