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  1. Thought Police on Virtual Reality Gaming System Tests for Telepathy · · Score: 1

    How else would

  2. You can't... on Welcome to The Age of the Web Hermit · · Score: 1
    Is there anything that we really need good old fashioned Real Life for any more?
    You can't go bushwalking in your mum's basement.
  3. Flysh! on Short Film About CERN's Large Hadron Collider · · Score: 1

    Large Hadron, Lords of the Ring; I'm surprised no one has managed to come up with an immature joke or two about this.

  4. Re:Securing the Search Engine? on Virus Trackers Find Malware With Google · · Score: 1

    A black/whitelist would be more efficient.

  5. Wait... on Cutting out the Naughty Bits Ruled Illegal · · Score: 1

    Wait, I'm confused; Is this evil or not?

  6. Re:buzzwords on Tech Buzzwords Added to Dictionaries · · Score: 1

    You're going to have to wait at least a day before the dictionary becomes available again.

  7. Re:Easy Work Around on Immaturity Level Rising in Adults · · Score: 1

    Congratulations Man!

    My wife and I just had our 2nd on Monday (20060626). We were always annoyed by baby talking adults too, and try to treat ours as intelligent beings.

    Our main obstacle at the moment is that our 1st understands her Mother's language (Polish) well but is reluctant to converse e.g. with her grandparents in it.

    Regards

    Mike

    :)
  8. (OT) Re: Best quote on The Power of Accidental Discoveries · · Score: 1

    In high school we had an "art teacher" who just ripped Bob Ross. Totally, like the parent quote, the methods, everything. We just thought the guy was a bit of a wierdo - he got quite excited about Ross' methods.

  9. Re:Ackkk it's recursive on AOL Targets Digg, YouTube With New Netscape Site · · Score: 1
    Also, Netscape is using those stupid popup adds that get around Firefox.
    Running Adblock+Filterset.G here, no stupid popup adds.

    :)
  10. Re:Medireview virus attacks yahoo. on Worm Wriggles Through Yahoo! Mail Flaw · · Score: 1

    Unless something goes wrong with the browser security model you shouldn't be able to script a file form control or load a local file in an (i)frame in that way.

  11. Re:I wonder... on Lawyers Ordered to Play RPS to Settle Dispute · · Score: 1

    Look, I'm not going to play with you if you keep pulling out your "Dynamite"!

  12. Re:I often fail those Turing tests on Web Users Angered by Anti-Spam 'Captcha' · · Score: 1

    I think that's the best solution to Turing Testing that I've heard proposed so-far. It's not CA but it is a PTCHA, and operators aren't very expensive; Joe Bloggs isn't going to be coffing up for it tho.

  13. Re:obviously... on What Should One Know to be Truly Computer Literate? · · Score: 1

    Hex editor? Bah.

  14. Re:Paper Pad on Pepper Pad, an Open Alternative to MS Origami · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the fact that you can actually make origami with a Paper Pad.

  15. Re:Well... on Social Consequences and Effects of RFID Implants? · · Score: 1
    I'm not in any way advocating mandatory RFID implants, however if the things beeped when they were pinged it'd be pretty damn obvious when you were being snooped.

    Does wearing a tinfoil armband prevent reading these tags?

  16. RFID tags in Australian passports on Privacy Threat in New RFID Travel Cards? · · Score: 1

    My wife recently renewed her Australian passport and the new one came with an RFID tag in it. What's more, they charged extra for the privilege :(.

  17. Re:Why is it called web "2.0" on The State of Web 2.0, The Future of Web Software · · Score: 1
    It's rather ironic that we're trying to get browsers to do what other application platforms have been able to do since the late 1970s. I sometimes wonder if the web browser, like the gopher client before it, should be dropped for something, well, a little less kludgy and arcane.
    It's called Firefox
  18. Re:How to update your pages on MS Gives 60-Day Deadline to Web Devs · · Score: 1
    Apple's fix involves using a javascript to load the plugin, this is actually the way most adservers work now anyway.

    Also someone mod the comment above me Re: firefox +1 funny.

  19. UAVs whan? on Unmanned Aerial Drones Coming Soon Above U.S. · · Score: 1

    According to the Weekly Piracy Report there are UAVs watching our oceans, so what makes you think they're not already watching us too?

  20. Re:Predictable results on NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums · · Score: 1

    There's an urban legend here in Sydney that if you over-pay a traffic violation fine and don't cash the refund cheque then the RTA won't deduct the points off of your license - like it gets held up in the system or something.

  21. Re:A request on RMS on Proposed GPLv3 changes · · Score: 1
    Actually, I call it the 3PL. :-)
    That sounds like thripple, I'm not sure that has the best association.
  22. Re:Ok, guess I can see that. on 4th BC Century Defensive Wall Unearthed · · Score: 1

    To find journals that cover the discoveries that don't make the mainstream news you'd probably need to find individual dig blogs like high-pasture-cave.org. I went out to Uamh An Ard Achadh with George while I was visiting my sister on Skye last year. Here's George and I at the wet sieving station. Here's a cool piece of worked antler (2nd pic down) that I discovered in the binding matrix. That was one of the best field trips I've been on :) (except the damned bloody midges). George and co are finding some really amazing stuff there like a rare Iron Age burial.

  23. Whatever on Novell Suggests Linux Program Replacements · · Score: 1
    I could probably code my way out of a brown paper bag with a text editor if I had to but Dreamweaver is handy. The features I use are all available in other softwares (sp. vi) but having them all in one spot with a relatively friendly interface is nice.
    • Syntax highlighting
    • Line numbering (&goto)
    • Regex search and replace (across current file/selected files/network)
    • Tag search and replace (changing tags/adding/removing attributes...)
    • Code hints
    • Code beautification and cleanup (esp. MS Word HTML cleanup, uggh!)
    • Code validation
    • Language references
    • SCP
    • Code synchronization
    • Diff (inc. accross network)
    • Quick preview ("Design view")
    • Simplifying annoying tasks (creating/formatting tables etc...)
    • Spellcheck
    • Entity conversion
    • Text encoding (esp UTF-8)
    • ...
  24. Where to store your code on How Do You Store Your Previously-Written Code? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I often find that adding comments in the PHP/MySQL/Whatever manual under the function you are using is helpful. That way next time you are looking up how to do something (maybe a year later) your snippet is waiting for you. Also writing articles about how to do something and getting it posted on community code sites is good. Otherwise I'm a fan of plain text files or just keeping copies of the projects you work on and poking through them later. I find that I incrementally improve on my foundation code over time. I don't believe that re-writing code is a bad thing.

  25. OT on Internet Radio Failing to Find Support? · · Score: 1
    I'm sorry my initial example was poor. I just grabbed the first link and didn't look at it much. Nonetheless, there are umpteen fucking examples of streaming internet radio devices. Many of them are available on the shelf, even at places like Circuit Shitty. And I've seen several at Fry's, come to think of it.

    --
    Sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz And motherf*ckers lost their minds

    Just curious, why bother censoring your sig when you use profanity in your posts?