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by wfjackson 12y ago
The only options in my area are Comcast and satellite internet with its lag and small bandwidth limits and high prices. If people's favorite sites start annoying them, most people are likely going to blame the site and either stop visi
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And with Windows Phone.
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>I am very comfortable with multinational corporations and research organizations setting up shop near where the skilled people are. You don't think this is going to hurt employment in the US? If India open up immigration in respons
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>We need a period of zero immigration for five or ten years, after which other policies might be worth considering There most probably wouldn't be a need for any stricter policy after 10 years, for skill based employment. By that ti
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Google Drive Outage Sends Students Into Panic(socialtimes.com)
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Dropbox disables old shared links after tax returns end up on Google(arstechnica.com)
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Valve-Sponsored Mesa Work Makes Games Load A Lot Faster on Linux(phoronix.com)
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Just because you saw a Factory pattern used doesn't mean AngularJS is anything like Java.
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Are you saying "Top selling laptops on Amazon" is equivalent to "best selling laptops in the U.S." ? How is that a fair comparison?
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Because the article you quote doesn't have any numbers beyond 21%. First, 21% does not mean "top selling". And the 21% does not include consumer sales, nor PCs sold by OEMs, such as Dell and Hewlett-Packard, directly to busin
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>They are the best selling laptops in the U.S., yet no one dares write about their rise. Or perhaps they're not. If they were, you'd see a big rise in web browsing stats. Amazon doesn't sell all that many laptops, and ther
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That makes it doubly ironic because there was an issue with the chargers that could start a fire resulting in a recall. http://www.smbnation.com/content/news/entry/hp-and-google-re...
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My Experiment Opting Out of Big Data Made Me Look Like a Criminal(time.com)
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Google uses secret Android deals for illegal search monopoly, lawsuit claims(gigaom.com)
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Microsoft fixes Windows XP browser security flaw despite end of support(theverge.com)
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The OP's comment said "you should avoid being vegetarian" so your comment applies to his as well. Also, isn't corn healthy unless you process and concentrate the sugars or powder it? I doubt one can gain weight by eating
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>due to submitting, and subsequently deleting, several test posts to figure out how things work. when can i submit again? idk. This sounds exactly like what spammers do(and they actually do it too). No wonder the algos are tweaked to gua
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Google no longer mining student Gmail accounts for targeted ads(abcnews.go.com)
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Clickable link for those like me who haven't read it. http://xkcd.com/1361/
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Sears dismisses XSS vulnerability report by stating "we use SSL"(twitter.com)
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Aren't there companies that don't really spend a lot of money on lobbying even if they make a lot of it? Like, say Apple.
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Low-level federal judges balk at law enforcement asking for electronic evidence(washingtonpost.com)
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In the meantime you can use this http://ihackernews.com
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What kind of spam says 'I want to meet you in real life today/Monday' ? I would guess dating sites, but there's no URL whatsoever in the email and those professors have a lot of experience with a lot of real emails that
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That part wasn't intended for minorities. As for women, they need a lot of time off for pregnancies and typically want/need to spend more time with kids. Also, they have a biological clock for fertility unlike men, so it's mo
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I guess one of the benefits is that you're decoupling the energy transfer method from the energy source. If there is new development of solar, wind, geothermal, wave energy etc. electric cars will be ready to receive energy from them v