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  1. Re:Incomplete summary on Firefox 10 Released · · Score: 0

    I can do that right here. The ESR is also an enterprise-hostile version that changes way too fast for organizations that actually QA the browser interface for their mission critical applications, because the Firefox project has run off the rails with pointless version churning hysteria, lost functionality, and random rearrangement of controls. There. Happy?

  2. Re:OMG guys on Firefox 10 Released · · Score: 0

    I've noticed the increasingly pointless and insipid changes to Firefox's UI, if that's what you mean by "way better".

  3. Re:And we care because... on Firefox 10 Released · · Score: 1

    the ESR also changes too quickly. so the original point stands, "Now if we could just get Mozilla to play better with the enterprise."

  4. Re:And it continues on White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    I've been waiting for the old guard to pass away my whole life. The old white bigoted, sexist, racist dudes.

    Some might say perhaps they may a little assistance to pass away a little faster.

  5. Re:Executive branch on White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    before the internet? haha! I can assure you there always was a significant portion of the populace who didn't believe and didn't trust the government, long long before the internet existed. You might have heard of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement? The Feminist Movement? All those and more were part of so-call counter-culture movement that went across the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s

  6. Re:Well it's hot and techy, what could go wrong? on Facebook Reportedly Filing $5 Billion IPO Today · · Score: 1

    yes we do that, but that is not a web site

  7. Re:Peter Wards "Medea hypothesis" on Early Plants May Have Caused Massive Glaciation · · Score: 1

    well, there already are sngle celled hypothermophiles that can live at over 120 degree C, but DNA and RNA itself comes apart at 150 degrees C., so that puts a rather huge constraint on what can form in this world. there are theoretical alien chemistries with other elements, but they can't form on present or future earth.

  8. Re:Well it's hot and techy, what could go wrong? on Facebook Reportedly Filing $5 Billion IPO Today · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the geeks I know with more than half a brain don't do social networking sites at all.

  9. Re:Peter Wards "Medea hypothesis" on Early Plants May Have Caused Massive Glaciation · · Score: 1

    no worries, in 300 million years the earth will be too hot for multicellular life anyway due to expansion of Sun. Problem solved. And thus catastrophic global warming is guarenteed.

  10. Re:not to mention... on Early Plants May Have Caused Massive Glaciation · · Score: 1

    i know, what a crummy planet, right? and 80% of it is even covered in the universal solvent, dissolves most anything from gold to rock.

  11. Re:Dart Maybe? on Self-Guided Bullet Can Hit Targets a Mile Away · · Score: 1

    this army rifle *never misses* at 3 miles, even with non-snipers operating it!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khyZI3RK2lE

  12. Re:Executive branch on White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd · · Score: 3, Informative

    it's almost like what they taught in civics class, just have to add a phrase before each sentence and another after:

    those two phrases are "The mega-corporate bitches of" and "for the benefit of the mega-corporations"

    1. The corporate bitches of Congress make the laws for the benefit of the mega-corporations

    2. The corporate bitches of the executive branch enforce the laws for the benefit of the mega-corporations

    3. The corporate bitches of the Supreme Court interpret the laws for the benefit of the mega-corporations

    Let's revise the oath of office, "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the agenda of the mega-corporations, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the interests of all those mega corporations, so help me Mammon.

  13. Re:Community Profit margin on Why Linux Vendors Need To Sell More Than Linux · · Score: 1

    nope, Debian gets a little stale before its next release while Debian-derived distros have newer kernels and apps. That's never been a problem for me on servers (it's my favorite Linux server distro) but on a desktop or laptop that makes problems.

  14. Re:you're a troll but even so.... on Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wrong, they have in fact threatened to destroy Iran (Persians, not arabs)

  15. Re:you're a troll but even so.... on Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small · · Score: -1, Troll

    How many wounded and dead has this Iranian leadership "holocaust denial" cause? Zero, that's how many.

  16. CIA:Iran Prepared to Launch U.S. Terrorist Attacks on Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Will Iran war be Obama's October Surprise? Triggered perhaps by false flag or provoked attack?

  17. Re:you're a troll but even so.... on Pentagon: 30,000 Pound Bomb Too Small · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Everything you accuse Iran of doing Israel does, and the U.S. gives them billions of dollars in overt and covert aide.

  18. Re:Fresh water? on Graphene Membranes Superpermeable to Water · · Score: 1

    people have killed themselves in exactly that manner by drinking excessive amounts of tap water; it doesn't have to be distilled water.

  19. Re:It's just more Romney pandering. on Lunar Base Foe Romney Endorsed By Lunar Base Supporters · · Score: 1

    other than the computers, there is nothing simple about the Saturn V system. We don't have such a vehicle now (and even it's payload is far too small to make any kind of moon presence beyond a few days), so no we can't operate from the moon at present. And Iran can't even launch a suborbital lob halfway across the earth, and very illogical to talk of Iran launching system to moon to launch rock back? Unless fuel or energy source mined from moon, that's just nonsense from energy budget point of view. And any launchable rock would *not* have nuclear type yield, and could not in any case be guided with sufficient accuracy.

  20. Re:We Hate, .. on Cinnamon Gnome-Shell Fork Releases Version 1.2 · · Score: 1

    you forgot Unity at the head of your list. with HUD 12.04 will be a Loathsome Turd Sandwich (LTS) edition.

  21. Re:Article misses the point on Mars Rover Opportunity Turns 8 · · Score: 1

    not true, maintenance procedures including re-flash of Spirit's memory and software patch, that patch also applied to other rover as precaution.

  22. Re:Great engineering! on Mars Rover Opportunity Turns 8 · · Score: 1

    My Kodak DC4800 with 3.1 Mpixels is soon to be 12 years old and works fine. I wish my 2003 32" Sony CRT television would die so I can justify a modern set but it will probably last 20 years. I also have a Sony digital clock radio (with analog AM/FM tuner) that we're still using that is 22 years old.

  23. Re:Oh yes, software on America's Future Is In Software, Not Hardware · · Score: 1

    we have matter compilers, they are called plants and bacteria. everything will be grown one day, perhaps the USA can take the lead in that.

  24. Re:Anyone feel like jumping off onto it? on Close Approach By Asteroid 2012 BX34 · · Score: 1

    quite true, and of course greatly depends on velocity too. The size numbers are for the large part of the bell curve.

  25. Re:Insufficiently radical thinking... on Pentagon Drafts Kids To Build Drones and Robots · · Score: 1

    I think the mecha anime makers have 25+ years of prior art on you