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  1. Definitions on IE The Great Microsoft Blunder? · · Score: 1

    The problem when talking about this is that the definition of IE is slippery. Sometimes the HTML rendering engine is considered separately, or the math is done in such a way that the value of a separate HTML rendering engine for OS use is subtracted from the plus column. A browser has to handle malformed or oddly formed HTML, an OS-only HTML renderer doesn't.

  2. Intermediate compiliation state on The Biology of Network Security · · Score: 1

    Essentially the final instruction sets are weak encryption on one base instruction set. If a virus were to attempt to inject itself as running code, it would be bypassing the encryption process.

  3. Re:Explain please on Coalition Sounds Off on Net Neutrality Legislation · · Score: 1

    Why is the main topic during war the front when the war affects everyone? The two situations are similar.

  4. Re:Contrarian? on A Contrarian View of FFVII · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Great, a person who's only concept of RPG is tabletop RPG. Couple that with a lack of metaphysical understanding, and value system that says what he likes in a game is what everyone should like in a game, and you've got one person who has no standing in reviewing games period.

    On top of that he's seriously emotionally repressed. Apathy is about as emotionally stable as death is medically stable.

    Also, he's reading a lot into the game. I never thought that Tifa was Zack's girlfriend, and besides Cloud and Tifa grew up together.

    Then there's his stereotype of the average Final Fantasy player. On what basis is he judging the success or failure of a life?

    He calls FFVII a winnowing rod. Well I honestly believe that generally those who like the game to varying degrees are better off than those who don't.

  5. Re:Password changing on Spafford On Security Myths and Passwords · · Score: 1

    I come up with an idea for a password and that idea changes a little bit, so at first I change it a few times until I settle on one remembered version.

  6. Re:God be praised! on The World's Deepest Dinosaur · · Score: 1

    But since the previous poster has not deemed fit to share his email address, God has approved my email address as an alternate waypoint to him.

  7. Well, you see, this works... on Linspire Announces Freespire Distribution · · Score: 4, Funny

    French is a foreign language in Germany, too!

  8. Re:That's odd... on McNealy Steps Down as Sun Microsystems CEO · · Score: 1

    You say "everyone" like you mean "anyone". You clearly haven't watched "Profit"

  9. Re:Your tongue will be assimilated on Scientists Probe the Use of the Tongue · · Score: 1

    My thought was Lain of "Serial Experiments: Lain" with a lead with what looked like an aligator clip attached to her tongue.

  10. No! No! No! Re:Stop the presses! on Verizon's Aggressive New Spam Filter Causing Problems · · Score: 1

    You have to contact their customers, thair affiliate partners.

    Oh and contact more than one news outlet as well as industry-related papers.

  11. Nah, It's the bundlers that are costing money. on Verizon's Aggressive New Spam Filter Causing Problems · · Score: 1

    I just wish they'd stop. What you did was a legitimate way to fight back given the current societal climate.

  12. I support you. on Verizon's Aggressive New Spam Filter Causing Problems · · Score: 1

    I'm standing with you against those who spread FUD that such behavior isn't helping anyone.

  13. That's not what's being said at all. on Verizon's Aggressive New Spam Filter Causing Problems · · Score: 1

    She's bad at her job because she doesn't understand the significance of what is being said. It's poor social skills, plain and simple.

  14. It might help. on Verizon's Aggressive New Spam Filter Causing Problems · · Score: 1

    The whole "Do unto others" thing.

    If I was tech support staff, I'd like to be treated like I was able to pass it on that this might be a PR nightmare and have it influence what would be done.

    Also, seeing the way the tech support staff handles such a thing is useful, not to mention being able to handle being treated in such a manner is helpful. People who get hurt when being treated in such a manner are really only hurting themselves. I wouldn't be hurt in such a situation, and I'm tired of dealing with a society that thinks acting that way is wrong. It isn't lashing out at the tech support staff just because they're the easist people to reach really doesn't help anybody. It's more accurate to say that it's lashing out at them because their way of life results in them being useless cowards. Am I getting through to you?

  15. What I hated about CYOA on Interactive Fiction Then and Now · · Score: 1

    They never maintained a coherent reality. Do one thing and you come across organization x, do something else, organization x doesn't exist.

  16. Regional? on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Like people have that much similarity based on what region they live in anymore.

  17. Not me, Jah-Wren Ryel on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 1

    Begging is what Jah-Wren Ryel's suggestion amounts to.

  18. The untouchable Triumvirate on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 1

    The Politicians, the Lawyers and the Mental Health Professionals.
    In the show Pretender, the place he worked for is called "The Center", which is a nickname to refer to whichever mental health corporation is in a given county or group of counties.

  19. No, C is still evile on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 1

    so are D-Z. Now other syllabaries on the other hand...

  20. It's not really a plan, yet on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 1

    More details need to be worked out. First we need to organize a group, then we form a plan, grow our numbers and then act!

    ...or something like that.

  21. Pity on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah well, not enough to help us escape to other countries and rebuild our lives... Oh, I forgot, the other countries are as bad off as we are. This whole forsaken planet is... well, it's forsaken! Everyone is one step away at being at each other's throats... no, that would be an improvement!

  22. "Reasonable adult" on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have yet to encounter such a creature. In order for true changes to occur, you can't beg politicians to make them, you'll get nothing. You have to do it yourself.

  23. Do it yourself on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 1

    If you beg for it, you will get nothing.

  24. Even the "Native Americans" immigrated here... on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 1

    from Asia, so they say. There is a process of naturalization, where the immigrants begin to adopt the values of the nation they live in. This is actually a two way street. Too many immigrants and the nation begins to resemble the values of the immigrants more than the other way around, and that makes it harder for those who are already here.

  25. Which leads to the obvious conclusion... on New Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Voting at all guarantees that there will be no change ever. We need a war here peoples, or a shuffling of feet, a constitutional convention, a nationial strike, or something. Pretending that the current way of doing things is in any way legitimate is what results in there being no change ever. Casting a vote is just pretend.