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  1. Capitalone Does Support Mozilla on Credit Card Websites Who Support Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    I don't know when they changed, but I just logged in to my CapitalOne account on a Winxp machine with Mozilla 1.2b and a Linux machine with Moz 1.2b. I am not using any kind of user agent spoofing.

    It seems that they've opened up to Mozilla. Can anyone else get in?

    -Owen

  2. 802.11 on Review: SliMP3 · · Score: 1

    These are the types of devices that could really take advantage of wireless networking. As an earlier post said, what's the point if you have to run an ethernet cable, why not just run audio from your pc? If it was 802.11 compliant, then no cables would have to be run out of the stereo area.

  3. Re:A crutch for the weak-minded? on God's Debris · · Score: 1

    well, believing in god and participating in organized religion are two different things.

  4. I killed a duron 700 in about 20 seconds on The Report of My Thermal Death Have Been... · · Score: 1

    and that was with the fan and heatsink sitting on top, just not sinched down.

  5. Perfect... on Inflatable Loudspeakers · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ...for all the rock groups that blow.

  6. Re:"yay for the good guys" on US Starts Attacking Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    What course of action would you suggest?

    If it is the bombing that you don't like, do you realize that part of the reason for it is to clear the way for humanitarian efforts?

    "no one seems to be doing anything except reacting"

    Sorry, but we've been doing some thinking for almost a month.

  7. Re:I can't believe americans on US Starts Attacking Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    What good does it do to "bring the facts to the table" at this point? So what if we trained the taliban or supplied them with weapons? It was a short sighted solution to a previous problem, and now we have a new problem. We need to fix the current problem, not dwell on how it came about.

    And what, exactly, can't you believe about Americans? That we change our policies toward countries when the countries change? That we want to fight back instead of rolling over? Those actions seem pretty reasonable to me.

  8. Re:Umm... how much shakespeare does this guy know? on Scientific Elites vs. Illiterates · · Score: 1

    I've seen this guy's videos (the ones he talks about in the article), and I'm sure that he does know more shakepeare than you think. He teaches his physics class with stories and obscure facts; he makes it interesting.

    Of course a non-science major would not care about equations that he will never use, but that is part of this guy's point: that the non-sciecne major was never given an interest in the sciences.

  9. Time and place on How PDAs Intersect With School · · Score: 1

    My high school banned anything that seemed like technology, and they had very good reasons for doing it. The main reasons were what the articles mentions: theft and disruptiveness.

    Image if many students carried palms around...hardly any would be paying attention. Even without pda's, if you walk into a math class, half the class is playing games on calculators.

    However, I do think that schools should use technology like pda's to help students learn. Schools can ban students from bringing their own, but still allow students to use pda's at times appropriate to the lessons.

  10. Don't get too upset on The Joys of School And "Website Protection" · · Score: 1

    This is why we have a group (congress) making decisions. The bill is just a proposal by one man who obviously does not understand, and there is no way that it will get through and become a law

  11. Re:AC (Air Conditioner) on U.S. East Coast Bombarded By ... What? · · Score: 1

    I thought that was a little strange too, but I assumed that mentioning the air conditioning was to explain that there was added noise inside the car, so the boom must have been that much louder.

  12. Re:No conspiracy - Maybe it just isn't good enough on AOL 6.0 Bundled with Windows XP? · · Score: 1

    AOL would use the small, fast, and stable Gecko rendering engine, not the bloated, slow, and unstable mozilla application. And, comparing Gecko to IE's rendering engine, we find that they are just about the same in terms of display and speed...Gecko even supports more standards. The fact is that most users would not know the difference if AOL switched because the interface would stay the same.

  13. Forget rights...think responsibility on Software Tracks Kids At School · · Score: 1

    It's not about the student's rights. It's about what this kind of system does to the student. As many other posters have noted, close monitoring to stop a problem doesn't fix the problem, it only creates a new one: the student doesn't learn how to be responsible.

  14. Trust on Software Tracks Kids At School · · Score: 2

    I know this may seem rather idealistic, but if parents and their children had a good, trusting relationship, there would be no need for the parents to even think about checking this information.

    Parents can see how students are doing with homework by looking at report cards. If the student has good grades, then he either did the homework or it wasn't worth doing and there was no loss. Attendence is the same way. When I was in high school, I could go to my mom or dad and explain that I needed the day off and they would allow it because they trusted that I was doing fine.

    All of this monitoring breaks down trust and causes more problems.