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How many Mac owners do you think run their admin account as the personal account. I bet more than a few don't bother with the distinction between user and admin.

> If you want your mail delivered to your door, then you can pay extra. Otherwise pick it up yourself. The funny part of that is, that is the inverse of how it is now. The post off…

> Dead tree mail isn't dead just yet; they definitely have enough time to figure out a plan. Traditional printed mail (flats, letters, etc) will not go away until every person has …

That doesn't reduce the mail volume. Then you would have to store the mail somewhere, and still have the same amount to sort. So on the days when they did deliver, it would take lo…

> I'm surprised that you don't have access to dsl but do have access to 3G. There are quite a few locations (including mine) where the remote infrastructure is fractured (for lack …

One thing that isn't particularly clear, is the timestamps on tweet library. Based on the top entry, I presume those are UTC. So if the action kicked off at 1 AM PST (UTC+5 accordi…

> the data center has been moved to an undisclosed location I fail to see the importance of physically moving the servers. What value is this ? Was the attack an inside job with ph…

> In a off-the-shelf service like Amazon, you as a customer are welcome to suggest a change of penalty to your Amazon account manager, and unless you're something like the US gover…

the backend comments site for http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/ is down. url is http://www.hoocoodanode.org/

oh, I could think of something... convince the major (big box) retailers to provide an access point, so that you can price scan with your smart phone, instead of having to hunt all…

> They could conceivably have enough money to buy Comcast by the end of this year. assuming that Apple wanted to be in that type of business, they could achieve a similar end by bu…

> deciduous tree leaves are mostly falling only in the Southern Hemisphere Here in Florida, and due to the mild climate, certain species of Oaks will hold their leaves right up to …

th3quickbrownfoxjumpsov3rth314zydogsb4ck silly, but at least it has length going for it

> does this mean they kick out the citizens? It means that the citizens will now try to book a group-rate 2-day stay on Ibiza, then return to clean things up before the next renter…

> college is just another victim of this. no one wants to tell a parent that their new born child is ugly and no one wants to live in a world where we can't all hope to be anything…

Here is one alternative path. The State of Florida, under the auspices of the North Florida Broadband Authority, is setting up a "middle mile" quasi-government carrier. They will c…

Should the design proliferate into other DCs, it would provide a ready disaster recovery base (perhaps even sharing agreements between different operators). Was anything mentioned …

with enough responses, apple is effectively crowd-sourcing usage patterns (the usual error rates apply). so, if one app is getting reviews that are way out of line with the crowd-s…

If I go into a store and pay for something with cash (and the store is a major chain), invariably I get an added part on the register receipt wanting me to participate in a store s…

how exactly will they be able to get trademark exclusivity on this name ? isn't this much more common than windows ever was ?

> And since then, AT&T bought Cingular, now T-Mobile AT&T didn't buy Cingular per se . In late 2006 AT&T and Bellsouth each owned 50% of Cingular. AT&T got their 50% ownership via …

> I was hoping LTE would help alleviate this problem as it seemed to be on the road map for 3 out of 4 of the carriers (all but Sprint). Based on the auction maps, T-Mobile USA had…

The Three Mile Island accident occurred on Wednesday, March 28, 1979. TMI Unit 2 received its operating license on February 8, 1978. So the Fukushima I appears to be slightly older…

> All the things that use GPS and have some reason to expect Madagascar to be in a certain location would need to be updated. In this case, various street turn-by-turn GPS based sy…

The Newton MessagePad (circa 1993) used ARM and StrongARM cores.