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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
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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Comment: Re:Xbox 360 - Worst Console In History (Score -1) 209

by Bizzeh (#37171574) Attached to: Microsoft Pursues WebOS Devs, Offers Free Phones

Firstly, this is off topic.. secondly

where do you get 65% failure rate from? made it up? or found it on some sony or nintendo or anti-microsoft website? either way, its bollocks. a 65% failure rate would have caused any product ever to have been made to be scrapped.

run most multiplatform games side by side, 360 holds up to PC and ps3 quite well... i know this because i have all 3...

8.5gb of usable space doesnt create a nightmare beyond, "you have to compress your pcm and tiff to ac3 and png" on the most part. all cross ports are built for the 360 first, and then the uncompressed textures and audio are put in place on a ps3 version... the same compressed content is actually used on the PC, which also uses "gimped last gen dvd drives"....

according to game.co.uk, there are over 1100 games for the 360 and less than 700 for the PS3. there are also more high quality games on the 360 compared to the 4 games that the ps3 has that the 360 doesnt.

eye toy comparason would be the 360 webcam, kinect is a 3D motion tracking system. actually look into it.

buy a 360 and a sony bluray player... ohh look at that, you have spent less than what a ps3 costs...

controller weighs roughly the same as a psx/ps2/ps3 controller and was voted by wired as the best controller in the market.

use a laptop or a pc... a games console isnt a pc.

fair enough, the only point you have in this entire long list of utter horse shit is that avatars are based on Mii's, but are far better and less gay.

take your head out of sony/nintendo's arse and take 2 minutes to actually look at the bollocks comes from your keyboard.

you arnt forced to pay anything, you choose to play online.

ripoff accessory prices? where is your backup? last lot of accessories i bought were 2 battery packs and 2 charger cables. both official, £12 each from tesco... not bad really.

Censorship

YouTube Censoring Comments About Advertisers?->

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RonBrownDBT
RonBrownDBT writes "YouTube appears to be blocking comments pertaining to its advertisers. In attempts to comment on advertiser Reputation.Com in Video Comments, author was repeatedly denied. However, posts not containing "Reputation.Com" went through, including posts with other URLs — showing that this is not simply an anti-spam feature."
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Idle

Old Computer Tech That Never Went Away->

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GMGruman
GMGruman writes "It's amazing to realize how much computer technology we use every day has been around forever, at least in the context of tech's fast pace of evolution. This slideshow surveys 13 computer technologies that are at least 25 years old that most of use still use every day. You may not realize that some are that old. (InfoWorld also put together a slideshow of tech 25 years or older that geeks still rely on all these years later.)"
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