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The recent Honda hybrid battery debacle, and the woman who decided to opt out of the class action, chose small claims instead and kept more small claims winnings than she would hav…

"I converted both my [pdf] book and my [pdf] copy of Objects on Rails to TXT files" We need a terminal that can display graphics in place and still allow all the text tools to work…

paid, one time transaction to get someone set up with a blog and provider

Don't write off sbierwagen's comment as flippant. For this kind of thing, this will be more and more the future. I think. I think a site that acts as a reseller/affiliate for pair.…

I don't want to install the client on my work computer, so it's nice to have the web site.

All that's true, but if you can then sell that customer a car every month or a date every month, bonus.

I've always like about:blank. It even comes with a friendly reminder. http://imgur.com/jRmfB

The guy was more right than the flat earthers, and his acting trumped any amount of right or wrong.

Size makes it impossible. If you've ever worked at a sizable company then you understand this, if not explicitly. The work of an employee becomes more and more to integrate with th…

Any administration faced with the same question would do the same thing. They're the same.

Oh, gawd yes. Part of the fun of the world is that it's huge and surprising. Talk to your friends if you need a recommendation. Talk to a total stranger face to face if you need a …

"Am I the only person ..." The answer to this is always no.

It's feedback from the community, to help you be more useful to the community. You get more karma when someone upvotes your comments and submissions; you get less karma when someon…

What's the software service or app or tool that you most want to have, that would make the hair on the back of your neck stand up when you say "I built that?" Build that. Or build …

Yup. It's nice to be able to make ideas, instead of just having them.

I think we make too much of video games and movies. They don't make us violent. We're already violent. That's why we buy them. "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

"Public committing means a high level of responsibility and scrutiny, and it is the best motivator for any task." It's the best motivator for some people for some tasks. People and…

A movie at the theater and a movie in your living room are two different products.

It helps prevent in-breeding of articles.

Justice Dept. to Congress: Don’t Saddle 4th Amendment on Us http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/fourth-amendment-em...

"Fix campaign finance rules, elect better congresscritters, and repeal the DMCA." Yeah, except it's Congress that makes those rules. Given that vicious circle, how can that specifi…

And it's the President's decision to allow or encourage his Justice Department to pursue the idea that email left on a server after six months is considered abandoned and therefore…

> Well on the other hand, one could also argue that when you put the trash on curb you give away any rights to it - which means that the trash becomes a public property that Feds h…

Why? They're not searching it because it's randomly in the street, they're searching it because you are presumably interesting. If you're that interesting then there should be no p…