User: ephemere

Keyword Filtering...Finally!

On: Twitter Says It's Cracking Down on Hate Speech (usatoday.com)

"the ability to mute words and phrases"

I've been hoping for this for a long time. I'll start by filtering out "Liberal" and "Conservative" and go from there.

Re:Unity sucks on netbooks

On: Ubuntu 10.10 Multitouch Support Demo

It depends on your hardware. There's an apparent bug in Unity that is making it unusably slow on a number of popular netbook models (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/657976). I'm not sure how this wasn't noticed before launch.

Re:Lists Lists Lists

On: The Top 5 Games of All Time

I prefer the term "karma escort."

I prefer the term "karma companion." (There you go...Firefly reference and earworm all at once)

Obligatory Family Guy Quote

On: 'Operation Site Down' Closes 8 Warez Servers

American General: We're about to commence operation bomb the crap out of your house. The guy who thinks up the names is on vacation. FIRE!

Re:White Light LED's

On: Thin, Flat LEDs

I work for Gentex Corporation, a company that makes white light LED's, among other things. Actually, they are a mix of two colored LED's.