Comment According to NASA.. (Score 1) 59
today's strange anomaly in Earth's magnetic field is no cause for alarm.
Comment Re:Google 'international red cross call of duty' M (Score 0) 516
This is the daily mail, pretty pointless reading anything they say without a quick fact check
FTFY
Comment Should add that... (Score 1) 1
...the site has now been taken down, and redirects to an article on their main website.
It did take them several attempts to get it right though.. first redirecting to twww.conservatives.com
Yep, with a t
Comment So XP users will be stuck with IE8 forever.. (Score 4, Insightful) 454
We're gonna have another IE6 on our hands in a few years time - every other browser (and maybe IE9, IE10 and so on) will (hopefully) be implementing HTML5 properly in the future but XP users will be stuck with IE8 so websites will never you be able to make the switch to HTML5 (replacing Flash with <video> etc..) because of having to support IE8
Comment Re:Problematical (Score 1) 224
"This grammar is problematic..."
Comment Typo in summary... (Score 5, Funny) 703
"owns the Times, the Sunday Times and Sun newspapers"
Sorry you can't call The Sun a 'newspaper'! Seriously, a publication who's most popular story today is entitled "I had walk with a yeti on holiday"??
Sorry you can't call The Sun a 'newspaper'! Seriously, a publication who's most popular story today is entitled "I had walk with a yeti on holiday"??
Comment I was going to type an awesome comment here.. (Score 2, Funny) 420
...but the muscles in my fingers have given up..
Comment Google 'accidentally' blocks Ad-blocking site.. (Score 1) 168
... yeah right
Submission + - Facebook Goes 64 Bit: Expects to Grow Quickly (idealog.us) 1
NewsCloud writes: "Facebook announced to developers today that they are moving to a 64 bit user ID in November (see below). At 32 bits, the current ID allows nearly 4.3 billion user accounts. Yet, despite having only 47 million users today, Facebook's move to 64 bits will allow it to have more than 18 quintillion (18,446,744,074,000,000,000) user accounts. Of course, there are currently only about 6.5 billion people in the world. Is Facebook setting their sights beyond Earth or just trying to avoid what happened when Slashdot ran out of space for comment IDs last year. Perhaps they are planning to implement personas. Anyway, do you have any idea how much Facebook would be worth with 18 quintillion user IDs? Sextillions..."
