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  1. Re:Why are they trying to look like Yahoo!? on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They don't look like Yahoo at all. When I go to Yahoo, I have to search for the search bar. That is not how it should be, and that is not how Google is.

  2. Re:About Face! on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 5, Interesting

    except maybe that the name Google is becoming annoying/overused

    But look at the poll results: Google only got 3%. I don't think it's overused in a bad way; I think it's overused because you'd be foolish to use anything else!

  3. Re:Mechanics for the 21st century on Plumber, Electrician... Digitician? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But if you can throw a football, oh wow, put you on a pedestal. That's what education gets you...

  4. Re:TimeSplitters 2 on Rare Tour Shows RareWare Secrets · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Face it, TimeSplitters 2 - done mostly by the old GoldenEye team ... is the best game Rare never made.

    Agree

  5. Re:Makes sense on On Reaction-Based Massively Multiplayer Gaming · · Score: 3, Funny

    The skill of war is to not get caught shuffling your Aces where you want them.

  6. Re:Nigeria? on U.S. is World Leader in Spam · · Score: 5, Funny

    What are you talking about? I should be getting my million dollars from Nigeria in the mail next week!

  7. Re:This is retarded on Microsoft Forces wxWindows To Rename · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh no, x is the variable I copyrighted for use in my programs. You cannot use such an infringing name in any program of yours!

  8. Re:Whom Do You Love? on The Science of Love · · Score: 2, Informative

    I would think you're supposed to administer it while you're out at dinner together or having sex, etc.

  9. Re:There's more than one type of addiction on Human Trials Of Anti-Smoking Vaccine Begin · · Score: 1

    That's a good point; I'm interested to see how this vaccine turns out.

  10. Re:There's more than one type of addiction on Human Trials Of Anti-Smoking Vaccine Begin · · Score: 1

    What is your point? Are you saying they shouldn't try this because it might not help all smokers?

    My point is not only that it might not help all smokers, but that it might hurt the smokers who are both physically and psychologically addicted by sending them through physical withdrawls yet not helping the other part of their addiction.

    I agree with you, though, that if it has the potential to help certain smokers, it ought to be given a shot.

  11. Re:iGot / iGave on Weird Presents Anyone? · · Score: 1

    Liberals are fun to set on fire, you know.

  12. Re:There's more than one type of addiction on Human Trials Of Anti-Smoking Vaccine Begin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This vaccine would probably work much better in combination with something to refocus one's cigarette obsession.

    Totally. The way it is now strikes me as a forced cold-turkey situation. Certainly these people go through withdrawl symptoms just like any other person trying to quit.

  13. There's more than one type of addiction on Human Trials Of Anti-Smoking Vaccine Begin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe this could be used to treat physical addiction, but I don't see how it would help psychological addiction. You can become clinically addicted to something without your body being dependent on the substance; you just feel an uncontrolable urge to smoke, not for the high feeling, but just because you always smoke on the way to work, always smoke at parties, etc.

  14. Re:...a great book if you haven't read it. on Google Betas Google Print · · Score: 1

    It's a pile of sacrilegious hog wash.

    Yes, logic has that tendency.

  15. Re:Question... on Microsoft Researching Anti-Spam Technique · · Score: 1

    How do you know if the key is valid? Or, what's to stop a spammer from sending every e-mail with the same key?

  16. Re:I *like* OnStar on GM's OnStar System Hacked · · Score: 1

    You don't mind the fact that for them to be spying on you when you have your accident, they have to be spying on you at all other times as well?

  17. Re:I Stand Against Privacy on Phoenix School to Install Face Scanners · · Score: 1

    Well since we can find them easily now, it shouldn't be a problem. End to unorthodoxy! The Party is doubleplus good!

  18. Re:Not a problem on UbiSoft Blocks Virtual Drives With Raven Shield Patch · · Score: 1

    Daemon Tools will release an update that will bypass the blacklist

    When are computer companies going to realize that making moves against a legion of computer hackers is not productive?

  19. Re:Does anyone else find these games a bit linear? on NWN - Hordes of the Underdark in Stores · · Score: 1

    I never found a way to increase my lawfulness in SoU. Did you?

  20. Re:What's wrong with you that you need to say slav on L.A. County Bans Use Of "Master/Slave" Term · · Score: 1

    Disk drives are ordered, they are not enslaved.

    But, "Orderly" is more letters than "Slave". Think efficency!

  21. Not everyone is computer "useage" literate yet on Literacy: Natural Language vs. Code · · Score: 1

    I shudder at trying to teach my mother C++ or Java; she struggles even to check her e-mail.

  22. Re:Democratic intersections? on Traffic Light Switcher Makes Critics See Red · · Score: 1

    I think the light changing system worked fine before the changers were released!

  23. Re:Dumb Idea on Black & White - Most Overrated Game Ever? · · Score: 1

    Oh, granted definately. The voting system in bf is horrible!

  24. Re:Dumb Idea on Black & White - Most Overrated Game Ever? · · Score: 1

    Or that the interface to BF1942 isn't HORRIBLE (ever tried to kick someone? forget it).

    A couple of patches ago, the administrator interface was cleaned up considerably. For instance, now "map Bocage" will change the map (before it was "admin.changemap Bocage"). Plus, for commands like kicking and the buddy list (thats new too) player numbers are displayed in the score screen.

  25. Re:Low temperatures scare me on Scientists Set New Coldest Temperature Record · · Score: 1

    Apollo never passes the tortoise

    And yet he obviously does in a real experiment. I guess thats what the absolute zero experiments are about; there's no point in having a theory if you don't test it. If a lab really were to reach absolute zero, that would totally destroy the basis of quantum physics.