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  1. Re:Opera pro's and con's on Which is Better, Firefox or Opera? · · Score: 1
    A few notes:

    "Opera has mouse gestures."
    I must say firefox has them too (optionally). And I also must say that Opera's work better for the moment.

    "bloat"
    The bloat issue is interesting. Opening the same 5 pages and messing about a bit gives 37MB for Firefox and 55MB for Opera. Entirely unscientific of course, but I was surprised that Firefox used so much memory; I expected it to be a bit leaner. Of course, this can probably fixed, and it's a matter of personal preference what is considered bloat. I'm a bit imressed that Opera has a mail- ,rss/whatever-, newsreader, an IRC client and various small tidbit features in that 18MB difference (I had only a mouse gesture extension for FF).

    The price: some people perhaps don't realize they have a student discount, making the price 22e or $29 instead of 34e. This is what really gave the incentive for me to pay. Supporting good software feels good.

  2. Re:I really dont't on Which is Better, Firefox or Opera? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    You can contribute by coding for firefox, or by paying Opera. Both will get you an excellent browser. In fact, you'll get an excellent browser even if you don't contribute to either.

    Now people, can we agree on one thing:

    If we were to combine the strengths of Opera and Firefox, the browser wars would be over and finished instantly for a very long time.

  3. Re:it's simple... on Which is Better, Firefox or Opera? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Turn on the page-fitting in Opera 8 (Ctrl-F11). It fits any page to the width of the window, text/box/spacing sizes are adjusted, images are resized, no more scrolling left-right. Moreover, it moves around the blocks to a more vertical fashion as the page gets more narrow. It's amazing when you take a bloated page and go from width 1280px to width 80px. Now that's formatting!

  4. Re:Uhh... what? on Which is Better, Firefox or Opera? · · Score: 0

    Hm, mine has too. I just tried them out for the first time. Awkward, gestures are faster.

  5. Re:Distance, not time. on Ebert Gives 'Sith' Positive Review · · Score: 1

    And while I'm at it, I also seem to remember that these were the same black holes disguising the construction of the first Death Star. Why Han Solo was be there I do not know.

  6. Re:Distance, not time. on Ebert Gives 'Sith' Positive Review · · Score: 1

    Yes, I remember that it was something about a difficult navigation among some black holes. Cutting it closer means shorter distance, making it faster.

  7. Re:Realplayer now illegal? hopefully on Washington State Outlaws Spyware · · Score: 2

    Fantastic, just what I need. Blackviper.com is well and alive in the Webarchive.

  8. Re:Realplayer now illegal? hopefully on Washington State Outlaws Spyware · · Score: 1

    Try nLite.

  9. Re:Realplayer now illegal? hopefully on Washington State Outlaws Spyware · · Score: 1

    Where can I find a comprehensive dictionary for the services in 2k/XP? Some of the names (and decriptions) are so generic, they could just as well be interfacing code for nuclear silos.

  10. Re:From the source on A Step Toward the Diamond Age · · Score: 1

    You are dating the wrong women entirely.

  11. Re:not surprising on FireWire for 75% Better Mac mini Disk Performance · · Score: 1
    I think it's a typo.

    Spel-Chek suggestions:

    * orifice machine

    But I still don't get it???

  12. Re:glucose monitor on Human Blood For Electrical Power · · Score: 1

    What? So the Holy Grail (TM) of insulin therapy has to do with the bloodline? OMG, It's all connected! I can see the code!

  13. Re:basic flaw on Company Takes Stand Against Booth Babes · · Score: 1

    Yes. "Mainstream sexy" isn't really all that mainstream, it bothers me too.

  14. Re:In other news.. on iPod Dangerous When Wet · · Score: 1
    Heh, but not actually:

    My girlfriend dropped her cellphone in the toilet once. She fished it out, rinsed it in the shower for a while, and put it on a table to dry for 3 days. It worked perfectly. I don't think any batteries as small as these are can explode without physically bunging them up, like this kid apparently did.

  15. Re:Non-lethal exposure on Nuclear Battery That Runs 10 Years · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, the radiation would still not penetrate the skin, even if you slam the battery up your scrotum. Something else might though. No matter how much one might wish, there is nothing magical about male balls. They do not have automatical attractional powers for radiation (or females).

  16. Re:In case of slashdotting on Aquarium Full of Oil For PC Cooling · · Score: 1

    I thought oil dissolves rubber soles, not plastic. Also, what if you step in vegetable oil as opposed to motor oil, does the sole still dissolve?

  17. Re:Past the ideal size on Due Next Year: Dell's 19-inch Laptop · · Score: 1

    Well, I had a Toshiba Dynabook not long ago. Small, paperthin, with a silvery aluminium finish. Nice indeed.

  18. Re:No thanks on Simple Cross-Platform File Sharing with Chungles · · Score: 1

    Isn't it a bit kludgy for a filesystem though. In fact, it isn't one, but it certainly wins in simplicity.

  19. Re:No thanks on Simple Cross-Platform File Sharing with Chungles · · Score: 1

    So what are the differences anyway, except configurability? Authentication seems to be one thing, and compatibility with winpc's another.

  20. Re:No thanks on Simple Cross-Platform File Sharing with Chungles · · Score: 1

    Hm, excuse my Unix-noobity, but how would you do it otherwise for nix-to-nix?

  21. Re:Underground bunker and all that on Testing Out Cell-Phone Viruses on a Prius · · Score: 1

    If Toyota handed me a Prius with those goodies for "testing", I'd be playing with it for a week at least. Just for the "testing".

  22. Re:Yeah! More powerful WinCE devices! on Microsoft to Attack RIM with Magneto · · Score: 1

    From Japan.

  23. Re:Great on Microsoft to Attack RIM with Magneto · · Score: 1

    Shut up, you! This is Slashdot!

  24. Re:Obvious transhuman consequences left out on Artificial Retinas Bring Vision Back To The Blind · · Score: 1
    Yes, the problem with the blind spots is that information from around the need to be used. That's why it's important to look around a bit when driving, it's entirely possible that a car or a child could be hiding right in your blind spot, making them invisible to you, if you're unlucky. Especially when standing still at traffic lights, when you're just staring straight ahead at the lights.

    Now, getting 360 degree vision would require more than one lens to start with, so it's not really a viable option. Moreover, does anyone have any idea how to map a sphere of vision onto a retina? Resolution would suffer immensely, and perspective distortions would require a total unlearning of what you vision sense has learned so far.

  25. Re:Obstruction of justice on Encrypted Fileserver with Bittorrent Web Interface · · Score: 1

    But they cannot show that there exists a hidden partition within. The inner encrypted data is indistunguishable from random data, which the outer partition is filled with before use. So you can put for example an arbitrary amount of porn, a few generated pgp/gpg keys, a list of password that you "frequently" use (totally random of course) in the "public" part, and no-one can say that there should be an inner partition. Unfortunately, it doesn't (cannot?) support a third inner partition. Not to mention that the outer partition itself is already a block of seemingly random data.