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  1. I'm soaking in it right now! on Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know · · Score: 1

    /Madge

    I'm running the 64-bit nightly right now. Everything seems to be working EXCEPT for the WMP integration. That's been the only downside I've been seeing.

  2. Hits me too. on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 1

    They range from California to Chicago to Canada to Singapore. 10 emails trying to confirm a cable installation appointment. Check your email address instead of taking the remembered form data! Microcenter pamphlets for stores that are several hundred miles away. The one in Singapore was trying to buy a car, and luckily, I was able to google enough to find him on Facebook. Various university buds trying to reach their buddy (and still keep managing to send me email...).

    I really wish that Gmail offered a bounce option.

  3. I guess I'd petter change something. on EFF Publishes Study On Browser Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    My browser plug-ins make me unique. My fonts make me unique.

    I'm unique. Just like everybody else...

  4. So? on Michio Kaku's Dark Prediction For the End of Moore's Law · · Score: 1

    That means that we'll finally be working on improving the software for improvements over just writing code and letting the faster hardware overcome any performance issues.

  5. Next? on New Technique For Making JPEG Images Copy-Evident · · Score: 1

    Adobe will have a tool to fix that on PS.

  6. Re:1st A... on Anniston, Alabama To Censor Employees' Facebook Pages · · Score: 1

    They're not passing a law,

    It doesn't matter if it's a law or not, it's the government claiming that the 1st Amendment doesn't apply even when you aren't working for the government.

    This is not the private sector. And I'm sure that there would be plenty of hoots against it even if it were, what you do on your own time is not up for any employer to decide either.

    Another waste of taxpayers' money is what I see.

  7. Re:sweet. on Solar Storms Could Bring Northern Lights South · · Score: 1

    What ColdWetDog said. My kid lives in Wasilla (yep, that one), and he and his wife have managed to get some decent Northern Light shots. I don't even think he's uploaded them anywhere for me to point you to them.

    I remember seeing them at 40 in Ohio (just east of Columbus) when I was a kid. My mom got me up at 3AM (because she was up for the day making coffee... Of course, she went to bed at 7PM...)

  8. Re:First post on 4chan Has Been DDOSed · · Score: 1

    You have to pay to get rid of the banners? First I've heard.

  9. They can have my English on Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet · · Score: 1

    when they pry the dictionary from my cold dead fingers!

  10. No excuse! on AVG 2011 Update Causes Widespread Problems For 64-Bit Windows · · Score: 1

    Sorry, when I hear about an AV product totally blowing away a working system due to an update because they didn't test enough, they don't get a second chance. Do they need a computer loaded with every different operating system? No, there's this thing called virtualization that should be able to get at least four if not more versions running on a PC. Yes, it can be a pain to set up. But then you do that sort of thing instead of risking your customers computers to not even being able to boot.

    AVG you just shot yourself in the foot. Hopefully fatally.

  11. RIP on Ask.com To Shut Down Bloglines · · Score: 1

    The ASK blog talks about Twitter and Facebook. Who the hell reads their feeds via those two? Are people really hanging up on reading RSS feeds? I don't think so.

    The problem I think was the fact that they just couldn't monetize it. When you're getting multiple Ask spams in just about every article, and then they switch to Google Adwords, then switch back. It's all about the Benjamins.

  12. Interesting... on Microsoft Warns of Windows 7 Graphics Flaw · · Score: 1

    I've been running into this issue, and I've been blaming BOINC for it (it HAD been running GPU runs, but my current client is buggy and refuses to run them, and I'm too tired/retarded to go back to the old client), because I never saw this happen with my laptop. Then again, I didn't run 64-bit Windows 7 long enough to see it happen there before I bricked it.

    And I've always wondered why every now and then I slip back to Basic mode, and have to log out and log back in to get Aero back, which I had assumed, again, was with the BOINC GPU software. But it's happening even without running the GPU software.

  13. Mass hallucinations? on Ball Lightning Caused By Magnetic Hallucinations · · Score: 1

    I've seen ball lightning. So have the people that I've been with when I saw it. We would have to be hallucinating at the same time, and we would have to be hallucinating the same thing.

  14. You know, it's my hardware. on Flash Is Not a Right · · Score: 1

    I should be able to run whatever the hell it is I want to run on it.

    We've gone from owning hardware to apparently licensing it. I, for one, call bullshit.

  15. Yeah, right. on Talk of an Apple Search Engine To Thwart Google · · Score: 1

    Well, it's either going to be a new hardware thingie just to access it, ala the iSearch, or it's going to be an add-on for iTunes Or at least they won't let you install it without iTunes or Quicktime. Or require to use Safari.

    I just can't see it happening.

  16. They must be tired! on The 9 Most Tested Lab Animals · · Score: 1

    Only nine animals get experimented on? I wonder how they get passed around all those testing facilities.

    Oh, you mean animal species!

  17. Now? on Firefox 3.6 Alpha 1 Released · · Score: 1

    I've been running the alpha as a portable app since 3.5 came out. Now it's true that it's a nightly, but it updates every day that I run it.

    Weird.

  18. I've been wondering about them. on Non-Profit Org Claims Rights In Library Catalog Data · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've been wondering what was going to happen to OCLC in the Internet age. I have thought it was strange that up until now, they really have been under the radar. Sounds like that's going to change.

    Then there is Chemical Abstracts that lives in the same town that I'm pretty sure has much more money than OCLC. That's another Internet fight.

  19. Re:2013? on Apple to Rule the Digital Home by 2013? · · Score: 1

    That's what I keep thinking when I read about this 2013 thing.

    And I think the Mayans hate everybody equally well, since we're all going to die anyway.

  20. Who's smoking who? on Kraken Infiltration Revives "Friendly Worm" Debate · · Score: 1

    Is it better to allow the botnet to continue unabated, or perhaps to risk crashing a computer controlling a heart monitor somewhere?


    As if leaving the existing worm would actually prevent that from happening if said computer were infected? What a crock!
  21. Great! on California Utilities to Control Thermostats? · · Score: 1

    Time to bring out the tin foil! Not for hats, but to block the antenna!

  22. The problem is on 3 Ton Meteorite Stolen · · Score: 3, Interesting

    the whole thing is fake.

    They haven't recovered anything from that blast, let alone a 3 ton meteorite.

  23. It doesn't matter anyway. on Dangerous Java Flaw Threatens 'Virtually Everything' · · Score: 1

    Everytime I try to download the patch, I get an invalid file, an HTML document instead of what I should be getting. Sun can't even keep their crap up and running.

  24. My default terminal settings on Are 80 Columns Enough? · · Score: 1

    are for 132 columns and 50 rows.

    And since I use Putty, I can resize it on the fly.

    And I'm used to the 50 from my DOS days when I ran my screen 80x50.

    Certainly helped me code back then.

  25. Re:Computers can't take the place of artist on Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales Trailer Posted · · Score: 1

    If you read the video diaries, that's exactly what JMS was proposing.