Comment Re:Only one question (Score 0) 301
The author thinks he owns facts. It doesn't work like that. What a baby.
Comment Re:Does it still have the AwfulBar? (Score 1) 554
I'm not sure which 'forever' you're thinking of. If the location bar was for searching, there wouldn't be a need for that little search box to the right of it.
Before the awesome bar, the closest thing to search in the location bar was automatically adding 'www.' and '.com' to bare names. Even that went away for many years due to the whitehouse.com brouhaha.
I'll let the 'typing in URLs is bad' pass. We all know that's silly.
Comment Re:Does it still have the AwfulBar? (Score 1) 554
What's so awful about the Awesome Bar is that it has partially repurposed the location bar, causing the UI to be inconsistent.
In all cases before the awesome bar, the location bar was used for URL's. After the awesome bar, the location bar is almost always used for URL's, but during text entry it is used to search both URL's and web page titles.
An inconsistent UI us a bad UI. The awesome bar introduces inconsistency into the firefox UI. It's bad.
Comment Re:Does it still have the AwfulBar? (Score 4, Insightful) 554
Disabling the awesome bar solves part of the problem. However, it doesn't restore the functionality the location bar had before it was replaced by the awesome bar.
It's not just the the awesome sucks. It's that mozilla removed something that worked and replaced it with something that doesn't. Turning off the part that doesn't work is insufficient to solve the problem.
Comment Re:Awsome! (Score 2) 554
Have they dumped the awesome bar yet? It makes my browsing more difficult nearly every day.
What are they going to do next? Replace the menubar with a start button? Oh, wait...
Comment Re:No attempts at finding other sources? (Score 1) 187
Perhaps. However in this case, I believe they felt burned by Lotus and decided to just buy whatever Microsoft was selling because surely it's what theprivate sector uses. And that must be what's best.
Comment What about keyword searches? (Score 3, Interesting) 266
That's great and all, but what would be *really* cool, is if Google provided some way to search for pages that contain a specific word or phrase. Yeah, that would be cool. Some kind of search engine where I type in words and the search engine returns only pages that contain those words. Can Google work on that next?
Comment reliability != availability (Score 1) 248
Availability often comes at the cost of reliability.
If you put 2 drives in a RAID-1 mirror, the odds of a drive failure goes up. After all, you now have twice as many drives that might fail. However, a single drive failure no longer makes the data unavailable.
RAID-1 lowers reliability with the goal of raising availability. Paying sysadmins to swap drives is way cheaper than paying people to sit around waiting for their critical data to be restored from tape.
Low reliability is probably just a sign that their systems are highly redundant. Not really surprising.
Comment One hack replaced by another (Score 3, Informative) 115
From the "fix"
> FH_DATE_PAST_20XX
> change '/20[1-9][0-9]/' to '/20[2-9][0-9]/'
That's no fix, it just puts the problem off for another 10 years. Why call the rule FH_DATE_PAST_20XX, shouldn't it be FH_DATE_PAST_201X? At least then the hack would be documented.
Submission + - Microsoft Harasses PS3 Buyers
Shimdaddy writes: "Microsoft decided to drown out the free press that Sony was getting with their European PS3 launch. Stunts include driving a large boat past Sony's launch event, handing out chairs with the url of a website telling Sony it was "Too Late." No word as to whether or not they were behind the failed attempt at stealing the PS3 from a buyer."
Submission + - XBox Live! Accounts Hijacked
powerlord writes: According to an article at Security Focus the XBox Live! system has been the subject of an organized social engineering attack: "Rather than hacking computer servers, the clan's account stealers claim to rely on social engineering to convince support personnel at Microsoft — and its subsidiary Bungie Studios, the creator of the Halo game series — to help the attackers take control of the accounts. To do so, the players spin a story about something going wrong with their account — from a crashed box to a sibling changing the password — and ask for help "recovering" the data."
Microsoft's response: "After initially denying that the service had been hacked, Microsoft said the company is now investigating the issue, but stressed that the problems seem more to do with pretexting than with a security breach of its systems."
Microsoft's response: "After initially denying that the service had been hacked, Microsoft said the company is now investigating the issue, but stressed that the problems seem more to do with pretexting than with a security breach of its systems."
Submission + - Time measuring
An anonymous reader writes: We all know computers can measure time in seconds and milliseconds.
But how precise can computers be when measuring time?
microseconds? nanoseconds? picoseconds? femtoseconds? attoseconds? zeptoseconds? yoctoseconds?
How precise can you measure time on a x86 / home PC?
How precise can you measure time on a computer?
How do scientists measure time when accuracy and precision is very important?
Submission + - Bush administration again stifles scientists.
niloroth writes: The Independent Online Reports on a leaked memorandum from the US Department of the Interior instructing members of the US Fish and Wildlife Service to refrain from mentioning climate change, sea ice, or polar bears in their trips to countries the arctic region. Following other such attempts by this administration to control either scientists connected with the government, or the results of those scientists, is there any hope for the next few years? Or is this just how it will be in the future no matter who is in power? Is the mix of science and government funding just too volatile?
Submission + - Legal Battle For AACS Begins
henrypijames writes: As widely expected, the MPAA has learned nothing from the debacle of its failed prosecution against DVD Jon (of DeCSS) and is now releasing its army of lawyers to fight against the circumvention of AACS (the successor of CSS): Upon the reception of a DMCA takedown notice, SourceForge has immediately terminated its hosting of BackupHDDVD (a tool to backup HD DVD movies, as its suggestes). The project leader is seeking advice on how to proceed.
Submission + - Argentina Storm Chase Expedition, Strongest Storms
Jeff Gammons writes: "A group of storm chasers from the United States are currently on a storm expedition in search of the worlds most intense lightning storms. The group is filming with the BBC for a upcoming documentary on National Geographic about these intense thunderstorm convergence area's in Argentina east of the Andes mountains. A NASA study identified these thunderstorms to be the most intense on earth. The strongest of the storms were found to occur east of the Andes Mountains in Argentina, where warm, humid air often collides with cooler, drier air, similar to storms that form east of the Rockies over the Plains in the United States.
http://www.stormvideographer.com/blog/2007/02/27/a rgentina-storm-chase-expedition-exclusive/"
http://www.stormvideographer.com/blog/2007/02/27/
