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Why do we still use Mozilla/X.Y?

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Bizzeh
Bizzeh writes "Why do we still stick to the legacy Mozilla/X.Y structure in web browser user agents? surely by now, no script, server or website uses the mozilla version number anymore and it is simply there because nobody can be bothered changing it. isnt it about time browser developers drop it entirely or switch to naming their user agent with their own company name, rendering engine or browser name?"
NASA

Astronomers use crowdfunding for exoplanet research->

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An anonymous reader writes "A crowdfunding project to help find the first "exomoon" from Kepler data has raised more than $10,000 over the past few weeks to purchase computing resources. A similar project to characterize the host stars of Kepler exoplanets has seen more limited success. Meanwhile, Congress debates over how much to cut science funding next year..."
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Comment: Bias... (Score 0) 753

by Bizzeh (#38376092) Attached to: Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows

This is something that just "will be fixed at some point" with firefox and everyone seems to accept it. If the same story came out about IE, all of slashdot would be in uproar about how ridiculous it is and how bloated the whole process and application must be to require so much memory to do such a simple task such as linking... Not sure why i read slashdot any more, seems to just say "its open source, so its just better, no matter what the feature base or the bugs or the lack of support, its just better" which is just blind idiocy...

Space

Are Small Rocky Worlds Naked Gas Giants?->

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astroengine writes "The "core accretion" model for planetary creation has been challenged (or, at least, modified) by a new theory from University of Leicester astrophysicists Seung-Hoon Cha and Sergei Nayakshin. Rather than small rocky worlds being built "bottom-up" (i.e. the size of a planet depends on the amount of material available), perhaps they were once the cores of massive gas giant planets that had their thick atmospheres stripped after drifting too close to their parent stars? This "top-down" mechanism may also help explain how smaller worlds were formed far from their stars only to drift inward toward the habitable zone."
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Court Reinstates $675k File Sharing Verdict->

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FunPika writes "A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a whopping $675,000 file sharing verdict that a jury levied against a Boston college student for making 30 tracks of music available on a peer-to-peer network. The decision by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a federal judge who slashed the award as “unconstitutionally excessive.” U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner of Boston reduced the verdict to $67,500, or $2,250 for each of the 30 tracks defendant Joel Tenenbaum unlawfully downloaded and shared on Kazaa, a popular file sharing peer-to-peer service. The Recording Industry Association of America and Tenenbaum both appealed in what has been the nation’s second RIAA file sharing case to ever reach a jury. The Obama administration argued in support of the original award, and said the judge went too far when addressing the constitutionality of the Copyright Act’s damages provisions. The act allows damages of up to $150,000 a track."
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