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Comment Needle Eye Camel Bill (Score 1) 413

Still a little way go before Bill's chances improve to pass through the eye of a needle:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%2010:24-10:25&version=KJV

But it looks like he and his wife are at least giving it a try:
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/

Camel: "There's More Than One Way To Do It."
Needle: "No there isn't!"

Comment Degrees of gullibility (Score 1) 1051

Gullibility is in the eye of the beholder.
Close the eye and you lose that gullibility.
Indiscriminate advertising get's what it merits
if it treats all as equally gullible.

All should have the right to divert their eyes away from what is trying to take advantage of them.
Some people have a high tolerance to this "being taken as gullible";
Others less; It's a question of degrees:
Ad-blocking is for those, like me, who are disturbed by indiscriminate advertising
in the same way as Cayce was allergic to brand in Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

Comment Robots don't readily suffer illusions (Score 1) 197

Since robots don't readily suffer illusions ... As a failing peculiar to animate visual systems, visual illusions might be used to distinguish humans from "computer bots", or any other artificial intelligence empowered with a visual capacity. Any such entity is unlikely to suffer the same illusions as our own, unless, of course, it has been specifically engineered to do so. This approach inverts, and complements, the logic of the Turing test: not requiring evidence of an intelligent capacity equivalent to that of human beings, but rather that of a characteristic human failing.

Comment foxItPDF fixIt (Score 4, Informative) 885

Two grumbles for the latest FoxItPDF:
  • the icons don't look red enough to be pdf.
  • It insists in changing the register value for .fdf every time it launches. So if you like to create a new folder by Right-Click N F it no longer works.
Anyone know how to banish shellNew permanently from the Reg? Temporary solution is (last line sets the icon back to adobe's)

REGEDIT4
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.fdf\ShellNew]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FoxitReader.Document\DefaultIcon]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Adobe\\Acrobat 7.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe,1"

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