You realise that faux is pronounced "foe"?

Ended up with a Macbook precisely because of the aspect ratio. Now if there was a decent 4:3 laptop, I'd buy that in a heartbeat. The Chromebook pixel is nice, but too pricey for what it is.

You can now buy SDXC cards that have 90MB/s transfer speeds, so it's not impossible that it's just high speed flash. SSDs on the other hand are capable of 400MB/s transfer speeds, 800MB/s if it's one of the new PCI-e devices found in the new MacBooks.

This is why I have plugins disabled by default and enabled only for certain "trusted" sites. For Silverlight, the only site that can run it is Netflix. This obviously doesn't protect you if your "trusted" site is compromised, but it does mean that browsing to some random website doesn't automatically infect you.

That is the only definition when you are a zealot.

Have never heard of them, but they look a little pricey.

I was with Be for years. Excellent ISP, no blocking, real unlimited bandwidth and helpful technical support to boot. I jumped ship to Virgin when they were bought out by Sky as I really hate Sky. Who else was I going to go with? BT?

There are no more good ISPs left in the UK. This is a real shame.

p.s. As this is Slashdot, I would love to be corrected on the last point ^_^

So you respond to an ad hominem attack with a physical one? Well played, sir.

More like a few decades. Before then, modern homo-sapiens didn't have easy access to cars.

Must be nice when $12.2B is not considered "much".

The verbosity and other brain dead aspects of HTML/HTTP have been done to death. But that hasn't prevented sites like Facebook from working well. The fact that submitting a simple form generates 90+ requests is indicative of poor design. Nothing more.

There you go ruining someone's rant by applying logic.

Oracle?

Well played sir. I can't tell if you're trolling or being serious.

It doesn't matter if you're behind Akamai if your website is that inefficiently designed. 56 JS files that are downloaded on hitting apply. WTF?

I found the GP perfectly reasonable. We've discovered a new phenomenon, we need a baseline measurement before jumping to any conclusions. Claiming it is proof of warming is premature and smacks of alarmist bullshit. The sort of bullshit that is really ideologically driven.