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  1. Re:And the layout? on Firefox 30 Available, Firebug 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Doesn't work. Though Classic Theme Restorer let us move the address bar to the bottom of the screen in Firefox 29, in Firefox 30 the address bar is now _hidden_ if it is moved with Classic Theme Restorer! Luckily I also use Vimperator and can get by without the address bar, but for other users this could be a pain.

    Note also that opening Firefox 30 the first time, Firefox lost all my tabs (80+). I was able to restore them, though, from the ~/.mozilla/firefox/****.default/sessionstore.bak file. Just use a bit of Python to parse that JSON file to get the URLs out.

    Still a pain, everything took over an hour of my employer's time, and I _still_ don't have a solution to the address bar issue. Some people use Firefox to work, not play with Twitter and Faceschmuck all day (social media integration features are the major new features in Firefox). Looks like Mozilla doesn't consider that. If only Opera supported Tree Style Tabs I would move back.

  2. Re:You can't enjoy five million dollars from a cel on Kim Dotcom Offers $5 Million Bounty To Defeat Extradition · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Kim Dotcom steals from the rich? Kim Dotcom facilitates acquisition of 'protected' material to the poor? Sounds like my kind of scum.

    The fact that he's taking on government corruption is a nice bonus.

  3. Re:Gull-wing doors on an SUV? on Tesla Makes Improvements To Model S · · Score: 1

    Is it me or is this a really stupid idea? Just making the doors gull wing prevents you from putting: luggage on top, ski racks, bike racks on roof, etc. You know, the kind of things people would do with an SUV or crossover...

    All those things would reduce the mileage on the vehicle. Maybe the gullwing doors are a clever plot to prevent people from ruining the aerodynamics, and thus the mileage, of the vehicle. Being electric this is a very important factor.

  4. Re:objective list on Wikipedia Mining Algorithm Reveals the Most Influential People In History · · Score: 2

    Note that Aristotle outranks Plato, who then outranks Socrates by a huge margin. Considering that the influence of one upon the other is _exactly backwards,_ I do agree that this list may be an _unordered_ list of very influential people, but it certainly is not an _ordered_ list. Thus there is no #1.

  5. Re:Influence? on Wikipedia Mining Algorithm Reveals the Most Influential People In History · · Score: 1

    It depends on how you define influential. The winner is responsible for the name used in every culture in the world for every single living thing on Earth. Most people have never heard of him but he has certainly influence quite a bit.

    Even influencing Bash commands!
    http://www.shlomifish.org/humo...

  6. Re:List of NSA employees on NSA Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images · · Score: 2

    Great!

    1. Larry
    2.

    Now, someone please fill in number 2.

    2. Edward S.. s.. something. Scissorhands, maybe.

  7. Re:A Formula only an Actuary could Love on Why You Shouldn't Use Spreadsheets For Important Work · · Score: 1

    Wow!
    If I was in my early 20's, I'd probabbly think I was 'leet'
    Now in my mid 40's, I'd probabbly fire whomever wrote it.

    The truth is, that Excel cell reminds me of a Bash monstrosity that I banged out a few weeks ago to test once per hour the state of a MySQL database to see if a long-running DDL query had finished, and then to run another (complex and long-running) DDL query. This one-liner included a for loop, a while loop, two SQL queries, sleep, grep, sort, awk, and some other bits and pieces. At the time I thought it 1337 as well, but looking back at it I recognize it for the hack that it was.

    However, Bash commands are inherently ephemeral whereas the Excel function would likely have been continued to be used for years down the road. This is where the difference between "don't need to be maintained" and "cannot be maintained" manifest!

  8. Re:I believe it because.. on Parenting Rewires the Male Brain · · Score: 2

    Traveling with kids isn't that hard. You can get a backpack with a kid seat that will work till they are about five. When they are eight, they can walk fast enough to keep up. So that is only a three year window when they are too heavy to carry and too slow to walk. My daughter was born in California. My son was born in Shanghai. They have both been to five continents, and both speak three languages (English, Mandarin, and Spanish). When they grow up, they will have an international perspective, and can be a bridge between cultures. Kids will only hold you back if you use them as an excuse not to go.

    When you get to Israel contact me! My daughters have been on 9+ hour flights across oceans and have never been a problem on an airplane, car, boat, or train. I would love for them to meet your children and they have one language in common, though from experience children don't even need a single common language to play and make friends. Adults would do good to learn from them.

  9. Re:I believe it because.. on Parenting Rewires the Male Brain · · Score: 2

    As a parent, I discriminate against the childless as I'm so jealous.

    Oh, to not have three screaming children.

    As a parent, I absolutely love my two laughing children, and what I wouldn't do to have a third! (working on it)

  10. Re:Good luck on that... he won't appear on Iran Court Summons Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook Privacy Violations · · Score: 2

    Regardless of my actual ethnicity or religion, if my last name ended in ...berg I wouldn't go anywhere near Iran.

    "Berg" is a common German family name. Both the Germans and the Iranians are the Aryan race. Thus, the "Berg" families would be closer to the Iranians than most other westerners.

