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  1. Well... on Is It Possible To Erase Yourself From the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Seeing as Bill Gates ended his Reddit AMA with this this image today, I'm gonna say no. - http://i.imgur.com/D3qRaty.jpg

  2. Re:Minneapolis has no subway station crime on Mozart and Bach Handel Subway Station Crime · · Score: 1

    It does go through a tunnel and run under one of the airport terminals though.

    As someone that uses that particular station regularly, I welcome our classical overlords and have noticed it being generally calmer than it had been over the summer. I do wonder if they've account for the fact that it's winter now and people aren't as inclined to just hang out in the sub-freezing temps. Time will tell, I suppose.

  3. Re:noscript? Morescript! on Opera Goes To 11, With Extensions and Tab Stacks · · Score: 1

    Thank you for that! Those, more than any other ads, really get on my nerves.

  4. Has anyone mentioned ad blocking yet? on Opera 11 Beta Released, With Extensions Support · · Score: 2, Informative

    Longtime Opera user here, continues to suit my needs, but the beta still needs a fair bit of work:

    - The new Tab Stacks feature is almost what I've wanted for some time, needs some more depth to it (labelling, pinning, and loading sessions as stacks in particular), and to undo the wonkiness introduced to the tab bar behavior in general
    - Nice to see Opera join the Extensions party, but slim pickings so far, need to see what gets developed for it to measure its worth.
    - While the Mouse Gestures overhaul/visual feedback is a nice idea, it currently forces a much more rigid input of the gestures than what anyone seems to be used to.

  5. So one might say... on The Advent of Religious Search Engines · · Score: 5, Funny

    they're using Church Engines?

  6. Re:Where's the Opera support? on Google Instant Announced · · Score: 1

    I'm not seeing any technical reason for the block as this (like yesterday's floating balls and the custom backgrounds introduces a little while back) seems to work fine in Opera if you edit the site preferences to mask as Firefox when browsing Google.

  7. Re:One of the better upgrades but... on Opera 10.60 Released, With Faster JS, WebM Video Support · · Score: 1

    This behavior is still there, if not by default. Right click on the Tab Bar -> Customize -> Appearance -> Mark the "Show only when needed" checkbox.

  8. Re:If Opera implemented other things right,I'd use on Opera 10.60 Released, With Faster JS, WebM Video Support · · Score: 1

    There's a newer, nicer looking Flashbock-like feature in Opera as of 10.50, On-Demand Plug-in

  9. Re:Heh. on Most Expensive JavaScript Ever? · · Score: 1

    Yes! And depending on usage patterns, you may end up more ambidextrous as a result.

  10. Re:Only in the US... on AT&T's Bad Math Strikes MythBusters' Savage · · Score: 1

    Does this hold true when you're traveling out of the country? Most of the US add-on 'unlimited' plans fall in that same price range, but only within the country. As soon as you start traveling, data (and voice) gets a hefty per-use charge added on to it.

  11. Re:Bill Gate's Pirate Name on Microsoft Calls Today Global Anti-Piracy Day · · Score: 1

    You didn't run Steve Jobs through it? For shame: Cap'n Bernard Mauvebeard. Or Linus Torvalds for that matter: "Fancypants" Nigel Scabb.

  12. Re:Does he really wanna have his laptop back on Man Uses Remote Logon To Help Find Laptop Thief · · Score: 1

    Happy Ending?

  13. Slooooow on "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email · · Score: 2, Informative

    As noted by others, its already been confirmed, but what they got into was not the juicy gov.sarah@yahoo.com address that's the potential subject of investigation, just her personal yahoo address. Since then though, both gov.palin and gov.sarah have been removed - pastebin.com/f652c44fb.

  14. Re:Major Plotholes ... Spoiler Alert on Batman Discussion · · Score: 2, Informative

    2. Harvey and Rachel were hauled off by crooked cops under Maroni's mob's control(and by extension, under Joker's control at that point), Harvey by the fat old guy he shot in the bar and Rachel by Detective Ramirez, whom Dent later knocked out when the flip of the coin landed in her favor.

  15. Re:TWC was ousted from Minneapolis on Legal Trouble For Multiple ISPs · · Score: 1

    Actually, TWC left because they were swapping territory with Comcast while they divvied up Adelphia.

  16. Hooray for copying Opera 9.5's big new feature on Weave... Mozilla Is Trying To Be More Social · · Score: 1

    http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/next/ Although I will give Mozilla points for the session sync, that's something that Opera isn't doing(though to be honest, I generally wouldn't want my home session synced at work...)

