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  1. Re:"Protest"? on Adbusters Suggests Click Fraud As Protest · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not really.

    This only makes Google more money if Google keeps those false clicks and charges the advertisers, which will undermine its AdSense products.

    And it will cost Google a lot of time and money to validate whether a click is fraud or not if enough people start doing it.

    And you really should do it manually, randomly and intermittently, otherwise Google could just delete a bunch of clicks from the same IP address in short timeframe.

  2. Where's the basketball? on Dinosaurs Could Hold Basketballs, But Not Dribble · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, I did read the friendly article and no where could I see any reference to basketball.

  3. Friends? Classmates? on Website Does Homework For Kids · · Score: 1

    What happens to kids these days?

    When I was in highschool, if I was actually doing homework and stuck, I usually rang up a friend who could help by giving me the answer and I figured out the workings.

    If I wasn't doing homework, I could still go to classes earlier, borrowed a completed homework from friends (with choices of solution techniques) and copied as required.

  4. Probability on Calif. Politican Thinks Blurred Online Maps Would Deter Terrorists · · Score: 1

    If we blurred schools, only schools will be targeted.

    So we should also blur 100 non-schools for every 100 schools blurred, then the chances of a school being targeted will only be half!

    I don't even want to speculate what would happen if we blurred 99 non-schools for every school we blurred.

  5. Re:I lost a router on One Broken Router Takes Out Half the Internet? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which one is true? A lost router took out the whole internet, or you have a wife?

  6. No Stopping on Lawsuit Stops Headline Scraping · · Score: 1
  7. Bigger Jump In TPB on After Monty Python Goes YouTube, Big Jump In DVD Sales · · Score: 0

    If we see 23,000% jump in retail sales, how much do you think it is for TPB downloads?

  8. Re:Of course on Trojan Hides In Pirated Copies of Apple iWork '09 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I can confirmed LittleSnitch works like a charm.

    The site above doesn't provide free download, so I went to an abundantware site called ThePirateBay.org.

    I'm surprised this little germ even comes with pre-whitelist feature and several connections that I've never heard of have already been pre-allowed.

    Truly a time-saver.

  9. Re:Helpful advice?? on The ASP.NET Code Behind Whitehouse.gov · · Score: 1

    Yes that's my point.

    It's somehow disturbing to see people just so easily and readily trust Google.

    Funny how we hardly trust cops who swore an oath to protect us, while we firmly believe in a corporate motto.

  10. Helpful advice?? on The ASP.NET Code Behind Whitehouse.gov · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Many developers use the JQuery from Google's servers for improved performance and lower latency.

    Is this guy serious? Advising Whitehouse.gov to use a remote server to serve javascripts?

  11. Lost Sales > Downloads on 17,000 Downloads Does Not Equal 17,000 Lost Sales · · Score: 1

    Why?

    If someone downloaded a song, she could make a backup and if the original song (with her email in it) was accidentally deleted, she still has the backup.

    If someone bought a CD, and her dog ate it, she'll have to buy again.

    You guys are kidding yourselves if you think that one pirated song equals one lost sales.

  12. Re:When can I pack my bags? on First Earth-Sized Exoplanet May Have Been Found · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This got me thinking:

    If inhabitants there invented faster-than-light space travel, and arrived on Earth thousands of years ago. Eventually their civilization was destroyed by some freak natural disasters and all techs were lost.

    We are just their descendants, now looking at our home planet?

  13. Not common yet.....? on Phishing For Bank Info Without Any Pesky Malware · · Score: 1

    From the friendly article: although he and his research team have not spotted full-blown attacks like this in the wild as yet

    I'm sure they will now after this.

  14. Re:The video sucks on Debian For Android Installer Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just shows Debian booting

    Wrong. It's the new media player, it turns sound wave into text. Can't you hear the 'tuff tuff' music playing?

    The header clearly stated "Here's what it looks like running:", so I have no reason to believe otherwise.

