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Comment According to NASA.. (Score 1) 59

by wellingtonsteve on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @07:36AM (#60417969) Attached to: NASA Is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly In Earth's Magnetic Field

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

by wellingtonsteve on Thursday December 08, 2011 @06:27AM (#38301302) Attached to: Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law

This is the daily mail, pretty pointless reading anything they say without a quick fact check FTFY

Comment Should add that... (Score 1) 1

by wellingtonsteve on Monday March 22, 2010 @09:50AM (#31568454) Attached to: UK Tory Party website XSS attacks via Twitter

...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

by wellingtonsteve on Saturday March 20, 2010 @06:52AM (#31548598) Attached to: Internet Explorer 9 Will Not Support Windows XP

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

by wellingtonsteve on Saturday November 14, 2009 @07:34PM (#30102400) Attached to: URL Shorteners Get Some Backup

"This grammar is problematic..."

Comment Typo in summary... (Score 5, Funny) 703

by wellingtonsteve on Saturday August 29, 2009 @02:25PM (#29245645) Attached to: James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News"

"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"??

Comment I was going to type an awesome comment here.. (Score 2, Funny) 420

by wellingtonsteve on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @07:25PM (#28033903) Attached to: Cola Consumption Can Lead To Muscle Problems

...but the muscles in my fingers have given up..

Comment Google 'accidentally' blocks Ad-blocking site.. (Score 1) 168

by wellingtonsteve on Monday September 22, 2008 @07:11AM (#25102175) Attached to: Google Goofs On Firefox's Anti-Phishing List

... yeah right

Submission + - Facebook Goes 64 Bit: Expects to Grow Quickly (idealog.us) 1

Submitted by

NewsCloud

on Friday October 19, 2007 @11:21PM

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..."

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