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I think $0.002 may be a tad high. The rate is closer to $0.0016 and to even have your music on Spotify you need to go through an aggregator(think fees) or pay Spotify money. Indie …

Is this it? http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...

Is there somewhere I can put in a few dollars to make this happen?

The Yahoo Maps for China don't look very transformed. http://maps.yahoo.com/#lat=39.8908713496569&lon=116.4246... (This isn't a vote for Yahoo Maps, just an observation)

This is not a problem with using a GPS, the problem is the shift from using different mapping technologies. Trying to get satellite and the map portions to line up is very difficul…

Most likely paid PR. Journalists are lazy and they already written articles.

Maybe the app engine team just chose the one they had more experience in hacking.

>The backend shouldn't be more than about 150 hours of true programming... Someone who can't program knows how many hours it takes. I can't wait for opportunity to do half the work…

US immigration is just like a Monty Python sketch and contains some Yes/No questions, such as; Have you ever committed Genocide? Are you coming to the United States to practice Pol…

The email I received was titled "Google App Engine Leaving Preview". And it states "We plan to roll this out in the second half of September...." The scariest part of looking at my…

Maybe Argentina should do what China does and block anything that resolves to ghs.google.com By blocking ghs.google.com the blocking country won't be subject to any write ups on an…

Steal a loaf of bread and get sent to Australia...

Even going to Best Buy to try a unit does next to nothing. Pretty much everything that they sell has a flat battery, is stuck on a screen or suffering some other issue. Except of c…

A lot of your points seem to cover international issues/action. The US needs to come to the realization that it is part of the world economy and not the ruler/leader. A large perce…

For $25 in AWS credit for everyone that enters, I'll have to enter my start-up. All it does it write "Hello World!" on the screen. :)

Expand I will. >I doubt that there are many arbitration companies siding with someone just to get repeat business. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Leigh_Jones ctrl-F arbitration…

Arbitration can be a bitch. The Arbitration company has a tendency to rule in favor of whoever is going to bring them the most repeat business.

> we get to run background checks and see if someone's been hanging out in Pakistan Frontier Provinces or Yemen lately. You are overestimating the competence of the US government. …

>Most people would still use and pay for the subway, even it were privatized. Given that nearly all the public transport for large cities is provided at a loss, I wonder if people …

Lets play spot the difference. From the article; "Her goal is not to sell the service to consumers, but rather to the government." And now we change two words; "Her goal is not to …

This is one of the dumbest things Google has done. If Google really wants to get rid of 90 percent of spammy sites all they need to do is block any website that is registered with …

I am sure Cisco has helped many countries build its police state.

There is plenty of good material on where to start with programming. Most of the links other people have provided here are very good. A fairly good resource is Google Code Universi…

I am just as confused as before.

I feel like a rant. Editors: The best editor/editing environment of the bunch is the Microsoft offering of visual studio. The biggest problem is that it is only well suited for Mic…