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  1. Wrong choices... on Google Prefetching for Mozilla Browsers · · Score: 1

    It aint cool to make this "feature" opt-in by default. I'm sitting here in the middle of Siberia paying 1.5c for every MB. Sure I quickly turned it off in about:config but what about dozens of the ppl I installed Firefox for??? What should I tell them when they start getting hit with higher internet bills? Sucks...

  2. Re:Hitting the Motherboard on Computer Crash Reactions Examined · · Score: 1

    Jeez, I sure hope you and your GIRLFRIEND are not considering having a baby. I'm scared to even think of what might happen...

  3. Re:saved your life? on Identity Theft Victim Gets Last Laugh · · Score: 1

    Sorry but I have better things to do than fantasize about heroically defending my family against a gang of crazed chainsaw wielding drug junkies. Really I dont live in America, maybe this kind of shit does really happen all the time there. Yet statistically your much more likely to get injured in an auto-accident than than brutally dismembered by psychos. Do you put as much and MORE attention to car and driving safety? Do you have really high blood pressure from being scared and worrying all the time? If you are for real and are this way because of having been traumatizede as a crime victim then please accept my apologies. But I still think that the hours and $$ you put towards your Blackwater training would have been better put into sessions with a good Psychologist. Your are choosing the wrong way to deal with post-traumatic shock.

  4. Re:saved your life? on Identity Theft Victim Gets Last Laugh · · Score: 1

    The world is not overrun by criminals and its not because of armed-to-the teath vigilantee citizens. Can we agree to that? We pay taxes to have proffesiinal police to protect us so we can concentrate on what we do best instead of spending countless hours getting proffessional level SWAT training at Blackwater. That plus avoiding dangerous places is more important that any false sense of secuity that carrying a firearm gives you.

  5. Re:saved your life? on Identity Theft Victim Gets Last Laugh · · Score: 1

    The proposition that muggers eliminate witnesses is simply NOT TRUE. The statistics clearly show that resisting makes your many times more likely to get hurt. I mean really all tehy want is your petty posssions. If they get caught, they are likely to get away with probation or light sentencing, if they get caught with not-so carefully planned murder they are scrwed and they know it. Heck, any Aikido expert will tell you that running away is the best option and resisting should be reserved for that 0.00001% when you are backed against the corner by several attackers. I read this guys blog, he is a mad gun nut who is arming himslef to the teeth. Hr claims that its neccessary because of his proffession, dunno maybe he delivers pizza in Harlem or something.

  6. Re:saved your life? on Identity Theft Victim Gets Last Laugh · · Score: 1

    Your either a troll or completely MAD. Plus you'r a dvetising a company that sends private mercenaries to Iraq. But sure its your choice to hide behind the false security of your proffessional pseudo-military training and big gun. I consider myself a reasonable person and agree with the parent poster, if you get mugged just give your stuff and ran away, or if they are threatening throw your wallet or cellphone to the side they will get distracted and run for the items while you are making a getaway. It worked for me several times.

  7. GNUMENTA. on Palm Founders Form AI Company · · Score: 1

    They need to team with Richard Stallman of MIT AI Lab fame for some credebility!

  8. Re:What Matters on Students Do Better Without Computers · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I didnt check the link but I vbelieve that gaus did 101*50 thing

  9. Re:So what ? on MSN Sponsors Mensa · · Score: 1

    How can something be 'bullshit' if by your own admission there is no objective critera?

  10. Re:the googlenet on Gmail Goes Public · · Score: 1

    Dude, seriously The World is bigger than your basement!

  11. Re:Actually, I don't buy it on Women Leaving I.T. · · Score: 1

    I sort of agree with you, except that the Soviet system actually overproduced mediocre engineers and scientists of both genders, there was a politech school in every little dingy shittown. So we had labs with m,aybe 2-3 out of 10 people working whilke the rest were drinking tea and talking about the best time to plant vegetables at their dachas. My mom bedcame a physisst because thats what extremely popular in the SU in the 60's, she did OK but she recently told me that she hated the job, she always wanted to become a baby doctor.

  12. Re:Firefox is mostly a cute interface on Problems With the Firefox Development Process · · Score: 1

    What about Safari? The standard KHTML based Mac browser used by millions?

  13. Re:Labor Dept. and CAO did similar thing on Job Market for Developers Evaluated · · Score: 1

    There hundreds of companies doing Mac development and porting work. Wouldn't they need developers knowledgeble in ObjC?

  14. Re:Unpopular opinion on In Which OS Do You Feel More Productive? · · Score: 1

    Well, surprise! You're not the only one who follow several "trees of thought". I for one find it more intuitive to have several firefox windows with tabs in each window representing a separate thought.

  15. Re:Some of his early Mac work on GUI Pioneer Jef Raskin Has Passed Away · · Score: 1

    Obviously charging your customers INSANE amounts for memory IS NOT TABOO. But thanbks, now I understand completely is why Mac is such an ani-computer for geeks ans other knowledgeble persons.

  16. Re:Jef Raskin Memorial TBA and details on GUI Pioneer Jef Raskin Has Passed Away · · Score: 0, Troll

    I dont get it. He died of cancer just after few months??? His wife should be ashamed because she obviously didnt encourage him to seek treatment. And this is not a troll. I speak from experience seeing how doctors only gave a few months to live for my wife's borther but with full family ecouragement he is still alive years later.

  17. Re:Best Defense: Westernization on Can Terrorists Build a Nuclear Bomb? · · Score: 1

    Well the history shows that western values are a dead-end. The West is slowly dying out its values slowly being replaced vy the culture of muslim migrants.

  18. Re:I wonder if Kim Jong-Il is dead? on North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    Hmm, Ok its very dark. Could it be actually a good thing? Going to sleep early insterad of sitting in front of your computer/TV is good for your health.

  19. Re:Reality distortion field? on North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 1

    Wouldnt they shout "Made in China"?

  20. Re:This is why anything related to work on Google Fires Blogger? · · Score: 1

    He got fired from an evil company for telling the truth. Its not the end of the world for him. Maybe its a chance for him to start something of hos own instead of being a Google drone.

  21. Re:I've been scarred for life! on Bill Gates in 1983 Teen Beat Magazine · · Score: 1

    Poor child! He should get 30 years suspended and 35 years probation for that!

  22. Re:Behold the speaking computer! on The Lost 1984 Mac Video · · Score: 1

    What is "commercial quality"??

  23. Re:Ya know... on NYT On The Internet And Child Molestation · · Score: 1

    Wouldnt it be almost impossible to prove that such behaviour even took place abroad? What about locating an anonymous child prostiutue in Thailand and credible witnesses to such acts?

  24. Re:Sorry state of modern medicine on Morse Code Used by Human Cells? · · Score: 1

    Exactly! Thats why my entirei family switched to homeopathy 7 eers ago and never been healthier. Medicine is still in the "just enough knowledge to be dangerous" stage.

  25. Re:A physicist's view on homeopathy on Bad Science Awards · · Score: 1

    Of course if it didnt work than homeo is just junk science. And if you got better than it was nothing to begin with. There is nothing that would convince the likes of you.