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>but rather low ranking analysts whose job at the conferences are to assess the material presented and report back So? I work for a private company. I 'report back' on the cool shi…

Handling them in the browser is a good idea, but still needs a lot of work to make it workable: - What happens when their computer crashes? - How do they transfer these certificate…

> If there really is a problem, it may be worthwhile to move it to an "advanced settings" panel, but removing it entirely is a terrible idea. Is this not the equivalent of 'about:c…

> break the laws of thermodynamics as we know it Not a giant leap to imagine for a species that's been able to construct a Dyson Sphere in the first place ;)

> This destroys a non-technical user's grasp of the differences between static HTML and programatically manipulated HTML. It hides the setting amidst hundreds of other obscure sett…

> in spite of there being laws banning the transfer of personal data outside Australia, most people are quite lax about the issue and take the view that the risks are too small to …

Google Music is available in Australia (as of last month or so), but the All Access streaming is not.

This is true for places that have good conditions and internet. You have to remember, power outages are a daily occurrences in even built up places such as Bangalore, and internet …

Not even EFI, just regular BIOS...

> Let's say that a software bug results in someone getting hit and injured by a self-driving car. Who's liable? The same person who is liable if your current car has a fault tomorr…

FYI the Browser on 4.2.x has been replaced with Chrome. I'm eventually hoping that everything can be updated through the Play store, and the only reason to do an OS update will be …

I used Zoho for a while in the place of Google Apps, and migrated back to Google Apps after about 9 months as I absolutely hated Zoho Mail. Webmail interface was awful, and it didn…

Gotcha. I foreground == can't use the phone while the app is updating. Seems like it uses a similar mechanism to Android app updates then.

Having not owned an iPhone, I just want to clarify: when you update an app, it does so in the foreground? That seems like an odd design decision. Would there be any reason for that…

One thing that's missing from the timeline is equivalent services that Google have launched/purchased. For example, Google Video didn't so much 'shut down' as merge with (the argua…

Until a new payment provider can match Paypal for non-US payments ( https://www.paypal.com/worldwide/ ) then Paypal will be the leader.

Who's to say they aren't? Spending 10 seconds asking on Twitter, and getting an 'oh yeah, I had that and fixed it with x, y and z' in response sure beats staying up until 2am fixin…

Same on Ubuntu 13.04 w/ 3.8.0-19-generic.

Wait... they crowdsourced the translation of their Terms and Conditions ? That seems like, I don't know, a bad idea . For user content or interfaces sure, but T&Cs are essentially …

Translation is one of those things where crowdsourcing makes sense - there's not always a 'right' way to translate a particular phrase, so a consensus between multiple people helps…

The people who have reservations about insulting random people on the street, or farting loudly on a crowded bus, are likely going to have reservations about recording people wheth…