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  1. Re:UPS Rings Doorbells? on English Teenager Invents a Better Doorbell · · Score: 1

    I have watched UPS drivers in #roc getting out of the truck and walking up to my apartment building with nothing put a fistful of yellow stickies. And a union....

  2. Re:I forget the movie or documentary on Inventor Builds Robot Wife · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, I saw that. Quite the nice documentary, it was.

  3. Re:Monopoly Good? on It's Time To Take Back Instant Messaging · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with Monopoly?

    I mean... sometimes I prefer Clue....

  4. Re:My Yahoo on Yahoo Releases Firefox Toolbar Beta · · Score: 1

    The anti-spyware thing is, alas, a required feature. I use CounterSpy and would just as soon disable Yahoo!'s little joke.

  5. Umm... on Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future · · Score: 1
    ...has this thing ever produced a result that was not ex post facto?

    Wake me when it does.

  6. Re:Too much of something good? on New Orbitz Terms Prohibit Inbound Deep Linking · · Score: 1
    If they don't want links to point-in-time quotes, the answer is not to write an unenforceable license/linking agreement. The answer is to make the links ephemeral using session keys or similar. People will stop linking PDQ to pages that aren't there. Meanwhile, Orbitz pages that do stick around (e.g. a search starter screen for car rental deals) are worth linking to, and Orbitz should want people linking to them.

    Sounds here like the lawyers beat down the programmers and the result is... about what you'd expect.

  7. Re:Another IDN bug on Firefox on Shmoo Group Finds Exploit For non-IE Browsers · · Score: 1

    Uh huh... what's your point?

  8. Re:Another IDN bug on Firefox on Shmoo Group Finds Exploit For non-IE Browsers · · Score: 1
    I changed the setting. No effect. I restarted Firefox. No effect. I rebooted. (Well, it IS Windoze.) No effect.

    Any more smart-ass questions to which you will presume inaccurate answers?

    So... NOW why isn't it working?

  9. Re:Another IDN bug on Firefox on Shmoo Group Finds Exploit For non-IE Browsers · · Score: 1

    Yep: Fiirefox 1.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

  10. Re:Another IDN bug on Firefox on Shmoo Group Finds Exploit For non-IE Browsers · · Score: 3, Informative
    One: the setting of enableIDN to false appears to have NO effect.

    Two: The only way to see that you are not at paypal (unless you notice the flash-by in the status bar) is to look at the certificate details. For the POC site, the certificate was issued to "www.xn--pypal-4ve.com"

    We all read those certs every time, neh?

  11. Re:Heh on Funniest IT Related Boasts You've Heard? · · Score: 0
    heh. I work at a company that I shall not name (look for a Document Company in the F500), and four years later, they are finally rolling out AD. The chief noticeable difference is... now our print banners CAN'T* have our actual names on them, they must have our Employee Number. The security issues with forcing everyone's EE number to be public are too numerous to recount.

    * - CAN'T: a word that one time in a hundred means "Would violate a law of physics" and the other ninety-nine times means, "I don't wanna."

  12. The ringer? on Ask Director of 'Trekkies' Roger Nygard · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The little bell? The unrecognized pro who mops up the local opposition before anyone realizes who he is? Oh, no, you mean the WRINGER. -- People who don't understand metaphors shouldn't call the kettle by any other name.

  13. Re:Interesting.. on U.S. Deploys Satellite Jamming System · · Score: 1

    mmm... and a broadbrush accusation of "hating the USA" would be...?

  14. Re:Interesting.. on U.S. Deploys Satellite Jamming System · · Score: 1

    by "hating the US" are you referring to wishing to see the junta currently in power removed by our first lawful presidential election in almost a decade? That would stem, you see, from a LOVE of this country.

  15. faraday 'bag' on American Passports to Have RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    my EZPass that lets me pay tolls without stopping is an RFID tag and it came with bag that looks like the shinier sort of anti-static bag in which we get computer peripheral boards & such. I slip the EZPass into the bag and the readers can't see it anymore. How hard would it be for me to sew or glue such a liner into the compartment in my Tom Binh bag where I keep my passport?

  16. Re:So who has good terms? on VoIP Terms of Service May Surprise You · · Score: 1

    Ben Franklin got a telegram? From 54 years in the future?

  17. Re:Enough already on Apple Not Too Harmonious with Real · · Score: 1

    you would fuggin' think that Apple'd have learned their lesson by now, as to what comes of stubbornly defending a closed architecture??? Didn't they almost go tits up a couple times before now? Stick a fork in 'em, they're done this time.

  18. Re:Black Tuesday? wth? on 4 New "Extremely Critical" IE Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    isn't that the 2nd Tuesday of *every* month, then? kinda gets old when you have 3 "Black Tuesdays" every 13.