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  1. Re:Research science fiction on Japanese Researchers Create A Crab-Based Computer · · Score: 1
  2. The bug that made me stop reading Slashdot on Slashdot Coming Attractions · · Score: 1

    is still not fixed. It was just the final straw, I am literally forced to read comments not logged in, as to be able to see all the comments. This one: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2292696&cid=36649522/ For example, in the previous story (Belfast), the interface is telling me I'm supposed to see five comments, but I am seeing three. Logged out, I can read the missing ones; but anything I do with the interface while logged in does now show the missing ones I see logged out. This has been the case for at least a year, I think.

  3. I have always been annoyed by splash screens on A Rant Against Splash Screens · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not a new trend. They have always been annoying.

  4. Re:Need Slashdot usage advice on Hacker Exposes Parts of Florida's Voting Database · · Score: 1

    I have the same problem.

  5. Re:Proof Positive on Designer Arrested Over Anonymous Press Release · · Score: 1

    I always thought tapanar is an insult more becuase the tapan (whose name does derive from tap) is percieved as a really simple instrument to play.

  6. Re:Proof Positive on Designer Arrested Over Anonymous Press Release · · Score: 1

    Nope, Tapanaris it's definitely the name a Bulgarian would come up with if he wants to make up a Greek /sounding/ name for a stupid person (it's somewhat similar to the Biggus Dickus thing in History of the World).

  7. Re:Just in time! on FOSS RTS Game Glest Gets Revival — Enter Mega-Glest · · Score: 2, Funny

    I spent almost half a minute wondering who did a graphics overhaul to Star Control 2.

  8. Re:Good News is... on Parasite Correlated With World Cup Success · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Indeed, that's why the European Cup, in which 16 teams qualify for the finals, is regarded as a stronger tournament than the World Cup.

  9. Re:Good News is... on Parasite Correlated With World Cup Success · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's if you go by population. If your aim is to include the best 32 teams in the world, you would have much _more_ teams for Europe. The way it is right now is a compromise between team strength and population.

  10. Re:iPad to the rescue! on Iceland Volcano's Ash Grounds European Air Travel · · Score: 1

    Why would it be a problem for helicopters? I thought it's just jet engines? And the ash is at a much higher altitude?

  11. Re:Posting from it now.... on Apple Approves Opera Mini For iPhone · · Score: 1

    To clarify: Opera proxies need to de-encrypt HTTPS data from servers sent to you because Opera Mini does not parse HTML. It parses OBML (Opera Binary Markup Language), which the Opera proxies transform HTML into, which is the whole point of it being _Mini_. If you want an HTML parser get Opera Mobile.
    And for normal HTTP you get the benefit of encryption from their proxies to your phone, for which you would otherwise need to run your own encryting proxy on your own server.

  12. Re:Posting from it now.... on Apple Approves Opera Mini For iPhone · · Score: 1

    Eh, what? "insecure"? On the contrary, traffic between Opera Mini and the Opera proxy servers is always encrypted. HTTP traffic is unencrypted. That makes Opera mini _more_ secure by definition for the huge majority of surfing. Only when you use HTTPS, Opera (the company) has access to the unencrypted data. There is no way around that, technologically, and as they plainly state in the FAQ, if you don't trust them, don't use their browser for secure connections like banking. But you implicitly trust Apple for that, on an iPhone, or your browser vendor in general, unless you check the whole code every time before an update and compile it yourself with a compiler you trust to be secure.

  13. Re:51 council members??? on Councilman Booted For His Farmville Obsession · · Score: 1

    Going to Wikipedia, NY City council also has 51 councillors. Looking at an American city the same size as Plovdiv, Minneapolis has 39 councillors.

  14. Re:51 council members??? on Councilman Booted For His Farmville Obsession · · Score: 1

    He was voted off the budget committee, which is presumably comprised of a small subset of council members. Also, they are often actually called local parliaments in Bulgaria.

  15. kids these days... on Could UK Tax Breaks Pave the Way For GTA London? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The two expansions of the original GTA were set in London.

  16. Re:what mushrooms? on Perelman Urged To Accept $1m Prize · · Score: 1

    Just check the weather in St.Petersburg, Russia. It is still too cold there for any mushrooms to grow. So much for journalist's integrity.

    Dude, journalists have been harrassing him for years. It's weird that you hadn't heard of the media siege on him, but at least RTFA.

  17. Re:Dark stuff? on 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View · · Score: 1

    From TFA: "I'll note: this has nothing to do with dark matter. As it happens, 90% of the matter in the Universe is in a form that emits no light, but affects other matter through gravity. We know it exists, and you can find out why here. We know it exists locally, in nearby galaxies and clusters of galaxies, too. This new result doesn't affect that, since the now un-hidden galaxies are very far away, like many billions of light years away. They can't possibly affect nearby galaxies, so they don't account for dark matter."

  18. Re:It does not violate SDK terms on Opera For iPhone To Test Apple's Resolve · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not only can you turn off image loading altogether, you have two levels of image compression (with the corresponding reduction in image quality) that the proxy can do for you, or you could it set no compression.

  19. Re:No Symbian? Sorry, but: FAIL! on Firefox Mobile Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    As far as I can tell Opera Mobile is only available for Nokia & Windows Mobile platforms (same targets as Mozilla is aiming for).
    By "Nokia", do you mean Maemo or Symbian? As the GP poster said, Mozilla have no plans to support Symbian, which Opera does, and Opera does not have a Maemo version. So what do you mean by "same targets"?

  20. Re:??? Ok then... on Firefox Mobile Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/
    There are Symbian and Windows Mobile versions.

  21. Re:Correlation != Causation on Tower Switch-Off Embarrasses Electrosensitives · · Score: 1

    Hm, odd -- I think of Informative and insightful the other way around.

    Informative: Agree, and I DID know that fact!
    Insightful: Agree, and I didn't know that fact!

    EDIT: Oh, right, you weren't being serious.

  22. Re:Looks like an urban myth / tabloid madeup story on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 1

    Never mind, I read the details in the Pravda.ru story, it's different. Still, it's The Sun so...

  23. Looks like an urban myth / tabloid madeup story. on Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is form the British tabloid The Sun. I googled a few keywords and found no other mention of this except for a similar story in pravda.ru from 8th April this year, a Russian tabloid, with appropriately Russian names of the people involved and details.
    http://english.pravda.ru/society/family/08-04-2009/107373-deliver_baby_mobile_phone-0

  24. Re:Easy on How To Prove Someone Is Female? · · Score: 1

    I was also thinking about weight classes, but in a different way. The reason weight classes and female only competitions exist is because of the different homone levels in women. Therefore the basis for division in male and female competitions should be hormone levels. Say measure testosterone levels in all competitors and those above the average/median compete in the "male" group and those below in the "female".

  25. Re:Full refund on Danish FreeBSD Dev. Sues Lenovo Over "Microsoft Tax" · · Score: 1

    Gyped out of a hundred buck by some ratty product, and you get maye five bucks out of the deal while the lawyers get millions.

    Yeah, screw those kike lawers.