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  1. Re:Really Simple Idea on Protecting My Daughter's Notebook? · · Score: 1

    Problem is, Google is gonna see the referrer and send the bot. Then it's a URL you can probably find in google...

  2. to us german-speaking guys on Hotmail To Junk Non-Sender-ID Mail · · Score: 0, Troll

    it's known as scHrOTtmail anyway

  3. Re:Bigger problem? on Marketers Back "Cookies Are Good For You" Campaign · · Score: 1

    Well, they might have other conflicts: most "dynamic" ads like flapping banners or overlays (flash thingies in layers popping over the site) are targetted so they only appear once per user (per day or so). So, if you delete your cookies, you'll get all those ads right at your next visit to that site.

    Firefox and Adblock will disable those ads easily anyway, but the standard user with IE might actually get hurt (a little) by deleting all cookies every time.

    Also, legitimate marketing cookies for post-click tracking (on the businesses website) will become useless. But this is a big thing for companies to find problematic web-pages and overwork their websites.

  4. boobies on A Gamer's Manifesto · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, I think I just saw boobies in there! A must-read!

  5. Re:Why track it ... on Tracking Domestic Animals? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dogs are fast learners? Well, this one better be, or he'll be blind AND deaf. And lost and maybe eaten by an elk!

  6. Re:Don't bash them on this one on MS Calls On Kids to Stop Thought Thieves · · Score: 5, Insightful

    don't bash them? They're asking kids about their thoughts on thought thieves just to get the rights to all those thoughts for a meager prize?
    Maybe you're right, those kids will learn the most from their own mistakes.

  7. Re:st00pid on 'Geek Speak' Confuses Net Users · · Score: 1

    dunno. I know I prefer "pharming" to "trying to obtain your password through various, but mostly annoying tactics"

  8. st00pid on 'Geek Speak' Confuses Net Users · · Score: 2, Funny

    maybe they are 2st00pid

  9. Re:heh on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2003 SP1 · · Score: 1

    Not even the crazy british bookies would accept such a bet. And not even Billy Gates would bet against it, he's too good a businessman for that.

  10. hacking abroad on UK Officially The Most Hacked Country · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or it is because most hackers or script kiddies are located in the US and elsewhere outside the UK and they prefer hacking abroad, because that might limit the possibility of legal troubles.

  11. scientists discover nothing on Scientists Discover What You Are Thinking · · Score: 0

    they were just creative enough to mask it as "what I'm thinking"

  12. not new on Would You Pay 5 Cents For a Song? · · Score: 0

    this isn't entirely new. The german magazine C'T proposed something similar a few months ago.

    And YES, I would pay five cent. It's less than I pay now...

  13. Re:Diplomacy on Fun Tabletop Games? · · Score: 0

    Play it with those friends of your girlfriend you never liked anyway ;)

  14. Diplomacy on Fun Tabletop Games? · · Score: 0

    includes a lot of interaction, treachery, lies... fun at its best! not all too tactical but fun. or try blood bowl (also online at fumbbl.com)

  15. Re:Umm.... on Microsoft Office Formats Not Really Being Opened · · Score: 0

    As long as MS is concerned: No news is good news

  16. horoscope says... on Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed · · Score: 0

    it's a bad day for work, so I'll stay home, I trust both horoscopes and handwriting analysis'

  17. Re:What a stupid question.... on No Pictures, Thanks · · Score: 1

    of course you are right. But we're not talking about increasing police power. My first concern is NOT the police but criminals. Sorry.

  18. Re:What a stupid question.... on No Pictures, Thanks · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'd rather have a bunch of cops beating up innocents a year than thousands of crimes more because of fewer cops who are afraid to do what it takes to protect my (and the rest of the public).

    Why worry about cops first and not the (always) bad guys?

  19. Re:Hmmm on Geeks in Management? · · Score: 0

    What if he has a Nokia Communicator? Is it alright then?

  20. error on Geeks in Management? · · Score: 0

    Don't think that others use their brains like you are used from other geeks, because most non-geeks simply don't!
    If they say something or propose something, always check it yourself.

  21. Re:Original Study? on A Countdown To Global Catastrophe? · · Score: 0

    Nicely said. And all this warming and current-changing would even happen without us being here.

  22. Global Dumbing on BBC on Global Dimming · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I already knew that many humans out there are suffering from global dimming... of their brains!

  23. Re:Iceburg? on Giant Iceberg to Collide with Glacier · · Score: 0

    Women always talk and stuff like that, leaving you less time for pr0n

  24. Re:2.68 micro seconds missing... on NASA Details Earthquake Effects on the Earth · · Score: 0

    Just get your PC to boot faster, so you can sleep a few microseconds longer every day...

  25. Re:Iceburg? on Giant Iceberg to Collide with Glacier · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, I'd like to live there. Cool and quiet, lots of snow... just like Sweden without all the hot blonde babes.