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  1. Re:And 64-bit Will Be Updated When? on Adobe Patches Second Flash Zero-Day In 9 Days · · Score: 1

    Chrome's new V8 (or Crankshaft, one of the two) isn't ported to 64-bit yet, and 64-bit IE9 also has slower javascript.

    I saw nothing on that site about bitness at all.

  2. Re:And 64-bit Will Be Updated When? on Adobe Patches Second Flash Zero-Day In 9 Days · · Score: 1

    64-bit browsers tend not to be faster for some things, especially Javascript.

    Would that it were different, though.

  3. Re:WTF adobe on Adobe Patches Second Flash Zero-Day In 9 Days · · Score: 1

    Oh, wait. Google does that.

  4. How about an auto-updater that doesn't suck? on Adobe Patches Second Flash Zero-Day In 9 Days · · Score: 1

    Something like the one Adobe Reader X uses, in point of fact, one that can be configured to automatically install updates in the background without administrator privileges.

    If you're going to be so fucking useless as to need such frequent security updates, have mercy on us IT types and unfuck your auto-updater.

  5. Re:Cut scenes on PC Gaming's 10 Commandments · · Score: 1

    Unskippable ads before the game loads are just as unforgivable.

  6. Re:Solar panels on White House roof on White House To Announce IT-Powered Smart Grid · · Score: 1

    Cutting spending... except for the military, of course. Military über alles.

    I don't buy the cost-cutting argument.

  7. Re:Solar panels on White House roof on White House To Announce IT-Powered Smart Grid · · Score: 1

    Explain why Reagan didn't put new solar panels on the roof after it was repaired, then.

  8. Use OpenDNS on Why Doesn't 'Google Kids' Exist? · · Score: 1

    Their filters are not foolproof, which is impossible, but you can specify by category which things (websites) you don't want accessible on your home network.

    There are other products for this purpose such as Blue Coat K9 and Net Nanny.

  9. Re:But... btrfs isn't stable on Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default · · Score: 1

    That doesn't follow. Ubuntu 11.04 isn't "stable", as such, but it ships with Firefox 4, which is considered stable.

  10. Re:But... btrfs isn't stable on Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default · · Score: 1

    Nobody said Fedora was stable.

  11. Re:Not always black and white on Daily Sony Hacking Occurs On Schedule · · Score: 1

    /Every/ revolution? Even the Bolshevik revolution? The Khmer Rouge one in Cambodia?

  12. Re:Password Plus CAPTCHA helps on Cheap GPUs Rendering Strong Passwords Useless · · Score: 1

    Better CAPTCHAs have audio challenges for people with visual impairments.

    If you're Helen Keller, you're probably not using a computer anyway.

  13. Re:All Windows XP or just Windows XP RTM? on Google Incrementally Dropping Support For Older Browsers · · Score: 1

    Until the summer of 2014.

  14. Re:links on Google Incrementally Dropping Support For Older Browsers · · Score: 1

    It really doesn't, not on Chrome 11. There are still page-formatting problems, and it still makes me open up parent posts before I can middle-click on a link in a post that's a few down.

  15. Re:Pity they picked Ubuntu right now on Asus To Ship Ubuntu 10.10 On Three Eee PC Netbooks · · Score: 1

    They're going to run it on netbooks, however, and the 10.10 netbook remix used Unity.

  16. Re:So Linux 3.0 got its major feature after all on Linux 3.0 Will Have Full Xen Support · · Score: 1

    That feature would have been in 2.6.40 had it been numbered that.

  17. Re:IE7 is the only real issue on Google Incrementally Dropping Support For Older Browsers · · Score: 1

    Or perhaps you're simply retarded and making assumptions.

  18. Re:Google www services are shit on Google Incrementally Dropping Support For Older Browsers · · Score: 1

    Since Opera's free, perhaps you should get off your butt and upgrade.

  19. Re:IE7 is the only real issue on Google Incrementally Dropping Support For Older Browsers · · Score: 1

    There are a certain number of sites and apps that will work with IE6 and 7, but not with 8 or newer, at least yet. I support users who need access to at least two such webshites.

  20. Re:Is it just me... on Doom Ported To the Web · · Score: 1

    OK, bytecode, but still quite a bit slower than native.

  21. Re:Is it just me... on Doom Ported To the Web · · Score: 4, Informative

    No. My 486SX-25 would run Doom at 20-some FPS (mainly dependent on how many monsters were within visual/acting range), and after an upgrade to a DX2-50 Overdrive it would usually be 30-something -- and the original DOS executable had a hard limit of 35 FPS.

    Don't forget this is running as interpreted code in what amounts to a virtual machine.

  22. Re:Not exactly well thought out... on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    How many Internet libertarians does it take to change a light bulb?

    None. The free market will take care of it.

  23. Re:Not exactly well thought out... on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    If it quacks like a duck...

    It's like this guy I know who says he knows he comes across as a hardcore Republican, claims he isn't, and yet says things that such a person would say.

  24. Re:Not exactly well thought out... on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 1

    INTERNET LIBERTARIAN SPOTTED.

  25. Re:Serious question; on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Germany's coal is mostly brown coal, so it'll pollute a whole lot more than the bituminous or anthracite coal other parts of the world use.