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Presumably, one of those Ikea items is made of stainless steel, which is an alloy of steel containing ~10-11% chromium. There are a lot of coatings, metals, and metal alloys that a…

Mapping down to the millimeter is great, but the conditions on track are continually changing. Weather (rain, sun, track surface temperature, air temperature), debris (dirt, grass,…

Maybe not exactly what you meant, but Raptr employs video game players (including a few pro/ex-pro players), and is a social network for video game players.

You would only be partially correct. See this report we did at Raptr: http://blog.raptr.com/2011/09/27/zynga-report/ Specifically, ~20% of WOW players also played a Zynga game, and…

Reminded me of this, a WWII/Cold War missile test site in San Diego: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/apr/02/--/

"you can get a small 3bdroom house for $300-$350K in a very safe area" I'm curious where that is? In my area, the only house I saw for sale in that price range was a 1 bedroom hous…

The part you are missing is how do you get such an obviously fraudulent company listed in the first place?

A more interesting metric is: # of votes up / (# of times viewed or # of users viewed) (to normalize against changing userbase size)

How did this person become a US Citizen if born in the UK? She got citizenship to work a summer job?

I'm on my fourth or fifth xbox 360 due to hardware failures. I lost track... that's one reason.

I thought the 40-bit keys were used due to cryptographic export restrictions, and not lack of randomness? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40-bit_encryption Seems to agree with me.

Too many times has my computer succumbed to malware in ads (mostly flash and java). Noscript for me.

So, they've made it easier for people to launch simple denial of service attacks on hotmail accounts.

Are you referring to the "Rothschild" family?

Google has billions in cash sitting around, I'm sure if they hired a few thousand people to deal with this problem that some significant strides could be made. This, however, may n…

The phone leaks password data? It tells an attacker that the password contains only numerics?

Songkick requires logging in to a facebook account. This site is doing exactly what we're discussing NOT doing.

It's pretty common for them to have pre-written obituaries for famous people that are likely to die soon. See: Debate over Britney Spears' Obituary http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-…

Except when they went rally racing in WRC, where they got banned for cheating in a really egregious manner.

Premise: a) Many (most?) small software outfits, and software developers don't agree that software should be patentable. b) Some of us would be willing to pay an insurance premium …

If you are in the bay area, check out http://www.techshop.ws They have woodworking tools and machines. The most awesome of which are: 2 CNC Routers, and a lathe Also: chop saw, tab…

Yeah, sometimes your information gets published to the web in unexpected ways. Like the first time I responded via google groups, google snuck my gmail address on the post (without…

I'm wondering if the publicity of personal fortunes being made inspired a ransomed attack?