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  1. Re:Adblock for Chrome -- Use SwWare Iron "Chrome" on A Closer Look At Chromium and Browser Security · · Score: 1

    Are you using the current version 3.08, i think? I've tested it on my two computers & I honestly can't see a difference. I had to load js animations at chromeexperiments to see a difference.

  2. Re:wink wink; nudge nudge; say no more, say no mor on US Nuclear Sub Crashes Into US Navy Amphibious Vessel · · Score: 3, Funny

    Q: What is long and hard and full of seamen?

  3. Re:Erm on Women Skip Math/Science Careers To Have Families · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's much easier to turn someone into a saint after he's dead.

  4. Re:Room Temperature!! on New Type of Superconductivity Spotted · · Score: 4, Informative

    Temperature is the wrong problem to focus on. Liquid nitrogen is relatively inexpensive & easily handled. With a good insulation system, it costs very little to keep it liquid. The real problem is that despite lots of industry & government involvement, high temp superconductors are still expensive to manufacture & not easily turned into wires.

  5. Re:Official release will be around 2pm PDT today on Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 Released · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of torrents?

  6. Re:But IE8 doesn't work with Slashdot correctly. on Microsoft Says IE Faster Than Chrome and Firefox · · Score: 0

    Jeez people, learn to do an initial diagnosis on your problems. Make a new profile see if the problem still exists. Reinstall the two extensions see if the problems reappear. The whole process is 5 minutes.

  7. Re:quick question on Contest For a Better Open-WRT Wireless Router GUI · · Score: 1

    I'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet -[SA]HatfulOfHollow

  8. Re:All FOSS PDF Viewers are Outdated on FSFE Launches Free PDF Readers Campaign · · Score: 1

    There are so many neat things out there (like PDF javascript)

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

  9. Re:Why not just use TrueCrypt? on Universal Disk Encryption Spec Finalized · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No one knows who wrote TrueCrypt. No one knows who maintains TC. Moderators on the TC forum ban users who ask questions. TC claims to be based on Encryption for the Masses (E4M). They also claim to be open source, but do not maintain public CVS/SVN repositories and do not issue change logs. They ban folks from the forums who ask for change logs or old source code. They also silently change binaries (md5 hashes change) with no explanation... zero. The Trademark is held by a man in the Czech Republic ((REGISTRANT) Tesarik, David INDIVIDUAL CZECH REPUBLIC Taussigova 1170/5 Praha CZECH REPUBLIC 18200.) Domains are registered private by proxy. Some folks claim it has a backdoor. Who Knows? These guys say they can find TC volumes:

    http://16systems.com/TCHunt/index.html

    For these reasons, I won't use it. Encryption is important and TC looks great and makes great claims, but TC should be more transparent.

    from: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7otuy/who_wrote_this_software_an_excia_agent/

  10. Re:Wikipedia Search = Sucky on Wikipedia Gears Up For Explosion In Digital Media · · Score: 1
  11. Re:2009 on Linux 2.6.28 Promises Year-End Presents · · Score: 1

    whoa

  12. Re:How, indeed. on How Apple Could Survive Without Steve Jobs · · Score: 0

    Yeah, that's why I said "high profile" projects. Apple has done some great work on webkit with standards & javascript engines & they deserve some credit. Darwin has somewhat less visibility, but FreeBSD owes a lot to Apple. I can't think of even a minor project with that much MS support. Can you?

    The APSL is more restrictive, but it IS a free software license & that's a lot better than BSD's network stack did under microsoft. If the KHTML/Darwin people disapproved of this behavior, they were free to choose a different license. It makes no sense to grant people rights & frown when they exercise those rights.

  13. Re:How, indeed. on How Apple Could Survive Without Steve Jobs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But it is really Steve Jobs which, paradoxically, is holding Apple in the position of being the MOST closed company out there.

    I count at least two high profile OSS projects: webkit & darwin. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's two more than MS.

  14. Re:Wow! Think about how many free man-hours Netfli on Interest Still High In the Netflix Algorithm Competition · · Score: 1

    Why is it considered selling yourself short if you do work for free for a commercial entity... but not when you contribute to, say, FireFox, ThunderBird, Apache, the Linux kernel, and so forth and so on?

    Duh, because they also open source their (paid for) improvements? Its quid pro quo.

  15. Re:Comic is on topic on Oblong's g-speak Brings "Minority Report" Interface To Life · · Score: 1

    If you don't already have it working, my advice is to post on that thread. It won't be any harder for me to add keyboard stuff along with what I'm doing for the mouse.

  16. Re:Comic is on topic on Oblong's g-speak Brings "Minority Report" Interface To Life · · Score: 1

    Oh you don't want to use the mouse. I missed that first time around. Too bad, I don't want to use the keyboard :p

  17. Re:Comic is on topic on Oblong's g-speak Brings "Minority Report" Interface To Life · · Score: 1

    Well I started something at the compiz forums. You might have something at the end of thanksgiving break if you're very lucky.

  18. Re:Windows.... on Worm Attack Prompts DoD To Ban Use of External Media · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Wow on IRS Looking at Google/Mozilla Relationship · · Score: 2, Insightful

    http://www.google.com/trends?q=firefox%2C+chrome

    That is why Mozilla was so forgiving of Chrome. Anybody with half a brain could have seen that.

  20. Re:No, he's right on 75 Comics That Are Being Made Into Films · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not everyone likes what you do, they have a worldwide audience to think of. Again, look at the recent high grossing movies. People really do like "action beats" & hollywood just picks up on that. If you don't understand why or you think it sucks, that doesn't make it any less true.

  21. AES on New Top 500 Supercomputer List · · Score: 1

    For the record, how long would one of them take to crack 256-bit AES?

  22. Re:No, he's right on 75 Comics That Are Being Made Into Films · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And it was liked, but John said Kevin was missing some "action beats". He says that you need an action beat every ten pages. Something big needs to happen. This is how Hollywood thinks. Every ten pages of script, you need a fight scene. And listen to the absolutely stupid ideas that get thrown around.

    Look, you don't like it, I don't like it, but it might be true. Look at all the recent high grossing movies. You don't like ignorant marketing people messing with your IT so don't mess with their marketing when you don't know what you're doing.

  23. Re:Women is science and games industry on Fun Things To Do With a Math Or Science Degree? · · Score: 1

    Let her do what she wants.

    Yeah, to quote Kumar, just cause you're hung like a moose doesn't mean you gotta do porn.

  24. Re:Aspirin? on Googling Security · · Score: 0

    Standards go up as society progresses, news at 11. Yeah duh penicillin would have no chance because we have better stuff today. You really want anaphylactic shock ask on craigslist.

  25. Re:What normal users can expect on What Normal Users Can Expect From Ubuntu 8.10 · · Score: 1

    Brown is Ubuntu's branding. Your artsy fartsy self might not like it but there are many others that do.

    Are those the same 3 guys who liked the brown zune?