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DragonFlyEye.Net: 'Google Phasing Out Internet Explorer 6.0'

Google's phasing out of Internet Explorer means big changes for the Internet

Google claims big advances require them to cut off support for IE6. But recent history suggests other motives.



For those of you who are not computer geeks, this may all seem a bit esoteric. But in the power plays between Google and Microsoft, this is big news. I received an email today as an administrator of a Google Apps domain that Google has now officially begun the process of terminating support for Internet Explorer 6.0, an old version of that browser that goes back almost ten years now and whose frustrations have been the bain of many web developers.

This is good news for developers because major support for "Killing IE6" means cover for us to continue developing for modern browsers and a justification for ending our support for the dinosaurs. This website ended it's support of IE6 not quite a year ago, when the new look of DFE was released. But this news is not all about making us developers feel better, nor is it all about moving the Internet forward. Though Google announces it's requirement   » Continue Reading....

Chant Down Babylon

Chant Down Babylon: 'Obama does that weird education-is-the-answer thing'

Can't tell if Barack Obama believes what he just said about expanding access to college or if he's just cynically feeding Americans what they want to hear.

His point was that education was one of four things he's proposing that will leads to prosperity ("growth") and that a High School diploma doesn't get you a decent job anymore so let's make sure we allow more people access to  Colleges. I'm all for "investing in our people" but helping the middle class cram more of its offspring into college doesn't stop our skyrocketing inequality or increasing poverty rates. Nor does it guarantee the creation of more jobs.

If you as an individual want to move up then a college degree might help you but it doesn't expand the actual number of good paying jobs available to Americans. That, however, is the job of the President - to provide leadership for the creation of public policy that enables more people to do better.

Not sure how propping up an economically unsustainable nuclear industry will help, either. Not to mention that thing they do to your genes when they blow up.

More people with college degrees doesn't result in more excellent jobs and more   » Continue Reading....

Chuck McCoy

Chuck McCoy: 'Big Brother's Blue Camera Expanding to A Street Corner Near ...'

If you're within the Rochester city limits regularly, you are no doubt familiar with those street cameras with  flashing blue lights.  They are meant to cut down on crime.   I have mixed feelings about them.  Like most people, I'm opposed to crime(either of the street or boardroom variety), but also like most people,  I'm opposed to the intrusion of big brother.   I figured, "well, at least they are confined to bad areas."  But then again, there's that old fear that it starts in bad areas of the city, then expands.  Then again, maybe I'm letting my imagination get the best of me.

Last night we're coming out of Jine's Restaurant, located at the trendy restaurant intense Park & Berkeley intersection.   I suddenly see the flashing blue light.  Years ago, I used to live a few streets down.  I never noticed any shady characters.   There's another blue flasher toward the other end of Park, near the other big flock of Park Avenue eateries.   I guess they want to make all the many people who come to dine in those areas feel safe.

Maybe they'll eventually put a camera in our living rooms to make us feel safe from the possiblity of domestic   » Continue Reading....

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