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Submission + - Firefox 3.5 hits Release Candidate milestone (mozilla.com)

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macupdate

on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @04:16PM

macupdate writes: "Firefox 3.5rc1 has started trickling to users (mirrors and appropriate pages should all be updated soon). You can read the release notes. RC1 still scores a 93/100 on the Acid3 test."

Comment "berserk robot explosives gun" = nsa (Score 1) 258

by xyankee on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @09:14PM (#28034367) Attached to: Robot Soldiers Are Already Being Deployed

Yea, software glitch... good story. Get real, the thing was hacked into as part of an exercise to see whether we can commandeer a foreign country's electronic munitions.

Don't believe me? We've done far worse... and our warfare capabilities are always grossly under-exaggerated in anything you can read that's not classified.

P.S. - "we" = usa

Submission + - Drobo unleashes 8-bay DroboPro (drobo.com)

Submitted by

mishas

on Tuesday April 07, 2009 @11:19AM

mishas writes: "The storage wizards at Data Robotics have released the DroboPro, featuring 8-bays, FireWire 800, USB 2.0, and iSCSI connectivity. You can also rack-mount the DroboPro (3U). Like the regular Drobo, DroboPro has specs that geeks want but a price that's on the high-end: $1,299 with no drives."

Comment Re:Who misses flash? (Score 1) 517

by xyankee on Wednesday August 27, 2008 @07:26PM (#24772321) Attached to: iPhone Web Claims Draw Governmental Rebuke in UK

youtube on the iphone is h.264 not flash

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