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by infinita740 13y ago
My kindle contains The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett), so now I can't travel to uk without violating the law? Quoting from wikipedia: "The book was listed at no. 33 on the BBC's Big Read" (2003) Everybody is a suspec
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by infinita740 13y ago
> 10 Do you really think these plans will stop the ‘corrosion’ of childhood? question 10 is indeed the most important one, IMHO blocking porn on the internet is not going to stop kids to have access to adult content so it's real
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by infinita740 13y ago
Actually I think they started with th Pirate Bay and then pornography. A quick google search: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-bypass-uk-pirate-bay-blo... (screenshot of the blocking page) I believe protection again
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by infinita740 13y ago
>I do wonder what this will mean when accessing sites like The Pirate Bay Don't worry about the pirate bay, it's blocked in uk First torrent site, then pornography, then what? arbitrary political movements? That's a really
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by infinita740 13y ago
Or maybe those accounts are shared ones. It's common practice for kids to share accounts so they don't have to buy everything.
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by infinita740 13y ago
these two things (better tab management and synchronization) are what restrain me from updating. Also the kind of bookmarks "stash" is not searchable in search bar, which is not really handy
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by infinita740 13y ago
I think they say that in the way of a left bookmark pannel. The new stash feature is IMHO a better way to do bookmarks as you get a quick glance at the page and you can even search for words inside the pages. However, I do not currently use
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by infinita740 13y ago
Maybe this is only true for the main browser windows, not small popups
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by infinita740 13y ago
This can lead to a bug, if you play human vs human and resize both paddles, the "ball" speed up and eventually go through one of the paddles
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by infinita740 13y ago
The tumblr website has the logo in comment, http://www.tumblr.com/ this was on HN a long time ago, someone complained about bandwidth and power wasted for only a few users who noticed it
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by infinita740 13y ago
Look way more decent than I thought, google is apparently the only one really supporting ie5 as their interface seems absolutely unchanged. Also noticed the irony of microsoft.com being the worst, maybe it shows that the company wants to
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by infinita740 13y ago
sure but they could have easily replaced all the problematic characters by "simpler ones" like é,è->e, œ -> oe having an address (in France) containing some of these characters the deletion make it barely readable, therefore useless
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by infinita740 14y ago
Yeah, google know your home and where your workplace is but doesn't publish it to everyone. Facebook did that with a lot of information. Plus it may change how things behave without you agreement (think of @facebook.com emails) Google also
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by infinita740 14y ago
I tested this behavior a little bit, it does not apply to the profile picture but when you submit an other picture it appears to be rotated 90° left. So I manually rotated my pic 90° right to counter this, unfortunately the picture appears
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by infinita740 14y ago
I just downloaded it and tested that, it's not present, zooming is now as bad as in other android browsers (but some of the HN comments are in bigger size than others so there is no need to zoom, it's quite a strange behavior though) Also a
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by infinita740 14y ago
There is a website that use the same concept to teach you languages, world capitals, even Vim or shell commands and you can create your own courses. I use it to learn mandarin, it's really useful. ( http://memrise.com )