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  1. Re:And still... on Chrome Becoming World's Second Most Popular Web Browser · · Score: 1

    I have Firefox Chrome and IE installed, Use Firefox for most sites, Chrome for testing, IE for testing and the odd site that insists on IE ...

    Chrome is still renders incorrectly some sites I use regularly.... fix this and I might change ...

  2. Re:hmm... on Ice Cream Sandwich Ported To X86 · · Score: 1

    x86 is a huge power drain, very inefficient ... so you can now get a tablet that runs hot and has rubbish battery life ...

  3. Re:30 years later... on Voyager Probes Give Us ET's View · · Score: 5, Informative

    Launched today they would not do much .... they relied on a chance alignment of the planets that allowed them to use gravitational slingshots to get there in a reasonable time, tour most of the planets, and leave the solar system ... next time this will happen is around 2150 ...

  4. Re:Don't Yank our Funding on Fire Burns Differently In Space · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One day sir, you may tax it. - Faraday's reply to William Gladstone, then British Chancellor of the Exchequer (minister of finance), when asked of the practical value of electricity (1850)

  5. Re:In case of fire: on Fire Burns Differently In Space · · Score: 1

    ..also known as the Russians got there first... as with most things in space

    they have done a lot of research on space stations already, they did send up 7 of them, have one manned for 10 years ... and built quite a significant proportion of the ISS ...

    The rest of the world have so far built 2 space stations, one is the ISS, jointly with Russia ...

  6. Re:Even better on Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc With Home Electronics · · Score: 1

    I lean back with the keyboard on my knees ... with a wired keyboard ....?

    My keyboard is now 10 years old and I have never had to recharge or change the battery ... because it does not have one ....

    Wireless would be useful occasionally but is not worth the effort and extra cost ...

  7. Re:I object to this on Stanford Researchers Invent Everlasting Battery Material · · Score: 1

    Patent office will not allow anyone to patent Perpetual Motion machines anymore ...Damn!

  8. Re:Thanks for the reminder! on Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? · · Score: 1

    The problem is people are not careful, often deliberately so ...

    Most Apple favouring bias it to one manufacturer and the US, and Apple is top

    Most Android favouring bias it to all Android devices and Europe, and Android is top

  9. Re:Trademarks? on Facebook Denies Disputed Page To Both Mercks · · Score: 1

    There is no company that trades under the name "Merck" ...

    One is
    Merck & Co., Inc/Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD

    One is
    Merck KGaA/EMD Chemicals

    Both use just the word Merck in their logo ...

    They both have equal rights to the name on Facebook: no right to use, trademark right to stop the other ...

  10. Re:It's 2D!!! WTF?? on A 3D Display You Can Touch · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's 2.5D i.e. 2D with depth trickery, but not true 3D and projected, and at least from the video there is no way to reach through objects to touch stuff behind so not really capable of true 3D ..and not volumetric

    Another Classic /. summary

  11. Re:Well on Free Software Activists Take On Google Search · · Score: 1

    10% of how many ?

    If the number of users is 30 million is 3 million ...that's about the size of the largest botnet.... Yahoo search still has 300 million regular users ...?

  12. Re:I have problems with this on Muslim Medical Students Boycott Darwin Lectures · · Score: 1

    If you don't take the class, then you get an automatic fail ...

    Since most of modern biology is based on Evolution, you also fail most of the rest of the classes...

    You do not become qualified ... Try taking an architecture degree but skip the parts about gravity....

  13. Re:Thanks for the reminder! on Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? · · Score: 1

    iPhone : a range of devices by one company

    Android : an operating system used by many companies to produce many ranges of competing devices some of them phones

    iOS : an operating system used by one company on almost all of it's current product range .... These are not directly comparable in any meaningful way....

  14. Re:Probably not worthy of a front page article... on Apache Flaw Allows Internal Network Access · · Score: 1

    IIS has a URL Rewrite module that does the same as this with Reverse Proxy ..... does this suffer from the same issues?

  15. Re:Renewable or infinite? on The Myth of Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    Prius saves in stop start driving, and cruising, it falls down on urban driving when it is in congestion but not stopped

    A conventional engine, or electric wins in this environment

    But as always with or without a Prius you can save huge amounts of fuel by altering your driving styles to be economical

  16. Re:Renewable or infinite? on The Myth of Renewable Energy · · Score: 1

    ...and if I compare a Prius to a Toyota iQ then the Petrol iQ wins hands down ... but they are not really comparable ....

  17. Re:I object to this on Stanford Researchers Invent Everlasting Battery Material · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Everlasting battery - apparently this means not everlasting (400,000 cycles) and not a battery (since they don't know how to actually build one yet)

    I have a perpetual motion machine, except it's not a machine and isn't perpetually in motion ....

  18. Re:Even better on Smart Meters Wreaking Havoc With Home Electronics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When your batteries go dead, and the interference levels rise, I will still be typing, mousing, and have my internet connection with bits of copper connecting them all together ...

  19. Re:Not as abusive YET on Malls Track Shoppers' Cell Phones On Black Friday · · Score: 1

    Have you ever done anything illegal?

    Sure?

    You have .... ...you are now in jail

  20. Re:Opt out on Malls Track Shoppers' Cell Phones On Black Friday · · Score: 1

    ...to read the notice saying you will be tracked if you do not leave or turn off your phone, do you have to enter an area where you are already being tracked ...?

  21. Re:I don't know... on Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed · · Score: 1

    Witness a solution looking for a problem...

    If someone has control of the machine, then they can do anything - text can be altered - so can a binary file, database etc ,.

    This is like DRM - provide a secure lock, and the key so they can use it then wonder why people can open the lock ?

    The solution is simple: remote logs, log to a place they do not have control of ...

  22. Re:Pointless -- there is already a secure solution on Secure Syslog Replacement Proposed · · Score: 1

    ...and then you get a corrupt file

    I'll bet there is a way around this, or BSD is insane?

  23. Re:Not just meth on 88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA · · Score: 1

    I have played around with nitrogen triiodide, it was made by us in Chemistry class .... as a project assigned to us by the teacher ... ...Lots of safety precautions, and we only made a very small amount, but great fun

  24. Re:As a techie and a parent on How Much Tech Can Kids Take? · · Score: 1

    Whilst everyone needs some exercise, fresh air, social interaction ...

    Normal social behaviour is determined by the mass of normal social humans, anyone who differs from this norm is odd, maladjusted, anti-social, sick

    The current thinking is medicate them, psychoanalyse them, they are products of bad parenting, or bad genes ...

    Previously it was they were poor, or black, or Jewish ...

  25. Re:Frozen, I tells you on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 1

    You are I think counting OSX - Not BSD ....

    Windows has more BSD code in it that OSX ...