Eros - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Status bar? (Score 1) 181

by Eros on Friday February 25 2011, @09:33PM (#35319706) Attached to: Firefox 4 Beta 12 Released; Fixes Over 650 Bugs

How can URLs be displayed in a non-existent status bar? Did they resurrect it? I didn't see anything about a "status bar" in the release notes...

Right now I'm using the "Status-4-evah" add-on to get the status bar back - and that plugin already takes care of displaying the URL in the "status bar".

No, the status bar is still gone. Now it is like Chrome and IE9. You hover over the link and the URL is appears in the bottom left of the window.

Comment: Re:I Take Issue with the Phrase "Give Away" (Score 1) 450

by Eros on Thursday December 09 2010, @03:45PM (#34505364) Attached to: Facebook's Zuckerberg To Give Away Half His Cash

His point was that this isn't as altruistic as people are saying. Yes, he sets up a foundation that does good through the interest earned each year.

So he helps some people for pennies on the dollar while he throws around the real power of the foundation to get what he really wants in the end. Which may be in fact be evil.

It is just a tool for the rich. They don't give a damn about the people they "help".

Comment: Re:Thats not new (Score 1) 112

by Eros on Monday June 28 2010, @02:46PM (#32720234) Attached to: Google Bringing HTML5 To Gmail

They already have this feature too. Just click the green beaker in the upper right hand corner and search for "Inserting Images". It is a labs project now. But it is there.

NIH Spends $400K To Figure Out Why Men Don't Like Condoms 844

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 22 2009, @06:59PM
from the as-obvious-as-the-rubber-nose-on-your-face dept.

The National Institutes of Health has given $423,500 to researchers at Indiana University's Kinsey Institute to figure out why men don't like to wear condoms. The institute will also study why men have trouble using condoms and investigate "penile erection and sensitivity during condom application." "The project aims to understand the relationship between condom application and loss of erections and decreased sensation, including the role of condom skills and performance anxiety, and to find new ways to improve condom use among those who experience such problems," reads the abstract from Drs. Erick Janssen and Stephanie Sanders, both of the Kinsey Institute.

ASCAP Wants To Be Paid When Your Phone Rings 461

Posted by kdawson on Monday June 22 2009, @06:20PM
from the don't-even-think-about-whistling-the-beatles dept.

gerddie notes a piece up on the EFF site outlining the fairly outlandish legal theories ASCAP is trying out in their court fight with AT&T. "ASCAP (the same folks who went after Girl Scouts for singing around a campfire) appears to believe that every time your musical ringtone rings in public, you're violating copyright law by 'publicly performing' it without a license. At least that's the import of a brief (PDF, 2.5 MB) it filed in ASCAP's court battle with mobile phone giant AT&T."