  17. Completely Awesome on What's New in Blade Runner - The Final Cut? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd been waiting for something like this to pop up(though I'm sure there's geekier places with the full and proper rundown elsewhere). I got to go see it last weekend and was hard put to pick out the changes from the Director's Cut aside from an extended shot here and there. I probably would have caught more, but I was far too giddy about a) finally getting to see it on the big screen and b) the fact that Ridley didn't f- things up like a certain other director revisiting his films...

    /the only movie I actively rewatch
    //still listen to the soundtrack frequently
    ///never seen the original theatrical release
    ////my first DVD and will be my first Blu-Ray

  18. 1 million users???? on Sky's Botched Google Migration In the UK · · Score: 1

    Good Lord. I thought we had it rough when the local ISP I work for migrated mail servers internally for 20000+ users this summer. Even shifting people over in small batches and providing instructions for multiple e-mail clients(unlike Sky), we still ended up with about half our userbase calling in over a 2-3 month period as we rolled it out. Regular staff was putting in overtime and some temps* were brought on to help out, but it was still quite the nonstop parade of callers. And of course, they're running anything and everything from OS 8/Win95 onwards, along with just about any version of any mail client that will run on those systems. Oh, and on top of changing serverse, we also switched to requiring SMTP authentication in the process, so yeah, fun times trying to convince people to upgrade to something that supported it or coerce clients to properly use it :coughOE5Mac:

    Scale that to a userbase a million strong and try to do it all at once? Even the lowly support monkey that I am could tell you that's a very dumb idea.

    *I was one of those oh-so-lucky temps, and managed to earn full time employment out of it, huzzah.

  19. Re:Opera 9.5 on Comparing Memory Usage of Firefox 2 vs 3 · · Score: 1

    You'd like that, but then you go and sync at work while forgetting about the porn tabs you have up at home...

  20. TV Good! Internet Bad! on FCC To End Exclusive Cable For Apartments · · Score: 1

    So... The FCC agrees that we need more competition with cable to bring/keep prices in line, but doesn't feel the same about internet access? Sigh.

  21. Nothing to see here... on Phone Companies Refuse to Give Congress Data on Spy Program · · Score: 1

    Now, normally I don't pay much attention to the ads in the /. feed, but this one, well, see for yourself... http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/9625/attironyiz3.jpg

  22. Re:I use my PSP every day, my DS is collecting dus on DS Dominates Japanese PSP Sales 3:1 · · Score: 1

    I've yet to attempt homebrewing with my DSLite, but while it may offer many of the same homebrewing capabilities as the PSP, the capability of having a truly portable PS1 is what sold me on getting a PSP, as there's tons of cool games that I'd missed the first go around paired with a lot of time away from home for mobile gaming. That and the amazing screen. Looking at stock capabilities, DS wins on the gaming front hands down, but the PSP is a lot more useful as a portable media device than I had ever really expected.

  23. Re:$499 on Both Sides of the PS3 Price Cut Rumor · · Score: 1

    The only pricey ones I sometimes get are anime ones, which I'm always like "grumble grumble" about grabbing off the shelf. And if someone were to tell me that anime DVDs are overpriced, I'd say "ABSOLUTELY!" This being the internets and all, you do realize that you can/should buy your anime from shops like www.rightstuf.com or www.deepdiscount.com with their hefty discounts, right? You'll usually be looking at the $18-22 range, but with as many deals as they run you can often find what you want in the $13-18 range(or less!). Unless you're in a bizzaro locale with an actual mom and pop shop selling anime that you're determined to support, that is.
  24. Re:Adventure games on Details on Nintendo's Original Downloadable Content · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Keep in mind though the 512MB of built-in memory and (current) inability to load games/saves directly from SD cards. Hopefully we'll see a firmware upgrade with this that lets the Wii load from SD cards and/or external hard drives via the USB ports on the back, but otherwise I imagine we'll be burning through that 512MB a lot quicker than we have been with the VC alone. That being said, its still fairly exciting news and I'm looking forward to picking up some new content to sit side by side with my favorite retro games.

  25. Re:Can't wait on Safari on Windows, Leopard Debut at WWDC · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Didn't realize the numbers were that decent on the Macs, the one big Mac geek I know is always complaining about Opera's OS X performance and I (naively) figured that to be the general consensus. I suppose I can see where its different audiences, but I still think they'll end up stealing some market share from Opera, FF, and IE on name alone, even if it's 'just' a 2-3% overall grab on the market.

    Regarding site design, I'm looking forward to poking around with it as they've been implementing some CSS3 goodies that aren't available elsewhere, plus it will finally make the Webkit RSS feed somewhat useful to me. Not that I've been actively coding for a while, but its been on my mind and this only helps the case, along with looking at what I can do with the Wii/DS browsers.