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  1. Re:Solution... on Twitter Bug Lets Users Force Others To Follow Them · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Slashdot has comments, friend/foe, and journal (blog) space. What's to prevent you from getting fired for using Slashdot?

  2. Bug fixed on Twitter Bug Lets Users Force Others To Follow Them · · Score: 2, Informative
  3. webOS, not WebOS on HP's Slate To Be Replaced By WebOS Tablet? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's webOS, lowercase "w."

  4. Re:Take your pick on How To Store Internal Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    I've got the eSATA/USB one sitting on the shelf next to my desk. Wish I had a hard drive to drop in. >_<

  5. Stack Overflow dupe? on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 1

    Sounds a lot like this post on Stack Overflow.

  6. That's annoying. on New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click" · · Score: 1

    My friends-and-family Flickr stream is full of idly-taken photos of my baby son as he sleeps in his car seat. It is not always inappropriate to take photos of a person discretely.

  7. Quoth Sean Connery on Gadgets Have Taken Over For Our Brains · · Score: 1

    "I wrote it down so I wouldn't have to remember!"

  8. "Buggy beta" on Apple Picking a Fight it Can't Win With Safari · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Buggy beta" is redundant. Excuse me, waiter... my soup is wet.

  9. ... and? on Flickr To Abandon Early Adopters · · Score: 1

    File this one under the not-a-big-deal department.

  10. Re:Second thoughts about UI restriction? on WoW Burning Crusade Delayed until January 2007 · · Score: 1

    The scripting changes remove the ability to automate gameplay. These scripts would decide what spell to cast and who to cast it on. There are whole mods designed to automate gameplay, leaving only one decision up to the player: where to stand while fighting. I play a priest as well. This is not a big deal. Blizzard can and will design encounters differently when people can no longer dispel without even thinking about it.

  11. World of Warcraft Terms of Service on Virtual Economies Attract Real-World Tax Attention · · Score: 1

    Funny that they mention World of Warcraft, since it's against the WoW Terms of Service to exchange in-game items for real-world currency.

  12. Sleeve City options on Storage System for Thousands of CDs and DVDs? · · Score: 1

    The boxes on this page have been on my "to buy" list for a while:

    http://www.sleevetown.com/cd-storage.shtml

  13. Re:offline SEO? on Wal-Mart Controls Modern Game Design? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Tailoring your site to Google will provide the most bang for your buck. I'm sure some game publishers feel the same way about Wal-Mart.

  14. Other upcoming features on Firefox 2 To Have Anti-Phishing Technology · · Score: 1

    Next version of Firefox to have twice as many capital letters in its name.

  15. Re:All the annoyances of Everquest, but more so on Vanguard - Saga of Heroes Previewed · · Score: 1

    Part of the rationale behind long travel times is to make your travel meaningful. Picture World of Warcraft: you're grinding in Silithus, and you get a message from a guildie who wants to run Strat. These two areas are about as far apart as you can get in the game. You hearthstone back to Ironforge, immediately traversing an ocean and half a continent. You fly for ten minutes to cross the other half continent. Ten seconds to hearth and ten minutes to fly and you're at the complete opposite corner of the world. WoW is a game where distance means nothing. Vanguard is trying to break away from that in some regards, giving a modicum of importance to the decisions you make.

  16. Addiction is like addiction? on Gaming Fanatics Show Hallmarks of Drug Addiction · · Score: 1

    o rly?

  17. No choice? on Yahoo! Mail Superior to Gmail ? · · Score: 1
    Google's engineers have decreed that familiar email practices are no longer useful, and have substituted approaches they prefer, arrogantly denying users any choice.
    Actually, I believe they can choose to not use Gmail, true?
  18. $20/hour, free for family on What Do You Charge for Tech Support? · · Score: 1
    I've settled into $20/hour, with no charge for family and close friends. I don't charge any markup for hardware I buy for people, I just bill them for the time it took to pull everything together.

    I'm in central New Hampshire. Most people around here are just greatful to know someone who "knows computers."

  19. Right... on Gates Pledges $750M to Vaccinate Children · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mod me -1 Flamebait if you must, but this submitter is retarded. The whole article should be modded Flamebait.

  20. Re:Taco says on Penny Arcade Holiday Strip Series #1 · · Score: 1

    You want to go get some hard cocks?

    Shit, what'd I say?

  21. Possible solution on Cell Phones In The Air? · · Score: 1

    Make it legal to kick the crap out of anyone talking on a phone in a plane.

  22. Card reader, pedit on Limitations in Current Breed of Palm Handhelds? · · Score: 1

    I would really suggest some sort of media reader... I have a Lexar Mult-Card reader (the 7-in-1 I believe, a bit older than the current 12-in-1) and I insert my SD card whenever I need to transfer files around. It's not a huge expense, and doesn't take up a lot of time. A mountable Palm device would be nice, but I wouldn't expect to see one soon. (The Palm cradle is too conducive to removing the hardware, you would have to "eject" your PDA every time you picked it up.)

    Have you considered pedit for text file editing?

  23. Conditional GET and feed services on Is RSS Doomed by Popularity? · · Score: 1

    Conditional GET request and centralized feed reading services like the ones mentioned in this post are important to keep syndication bandwidth down. Also, beating people that update feeds every 5 minutes is good too.

  24. Gbrowser Speculation on John Doerr Disclaims Rumored GBrowser · · Score: 3, Funny

    I believe Google is planning another web-based application, akin to their Gmail service: a web-based browser. This revolutionary product will allow users to view web pages from the convenience of their web browser, alongside other pages if desired.

  25. Best place to download software? on P2P Networks Blamed For Software Losses Doubling · · Score: 1

    I get all my software from rsync.slackware.com, mozilla.org, and sourceforge.net. Free software does me right.