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Comment Re:Poor Sad Sap (Score 1) 207

And , and . If all you want is text use an alternative text-based browser. If you don't want rich unique professional content, block ads and trcking. The web as we know and love it, with all the great applications and sites and media would not exist without ads. We tried the free and the subscription business models, and for the most part it didn't work. View the ads and enable the tracking and the web will continue to advance. If those annoying flash and pop-up ads hurt traffic so much, sites would not use tem because noone would buy them. Complain all you want, but as long as people want to be paid for the content they produce, ads are here to stay in all their flashy, animated glory. Stop being such a pretentious Luddite.
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Hubble Confirms Nature of Mysterious Green Blob 140

An anonymous reader writes "In 2007, Dutch secondary school biology teacher Hanny van Arkel spotted something mysterious in the night sky. Combing through Galaxy Zoo, an online database set up to enlist the public's help in classifying galaxies, she came across a glowing green smudge of light approximately 650 million light-years away. The object, which became known as Hanny's Voorwerp (Dutch for 'object'), is one of the most mysterious in the universe. Now, detailed Hubble Space Telescope images and new x-ray observations presented here today at the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical Society may finally confirm what it is."

Comment Re:Sure, just remember the gorilla arm (Score 1) 332

Ah...so A for attack and B for block is slower for the human brain to interpret? Don't know about you, but the first thing I do when I go into a game is map all the important functions to asdf jkl; secondary functions to wer uio and shooting or inventory switching to SHIFT-L, SHIFT-R, and spacebar. I don't want some game maker moving all my keys to the center of the keyboard. Ditto in applications. They already are specially mapped to control sequences. If you cannot memorize the keyboard shortcuts for the most used features of any application you use for a long period of time you have some serious long-term memory issues. Keyboard is better...what are you looking at Schwan?

Comment Satire has lost its purpose... (Score 1) 1073

The inclusion of those words was to satire the derogatory use of them in society at the time...to remove them is to change an important anti-slavery text into a simple story about a boy and his friend traveling down the river. What's next, they take the lynch-mob scene at the end out? The text was SUPPOSED to offend people so that they would think about Jim as a person and not a piece of property?

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