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Zynga Confirms Xbox Head Don Mattrick as New CEO, Taking Over From Mark Pincus(allthingsd.com)
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Measuring the usefulness of a page by percentage of screen real estate only seems useful if the user is looking or clicking randomly around the screen. The structure, layout, and clarity of communication are far more important. > 7% is a
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No, this is a myth. Many manufacturers (including MB) put a tamper-proof sticker with the VIN (sometimes barcoded) on every body panel of the vehicle so that theft or replacement can be detected. One location is behind the rear license plat
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No need. New cars in California come without license plates. Instead, you get a temporary registration document affixed to the inside of your windshield and plates are mailed to you in a few weeks. It's your responsibility to put them
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This American Life did a story about this [1] not too long ago, and featured an officer who recorded conversations from NYPD supervisors instructing officers to downgrade or not report crimes so the precinct looked better. There's also
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To provide a little bit of historical perspective on NYC's murders: 1990: 2,262 1993: 1,927 1998: 629 2001: 649 2012: 417 2013: 145 YTD http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf&
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When did this become a contest?
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The tremendous amount of US culture exported by through movies, TV, and sports makes a lot of American people, places, and things household names around the world.
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Netflix is far from a monopoly on either users or content.
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The amount of money you make from the ads is irrelevant to the consumer. They still see the price as $0.
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> note the lack of front-page coverage of this story in the New York Times NYT front page on June 20, 22, 24, 25, 26 -- five out of the past 7 days. Plus a front page mention on June 23. I know you don't mean your comment literally,
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> file-sharers have the right to anonymous speech This is an inaccurate distraction in your comment.
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Snowden isn't mentioned once in this article.
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From the WSJ: Late Wednesday, Univision Networks posted images of what it said was a "safe pass" for temporary travel that had been issued to Mr. Snowden [...] But according to a senior official in Ecuador's fore
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I think content is always the majority of the cost in these revenue share deals. Hulu: 70% [1] YouTube: 55% [2] Google Adsense: 68% [3] Spotify: 70% [4] [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-hulu-tur
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Udall and Wyden did specify the inaccurate statement in a classified attachment to their letter to Alexander. http://www.denverpost.com/ci_23530383/udall-nsa-states-signi...
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> ABS brakes Correct me if I'm wrong: ABS doesn't cut off pressure to the brakes but instead relieves extra pressure. At no point can the ABS module ever fully cut off brake pressure that's being hydraulically applied by t
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> right, because ABS does not work by pulsating the pads off and back on So ABS can fully cut off brake pressure? My understanding is that it relieves extra pressure and that regardless of the valve position, either full force of the ped
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Agree with everything you said as possibilities. There are clear proofs of concept that an accident can be caused by a compromised electronics, and multiple ways to do it. We can come up with endless possibilities , but I was trying to est
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I spent a few min reading the referenced paper, and they do seem to demonstrate that there's the possibility of electronically compromising car electronics, including brakes. However, steering and brakes are mechanical systems in Hasti
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A Faraday box might be more fun for higher trust environments. Starting your staff meeting? Family dinner? Watching a movie? Everyone puts their phone in the Faraday box and they get it when it's over. Similar to "The Phone Stack&
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Different products. Qualaroo pops surveys on your own website. Google's product pops surveys on other companies' websites, who are paid for the privilege. Useful if you have small traffic or are seeking answers from an audience di
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Google has a very simple business strategy: make sure the web is more useful. As more people use the web's many services and as businesses build better websites, Google will make more money because of all of the search and display ads
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Anyone can be great at executing a dumb idea.
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According to a WashPo article, they indicate that HK officials "quietly encouraged" Snowden to leave. They also name an HK official who is "sympathetic to Beijing" as the one to have delayed the US's extradition req
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International politics is a never-ending chain of negotiations about all kinds of issues. Obama + Kerry aren't going retaliate directly, but they'll certainly keep this in mind the next time China asks for something and the US may
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About as long as a slow boat.
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As an alternate explanation: we practice fire drills, but that doesn't mean building fires are routine. Drills are indicative of something you want to get right when the time comes, not frequency.
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Well, the good news for jwz is that these all seem pretty fixable. It's come a long way since the version I first saw after the Reader announcement. It took me a long time to warm up to Google Reader, and for it to have enough features
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Included in "infrastructure," but worth noting separately: NYC real estate prices are very dependent upon transportation time. Without any bridges, tunnels, or public ferry service here, actual distance from Manhattan doesn't

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