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I've used OpenDNS since they became publicly known and have never gotten a redirect that I can remember. Did I configure that somehow?

Suburb of Atlanta, here. (Alpharetta)

Small company. Financial software. Yeah, that seemed a lot better a year or so ago. But I've been at this a few years, this recession too shall pass.

My apologies; I figured the "et. al." would have covered that.

I've used them as well. To me they are TOO thin (though I understand why). They're too small, take on too much of the substrate's texture, and suffer the problems "unwind" mentione…

Not sure if this is the reddit (et. al.) effect, but man that site is sllllloooowwwww for me.

I'm not so sure RMS saying something offensive is unpredictable. WHAT he says, sure, but that he will do it is almost a given. He came to my college in 1983 or so and evidently his…

> Higher detection rates is not better. Higher detection rates just means more false positives. Awesome, so the machine I have with NO AV software at all with a detection rate of 0…

Anecdotal, I know, but a few times I've UNinstalled Norton on my father-in-law's machines, replaced with either AVG or Avast, and stopped its incessant HD activity, speeding it up …

In other news, Microsoft says Linux is a bad choice.

This almost feels "desparate" by Microsoft. Keep throwing stuff at Bing until it ... what, hits some magic "we love it!" threshold?

I was uncomfortable with it when twitter first came out just due to the sheer ridiculousosity of it.

Hope it's got a scatter guard around it. Yeesh!

Genuine question here. I've heard these stories before (and lived through one at a company, but under very different circumstances), and it always amazes me that anyone would let a…

Depending on what you mean exactly by "in the past", part of the issue is the people that had usenet available to them at a given point in time. Early on, it was the rare individua…

What about it is awesome, exactly? I keep trying to give it a fair shake, but it's not got the critical mass of awesomeness to make me give up something familiar. In fact, I don't …

Great, great video. Watched this and all the Computer Chronicles I could get my hands on a few years back. Good times.

My 400 DID have 64k and a real keyboard (both add-ons). I was 16, but that was 1982. No intertubes. No printer. No RS-232. Cassette tapes.

I don't normally like Giles' stuff much, but I read this one and kept thinking to myself; "yep. Yep. Yeah, he's right there. Yep." Nice one, Mr. Bowkett.

Isn't this sort of question how Nedry got "found out" as to what his super secret assignment was on Jurassic Park?

Actually, I'm using that right now. I've used priv in the past so it's not quite so foreign. I'm finding chrome+priv actually usable. Still waiting for something a bit more "on the…

> People are looking for a way to kill some time. You think so, eh? Look at the apps coming out that track your time, that let you restrict yourself from killing time, etc. On what…

Exactly. The "win" tinyurl.com (etc.) was that someone had the foresight to see the need at all and do it, not that it was hard to do. Amazon got patents on less.