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  1. Re:So... on Adobe Releases Its Own HTML5 Video Player · · Score: 1

    Only on slashdot would there be someone that wants to replace flash with something they can compile themselves... I'm glad Mozilla, Google et al are going the way without any configuration: HTML5.

  2. Re:Diesels already do this. on Mazda Claims 70 mpg For New Engine, No Hybrid Needed · · Score: 2, Informative

    The important metric is exhausts. Burning a litre of diesel creates more CO2 (and NOx because of the higher temperatures) than burning a litre of gasoline.

  3. Re:Daddy what's a cassette? on Sony Discontinues the Walkman · · Score: 1

    The iPod isn't really a format, the format would be high capacity digital audio player I'd say, colloquially known as MP3-players.

  4. Re:FOX News Headline on UN May Ban Blotting Out the Sun · · Score: 1

    The real question is: how would you recognize bullshit if it was in your face? And how would you tell others it's in their face? People tend to sway. Fox is so over the top ridiculously garbage, that explaining how exactly they are bullshit is more an academic issue than a real one. It's clear to whomever uses their brain, and I fully agree (and so do many research reports) that these are more among viewers of Stewart and Maddow than Fox. The staggeringly large horde that doesn't care to use their brain, well, I don't know what to do about them either.

  5. Re:FOX News Headline on UN May Ban Blotting Out the Sun · · Score: 2

    The only argument you have is that there must be two sides to a point, and that Fox just takes the other one. If you refuse to believe that you can debate positions on merit, then I agree: Fox is just the other viewpoint. If you care to apply your intelligence however, the picture changes. Some viewpoints are in fact bullshit.

  6. Re:FOX News Headline on UN May Ban Blotting Out the Sun · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you really believe that, I'm afraid your head is so far up your arse that no-one can help you.

  7. Re:Websites are responsible too on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    But if the objective is ease of remembrance, then why not allow 200chars+? A sentence is easier to remember. And although the per char entropy goes down, the longer string compensates more than sufficiently for that.

  8. Re:Websites are responsible too on Survey Shows How Stupid People Are With Passwords · · Score: 1

    What I hate is webmasters that set arbitrary limits on password length and special characters. For example, there's no single special character commonly allowed by all the sites I'd want to use secure password on. How am I going to keep track of which character isn't allowed this time? And if I want a password of 200chars, power to me, right? No sir, I even have a bank that thinks 12 should be enough for anybody.

  9. Re:Not hard to beat at first glance. on Introducing the Invulnerable Evercookie · · Score: 2

    NoScript (and NotScript, which I use in Chromium these days) should have an option to tenp-allow JS from the domain you're on automaticaly. I think it would get n00b-proof for non-techies to use it.

  10. Re:'All in one media player' exists already... on Boxee Box Pre-Orders Start At $229 · · Score: 1

    The latest flash runtime is HW-accelerated for some videocards, of which the Ion is one. You need to use Windows (or OSX) though...

  11. Re:tags are correct on Stanford's Authoritative Alternative To Wikipedia · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't know if you're in a uni and what your field is, but as physics master I certainly can attest that 95% of 'teachers' in phys and math are like that. Perhaps it's related to the fact that I'm not in a top10 university, but I guesstimate this phenomena is widespread.

  12. Re:Great news for Mac OS X users! on IBM Unveils Fastest Microprocessor Ever · · Score: 1

    IBM uses Hypertransport as interconnect, right? That would imply that you can slap any old AMD chipset to such a chip, wich has all the desktop-features you need.

  13. Re:Tabs on the left make sense on Google Confirms Chrome GPU Acceleration · · Score: 1

    Hmm, now that I think of it, maybe the next step should be that browsers automatically 'columnize' text, so that the end results looks like a (comfortable) newspaper. Instead of scrolling down, I could just see the next text on the right. With smaller resolutions it could go back to rendering as is done now.

  14. Re:Proper translation into Swedish- on Julian Assange To Write For Swedish Tabloid · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This reads nor sounds remotely like a Dutch person speaking English. This sounds like the typical (north) European accent as heard exclusively on American TV ;)

  15. Re:Getting screwed in both directions on Microsoft May Back Off of .NET Languages · · Score: 1

    Can anybody explain to a layman what these platforms are and how they benefit a programmer or user? I can write a little python and execute with the py command, and write a little c and compile with gcc, so I don't quite see how 'inserting' all these plaforms provide benefits.

  16. Re:99 times more average CPU usage, not 100 times on A Pointed Critique of Thunderbird 3's Performance Compared to v.2 · · Score: 1

    Note the 'more'. It is 99 times 'more', and thus a 100 times the 0.3 figure.

  17. Re:PDF plugin, OK. PDF built-in? Not so sure... on Google Builds a Native PDF Reader Into Chrome · · Score: 1

    Wow, way to miss the point. Iron's 'developers' clearly state their only point it to rip any google-tracking code from chromium, nothing more. Which they do, and they have to rename it to avoid Googles legal team.

  18. Re:US Homes on Sticky Rice Is the Key To Super Strong Mortar · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The point is there're two places they build with wood: the Third World and America...

  19. Re:We don't entirely *want* government to be ... on Recrafting Government As an Open Platform · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's pretty much the point: seems like nobody notices that America is moving towards what Europe is moving away from.

  20. Re:We don't entirely *want* government to be ... on Recrafting Government As an Open Platform · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And this is what a lot of people seem to forget: we have all this bureaucracy, all these checks and balances not solely as a job program, but most also because we shouldn't want a government that moves fast. People crying for strong leadership and action forget that we had light governments that could do that in the past, and they were called monarchies and dictatorships. The number of benevolent kings and dictators are extremely small. A society has to have negative feedback loops to prevent any government from moving to fast and to meddle too much. We have a legislative branch to prevent crimes, an army to prevent invasions, and that is about the fastest I want a government to move. I don't want fast action and strong leadership, because the same happens what happened in the bad old days: leaders that go to war, are only interested in their own agendas, start idoitic programs to suppress minorities, are susceptible to corruption and lobbyists etc etc. I advocate good government, and good government should know what to do and what not to do, and moving fast is not one of those things.

  21. Re:Try adjusting the swapPINESS on Seagate Launches Hybrid SSD Hard Drive · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now I know it said swap just before 'pines', but thats still not 'penis' yo.

  22. Re:Premium features on Developer-Friendly Banks? · · Score: 2, Informative

    My bank, ING, has MT940 and csv exports on any account here in the Netherlands, personal, small business, non-profits, any. Or are you looking for actual interfaces with which you can do the banking so as to circumvent the website of your bank?

  23. Re:What will they do for release 24? on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "We might skip a few letters, and we'll have to wrap eventually. " - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames

  24. Re:Except... on Ubuntu Linux 10.04 Review (Lucid Lynx) · · Score: 2, Informative

    It has been fixed.

  25. Re:Big Deal! on How To Get 39 Megapixels From a 53-Year-Old Camera · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One thing you just cannot physically get with small lenses and small CCD-areas like in you phone is plenty of light without too much distortions. There's a reason there's a DSLR market. And i you want to to make a moving picture, you're gonna have to settle with even lesser amounts of light per frame/photo per unit area, which is why almost any good movie camera is an oversized machine on wheels with cannons (not the brand!) for lenses. Obviously there's a good enough for people like you and me, but Hasselsblads are targeted at the high end of high end, for the cases in which physics leaves you no other choice.