"A multitude of browsers will make the web more standardised and easier to browse".

Hah, that made me laugh. As much as it pains me to say it, Microsoft Windows standardized the desktop, and Internet Explorer the Web. Sure, the quality of that 'standard' was terrible, but at least it was a standard.

Every week I see cool new features demonstrated. But they're all tied to disclaimers such as Demo works best in Safari 4.x and pretty well in Firefox 3.5. and use css properties like "-webkit-text-stroke". That is the opposite of a standard.

I hope browser diversity will pull IE kicking and screaming into HTML5, but I certainly don't expect standardization!

Seriously, no antivirus. But then, I only use Windows occasionally to play games. I'm surprised I only had one (1) virus problem over the last 5 years in Windows, which I fixed thanks to a targeted tool. Apart from that, I practice Safe Computing, and that appears to have kept me out of trouble.

However, for all that I know, my windows system may be part of a few botnets that don't cause me any problems :\

On my family's computers... I forced Ubuntu upon those I could, and left the others to fend for themselves.

you'll 'regenerate' yourself entirely full of tumors by age 20.

The article states: "In these mice without p21, we do see the expected increase in DNA damage, but surprisingly no increase in cancer has been reported."

Also, I suggest other /.ers read the article. It is high quality, not a random blog post.

I've always wondered: what was the difference, in DOS, between a .com and a .exe?

Those up high have understood that the USA's commercial future is not in manufacturing (they left that to China or Germany). If it's not physical goods, then what else is America selling abroad? IP, that's what. That's where the USA's commercial future lies, and that's what it'll have to defend at all costs, trampling their people's and other nation's right to defend that.

It's that or become insolvent. (look up the USA's trade balance over the last few 20 years. Think it'll improve? Think again.)

I've recently discovered the Fall From Heaven 2 mod for Civ4. It's the most sophisticated and complete mod for Civ4 out there. It's a fantasy mod set in a deep and well fleshed out universe
It brings much more new concepts and content than both commercial extensions, Warlords and Beyond the Sword (although it requires these to work).

I expect it to keep me busy enough well past Civ V enters the discount bins. Having the mod ported to Civ V, however, will make me switch in an instant. Hint hint, Firaxis.

This year's FOSDEM in Bruxelles had over 2400 unique MAC addresses and 3600 visitors a day(source). We enjoyed a 1Gbps pipe, and far from saturated it.

It was overall of excellent quality, though there was a glitch in at least one of the hacker rooms where the operators had to upgrade the AP firmware. The geographic setup was more broken out: FOSDEM happens at the Universite Libre de Belgique (how appropriate), with talks in lots of classrooms spread across a few buildings.

It would be useful for everyone if they could post a writeup of their infrastructure.

TFA already included that very XKCD. Its cultural embrace extends...

Drive letters. Enough said.
Backslashes as directory separators
(...)
Non-POSIX filesystem semantics

So what you're complaining about is that Symbian is not Unix?

Very strange application deployment consisting of several disparate directories with magical names

As opposed to Unix?

"[This point was really hammered down for me when "Supreme Commander", highly hailed as innovative, came out and it turns out it's an almost 1-to-1 copy of the old "Total Annihilation" from 10 years ago only with better graphics]"

And that's exactly as I and thousands of other fans wanted it. Most remakes are crap. SupCom isn't.

(actually, a 1:1 copy of the old with better graphics would better describe TA: Spring)

It did add a vital gameplay mechanic in the zoomable tactical display*. Starcraft II is going to hurt so much when I won't be able to do that.

*I'm sure other games did it before... Rome: Total War?