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IE9 and IE10 still have terrible things in them: try creating an audio tag with preload=none. They will happily display an _invisible_ audio player on the screen. Every other brows…

Atheism to me (Buddhist) appears to just be a confusing mixture of nihilism and materialism. There are deities in Buddhism, but this is the display of your own mind.

I'm always startled when I see speculation or surprise that animals exhibit "human" behavior as though they're not just animated vegetables; for fuck sake, yes, they're sentient be…

He may be on the path to karmically braking even in the not to distant future if he ends up giving back all of his unethically gained fortune. That's good.

Ah thanks, it must be something like that, though later on in the FAQ there they also say: > ØMQ gets you more throughput than TCP has using intelligent batching algorithms. yes, i…

> Ø Faster than TCP, for clustered products and supercomputing. Not quite following this statement, what makes it faster?

Explanation of the problem: http://fold.it/portal/info/science#whygame Protein structure prediction: As described above, knowing the structure of a protein is key to understanding …

> While the speed of light limits latency in wide area networks, electrons can traverse 100m of copper cables and back in about 1µs You can reduce latency by making the cable runs …

>In this case, one of the same people who says DNS filtering will break the Internet just one year ago advocated a whole new piece of infrastructure to allow people to filter the D…

Gotos were traditionally discouraged to students since they would write code that was needlessly hard to follow (and buggy as a result), so instructing them to not use gotos improv…

Yes, I also write all my programs in assembly for the same reason...

The MS mind set is often unaware of subtleties, and doesn't see a reason to place much of any value on them... I think that's why they get flack all the time, despite doing what th…

The spell checker auto-detects the language you're writing in and switches to the correct dictionary for a sentence. How cool is that?

For Linux on the Desktop it does quite well though...

I think if Windows shipped with the ability mount an ISO, open a tar file, ssh client, virtual desktops, usable notepad, "Open with" doesn't make you hunt for an exe, drag to resiz…

Some of those look pretty similar to ones I recall making from this book as a child: http://www.amazon.com/Great-International-Paper-Airplane-Boo...

Nice, they were sorry about our "perception" of what they were actually doing, not about their intention to begin with.