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I had a chance to meet Cliff Stoll a couple summers ago. He was giving a presentation to a quilt society and it was great. If you ever have a chance to see him in person, no matter…

Is that more than or less than the level of incompetence that you'd expect from republicans? Not everything has to be partisan, does it?

I second this - been using Netvibes since Google Reader went away. Clean interface and reasonably customizable. At the time, it was the closest to feature parity that I could find …

Sending stock quotes, scores, weather, etc. reminds me of a service that Google used to offer via text message. I used that a ton before I got my first smartphone: text W[ZIP code]…

I second that thought. Years ago on a Nortel PBX, we had a line in the factory where I work that had a fault. It would intermittently dial my extension (411) and I figured that it …

Does anyone know where there are pictures of the interiors of these homes? I'm very curious about the concrete bath fixtures, but can't seem to find anything online that definitive…

It's the same connector as on the BBC Micro:bit, right?

Breaking it for everything would be one thing, but in this case, the update only impacted the application when it was named Chrome.exe. Changing the name or doing the same thing wi…

That's interesting - 2.5 was the same number I landed on that sounded best to me.

I had an 8086 (compatible) Epson Equity II+ w/ SVGA back in the day. Was a bit odd, but it worked!

I won the game and the stats were buggy for me as well. Still fun! Statistics played..................0 win %...................-9223372036854775808 current streak..........0 max s…

The collateral idea seems good, but it might encourage perverse incentives for Google. If they know they're going to get a few hundred bucks if they disable an account, I'd fear th…

Or maybe he's stating the thesis for his post and then backing it with technical detail before writing his conclusion. Have readers become so accustomed to instant gratification th…

Any projector setup worth having would have an HDMI cable ready for you. A 5.25" floppy diskette won't fit an a CompactFlash slot. What's your point? I can come up with silly excus…

100% agree. I did a very similar project this year - at my wife's insistence. Guess who's done most of the programming now that I've got the techy hardware side done?

This looks very interesting, but be warned that in this project's case SQL == MySQL and nothing more.