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  1. Re:Popups? on Why Your Pop-Up Blocker Doesn't Work Anymore · · Score: 1

    I had Opera as my default browser until about a month ago when I chose to clear my history list and all my bookmarks disappeared with the history. This is after an update of Opera earlier that seemed to get rid of my history list. I don't know if this is an isolated incident or not, but it was enough to send me back to Firefox even though I hate their ideology.

  2. Even Worse on Snakelike Robot To Treat Soldiers During Battle · · Score: 1

    Snake robot hacked to perform colon exam. I'm just saying...

  3. Re:malware.... on Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension · · Score: 1

    I have more questions. How is Microsoft making a Firefox extension any different from Firefox having an ActiveX extension or IE Tabs? Are only certain people allowed to make Firefox extensions? Is there no choice to exclude the extension in the "custom install"?

  4. Re:Adsense Still Works on Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful · · Score: 1

    Does that mean if a virus writer pays for ad space, the writer's site won't get flagged as a potentially harmful site?

  5. Re:Accountability on Monster.com Data Stolen, Won't Email Users · · Score: 1

    It's a "she". And the second statement is an explanation of what the first statement implies. That is, by charging a fee to be unlisted, not only are they denying customers the opt-in method, but they're charging them for the opt-out.

  6. Re:Accountability on Monster.com Data Stolen, Won't Email Users · · Score: 3, Funny

    Then the joke's on them because if they take away my first born, my phone bill's going way down...

  7. Re:Destined to the "ungratifying"? on Obama To Launch Website For Tracking Tax Expenditures · · Score: 1

    Why should a lazy scumbag like you get preference over a woman trying to raise eight children? Nine people are at stake, as opposed to one.

    I'm sure you feel the question is unfair because you're not a lazy scumbag. But you made your declarations about them even though the only thing you knew is they requested government assistance. So by your own rules, you're a lazy scumbag too.

  8. Re:Overload on Obama To Launch Website For Tracking Tax Expenditures · · Score: 1

    I'm just wondering how they're going to find a way to make this site depend on Google. They managed it with Change.gov and Whitehouse.gov. Maybe they can make a new service called Google Taxes (beta).

  9. Re:Flawed theory on After Monty Python Goes YouTube, Big Jump In DVD Sales · · Score: 1

    One of the teens watched "A Goofy Movie" on YouTube and liked it enough to request that I buy it on one of my DVD shopping sprees. I did. So they made a sale. Oddly enough, the same teen specifically said, "don't get 'An Extremely Goofy Movie'". So no sale, by the same principle. But I wasn't going to get either one so they made one more sale than they would have. So the weird thing about this is, if this is a general case, the movie companies would make more money by putting all of their good movies on YouTube for free and keeping the bad ones off of YouTube. One final note, the teen also wanted one of the songs from the movie soundtrack. The Tevin Campbell song. The rest of the soundtrack was considered crap or pants or something. Apparently, the record company knows this because they made the two Tevin Campbell songs "Album Only" and the rest can be purchased individually. No sale. But they could have had two song sales if they weren't idiots.

  10. Re:Accountability on Monster.com Data Stolen, Won't Email Users · · Score: 1

    In Kansas City, they charge you a small fee to have an unlisted number, so it's not opt-in here. And on top of that, they charge you for the opt-out.

  11. Re:Fracking Halleluja on Texas Board of Education Supports Evolution · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I understand that you believe in evolution and you don't believe in God, and maybe you think the two are mutually exclusive. But would you agree that, if there are weaknesses in the theory, discussion of the weaknesses should be swept under the rug because it's your favorite theory?

  12. Re:Asperger's syndrome on UK Judge Grants Extradition Review To Cracker Gary McKinnon · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the IT guys who use default passwords are the same IT guys who can't figure out how to set up an email account for the president...

  13. Re:Am I missing something? on Obama Staffers Followed Palin's Email Lead On Inauguration Day · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I can set up a new email account on my server faster than I can set up a g-mail account. All I have to do is click a few links and type the username. If they actually had any reason to use g-mail rather than their own email server, something is really wrong.

  14. Re:bloodwork on Nano-motors For Microbots · · Score: 1

    My guess is they'd end up as a death machine network first, and cure for heart disease later. And it will be patented. But the bootleg version from china will be available for less and include an FM radio.

  15. Re:Think Of The Children! on Child Online Protection Act Appeal Rejected · · Score: 1

    So stop calling it "tame erotic websites" and start calling it MTV.com.

  16. Re:Protect kids from "harmful material" on Child Online Protection Act Appeal Rejected · · Score: 1

    The children would be in more danger if you don't let them have the pornography. Then they'll have to use their cellphones to make their own, and they'll all be listed as sexual predators...

  17. Re:11 years later and still squirming/ on Child Online Protection Act Appeal Rejected · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't just how long it takes to get removed. The problem is it was able to get there in the first place, even though so many people could easily see what it does to us. That's the deficiency.

  18. Re:This is why scruples are good on Belkin's President Apologizes For Faked Reviews · · Score: 1

    There are other ways to "get to the top" rather than having to cheat your way up there.

    That's right. You can also buy your way to the top or whore your way to the top.

  19. Re:hmmmm on One In 100 Carry Mutation For Heart Disease · · Score: 1

    It's also "MySpace" in text message talk.

  20. Re:stuff that will fail in 2009 on Technologies To Watch Fail In 2009 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think that's because it's easier to figure out what doesn't work, than it is to figure out what does work. It's like trying to pick which runner will lose the race instead of picking the winner. If you have 10 runners, you have a 90% chance of picking a loser and a 10% chance of picking a winner.

  21. Re:Not technologies that will fail on Technologies To Watch Fail In 2009 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's really wild is your entire post is the same kind of "microblog" stuff that you just said doesn't matter.

  22. Re:New screen resolution a few days before release on Agora Android Phone Delayed By Glitches · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Regardless of whose fault it is, they did one thing right that no American company or Sony would ever do. That is, after they realized their product wasn't ready, they actually went back to the drawing board instead of shipping the thing anyway.

  23. Re:amazing on Ubuntu Download Speeds Beat Windows XP's · · Score: 1

    I think you're the one who's bullshit. I have a Windows XP computer with 512 megabytes of ram. It had 1 gigabyte of ram until one of my chips went bad. It slows down noticeably. And don't get me started on what happens when I start Firefox.

  24. Re:Or on How Microsoft Beats GNU/Linux In Schools · · Score: 1

    I honestly believe that whole "If you don't like it, build it yourself!" attitude has something to do with it. Windows, regardless of the criticism, caters to end users way more than Linux does. And they need all of their hardware to work right now. They don't have time to wait for a driver to be reverse engineered. And they can't be bothered by things like ODF and Ogg. And after all that, maybe some of that antitrust stuff.

  25. Re:Keygens on Trojan Found At Torrent Sites Insists "Downloading Is Wrong" · · Score: 1

    I used to run keygens and then use GoBack. I've also tried "Run As" and just ran them as a user without administration status. Now I just buy my software. I personally think, of those three options, the "Run As" option is best.