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  1. Re:The problem with the "90% only used by 5%" rule on IE7 Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 1
    I'm not familiar with it, but I hope FireFox designed their plugin interface with the right balance of security and flexibility to achieve this.
    In the world of Firefox, "plugins" and "extensions" are different. I don't know about plugins, but extensions can do just as much as Firefox can. They have the exact same credentials. Extensions can even include and call on binary dynamically-linked libraries.
  2. Re:Browsers are just too complex on IE7 Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 1

    Yes, because it is so old-school to download a multi-megabyte JavaScript library only once per website. It's much better to download it again every single time you download a page.

  3. Re:two words on IE7 Vulnerability Discovered · · Score: 1

    The real WTF is that he didn't give a link, causing 5 other people to do it for him.

  4. Re: Sadly it is true... alien visitors on What Earth Without People Would Look Like · · Score: 1
    PC: Hello, I'm a PC...
    Mac: ...and I'm a Mac. I am prettier and therefore superior in every way.
    PC: Want to play <almost any game ever>?
    Mac: No, I'm too cool for that kiddy stuff. I don't even recognize such trash.
    PC: Oh. Then what are you good for?
    Mac: Fun. Duh. Like, OMG.
    PC: What kinda fun?
    Mac: Oh, you know, like, sparkling, and shimmering, and that kinda stuff.
  5. Re:Wireless Digital Monitor on USB To Go Wireless · · Score: 1

    Yeah, a wireless laptop monitor would be soooooooo useful. It's disgraceful for so much data to be passing through the hinge. That isn't what hinges are for!

  6. Re:HA HA, i can see josh's penis!!! on USB To Go Wireless · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is what gay Iranian boys will have to settle for. No gigs upon gigs of video for them. So sad.

  7. Re:Proprietary player? no copying? on DVDs w/ Built in USB Ports for Copy Protection · · Score: 1

    ...3 1/2" floppy, audio CD, DVD...

  8. Re:whoever wrote the article is gay. on Human Species May Split In Two · · Score: 1

    Glad to know I suck at fashion.

  9. Shadows! on GIMP's Next-generation Imaging Core Demonstrated · · Score: 1
    GIMP needs to have a shadow feature like Photoshop's. Adobe has come up with something really powerful and easy to use; there's no good reason to not copy it. In Photoshop you can apply a shadow to a layer and then modify it's distance, angle, opacity, how fuzzy the edges are, etc in real time. At any point later on you can go back and modify any of the options. Any changes to the original layer is immediately reflected in the shadow in real time. You don't have to keep recreating the shadow every time you make a change to the layer.

    But look at the attitude of a GIMP user:
    It sounds as though Photoshop simply erases the shadow layer and re-renders (re-generates) it every time the 'top' layer is changed. It's merely an automation, I suppose. Since shadows are rendered in a newly-created layer, all you need to do to modify shadows is to erase the shadow layer and create a new one to replace it.
    As long as the GIMP people think like that, GIMP will never be anywhere near as good as Photoshop!
  10. Re:Ringbarer Interactive Entertainment 2007 schedu on Judge Clears Bully For Publishing · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sim Nigger really sounds like a great game. I wish it was real. Too bad there's no way anything like that will ever get produced (at least not commercially). It would definitely need fried chicken and Kool-Aid along with the watermelon though.

    BTW, wouldn't a name like "Sim Niggaz" be more appropriate?

  11. Re:mixing orientations breaks subpixel positioning on Do Big Screens Make Employees More Productive? · · Score: 1

    How common is it for software to take advantage of knowing the arrangement of subpixels? I didn't think many programs did that.

  12. Re:Nothing wrong with that. on Common Interfaces for Gnome and KDE Released · · Score: 1

    That's good to hear. I'm suprised they did it.

  13. Re:now if only other nations will follow on China Unblocks Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't forget that government IP addresses were blocked after visitors from them made many changes to make government officials look better. Most likely those people are still doing it, just not from the same IP addresses. It's not nearly as bad as blocking Wikipedia, but it's something to keep in mind.

  14. Re:Site stats on IE Market Share Drops to Lowest Level in Years · · Score: 2, Informative
    Actually, WebKit is considered to be superior...
    By who? You? Considering that you made up random stupid shit about Gecko, I really wouldn't be surprised if you were making up random stupid shit about WebKit.
  15. Re:I'd like to say ... on IE Market Share Drops to Lowest Level in Years · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is the glass half empty or half full? Some would say it's half empty. Some would say it's half full. People like you would say "It's probably poisoned anyway."

  16. Re:Nothing wrong with that. on Common Interfaces for Gnome and KDE Released · · Score: 1

    She must not be an ordinary user. Ubuntu was meant for ordinary people, so obviously all that text that's spewed out during bootup or shutdown is highly useful and informative to regular users.

  17. Re:Neat Tool, What About Adobe? on Google "Office" Released · · Score: 1
    Not a monopoly. A court has to render a finding first.
    I looked up the definition of "monopoly" and didn't see anything about courts rendering findings. Perhaps your dictionary is broken?
  18. Re:Goffice? on Google "Office" Released · · Score: 1

    Don't we have enough books already?

  19. Re:This line says it all... on Laser TV — the Death of Plasma? · · Score: 1

    The people who coded the survey didn't do any worse than these dumbass "editors" who continuously let through summaries with inaccurate information and spelling/grammar errors, dupes and dupes of dupes, etc.

  20. Weird Quote Marks on Great Programmers Answer Questions From Aspiring Student · · Score: 1

    Does anybody else hate those bizarre quotation symbols? What's the deal with that?

  21. Historic Peeps on Google Code Search Reveals Dark Corners · · Score: 1

    It appears that several programmers like history. But not everyone loves Ben Franklin.
    http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&lr=&q=%22ben+fr anklin%22&btnG=Search

  22. Re:".NET" - a computer "language"?! on Microsoft Plugs a Record 26 Security Holes · · Score: 1

    Your dictionary is broken. Webster says language is "a systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, sounds, gestures, or marks having understood meanings".

  23. Re:Iceweasel? on Mozilla vs Debian Analyzed · · Score: 1

    Seriously! They could have at least named it something cuter like "IceFerret". "Weasel" sounds evil and sneaky, not something I want on my computer.

  24. Re:And once again... (you can say that again!) on Windows XP SP1 Support Ends Tuesday · · Score: 1

    I went from SP1 to SP2 on a dialup connection. The downloads happened automatically and didn't take too long. It was really no big deal. If I hadn't heard earlier that SP2 was coming I might not have even noticed.

  25. Re:Improvements for developers, too on Firefox 2.0 RC2 Review · · Score: 1
    Great, the user data will be stored in blob rather than in textfiles.
    Those blobs will be easier to read than some of the "textfiles" used now. It might not seem possible for a text based format to be so bad that SQLite blobs are easier to read, but it's true.

    I thought Firefox was a browser product? I don't need an OS or runtime engine, there are far better and more robust solutions in place already.
    Firefox is just a browser, but to run it requires the Mozilla platform stuff. It's planned for Firefox and Thunderbird to eventually be run from XULRunner so at least multiple copies of the platform won't be needed.

    XUL apps will still be slow, clunky ...
    But it's very easy to quickly produce working interfaces. It's a tradeoff like C++ versus Python.

    If you don't like that Firefox uses a custom platform, you could always use something like Galeon/Epiphany, Camino, or K-Melon. They use the Gecko layout engine, but render the GUI around it without XUL.