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  1. Re:Brits worry too much on British Report Details the Stress of Email Communication · · Score: 1

    We're the ones paying attention.

  2. Re:Are borders are open! on Buffer Overflow Found in RFID Passport Readers · · Score: 1

    Chinese could probably be the most useful - you can get earworms for that, and those other two languages, from http://www.earwormslearning.com/intro.html

  3. Re:Isn't this a good thing? on Discouraging Students from Taking Math · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As there's already a thread about Math/Maths, let me say that in the US METH = Methamphetamine, while in the UK METH = Methylated spirit.

  4. Re:Old times... on Lenovo Aims $199 PC At China's Rural Population · · Score: 1

    Or is it the return of the C64 v ST wars?

  5. Re:listen to ads? on Google Shows Off Ad-Supported Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    The smallest T-Mobile "pay as you go" rate is $10 for 30 minutes, lasting for 90 days. Or pay $100 and it'll last over a year and you can keep toppping it up.

  6. I wouldn't mind running this on What We Know About the FBI's CIPAV Spyware · · Score: 1

    Well, if they took out the phone home aspect - other than that it seems to be a fairly useful monitoring tool.

  7. Re:Due Process? on Schneier Talks to the Head of TSA · · Score: 1

    Make the aircraft be a less desirable target - ie, smaller planes carrying 100 people, instead of huge 500+ person flying targets. [Yes, there's business challenges, but these can be solved] I'd be interested to hear the solutions to the business challenges caused by doing this.
  8. It's based on the tool from DeepMatrix on Details of Microsoft's New Analytics Tool Leaked · · Score: 1
    As they say at http://www.deepmetrix.com/

    We're excited to update you about Microsoft's activities since we acquired DeepMetrix. Over the past year we've been focused on building the next generation of Web analytics. We've reached a transitioning phase, and are now rolling out our new service. Because of this rollout, we're no longer updating DeepMetrix products. Support services for hosted and installed DeepMetrix products will discontinue on January 31, 2008, and data collection for your hosted software will end on January 14, 2008. You may continue to use the unsupported installed software indefinitely. This summer you'll be invited to try the beta of our new Web analytics service-Project Gatineau. Some of the highlights of the beta include: - Click and visitor tracking - Marketing campaign reporting - Conversion tracking - Demographic and geographic segmentation - Paid and natural search analysis As customers of DeepMetrix and Web analytics, Microsoft values your business and hopes you'll try our new Web analytics service. We'll let you know more as further information becomes available. For general questions or comments regarding DeepMetrix products or Microsoft Project Gatineau, please e-mail us at dms@microsoft.com.
  9. Re:Exaggeration? Naaah. on Hotmail Delivers Far Fewer Emails with Attachments · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm supposed to put my head through that hole?

  10. Re:Virgin Mobile or T-Mobile - Virgin preferred on Where In the US Can You Get Just a Cell Phone? · · Score: 1

    With the T-Mobile pay-as-you-go plan I have, minutes that are about to expire can be revived by buying some more.

  11. Re:My lovely mouse on On the Widespread Misuse of the Mouse · · Score: 1

    I think you should drop the sax solo at the end.

  12. Re:wahay! on Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Procedural languages are the natural way to code most programs, and here's why: we've been recording recipes as a sequence of steps, with if statements and loops, since the invention of writing. It's worth noting that about 150 years ago Isabella Mary Mayson, universally known as Mrs Beeton, changed how recipes were written. She had the radical idea of putting the ingredients at the start of the recipe, and came up with the thought that it might be a good idea to write how long something should be cooked for.
  13. Correct URL This Time on Thousands of Rubber Ducks to Finally End Journey · · Score: 1
  14. BBC Radio Documentary From 2006 on Thousands of Rubber Ducks to Finally End Journey · · Score: 2, Informative

    There was a radio documentary about them in 2006 - my page about the programme, http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/invasion _of_the_yellow_ducks.html/, has a link to the "Listen Again" where you may be able to hear it (the BBC sometimes keeps the old factual programmes available).

  15. Re:Don't break it on Boeing's New 787 Wings — Amazingly Flexible · · Score: 1

    But the marketing department would spin it as Boeing wing 40 times stronger than its nearest competitor

  16. Re:This bill and story are histrionics on CA Bill Limits Skin Implantation of RFID Chips · · Score: 1

    A company saying "Do you have problems with cleaners not actually cleaning all the areas they should? All of our staff are RFID tagged so you can be sure of where they've gone" would probably get much more business.

  17. Re:Explain me... on Washington Woman Sues RIAA for Attorneys Fees · · Score: 1

    It could cause more unnecessary lawsuits. Little Old Lady hates MegaCorp, so she brings an unnecessary lawsuit against them. Her costs are $100 (1 shyster for 5 hours at $20), theirs are $100,000 (100 experts for 5 hours at $200). They win the case and get awarded her costs. The bottom line is that Little Old Lady pays $200 (fee and fine), while MegaCorp pay $99,900 ($100,000 fees less the $100 they're awarded). Enough of these and MegaCorp goes under.

  18. Privacy Corps Call ID Manager on A Whitelist for Phone Calls? · · Score: 1

    We got one of these a few months ago and I think it will do everything to original poster wanted. You can set white and black lists of IDs, then set the device so that it'll allow everything, or only those on thr whitelist, or only block those on the blacklist; with an option for special handling of calls which don't show an ID, and for dealing with a block of numbers from the same area.

    Adding IDs can be as simple as waiting for them to call you and pressing a button.

    You can also set a quiet time where all calls are blocked.

    The only downside we've found is that because of where the box goes in the chain of devices you can no longer see the caller ID on the telephone.

  19. Re:Cool on Safari on Windows, Leopard Debut at WWDC · · Score: 1

    Have you tried printing? It crashes every time when I try it.

  20. Re:Safari 3 on Windows: First Impressions on Safari on Windows, Leopard Debut at WWDC · · Score: 1

    Very importantly it looks unlike anything else running on Windows (except iTunes) - this is, in my opinion, not a good thing. I want certain parts of all applications, such as resizing, to be the same.

    And a couple of trivial points are that it starts with a very funny font, and the status bar and tabs are off by default.

    On the plus side it's not blocked by our internal firewall, so unlike FireFox it can actually get to the Internet.

    And it's useful to have another browser to test pages in.

    But on the whole it doesn't bring anything new to the table.

  21. Re:Contact Information on Company Aims To Patent Security Patches · · Score: 1

    A quick look at the source shows the email addresses in clear plain text.

  22. Re:Please... on RIAA Accused of Extortion & Conspiracy · · Score: 1

    I thought Apple was releasing iAnal later this year.

  23. Re:Optimal solution on Economic Analysis of Toilet Seat Position · · Score: 1

    And the dishes get done at the same time - it's a win-win situation.

  24. Re:The Sun? Don't make me laugh. on Doctor Who To Be Axed, Again · · Score: 1

    Though Little Britain did have a couple of radio series (http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/little_ britain.html) before moving to TV.

  25. Re:This is just retarded on Is Email 'Bankrupt'? · · Score: 1

    1) My post was NOT previously written by Oscar Wilde - to paraphrase Whistler: it will be, Tacokill, it will be.