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Comment Re:The Slashdot Firefox Paradox (Score 3, Informative) 279

Ironically, the primary site for which I really need a faster Javascript engine is Slashdot. For a heavily-commented article I switch to Chrome.

Is chrome the only broswer that has problems with the idle.slashdot comment thread. It anytime I try to open a closed comment, it refreshes the page and only gives me the comment, it doesn't expand the comment inline like it does in a normal comment thread. I've always been to lazy to try other broswers.

Comment Re:Not exactly. (Score 1) 362

There's the whole visited link color issue. basically the page can see the tell what the color of a link is, and if the color is the "visited link" color, you know the user visits that page. so the page puts up a bunch of urls, checks to see which of the URLs are in the visited link color, They now know which sites you have visited somewhat recently.

Comment AM I reading the subtext right? (Score 5, Insightful) 137

Apple is complaining that Nokia isn't offering the Standards based cell phones on Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory basis? Isn't Nokia required to do that as part of submitting those patents as part of the GSM standard. It stated that in the lawsuit that nokia wanted a patent cross-license agreement with apple for the rights to the GSM patents. That's not reasonable and nondiscriminatory.

Comment Re:Finally challenging 'work for hire' copyright b (Score 3, Informative) 306

I've never understood why books are (C) Author, and music is (C) Publisher

from Salon article in January 2000:Courtney Love does the math

Last November [2000], a Congressional aide named Mitch Glazier, with the support of the RIAA, added a "technical amendment" to a bill that defined recorded music as "works for hire" under the 1978 Copyright Act. He did this after all the hearings on the bill were over. By the time artists found out about the change, it was too late. The bill was on its way to the White House for the president's signature.

That Mitch Glazier, the congresional aide? now an RIAA lobbyist It certainly wasn't an accident. I've never understood why they just didn't fix that.

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