User: patricksken

Re:Great. Now prove the two are connected.

On: Uncensored Media Considered Harmless

I guess what was to be proved is that saying that Doom etc. caused violence to increase is nonsense.
It's the same as saying that showing a bare leg or a naked breast in movies causes more rapes.

Patrick

So does CNET

On: New Virus Bombards Mobile Phones With Junk Calls

From the Yahoo link :
In addition, the worm sends a message to a so-called short messaging service (SMS) gateway that converts text messages to voice and sends them to mobile phone users.
SMS does not convert text messages to voice. SMS only does text (and only text) messages.

(my A$0.02)
Patrick

Re:Hawking is overrated

On: Black Holes' Growth Measured

hear, hear... cheers patrick

Please Moderate This Up

On: Shut Down Metallica, Not Napster

Come on, Moderators. By leaving this post as a troll, a lot of ./-ers won't even look at this (and the replies to it)

Just my $.02

cheers
patrick

Re:Comments from a new user, *certainly* unpopular

On: Netscape 6 Preview Release

But Mozilla/NT isn't good enough at this point to call it beta.

This isn't Mozilla, it's Netscape Beta (a pre-release of a commercial product).

patrick

M$ Office / Linux (offtopic)

On: AOL Nation

StarOffice ?