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https://github.com/Aaronius/Stupid-Table-Plugin/commit/fbf3d... people.

The details are here: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/107779/jon...

The "What we are doing" section seems pretty weak. The only substantive thing they say is "we have produced new tools which enable us to more expediently relocate database services…

The real solution is not to use broken NTP: http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html

Hmm, looks like they're competing directly on price: 1 virtual core, 1.7GB RAM, 160GB disk for $.055/hr (Google) 1 virtual core, 1.7GB RAM, 160GB disk for $.08/hr (Amazon) Amazon i…

Shorter johnw: I heart Ayn Rand. In particular, I'm pretty sure Stallman (like most Americans) is in favor of taking from the rich and giving to the poor, so trying to persuade him…

This is a pretty crummy article. If you read it carefully, you see: - a woman owns a shady company - she tries to get her friends to write five star reviews of her on Yelp - Yelp i…

Presumably because fish hasn't been updated since 2009 and they expect their fork to become the new standard version. http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/beta.html "Welcome to our fork…

Actually, Polanski was arrested and released in Switzerland, not Sweden.

"Swedish law requires a person to be physically present before charges can be laid, so this can only happen once Mr Assange is on Swedish territory." http://www.fairtrials.net/docu…

Did they also hack this to autopost to Facebook?

And where are they supposed to get all the towers? That's a multi-year construction project and, if they try it, they'll alienate their existing carrier partners. Now maybe Apple t…

This is much more likely to be about the VPPA, a law which Netflix believes makes it illegal to provide social features in the US: http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2012/01/netflix-to-…

Is there any reason to believe this h-index method of ranking is a good idea? Why not use PageRank?

Google offices are apparently marked with surprisingly-unpixelated propellerheads. There's also some custom art for SF landmarks.

Can we see this in real dollars? Hard to understand the actual trends the industry is facing in nominal dollars.

The dishonesty of this statement is stunning. IE is designed to only accept the cookie if Google promises not to use it for tracking. Google wants to use the cookie for tracking so…

And Rand has promised this before. But we need 41 to actually prevent a vote, since the Senate has already filed to override the filibuster.

The actual audio piece doesn't mention SOPA/PIPA or pirates, best I could tell. It was about a cybersecurity data sharing bill and even gave the Tor Project the last word.

Is anyone making a list of these? http://www.quora.com/What-other-easter-eggs-does-Google-sear...

I think it's partly an artifact: due to a naming conflict, the git package in Debian used to be named "git-core" and was renamed "git" around then.

I just discovered recently that Richard Hamming also has a book on this topic: http://www.amazon.com/D/dp/B000P2XFPA%3FSubscriptionId%3D14G...

This is moronic. Cryptography is very hard and one tiny mistake can ruin everything. In that kind of situation, do you want to do something clever and new that you just thought up …