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d503

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    Comment #4907891

    Ghostery does, though.

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    Comment #4902491

    Given the error message I received I think yes to the first :) RECEIVED MESSAGE "Quota Exceeded. Please see http://code.google.com/apis/websearch . HUMAN READABLE: "Mountainview, w…

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    Comment #4873187

    There's one here: http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agents/n/news_ycomb.pdf

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    Comment #4719650

    Bob Iger (CEO of Disney) also joined Apple's board shortly after Steve's passing.

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    Comment #4704214

    In this case, GO Transit runs a commuter rail network (on the surface) so underground bombings shouldn't be a concern.

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    Comment #4703226

    Having access to Google Maps... there's a Starbucks (and Panera) basically next door. Granted the area isn't all that walkable and "next door" is still kind of far without a car.

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    Comment #4661457

    This project was clearly around before Autobahn (May 27 blog post vs June 8 start date) and according to the Chrome Web Store it has more users (785 vs 409). http://danmaz74.me/201…

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    Comment #4588410

    E-mail is pretty crucial to me, and some MobileMe users couldn't access their mail for days. http://www.macworld.co.uk/macsoftware/news/?RSS&NewsID=2...

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    Comment #4566800

    If you don't mind hosting it yourself it looks like you can buy VAG Rundschrift as a downloadable web font from MyFonts.com. http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/vag-rundschrift/

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    Comment #4539872

    It's claimed the system will offer 12mbps or more to each passenger via ViaSat-1, which should offer 140 Gbps total throughput ("the highest capacity satellite in the world" with "…

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    Comment #4502921

    When I stopped my Linodes I'm pretty sure I remember they warned that my DNS would be stopped along with them, so I do think you have to be a paying customer for that to work.

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    Comment #4168837

    According to the NY Times, it "contains almost all American-made parts" but "Semiconductor chips are more of a challenge. In some cases, the chips are made in the United States and…

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    Comment #4107954

    It doesn't work for me either, but http://ac./ does.

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    Comment #4074281

    If you're paranoid about shoulder-surfing you can use getpass to hide your password as you type it in. >>> import getpass >>> password = getpass.getpass('Password: ') http://docs.p…

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    Comment #4058618

    Clay Shirky's "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy" from 2003 is a bit of a classic. http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

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    Comment #4051296

    It looks like that's true, "except for those inventions that ... Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or…

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    Comment #4025794

    > the cost and latency hit of cross-cloud network communication. AWS Direct Connect might help with that. Anyone have any experience with it? "AWS Direct Connect makes it easy to e…

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    Comment #4011810

    Arguably if you're talking about spending money then a conservative (i.e. cautious or moderate) estimate is a high estimate.

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    Comment #3969518

    At least they don't try to hide it. Remember these lovely posters from 2002? http://www.flickr.com/photos/24992147@N03/2644171457/ Now available in mug and t-shirt form. http://www…

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    Comment #3961636

    Can they do that? The "Limitations on Diaspora, Inc." section of the contributor agreement says: > Diaspora, Inc. will not distribute your Contribution to any third party under any…

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    Comment #3940309

    One of the bug fixes for Postgres95 Release 0.03 (Released 1995-07-21) is: * the LISTEN/NOTIFY asynchronous notification mechanism now work http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/stati…

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    Comment #3929395

    PostgresSQL's libpq supports nonblocking asynchronous operation, and node-postgres takes advantage of that. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/libpq-async.html https://githu…

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    Comment #3920328

    A few companies do actually, including DuckDuckGo and Tarsnap. http://fosstithe.org/ http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/11/help-me-start-a-...