* William Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:24:45PM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote: > > I generally have enough dexterity and motor control to not find myself > > clicking the middle mouse button accidently several times a day. > > I have a mouse wheel, no middle button. You press the mouse wheel and > drag to scroll. Pressing the mouse wheel and letting go without moving > results in the contents of whatever you happened to be dragging two > seconds ago being submitted to the internet.
Sorry, I don't understand. You have a scroll wheel that doesn't act like a middle mouse button? Is that right? I've never heard of a mouse like that. > It's a fucked up feature. > > > I also tend to be of the school of "don't cripple your computer just > > to make it idiot-proof". > > Come on, man. Click mouse wheel, drag a little, scroll. Click mouse > wheel, don't drag, paste contents of clipboard to internet? Are you using autoscrolling? I tried it with autoscrolling turned on and that completely disabled the url pasting feature for me, so that doesn't seem to be it. > It's a fucked up feature. A brilliant argument, I'm convinced. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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