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The pirate station equipment is not so expensive, and in fact, petty phreakers use it pretty frequently to do basic SMS frauds in heavily populated areas. Maidan protesters have fo…

What do you mean by “military attention”?

This specific instance might or might not have been. I'm just telling you that the pirate base stations have been operating in the Maidan area and have been used for nefarious purp…

It's amazing people don't understand this is an elaborate mass prank. Pirate base stations have been present in the area since the disturbances began, already being used for nefari…

Mail.app has these issues consistently, across versions. Which is a real shame, because UX-wise it is a really fine mail client. Also, threading algorithm changed slightly in Maver…

At this point, I would be actually happy for Disney IP to be in copyright forever, as long as they leave the copyright law alone and works start entering public domain again.

For most search queries, the results are identical or very similar, although DDG does a lot of enhancement/cleanup.

Just to clarify – there are 108 distinct licenses used. So apart from Apache, BSD, GPL v2, GPL v3, LGPL, there are 103 _different_ license terms used. IP law, as currently used, is…

Orange wouldn't. By this logic, many oddities in color naming can be abstracted over languages, see for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms:_Their_Univer...

I've seen somewhere a test for how many color words are there in the language - only color-words which do not correspond to a specific material or plant which color is emulated are…

Fuzzy buckets are wonderful for exactly this kind of case. If you're alone, it doesn't matter whether there are 5 or 50 wolves - you're fucked anyway. On the other hand, if you're …

That's lovely. The DSL for defining custom blocks seems unnecessarily verbose, though.

Why would a culture that has no trade need numbers? Approximate buckets are good enough for the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. After all, it were Sumerian traders and bureaucrats who g…

Can you do headings with Sir Trevor? If so, I didn't find a way.

P word? Which one?

It's obvious — the terrorists that hate your freedoms! Your skin is brown? DROP A BOMB. You're a Muslim? DROP A BOMB, AND ONE MORE, TO BE SURE. You're a goddamn Ruski commie? BOMB,…

MacBook Airs don't support two ACDs, at all.

Android is essentially GNU-less.

Given that VC-backed startups are obviously receiving far more press than bootstrapped ones, is there any statistics on how widespread are former and latter, and how successful the…

Amazing, thanks!

As a bit of a shameless plug (I work for one of the organizers of the event), would really recommend you to tweak the schedule a bit to be in Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 25-26 — Inve…

Can we please keep the spam out of HN?