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Similar systems are actually being build, but with a bigger scale (like big office buildings). There is no freezing involved, just heating the office space with warm water in the w…

They recently shut down all the servers of a Chinese reseller with 45 servers after a lot of their servers were the target of a DDOS. It's of course understandable to disable those…

Flash is still installed on over 99% of desktop browsers. And the pdf viewer is way too slow (at least for me) for real world usage.

It could very well be that the only civilizations that still exist are the ones that are good at hiding. All the others (even if they are the big majority) might have been destroye…

The placebo is actually there in double-blinded tests to remove any bias and other factors related to the experiment. And no matter how good/legitimate the experiment, any measurem…

I think bundling makes it a lot smaller than 16MB. Rather something like 8MB (which is still a lot of course).

Are you sure this is the case? From the Adobe article it seems that after a certain date they will disable hardware rendering for flash games that use both domainMemory and stage3D…

Protecting the interests of RIAA and MPAA is one thing. China, Russia and a lot of other countries want a complete different level of censorship and the current USA actions will lo…

We are talking about phishing here. Don't you think they have access to a lot of recently-phished credit cards they could use to buy the forms? They would probably choose for a fre…

Although this might prevent (a bit) that the phishers get the actual data and hence protect the victims, I am pretty sure that it won't cause any drop in phishing attempts. However…

I don't understand why something either has to be totally perfect information or totally useless. Yes, Alexa information is pretty bad. Yes, it is easily faked. Yes, it isn't repre…

So they actually made you pay for a paid app that is installed on your iPad and that you updated through their system. Big deal! That's hardly a bug of Apple, in my opinion. Instal…

Maybe some people actually do want to keep most websites free and don't mind the Google ads and sometimes even find them interesting. (Yes, it may be hard to admit for some people …