  15. Re:All your fingerprints on Biometric Passports Agreed To In EU · · Score: 1

    It's okay if your fingerprints are belong to you, but not when it's belong to us.

  16. Equally Misleading on Internet Not Really Dangerous For Kids After All · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Internet is still a dangerous place for kids, it's just not as dangerous as what others might have put it.

    I certainly don't want my kids to use this report to tell me it's more dangerous for them to play in the playground across the road than letting them surf net all day.

    The report says child-on-child bullying is more serious a problem to deal with, and I'm sure if they could solve this problem for kids, they would have solved the sexual solicitation problem as well.

  17. Re:Let's see here... on Solving Obama's BlackBerry Dilemma · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    he's still the most powerful man in the world. And you still live in your parents' basement.

    Things might change when Bush has moved out of the White House. Who knows where he's moving into.

    "W, come up for dinner!"

    Or maybe the White House?

  18. Re:Die Spammers!! on Aussie Regulator Comes Down On SMS Spam · · Score: 1

    I want to buy a phone that quizzes the sender somehow. Fail=no-SMS.

    That's probably the fastest way to stop SMS, all SMS. Imagine every time your friend wants to SMS you, your phone will ask something like 1+2=?.

    And this method might actually cost the recipient (more)money. Usually receiving SMS is free, but if you want to quiz, you're sending something out and that's going to cost something.

    I think the best option so far is to get an unlimited SMS plan, so we leave the "cost" part to the provider.

    Then go find a filter app, which moves all not-in-the-contact SMSs to a designated folder.

    Any better suggestions?

  19. Re:Seriously... on iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info · · Score: 1

    What a brilliant idea!

    I've lost countless sleeps because I'm worried that my DRM-free songs might wander away, or get kidnapped by bad guys.

    Now there's a way to identify the rightful owner, and I'm sure honest TPB users will email me songs that I accidentally lost in the torrent sea.

  20. Re:The list on Tech Companies That Won't Survive 2009 · · Score: 1

    NOVL 3.89 -0.11 (-2.75%)
    NTAP 14.18 -0.57 (-3.86%)
    CHKP 21.06 -0.07 (-0.33%)
    MFE 31.48 +0.10 (0.32%)
    CRM 30.85 -0.68 (-2.16%)
    JNPR 17.07 -0.57 (-3.23%)
    CA 18.28 -0.14 (-0.76%)
    AMD 2.52 -0.17 (-6.32%)
    SUN 41.23 -0.92 (-2.18%)
    CTXS 22.34 -0.22 (-0.98%)
    SYMC 13.58 -0.02 (-0.15%)
    VMW 23.75 -1.28 (-5.11%)

  21. Re:Mag 6 is *not* naked eye visible on Comet Lulin Is Moving Closer To Earth · · Score: 4, Funny

    local transformers are located

    Then what? One of them transforms into a telescope when you threaten it with the shotgun?

  22. Wait? on Apple OS X 10.5.6 Update Breaks Some MacBook Pros · · Score: 1

    Waiting on Apple? Look, if you're not the first one to greet and hug your dad, you'll feel less love next time!

    Obviously if your dad is Vista, the first one to greet and hug usually gets smack on the head.

  23. Re:What a fucking stupid idea! on New Font Uses Holes To Cut Ink Use · · Score: 4, Funny

    f u cn rd ths u cn

    I blushed when I read this: "fxxx xxu cxnx, rxdx thxs xxu cxnx"

  24. Re:eve online on How Gamers View Their MMOs · · Score: 1

    Disclaimer: I am a former WoW player and a current EVE player. I am not employed

    How can you afford to keep playing then without income?

  25. Re:we do. on What Happens To Code From Failed Projects? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well they both have the word "Java" on it, probably easy to get confused.

    Tell me about it. I've seen C# codes in C++ folder, probably because they all start with a C and # is just two pluses overlapping.

    I'm only grateful the culprit didn't rename the C++ folder to C# thinking it was a typo.