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Dvorak Rants on CSS 522

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 19, 2006 @11:21AM from the internets-most-successful-troll dept.

John Dvorak writes on CSS after working on redesigning his weblog, the article ended up being extremely funny. From the write-up:

As we move into the age of Vista, multimedia's domination on the desktop, and Web sites controlled by cascading style sheets running under improved browsers, when will someone wake up and figure out that none of this stuff works at all?!

When Wikipedia Fails 513

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday July 10, 2006 @07:13PM from the just-as-many-edits-on-the-right-side-of-the-table dept.

PetManimal writes "Frank Ahrens of The Washington Post looks at how Wikipedia stumbles when entries for controversial people are altered by partisan observers. Case in point: Enron's Kenneth Lay, who died of natural causes last week, shortly after being sentenced to prison. His Wikipedia entry was altered repeatedly to include unfounded rumors that he had killed himself, or the stress from his trial had caused the heart attack. From the article: '... Here's the dread fear with Wikipedia: It combines the global reach and authoritative bearing of an Internet encyclopedia with the worst elements of radicalized bloggers. You step into a blog, you know what you're getting. But if you search an encyclopedia, it's fair to expect something else. Actual facts, say. At its worst, Wikipedia is an active deception, a powerful piece of agitprop, not information.'"

Student Faces Expulsion for Blog Post 1045

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 25, 2006 @02:58AM from the complaining-only-makes-things-worse dept.

ThPhox writes "A student in the Plainfield School District in New Jersey is facing expulsion from the school district for a post made on his personal blog during non school hours. From the article: "A 17-year-old student who posted on his blog site that he was being bullied and threatened by the Plainfield School District will face an expulsion hearing this week, a local attorney said.""

Comment Re:Maybe Not So Fair? (Score 1) 683

by raoulharris on Wednesday May 24, 2006 @10:27AM (#15393934) Attached to: Vista Beta 2 has Major Problems

"Ever installed Linux in a laptop? I think you'll find that the scavenger hunt for drivers is similar to what Gary experienced." I've installed mandriva and ubuntu on a 2 year old dell laptop. With mandriva I had to download the firmware for my wireless driver. But with Ubuntu everything worked perfectly the first time: internet, sound, graphics. If I install a new copy of any Windows version none of those 3 things work perfectly until I download drivers off the internet. I'm very impressed with Ubuntu. I still use Win XP on my laptop and desktop as well, but from my experience it has been easier to get the drivers with linux.

Is Evolution Predictable? 298

Posted by Zonk on Saturday May 20, 2006 @07:46AM from the no-one-predicted-the-tour-de-france dept.

An anonymous reader writes "C|Net is carrying a story about some research out of Rice University. They are exploring the possibility that we can predict the evolution of a species, given environmental factors." From the article: "Typically, the bacteria can continue to thrive when the temperature hits 73 degrees Celsius (163 degrees Fahrenheit). The experimental strain of bacteria contained a mutated version of a gene that, in the naturally occurring strain of the microbe, produces a protein that made existence possible. They then put these mutant strains in environments where the temperature rose slowly but steadily, and studied how different generations coped with the changing temperature. In the breeding that followed, millions of new mutations of the gene in question were produced, but only about 700 of those variants replicated some of the functionality of the naturally occurring gene."

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