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>>It's one thing to watch a human mentally deteriorate when they are at the end of their life Alzheimers is terrible to witness at any age - the elderly included. While it's certai…

I'm always interested by alternative 'Foxes, but I'm intrigued as to why the installer is about 25MB bigger than Firefox. What's in there that makes it a 50% bigger installer?

Agreed, and this is probably by design. It's all a part of social control, or attempted social control. It's the threat of constant surveillance that will contribute to keeping peo…

Plus, with the new "websites visited" retention rules - extendable at whim, there will be a permanent record, for example of that episode of Frasier that you downloaded from a Torr…

£51 for four burgers and fries in London is a tad excessive :)

Just wondering what the community here felt about the potential risk of "guilt by association" - no matter how tenuous - of using the TOR network. Does the mere use of this technol…

Treat with caution - CartoonStock are a British company, based in Bath. I'm not aware of any US presence aside from a toll free number. Most UK Limited Liability Companies use UK l…

Our responsibility as developers is to deliver a working solution within the parameters that we are given, not to push an agenda (no matter how strongly we may feel about it). Like…

I'm a relative newcomer to Linux as a development platform (one year), and I've distro-hopped my way through several in a search for something stable and hassle-free to use as my p…

That's an accurate comment to make, yes. They know that you correspond with people who use Tor. See how this can escalate? I think we are (hopefully) all agreed that chasing down p…

Firstly, to come out with a statement like "Ev's technical skills are light years beyond any of you so-called programmers" shows that you have no idea who the audience is for HN. Y…

Good article, but there seems to be a current trend towards being either a full-time tech-head or a neo-luddite who rejects technology. I'd argue it's possible to be both. I have t…

>>But you can't have the internet without equipment, without servers built by guess who? Corporations. Take that away: no internet. Partially correct - we need equipment, but mesh …

It's satirizing the likes of Ev Bogue who actually used to post nonsense like that. I believe Bogue has changed from minimalist snobbery to "pretend to be a techie" snobbery now th…

Another rent-a-cliche is the inevitable Moleskine notebook. You sometimes even get to find out what make of bag they use too, like it could possibly matter. It's egotism and childi…

To nmjenkins, thanks for the reply and apology - please do not take this as a personal shot: I appreciate that issues occur with automated systems - but ignoring emails of complain…

While it's a relief that I'm not alone in this, it raises a concern that this policy of bludegoning people to sign up via email DOES appear to be a company policy. Plus, they refus…

Not impressed with Fastmail - I tried their free offer, wasn't impressed, and didn't sign up for the paid service. I've since had over 100 (yup) emails telling me of my "OVERDUE PA…

The irony is heavy, isn't it? :)

Bitcasa are offering 10GB for free. Their unlimited service is cheap too. I cannot comment of their security.

The policy of intimidation is working - it doesn't matter if the NSA/GCHQ really do have the technology which is actually capable of performing this scale of surveillance - somethi…