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Command Lines and the Future of Firefox 360

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 30, 2009 @11:46AM from the wouldn't-that-be-nice dept.

Barence writes "Mozilla has revealed how it plans to integrate plain text commands directly into future versions of Firefox. Dubbed Taskfox, the move sees Mozilla's Ubiquity project become part of the browser itself, allowing users to type commands directly into the address bar. You can, for example, type 'map cleveland street london' to bring up a Google Map of that location, or 'amazon-search the great gatsby' to find that book on Amazon, without visiting the website directly. 'The basic idea behind Taskfox is simple: take the time-saving ideas behind Ubiquity, and put them into Firefox,' the Taskfox wiki claims. 'That means allowing users to quickly access information and perform tasks that would normally take several steps to complete.'"

Is That "Sexting" Pic Illegal? A Scientific Test 711

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 30, 2009 @10:17AM from the i-like-the-testing-part dept.

Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes " Amid the latest 'sexting' controversy, here is a proposal for a scientifically objective method to determine whether a picture constitutes child pornography. This is a harder problem than it seems, but not for the reasons you'd think. And it raises questions about how the same scientific principles could be applied to other matters of law." Hit the link below to read the sextiest story on Slashdot today.

Can Fractals Make Sense of the Quantum World? 236

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 30, 2009 @09:36AM from the cuz-i-sure-can't dept.

Keith found a New Scientist story about fractals and quantum theory. The article says "Take the mathematics of fractals into account, says Palmer, and the long-standing puzzles of quantum theory may be much easier to understand. They might even dissolve away."

ABC/Disney Considering Hulu 192

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday March 30, 2009 @08:55AM from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Walt Disney Co and Hulu.com have restarted talks over offering shows from Disney's ABC television network on the online video distributor owned by NBC Universal and News Corp, paidContent.org reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources." The real question to me is when will they stop screwing around with Boxee users?

Comment Re:Quantum Encryption (Score 0) 374

by fodderb0y on Thursday January 20, 2005 @03:50AM (#11417366) Attached to: Scientific American on Quantum Encryption

The point that these two guys are alleging, btw, is Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle which states that observation of a particle changes the probability of it's existence to virtually zero.

So, if one were to attempt to 'brute force' attack a quantum crypto-stream, one would have to have had to receive a copy of that stream before it hit the 'quantum wire', ie before it reached the point where quantum mechanics superceded the laws of the seeable, knowable universe.

Not impossible, but not likely either.

Once again, Slashdot and it's readers manages to fuck up a fantastic article written months in print.

Looks like you assholes need to learn how to read.

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