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  1. Re:Why the hate.... on How Not To Design a Protocol · · Score: 1

    >Also, if you want to see a brand new bad protocol, look at XMPP.

    Maybe, but still better than SIP/SIMPLE

  2. Re:Depends on what "beta" means... on For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011 · · Score: 1

    For me, the current FF beta cycle has been more of a pain in the ass due to bugs and incompatible changes than any Mozilla/FF cycle since Mozilla 1.3 or thereabouts.

  3. Re:Anybody remember if... on For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011 · · Score: 1

    Nope. Both my FF and my SeaMonkey (both 64-bit) are currently using under 650 MB res, and under 1,300 MB virt. SM has ~60 tabs open and FF has well over 100.

    About the most I have seen in either is ~800 MB res and ~1,600 MB virt. All this is with 4GB ram, with most of that available to the browsers as I run Awesome WM rather than Gnome or KDE.

  4. Re:Anybody remember if... on For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011 · · Score: 1

    The XUL/JS things are extensions.
    Flash, Java, etc are plugins, as you said
    Themes and personas are themes and personas

    All of the above are addons.

  5. Re:Does it run Linux? on China Makes World's Fastest Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    If it runs Linux, yes

    FF on Windows sucks

  6. Re:Which Liberal? on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 1

    >Or did you mean "Liberal" as in everyone else should pay for my well-being?

    Yes, I should pay for your well-being

  7. Re:And an absence predisposes you to conservativis on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 1

    >The reason that I'm going to call bullshit on this is that empirically "lefties" tend to become "righties" through age or experience. A liberal is just a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet.

    [citation needed]

  8. Re:thats great but.... on Firefox 4's JavaScript Now Faster Than Chrome's · · Score: 1

    Like I always say, that's what happens when you use FF instead of SeaMonkey and/or Windows instead of Linux. My SeaMonkey on Linux has no problem staying up for a week with 100 tabs ( I don't go much longer than that because I use the Nightlies)

  9. Re:What Mozilla giveth, Slashcode taketh away. on Firefox 4's JavaScript Now Faster Than Chrome's · · Score: 1

    d2 has some problems, but isn't that bad. I'll certainly take it over the classic system.

  10. What is this "neutrino" you speak of? on India To Build Neutrino Observatory · · Score: 1

    >Neutrinos are elusive, nearly mass-less elementary particles, sometimes called 'ghost particles.'"

    Gee, thanks for defining that for us. I mean, it's not like the general public have been hearing about these "neutrinos" since the 70s. I mean, Carl Sagan certainly never talked about them. And it is so incredibly rare to hear the science media mention them - they hardly get any airtime at all, like k mesons, and unlike electrons or photons.

  11. Re:He didn't really die, you know on Benoit Mandelbrot Dies At 85 · · Score: 1

    Oh, I understood what he was doing.

  12. Re:He didn't really die, you know on Benoit Mandelbrot Dies At 85 · · Score: 1

    >begs the question

    You know, I have given up on this one. Not only is it too late to save it, it is a horrible translation in the first place. Nowadays I prefer to use the Latin: petitio principii. After all we Latin for other logical fallacies, like ad hominem and non sequitur

    As for "whom" I don't care one way or the other. "intensive purposes" is just horrible, though. It sounds like nails on a chalkboard.

  13. Re:Fractint on Benoit Mandelbrot Dies At 85 · · Score: 1

    KaiRo made a SeaMonkey extension Mandelbrot explorer. Probably works in FF as well.

  14. Re:eh? on New Fish Species Discovered 4.5 Miles Under the Ocean · · Score: 1

    Richard Nixon, of course

  15. Re:Barrier not technological. on FCC Approves Changes To Cable Box Rules · · Score: 1

    >I get Braves TV in HD
    Some people have all the luck

  16. Re:Aren't television sets "cable-ready" ? on FCC Approves Changes To Cable Box Rules · · Score: 1

    or the vast majority of channels

  17. Re:Just one client, but... on Genetically Engineered Silkworms Spin Spider Silk · · Score: 1

    I wonder what ever happened to that nice Bill Door fellow anyway?

  18. Re:offtopic but hilarious on Indian Military Organization To Develop Its Own OS · · Score: 1

    The code that runs Codeplex is kept in hg, and it is a division or sub-department or whatever MS calls such things.

  19. Re:offtopic but hilarious on Indian Military Organization To Develop Its Own OS · · Score: 1

    Dunno about other areas, but the Codeplex division uses hg (which is no secret AFAIK)

  20. Re:Think of the jobs on Google Secretly Tests Autonomous Cars In Traffic · · Score: 1

    Read "Kiln People" by David Brin for some ideas on what a society might look like with extreme levels of automation. Obviously the way that comes about in the book is, shall we say, unrealistic, but the core ideas are the the same.

  21. Re:So lots of things. on Largest Genome Ever · · Score: 1

    Gene sequencing speed/cost is moving faster than Moore's law

    This system does 400-600 million base pairs per 10 hour run.

    149,000,000,000bp/400,000,000bp/run ~ 373 runs

    3,730 hours ~ 155 days

    I don't how long setup times between runs might be or what other factors are involved, though. On the other hand, a big lab would have more than one sequencer.

  22. Re:Losing resolution on Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. High vert. res. monitors are available, even on laptops if you look. Netbooks, no, but you expect to make sacrifices there.

  23. Re:Delicious on Bookmark Synchronizer Xmarks Hangs Up Their Hats · · Score: 1

    no, keep your nsfw stuff in one profile, sfw in another, and sync as needed. e.g. sync the sfw profile to work, and sync both profiles to your laptop. same effect via different means. and it's nice to have nsfw stuff on a different profile even aside from syncing issues.

  24. Re:How gullible on Stuxnet Worm Claimed To Be Devastating In Iran · · Score: 1

    >If Stuxnet is CLAIMED to be attacking Iran by Iran, you bet on Israel... wow, swallowed the pill whole didn't you?

    No, if it IS attacking Iran (in particular and on purpose).

    Nothing to do with what is merely claimed. I made no statement as to whether I believed the reports. I am still making no statement about that, because I haven't looked into it at all, and I suspect that if I did, it would still be inconclusive.

  25. Re:So what's the word, people. on Stuxnet Worm Claimed To Be Devastating In Iran · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If Stuxnet is attacking Iran, I'd bet on Israel (just) ahead of the US.