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ummmm no. http://www.ancient.eu/Ganges/

Unfortunately this is in the Opinion section which has been known to be reliably frothing at the mouth, anti-goverment, ayn randian propaganda machine.

Is there any particular reason people don't use plain old xterm. I know that it does not provide tabs, but other than that what are the problems that people face when using xterm. …

Maybe its just me, but why not wipe your screen with a flannel cloth or even your t-shirt every so often. That would take care of most of the more egregiously straight-forward atta…

That is primarily because the prevailing wage is calculated by agencies like erieri and Cal EDD (in the case of California) surveys which are usually nine months to a year old. So …

I have realized that all kool-aid is quite useless for most situations and thus have reduced my tests to two simple things: - write unit tests for units that actually are complex a…

If you don't want a PDF or scribd, clicky to Cambridge project page: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/

Can we please, please, please stop trying to redesign everything under the sun, especially in the name of eco-friendliness or usability or some other such thing? That is not to say…

s/compliments/complements/ The former changes the meaning of the sentence completely. But otherwise looks great. I would give anything to completely ditch macports.

Neat use of development tools to illustrate a point. But, to be quite blunt, very naive in the best case and quite stupid in the worst case. We can "ship early, iterate often" in s…

Its all nice and good to point out the problem that parking causes in terms of the development or destruction of any downtown, however unless the lack of parking is compensated for…

This is one the primary reasons I have not watched anything sports related on NBC for a long time. The rah-rah, the overly obsessive coverage of only US players and related history…

Whoops! I guess it is rare...

5 years, multiple thousands of almost illegal intercepts, 'blanket' PIs to cover up the unauthorized intercepts. Surely redefining 'rare' is not the answer.

I think you are making an assumption regarding availability vs price vs demand. I would think that given the sort of capacity Amazon has, at some point of time the cost of a spot i…

>> Are you sure about not stopping one bomb? Their service is like the electric company (and IT), you don't notice it until it stops working. Are you kidding me! Utility companies …

" (because I refuse to read this) " At the risk of getting down-voted on my first comment: I am sorry, how can you comment on an article about the possibility of acquiring some for…