Comment Re:Wow...shortest beta ever (Score 1) 296
right-click -> block content
and then hit the details button for fine tuning . . .
I have to admit I don't use FF, so no idea how sophisticated their extension is . . .
Comment Re:Karma Whoring Post (Score 1) 245
Technically for #14, your just restarting the printer que.
and you're not going to get far with
Restart
try
restart
Comment Re:So where's the "close" button this time? (Score 1) 291
I don't think 'typo' means what you think it means . . .
Comment Re:No thanks (Score 1) 157
Aw jeez I totally missed out on an opportunity to call it "Xbooks Live"
Apparently not . . .
Comment Re:Childish (Score 3, Insightful) 529
Wild guess here, but probably because someone with mod points thought it was funny.
No surprise you're posting as AC with such ludicrous leaps of logic . . .
Comment Re:What a coincidence (Score 1) 473
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slightly off-topic but there's been no such thing as Yugoslavia since about 1995 and probably before (the Balkan wars of that period make an exact date for the breakup of the Yugoslav Republic difficult).
Comment Re:This assumes... (Score 1) 930
If 1 in 100,000 people cannot properly operate a device and there's a fair chance of a class action lawsuit then you can bet your ass the problem is with the person!
Comment Re:Impressive (Score 1) 701
Bullshit that can be backed up with data truly shines.
If it can be backed up with data in what sense is it bullshit?
Comment Re:All I can really say is... (Score 1) 262
??
Nerds don't like heroin addiction? Shucks I've been doing it wrong!
Comment Re:Just think before you share (Score 1) 494
If you sacrifice security and/or privacy for convenience, that is your problem (or in this case your sister's).
Well that's exactly the point - I didn't sacrifice my privacy, in fact I respect it enough not to have an account on either Facebook or MySpace or Bebo or any of the others. However I can not control everyone I know and the worrying thing in the example I gave was that someone else sacrificed my privacy without my consent.
Comment Re:Just think before you share (Score 5, Interesting) 494
As always the issue here is not the type of information (data valuable to divorce lawyers) but the context in which it is gathered (Facebook search unbeknownst to the poster). And once again the usual responses will be - a) Poster is stupid, and b) Facebook is evil.
I tend to think that so long as you are empowered to share or not to share then all is well. With Facebook this is not the case. My sister shared a reasonably embarrassing photo of me with some mutual friends (some of which I work with) which was then shared with my whole building by whatever networking effect took over - nice!. I was not in control of this. Now you can argue that she could have done this pre-social networking site era - but she couldn't simple because she is not in physical contact with 99.5% of people in my building. Social networking makes ones dis-empowerment that much more pervasive.
Submission + - LHC smashes beam collision record (bbc.co.uk) 2
siloko writes: The world's highest-energy particle accelerator has produced a record-breaking particle collision rate — about double the previous record. The collider is now generating around 10,000 particle collisions per second, according to physicist Andrei Golutvin. Ramping up the funding rhetoric Mike Lamont told BBC News "It's clear that the LHC is the new boy in town, but in two years running we're going to put Fermilab out of business". As a neutral all I can say is the more collisions the better!
Submission + - Google crumble in the face of Chinese pressure? (bbc.co.uk)
siloko writes: Google appear to have backed down in their ongoing battle with China over censorship. After months of enjoying automatic redirection to their non-censored Hong Kong site Chinese users will now have to follow a link to the Hong Kong site making the uncensored results a bigger pain to access. Google's license to operate in China expires tomorrow so one presumes this concession is part of a negotiated deal ensuring they can continue doing business.
Comment Re:I dont need it. (Score 1, Insightful) 602
He said spectator sports sucked.
er you seem to be having trouble with reading comprehension. A spectator sport is a sport which attracts spectators e.g. Almost any mainstream sport. This is not the same as being a sports spectator. The GP was commenting on the type of sport (spectator sport) and not those watching it and saying that they suck. This seems like a blanket statement that deserved the ridicule it got!
Submission + - FBI facebook scraping in action! (bbc.co.uk)
siloko writes: It seems that the FBI's datamining operation on Facebook has scored a hit with the prevention of an alleged attack on a school in the UK. From the article on the BBC:
Armed police were called to St Aelred's Catholic Technology College in Newton-le-Willows on Friday after reports someone had made threats to kill there. The United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation raised the alarm after picking up a threat posted on social networking site Facebook. A 19-year-old man was arrested and later released on bail.
