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  1. Re:cute choice of numbers on Google Files for IPO · · Score: 1

    pi is out of fashion.

  2. Re:I wonder when they'll get ME.. on RIAA Files 477 New Filesharing Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Music can't be virus-infested.

  3. Re:Why always Hotmail? on Google's Sergey Brin Talks on Gmail's Future · · Score: 1

    I usually don't log out of Hotmail, but I tried it just now, and it just took me to www.msn.com. I'm using Windows.

  4. Re:Why always Hotmail? on Google's Sergey Brin Talks on Gmail's Future · · Score: 1

    reminds you to use Internet Explorer each time you use it with Mozilla

    I use Hotmail with Firefox and it hasn't told me to use IE.

  5. Re:Rapid Application Development, what does it mea on Rapid Application Development with Mozilla · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Firefox is much faster and slightly more featureful than the browser component of the Mozilla suite. Saying XUL is slow because Mozilla is slow is like saying C++ is slow because your insertion sort code sorts slowly.

  6. Re:Rapid Application Development, what does it mea on Rapid Application Development with Mozilla · · Score: 2, Informative

    Firefox and Thunderbird use a newer XUL toolkit than Seamonkey, but they all use XUL.

  7. Re:Some password advice ... on Giving Up Passwords For Chocolate · · Score: 1

    What's so embarassing about having your husband's initials in your password?

  8. Re:Some password advice ... on Giving Up Passwords For Chocolate · · Score: 1

    How did L0phtcrack get that one? It's made up of 4 different words.

  9. Re:Wait a minute on Giving Up Passwords For Chocolate · · Score: 1

    I tried to get these bozos to pay for some of our front line people to take classes on preventing social engineering attacks.... So, to make my point, I told my buddy to get into the veeps office.

    I assume you're in IT. Why are you trying to tell your boss what to do wrt physical security?

  10. Re:Suits me just fine.. on Free Optimizing C++ Compiler from Microsoft · · Score: 1

    I don't have to install that confusing GUI

    I don't like MSVC's GUI either, for another reason: it takes forever to load. Do you know how to make the "Debug" button on a "Your program crashed" dialog give you a stack trace without going through the GUI?

    (I use MSVC to compile Mozilla.)

  11. Re:I have been loving not watching as much TV... on National TV Turn Off Week · · Score: 2

    I have $50/month more to spend on other things that I enjoy to do (i.e. food, drinking, girlfriend, etc).

    It makes sense that you enjoy doing your girlfriend, but you shouldn't refer to her as a "thing".

  12. Re:Eating in France on When Does Usability Become a Liability? · · Score: 2, Funny

    When all you have is a hammer...

  13. Re:Why upgrade Mozilla at all? on Mozilla 1.7 to Become New Long-Lived Branch · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because old versions of web browsers tend to contain known security holes.

  14. Ok with me on Canadian Minister Promises to Fix Copyright Law · · Score: 1

    if by "fix" you mean "neuter".

  15. Re:Reminds me... on Revised Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness · · Score: 1

    Tell me if you ever find the other one again. I bet you could find it on Google if you remember what he said about elevator buttons or what he said about doors.

  16. Re:Yes, but does it come in plaid? on Revised Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness · · Score: 1

    The laws that allow people to sue after doing stupid things, however, are put there for the benefit of people who (might) do stupid things.

  17. Re:Reminds me... on Revised Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness · · Score: 3, Informative

    You could be thinking of This is Broken. I think it's funny and not anal, but maybe I've been hanging out around usability experts to much.

    Btw, today's entry is hilarious.

  18. Google's previous April Fools jokes on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 2, Interesting
  19. Re:What day is it launching on? on Google's Gmail To Offer 1GB E-mail Storage? · · Score: 1

    And they simply didn't announce themselves as 89 FM anymore, like they usually did in each break (You're listening 89 FM, blah blah).

    Aren't radio stations required to identify themselves periodically?

  20. Re:Mugging on iPod: This Season's Must-Have for Muggers · · Score: 1

    A more correct statement: "There are guys who'd rather accept the increased probability of being robbed than purchase new headphones".

  21. Re:That has been around.. on Google Updates Its Face · · Score: 1

    It was probably my site, not the link, that was broken. My site was down/slow for several hours this morning.

  22. Better examples on Google Offers Personalized Search · · Score: 1

    Putting * at the beginning or end of a phrase doesn't do much. Better examples of how to use * as a wildcard word.

  23. Re:Can't personalize to the degree I want! on Google Offers Personalized Search · · Score: 1

    UrbanDictionary: bear

    Now you know.

    (Or were you referring to the number of items being 69?)

  24. Re:No registration! on Google Offers Personalized Search · · Score: 1

    No, but you can anonymize your cookie to prevent them from tracking you in the future. Anonymizing your cookie using that bookmarklet doesn't screw up your basic preferences (language, number of results per page, etc) since those are stored separately from the ID in the cookie.

  25. Re:No Safari on Google Offers Personalized Search · · Score: 1

    as far as I know, Konqueror and Safari both use KJS for as a JavaScript interpreter

    The JavaScript language is stable and the differences between language interpretation in different browsers is very small. (One difference: Mozilla lets you treat a regular expression as a function, IE does not.) Differences in the DOM, however, are huge, and account for most browser incompatibilities. I assume the DOM is part of KHTML, not part of KJS. But Safari and Konq also share KHTML, so your question is still valid.