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  1. Re:lite on Why Mozilla Is Committed To Using Gecko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...it's trivial to figure that out. Let me explain it to you: you have tab A, and tab B. If tab A and B share the same thread, they will hang each other if one of them hangs. By putting them in separate threads, tab A and B can hang, but not affect each other.

    How is that hard to see? It's not exactly a great insight.

    Wrong, a misbehaving Thread can and will hang the entire process. If anything Threads will INCREASE the chance of hanging the entire browser, because correct Thread programming is HARD!

  2. Re:lite on Why Mozilla Is Committed To Using Gecko · · Score: 2, Informative

    Note I'm not picky about the technical details of threads vs processes, I just want the browser to not completely hang (or worse, crash) based on one tab's misbehavior.

    If you aren't picky about the details then you don't understand the problem, and thus the solutions and why Threads don't give you protection from misbehaving browser windows/tabs and processes do.

  3. Re:http://thepiratebay.org/search/Spore/0/99/0 on Will DRM Exterminate Spore? · · Score: 1

    it helps if you are Untraceable

  4. Re:In the US no one wants to buy light cars on Efficiency? Think Racing Cars, Not Hybrids · · Score: 1

    here's a luxury Hybrid Audi (I think it's an Audi)... wrong, there are NO Audi hybrids, Lexus maybe but not Audi.
  5. There is no such thing as a 'legit' Leopard . . . on Running Mac OS X On Standard PCs · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as a 'legal'/'legit' copy of Leopard running on non-Apple hardware, read the EULA people.

  6. Re:But can I afford them yet? on Intel Confirms It Will Ship 160GB Flash Drives · · Score: 1

    Actually you are way off base. Current SSD drives are about HALF as fast as 5400 RPM drives in writing, and pretty close to even on reading, definitely not any faster. So you won't see any performance in loading games or using Photoshop.

  7. Re:Cats out of the bag . . . on Posting Publicly Available URL Claimed a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    Looks like they have eventually blocked access to that url :-)

  8. Cats out of the bag . . . on Posting Publicly Available URL Claimed a "Hack" · · Score: 1

    I don't think taking down that forum is going to do any good, the information is free now, they will have to take down every forum and website on the internet now. What dumbasses for having a unsecured URL that hosts what they consider sensitive data. Well, I found this in the Sprint forums and here we go: qtv.mobitv.com/sprintTVlive.mcd 1. Copy and paste that link into the address bar. 2. Don't run it but save it to your computer. 3. Find it on your computer and OPEN it up. Select to open it with Internet Explorer or the browser of your choice. 4. There will be a whole bunch of links. Choose the channel you want to watch... 5. Get your LG Voyager and start up the browser. 6. Type one of the links into your Voyager and press OK! There you go, live TV... Ask more questions if you need help.

  9. Dude get a Tivo. on One in Ten Americans Are Chronically Sleep Deprived · · Score: 1

    "... I decided to get rid of my HDTV (and in fact, stop watching TV alltogether) as an experiment ... I actually keep better hours now. ..." Dude get a Tivo, then you can have your cake and eat it also.

  10. And here I thought ... on SGI Acquires Linux Networx Assets, LNXI Dead? · · Score: 1

    ... SGI was dead! Are they even relevant in today's computing market?

  11. What about people that sharing the camera? on Canon Files For DSLR Iris Registration Patent · · Score: 1

    What happens when someone else takes a picture with the camera, if it stores the iris imprint, I will be getting credit for someone else's crappy photography!

  12. Outlook killed corp email long time ago on Corporate Email Etiquette - Dead or Alive? · · Score: 1

    Outlook with its DEFAULT mode of top posting killed anything resembling email etiquette many years ago.
    It is pretty much a waste of effort to try and "educate" anyone why top posting is so bad.
    And that is just the tip of the iceberg.
    And like a few other people point out, full quoting is just another method to cover your own ass when the shit hits the fan.

