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  1. Re:No need to wait. on For Firefox 4, You'll Need To Wait Until 2011 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So... Are you saying chrome is FireFox 4.0, or that chrome allows for time travel?

    Um, let me check my Charlie Chaplin DVD collection and I'll get right back to you on the time travel bit ;-)

  2. Re:Western Electric Hearing Aid ca. 1925 on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 1

    Um, is that WE 34A user interface prior art for Apple's 'click-wheel' ??

  3. Re:Wait.. Wait... on FarmVille Now Worth More Than EA · · Score: 1

    Hardcore gaming is dying. Happy? Glad I could help ;-)

  4. Re:Whew... So there is hope for a cure? on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 1

    If you listen to people like Alex Jones, that's exactly what the "liberals" want - to setup the system for collapse so they can abolish the Constitution and create a new one (modeled after the EU's Lisbon Treaty). Is that the cure you were talking about? I'm a bit confused about your point, so a clarification would be appreciated. Thanks :-)

    Every time America votes one party into power (the WH, Congress & Senate) they quickly turn on that party and start the process of voting in the other party. It starts at the edges of the minority party and works its way through the middle and the independent/undecided voters.

    How you could get "abolish the Constitution and create a new one" out of what I posted is beyond me.

  5. Re:Good on the Chinese on China Makes World's Fastest Supercomputer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sadly, China needed to build this computer simply to calculate the interest on the US debt in realtime.

  6. Re:Does it run Linux? on China Makes World's Fastest Supercomputer · · Score: 2, Funny

    But does it run (Red Flag) Linux?

    And can it run *Flash?



    * run Flash without using > 50% of the CPU's

  7. Re:Whew... So there is hope for a cure? on Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene' · · Score: 2, Funny

    The "cure" for liberalism is exactly the same as the "cure" for conservatism: elect a lot of it and wait a few years for the electorate to "cure" themselves.

  8. Re:So...what happens in the other 1%? on Korea Kicking People Offline With One Strike · · Score: 2, Informative

    Though they acted over 99% of the time, just over half of the actions were warnings. Check out the table from the article. It even shows that 40 recommendations were not complied with (but only from one ISP).

  9. Re:We need a new domain like .xxx on Riskiest Web Domains To Visit · · Score: 1

    That's just what happened to Evil Krusty.

  10. Re:I'll just avoid all .com domains! on Riskiest Web Domains To Visit · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is quite possibly the most pointless report ever compiled.

    Not according to travel.jp ;-)

  11. Hmph ... on NASA Parodies Reach New Level of Awkwardness · · Score: 1

    Am I the only ones who think they should have hired the people from Futurama to do this? I also think Prof Farnsworth would have been a far better narrator.

  12. Re:OMFG TEH REPULIKINS IS TEH EBIL! on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 1

    But, being Slashdot, no one is amazed you didn't RTFA.

    AC didn't even read the next line of the summary.

  13. Re:Sharron Reid, eh? on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please spare me the horror.

    Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

  14. Re:I abstain on Voting Machines Selecting Default Candidates · · Score: 1

    Surely there should be a box to abstain from voting (spoil your ballot), and this neutral should be checked by default.

    Or at the very least the 'Write In' box should be selected automatically ... with the voter's name and SSN pre-filled to save them a little time ;-)

  15. Re:Evidence on Bees Beat Machines At 'Traveling Salesman' Problem · · Score: 1

    who/what is god?

    I think it's one of the security modes in Linux ... I know one of the user modes in Windows is called "damn!".

  16. Re:What's the benefit ? on Firefox 4's JavaScript Now Faster Than Chrome's · · Score: 1

    The question is: are all current browser implementations compatible to each other ?

    No. No they aren't. Not all browsers support the same DOM properties. Some have different names for the same data and other just don't support some items. It's a mess to program for every JS implementation.

  17. Re:I'm working on a new Firefox / Safari plugin on Adobe Releases Its Own HTML5 Video Player · · Score: 1

    It will let you view GIFs, JPEGs and PNGs on any page you visit.

    Wha ... ??? I prefer TIFF's, you insensitive clod!

    BTW, how did the parent get modded as 'Informative' when it's clearly 'Funny'?

  18. Re:Browsing in spreadsheets is not new on 10 Oddly Useful Specialty Web Browsers · · Score: 4, Funny

    You've always been able to load a URL into a spreadsheet...

    I must have missed that feature while playing around with Lotus 1-2-3 and VisiCalc back in the 80s.

    I think it was alt-shift-F3 + ctrl-shift-u + ctrl-alt-insert + ctrl-alt-shift-sys_request ... or something like that.

  19. Re:Does this mean? on Mystery of the 'Chupacabra' May Be Solved · · Score: 3, Funny

    That Big Foot, flying saucers, and ghosts aren't real either? I'm so disappointed!

    Couldn't they have spent all this effort on trying to explain Snookie from 'Jersey Shore' instead? I'm confident we'd all be better off if they proved she didn't exist.

  20. Re:No, google admits to collecting wifi packet dat on Google Admits To Collecting Emails and Passwords · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    While it might not be ethical to capture full packet dumps, they probably did it to triangulate wifi access points better. This is a problem of privacy, but not of outright evil.

    Google is a big company full of a lot of really smart people. How is it that none of them analyzed the process or the results during the 'testing phase' to determine they might just get this type of data? Their intentions may not have been 'evil' but negligence is no excuse. Not acting to prevent this type of data being gathered in the first place is 'evil' enough.

  21. Re:Wishful thinking... on One Step Closer To Speedier, Bootless Computers · · Score: 1, Informative

    Isn't 1000x faster too fast? I heard we are already close to the limit of speed of light. If we go faster than chips would have to get smaller so signals can travel across them in one cycle.

    The day that the speed of light is holding us back we'll be in pretty good shape technologically speaking. I'm not sure if our planet will last long enough for us to get there, but it's not like we've got any other choice. Damn the electrons, full speed ahead!

  22. Re:fark reported on this yesterday...and got it ri on UN May Ban Blotting Out the Sun · · Score: 1

    And I'm sure Mr Burns is still angry about this.

  23. Re:Growth rate? on Smart Grid May Also Carry IPv6 Traffic · · Score: 1, Informative

    Will this give them the capability to shut down internet access too -- perhaps even for an entire block where riots are taking place?

    They've have to knock out power along with the internet. If you don't have power you probably don't have internet access anyway ... unless you have a broadband/WAN card in your laptop, which probably has a battery in it.

  24. Re:Grid doesn't even carry electrons exactly... on Smart Grid May Also Carry IPv6 Traffic · · Score: 1

    It carries "waves".

    For God's sake man, which is it: carrying, or waving?

    Clearly it's carrying on by waving goodbye to the electrons.

  25. At Last! on Adobe Reader X With Sandbox Due In November · · Score: 3, Interesting

    At last ... the malware writers will have a new challenge, and just in time for those long holiday weekends. I'm betting they find a way around Adobe's "sandbox" before the end of the year. Adobe used to make very good software - now they make very exploitable software.