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  1. Re:...and? on LiveJournal Introduces "Sponsored Content" · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nevermind that to see the ads, you actually have to go and search them out, since the banners are in the community pages themselves, or you get them if you decide to use those newfangled features. It's all opt-in.

    There was also an uproar when they introduced Plus accounts, which were also introduced as opt-in, and have so far remained that way. I don't see anyone complaining about those now, and even though I have a few friends with Plus accounts I've yet to see a single ad from them.

  2. Re:Sigh.. on Microsoft Retracts Private Folder Option · · Score: 1

    So, uh, in other words, use a password to gain access to your password?

  3. Re:Frog soup on Convicted Hacker Adrian Lamo Refuses to Give Blood · · Score: 1

    That sentence is, in fact, part of a longer saying. I've heard many versions, so I don't know which one is the original, but it goes something like this:

    When they came for the jews, I didn't say anything, because I wasn't a jew. When they came for the homosexuals, I said nothing, because I wasn't a homosexual. When they came for other groups, I said nothing. When they came for me, there was no one left to say anything for me.

  4. Re:Does it make coffee too?? on Self-Heating Coffee Cans Recalled · · Score: 1

    It doesn't, however, run Linux. So don't get your hopes up.

  5. Re:it is a terrible name for the u.s. market on Developers React To 'Wii' · · Score: 1

    If you're so terribly ashamed of owning something named "Wii",

    a) you have more important things to be worried about than a silly name;
    b) it's not like you're gonna have to shout to the world that you own one;
    c) why the hell did you buy it in the first place?

  6. Re:I generally don't like Gonzales on New Internet Regulation Proposed · · Score: 1
    The proposed law is called the Child Pornography and Obscenity Prevention Amendments of 2006.

    The CPOPA? But that doesn't sound flashy or patriotic or even remotely incendiary. This legislation will thus fail.

  7. I thought they were talking about Pi on Fundamental Constant Possibly Inconsistent · · Score: 1

    Whoa, talk about a vague summary title.

    I mean, what happens when you read "Fundamental Constant Possibly Inconsistent" while the big Pi icon is in plain sight right next to it?

    *shudder*

  8. Re:L'iPod on France To Force iTunes to Open to Other Players? · · Score: 2, Funny

    You newbie. I can write wrong in more languages than you can possibly imagine.

  9. Re:Triple? on First Impressions Count in Website Design · · Score: 1

    That's nothing. I'm sure the fourth post is already up for subscribers to read in advance.

  10. Re:Portable -- nice on Hacking the Fluorescent Light · · Score: 1
    Kind of hard to clean up shattered glass tubing.

    I assume you haven't heard of the contraption usually known as "broom."

  11. Cross Skiing? on Cross Skilling Across Multi-OS Platforms? · · Score: 1

    Am I the only one who read that as "Cross Skiing"?

    Though, on the other hand, Cross Skilling would certainly feel like a super slalom or something.

  12. Re:G forces on Excursions at the Speed of Light · · Score: 1

    Red Mage? Is that you?

  13. Re:Safari's builtin RSS reader and Firefox on Firefox 1.1 Boasts New Features · · Score: 1

    Sage, however, is an extension that needs to be installed separately. It's not the task of the Mozilla team to improve it, but the task of the Sage developer(s).

  14. Re:Demo it? on OpenOffice vs. MS Office for Education? · · Score: 1
    Openoffice has this thing called *network install*, once it has been installed on a main server all that is needed is to install small user files, if you can click next, next, next then you can do it in less than 10 seconds. I can install OOo on 50 computers in less than 45 mins.

    And if you don't have a network, you can just run around like mad, pop the CD in, press Return a few dozen times as fast as you can, pop the CD out and dash to the next computer.

    Plus you burn a few calories that way.

  15. Re:If there wasn't a Dark Force already... on Fermilab Reports Dark Energy Not Needed · · Score: 1

    And 22 years later, he'd invent Dark Midichlorians.

  16. Re:It gets better ! on date +%s Turning 1111111111 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    01:49:16 (The squares of 0 through 4) 03:14:16 (Pi. Duh) 16:18:03 (The Golden Ratio) 09:02:10 (For fans of Aaron Spelling's productions)

  17. Re:Frightening, ? on Build Your Own Bluetooth Sniper Rifle · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Fear not"? While a disregard for ballistics might make the sniper miss your head, the bullet could as well end up going through your torso or legs or what-have-you.

    It's like saying, "dude, I'm gonna die," and someone quickly correcting you, "no, you'll just be lethally wounded with an actual chance of survival."

  18. Re:Great, now all we need on Digital Life and Evolution · · Score: 1

    Creating and improving our potential and eventual downfall doesn't really strike me as "intelligent", personally.

  19. Re:Monitoring is not the same as influencing... on Monitoring the U.S. Elections Online? · · Score: 1
    The resultes don't change by knowing them sooner.

    But you can bitch about them before anyone else.

  20. Re:How about a word processor that smacks the user on Time to Kill Microsoft Word? · · Score: 1

    A nice idea, if you want to smack roughly an 80% of the student population to death.

  21. Headline on Need A New Retina? Look No Further · · Score: 1
    Need A New Retina? Look No Further

    Phew, that's a good thing. My retina was on its last legs already, and I couldn't look any further even if I tried.

  22. After so long of using Mozilla... on Microsoft Is Planning To Renew IE Development · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's this... "Internet Explorer" you speak of?

    Oh, you mean the frontend I use for Windows Update?

  23. Re:The price and the data rate on 70 Megapixel Webcam · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If it takes that long to shoot an entire cylinder, what prevents stuff from appearing twice in the picture, if it's quick enough? I mean, you could stand in front of the camera until it's got enough of you in the picture, and then run to the opposite spot so it scans you again, or some weird maneuver like that.

    Just imagine a single, puny UFO blazing at random through the sky. When the Pentagon gets ahold of the picture, they'll think a horde of aliens are gonna invade us.