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  1. Reinvent the browser again? on Meet Uzbl — a Web Browser With the Unix Philosophy · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Novel ideas usually don't live on by themselves unless they become useful. The worst thing the developers did (besides the name) was create a "steep learning curve" for the common web browser. The best thing the developers could do is work with an existing product that already has market share and works great like Chrome (also based on Webkit) and make their additions to it in support of better key bindings.

  2. Re:Listen up camera manufacturers on Open Source Camera For Computational Photography · · Score: 1

    No, YOU make it with options 1-5 because it's open source!

  3. Gift money on Company Laptop, My Data — Can They Co-exist? · · Score: 1

    Ask the company to designate the money as a gift, with the *unwritten* understanding you'll pay for your laptop with the gift.
    Use the laptop for both company and personal means.
    When push comes to shove it's your laptop. Company benefits because you do computing for them here or there.

  4. I for one choose to believe... on Sun's JRuby Team Jumps Ship To Engine Yard · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... the ramblings of a guy named Nutter.

  5. Change of view on Three Arrested For Conspiring To Violate the DMCA · · Score: 1

    Instead they should have held a "Contest" to "test" the security with a prize of $250,000 if it's broken.

  6. Re:Developers, developers ... and authoring tools on HTML 5 Takes Aim At Flash and Silverlight · · Score: 1

    What if the HTML 5 RIA authoring tools are Silverlight, JavaFX or Flash with a suitable export format? Likely they would support more proprietary and richer content in their own formats. How about Microsoft implementing HTML 5 RIA compatibility mode in Silverlight and bundling that with the browser with hopes the developer will go for the richer proprietary Silverlight experience. Something has to render the RIA content. Just some thoughts.

  7. Fishy summary on When Your Backhoe Cuts "Black" Fiber · · Score: 1

    Why would the government have "secret" cables buried in public sight? And why would they not instead use forms of encryption instead of the actual unsecet cables.

  8. Re:Windows Search 4.0?! on Windows Vista Service Pack 2 Released · · Score: 1

    I dunno, in any previous version of Windows search it seems I cannot find anything. For example by the default settings it won't see files in directories that aren't indexed. And even when Advanced search is told to search all files on disk and subfolders despite index, it still can't seem to match a simple filename half of the time.
    Having said that I haven't tried Search 4.0 yet, am hoping it's better but maybe it's worse.
    So I thought they were assholes before Search 4.0 to be specific.

  9. Re:My sleep story, how about yours? on The Dangers of Being Really, Really Tired · · Score: 1

    Betcha' don't remember posting that either.

  10. Programming on 3,800 Vulnerabilities Detected In FAA's Web Apps · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Who builds the FAA web apps?

  11. Re:turbo-Pascal on Borland Being Purchased By Micro Focus · · Score: 1

    Well it wasn't long lived because we then had to endure e* followed now by i*...

  12. Optional payment for ad-free on Would You Pay For YouTube Videos? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I MIGHT take the option of making a micro payment to make the video ad-free for me. That way anybody can access videos. It's not easy to charge for a user-generated video across the board because that will likely diminish ability to share videos. For example, now I post videos to my blog, facebook page, email the link to many people, etc. To require my viewers to pay for what I think is neat or nifty is slightly absurd especially when they're doing the same thing with their video links.

  13. many baffling things on Huge Supernova Baffles Scientists · · Score: 1

    Oh ya submitter well Uranus baffles scientists too!

  14. IronPython speed on Project Aims For 5x Increase In Python Performance · · Score: 2, Informative

    Word has it that Microsoft created a speedy IronPython implementation on their Common Language Runtime and JIT technology for .NET. Here are benchmarks for it. Failing to find similar benchmarks for comparison; can anybody else contribute to this info?...

  15. Re:Incredible. on Google Apps Deciphered · · Score: 1

    Amen. I was afraid the entire book was written in cowboy language. Now I don't want to read it regardless. The publisher should sue submitter for defamation!

  16. focus on cloud problem not client on Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps · · Score: 1

    The issue isn't client code or JavaScript but more so the cloud systems behind them. Even then it doesn't matter much whether the cloud engines are open source or closed when the service goes down either temporarily or indefinitely.

  17. Re:2012 on Tickets On Sale In Sweden For Space Tourism, Starting In 2012 · · Score: 4, Funny

    All that proves is you have space websites in Sweden. C'mon we're not THAT gullible!

  18. Talking about Stupid on Believable Stupidity In Game AI · · Score: 1

    This is the stupidest (because it's most obvious) summary I have read on Slashdot in weeks. There's no other way to say it. It reads like some interesting discovery ... but it's not.

  19. It's a matter of perspective on Blockbuster Total Access Unannounced Policy Change · · Score: 1

    Too bad there aren't bigger things to worry about like a fledgeling economy. Anyway, back to the movie rental situation ...

  20. Re:I'm not overly concerned on Court Demands Private Facebook Data · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well "imo" doesn't constitute a well written comment in my opinion... so now you're even with the newspaper.

  21. Pics and tags on Court Demands Private Facebook Data · · Score: 1

    That chap had better hope the most exciting pictures posted on facebook are of him crawling across the floor ...

  22. Re:Google Won't Let this Happen on Mozilla Contemplates a Future Without Google · · Score: 1

    The benevolent carebear portion is the marketing dept. Looks like they're doing an excellent job too.

  23. Re:Energy Independence on National Ignition Facility Fires 192-Beam Pulse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, I saw that Star Trek episode too.

  24. Re:Russian Roulette with a Fully Loaded Gun on IE8 May Be End of the Line For Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    Right now I'm debugging n-Tier .NET applications (Visual Studio 200) using Google Chrome, sometimes Firefox, etc. with breakpoints on server-side fully functioning. However the same client-side script support doesn't seem to be there. I think it's possible IE is becoming less tied as a requirement of .NET web development?

  25. Hypothetical news? on IE8 May Be End of the Line For Internet Explorer · · Score: 5, Informative

    The author states: At least, that's what I'm hearing through the grapevine
    The author is effectively saying his story is not credible! Slashdot is supposed to run with a hypothetical situation about IE8 demise instead of commenting on real news? It should be fun scanning through these comments to find out who bites (not the big one ... but the fantasy woven by the author).