I wonder how you spell "whoosh" in Australian.

Not true. Browsers usually attach the OS to the user agent string. Check yours if you want.

Linux browsers often say Linux, Android says Android, etc. Here's one list of strings and almost all of them include the operating system.

Many stupid websites check this string before allowing you access. Fortunately, it's easy to spoof the string with a free addons for Firefox or Chrome, and as the grandparent likely found, that's usually enough to get you into the site (which more often than not will work just fine).

For anyone interested, the full-text PDF was found on the United Nations Environmental Programme webpage:

Google Docs copy

Original link

Not sure about the radar, but snow jackets and pants will sometimes have a built-in Recco reflector specifically for ease of victim location after an avalanche.

If you can still move your eyes, Dasher with an eyetracker might be easier:

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15491/15491-h/15491-h.htm

The Gutenberg book has MUCH clearer text (as in, it's actually readable and there's no bleedthrough from the page under it). It's also properly formatted and actual text, not just blurry images of text.

It also has MUCH better illustrations. Not only are they hand-scanned and cropped to a high quality, they're individual images so you can actually open them in another tab and cross-reference them with the text.

The Google Books scan is absolutely worthless in comparison except as a lesson in how not to scan books if you want them to be useful.

Now you know how the researchers feel. That's good journalism, right there, letting you experience the effects of a solar storm from your Slashdot armchair.

Piecing together comments from other sites, I guess the boy and the girl were teenage lovers. The girl got annoyed that he didn't like her arm and started a robot army to exterminate humanity.

The humans capture her brain and interface with it through a captured robot. They put the robot and the boy (now an old man) inside a holodeck and talk to each other.

Robogirl is charmed and doesn't kill the boy. Meanwhile, inconsequential humans shoot air blasters at inconsequential robots.

As the film closes, we're left to wonder if love can truly make open-source films better than Bioware cutscenes.

Eight designers. Four colors. One font. Thirty thousand dollars. What a bargain!

Backdoor? Implementation weaknesses? Hardware snooper?

RIM just proved they would sell out your privacy if the price is right. Your response is "Don't worry, their other product is safe."

How do you know?

Bikes still take energy and materials to manufacture, transport, and maintain. The food calories needed to turn the pedals are usually grown with energy-intensive agricultural methods.

If you want a real green alternative, ride into a forest, take off your bike wheels, stab yourself with the spokes, and let your body compost naturally. It's probably the single best thing you can do for the environment.

It comes with a quick launcher if you prefer. On my relatively modern PC (Core i5), it starts in less than a second.

Microsoft's OneNote is by far the best note-taking program I've ever used.

1. Simple interface with notes divided by notebook, tab, and then sections.

2. Fast, indexed search across all your notes

3. Media-friendly; it's easy to insert hyperlinks, images, etc. and it'll automatically remember the source URL when you copy and paste something.

4. Option to save notebooks to the Microsoft Cloud (Skydrive) and share them with people. Or you can just save and export as HTML, DOC, etc.

5. Built-in audio recorder with speech recognition if you want to record lectures alongside your text notes.

6. Easy content hotkeys -- headers, bullets, stars, question icons, priorities, to-do lists, etc.

7. Support for inking/drawing with a tablet, including handwriting conversion to structured math equations

Etc. It's not free and it's not open source and it doesn't run on Linux, but it's still awesome.

Great start. I would make every vote a short-answer essay question as well, where you have to list 5 reasons you are voting for that candidate.

And your vote will only count if at least 3 of those reasons match up with the candidate's actual voting record.

I see. I shall return to my rampant fanaticism, then, and leave you in peace.