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that webpage makes me seasick

>> don't even pretend that they encrypt your data. would it make you happier if they kept their services the same, but just pretended to introduce encryption? ;-)

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that the Lion King is basically just an adaptation of Hamlet...

The tests on disk performance are kind of redundant as ext3 is being compared to ext4. This will skew the results in favour of DigitalOcean somewhat.

I read a similar experiment where people were given the same food on either paper plates or fine china. As expected, people thought the food served on fancy plates was of higher qu…

Warnings, yes please. Allowing my brakes to be controlled wirelessly by anyone clever enough to spoof the right data, no thank you!

"The only use case I can think of is hackers / pirates / terrorists. I could see them running a computer which has the red button ready to go and taped to the outside of the case t…

Yeah, I still have the old buttons. I checked when signed in with my G+ account and also with a non-G+ account.

Those Samsung web people have some serious Photoshop skills! For a second there I thought that was a real photograph of a hockey puck flying out of a phone screen.

"This keylogger program can be legitimately purchased and used, ostensibly for monitoring your kids’ or employees’ browsing habits, etc. As you can imagine, PK can also be used for…

On the home-schooling argument. I'm not saying you shouldn't home school your kids, but in my opinion avoiding bullies is not the best reason to do so. I can understand that people…

Very possibly. It could also be that someone at Google is watching what gets taken down from the app store an following suit.

A friend of mine that used to work at iTunes tells me that Apple always keep the front page of their stores completely 'family friendly'. Maybe this mentality is starting to filter…

Looks like Murdoch may have been up to some pretty dark and grizzly business with ONDigital.

One wonders exactly what constitutes a 'boombox'. Would my bakelite wireless count? Or must the device have a fade-sporting b-boy attached to it's base to qualify?

I've been following this in my spare time for the last month. I've found it really useful. As a sysadmin who doesn't really do any proper programming day to day and ends up learnin…

yep +1 for htop.

I'm considering disabling text in my browser.