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IE 8.1 Supports Firefox Plugins, Rendering Engine 283

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @04:28PM from the fruits-of-competition dept.

KermodeBear writes in to note that according to Smashing Magazine, the newest version of Internet Explorer, codenamed "Eagle Eyes," supports Firefox plugins, the Gecko and Webkit rendering engines, and has scored a 71 / 100 on the Acid3 test. The article is pretty gee-whiz, and I don't entirely believe the claims that IE's JavaScript performance will trounce the others. (And note that the current Firefox, 3.0.8, scores 71 on Acid3, and Safari 3.1.2 hits 75.) No definitive date from Microsoft, but "sources" say that an IE 8.1 beta will be released in the summer.

Comment Re:First time? (Score 1) 192

by yngwie0 on Saturday March 28, 2009 @02:49AM (#27368323) Attached to: 3D-Based CAPTCHAs Become a Reality

How can it not know what it is?

Free Tuition for Math, Science, and Engineering? 766

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday August 21, 2007 @09:32PM from the sign-me-up dept.

Gibbs-Duhem writes "Montana Democratic Senator Max Baucus wants free college tuition for US math, science, and engineering majors conditional upon working or teaching in the field for at least four years. From the article: 'The goal, he said in an interview last week, is to better prepare children for school and get more of them into college to make the United States more globally competitive, particularly with countries like China and India. "I think the challenge is fierce, and I think we have a real obligation to go the extra mile and redo things a bit differently, so we leave this place in better shape than we found it," Baucus said.' Do you think this would help with the US's lackluster performance in these fields?"

Comment Re:Whats the Motive? (Score 2, Informative) 261

by yngwie0 on Wednesday July 26, 2006 @03:57PM (#15786522) Attached to: TiVo to Measure Ad-Skipping

And just to be clear, your TiVo sends a gzipped file containing every remote keypress you make with an associated timestamp to TiVo Inc., every day when it "phones home." They have from the beginning been able to tell exactly what is on the screen when you're using it as well as which scenes you jump back and watch again... and which things you skip over.

You can infer a _great_ deal about someone based on what they watch, don't watch, or rewatch (late at night when they think no one is looking). Its bad news, especially in the current political climate.

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