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  1. It's all good until... on IBM Unveils Anti-Spam Services to Stop Spammers · · Score: 1

    ...a valid e-mail from a company gets tagged as spam and then everyone who receives e-mail from that company starts attacking it back.
    The main question here is who/what defines what's spam or not?

  2. Re:Strange fonts? on Wisconsin Researchers Create Nano-Bio-Circuits · · Score: 1

    I was looking for the strange fonts too. Maybe the editor thinks Arial or Helvetica are strange. Maybe he's using IE which, as mentioned before, has issues with CSS.

  3. Re:Cost ? on Breakthrough in solar photovoltaics · · Score: 0, Troll

    That wouldn't work. You gotta factor the price of the environmental problems the Solar Power Plant will cause.
    Someone will setup one up in California and it'll cast a shadow on an ant hill of a protected species of ant, or the solar films will be too warm for birs to sit on them... - that'll be enough to sue them and pull the plug
    It's CA, you know - there are tons of environmentalists around and one of them will find a problem with the power plant.

  4. Re:Celeron != G4 on Mac mini to PC Hack · · Score: 1

    Wanna benchmark it? Please don't do it counting how many times it can add, multiply, etc. No Gigaflops, etc.

    Get an off the shelf product, like After FX, Maya, Lightwave or Photoshop and run a series of performance tests in both computers. Now tell me when a Mac will win from a PC - I'm talking Intel or AMD, and talking AMD64 too running 32 bit apps. I'm yet to see a benchmark that proves me that the price per (volume/speed) - whatever unit of comparison you wanna use - justifies me buying a Mac.

    Even though I'm thinking about getting a Mini because "it's cool". Not because it's fast or anything, because I am sure it won't beat my P4 nor my laptop (similar cubic area w/o screen/keyboard).

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    Sigless on Sundays

  5. Almost - it's the world maps that are upside down on Quake Changes Earth's Rotation, Moves Islands · · Score: 2, Funny

    The northern hemisphere is heavier, and as such, forces all continents to move "downwards". It's called gravity.

    Why else would all the continents have tips on their upper part, as if the mass was dripping down? (turn your maps upside down to see this!).

    Happy Holidays!
    http://www.origamy.com.br/xmas2005

  6. Can you hear me now? on FCC to Allow Wireless Access on Planes · · Score: 1

    Can you hear me now?
    You're breaking up!
    Is it better now?

    After that we'll discuss if it's annoying or not...
  7. If you come from a 3rd world country... on Kryptonite U-Lock Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    ...you'd NEVER buy a lock like that!!!

    It has NO key code. All you need is a circular device to push the spheres off so the center so the lock can open.

    I'm from Brazil and I laughed when I bought a lock like that for my bike here in the US. I then told my co-workers around 3 years ago of many ways to open them (not a Bic Pen, though). They laughed, but were scared at my comments.

    Why am I not surprised to hear about Kriptonyte locks today on the Internet?

    -alexander

  8. Re:Toolbar Integration on Google Releases Gmail Notifier · · Score: 1

    I indeed agree. I don't need yet another app - just integrate it into the existing one.