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  1. SeaMonkey ain't a new project on Opera Founder Is Back, WIth a Feature-Heavy, Chromium-Based Browser · · Score: 1

    I'm quite puzzled about the plug for SeaMonkey because it's not a new project. SeaMonkey is the successor of the original Netscape/Mozilla browser suite and it was the flagship product of Mozilla then. Firefox (originally named Phoenix then Firebird) was created in response to the bloat of Mozilla.

    I'm relying only on my memory and didn't double check the facts so I may be wrong but I feel the OP seems to be too young to know this which is a bit shocking because I'm just 29.

  2. Published in Science on How To Mathematically Predict Lightning Strikes · · Score: 4, Informative

    *not* Nature

  3. Re:Is there nothing else left to study? on Length of Applause Not Tied To Quality of Presentation · · Score: 2

    “The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.”
      Henri Poincare

  4. Re:Google Books inaccurate on Physicists Discover Evolutionary Laws of Language · · Score: 1

    I haven't read this paper's supplementary information but according to the SI of their 5-million books paper, about 6.2% of the books in their filtered (serials removed) corpus are off by 5 years.

  5. Re:Applied particle physics? on Superluminal Neutrinos, Take Two · · Score: 1

    FYI, particle physics is high-energy physics and different from nuclear physics. CERN deliberately does not engage with nuclear physics.

  6. So long... on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    ...and thanks for the fish! (There must be an H2G2 comment here somewhere...) :)

  7. A real URL game was invented a long time ago on A Game Played In the URL Bar · · Score: 1

    notpron.com

  8. Matrix on UN May Ban Blotting Out the Sun · · Score: 1

    There should be a Matrix comment here somewhere...

  9. Re:Mandriva on Developers Fork Mandriva Linux, Creating Mageia · · Score: 1

    Me to. I don't like *Ubuntu and I'm too spoiled to use Fedora (KDE is no longer its primary DE too).

  10. Re:Network meltdown due to hub cross-connects on Stupid Data Center Tricks · · Score: 4, Interesting

    According to CCNA Sem 1, a hub is a multiport repeater that operates in layer 1. A switch is a multiport bridge that operates in layer 2. I thought these definitions are universally accepted and used, until I used non-Cisco devices. I now have to refer to L2 and L3 switches even if CCNA taught me that these are switches and routers, respectively.

  11. I did! on Who Is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files? · · Score: 1

    As a researcher, it will make my life easier in case I move on to studying Facebook. Everything in there is publicly available.

    According to the README file, the download contains the following:

    The script used to generate these files (v1)
    The script that will be used for the second pass (v2)
    The full URLs to every profile
    All names, including duplicates
    All names, no duplicates
    All names, no duplicates but with a count
    All first names (with count)
    All last names (with count)
    All first initial last name (with count)
    All first name last initial (with count)

  12. Re:Even more interesting on Google Airs Super Bowl Ad · · Score: 1

    You should realize that Google suggestions are customized to each user. It's very likely that you are logged in or has cookies stored in your browser. Now, tell us, why do you think those were the suggestions you got? :)

  13. Cool! on Astronomers Discover the Coolest Known Sub-Stellar Body · · Score: 1

    :)

  14. Re:Using existing actors is only the first step on James Cameron On How Avatar Technology Could Keep Actors Young · · Score: 1

    I guess you'll love S1m0ne

  15. Two letters... on Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees · · Score: 1

    BS

  16. Re:It's about social status... on Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer? · · Score: 1

    Let's see... because your degree program is computer SCIENCE not computer PROGRAMMING? Computer science is mathematics, right?

  17. Re:From what I've discovered... on Are Software Developers Naturally Weird? · · Score: 1

    Good point. I think I'll learn how to do that and be eternally grateful to you. :)

  18. Re:Six degrees of separation on Large Hadron Collider Scientist Arrested For al-Qaeda Ties · · Score: 2, Interesting

    To be pedantic, that is true unless there is an isolated cluster of humans and the most likely case that would happen is if there is an undiscovered (by someone in the spanning cluster) and isolated civilization somewhere. Also, the six degrees of separation is the average path length and not the diameter of the network. Nevertheless, six degrees of separation is an excellent argument against suspecting people solely due to association with "terrorists."

  19. Re:Coverage on Mobile Phone Technology and Developing Nations · · Score: 1

    No problem with the coverage here in the Philippines. Up to just recently, my research is on remote control of scientific and biomedical devices over IP networks including GSM, 2.5G and 3G networks. We were able to do telemicroscopy using a phone. We're now in the second year of a grant to design and deploy telehealth devices to underserved areas. If everything works as expected, it would surely help a lot of people and personally give me a lot of satisfaction.

  20. Coincidence on Traditional News Media Lead Blogs By 2.5 Hours · · Score: 1

    I just presented this paper earlier. We're working on another paper related to this long before this paper was published. It's based on my master's thesis. Stay tuned!

  21. Re:I develop wireless networks for a living on Time To Cut the Ethernet Cable? · · Score: 1

    I'm with the wireless technology group and our group uses the most number of wires in the lab. Go figure :)

  22. One down, two to go on Robot Body Suit To Be Marketed In Japan · · Score: 1

    Now that we have maximum strength, we only have to develop maximum armor and maximum speed and we're set for Crysis. Good thing we still have 11 years to do that.

  23. TBBT on Sarcasm Useful For Detecting Dementia · · Score: 1

    So Sheldon has dementia?

  24. Re:My name is Barack Hussein Obama... on Change.gov Uses Google Moderator System · · Score: 1

    The scientific community told me that light is a particle, then a wave, then a particle, now, both a particle and a wave. So, sorry for being skeptical of an organization that has asked me to trust them every time they change their story.

    Being a skeptic is good but too much skepticism, or more appropriately, unreasonable suspiciousness, is cynicism.

    P.S. I'm not an american and does not follow the intricate details and controversies of 9/11.

  25. Re:Non-Chinese proof of this? on Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk · · Score: 1

    Hanlon's razor:
    Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.