I am continually baffled by people talking about how unreliable and crash-prone Firefox is.
On my laptop with Windows 7 (and XP before it) I have kept Firefox running for weeks at a time (I hibernate my laptop with Firefox running and hardly ever actually reboot it) under heavy usage; multiple windows, 30+ tabs in each window, many with Flash components and JS-intensive pages. I run Adblock, Noscript, Flashgot, Tree-style Tabs, Lazarus, Form History Control and several other add-ons. Firefox has crashed on me exactly once in the past year or so, and that seemed to be due to Flash. When that happened, Firefox restored my multi-window multi-tabbed session without an issue.
I run Firefox on my desktop workstation as well with similar results. Likewise on a EEE running Ubuntu. Contrary to reports from you and others, I've found it to be one of the most rock-solid application I've ever used.
While I realize anecdotes do not constitute data, I'm curious as to how you and others GET Firefox to crash so regularly!
And if you enable Flash, it will happily transmit all of your browser info (and, I believe, info about your computer's specifications) to any site that asks for it.
And a webserver can figure out what fonts you have by using @font-face to offer you fonts. If your system downloads them, then the server knows you didn't have them.
I had a sudden and vivid memory of the little blue ASCII box displayed by the special Western Digital bootloader I needed to bypass my old BIOS's 2GB drive size limit.
The idea is to spread humanity out to avoid extinction, not to have some sort of SimEarth-style mass exodus from this planet. Ideally, we should be focusing on space exploration AND trying to fix our problems here at home. Odds are good that the things we learn from one can be applied to the other at some point.
In the USA many doctors will refuse to perform vasectomies unless you're above a certain age or have at least 2 children. Similar measures are true of tubal ligation surgery for women.
Grant even proved this in an episode of Mythbusters. He successfully tricked the fMRI specialist into thinking he'd stolen the wrong item. He DID get nailed by the traditional lie detector, though.
You're absolutely right; Greek, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean TLDs work fine. http://idn.icann.org/ is a good place to test things out, they've got links to many different language TLDs on the left.
Wow, the default Droid browser totally barfs on that link. It shows up on the page as a bunch of empty-box characters, and trying to follow it throws the browser a "http:/" link that it ignores completely.
Contrary to what the more hysterical privacy advocates will tell you, it's quite possible to make use of the social functions provided by Facebook without "fully exposing your private life".
NK knows it can't deliver whatever nukes it may have. If they came under (counter-)attack, their most effective strategy would be to threaten to blow up Pyongyang rather than let it fall to a foreign nation. That's a whole lot of hostages to negotiate with.
Niven should have stuck with his original idea, which was to explain the disappearing ships in hyperspace as "kidnapped by a tnuctip". I'd love to see Known Space blown to smithereens by "we've been hiding in hyperspace for billions of years" tnuctipun.
Then PETA can go to Africa, capture all the malaria-carrying mosquitoes and take them home to their houses. No? Bug-zapping lasers it is, then. Obviously PETA is not really committed to its cause.
Oh, evolution CAN be sped up. All you'd have to do is increase the level of background radiation. More frequent mutations -> more chances for selection -> faster evolution. That still doesn't guarantee it'll go the way you describe, though.
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I am continually baffled by people talking about how unreliable and crash-prone Firefox is.
On my laptop with Windows 7 (and XP before it) I have kept Firefox running for weeks at a time (I hibernate my laptop with Firefox running and hardly ever actually reboot it) under heavy usage; multiple windows, 30+ tabs in each window, many with Flash components and JS-intensive pages. I run Adblock, Noscript, Flashgot, Tree-style Tabs, Lazarus, Form History Control and several other add-ons. Firefox has crashed on me exactly once in the past year or so, and that seemed to be due to Flash. When that happened, Firefox restored my multi-window multi-tabbed session without an issue.
I run Firefox on my desktop workstation as well with similar results. Likewise on a EEE running Ubuntu. Contrary to reports from you and others, I've found it to be one of the most rock-solid application I've ever used.
While I realize anecdotes do not constitute data, I'm curious as to how you and others GET Firefox to crash so regularly!
And if you enable Flash, it will happily transmit all of your browser info (and, I believe, info about your computer's specifications) to any site that asks for it.
And a webserver can figure out what fonts you have by using @font-face to offer you fonts. If your system downloads them, then the server knows you didn't have them.
I had a sudden and vivid memory of the little blue ASCII box displayed by the special Western Digital bootloader I needed to bypass my old BIOS's 2GB drive size limit.
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The idea is to spread humanity out to avoid extinction, not to have some sort of SimEarth-style mass exodus from this planet. Ideally, we should be focusing on space exploration AND trying to fix our problems here at home. Odds are good that the things we learn from one can be applied to the other at some point.
In the USA many doctors will refuse to perform vasectomies unless you're above a certain age or have at least 2 children. Similar measures are true of tubal ligation surgery for women.
Sadly, I have concluded the same thing about Will-o-the-wisps. The only image of one online that looks convincing is an "artist's rendering".
Have you ever considered that you might be a battle cyborg of some kind that has simply lost its memory?
Grant even proved this in an episode of Mythbusters. He successfully tricked the fMRI specialist into thinking he'd stolen the wrong item. He DID get nailed by the traditional lie detector, though.
You're absolutely right; Greek, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean TLDs work fine. http://idn.icann.org/ is a good place to test things out, they've got links to many different language TLDs on the left.
Wow, the default Droid browser totally barfs on that link. It shows up on the page as a bunch of empty-box characters, and trying to follow it throws the browser a "http:/" link that it ignores completely.
Contrary to what the more hysterical privacy advocates will tell you, it's quite possible to make use of the social functions provided by Facebook without "fully exposing your private life".
NK knows it can't deliver whatever nukes it may have. If they came under (counter-)attack, their most effective strategy would be to threaten to blow up Pyongyang rather than let it fall to a foreign nation. That's a whole lot of hostages to negotiate with.
If you pronounce it as JY-noid instead of GY-noid, the word seems to pick up a completely different connotation.
Niven should have stuck with his original idea, which was to explain the disappearing ships in hyperspace as "kidnapped by a tnuctip". I'd love to see Known Space blown to smithereens by "we've been hiding in hyperspace for billions of years" tnuctipun.
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Start with principles like that and 3,000 years later you have a great emo mutant wormthing that no one seems to be able to kill.
It's my understanding that most rooted Android images also disable auto-updates from the provider. Certainly the rooted Droid images do.
Nonsense, everyone knows Pluto was knocked out of its orbit around Neptune by the impact of an alien craft traveling at extremely high velocity.
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Then PETA can go to Africa, capture all the malaria-carrying mosquitoes and take them home to their houses. No? Bug-zapping lasers it is, then. Obviously PETA is not really committed to its cause.
Oh, evolution CAN be sped up. All you'd have to do is increase the level of background radiation. More frequent mutations -> more chances for selection -> faster evolution. That still doesn't guarantee it'll go the way you describe, though.
I distinctly remember reading an article in Discover magazine about six-legged "insectoid" bots that taught themselves to walk... nearly 15 years ago.
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