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  1. Seamonkey 2.13.1 sucks in windows and linux, on Ask Slashdot: Seamonkey vs. Firefox — Any Takers? · · Score: 1

    Must be an Apple product. Sounds like a great product except the windows version wouldn't even start the installer, just got lost in a spindizzy. The linux load has got to be the biggest kludge going. It's not in the repository so to get an icon on the desktop you have to register it, then cut and paste a graphic. Mozilla wouldn't just create an installer. Talk about an orphan.

  2. Algis Budrys - Michaelmas - a spectacular read on Ask Slashdot: Good, Forgotten Fantasy & Science Fiction Novels? · · Score: 1

    Cyberpunk that was so 80's in 1955. Just Wow!
    Michaelmas is one of the icons of his time, in a more automated but recognisable future that is a backdrop to events, not a substitute. He is one of the faces that report the news; a travelling reporter with enormous cachet and friends throughout the business. He is also the creator of a machine, Domino, which has evolved from a means of getting free trunk calls to his wife into something teetering on the brink of self-awareness. Between them, for all intents and purposes, they run the world; only the world doesn't know it - a benign nudging and manipulation rather than an overt exercise of powe

  3. Tunnel Bear on Ask Slashdot: Trustworthy Proxy Services? · · Score: 1

    I've had very good luck with Tunnel Bear for both US and UK localization. http://www.tunnelbear.com/ The were featured in Lifehacker.

  4. Naturalistic Driving Study on 25% of Car Accidents Linked to Gadget Use · · Score: 1

    There is a great work in progress in collecting real data about drivers. Very intrusive but if you're interested in being part of the database check out "http://www.trb.org/StrategicHighwayResearchProgram2SHRP2/Pages/The_SHRP_2_Naturalistic_Driving_Study_472.aspx"

  5. In some ways I'm going thru brain death on Moving Away From the IT Field? · · Score: 1

    But that's because IT's advances are now only theory in relation to what I do. My job no longer requires that I keep up with technology and so i keep up only in areas that are enjoyable. I don't code, anything at all.

    But the time I have left over I can spend with many many things that have become important - kids, games, spouse. The money was an issue for the first couple of years.

    If I had to do it over again, though, I would have trained as a respiratory therapist just so I could be in a field that is still developing while working a job that lets me go home at the end of the day.

  6. Added to your Google Book Search on Unsuggester: Finding the Book You'll Never Want · · Score: 1

    inside-book-search@google.com and anything is possible. A negative search can be just as valuable as a positive one.

  7. Re:I tried it. on Google Image Labeler · · Score: 1

    If you hover over the graphic at the end of the session, the partners responses are listed.

  8. Slashdot Readers Live History -The Future is now on Slashdot Readers Write The History Of The Future · · Score: 1

    And if we don't figure out which end of the exponential curve we're riding we may just fall over backwards from any of a number of unintended consequences - but I do love the applications coming from Drexler's vision. There is still so much to do.

  9. Support from Microsoft = Legalistic PR on Salon Article on MS PR · · Score: 1

    everything from Redmond seems to be mostly PR: if you've ever waded through a tech net article not already knowing most of the answer then the the content most likely makes no sense - but it fits the Microsoft answer to everything, absolutely correct and totally worthless. You gotta love those guys.