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  1. Summary of article on Konqueror Passes the Acid2 Test Too · · Score: 1

    Acid2 test passed Load balancing failed

  2. 25 Million Megabytes on Simulated Universe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoa this is slashdot - news for nerds, convert to metric please,
    or least use Giga or Tera :P

  3. Pc games are not about graphics on Will Next-Gen Consoles Kill Off PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    It's about minimizing them in your start bar and pressing alt-tab when the boss it not looking.

  4. Is there a kill filter? on Will Next-Gen Consoles Kill Off PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    To delete any headline that contains that word.

  5. Or maybe another hidden use... on Google Launches Google Sitemaps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Navigation is sometimes the hardest part on the internet. A tree structure is sometimes the second easiest way of searching/browsing for information (1st being keyword searching). So maybe if more web designers set up server side solutions, it will lower the burden on web designers. More importantly, move navigation away from web designers to users just as Google displaced content from web designers unto Searchers. So instead of overburdening web servers like this Firefox extension Firefox extension with screenshot which automatically generates a sitemap br crawling a site. Sites can access a sitemap using a favicon.ico like or link rel="sitemap.rdf or sitemap.xml" protocol. Just as netscape NAVIGATOR originally proposed a while back. I think web designers should pay attention - at least those that don't use flash for their whole site. The web is slowly become a database of content rather than style. See the webmonkey wired article on netscape sitemap feature Sitemap rdf or the sitemap slide here Slide from seminar

  6. Imagine the headlines on Trust in a Bottle · · Score: 1

    45% of people trust others when smelling this,
    Some might round up and say half of the sample
    population.
    Dude, it's only 13 people out of 29,
    and it's even less since
    6 others were also trusting,
    So say 7, that's right, 7 people, who
    knows how they were selected.

  7. I will wait awhile on Trust in a Bottle · · Score: 1

    I'll trust the researchers when I try it out myself.

  8. Answer on Whose Burden is it to Recycle Computers? · · Score: 1

    Whoever has the most to lose -public relations- wise. Imagine if you read an article that state's Dell now has to pay recycling fee or microsoft. You think dell or microsoft will back down?

  9. Re:Because nobody but us geeks use SVG! on The Return of GPLFlash · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but resources are limited. And yeah, some people did abandon GIFs for PNGs. So What's your point?

  10. Re:So Flash is good now? on The Return of GPLFlash · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why flash? especially when SVG and Firefox are starting to happen. Browser can do rich graphics without losing rich content. See Picture of browser rotated 30 degress And then there is ben goodgers demo of thumbnail history . See Thumbnail history Plus there's was that article a while back about Oconner commenting on the absent developers. For flash, like advertisement, if we do not notice it, maybe it will go away.

  11. Summary on How Can I Trust Firefox? · · Score: 1

    HIS COMMENTS installing firefox requires downloading an unsigned binary from a random web server installing unsigned extensions is the default action in the extensions dialog there is no way to check the signature on downloaded program files there is no obvious way to turn off plug-ins once they are installed there is an easy way to bypass the "this might be a virus" dialog this is what the "secure deployment" part of microsoft's sd3+c campaign is all about; we design and develop secure software, but we make sure that customers can deploy it securely as well.
    USER COMMENTS:
    posted @ 12/20/2004 7:47 pm # re: trust no one (but use firefox) andy habel the simple fact is that i'd much rather trust an open source application where the code is public and subject to scrutinty then a closed source browser known to be riddled with many bugs and security holes, some which still aren't patched to this day
    3458 rob davy 4 words - lesser of two evils at least you have to actively choose to install things with firefox, instead of bugs in ie allowing anyone to install things posted @ 12/20/2004 6:30 pm # how can i trust ie/microsoft

  12. Summary on Flaw in Google's New Desktop Tool [Update: Fixed!] · · Score: 1

    http://seclab.cs.rice.edu/gdesktop-tr-dec04.pdf Quote 1 java applet attacks because the google desktop application bases its decision to integrate strictly on network traffic, all that is required for an eavesdropper to obtain an integrated web page is to open a socket on the target computer and send an http request to go Quote 2 the google desktop's local search integration cannot distinguish this connection from the java applet with a legitimate connection from a web browser, and will thus integrate the search results where they can be read by the applet

  13. Long article, so here is two paragraphs on Examining Bittorrent · · Score: 1

    Together, bittorrent and suprnova form a unique infrastructure that uses mirroring of the web servers with its directory structure, meta-data distribution for load balancing, a bartering technique for fair resource sharing, and a p2p moderation system to filter fake files The hunt script selects a file to follow and initiates a measurement of all the peers downloading this particular file, the getpeer script contacts the tracker for a given file and gathers the ip addresses of peers downloading the file, and the peerping script contacts numerous peers in parallel and (ab)uses the bittorrent protocol to measure their download progress and uptime