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  1. Re:Witchcraft on Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Most judges in USA are elected.

  2. Re:Snappiest beast out there on Opera 10.0 Released · · Score: 1

    While Opera is indeed also quite fast in those benchmarks, I believe what OP was talking about is overall feel when using it, and how heavy treatment it can stand gracefully. It's far beyond any other browser in that regard (and yeah, I like that aspect of it a lot).

    Yeah. It is the overall feel that makes it much faster than other browsers (i haven't used safari.). The only time opera freezes is when windows XP swaps it to virtual memory(XP swaps much too eagerly). And Opera freezes more than firefox and iexplore only when swapped out; i have never been able to understand why. Memory fragmentation doesn't explain the freezes, because fragmentation makes the memory usage go higher with time in absence of a compacting garbage collector, which is absent in C/C++ world.

  3. Snappiest beast out there on Opera 10.0 Released · · Score: 1, Informative

    I am finding it to be a lot snappier than firefox and chrome. Does opera use the same code base for their mobile and desktop browsers? That may explain the low memory and CPU usage.

  4. Re:just Turing? on Alan Turing Apology Campaign Grows · · Score: 1

    How about having the British apologize to everyone who was wronged by their hateful policies in the past?

    An example of it would be Jallianwala Bagh massacre The british crown has to this date, 90 years since, refused to tender an unconditional apology for the murder of approx. 2000 men, women and children (including month old infants). ref Britain lost the opportunity - and the grace

  5. Re:So much for SSD capacity accuracy on Apple Kicks HDD Marketing Debate Into High Gear · · Score: 1

    seconded. i hope this trend doesn't catch on. A 1 TiB SSD becomes 1.1 TB. And that could stay with us for next few decades.