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  1. Re:Old OS on No More Fair-Price Refund For Declining XP EULA · · Score: 1

    By your logic...

    I like it! We need more guys that think like him.

  2. Re:Oh good Lord *facepalm* on New Attack Fells Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    The proof is in your inbox ;)

  3. Re:Is that supposed to be news?? on New Attack Fells Internet Explorer · · Score: 0

    And there's no excuse for that.

  4. Manufacturers? on Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars · · Score: 1

    Manufacturers claims? Is there even manufacturers??

  5. IE Feedback system EXISTS on Microsoft's Lack of Nightly Builds For IE · · Score: 1

    Moreover I tried to sign up for the IE bug feedback system.

    1. It required me to get a live account. I did.

    2. It required me to "register" with my live account. It didn't work with Webkit so I fired up Firefox, then I did.

    3. It required email confirmation of my live account. I confirmed it.

    4. It asked me to register to be able to vote on issues (GOTO 2)

    No wonder the feedback is minimal and useless (as in not real bug reporting). There's probably no one who cares on the other end anyway

  6. In soviet Russia.... on Intel Says Brain Implants Could Control Computers By 2020 · · Score: 1

    In soviet Russia....

  7. Re:The hiss is where it hides on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you're find they're compressing the hell into music.

  8. adblock and flashblock on Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? · · Score: 1

    Visiting with adblock and flashblock is highly recommended, lest you be blinded. The article is spread over 6 pages and there is no print version.

    So don't post it.

    Not like we haven't covered this before, several times on less obnoxious sites ;)

  9. Re:(s)he on Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys · · Score: 1
    China is included: 1.1 male(s)/female Or is that just a question? It should be pretty easy math:

    Population World: 6,790,062,216 (July 2009 est.)

    Population China: 1,338,612,968 (July 2009 est.)

    Ratio World: 1.07 male(s)/female

    Ratio China: 1.1 male(s)/female

    And I'll leave you to your fun.

  10. Re:(s)he on Environmental Chemicals Are Feminizing Boys · · Score: 1
    CIA World Factbook:

    USA: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
    World: at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female

    I think it's hardly notable.

  11. Re:Solving the wrong problem on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 1

    haha- yes I'd also like to be able to do simple math in plain old CSS but for some reason width:calc(body.width-40px) just doesn't work :/

  12. Re:Solving the wrong problem on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 1
    Yeah I know that. The issue is that you can either associate a long list of selectors with a property or a selector with long list of properties.

    If you're designing a page it fastest and easiest to write CSS using the latter strategy.

    Unfortunately it also means you have to play grepcakes when you decide to change change a single color.

    A capability like {class:'main-font';} means you can reuse long property lists and stick with a design strategy that makes the most sense.

  13. Re:Presumably... on Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    Jesus let it fade!

  14. Re:and faster still.. on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 1
    Down troll! Don't bite!

    Keep in mind that if you're not using CSS they you have to declare the style for every element that exists.

    Also compressed encoding means that the full payload for CSS is less than 50K. I don't know what kind of connection you're banished to that makes that an "f- load slower" but maybe you should consider switching from manual morse decoding to something automatic.

    rather than camp on slashdot and its ilk

    ...as you peruse the comments.

  15. Re:Good move, but... on Bing To Use Wolfram Alpha Results · · Score: 1

    Nope- just command-space and type an equation.

  16. Re:Day is Night, Black is White, and Good is Evil on Microsoft Responds To "Like OS X" Comment · · Score: 1

    This is a PHP vulnerability that installs php scripts that can be used of the attacker's gain. Certainly challenged the definition of botnet that I was thinking of. Never the less I suppose you're right.

  17. Re:Solving the wrong problem on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 1
    Or even being able to assign classes to other classes:

    .main-font{font-family:Times, serif}
    .headline {class:'main-font';color:green}

    #news {class:'main-font';}
    #side-header {class:'headline'}

    That would be super hand most days

  18. Re:Solving the wrong problem on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 1
    I always wished you could define aliases directly in CSS:

    @define
    (
    themecolor1,'#f6a889';
    themecolor2,'#00ff40';
    themecolor3,'rgb(165,42,42)';
    boxshadow1,'1px 2px 4px #c6c6c6';
    )

    .sidebox
    {
    box-shadow:box-shadow1;
    color:themecolor1;
    }

    Otherwise you end up greping through css when you want to change/reuse something. CSS was a step in the right direction but there's plenty to do :)

  19. Re:Just turn off image loading on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 2, Informative

    One is the world wide web, the other is a cat.

  20. Re:Just turn off image loading on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 1

    Hey look at that- informative.

  21. Re:Slashdot could use the help on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 1
    Actually how about local persistent browser cross site javascript/css caches that validate based on signature? Something like

    <script type="text/javascript" src="/scripts/jquery-min-1.3.3.js?v=132" local="com.jquery.min.133.js" sig="eaa41fbd734596533e98e557eae39b8b" />

    The browser comes with copies of commonly used libraries or has access to a repository or downloads them from anywhere and validates sigs, using the same code where sigs match.

  22. Re:and faster still.. on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Are you kidding? The new slashdot is way easier to participate on from dialup. The CSS file may look huge but it's a 29KB one time download.

    Cache headers are set to one week so unless you're clearing your cache every page load it's amounts to nothing.

    If anything the scripts are bigger, but again, cached. Besides AJAX comments were a huge improvement for those of us on dialup- no more loading the whole page every time you did anything.

    CSS and JS, when used correctly make things faster for users, even (and sometimes especially) for those of us on slow connections.

  23. Re:and faster still.. on HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web · · Score: 1

    Is there any commonly useful Java applets left out there. I disabled Java years ago!

  24. Re:Day is Night, Black is White, and Good is Evil on Microsoft Responds To "Like OS X" Comment · · Score: 1

    comprised mostly

    I never hear of a malicious botnet that ran on anything other than Windows. As far as I can tell the browser is irrelevant, looks like the numbers matched up closely to global averages.

    Botnets are comprised of only Microsoft Windows.

  25. Re:What Apple does right on Microsoft Responds To "Like OS X" Comment · · Score: 1

    I think you're looking for Control-F2. After that menu selections are alphabetical, using space or enter to select an item. Menus can also be navigated in a 2d grid with arrow keys.