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  1. Re:Will it also automatically not blow up extensio on Firefox 15 Released: Silent Updates, Compressed Textures, Add-on Memory Leak Fix · · Score: 1

    Are you an IE 6 user as well?

  2. Re:Old story, or something new? on Firefox 15 Released: Silent Updates, Compressed Textures, Add-on Memory Leak Fix · · Score: 2

    Please don't tell me you are running windows with 2Gb or some low amount like that.
    A development box needs tons of ram. Sounds you are in desperate need for a 64 bit system as well.

  3. Re:Old story, or something new? on Firefox 15 Released: Silent Updates, Compressed Textures, Add-on Memory Leak Fix · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. I open literally dozens of Firefox windows with no instability at all.
    Unless high memory usage is a problem in your system.

  4. Re:DOM inspector on Firefox 15 Released: Silent Updates, Compressed Textures, Add-on Memory Leak Fix · · Score: 1

    Why not use Firebug?

  5. Or kill it from the Task Manager.

    Or wait until your disk drive light dies down...

  6. High Res 3D Gaming?? on Firefox 15 Released: Silent Updates, Compressed Textures, Add-on Memory Leak Fix · · Score: 1

    In my browser?

  7. Re:Ah, the good old days... on New eBay EULA Prohibits Class Action Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    True, the Supreme Court's hands were tied by the law ( Federal Arbitration Act or FAA), so it's a matter of changing it. Although decision was not unanimous.

    The linked decision article also mentions...
    "Future possibility: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) arguably has the authority to overturn this Supreme Court opinion and adopt a regulation prohibiting mandatory arbitration clauses that prohibit access to class-action arbitration."

  8. Re:Ah, the good old days... on New eBay EULA Prohibits Class Action Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    That's a great link, thanks.

    Clearly it's a hot issue and we should keep putting pressure on changing/updating the law. From the article:

    "A 2007 Public Citizen report claimed that arbitrators working for the National Arbitration Forum, at the time one of the largest U.S. administrators of consumer arbitrations, had ruled against consumers 94 percent of the time."

  9. Re:You know its funny on Experts Develop 3rd-Party Patch For New Java Zero-Day · · Score: 2

    Will we ever be safe from all that?
    Oh, it's Java bashing time, sorry...

  10. Re:Quarterly security patch? on Experts Develop 3rd-Party Patch For New Java Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    Users get upset when the server is rebooted/restarted on short notice.
    You get alot of "I need two weeks in advance to prepare for this" complaints.

  11. Re:A better idea... on Experts Develop 3rd-Party Patch For New Java Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    Java is also used heavily on the browser in Colleges and Universities (Higher Ed.) for rich text editors, chat rooms and some other educational content.

  12. Re:poor on Microsoft Unveils First New Company Logo In 25 Years · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or done in Paint.

  13. Re:Ah, the good old days... on New eBay EULA Prohibits Class Action Lawsuits · · Score: 0

    Mod Up
    +1

  14. Re:Ah, the good old days... on New eBay EULA Prohibits Class Action Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Either way if contested will not survive in court.
    Contracts are void if found to be illegal.

  15. Re:Isn't it obvious? on Cats Not Linked To Brain Cancer After All · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly!!
    Woof!!

  16. Security is NOT cheap on After Hacker Exposes Hotel Lock Insecurity, Lock Firm Asks Hotels To Pay For Fix · · Score: 1

    The locks appeared to be safe initially but were not fully tested to this type of attack.
    Hindsight is 20/20. They should have spent more on testing against these hacking attacks, but how much would that be?

    Time for the government to certify these products?

  17. Copying vs. Plagiarism on Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? · · Score: 1

    There is a grey line between being influenced/inspired by other ideas/products and plain plagiarism.
    Very similar to porn, you know it when you see it.
    One would be recognizing the trend in state of the art the other a dishonest and selfish appropriation by cloning.

    Apple would not be where it is now if they didn't copy from some one else. That's how advances in knowledge, science, arts get to evolve.

    Apple has to prove a very tight case of plagiarism where is obvious Samnsung just simply cloned their product.
    I don't think that's the case.

    Lawyers rejoice!

  18. Re:RRDRAM? on IBM Claims Spintronics Memory Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    Wow, snarky. It was easier for you to explain but you decided to take the easiest posture every pseudo-geek takes.
    I bet the reason you do it is because you don't know either so to show who's boss you act like a tough guy, big boy.

  19. For Medicine you just need to read read read on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Take Notes In the Modern Classroom? · · Score: 2

    If you are in Medicine, you will be wasting your time taking more than a page of notes.
    There is such an incredible amount of information in all things medical that you just have to decide what material to read that will match your Teacher's theme and topics. You can probably download somebody else's notes that highlights the important points, pharma doses, lab figures, etc.

    You have to read, review, listen to videos and then read some more. Take a look at what Kaplan offers for example.

  20. Aproach #4 on UEFI Secure Boot and Linux: Where Things Stand · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lawsuit?

  21. Re:I did... on 400,000 American Homes Have Dumped Pay TV This Year · · Score: 1

    ditto ...

  22. To boost my self esteem... on Wikipedia-Sponsored Pilot Study Lauds Wikipedia Accuracy · · Score: 1

    I'm going to commission a study to find out why I am so awesome...
    I will keep you posted with the results.

  23. Re:-2000 Lines Of Code on How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code · · Score: 1

    I think we are almost on the same page... the big assumption here is that using parameters (like the country parameter) can be and should be user defined, thus the value read from a user provided selection, configurable text file, etc will be passed to the Factory object.

    Still mentioning DLLs makes me think on how to implement it, on Windows...

  24. Re:Let the bitching begin.... on Windows 8 Is Ready · · Score: 1

    Hey man, could you just remove the DOS 4.0 and Bob references from your future Microsoft rants?

    It's hard enough competing with all these kids that I can't even comment about how DOS 4.0 sucked because everybody at work will have no idea and it will just show my age.

    So lets recap from ME in the future mmkay?

  25. Re:Windows 8 seems like a solid product on Windows 8 Is Ready · · Score: 1

    Thank you friend for your heart felt comment.
    Of all the techie forums on the web why did you decided to post it on ./? Why?????

    Is it true you work for Microsoft? Is it really getting worse there?
    Please tell friend!!!