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  1. Re:again airport security are idiots. on Airport Security vs. Cyborg Steve Mann · · Score: 1

    i hope none of them actually have their fingers on the trigger, rather stretched along the trigger casing...?

  2. Re:I can't wait... on GNOME Usability Study Report · · Score: 1

    well, for instance i'd hate it if the log out dialog wouldn't have the option label "halt" anymore. i like naming conventions that stick to the underlying shell commands, even if they're not familiar to new users.

  3. Re:Change Passwords? on SourceForge Server Compromised · · Score: 1

    well, as with all community systems, there is one problem:

    - users are dumb

    so, they tend to forget their passwords, and one strategy is to send them to the dumb user via e-mail. this requires plain text storage. There are other ways, but the dumber the user, the plainer the storage, because no site admin would want to answer all the dumb user emails about forgotten passwords.

  4. Re:Newton outlawed this type of thing on The Reactionless Space Drive? · · Score: 4

    well, there might be an application after all, if it's just sitting there and vibrates...

  5. Re:Because in the 90s we have virtual memory. on Other Uses For The Linux RAM Disk? · · Score: 1

    uhm.. isn't a ram disk quite the opposite of
    virtual memory? hit me with the cluestick if i'm wrong...

    toodles
    stray

  6. stupid on Who Reads Your @nospam Mail? · · Score: 1

    sometime way back i registered stupid.ch because it was late and i was drunk. lately, i get a lot of mail from people who just use addresses like joe@stupid.ch when registering for something.

    it was funny for the first 100 messages or so, but it's getting annoying.

    personally, i usually use the sdl of the site i am registering when filling out nosy forms, i.e. yourself@real.com when downloading real player.

  7. Re:it looks a lot like... on Possible Pics Of The New Apple Mouse · · Score: 1

    A foot mouse great. Hey, perhaps that's the beast that left the gnome logo foot print?