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  1. Re:its great to be king on Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Bezos After Kidney Stone Attack · · Score: 1

    Interesting, thanks. (I'm ecuadorian, btw).

  2. Re:its great to be king on Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Bezos After Kidney Stone Attack · · Score: 1

    Not that I doubt what you've said but, source?

  3. Re:It CAN be done (but not always is a good idea). on Gravity: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right? · · Score: 1

    My take on that scene is that the parachute lines are elastic. So, there was a force pulling Ryan (Bullock) toward the stations which was inverse to the force repelling Matt (Clooney) away. When Matt unhooks, Ryan is pulled back by the elastic force. Matt judged that the rope wouldn't support his and Ryan's weight, that's why he unhooked.

  4. Misleading headline? on Zuckerberg Quits Google+ Over Privacy Concerns · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nowhere it says Zuckerberg closed his account so that he couldn't be tracked.

  5. Re:What contest? on Netflix Prize Contest Ends, Down To the Wire · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They have invented this nifty thing called "the Google", you know?

  6. Re:No info about the Netflix prize on Netflix Prize May Have Been Achieved · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Doesn't make much sense for most tasks on Yahoo Releases Open Source Hadoop Distribution · · Score: 1

    You should try it on the cloud. Amazon's EC2 crunching data from S3.
    There are many study cases available. Yup, it is no silver bullet, but has its uses.

  8. Re:No plug in support on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    You are forgetting the solution already running on this TiVo and Youtube era:
    Product Placement.
    Now, as they know we will skip a Coca-Cola ad, they make Rachel (Jennifer Anniston) drink it on Friends. (Is it obvious I don't see TV series anymore ;)) ??

  9. Re:No plug in support on Google Releases Chrome V2.0 · · Score: 1

    Do you honestly think the masses use Firefox? The geek-enough to use Firefox, also are more likely to use AdBlock.

  10. Re:IMDB was up on Jurassic Web · · Score: 1

    Before Google, there was... EXCITE!!!!

  11. Re:Obamatard portmanteaus on Solving Obama's BlackBerry Dilemma · · Score: 1

    Obama is the "President-elect". So, Bush wasn't "elect"? Oh, wait...

  12. Re:Seems to me on User Charged With Taking ISP Tech Hostage · · Score: 0, Offtopic
  13. Re:*Innocent Whistling* on Black Screens For Unauthorized Copies of Windows · · Score: 1

    YHBT HAND

  14. Re:solution in search of a problem on Google To Host Ajax Libraries · · Score: 2
    It's not MY fault if YOUR business model doesn't work.

    If it is not an intranet/private/password-protected site, and it is located in the public internet, I can access it the way I want.

    For example, if I surf a site with my cellphone browser configured not to display images... Am I also "stealing" the website owner as I don't see their ads?

  15. Re:solution in search of a problem on Google To Host Ajax Libraries · · Score: 1

    I cannot decide if you are being serious or sarcastic.

  16. Re:Awesome article on Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA Cracked, Exploited · · Score: 1

    Oh well! So, the user wouldn't see the response "you have spyware", BUT are least we are blocking the bot running in his PC...
    Well, we are just going back to square one, I guess ;-) ?

  17. Re:Awesome article on Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA Cracked, Exploited · · Score: 1

    I think you don't get my point. So, you are supposing step "1" as a given. What if the user ONLY uses the e-mail provided by his office, ISP. Using outlook, thunderbird, mail2web.com??? Not every body uses free webmail accounts. You are supposing too much into it. MAYBE... what you would suggest is blocking all traffic from a suspecting PC. That could be done at the ISP level... or as you have suggested "major websites" level. (then it would become a Pariah station?) But for that, EVERYBODY in the internet would have to agree... (ok, at least the major players.) That would'nt be realistic.

  18. Re:Awesome article on Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA Cracked, Exploited · · Score: 1

    So, hotmail (msn servers) will PUSH a webpage to the clueless user PC? Even if that is possible... what if the browser is closed? Is it possible to spawn a browser? No man, it can't be done.

  19. As we are talking about rumors... on How Apple Rumors Became Reality · · Score: 1

    ..let's not forget Slashdot's favorite insider: As Seen On TV
    Many thought it was the very Steve Jobs... What could have happened with him?

  20. Re:Why exactly on Ancestry.com To Add DNA Test Results · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just for the record: Paul is just mentioning the fact that a group from Corinth is baptizing for the dead, he (neither the Bible) is endorsing it.

  21. Re:my seemingly eternal question: on A First Look At Firefox 3 Alpha 5 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Opening PDF files in the browser

    enough said.

  22. Re:gmail mail tracking trick on Who's Trading Your E-mail Addresses? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How could the mails not get to me?

  23. Re:227 texts a day?! on Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    Maybe private conversations. Never happened you have been talking in a group and would like to say something privately to someone in the same room?

  24. Re:Why text when you can talk? on Texting Teens Generating OMG Phone Bills · · Score: 1

    Messages are mementos, they can be preserved.
    Also you can easily "talk in background" asynchronously with someone while doing something else (doing the homework, cleaning the house, eating, etc.)

  25. Re:Dangerous Advice on A Foolproof Way To End Bank Account Phishing? · · Score: 1

    Yes, if you are stupid enough to go to a phishing site without having done all three of these, then yes, you are indeed a fool.

    That's why your advice of "everybody filling in crap information" wouldn't work, as only geeky ones could handle that. There should be a big load of false information in order to make the scammers' work a waste of time.

    But even in that case... I don't see how could that help. Anyways, they could automatically/massively validate the information they collect, or am I missing something?