Cap'n Refsmmat

Yes, I think most of the external enclosures will take an ATA or IDE drive and let you use USB or FireWire with them. Although you have to be very careful when the drive is running, as normal hard drives aren't designed to be bounced around--you could scratch the disk and ruin your data if you move it too much. edit: \/ what he said down there

If you think the device is credible (i.e. you can find a scientific study that mentions it, or documented proof that it isn't a hoax) then I recommend sending a letter to the inventor. It may be undergoing clinical trials that you could get involved in.

Some people say that the UN would levy taxes on the internet and e-mail. Others say "the US did all of the hard work, why should we let THEM control it?!" Frankly, I think the best approach would be to seperate ICANN and other associated internet groups from the US Government and make them completely independent. Maybe we could make the W3C have authority to kill websites that use non-standards-compliant code... just kidding.

Start->Run->type Msconfig->Startup->Deselect whatever you want->OK

I would actually suggest a network hard drive if you have a network. If you have a firewall, it can be a pain to set up, but once you get it they're great. Look for drives with Ethernet ports, as those are the network drives. I'd also like to point out that you can also buy an external enclosure and mount your own drive inside. It's not as easy, but it means you have more freedom over what sort of drive you'd like to use (any regular desktop drive would work) and what you want it to look like. edit: I recommend Iomega.

How will these electrons move the moon closer to us?

All right then, I'll give you ten grand if you can disprove this statement: The universe was created by a pink fairy last Tuesday, and all of your memories from before then were implanted in your brain during the process of creation. All fossil records were created at that moment as well. That's not necessarily what it says. It simply says that every reference frame is valid--it doesn't say that every reference frame has to be different. I can have a slight doubt that you have ten fingers. Perhaps you cut one off with a chainsaw five years ago. I don't know. So there do have to be absolute truths? Oh dear, that ruins most of The Fabric of the Cosmos (a book) when it discusses the fact that particles have no definite location unless they are observed (literally--not just a definite location known to us, a definite location to anything). Err, no. You can't decide what is true to you, or you could suddenly decide that it is NOT true that you're a human, and suddenly you'd be a snail. Fifty years ago, there were people saying transistors didn't matter to them and it would never be used in daily life. Now you're using more than 50 million of them, just to read this thread with a computer.

I guess even a physics nerd has to think about naked women every once in a while...

You can use a proxy, but it is impossible to hide your IP from a website you are accessing directly. After all, it has to know where to send the data to...

Firefox was taken from the rendering engine of Netscape, then development continued. Netscape now takes the Firefox engine, that has been developed by Mozilla, and then re-uses it in Netscape. So Firefox took the code from Netscape, developed it further, and then Netscape used it again.

The main reason is that when humans evolved most, we were having famines frequently. If you're designed to eat the foods that are most fattening, and to crave them, then you're more likely to have enough fat to live through the famine. Simple, really.

vBulletin comes with it built-in. I don't know if it accomodates only allowing moderators to use negative reputation, however.

Netscape is based on Firefox, so I think there shouldn't be much of a problem.

Firefox 1.5 should solve most of the problems. It now has a binary update system which means people have no excuse to not upgrade--it does it for them, without requiring them to download the entire installer as before--and so upgrades can be more frequent. Although I still hate Adobe Reader for killing FF AND IE ever time I run it.

Actually, I think the reason we abandoned the reputation system was that it was completely messed up. I added up the sum of all of the points I had taken/removed from me, and it came out wildly different than what I actually had. Somehow a minor negative one would have more effect than a positive one by even a moderator, which made no sense at all--it came out that the system was completely borked. I like Phi's idea, however.

The irony is excruciating. JC1, do a search on these forums. You will find numerous threads that have already discussed this.

Compare the number of unpatched holes. (according to Secunia): IE: 30. Firefox: 5. See the difference?

Indeed. A welcome message would be great, like Faf's original one. We ought to use a favicon, something like the SFN logo. The left navigation bar should be prettied up--perhaps the links could be made a bit smaller, to provide contrast vs. the headings. Maybe use a bit of CSS to make them look more interesting. The "topic icon" column in the latest posts thing is kind of annoying. It's so rarely used that it creates a mostly empty column, with only a few icons, so it looks rather dumb. I'd prefer we only saw the icon when we viewed the thread, or something. The top box, the one containing the navigation tree, could be rejiggered a bit to make it look nicer. It doesn't fit in with the "rounded" background and icons.

They are references to scientific papers that have observed speciation/evolution.

Guys in diapers dancing, mostly.

http://scienceforums.net/forums/showthread.php?t=15186

Don't worry, someone else posted the same just a few weeks ago.

Ah, so it doesn't support CSS2. See, SFN doesn't use nearly all of CSS2's capabilities. Try it on an advanced website, or google the Acid2 test, and you'll see more. (Firefox is still working towards Acid2 compliance, but they're getting there. IE 7 is barely any improvement over 6)

You can also use OpenOffice, as it is a word processor and offers a math module.

CSS2 is the same as CSS. SFN uses it, as well as most other decent websites. Does it use Trident for rendering or did you make your own rendering engine?