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  1. Re:You can't have their email address on Google Challenges Facebook Over User Address Books · · Score: 2, Insightful

    god i hate facebook

  2. Re:You can't have their email address on Google Challenges Facebook Over User Address Books · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah because i'm the only one in the world with my name

  3. Re:You can't have their email address on Google Challenges Facebook Over User Address Books · · Score: -1, Redundant

    my brother can ask me or search for my name. it also works as a filtering mechanism so people you don't know that well can't ask to be friends

  4. Re:You can't have their email address on Google Challenges Facebook Over User Address Books · · Score: 3, Insightful

    use another email for facebook so your real email remains clean while you're at it, run facebook in a separate browser (that is only for facebook) so they can't track all your activities and link them to your account (or other websites knowing who you are from your facebook cookies (or some other way they use to track you)).

  5. Re:Lies. on Want Flash Player On a MacBook Air? Download It Yourself · · Score: 1

    I meant if you don't want to install flash and then install flash block :) I uninstalled flash from my mac but I have chrome in case I need it for something...

  6. Re:Lies. on Want Flash Player On a MacBook Air? Download It Yourself · · Score: 1

    If you install google chrome, it has it's own built-in flash player in case you need flash for some reason.

  7. Re:It almost makes me sad to have sold my ps3. on PS3 Jailbreaks Galore Released · · Score: 1

    I want to agree with you so much, but people will still buy it.

  8. Re:Let's see if I've got this right on 'Leap Seconds' May Be Eliminated From UTC · · Score: 2, Informative

    As long as the moon exists, earth will still slow down in the long run...

  9. Re:Not using Cisco ACLs on Stupid Data Center Tricks · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have done this error before :)

    What surprised me was that the linksys router assigned IP numbers up thorough the uplink connection. I thought that was impossible, guess not.

  10. Re:Expensive on Updated Mac Mini Aims For the Living Room · · Score: 1

    I completely agree with you, I'm just saying the price difference between the mini and the macbook should be greater. The macbook is a good deal. The mini is a ripoff.

  11. Re:Expensive on Updated Mac Mini Aims For the Living Room · · Score: 1

    Good info, but the cheapest zino doesn't have wifi, etc. So it's not a direct comparison. The cheapest dual core zino with wifi is $500 so the price difference isn't as much.

    And there is no ubuntu preinstalled option (I'm not paying for windows). I will buy a zino as soon as there is a no OS or ubuntu preinstalled option.

    The mac mini is ridiculous though because for a little bit more you can get a macbook (so keyboard, trackpad, battery, and screen are only a few hundred? and it's portable or you can hook it up to an external monitor and use it as a mini)

    It just makes the cheapest macbook look like a good deal.

  12. Re:big nothing on Apple Eases Restrictions On iPhone Developers · · Score: 1

    yeah but the one application i care about (google voice) was not approved so i switched to an android phone.

  13. Re:The men who sent us to the Moon on MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks · · Score: 1

    You have to do a scientific study. Start an alternate universe except that kids had computers and see if they would have sent us to the moon sooner or later? Otherwise you really don't know.

  14. Re:Refuse to test it on Safari 5 Released · · Score: 1

    don't be an ass, he wanted to update iTunes and it wanted to install safari, who cares what the program is called.

  15. Re:Apparently it's even faster than Chrome 5 on Safari 5 Released · · Score: 1

    Also when you go back in firefox, it doesn't reload the page, it uses the cache. I hate that about safari.

  16. Re:Protect Google's Data! on Google Rolls Out Encrypted Web Search Option · · Score: 1

    You're point is well made. (Not to go off topic, but I use my own laptop for precisely that reason (we had to come to an agreement of course). If that weren't an option, I would load a live Ubuntu CD, do my business, reboot when done.)

  17. Re:Protect Google's Data! on Google Rolls Out Encrypted Web Search Option · · Score: 1

    Doesn't it mean that if a search for a medical condition at work my employers can't see it? That has value.

  18. Re:Android please on HP Confirms Slate To Run WebOS · · Score: 1

    they are selling on amazon.de

  19. Re:Android please on HP Confirms Slate To Run WebOS · · Score: 1

    Waiting for someone to make a good quality, aesthetically-pleasing and ergonomic tablet with Android as its OS. No tablet for me until then.

    Here you go http://wetab.mobi/en

  20. Re:Anti-trust on Android Sales Surpass iPhone Sales · · Score: 1

    Also, AT&T and T-Mobile use different 3G frequencies so you can't just switch between the two and keep 3G on the same phone (Edge will work fine though).

  21. Re:An observation on Moore's Law Will Die Without GPUs · · Score: 1

    I was merely trying to point out that laws offer no explanation. If an explanation was offered, we get a theory. Newton had laws of motion. Einstein had the theory of gravity. One attempts and explanation the rather does not. So Just calling it an observation isn't as devastating a blow to a law as one might think.

    It fits a law because it it predictive and simple.

  22. Re:An observation on Moore's Law Will Die Without GPUs · · Score: 1

    It's a perfect example of a law. It offers no explanation and it predicts. Take Newton's laws of motion. They are just observations too in the same sense that you use it.

  23. Re:Open? on No Verizon Partnership For Google's Nexus One · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much of this is Apple telling Verizon that if they ever want the iPhone, they can't support the Nexus One, just to stick it to Google... (pure speculation)

  24. Re:AFK 4 realz on Best Alternatives To the Big Name Social Media? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What if I don't want to travel 5,000 miles everyday to see how all my friends are?

  25. Re:Oh really? on Confessions of a SysAdmin · · Score: 1

    How long before she gets an email from a Nigerian prince and falls for it?
    I'm not trying to be funny or cruel.