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  1. Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this on Midwest Seeing Red Over 'Green' Traffic Lights · · Score: 1

    Brakes?

  2. Re:So That Takes Care of Wikipedia Then? on The Chinese Route To a Web Free of Porn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think you meant NSFC.

  3. Re:My plan worked on Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide · · Score: 1
    I usually title it thusly:

    Firefox
    (Internet)

  4. Re:Charities? on Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest · · Score: 1

    Typically 501(c)(3)

  5. Re:Charities? on Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest · · Score: 1

    Heh.

  6. Re:Pro-"Choice" on Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest · · Score: 1
    Aren't you in the century of the fruitbat? Birth canals are magical and endow personhood. Babies born by c-section...don't have a soul.

    *Disclaimer: I have no soul!!!!! Nooooooo!!!

    Yeah, I kid ;)

  7. Re:Charities? on Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest · · Score: 1

    Yeah. Um Infanticide and slavery still happen plenty. Maybe you meant only two of these barbaric practices were legislated against?

  8. Re:Man, If I had a nickle... on US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January · · Score: 1

    That's pun-bait.

  9. Re:Childbirth? on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 1
  10. Re:So let's change the algorithm. on Gravatars Can Leak Users' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    To clear that up- rather than spamming the email address spammers will likely target the blog that displays the gravatar.

  11. Re:So let's change the algorithm. on Gravatars Can Leak Users' Email Addresses · · Score: 1
    One common form of comment auto-validation is the email-username pair. If you have a previously approved comment many blogging systems by default approve subsequent comments that use the same email/username. If email addresses we exposed and paired with a username on a blog comments system then spammers could post using forged but valid user handles.

    If the gravatar makes the pairing trivial then it's trivial to automate. And so the spam filter will have to iterate.

  12. Re:laughable on Eolas Sues World + Dog For AJAX Patent · · Score: 1
    I think just the ones he doesn't want to pay for.

    I'm having a hard time thinking of an example where the gov't here in the US has either
    1. Spent efficiently or
    2. spent prudently (for example, not more than what they have).

    And yeah, people don't deserve services they can't afford, but sometimes we provide what they haven't earned, just cause we like em but it's a bad plan to try and provide everything, unless we're really willing to pay for it.

  13. Re:Suddenly, everything is a right on Broadband Rights & the Killer App of 1900 · · Score: 1

    Since when did we (in the US) have "right of access"? There's nothing like that in rural California- lots of us live off the grid and the only way we'd get on it is if we paid to run lines and even then sometimes there's hiccups.

  14. Re:welleee on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 1

    Post it on Slashdot.

  15. Re:welleee on Best Way To Clear Your Name Online? · · Score: 4, Funny
    In Internet Explorer 6 you just click Tools >> Options and then Erase all Temporary files.

    Then you'll want to unplug the phone line from your modem. That way nobody can access your internet. Problem solved!

  16. Summary on LHC Reaches Record Energy · · Score: 1

    Or to summarize, whether or not something is efficient is often simply a matter of time.

  17. USB on Air Force Extends Plug-and-Play Spacecraft · · Score: 1
    Universal Space Bus.

    Actually it'll be interesting to see where light peak goes...

  18. Re:Dissaggregation on Why Movies Are Not Exactly Like Music · · Score: 1
    The disaggregation thing is cute. All movies have always been disaggregated. Digital distribution lets me get only those movies that I want.

    I think a better starting place would be assuming that movies are not like music at all and then looking for similarities.

  19. Re:The most important sentence in the article: on Why Movies Are Not Exactly Like Music · · Score: 1

    ...Once ;)

  20. Re:I did 3D computer simulated training in the Arm on Microsoft Game Software Preps Soldiers For Battle · · Score: 1
  21. Re:Cheers for PETA on Scientists Create Artificial Meat · · Score: 1
    I was referring to the no more cowboys part;

    As I am a horse riding republican in rural Northern California, you insensitive clod ;)

  22. Re:Cheers for PETA on Scientists Create Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    and most importantly

    and most tragically

    There, fixed it.

  23. Re:What? on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    Haha- yeah. New sim card and/or wifi. I use my iPhone this way all over the world :)

  24. What? on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1
    This is your first time out of the country, huh? Unless you have a specific purpose for your laptop it's totally arbitrary. For all practical technical purposes London is the US. A plug adapter is like a $1 investment and you're not going to have problems with WiFi. If your phone is quadband or 900/1800MHz it should be fine too.

    If you have an iPhone, bring it as a laptop replacement for quick lookups, route planning, GPS and event planning (finding opening and closing times etc).

    That said, unless you have a reason to bring any of this stuff with you, you're probably just as well without it. Big SD cards are cheap these days. Leaving your laptop in the US will make you more portable and less paranoid.

  25. Re:Markups on No More Fair-Price Refund For Declining XP EULA · · Score: 1

    So If I'm following... they will stop you from selling the unwanted equipment?