Sorry to say this seems to be a problem with Mozilla/Firefox and not with slashdot. The bug is called the slashdot bug on bugzilla (Bug # 217527) and has been discussed before on slashdot.
If you are tired of getting your information distilled for you by the news media and want more information... take a look at a scientific paper on Lake Vida at The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)...
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Sorry to say this seems to be a problem with Mozilla/Firefox and not with slashdot. The bug is called the slashdot bug on bugzilla (Bug # 217527) and has been discussed before on slashdot.
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... since it is the only reason I am not using Firefox at the moment.
To see more information about this bug cut and paste the following link since Bugzilla does not allow direct links from slashdot
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http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21752
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Unfortunetly it does not look like it will be fixed until Mozilla 1.8a2
Hope this helps,
Bill
Instead of reading a vague description of their results try the following two links:
Summary from Nature's website
Original Aritcle in Nature
Bill
If you are tired of getting your information distilled for you by the news media and want more information ... take a look at a scientific paper on Lake Vida at The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) ...
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/100/1/26#B8
-Bill
If you want to vote check out http://www.avgov.com/primary.html ...
Seems anyone not just those who play the game can vote.
-Bill
For OS X try ... MacMAME
http://emulation.net/mame/