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  1. Re:Chocomize! on How Google Trends & News Pollute the Web · · Score: 1

    /. articles are not just duplicates: editors always write a new summary of each story underlying points of interests from the original article and asking the right question about what the article implies for people interested in its subject.

  2. Re:Chocomize! on How Google Trends & News Pollute the Web · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They could detect articles that are duplicates of previous articles and penalize that.

  3. Chocomize! on How Google Trends & News Pollute the Web · · Score: 4, Funny

    His point is to write an article about how people will write articles about Chocomize to draw traffic to their site because Chocomize shows up in google trends. It allows him to use many words from google trends inside said article (I didn't count the occurences of the word "Chocomize", but I had never seen so many occurences of this word in a single page), thus drawing attention to his article.

    Chocomize.

  4. Re:Plone... awful on Plone 3 Multimedia · · Score: 1

    Your post looked insightful but lost all its credibility the moment you typed the word "Joomla" in the same sentence as the word "better".

  5. Re:What about Justin Bieber on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Internet · · Score: 1

    I'd answer your question, but as I have already blocked him I couldn't see your comment.

  6. I don't really understand on MeeGo, Zero To VT320 In Seventeen Seconds · · Score: 1

    Could you clarify you point by using a FUEL/Car analogy?

  7. Re:Good News is... on Parasite Correlated With World Cup Success · · Score: 1

    But the process is very heavily weighted for European countries.

    All of Asia - four slots representing 3.88 billion people.

    Europe - 13 slots for .731 billion people.

    With 17 times more people as a pool of potential player, asian teams should have a much larger number of excellent players than european teams.

  8. Re:Like how in the 80's Prince was hip... on Prince Says Internet Is Over · · Score: 1

    I agree with your car analogy, but I seriously doubt there was anything that insightful in what Prince said.

  9. Re:Batteries on New Material Can Store Vast Amounts of Energy · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Two reasons for SSL on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 1

    The Certificate Patrol extension for Firefox will. It'll tell you when a certificate changes and whether it should (e.g. whether it was near its expiration, and whether the issuer has changed).

    This shouldn't need an extension.

  11. I wanted to install an app... on Fifth of Android Apps Expose Private Data · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wanted to install an app that managed sms, and it asked for permission to access my messages!

    It goes without saying that I immediately canceled the installation.

  12. Re:This trademark has been mocked from day one on ThinkGeek's Best Ever Cease-and-Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    The green white meat!

  13. Re: samzenpus: on How Sperm Whales Offset Their Carbon Footprint · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would not accept suicide advices from someone who never did any successful attempt.

  14. Re:No more Fireflock. What next? on Flock Switches To Chromium For New Beta · · Score: 1

    They don't seem to be leading the market in features at all any more

    They haven't for several years now.

  15. Re:There are only three sports on Digitally Filtering Out the Drone of the World Cup · · Score: 1, Troll

    Racing is never a sport if motors are involved.

  16. Re:Joomla is evil. on Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide · · Score: 1

    Excuse me for not being born in an english speaking country.

  17. Re:Joomla is evil. on Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide · · Score: 1

    The main reason for using something else is security. The model is deeply flawed, and new security breaches are discovered every other day.
    Add to this the fact that updates are non-trivial, especially when you use 3rd party extensions (extensions that are the root of most security breaches. Close second is the media manager), and you can conclude that using joomla is an even worse idea if you're not a developper.

    As an lternative, I suggest Drupal. A little harder to understand at first (may need 2-3 hours toying around and reading docs before you're familiar with most concepts), but much more secure and powerful.

  18. Joomla is evil. on Joomla! 1.5 Beginner's Guide · · Score: 1

    Seriously, don't use it.

    You know how c developpers look down on c++ developpers, and c++ developpers look down on java developpers, and java developpers look down on php developpers?

    php developpers look down the same way on joomla developpers.

  19. Re:Does anyone actually use that? on My Location the Next Google Privacy Controversy? · · Score: 1

    I just hope the rental company doesn't know I'm having to drive a kilometer over their daily limit each time, (I drive it in reverse for one KM on the way back!)

    500m should be enough.

  20. Re:more books on Drupal 6 Attachment Views · · Score: 1

    There's a lot of great things about Drupal, but completeness of documentation isn't one of them.

    It's still the most documented open source cms with this level of functionnality. Anyone who ever read the documentation for ezpublish would agree.

  21. Re:Linux in our labs on Most Useful OS For High-School Science Education? · · Score: 1

    Plus one for some kind of linux.

    There are chances that they already use windows or mac computers at home, so I think it may be more useful for them to get to be familiar with linux if they run into it later.

  22. Re:Its better than current alternative on Facebook, Zynga Sign Long-Term Virtual Currency Deal · · Score: 1

    yes.

  23. Re:Its better than current alternative on Facebook, Zynga Sign Long-Term Virtual Currency Deal · · Score: 1

    i'd rather pay the 30% fee (which is invisible to end-user anyway)

    Not so invisible, Zynga may just raise all their prices by 30% as they migrate to facebook credits.

  24. Re:Nuke it. on Gulf Oil Spill Nearing Loop Current · · Score: 1

    Furthermore, AFAIK, the effects of a nuclear bomb on underwater sea life are basically unknown.

    As opposed to the effects of millions of tons of oil on underwater sea life, wich are very well known: it kills it.

  25. Re:Pointing Stick? on Pointing Stick Keyboard Roundup · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Depends on who can hear you.

    Friends: Keyboard Clit
    Coworkers: Keyboard Nipple
    Boss: Pointing Stick.