    Note that the nation changed its English name from Persia to Iran at the insistence of Nazi Germany, to identify itself with Aryan pride (before the second world war). The words Aryan and Iran are cognate.

  11. Re:Yea, I'm sure he gives a rat's ass. on Iran Court Summons Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    Isn't it ultimately Germanic, and 'berg' means "from this city"?

    Berg means mountain. I suppose that "Zuckerberg" would be "Mountain of Sugar".

    See: "Mountain of Ice": Iceberg.

  12. Re:Auto-save is NOT your friend on Goodbye, Ctrl-S · · Score: 1

    A properly implemented auto-save feature does not overwrite the original document; it saves a secondary copy, to be used only if the system crashes and you need to recover your edits.

    This is what MS Office does. Of course, no one here uses MS Office, so that's not much help...

    This is what Open Office and LibreOffice do as well.

  13. Re:Does it really matter? on Virgin Galactic Passengers May Just Miss Going into Space · · Score: 1

    That is a good point. The rocket engine isn't of concern (other than the fact that a conventional jet would have to oxygen), but the fact that the wings were not functional (i.e. providing lift) at the top is in fact the critical factor. Thanks.

  14. Re:Does it really matter? on Virgin Galactic Passengers May Just Miss Going into Space · · Score: 1

    ... until they counter with "well, how high have you been" and you have no answer better than 40,000 feet...

    Not since junior high school have I been in a pissing match about who had ever been higher, or drunker, or had a larger schlong.

  15. Re:Does it really matter? on Virgin Galactic Passengers May Just Miss Going into Space · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I am wrong but couldn't that have been inertia?

    No, not inertia:
    1/2 * m * v^2 = dH * m * g

    Simplified for this particular case:
    dH = v^2 / 2g

    Note that it doesn't really matter in which direction v is pointed, and if he is using wings to convert horizontal velocity to vertical velocity, he will also suffer a large friction penalty.

  16. Re:Spy games on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    Thank you, I was unaware of the Tundra orbit until now.

    Molniya orbits typically do not have the optical resolution to find smaller objects that are in motion, due to their altitude. I don't know if the current generation is capable of spotting an airliner, especially in an area that is not of current interest where additional system resources would be spent. However I doubt it!

    I would suspect that Tundra orbits would have worse optical resolution than Molniya orbits, seeing how they orbit even farther out than do the Molniya orbits.

  17. Re:Does it really matter? on Virgin Galactic Passengers May Just Miss Going into Space · · Score: 2

    Walker got the X-15 up above the Karman Line twice.

  18. Re:Does it really matter? on Virgin Galactic Passengers May Just Miss Going into Space · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Does it really matter? on Virgin Galactic Passengers May Just Miss Going into Space · · Score: 1

    The cocaine poweder wouldn't stay on the boobs - or any other surface - in zero gravity. You'd need some kind of special inhalation device.

    I'm willing to be the person to test this. For science, of course.

  20. Re:Spy games on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Experts Unable To Replicate Inmarsat Analysis · · Score: 1

    The why not is an easy one - spy satellites are put into orbits which cover the likely hotspots for their use, and changing those orbits lessens the useful life of the satellite fairly significantly.

    Oh, and no one really wants to give away the true capabilities of their spy satellites...

    Not true at all. Reconnaissance satellites are usually on very low near-polar orbits, completing an orbit in 60-90 minutes. As the Earth spins below, they cover the whole thing. However, the sensors onboard collect more data than the available bandwidth, so they do not transmit the data about uninteresting areas, such as over the open ocean where nothing of interest is expected to be.

    You could make a point for storing a 48 hour buffer of all untransmitted data for later transmission if it is deemed necessary. However that has it's own set of problems, such as energy budget, cost and weight, and being susceptible to problems such as cosmic rays flipping bits.

  21. Re:Won't someone think of the parents? on Google Testing Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1, Interesting

    How much online advertising has your dad clicked on in the past decade? In other words, your dad is for Gmail a leech, not a product for Gmails advertisers. They would be glad for him to switch.

    I firmly believe that the UI changes are designed to reduce our natural ability to mentally block out the advertisements on webpages. When the UI changes frequently, we must always examine the whole page (ads and all) to find what we need.

  22. Re:How about "no thanks" .... on Google Testing Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    Some like me ... gulp ... like clutter if it means more shit on the screen.

    Here is a terrific discussion of exactly this sentiment:
    http://aviation.stackexchange....

  23. Re:Komodo Anybody? on GitHub Open Sources Atom, Their Text Editor Based On Chromium · · Score: 2

    Not sure if serious or trolling.

    That means that I've done a good job.

  24. Re:Undefined on Autonomous Car Ethics: If a Crash Is Unavoidable, What Does It Hit? · · Score: 1

    Since when do trees move faster than children?

    http://www.wgnflag.com/xcart/i...

    Note no mention of the trees.

  25. Re:Komodo Anybody? on GitHub Open Sources Atom, Their Text Editor Based On Chromium · · Score: 4, Funny

    Komodo doesn't support Google Analytics, and it would be difficult to convince people to install it as a plugin.