  13. makes me thing of weird science on Command Line Life Partner Wanted · · Score: 1

    (weird science) Plastic tubes and pots and pans Bits and pieces and Magic from the hand Were makin (weird science) Things Ive never seen before Behind bolted doors Talent and imagination (weird science) Not what teacher said to do Makin dreams come true Living tissue, warm flesh (weird science) Plastic tubes and pots and pans Bits and pieces (and) Bits and pieces (and) Chorus (bits of) my creation--is it real? Its my creation--i do not know No hesitation--no heart of gold Just flesh and blood--i do not know From my heart and from my hand Why dont people understand My intentions . . . . oooh, weird . . . . Weird science!! (weird science) Magic and technology Voodoo dolls and chants Electricity Were makin (weird science) Fantasy and microchips Shooting from the hip Something different Were makin (weird science) Pictures from a magazine Diagrams and charts Mending broken hearts (and makin) (weird science) Something like a recipe Bits and pieces . . . . Bits and pieces . . . .

  14. So what if the battery is dead! on US Courts Consider Legality of Laptop Inspection · · Score: 1

    Just make sure the battery is dead or removed and you can't show them anything.

  15. Re:Almost completely agree on Most Consumers Sitting Out The High-Def War · · Score: 1

    actually a 32" 16:9 aspect TV is going to be LESS screen estate than a 32" 4:3. Since they are measured on the diagonal, you have to go UP in size to get the same size picture since the Vertical measured area is going to drop a substantial amount with 16:9 aspect ratio.

  16. We already have a language just for this case! on Faster Chips Are Leaving Programmers in Their Dust · · Score: 1

    Erlang! Erlang has been around for 10 years and is designed for the current generation of multi-core/multi-cpu machines. It has concurrency built in as a core part of the language. If you want to get the most out of your multi-core machine, start learning Erlang today!

  17. Re:Ironic MS Ad on Developers As Pawns and One-Night Stands · · Score: 1

    nope apparently adblock works quiet well :-)

  18. Re:ZFS vs HFS vs NTFS? on ZFS Shows Up in New Leopard Build · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    NFS didn't "... come out of Redmond ..." Microsoft _bought_ it from another company. so nothing worthwhile has actually " come out of Redmond " in the sense you use.

  19. To all those that "don't care" on Amazon's A9 Drops Retained Data Methods · · Score: 1

    anything they keep, the government can subpoena, anything the government can subpoena can be used against you in court. And yes, what books you read, and what music you listen to and what movies you watch CAN be used against you. Has it been so long that we have fogotten the fascists FBI "commie" hunts of the 50's. Where they were snooping on anyone for anything they dreamed up, library card records, anything. Just hope you remember your apathy when you are the target of one of these soon to be reinstated for citizens "terrorists" hunts. Does it only really take a single generation to "forget" the civial rights breaches of the Hoover and McCarthy years.

  20. Re:Call me old.. on Poll Says No Voter Support for Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    when did TV become free? I must have missed out on that one!

  21. Just learn Japanese! on Is Simplified Spelling Worth Reform? · · Score: 1

    everything is spelled like it sounds, no confusion there!

  22. this isn't hardware/software that runs the car on Microsoft to Supply Electronics to Formula 1 · · Score: 1

    if you read the article for comprehension, it is hardware/software that checks the ACTUAL hardware/software that does the engine management for cheating, what MS is supplying is just something they will use to make sure the ECU is not doing something it shouldn't during a race. beasically it is WGA in a box :-) and we know how well they engineered that against "cheating".

  23. dump tmobile on Has My Cell Number Been Cloned? · · Score: 1

    they suck, my phone was stolen and there were dozens of calls made from it to Mexico AFTER I reported it stolen to them. they wouldn't take them off the bill, so I refused to pay what I didn't owe and got a another phone from another provider and moved my wifes phone service as well. ~$50 US cost them 2 customers that were with them for 10 years!

  24. Re:Reality Check for the Cult of Apple (tm) on Why Apple Backed out from India? · · Score: 1
    Or you can go for the cheapest company and help them screw over your fellow man.
    yep, the americans are that way, short sighted and selfish, everyone that shops at walmart does this everytime they shop there.
  25. Big Deal C.O.B.R.A. had these things in the '80s on New Personal Mono-Wing · · Score: 1