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> That's getting close to paranoia. Selling users' personal data to data mining and advertising companies is very common. It's not really paranoid to think that Facebook would do s…

> Why would my email and contacts be locked into iCloud? Don't ask me, ask Apple - they're the ones who're doing it :) Contacts was one of the things that Apple mentioned would be …

I certainly hope so.

> To move your data you will need to sync to a mac and then manually move your data. Which is exactly what a lot of users will be unable to do. They'll rather avoid the hassle by b…

Photos, documents, contacts, email, music - just about everything that "normal" users have on their computers.

It's true; iCloud has the potential to be a massive lock-in mechanism, ensuring that people will continue to buy Apple devices for years on end because buying anything else will me…

"Gandhi.net seems to have..." It's http://gandi.net (without the H). "I can't find any outside references for the trademark registration however." Search for "no bullshit" here: ht…

I know their ad system - I've used it myself. My point is that they may do other kinds of things without you knowing.

- "Facebook doesn't really give your information to the advertisers" How do you know? I think this is an appropriate time to mention what Zuckerberg once said about Facebook users:…

You're absolutely right. You can't always tell whether there's more content below if there's no scrollbar. I don't want to have to scroll just to see if there's more content.

"...Germany’s traditional engineering-driven approach to business, with its emphasis on perfection, longevity, pride in ingenuity and culture of deep-thinking..." I fail to see how…

I see a lot of "Europe is like this, Europe is like that" comments here... I wish people would realize that in terms of culture and legislation the various European countries are w…

Can anyone shed light on whether there's a significant improvement in terms of memory usage and speed when using Flask + SQLAlchemy instead of Django? Flask users: Are you generall…

Not to mention Disqus - they use Django.

Python is the most popular serverside solution among startups according to this poll: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843083 Ruby was second, PHP third. (JavaScript got the mo…

I'm willing to pay for email instead of using Gmail. The combination of Google's massive accumulation of data about you and American authorities' relatively easy access to the data…

Btw., they only used their homemade submarine to tow the rocket platform at the first launch attempt (last September). This time around they decided to enable the rocket platform t…

Here's a picture of the rocket and the submarine: http://i2-images2.tv2net.dk/s/49/20942149-29ce372936dd69adf1... The picture was taken in September last year when the first (faile…

I'm not sure there's an official video. The Danish TV station TV 2 filmed the whole thing from their news helicopter, and that is the footage you see on the YouTube link I posted a…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmGmymAWI4E

Video of the lift-off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmGmymAWI4E