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Dirt_McGirt

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    Comment #1471197

    I believe pretty much every modern browser except Firefox comes with 3rd-party cookies turned off anyways, and I don't expect many people chance that default.

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    Comment #1471088

    He's figured out the optimum way to burn all his pirated mp3s to DVD.

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    Comment #1469478

    Calling it a $99 NAS is stretching the truth a bit.

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    Comment #1468654

    People who suck at satire shouldn't be allowed to title things "A Modest Proposal".

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    Comment #1463370

    Carl Jung and science do not belong in the same sentence.

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    Comment #1459252

    "If the instapaper_body class name is present, the automatic selection and automatic stripping processes are disabled, leaving full control to the site’s author."

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    Comment #1458942

    Yay, the instapaper future is full of ads.

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    Comment #1451585

    Well now, that page seems to have been created 6 months ago, so I'd argue it's pretty new.

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    Comment #1450504

    Jesus, virtual desktops have been around since the mid-80s. Crediting them to Gnome is like crediting cars to Preston Tucker.

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    Comment #1448519

    If you get a 3 room apartment for $800 a month in SF, then why are people there always whining about super high rents?

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    Comment #1441961

    > I guess it's OK to use a Drobo if you get another one as backup for the first one — but then, what's the point? RAID is _not_ a backup. If you don't understand this, you'll never…

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    Comment #1438685

    Miley Cyrus upskirt pictures.

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    Comment #1436190

    Well, there went my 191 day uptime. Which is incidentally the number of days ago they opened their London datacentre.

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    Comment #1435295

    It's pretty obvious why they don't have a "doesn't take forever to load" checkbox.

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    Comment #1435288

    Ah yes, I can't imagine there is a person in the world who don't read httpd logs on the regular.

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    Comment #1420758

    Just FYI, the SSL-enabled homepage doesn't have a background.

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    Comment #1418727

    Where can I find a low risk investment that yields a decent monthly return on 1 million?

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    Comment #1415019

    Their blog feeds certainly are. I have to scrape the pages to get a decent Krugman feed.

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    Comment #1413402

    Nope, different interfaces to the underlying webkit functionality. And they're packed up differently. I suppose the core functionality of more advanced extensions could be shared, …

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    Comment #1385011

    > Michael Arrington is/was a lawyer and runs a startup. I think his legal background has given him the confidence to pursue legally sensitive journalism And what a runaway success …

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    Comment #1384997

    The way syncing works is what's making me consider a switch. Oh how I despise the horrible hodgepodge of an app that is iTunes.

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    Comment #1381811

    And make it like an iDevice and only allow sync from one computer...

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    Comment #1380580

    > The FSF should take a more active role in GPL violations overall. I belive they can't really do anything unless they own the copyright, as they do with GNU Go. The Linux HFS+ cod…

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    Comment #1378948

    > but when you read the whole thing it seems that RMS likes to change his opinion as he receives more information. He really does. I used to be involved in Emacs development back i…

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    Comment #1378468

    Well, I've tried it on Mac, Linux and Windows and it only blocks a minority of all flash files I've encountered. It seems especially bad with youtube and vimeo files embedded in bl…