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by fjarlq 14y ago
> So Google's not getting $39m worth of stuff for $1, they're getting $39m worth of assets plus $Nm worth of liabilities (where n > 39) for $1. Pete Ashdown of Xmission says "Google will not assume any of the debt, the Provo city
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Apollo Guidance Computer programmer Don Eyles analyzes the program alarms that could have aborted the landing: http://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
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by fjarlq 14y ago
There is a capital D with stroke: Đ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_with_stroke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(diacritic)
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by fjarlq 14y ago
How is Apple deliberately hampering performance for web apps? What evidence is there for this?
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I don't like it. Let's go all the way and make bringing the crew back safely part of the challenge. It will be more rewarding because it's more difficult. "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this
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by fjarlq 14y ago
It, RSS Subscription Extension (by Google) v2.2.0 , is still installed and working in my Chrome. It does not seem to use any backend service. It just reads RSS information on a webpage and creates subscription links for you that go to the
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Interesting perspective. Charlie Miller teased about it and a conversation involving i0n1c ensued: https://twitter.com/0xcharlie/status/310018569058525184
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by fjarlq 14y ago
One issue may be that the usage share for IE10 is almost negligible currently because it hasn't landed on Windows 7 yet. (But it will soon, so... hmm.) Pwn2own bounty for breaking IE9 is only $75,000. Bug price list 1 year ago: http://www.
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Safari wasn't. Also, nobody compromised Safari at Pwn2own last year.
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Two problems with the HTML5 version in Chrome: 1) No audio 2) If my mouse cursor moves off the window it loses control of the ship Flash version has neither of these problems. No idea why audio is broken. I tried a couple HTML5 audio test p
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Relevant Chrome click-to-play bug report: Click-to-play doesn't actually require click to play http://crbug.com/174963
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Barry Schwartz laments the same kind of problem in his TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_our_loss_of_wisdo...
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by fjarlq 14y ago
> if Bill is putting that money into another growth vehicle, that means that he believes Microsoft isn't going to rise to superstar status again. But Gates is not putting his money into another growth vehicle, he's putting it into his
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by fjarlq 14y ago
You've omitted a lot of context. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7106589/ljbox/doc/MSFT-shares.png Gates has been selling his stock at a steady pace for over a decade. Since Sept '01 he has sold an average of about 78.4 million shares per year. U
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by fjarlq 14y ago
The iPhone name was first used by Infogear in 1998, which was acquired by Cisco. Apple and Cisco settled a trademark dispute over it in 2007 so that both companies can continue using the name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_iPhone
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by fjarlq 14y ago
The perspective of Google Images: http://www.google.com/search?q=mitten&tbm=isch
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Professor Sapolsky at Stanford gave an interesting lecture about depression a few years ago... highly recommended: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
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The Ken Olsen quote is taken way out of context. He was thoroughly aware of personal computers in 1977. He was referring to behemoth home automation systems: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/kenolsen.asp The quote attributed to Lord Kelvin is
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Corrected link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Arriv%C3%A9e_d%27un_train_e...
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Post the headers (after scratching out the email usernames)... there may be clues lurking.
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Interesting. For comparison: Apple: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000021754 Amazon: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000023883 Facebook: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00003356
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by fjarlq 14y ago
My Amazon EC2 system just went down as well. It's in N.Virginia. Can't load these pages either...wow: http://www.amazon.com/ http://status.aws.amazon.com/ edit: 30 seconds after I posted this, everything came back.
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http://www.emulab.net/ is along those lines.
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Roku doesn't support Youtube... that was a deal breaker for me.
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Response by Sophos: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/11/05/tavis-ormandy-sop...
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Great! One issue: on my Macs I've bound ALT + left/right (aka OPTION left/right) to change virtual desktops. I unbound those keys so that I could try out your new feature, and it works great...very cool. Not sure what you can do for guys li
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Mandatory? For everybody? There's a cost to supporting IE6, and a cost to not supporting it. Depending on what you're doing, it might make much better sense to do something like: http://code.google.com/p/ie6-upgrade-warning/ IE6 usage is
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Hey, sweet! Thanks. A couple issues: 1) The number keys don't work when in full screen mode. 2) Also the keys don't work at all if the mouse pointer is outside the video rectangle. (Is that a limitation of the web browser interface?) It'd b
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by fjarlq 14y ago
Speaking of controls, a request: I want to be able to repeatedly replay selected moments in videos. So, I hover my mouse pointer over the seek slider at a certain point in the video so that I can repeatedly click that point to repeatedly re
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Are you sure about that? The article specifically states that on Windows 7 the attacker obtains the privileges of the current user. Microsoft's advisory agrees: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2757760 "The vulnerabil

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