torndorff - Slashdot User

Comment Firefox? (Score 2, Interesting) 141

by guamman on Monday January 25, 2010 @08:06PM (#30898220) Attached to: Insecure Plugins Ding IE, Safari, Chrome, Opera

I noticed that Firefox / Mozilla was left out of the title list of insecure plugins. I'm certain this problem applies to it as well (particularly since it gets mentioned in the summary below). Innocent slip or ulterior motive of the anti-IE crowd?

Comment Re:Wrong again idiot! (Score 1) 308

by guamman on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @01:21PM (#20073819) Attached to: Futurama Movie Set For November 27

To the individuals that decided this post was trolling: Do you realize that "Wrong again idiot!" is a quote from a Futurama episode? It was supposed to be humorous.

Comment Re:Other things interest me besides... (Score 1) 163

by torndorff on Thursday April 05, 2007 @08:42AM (#18619015) Attached to: China's Earliest Modern Human Found

The currently theories are that the Neandertal genes did not persist in H. sapien sapien. They died out, and there wasn't any interbreeding (at least none that had significant historic effect).

Prototype Telescopes Complete Key Test 78

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday March 10, 2007 @01:02PM from the if-this-trend-continues dept.

Matthew Sparkes writes "Two prototype antennas for the world's largest array of millimeter-wave telescopes have passed a key test, working to track and image Saturn for more than an hour. Ultimately, ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) is expected to resolve details 10 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope when it is completed in 2012."

SCOTUS To Hear Patentable Thought Case 394

Posted by Zonk on Sunday March 19, 2006 @02:45PM from the get-out-of-my-head dept.

skayell writes "The Supreme Court of the United States will hear a landmark patent case involving whether or not thoughts and relationships are patentable. Michael Crichton's essay in the New York Times attempts a thoughtful summary of Metabolite's primary assertion: they not only own the connection between homocysteine levels in the blood and vitamin B12 deficiency, but also any thought connecting the two."

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