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  1. An easier solution on Let Your Theme Song be Your Password · · Score: 1

    I think, is to just use a line from a song/movie/whatever as your passphrase. The bigger problem is that passwords are usually limited in length to a handful of characters.

    Personally, I use Keepass to generate and manage extremely complex passwords for my important accounts, and use a lengthy but memorable passphrase to access Keepass. It's not perfect, but it's a relatively good balance between security and convenience for me.

  2. Re:except on New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 1

    The "no results" issue seems to be an intermittent issue. If you reload/refresh the page, it will usually provide results.

  3. Re:Give it a chance to develop on New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 1

    It might work great for popular terms (although I haven't really tried any), but searching for a drug name (for example) returns pages and pages of spam and forum postings, which was the sort of thing Google's Page Rank was designed to filter. Personally, if I'm searching for a drug, it's because I want to know the facts about it from a reputable source; not trying to buy it through questionable channels (but that's just me). Cuil claims their algorithms are more relevant than the "superficial" Page Rank algorithm, but I'll let you be the judge:

    http://www.cuil.com/search?q=zolpidem
    http://www.google.com/search?q=zolpidem

    http://www.cuil.com/search?q=ortho%20tri%20cyclen%20lo
    http://www.google.com/search?q=ortho+tri+cyclen+lo

    http://www.cuil.com/search?q=pseudoephedrine
    http://www.google.com/search?q=pseudoephedrine

  4. Re:Interesting... on ACLU Files Lawsuit Challenging FISA · · Score: 1

    Sounds sort of like those Hillary supporters who won't vote for Obama because he's not Hillary. No candidate is perfect, but I still think Obama is a better decision maker than McCain. Sorry, "decider."

  5. Re:How about *asking* the user if they want to sha on Data Harvesting From a Developer's Perspective · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure wanting DRM for your off the cuff remarks falls more clearly into the category of asshole than does satire.

  6. Re:A strategy guide for the interwebs? on Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide · · Score: 1

    Dude, I still can't get past the social networking level. WTF am I supposed to do? I've got 12M friends, and I guess I have to out-friend that guy Tom, but every time I get a new one he gets like 5. Also, some of my friends are dying off or de-friending me while I'm not looking.

    Also, anybody know if the Web 2.1 patch fixes the endless Wikipedia loop? Sometimes I have to restart my browser just to get out of it, although this technique doesn't always work with Firefox 3.

  7. Re:Responses? on Doctors Turn To the Web For Disease Tracking · · Score: 3, Funny

    How is that substantially different than keeping a jar of nail clippings?

    Oh, you uh.. don't do that? Yeah.. me either. Sickos!

  8. Re:I can only hope on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    All judicial punishments are irreconcilable. Money does not replace time served. This is a weak argument against it.

    Nonsense. There are fines as judicial punishments. Money clearly replaces money.

    Time also shares a very close relationship with money; perhaps closer than anything else, and while money may not replace time served, it provides compensation. You cannot compensate the dead.

    Death is not a punishment, it's just a phase of life that some of us try to avoid. It does not teach a lesson, the recipient cannot express remorse (or not) after it's over; it's only of meaning to those who continue to live. In many respects, a death sentence is less of a punishment than a life sentence.

  9. Re:I can only hope on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    It's hard to argue that death is a punishment if the recipient of said punishment never knows he received it. The anticipation may be the punishment, but since we're all going to die eventually, even that is a stretch. The death penalty is vengeance, and an irreconcilable one at that, in that nothing we can do could ever compensate the person for his loss, if we later learn that he was innocent.

  10. Re:Serious question on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    You've got balls putting that on your wife's computer.

  11. Re:This makes me sad on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    Clearly you've never used ReiserFS...

  12. Re:Okay there you go on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    While I could debate whether a diagnosis which has only existed for 15 years could possibly be called "classic," I will instead merely point out that neither of the things you mentioned are symptoms. In fact, Asperger's typically presents with heightened memory abilities, excellent use of literal speech, poor use/little understanding of analogy and humor, and clumsy motor skills -- something you wouldn't expect to see in a black belt.

  13. Re:I guess this means he falls under the messy typ on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    Guess we know which category you're in..

  14. Re:Okay there you go on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately he had no such legitimate reason, and it's pretty easy to differentiate between vaginal bleeding and other sorts.

    I consider myself rather skilled at coming up with plausible lies or "explanations", but I can't think of any that fit the facts as presented, and I haven't heard anyone else present a plausible explanation either, let alone the person who was on trial. In fact, he had *no* explanation for most of the evidence or his actions.

  15. Re:Okay there you go on Hans Reiser Leads Police To Nina's Body · · Score: 1

    And yet could not remember where he put them.

    Or explain why his-and-her cellphone batteries were removed.

    Or why she would buy groceries before fleeing the country.

    Or not drain her accounts/max out her cards before leaving.

    I've been saying this guy probably did it since day 1, which is not to say that evidence can't point to guilt where there is none, but in this case there was no plausible explanation of innocence.

  16. Re:Superheroes on How To Check Yourself For Abnormal Genes · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of another test entirely.. but I'm going to go ahead and say you should just save your money and stop eating wild mushrooms, especially those found in or around cow pies.

  17. Re:you can get tested, no big deal on How To Check Yourself For Abnormal Genes · · Score: 1

    They sell kits for that at Rite-Aid now.. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/101986.php

  18. Re:Online Genetic Testing = Scam on How To Check Yourself For Abnormal Genes · · Score: 1

    Why shut them down? Why not just license them and inspect them regularly for accuracy?

  19. Re:Important caveats on How To Check Yourself For Abnormal Genes · · Score: 1

    Fortunately not, if you live in the US.

  20. Re:don't worry on How To Check Yourself For Abnormal Genes · · Score: 1

    Normally, yes.. but he's under 18; he won't be doing any time.

  21. Re:Pentium 75? on Larrabee Based On a Bundle of Old Pentium Chips · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh it performed them reliably.. just reliably wrong.

  22. Everyone's Out to Get You! on Ray Gun Puts Voices Inside Your Head · · Score: 1

    Fun Gizmodo Fact: The MEDUSA is useless against a raging pack of schizophrenics.

    Fortunately they're too paranoid to assemble.

  23. Re:Yeah but did they point this out? on Claimed Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Come on, be real.

  24. Re:"The internet has confirmed it" on TV Viewers' Average Age Hits 50 · · Score: 1

    They'll probably lose a good portion of their assets when they start dying off.

  25. Re:Yeah but did they point this out? on Claimed Proof of Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not so fast. I read it -2 times.