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  1. Re:Chrome and IE on Firefox, Opera Allow Phishing By Data URI Claims New Paper · · Score: 1

    Avoiding expensive HTTP requests.

  2. Re:Windows 8 is not a catastrophe.... on Why Valve Wants To Port Games To Linux: Because Windows 8 Is a Catastrophe · · Score: 1

    The list is still a button click away... Nothing really changed - it's just different.

  3. Re:Windows 8 is not a catastrophe.... on Why Valve Wants To Port Games To Linux: Because Windows 8 Is a Catastrophe · · Score: 1

    I use Win8 on my touch screen notebook. I don't see Win8 being worse with mouse and keyboard - I use it just as I do with Win7. The only thing that was unusual was the start menu, but I launch applications in the same way as I do on Win7: Tap the Windows key and the first few letters of the application name. It's much easier to use a tough screen with Win8 than previous version - but I see in no way it impairs my mouse,keyboard use. This whole "disaster" cry is overrated. It's just a Windows release more different that what people are used to.

  4. Re:This is a terrible idea on Ask Slashdot: Instead of a Laptop, a Tiny Computer and Projector? · · Score: 1

    Several tables these days are sold with a keyboard docking station (or as optional equipment) - which not only gives you a good keyboard but also added battery capacity. The keyboards are thin and compact. I fancied the Asus Transformer Prime, but it was Android only. Though there appear to be coming some nice Windows powered tablets: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/130364-the-answer-to-all-our-windows-8-dreams-the-ivy-bridge-asus-transformer-book

  5. Re:Stupid thieves on Bank Robbing a Terrible Business, Statistically · · Score: 1

    Here in Norway it's getting more and more common to have checkout-points where the machine dispenses the money, no human got access to it except the security guard that refills the machine when the time-lock allows it. If you want to rob somebody it better be their gold fillings.

  6. IE is far from as terrible it used to be. on Startup Skips IE Support, Claims $100,000 Savings · · Score: 1

    As of version 9, IE isn't that awful any more. I didn't have to do anything special for IE) when it came out - the sites looked like they did in Firefox, Opera Webkit etc - finally using the nice CSS3 features. The design is built on adaptive degrading so the newer the browser the prettier it looks. And it gets even better with IE10. For the most part, IE9+ just works. It's becoming less of a pain. The new pain is the various HTML5. CSS3 support that varies greatly among the whole browser-spectrum. (Though, not surprisingly considering the are note complete.)

  7. Re:Lame on Facebook Tests 'Safe' User Tag For Disasters · · Score: 2

    Aye. When the bomb went off in Oslo I was in Sweden for a vacation. I started getting odd "Are you OK?" messages from people, even people I don't frequently talk to. I found it very nice to use Facebook to inform the general bulk of my acquaintances who where concerned. I also found Facebook to be a useful source of finding out of my friends and acquaintances in Oslo was ok - it was quite chaotic and for each person to contact everyone they know - or reply to each request would take a lot of time. Ditto for the London bombings - then the social websites weren't so widely used, but I found it difficult getting any life-sign from my friends in London because the phone network collapsed. Then it took days before I got replies. So yes, this is an area where I find social connection websites comes very handy and useful. It's not really more unthinkable to drop a message on a website as oppose to sending texts or phoning.

  8. Re:The problem is people on Are You Sure SHA-1+Salt Is Enough For Passwords? · · Score: 1

    How would you save the passwords? I read an article that argued for never saving passwords in a database: http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/12/15/never-store-passwords-in-a-database

  9. Could this... on Why Creators Should Never Read Their Forums · · Score: 2

    ...be why God never answer prayers?

  10. Re:Damned shame on Split Screen Co-op Is Dying · · Score: 1

    And to think of that now the monitors are large enough to give each player a decent piece to look at while playing split screen - as oppose to sharing an old 14" 800x600 tiny monitor. You'd think it'd be more of it now ehn it's more practical.

  11. Re:Solution on Facebook Adds Friend Stalker Tool · · Score: 1

    Doesn't stop them if you' re not on either... only difference is that it doesn't link to a profile but just lists a name. If you do ahve an account, and someone does tag you, you can remove it.

  12. Re:Frame of Reference Problem on The Time Travel Paradoxes of Back To the Future · · Score: 1

    Basically for new writers who write a science fiction time travel story you gotta make sure you mention briefly that you solved the orbit/rotation/surface problem and have calibrated your time machine to account for the ever changing topography of the Earth as well as its orbit and rotation ... Or maybe claim that you machine is anchored to Earth's gravity well to simplify things a bit more?

    Got to make sure? Why? It's fiction, it's a story, entertainment. If you have to make plausible claims and explaination for every little details it'll be a book that bore you to death.

  13. Re:Ever been to Tokyo? on The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design · · Score: 1

    No - because you never see a website side by side. The only time you choose between a set of websites is when you do a web-search, and then you pick from the text extract summary and it's location in the search results.

  14. Re:WOLF! on Apple Not Disabling OS X Atom Support After All · · Score: 1

    Are the released known beforehand? Would he have known there'd be a new version the next day?

  15. Re:Stupied Fucking Vista on Vista Share Drops for the First Time In Two Years · · Score: 1

    Why on earth was parent modded troll?

  16. Re:Mythbusters on British Spy Agency Searches For Real-Life 'Q' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd think that they'd want something stealthy and not something that always end up with a big boom...

  17. Re:Similar to Windows hate? on Comic Sans, Font of Ill Will · · Score: 1

    It is easily readable, and more than anything else,

    I can't say anything else than that I strongly disagree with this. Reading a large chunk of text in Comic Sans is painful. It works in small short sentences. Like in comic bubbles...

  18. Re:Breaking News! on IE 8.1 Supports Firefox Plugins, Rendering Engine · · Score: 1

    meh! I thought the posting date was fixed related to the poster's locale time. Oh well.

  19. Re:Breaking News! on IE 8.1 Supports Firefox Plugins, Rendering Engine · · Score: 1

    To be unfair. The date of the post is 31. March.

  20. Re:Can they not use... on Are Long URLs Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    Doh!

  21. Re:Viral infection? on Virus Infection Hits UK's Ministry of Defense, Including Warships · · Score: 1

    Chuck Norris, no doubt. But Chuck Norris versus MacGyver?

  22. Re:Viral infection? on Virus Infection Hits UK's Ministry of Defense, Including Warships · · Score: 1

    Steven Seagal? pffth! Come one, we want Chuck Norris!

  23. Re:Print Version (and my Apple woes) on The Most Annoying Software Out There · · Score: 1

    Ditto. I got quicktime, but the update manager insists on "updating" by including iTunes. I thought I made that choice when I didn't include it when I initially installed it! raaarh!

  24. Re:I like it. on The Joy of the Flash Drive · · Score: 1

    My case's Power LED and HD activity LED are them ultra bright blue ones. When all other lights are out in the room, the LEDs light up well enough for me to reasonable navigate the room. I get this blue halo over me when I sit by the computer. I'm sure that it's the devious ploy of some disgruntled designers to torture people with light. I had to cover up the lights with some black electrical insulation tape.

  25. Re:My Postmortem on Vista on Dell Documents Reveal Microsoft's Pre-launch Vista Errors · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So what does this say about Ubuntu that releases a new version every 6 month? I'm not buying your argument. Did you expect them to take a break after Vista?