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  1. Re:Great news on A Genetically Engineered Fly That Can Smell Light · · Score: 1

    Why on earth would you not count hispanics?

  2. Re:Buying ARM for a leg? on Apple To Buy ARM? · · Score: 1

    I would mod you up if I happened to have any points. The amount of misuse of the word 'monopoly' in these comments has been appalling.

  3. Re:Is Dreamweaver good? on Dreamweaver Is Dying; Long Live Drupal! · · Score: 1

    CSS is not a "flavor-of-the-hour" technology. It's a core part of absolutely any well-formed website.

    I thoroughly agree on the rest of your post, however.

  4. Re:Is this needed? on Electricity Over Glass · · Score: 1

    Some quick googling says Biodiesel has a flash point of around 300 degrees F. Kerosene and Jet fuel are both in the low-to-mid 100s.

  5. Re:Is this needed? on Electricity Over Glass · · Score: 2, Informative

    Biodiesel has a very high flash point... Definition of "flammable" being: "easily set on fire" (Oxford American Dictionary), Biodiesel fails that definition, thus meriting the "non-flammable" designation.

  6. Re:Camino on Help Make Firefox On Mac Suck Less · · Score: 1

    Of course it doesn't. Command+Click does. Command takes the place of Ctrl in any windows shortcut on OS X.

  7. Re:Prosecuting children on RIAA Going After a 10-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 1

    One could argue that earth was going to explode tomorrow.

    That doesn't make it true.

  8. Re:I agree on US Military Tests Non-Lethal Heat Ray · · Score: 1

    In order to get a true statistic, we'll also need to put both groups into 'clean' rooms, and keep the same physical activities and diets between both groups. Still want to volunteer for the control group?

  9. Re:Just rip your CD's fool on Beware the Apple iPhone iHandcuffs · · Score: 1

    Um... You /can/ play it off the computer. So you don't actually lose access to the music, you simply can't switch. And besides that, it's entirely possible to strip the DRM (And they really haven't tried to stop it).

  10. Re:Easy on Why Do We Use x86 CPUs? · · Score: 1
    "The internet has seriously helped popularize PCs." Am I talking about "PC's" (no! the apostrophe again!) or am I talking about the the group "PCs" (e.g., Proponents of Cesium)? I guess we'll just have to go home and huddle in the corner.
    Um, that's not a problem with lack of an apostrophe--that's a problem with acronyms in general. Your usage, according to most scholars is incorrect.
  11. Re:Easy on Why Do We Use x86 CPUs? · · Score: 1

    "For the plural of abbreviations, an apostrophe is widely regarded as incorrect, so CDs is preferable to CD's." Quoth Wikipedia.

  12. Re:Paint me surprised on Illinois Ban On Explicit Video Games Is Unconstitutional · · Score: 1
    Games are not alcohol. Games are not cigarettes. Games are entertainment - the same as novels, movies and television. Regulating the sale of books/movies/TV to minors? Unconstitutional.
    They government should easily be able to regulate sales to minors. Explicit content will have just as much of an effect on a person as alcohol or cigarettes will, if not a greater one--the effect will be mental, not physical, that's all. There may not be legal precedent for an action of this sort, but that doesn't mean that it's unconstitutional.
  13. Re:More focus on standard the most will ignore. on HTML to be 'Incrementally Evolved' · · Score: 1

    That's not what the word valid means. I understand why it's a bad idea, and I generally use application/xhtml+xml, but that doesn't change the fact that the XHTML spec says that text/html is a valid application type for XHTML documents. Secondly, you obviously can't use text/html when you're not using a purely [X]HTML document. That's why application/xhtml+mathml (I think that's right...) and kin were invented.

  14. Re:More focus on standard the most will ignore. on HTML to be 'Incrementally Evolved' · · Score: 1

    No, XHTML 1.0 Strict is valid with a text/html header, however, it's not recommended.

  15. Re:A public performance? on Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits · · Score: 1

    He was breaking his own record.

  16. Re:A public performance? on Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits · · Score: 1

    You deserve WAY more mod points for that. That's probably the funniest thing I've ever read on Slashdot. Or maybe it's just the sleep deprivation. Either way, I'm sorry I didn't have the mod points today.

  17. Re:Of course... on Pi Recited to 100,000 Digits · · Score: 1

    Says who?

  18. Re:who cares? on 802.11n Delayed to 2008 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The same reason people use Gigabit Ethernet. The point n is not for extra-network protocols, but inter-network ones (For example: VNC)

  19. Re:No Public Domain on Google Announces Open Source Repository · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Also missing is the option for Dual Licensing of your application. GPL and MIT (with a fee), for example.

  20. Thank goodness. on IE7 to be Pushed to Users Via Windows Update · · Score: 1

    This opinion has already been partially stated, but the way I see it, the sooner we can get IE6 out of the browserscape, the better. Hopefully, this will be able to rapidly accelerate the removal of screwy CSS-hacked sites, giving a bit higher marketshare to alternate browsers.

  21. Poster is wrong! on iTunes is Malware? · · Score: 1

    iTunes does *not* send information on your local library to their servers - They use previous PURCHASES to determine what shows up in that box. Information that any normal company would collect.

  22. Re:XHTML 2? on Microsoft Bows to Eolas, Revamps IE · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression that only href="" would be usable from other tags, not src="". If you're using src="" you're going to need to have an alt="" attribute as well.

  23. Re:XHTML 2? on Microsoft Bows to Eolas, Revamps IE · · Score: 1

    No, but as a replacement for the tag, it's very much expected that the images should not be hidden untill a later point. That would destroy layouts without massive use of CSS.

    (Also, I made a mistake in my previous post, where things don't make sense use <object>)

  24. XHTML 2? on Microsoft Bows to Eolas, Revamps IE · · Score: 2, Informative

    How does IE plan to support XHTML 2.0 if the is going to require a click to be viewed?

    For those less-informed about XHTML 2, will be replacing