Please check you sarcasm detector: it's broken.

Only on slashdot would there be someone that wants to replace flash with something they can compile themselves... I'm glad Mozilla, Google et al are going the way without any configuration: HTML5.

The important metric is exhausts. Burning a litre of diesel creates more CO2 (and NOx because of the higher temperatures) than burning a litre of gasoline.

The iPod isn't really a format, the format would be high capacity digital audio player I'd say, colloquially known as MP3-players.

The real question is: how would you recognize bullshit if it was in your face? And how would you tell others it's in their face? People tend to sway. Fox is so over the top ridiculously garbage, that explaining how exactly they are bullshit is more an academic issue than a real one. It's clear to whomever uses their brain, and I fully agree (and so do many research reports) that these are more among viewers of Stewart and Maddow than Fox. The staggeringly large horde that doesn't care to use their brain, well, I don't know what to do about them either.

The only argument you have is that there must be two sides to a point, and that Fox just takes the other one. If you refuse to believe that you can debate positions on merit, then I agree: Fox is just the other viewpoint. If you care to apply your intelligence however, the picture changes. Some viewpoints are in fact bullshit.

If you really believe that, I'm afraid your head is so far up your arse that no-one can help you.

But if the objective is ease of remembrance, then why not allow 200chars+? A sentence is easier to remember. And although the per char entropy goes down, the longer string compensates more than sufficiently for that.

What I hate is webmasters that set arbitrary limits on password length and special characters. For example, there's no single special character commonly allowed by all the sites I'd want to use secure password on. How am I going to keep track of which character isn't allowed this time? And if I want a password of 200chars, power to me, right? No sir, I even have a bank that thinks 12 should be enough for anybody.

NoScript (and NotScript, which I use in Chromium these days) should have an option to tenp-allow JS from the domain you're on automaticaly. I think it would get n00b-proof for non-techies to use it.

The latest flash runtime is HW-accelerated for some videocards, of which the Ion is one. You need to use Windows (or OSX) though...

I don't know if you're in a uni and what your field is, but as physics master I certainly can attest that 95% of 'teachers' in phys and math are like that. Perhaps it's related to the fact that I'm not in a top10 university, but I guesstimate this phenomena is widespread.

IBM uses Hypertransport as interconnect, right? That would imply that you can slap any old AMD chipset to such a chip, wich has all the desktop-features you need.

Hmm, now that I think of it, maybe the next step should be that browsers automatically 'columnize' text, so that the end results looks like a (comfortable) newspaper. Instead of scrolling down, I could just see the next text on the right. With smaller resolutions it could go back to rendering as is done now.

This reads nor sounds remotely like a Dutch person speaking English. This sounds like the typical (north) European accent as heard exclusively on American TV ;)