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  1. Re:K9 is the best I have tried for Windows, and fr on Good Email For Kids? · · Score: 1

    OpenDNS supports blocking a wide range of categories as well and does the blocking at the domain name level. And at least from my personal experience, their name servers tend to be much faster than my own ISPs servers as well.

  2. Never aware? on The Mobile Internet You'll Be Using In 10 Years · · Score: 1

    without us ever being conscious of the massive investment to get to that point

    You must be rich, us middle-class are very aware of how much it costs every time we pay taxes...

  3. Re:I enjoyed them! on Microsoft To Announce Jerry Seinfeld Ads Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I thought the second one was a great parody of how Microsoft can lead to family turmoil.

  4. Re:don't do what? on City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website · · Score: 1

    Let's see, the / page has a title of "New Page 1"... I can see why they're so pitifully trying to hide their website from their public.

  5. Re:First Godwin! on Microsoft Concedes Vista Launch Problems · · Score: 1

    And ironically enough, Hugo Boss AG's website also behaves like a Nazi, using Javascript to hijack the dimensions of one's web browser.

    Nevertheless, we should just leave this topic for dead, Godwin's Law was invoked in the first post...

  6. Re:Chrome iPhone on Chrome Vs. IE 8 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My first question is what web pages define their average? I just fired up vanilla versions of both IE8, Chrome, and Process Explorer and opened the same two tabs: the Facebook login page and Wikipedia (English).

    Process Explorer tells me IE8 is using 389652 KB of memory. Chrome is using 260668 KB of memory. Both have three processing running.

    What the heck, I'll try again. I fully restart both browsers and open up Slashdot and Newgrounds. IE8 with three processes, 465348 KB; Chrome with four processes, 358128 KB.

    Now I upped the ante to 9 tabs, which for brevity, I won't list. IE8 with 6 processes was using 958524 KB and Chrome with 11 processes was using 783840 KB.

    Admittedly, this is a small test to find an average, but what do I need to do to see the difference TFS[ummary] speaks of?

  7. Re:More Evidence for me on Inside India's CAPTCHA Solving Economy · · Score: 1

    Essentially, we humans are yorn, and we need Harika?
    Or perhaps Wells' Morlock and Eloi...

  8. Re:What's This? on Wikipedia Edits Forecast Vice Presidential Picks · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wikipedia's edits forecast the future? Don't they say the same thing about Nostradamus' Les Propheties ?

    What's that? It's easy to see trends from nothing leading to something after the fact..?

  9. Re:Re-education on Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud · · Score: 1

    Looks believable. The field names are (essentially) ID, name, gender, ancestral home, place of birth, office of registration (e.g. Beijing Sports Office), and remarks/comment.

    But, IANC, I only know conversational Japanese and know a little (very little) about Chinese culture.

  10. Re:Uh, what? on Do Subatomic Particles Have Free Will? · · Score: 1

    If there wasn't free will, why would an biological organism pursue goals that are detrimental to its cause? Free will allows the organism to make choices which are self-detrimental.

  11. Re:Police thugs on "War On Terror" Board Game Confiscated In UK · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seeing your comment about ano*** CARRIER LOST ***

  12. Re:German commies on Sharing 2,999 Songs, 199 Movies Is Safe In Germany · · Score: 1

    Sounds to me like someone forgot to pay the German politicians...

  13. Re:Police thugs on "War On Terror" Board Game Confiscated In UK · · Score: 1

    We're talking about Britain, wouldn't it be "because I said so and I have a nightstick"?

  14. Re:No on Let the Games Be Doped · · Score: 1
    Translation to geek:

    This leads to a "tragedy of the hackwar", where players can no longer compete on their own merits without using (potentially malware-ridden) performance enhancing scripts and modifications because everyone else is using them.

    Besides, what's a discussion of games without a video game reference...

  15. Re:Wait a minute... on Password Resets Worse Than Reusing Old password · · Score: 1

    I always go with the 'first pet' route, but unfortunately Catbert seems to hates me now... and he stole my HR job!

  16. Re:And they say ... on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    Kinda how it works here in Arkansas, the "traditional" old bible thumpers get the church in the early morning. At around noon a Hispanic church uses the same building. Then in the evening another group whose church goes by *another* name use the same building for their "contemporary" services. Of course, this is Rednecklandia.

  17. Re:In fairness to software engineering on BSOD Makes Appearance at Olympic Opening Ceremonies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    While we're already off-topic, I've got to agree with the GP, my Windows box BSODs a few times a year (almost always hardware driver failures, particularly the video card). Running Linux on the same machine, I've yet to actually crash it, I've crashed X a few times, but never the OS.

    Of course, if I count the times I've forced Windows to crash using the CrashOnCtrlScroll trick for fun...

  18. Re:(correction, should be "overhyped") on Official Support For PHP 4 Ends · · Score: 2, Informative

    Go to about:config and change the value of layout.spellcheckDefault to 2.

  19. Re:How do I view it without electricity? on Google Earth Used To Predict Electrical Problems · · Score: 1

    Use your wireless laptop on a UPS'ed network, and pray your ISP has UPS/backup power plans.

  20. Re:Because we can on Why Game Developers Go Rogue · · Score: 1

    If F/OSS counts as indie, maybe you should look at the Cube Engine?

  21. Re:In the old days... on A Quasi-Quasicrystal · · Score: 1

    The trend seems to be leading to us getting quasi-quasi-quasicrystals, which will be not unusual.

  22. Re:Where's my GTA SimCity? on Screenshots For New Wii SimCity Released · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly. But of course it only makes sense after the SimCity Societies fiasco.

  23. Re:Open source VoIP alternatives? on More Skype Back Door Speculation · · Score: 1

    While I have used none of these solutions and thus know nothing of their quality or state of development, but Wikipedia lists a number of VoIP software licensed under the GPL or LGPL.

  24. Re:Their initial name: Fakebook on Facebook Sues German Company, Claims Ripoff · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I'll bite the flamebait. You say the soruce presented in the browser by the two sites is similar?
    • studiVZ's homepage is linked to just over 1000 lines of CSS, while Facebook's homepage includes over 2000.
    • studiVZ validates as valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, Facebook fails trying to call itself XHTML 1.0 Strict.

    If the markup is this different, imagine how different the underlining server scripts probably could be. Facebook appears to be powered by PHP (/*.php) but studiVZ is hiding extension and doesn't expose its PHP if that's what it is even using.

  25. Re:Nano materials occur in nature, on Nanomaterials More Dangerous Than We Think · · Score: 5, Funny

    One word, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.