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Stealing one thing from the store isn't hard, but the nature of vulnerabilities like this one means there isn't much additional technical challenge going from stealing one thing on…

The magic of Kernighan: "When we were choosing among typesetting systems, Brian never let on that he was one of the original authors of Troff, the system we ultimately went with," …

He hasn't-- the article is from 2010.

Is the link in the top-right broken? http://i.imgur.com/U08DB9p.png

For anyone interested, I'd recommend Gasland. http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/ This "new" evidence of contamination will not end it. People will be paid in quiet settlements, sell t…

Looks like a bogus address with only a real email in Tor-land. Domain is paid with Bitcoin through bitdomain.biz, so that's a dead end too.

This is pretty cool! Even as simple as this is, it shows how pretty webGL can be, and how it can play nice with DOM elements. Did you have much trouble getting the text to look rig…

Aside from the whole "will they actually build it" debate, I'm worried that if they do, the capsule ceiling won't be high enough for someone fairly tall (let's say 6'5'' or taller)…

I agree: I have no idea how the scoring system works. Am I supposed to get it done in as little (real world coding) time as possible? As few keystrokes? Is it supposed to be done i…

Hear hear! For the record, he's never actually voted against abortion. He opposes government-funded abortion, but also voted "Present" on a bill to defund the "Planned Parenthood" …

Somebody's having some fun with the Speaker of the House's name... "...you can imagine the Speaker's office will be quickly filling up with agency heads looking to get their hands …

A proprietary language created for a closed, for-profit platform isn't naturally the most popular choice for open source projects.

This doesn't seem as much like an actual attempt to gain compensation as it does to simply get a law changed.

This guy seriously doesn't understand that "Europe" to most us westerners basically means "All European countries with a coastline, down to Italy."

I love that this is a thing, and that it's such a success to keep it current. However, I don't approve of Windows 8 itself and that's a bit of a problem in itself. This story still…

Can someone please translate the trader jargon out of this article?

+1 for LSN: back in '04 a friend of mine and I must have spent at least 50 hours playing nothing but the hotseat multiplayer of that game. FS is also a lot of fun, but it just isn'…

The problem is that the GOP doesn't truly support any of that stuff-- simply listening to what a wealthy few campaign donors tell you is right and blindly proselytizing this warped…

I hate to knee-jerk this one, but my first reaction to this is that it's probably propaganda. In the States a few years ago, there was an effort to create a self-contained ecosyste…

Though this is cool, I'm not entirely sure what this is good for. How will we use these portals?

Though this is really cool in itself, this has a horribly sensational and misleading title.

A-yup, couldn't agree more. It's already common practice to buy bundled CPUs and boards. We might as well be buying them as one solid piece.

Funny how he writes it so much like Java. I see so many different styles with JavaScript.