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  1. Re:Opera on Ask Slashdot: Best Small-Footprint Modern Browser? · · Score: 1

    Btw, while Konqueror is feature-rich, I think it is too feature-rich to be light-weight.

    If you want light-weight and fast browser for KDE, try Rekonq, also developed by good folks and KDE using web-kit.

    A win-win scenario :)

  2. Re:[OT] Spam factories on Black Holes May Mature Early In Galaxy Evolution · · Score: 0

    They also probably buy subscription to these websites and forums...

  3. Re:You've got to be kidding me on Running Your Own Ghost Investigation? · · Score: 1

    Also, you should bring a magnetometer. Probably a modern samrt phone will do, but I don't know.

  4. Re:You've got to be kidding me on Running Your Own Ghost Investigation? · · Score: 1

    Read this story with your friends: http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/361/

    Btw, I am being serious and not sarcastic. Have fun!

  5. Re:Insilvent? So what? on A Blue-Sky Idea For the USPS — Postal Trucks As Sensors · · Score: 1

    No. Food will be imported from places like India where farmers are committing suicide because the food is too cheap. The cost of food will take a drop and a lot of third world people will survive this year.

    But of course that will be 'outsourcing' and hence bad. Better to subsidize the farmers from our own 'nation'.

  6. Re:And science fiction got there first. on Why Special Effects No Longer Impress · · Score: 1

    Hi! Could you explain the meaning of 'quirtled'. Googling doesn't seem to help.

    Non-native speaker here.

  7. Re:That's a relief on Ubuntu's Engineering Director Debunks Rolling Release Rumours · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wanted to install Kubuntu using USB. Guess what, installer segfaults after creating new partition. I had to waste 2 days getting anything installed on my laptop.

    And this problem was known at launchpad.

  8. Re:Hmmm, don't really like the guys tone on Xbox Live Enforcement — No Swastika Logo · · Score: 1

    You are missing a point - most people (by percentage of population of this world) don't think of swastika as bad, because most people don't live in Europe and and most people don't care if Europeans killed each other - they killed far more people during colonialism in Asia than they killed Jews, and it was organised. I completely believe that you would disagree with this point because it is not taught in Europe - it is simply not that important for Europeans to know.

    Having said that, the demography of XBox Live is probably US so they can afford to be euro centric and reject swastika. But if that demography involves Indians, I wonder if it is yet another form of colonial thinking.

  9. Re:The AntiSocial Network on Facebook Adds Friend Stalker Tool · · Score: 1

    That is totally correct. By the way, I cannot find the link to 'Browse friendship' anywhere... oh that bitch... thought it would be ok to be 'friends'... eh eh eh... ehheh heh..

  10. Re:monkey uprising on "Super Monkey" Security Force Used At Commonwealth Games · · Score: 1

    What could go wrong is that some misinformed slashdotter might ridicule them.

    They have been used to scare away monkeys since hundred of years, but may be they were planning for commonwealth games all along!

  11. Re:well done on Rackspace Shuts Down Quran-Burning Church's Sites · · Score: 1

    Yeah... and all these people who hate non-white people are organize rallies against them are called "xenophobes". The real xenophobes are the ones who are afraid of different people and won't do anything about them.

  12. Re:Hypocrisy Isn't Free on Controversy Arises Over Taliban Option In Medal of Honor · · Score: 1

    I must barge in to say that Inglourious Basterds got standing ovation in Corso-Kino in Stuttgart, Germany.

  13. Re:Which Mona Lisa? on Lawmakers Want a Space Shuttle In New York City · · Score: 1

    I was going for funny... now i am "insightful" :(

  14. Re:Which Mona Lisa? on Lawmakers Want a Space Shuttle In New York City · · Score: 3, Insightful

    These are going to be like the Mona Lisa,' says space historian John Logsdon, referring to Leonardo da Vinci's iconic 1506 portrait of a woman in Florence that remains on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris

    I'm glad he specified that. I wasn't sure what he was talking about with just a simple "Mona Lisa".

    Little known fact: the name of that "woman" is also - Mona Lisa. What are the chances!

  15. Re:Pros... on Indian Census To Collect Fingerprints, Photos · · Score: 1

    The government isn't collecting this information to spy on its citizens

    Until it starts doing it. Your trust in government is overwhelming. Have you ever been to India?

  16. Re:Someone update the Drake Equation! on 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View · · Score: 1

    I did mean non-Earth origin, just not intelligent (thus discounting Humans). I am sure there is life somewhere here in this solar planet, considering how life on earth is commonly found in extreme conditions. Even if it actually originated here, I think it is quite possible that some rock, due to some collision between earth and some comet, was able to reach mars or some moon of Jupiter along with a colony of microbes and life developed independently thereon.

  17. Re:Someone update the Drake Equation! on 90% of the Universe Found Hiding In Plain View · · Score: 1

    Drake equation aside, I think the existence of life on another planet will be seen in next 100 years.

  18. Re:i stopped using avast because of popups on What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I should have written upgrade

  19. Re:i stopped using avast because of popups on What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Are you sure it was Avast? Because it is Avira that gives popups asking for update.

  20. Re:You know... on Jimmy Wales' Theory of Failure · · Score: 1

    Actually, the factual statement would be "a majority of people are idiots about most of the topics". See, a majority of people used to think that Earth was flat - and they fought the opposing idea until most people learned about stuff and "majority" became "minority".

    Of course, "being idiot" is a tongue in cheek expression for "being wrong and not accepting it", and not a measure of anybody's mental capacity. Also, "most of the topics" is meant for individuals.

    And that is why Wikipedia is game changing - it is the quickest way for wrong people to become minority.

  21. Re:Smarthphones on Ask Matt Asay About Ubuntu and Canonical · · Score: 1

    Mod parent up! Imagine ubuntu on a smartphone - that will lead to Linux on Desktop year...

  22. Re:Analog tech... on India Suspended From PayPal For "At Least a Few Months" · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, the exchange rate of PayPal is worse than many other banks (HDFC for example). Otherwise I would have been doing this long ago. :/

  23. Re:declining oil production on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 1

    Well, for the part of Iran not supporting Hezbollah, I have read latest news and I was wrong. Sorry.

  24. Re:declining oil production on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 1

    Yep, now I am an antisemite. Go Hitler Go!

  25. Re:declining oil production on Thorium, the Next Nuclear Fuel? · · Score: 1

    Yep, that is why I modded Flamebait and you are modded Insightful. But I am not new to Slashdot, may be I should start complaining about mod-points.