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  1. Indeed, the Good That Was Mozilla never actually left.

  2. Re:I Thought Firefox was Open NOT Just Open Source on Firefox 57 Will Hide Search Bar and Use a Uni-Bar Approach, Like Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Thank god Seamonkey is still around. I haven't had to switch and pray I never do!

  3. Given that it's a proprietary OS there's no good reason this should have taken so long other than a convoluted codebase.

  4. Re:One small problem... on Cisco Develops System To Automatically Cut-Off Pirate Video Streams (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    >No, it's not. It's deep packet inspection for purpose of network management.

    Except TFA is not at all about network management (which I'm ok with), but rather copyright enforcement. My ISP has no business tracking and watching the videos I view online.

  5. Consumer Reports has long docked Ford for the computer system.

    I know I'll miss my hardware radio and climate control buttons when I next buy a car.

  6. Re:Never understood the appeal of the original on 'GoldenEye: Source' Updated: A Classic, Free Multiplayer Game (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's probably it. It was incredibly fun at the time.

  7. Intel's dominance was due to illegal tactics when netburst was their thing. Since Core 2, and especially since Nehalem, they've been tops in per-core performance. Then AMD pulled a Netburst and created Bulldozer and haven't been even close to competitive.

    I know they don't have the resources to compete equally, but I'd really like AMD to be a contender again.

  8. Re:I get it, but it's stupid. on Apple, Samsung, and Sony Face Child Labor Claims (amnestyusa.org) · · Score: 2

    And mining has to be waaay down the subcontrator chart. I can't fathom blaming Apple for how materials are mined.

  9. Re:Luke Force Choked on Quantifying How Much the Force Is Used In Star Wars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I always thought that was Jedi mind trick.

  10. Re:What about Scientific Linux? on The Unsung Heroes of Scientific Software (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfair question! I'm sure hats aren't allowed on the ISS.

  11. Re:Myth? on 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that radio waves penetrate walls and light doesn't due to their differing frequencies. I would attribute the same reasoning to 900MHz vs 2.4GHz and 5GHz.

  12. Destruction method on Structural Engineer On the Fallacies of Movie Bridge Destruction (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    I also take issue when they use unrealistic methods of destruction. Like in I am Legend, they use fighter jets to shoot missiles edge-on. Makes no sense when you could much more easily drop a bomb from above.

  13. I think you guys are using different definitions of "major".

  14. Re: Sorry, but Apple still deserves most of the cr on The Long Reach of Windows 95 · · Score: 1

    Preemptive multitasking in Windows 95? Whaaat?

  15. Re:Precious Metals? on John S. Lewis On the Space Commodities Market · · Score: 1

    Records, for instance.

  16. Re:Holy Jebus on Elon Musk: Faulty Strut May Have Led To Falcon 9 Launch Failure · · Score: 1

    The fact that they triangulated a part failure *after* it exploded is what impresses me.

    I knew rockets transmit a lot of data for failure analysis but not that!

  17. Re:Alternatively on People Are Obtaining Windows 7 Licenses For the Free Windows 10 Upgrade · · Score: 1

    The control panel is completely phony. It's horrible.

  18. Re:Strange quality problems on Russian Rocket Crashes In Siberia · · Score: 2

    A very good reason not to start emargo-causing wars...

  19. Re:What makes you think on Ask Slashdot: VPN Setup To Improve Latency Over Multiple Connections? · · Score: 1

    He asked how to set up a server too, so I assume he knows the two streams have to be received and handled (by dropping the slower packet in each pair) before transmitting to the game server.

  20. Seamonkey on Firefox 30 Available, Firebug 2.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Seamonkey remains un-ruined, as usual.

  21. Re:by coming home most of the time on Canada Poised To Buy 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 JSFs · · Score: 1

    Well, according to the US military, the enemy fighters won't detect the JSF until it's too late. The F-35 will have shot its four missiles and turned around without being detected. In that case, better armed and more maneuverable don't matter much.

  22. Re:No on Decommissioning Nuclear Plants Costing Far More Than Expected · · Score: 1

    I agree with your point, but you have to consider cancer due to radiation at the very least.

    Anyone who has received a significant dose of radiation has likely had their health damaged, even if nothing is ever attributed to it. In my very amateur opinion, any permanent DNA damage is, well, damage.

  23. Re:When will they gentrify the Tenderloin? on San Francisco's Housing Crisis Explained · · Score: 1

    I read somewhere that an ordinance was passed restricting height and requiring so much single occupancy housing specifically to keep the tenderloin the way it is.

    That is, they wanted poor people to still have a place downtown, and this makes everyone else suffer from a very regrettable ghetto blight.

  24. Re:90% of the cells in the human body on Bots Now Account For 61% of Net Traffic · · Score: 1

    True, but when talking about "traffic", I interpret that to be talking about volume, as it's a unitless word.

  25. Re:Removed "Disable Javascript" check box on Firefox 23 Arrives With New Logo, Mixed Content Blocker, and Network Monitor · · Score: 1

    Also Chrome, which has so few options it's pathetic.