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by starwed 15y ago
The author points out in a blog post that this, being pure .js, doesn't need any sandboxing. Also, it'll actually be used by FF for rendering PDFs in the future, apparently.
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by starwed 15y ago
You probably don't care if power is only out for a few seconds, though. Ice evaporates, but a large block will take quite a while.
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by starwed 15y ago
Likewise on FF7 nightly (mac)
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by starwed 15y ago
I find it weird to even think of a bookmark bar anymore. At least in FF, the URL bar does such a good job searching history/bookmarks that I have no use for it, and I thought chrome was now in a similar position?
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by starwed 15y ago
Yeah, they were using some use-net like technology to post, since the web wasn't really around when the book was written. I'd argue they carried the same social role as blogs. To me, the key vision is that online, self-published essays cou
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by starwed 15y ago
But then again, Ender's Game included the general idea of blogs as a plot point ... (Not sure what else you would classify Peter/Valentine's self-published online essays as.)
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by starwed 15y ago
If anyone is tempted to click through to the article, be warned that its just a rant about how Second Life's engine sucks. It doesn't analyse anything about the world's systems at all, or even whether it's a success/failure at what it se
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by starwed 15y ago
Nah, you for some reason thought the other poster was talking specifically about Tammy, but you were mistaken. Look again at how they used the word: I think there's an appreciation to the dangers of a very public airing of dirty laundry
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by starwed 15y ago
Please keep clear in your mind the context of the discussion. The question in this particular thread of comments was, what should someone who experiences these events do? There is no particular person whose words can be proven or disproven
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by starwed 15y ago
To be honest you mostly come across as a troll, but there's one part of your "argument" that I've often seen folk make in earnest. And it just flat-out makes no sense. I just think everyone should be spared from trial by Twitter because c
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by starwed 15y ago
"Unless clearly marked otherwise" This add-on was marked otherwise. (Well, according to the claims above.) You can definitely argue that having unvetted add-ons on the site at all is bad, but your particular point isn't relevant.
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by starwed 15y ago
I didn't like Cube very much. The acting was bad, the premise was a bit silly... but still, it had something which made it interesting. And it was the guys first movie, on a tiny budget. I haven't seen Splice yet, but have heard most
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by starwed 15y ago
The director is apparently Vincenzo Natali ( Cube , Splice ).
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by starwed 15y ago
Interestingly, you can run Firefox inside of Firefox... just enter the url: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
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by starwed 15y ago
"I'm willing to assume that this comic isn't particularly good (it looks like something a teenager would draw in the back of his maths book) so it'll be interesting to see how this will play out." There at least two comics talked about in
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by starwed 15y ago
Huh, it seems really smooth on my macbook air, using FF6 nightlies.
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by starwed 15y ago
Did you... read the article?
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by starwed 15y ago
At least headlines on HN are frequently edited to make them true. That was always one of the things that drove me batshit crazy about slashdot -- nominally it has editors, but they let straight up flame-bait submissions go through.
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by starwed 15y ago
That's not quite true, since a small signal+random noise will certainly give you a prediction that is testable.
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by starwed 15y ago
But I find such "adjustments" distasteful. Well, you have to deal with it somehow. If you know the source of the noise, there's no excuse for not modelling it.
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by starwed 15y ago
Eh, in my experience, despite the fact that points were not deducted for getting the "wrong" result, and they were frequently told so, students still preferred to falsify data. I think it is because if they get the "correct" result they can
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by starwed 15y ago
Indeed, the one solid-state class I took used Kittels, and I quickly ended up borrowing Ashcroft from someone. Kittels was the least "physics-y" physics textbook I ever came across.
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by starwed 15y ago
Hey look, r=0.999! I had to grade physics labs one semester -- this was always an instant tell that students were making shit up. :)
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by starwed 15y ago
Ooh, it's the strawman! Oh... you meant in the OP?
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by starwed 16y ago
This was a case where the court split on partisan lines.
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by starwed 16y ago
Does the article cut-off or something? It says "...we just might be getting ahead of ourselves. Let’s back up." But it never really revisits the initial claim that this could kill class actions...
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by starwed 16y ago
Firefox 4 also has built-in sync (of bookmarks, history, and some configuration stuff if you like), so not the best reason to switch :P Go to Preferences->Sync to set it up. (It requires both a password and a sync key because they stor
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by starwed 16y ago
The way Firefox currently works makes that redundant -- I don't have a menu or toolbar full of bookmarks, I just star pages I'm interested in so I can find them through the "awesomebar" later. And of course it syncs across Firefox installs,
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by starwed 16y ago
There's another comment that has a pretty good theory -- the form the tool uses probably has a field that asks you to fill in who requested the file(s) be removed. (The dropbox guy already has said he used an internal tool developed to remo
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by starwed 16y ago
Go back and reread the article. The recipient of the supposed takedown notice is listed as being... dropbox.

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