Dirt_McGirt

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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
I believe pretty much every modern browser except Firefox comes with 3rd-party cookies turned off anyways, and I don't expect many people chance that default.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
He's figured out the optimum way to burn all his pirated mp3s to DVD.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Calling it a $99 NAS is stretching the truth a bit.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
People who suck at satire shouldn't be allowed to title things "A Modest Proposal".
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Carl Jung and science do not belong in the same sentence.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
"If the instapaper_body class name is present, the automatic selection and automatic stripping processes are disabled, leaving full control to the site’s author."
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Yay, the instapaper future is full of ads.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Well now, that page seems to have been created 6 months ago, so I'd argue it's pretty new.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Jesus, virtual desktops have been around since the mid-80s. Crediting them to Gnome is like crediting cars to Preston Tucker.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
If you get a 3 room apartment for $800 a month in SF, then why are people there always whining about super high rents?
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
> I guess it's OK to use a Drobo if you get another one as backup for the first one — but then, what's the point? RAID is _not_ a backup. If you don't understand this, you'll never be satisfied with any RAIDish products.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Miley Cyrus upskirt pictures.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Well, there went my 191 day uptime. Which is incidentally the number of days ago they opened their London datacentre.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
It's pretty obvious why they don't have a "doesn't take forever to load" checkbox.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Ah yes, I can't imagine there is a person in the world who don't read httpd logs on the regular.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Just FYI, the SSL-enabled homepage doesn't have a background.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Where can I find a low risk investment that yields a decent monthly return on 1 million?
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Their blog feeds certainly are. I have to scrape the pages to get a decent Krugman feed.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Nope, different interfaces to the underlying webkit functionality. And they're packed up differently. I suppose the core functionality of more advanced extensions could be shared, with only different interface glue, but with simple ones, it
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
> Michael Arrington is/was a lawyer and runs a startup. I think his legal background has given him the confidence to pursue legally sensitive journalism And what a runaway success the crunchpad saga has been. Especially from a him being
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
The way syncing works is what's making me consider a switch. Oh how I despise the horrible hodgepodge of an app that is iTunes.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
And make it like an iDevice and only allow sync from one computer...
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
> The FSF should take a more active role in GPL violations overall. I belive they can't really do anything unless they own the copyright, as they do with GNU Go. The Linux HFS+ code is probably owned by whoever wrote it for example.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
> but when you read the whole thing it seems that RMS likes to change his opinion as he receives more information. He really does. I used to be involved in Emacs development back in the day and he frequently changed his opinion on thing
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Well, I've tried it on Mac, Linux and Windows and it only blocks a minority of all flash files I've encountered. It seems especially bad with youtube and vimeo files embedded in blog posts. In fact, I don't think it really can work in any r
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Entitled much? You're using a free service and have the gall to make demands on how it is to be implemented?
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
It blocks like maybe 25% of all flash for me. Not adequate at all.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Great. Now if there was a flashblocker that actually works, maybe I could switch.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
Not to mention that it's a pretty lame trend that's bound to be over soon, and then it'll just look out of touch.
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by Dirt_McGirt 16y ago
I don't really feel more ads are valuable, no matter the quality.

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