Disqus - Latest Comments for Hubert

Re: How Many Friends Is Too Many?

Hubert — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 21:59:58 -0000

I'm 27 and I have 121 friends on Facebook. I've observed that people who are older than me tend to have less, and younger people tend to have more friends added than I do. 300+ seems common for people who are still at university.

It's like the average number of friends is inversely proportional to age.

Personally, I only add people that I actually know in real life, that I would say hello to if I met them on the street.

Re: Britain Works to Ban Pedophiles From Facebook

Hubert — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:18:31 -0000

A complete waste of time due to the extreme ease with which new email addresses can be created, as you point out. Criminalising the use of 'non-registered' email addresses should not be necessary, as any actual solicitation would be a crime already.

Implementing this is a waste of time and money on everyone's behalf.

This is another case of unjustified public hysteria leading to the police and government wanting to be seen to be doing something.

Research shows that the danger from online predators is greatly exaggerated: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/02/f...

PS: I think you mean foolproof, not 'full proof'

Re: Apple Macbook Pro Freezing when Switching Application with Command+Tab

Hubert — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 22:21:00 -0000

This has just happened on my 9 month old 15" MBP (Core 2 Duo). It's happened a few times, very annoying. The mouse cursor still moves, I can still SSH in, but killing apps does not seem to make them disappear from the screen. I'm going try LiteSwitch X (Cmd-Tab replacement) which has been suggested as a solution/workaround elsewhere...