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Comment Re:What's wrong with slashdot indentation? (Score 1) 445

by lanroth (#49781165) Attached to: Creationists Manipulating Search Results

I prefer the old formatting.

There's an extension for Firefox that I used to tweak the css back: Stylish https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...

I created this rule which made it better:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document domain("slashdot.org") {
#comments ul ul, #comments ul li ul li {
      margin: 0px 0px 0px -10px !important;
    }
}
Earth

"Mammoth Snow Storm" Underwhelms 397

Posted by timothy from the blame-uber dept.
mi (197448) writes You heard the scare-mongering, you heard the governors and mayors closing public transit and declaring driving on public roads a crime. But it turned out to have been a mistake. Boston may have been hit somewhat, but further South — NYC and Philadelphia — the snowfall was rather underwhelming. Promised "2-3 feet" of snow, NYC got only a few inches. Is this an example of "better safe than sorry," or is government's overreach justified by questionable weather models exceeding the threshold of an honest mistake?

Comment Re:Anyone seen any android phones ? (Score 1) 135

by lanroth (#27585241) Attached to: Android 1.5 SDK Is Released

I'm using Android 1.1 on an HTC Kaiser (aka the Tilt, the Vario III depending on who you got it from). This is a Windows Mobile phone that Android is being ported to.

Not all the hardware on the phone is supported by the Linux kernel but that situation improves week by week. I spend most of my time in Android, only booting back to Windows when I need to load TomTom or upgrade my Linux kernel.

More information can be found here:

http://www.androidonhtc.com/

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3629317

I'd really like to upgrade my phone 'cos there're better ones on the market now. The trouble is I'm quite used to having both windows and linux on my phone and there's precious few phones out there that'll do that.
Science

Researchers Prove Existence Of New Type Of Electron Wave 60

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the welle-of-information dept.
ScienceDaily is reporting that physicists at the University of New Hampshire have discovered the existence of a new type of electron wave on metal surfaces. "The acoustic surface plasmon, which will have implications for developments in nano-optics, high-temperature superconductors, and the fundamental understanding of chemical reactions on surfaces. [...] 'The existence of this wave means that the electrons on the surfaces of copper, iron, beryllium and other metals behave like water on a lake's surface,' says Diaconescu, a postdoctoral research associate in the Condensed Matter Group of the physics department at UNH. 'When a stone is thrown into a lake, waves spread radially in all directions. A similar wave can be created by the electrons on a metal surface when they are disturbed, for instance, by light.'"

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