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  1. Re:Personally, I'd prefer to see stability in Fire on How to Build a Better Browser · · Score: 1

    I'd be curious to see some examples. Also what version of Fx are you using?

    I can count on one hand the sites that crash Fx, and I think most of them were due to malformed DHTML or Javascript.

    The number of times IE has died on me and taken out 1 or more windows is far, far (did i say far?) greater.

  2. Re:how about adding a port for external drives? on Toshiba Unveils 80GB 'iPod drive' · · Score: 1

    I can see it now, an iPod with an external drive attached.

    With duct tape.

  3. Re:No, you don't. on Cell Phones In The Air? · · Score: 1

    Sure I cried. But, my mother took me out of the store, off the restaurant floor or out of the library or church or (any other place where it ought to be quiet) when I began to cry.

    Young children will cry. No one disputes that. However it's common courtesy to remove to somewhere where the child can't be heard or isn't as loud until you can take care of whatever's making it cry.

  4. Re:Slashdotted a house on Alek's Christmas Lights Webcam is Back · · Score: 1

    Actually this is the third time we've slashdotted this particular house..

  5. Re:Wireless the wave of the future on More Antennas, Faster Wireless · · Score: 1

    No connection fees and no censorship.

    No guarantee of quality of service.
    No tech support.

    Not to mention that SOME people will still have to have conventional ISP accounts, otherwise there will be no bandwidth for everyone else. These people will also likely need to have bigger and buffer hardware to handle being a data chokepoint.

  6. Re:Early morning? Hah! on Geminid Meteor Shower · · Score: 1

    and yes i do realize that 0645 am is redundant. damn "preview before posting"...

  7. Early morning? Hah! on Geminid Meteor Shower · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I'll see a streak or two as I'm trudging to my Statistics for Engineers exam at 0645 AM or so.

    Two years ago I stayed out till 4am or so watching Leonids, they were cool but the display was dissapointing (even tho skys were clear) compared to how much they had been hyped as having a huge turnout that year. Would probably stay out and look for these but that exam...

  8. Re:Solar Power not my future... on Is the Future of Silicon Valley Solar? · · Score: 1

    You DO have to get a return on the huge investment that solar panels are.

    Living in a place that's cloudy most of the year means that the savings on your power bill might not catch up to the installation price before you want/need to move, or perhaps in your lifetime.

  9. Re:Funny, I got my account disabled for using Fire on Penn State Tells Students To Ditch IE · · Score: 1

    UNC-Charlotte's engineering labs are done like this as well. Maybe not Deep Freeze itself but another thing much similar. if you want to keep anything you save it to your AFS share

    Getting firefox to work like this took some tweaking but as it stands the only reason i fire up IE is to browse the Godawful student portal that UNCC uses

  10. Re:As long as there is a legitimate use... on BitTorrent Gives Hollywood a Headache · · Score: 1

    Torrents get blocked at the university firewall mostly due to the fact that in BT *everyone* uploads. Upstream bandwidth is alot more expensive than downstream.

  11. Re:Don't forget the drivers, too. on Formula One Racing Just a Matter of Crunching the Numbers · · Score: 1

    If your counterstrike rounds go like that you need better players.

  12. Re:Consumer audio on Truth in Advertising? · · Score: 1

    I think what's really the case is that the high end audio manufacturers are having a laugh at the expense of th reast of the high end audio world.

  13. Re:This is actually easy to fix... on How to Fix U.S. Patents · · Score: 1

    Cthulhu would be so pissed if you dropped a boatload of lawyers on his head while he's sleeping.

  14. Re:First things on The Japanese/American Tech Deficit · · Score: 1

    I hold plenty of respect for good teachers.

    But those who teach cause they can't do anything else, or because the college makes them do classes to get research money/access, or don't have a clue about the subjects their teaching, or dont care about such odd concepts as being civil to their students?

    Ask around a school sometime, you'll find plenty of those. and plenty of disrespect for them.

  15. Re:The flaw on Universal Free Dictionary · · Score: 1

    Please point out where i said that. Wait, you can't, cause i didn't.

  16. Re:The flaw on Universal Free Dictionary · · Score: 1

    If one doesn't understand the language the dictionary is written in, its precision and clearness is irrelevant. I sincerely doubt that many people are going to learn a language they may have never heard of before simply to use a dictionary.

  17. Re:Oh, the irony. on China Bans Game Recognizing Taiwan Independence · · Score: 1

    According to a gratis rep they have shipped over 8000 iPods, and over 4 million dollars worth of merchandise total. Being as skeptical as you are I'm sure you'll disbelieve that, but those are really the only numbers available.

  18. Re:My theory on Laptops May Be Hazardous to Your Fertility · · Score: 1

    Generally if you're in a nursing home you're in no shape to carry through on romantic yearnings

  19. Re:The flaw on Universal Free Dictionary · · Score: 1

    "several million" in a world population of 6.4 billion or thereabouts is a fairly distinct minority. Shouldnt the material be in a format more people can understand?

  20. Re:They just need to follow ./'s lead on Is RSS Doomed by Popularity? · · Score: 3, Informative

    If the server initiated the connection then RSS would be useless to nearly everyone who's behind a router or firewall that they do not administer.

    The server would also need to have a list of clients to send the refresh to, which means you'd need to "sign up" so the server puts you on the list.

    Nevermind the difficulties that dynamic IP addresses would cause. It's generally easier if the user initiates things.

  21. Re:Oh, the irony. on China Bans Game Recognizing Taiwan Independence · · Score: 1

    Touche ;)

    'cept pyramid schemes dont usually work. this one does

  22. Funny on China Bans Game Recognizing Taiwan Independence · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Difficult to take a government seriously when they complain that a video game damages their sovereignty.

  23. Re:AOL's too expensive on Massive Layoffs At AOL · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it doesn't heavily depend on the regional manager or whatnot. I know people who had SBC in the DFW area as well as kansas city, and it was horrible for both of them up to and including regular outages(DNS and connectivity) and dialup level speeds much of the time

  24. Re:RTFA on Apple Threatens iTunes.co.uk Owner · · Score: 1

    Why does it matter what he originally did? At this point in time he is most defintely using the iTunes name recognition to get redirects to QuickQuid.

  25. Re:Surprise surprise... on Apple Threatens iTunes.co.uk Owner · · Score: 1

    So...redirecting users to a spam harvesting site (quickquid) isn't "cause[ing] confusion as to the source or sponsorship?"