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Comment dropbox is still lacking some very basic features (Score 1) 307

1) Every piece of data you sync has to _also_ be synced online. So, then you're restricted to the amount of online storage you pay for.
What if you want to sync tonnes of storage between computer(s), and only sync a small amount of stuff online. This is not supported in dropbox, and I don't think ever will be because marketing won't want it to change. Today I use Windows live sync (or live mesh) for this purpose and it works.

2) The last time I checked, you could only sync one folder. The drop box folder. They cannot sync multiple folders: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=5088
This is just lame. I don't think people would like to change their backup directory structure to comply with dropbox's basic/naive/bad design decisions.
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Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed 1352

A survey of American voters by World Public Opinion shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. One of the most interesting questions was about President Obama's birthplace. 63 percent of Fox viewers believe Obama was not born in the US (or that it is unclear). In 2003 a similar study about the Iraq war showed that Fox viewers were once again less knowledgeable on the subject than average. Let the flame war begin!

Comment appletv = fail (Score -1, Flamebait) 579

* You can not mount a network hard drive (without hacking it)
* You can not mount a usb hard drive (without hacking it)
* Format support is very limited. For example: you can not play xvid, divx and a bunch of other formats
I think you're currently better off connecting a computer to your tv and run VLC on it... unless of course you like apple dictating what technology and media you have access to.
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Indian Police Using Facebook to Catch Scofflaw Drivers 130

New Delhi police have a new weapon in the battle against bad drivers, Facebook. Two months ago the police created a Facebook page that allowed people to inform on others breaking traffic laws, and upload pictures of the violations. The page has more than 17,000 fans, and 3,000 pictures currently. From the article: "The online rap sheet was impressive. There are photos of people on motorcycles without helmets, cars stopped in crosswalks, drivers on cellphones, drivers in the middle of illegal turns and improperly parked vehicles. Using the pictures, the Delhi Traffic Police have issued 665 tickets, using the license plate numbers shown in the photos to track vehicle owners, said the city’s joint commissioner of traffic, Satyendra Garg."

Comment Basic tab managment features missing... (Score 1) 189

Firefox (vanilla) currently lacks _very_ basic tab management features like:
* Multi-row tabs
* Undo Closed tab(s)
* Properly highlighting current tab
* Highlighting of unread tabs
* Tab context menu is missing:
**** Duplicate Tab
**** Close other tabs
* Some sort of smart grouping of tabs like: Tree Style Tabs
* Tab counter
* Auto refresh tabs
* Highlighting of the following kinds of tabs is missing:
**** Current tab
**** Tabs that refreshed and not been read
* Some sort of smart aging of tabs
* Ability to be able to read tab titles that exceeds the tab width (fisheye tab extension)
* Intelligently grouping tabs (by domain for starters)
* Preview open tabs
* Text search through open tabs

All of the above are available via firefox extensions. And I understand the argument to keep them outside the main browser to eliminate bloat and enhance security.

However, it seems like firefox product management has (finally) realized that more and more users have a ton of tabs open, and they finally need to add tab management features inherently in the browser. But why add something like tab candy, when there is so much else they can start by adding that will enhance productivity? Why start with something that is so complex and bug-prone? I would try to get the low hanging fruit first and then learn from those experiences.

If I were managing a competitive browser (like IE or Chrome), then implementing most of the above would, I believe, put a massive dent in firefox's user base (at least the power users would be gone).

For the record: My tab counter tells me I have 95 tabs open right now, some from work, some for online shopping, some for email, some open for info guilt (wikipedia, gizmodo, slashdot, other blogs), some for news and so on...
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Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video 266

longacre writes "An amateur video of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion has been made public for the first time. The Florida man who filmed it from his front yard on his new Betamax camcorder turned the tape over to an educational organization a week before he died this past December. The Space Exploration Archive has since published the video into the public domain in time for the 24th anniversary of the catastrophe. Despite being shot from about 70 miles from Cape Canaveral, the shuttle and the explosion can be seen quite clearly. It is unclear why he never shared the footage with NASA or the media. NASA officials say they were not aware of the video, but are interested in examining it now that it has been made available."
Google

Submission + - Massive Google hard drive survey

CristianoMonteiro writes: "Google studied a hundred thousand SATA and PATA drives with between 80 and 400GB storage and 5400 to 7200rpm, and while unfortunately they didn't call out specific brands or models that had high failure rates, they did find a few interesting patterns in failing hard drives. One of those we thought was most intriguing was that drives often needed replacement for issues that SMART drive status polling didn't or couldn't determine, and 56% of failed drives did not raise any significant SMART flags. See story."

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