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TorstenH. wrote: bro
Want to come over for some game cube and natty ice?
Martin Fowler wrote: Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
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I was too busy working 40 minutes ago... 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I have lately been wanting to submit a bill to the US Congress requiring Pi to equal "3", and abolish the rule requiring that triangles have only 3 sides, since the current rules discriminate against four-sided triangles. Given the current (absence of) logical thought in Washington these days, they might actually consider it...
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I wanted to read what seemed an interesting post [^] that I got via a friend on NewScientist about Homo Sapiens interbreeding with other species. On following that link I was given a registering page. It was surprising because normally posts could be read without doing that.
I don't understand the reasoning behind forcing registration, especially free registration, especially for certain posts. Could some one enlighten me on that please?
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So they can send you spam, and sell your email address to others who want to send spam.
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But no one in their right mind would give their real contact, right? They(sites) won't care then?
I understand if that's done on lowly sites but sites of repute doing that is bad. Bad.
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Certain sites are wising up to the temp mail accounts like 10MinuteMail or Mailinator and won't let you sign up using one of their email addresses.
The b*stards!
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Yup, I have created more fake emails than I can think of solely for such purposes but have forgotten the login id and passwords (hence that many)! I hope yahoo and gmail would deactivate such accounts after some time of inactivity.
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The beauty of running your own email server. I can add any address to my actual domain, go through all the sign-up malarky, then delete the account.
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I'm sure I saw a page recently on yahoo that would let me create a temp alias for my email address. The reasoning being that I could track which temp addresses I gave to who, so I'd know who was passing them on by which one's got spammed, and be able to deactivate any of these aliases at will.
Pete
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That is why sites nowadays will just rarely sign you up: the registering sites will send you an email before allowing you access, and you have to come in using the confirmation link that they send.
To prove it, sign up for a site using a silly name. Then wait and see how long it takes before spam using that name appears in your inbox. You will be amazed and probably disgusted at how quickly it starts.
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JavedFeroze wrote: about Homo Sapiens interbreeding with other species
Sure that was from a reputable site? 
And sometimes when you're on, you're really f***ing on
And your friends they sing along and they love you
But the lows are so extreme that the good seems f***ing cheap
And it teases you for weeks in its absence
Rilo Kiley - "A Better Son/Daughter"
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JavedFeroze wrote: I don't understand the reasoning behind forcing registration, especially free registration, especially for certain posts. Could some one enlighten me on that please?
To keep away the Neanderthals?
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
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GuyThiebaut wrote: To keep away the Neanderthals?
Obviously racists.
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." ~ Albert Einstein
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If they want me to register then I go back to Google and look for another answer elsewhere. I sometimes wonder how much CodeProject have made from my personal details being given to other interested parties? Denials, of course, are ten to the dozen. I read those everywhere. 
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I immediately close the window and put it on my mental list of sites to never go back to.
The problem with borrowing money from China is 30 mins. later you feel broke again.
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you've seen that at my place ain't ya? Same here.
regards Torsten
I never finish anyth...
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Because that particular site started out many, many, many ......... years ago as a dead tree publication. It still is, and you can buy it at a newsagent, have it delivered if you take out a paid subscription both paths will get you access to the articles on the day of publication or you can get access to certain articles before the general public but after full subscribers and get a weekly newsletter, if you wish, which will alert you to new discoveries and even if it will not give you access to their article it will tell you that there is something you might want to search on.
So full subscription, access on day of publication, internet subscription access a short while later, no subscription access even later. Simples.
For that particular organization, that is their business model. If you don't like it, then don't sign up to it.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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So they can boast on how many members they have (and growing!).
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Not so much boasting...more like telling their advertisers "Look, we have 2.3 million registered users. Of course we're going to charge you more for advertising on our pages."
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They might just want to see who is interested in interspecies? Might be something to keep track of...
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. "
— Hunter S. Thompson
My comedy.
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Of all the ialities, I have the best iality. 
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Sci-Fi fans can breathe a sigh of relief (SFW):
Total Recall Remake[^]
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Transvestites - Roberts in Disguise!
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