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  1. Re:Credit Limits on Woman Faces $9,100 Verizon Bill For Data She Says She Didn't Use (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Like Pay as You Go?

  2. Re:underground cave... on Oldest Human DNA Contains Clues To Mysterious Species · · Score: 1

    underwater cave?

  3. Re:A full season in the snow on What Has Your Phone Survived? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sounds like you shouldn't bother with the cases and screen protectors..

  4. Re:I Can Tell You What NOT To Do... on Software, Tools, Or Techniques For UI Review? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. Think of it this way, you have two ways to approach the problem:

    The first is to develop a UI based on the widgets and toolkits selected by the developers. The design becomes constrained by something which has nothing to do with the way in which it is going to be used.

    The second is to develop a UI based on the way in which the application needs to be used, without any artificial constraints. Sure it will be more difficult to develop, but the goal is to make a functional application, not to make it easy on the developers.

  5. Re:What's the Point? on Gmail Adds POP3 To Email Accounts · · Score: 2, Interesting
    It's not useful to me. All my mail coming into my domain gets forwarded to gmail and my normal pop3. The normal pop3 is accessed at home, and I can get to it through gmail if I am at work or on the road.

    But if, on the road, you want to look at an e-mail that you sent while at home, you can't. I'm presently using the exact same setup that you described, but I'm definitely going to stop using my "normal" pop3 once I have pop3 access to Gmail, because it simplifies things greatly, and ensures that my offline email and gmail are in sync.

  6. Re:What's the Point? on Gmail Adds POP3 To Email Accounts · · Score: 4, Insightful
    What's the point of 1 gig online if everyone uses pop to turn it into offline email?

    Because you still get to keep it online. POP gives you an easy way to archive the mail locally and offline, and also allows you to use an offline client, while still maintaining the "portability" of a web-based mail service.

  7. Testes? on 2004 Ig Nobel Prizes Announced · · Score: 1
    From the brief description of the combover patent:

    The hair to be used as covering is brushed over the bald area in alternating folds using hair spray to hold the hair in place. The uppermost section can be styled to the person's personal teste.

    That certainly seems novel to me.

  8. Re:This is just the tip of the iceberg ... on Web Ad Trademark Law To Be Retested · · Score: 1
    Not likely.

    A trademark is about two things: a trade, and a mark. The trade, in this case, is porn. Children's toys, playground equipment, etc, are not porn, hence, no infringement.

  9. Re:features on MS vs. Open Source Office Suite Compatibility · · Score: 1

    And most people don't realize that Excel is the most commonly used platform for building Decision Support Systems...

  10. Re:features on MS vs. Open Source Office Suite Compatibility · · Score: 3, Informative
    Well, the several thousand lines of Word VBA code that drive the Document Production system here are not considered to be a "Gee-Whiz" feature.

    In fact, the lack of VBA is one of the main reasons why I won't switch away from Word right now. Try finding a developer that can understand Corel PerfectScript.. :)

  11. or.. on Does Gaming Reduce Productivity? · · Score: 5, Funny
    but rather is a stimulating alternative to 'snoozing, daydreaming, overconsuming food and beverages, or sitting like a mindless slug waiting for time to pass.'

    Or perhaps, say, actually working?

  12. Re:Solid state for recording video? on Solid-State DV Camcorder · · Score: 5, Insightful
    but put in one card that hooks up to a 50Gig 2.5" hard drive and you would be all set.

    Uhm, the whole point is to have a solid state camera.. Hard drives are by no means solid state..

  13. Re:Makes Sense on Mozilla's Major New Roadmap · · Score: 3, Funny
    I just wish they'd also separate out Mozilla Composer and make the basic no frills standalone HTML editor the world needs.

    Like Notepad?

  14. Re:Interesting? on Another Breakthrough in Prime Number Theory · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You're missing half of what makes a system computationally secure. If a cryto system is computationally secure, then:

    a) the cost to break it should exceed the value of the information it protects

    and importantly

    b) the time to break it should exceed the useful lifespan of the information it protects

    So, hopefully, as the information that has already been transmitted over an insecure network becomes more vulnerable, it *should* also become less valuable because, quite simply, it's becoming old and useless. Ultimately, almost all cryto can be broken given the right amount of time. This is a given, and should be taken into consideration from the start.