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Here is a check for the IP for freakattack.com: http://www.tcpiputils.com/browse/ip-address/141.212.122.194 Edit: They have been on that list for a while, so either the staff at th…

In the first case I read you as saying it's OK to commit a crime against a civilian in the United States as long as [the person didn't mean to] and in the second case that since no…

freakattack.com is an IP owned and managed by the University of Michigan. I could not visit the site due to them being in my firewall's ban list caused by unauthorized vulnerabilit…

That's true and very admirable but not what I was objecting to. It's this line that I find objectionable: "we paid more than $7 billion to developers" No, the Marketplace enabled $…

"In fact, in the past year, we paid more than $7 billion to developers distributing apps and games on Google Play." Do they mean when I buy someone's app and send them my money tha…

I just ran a comparison with Expedia (which seems to no longer be ASP.NET based as an aside); not too surprised, Expedia found the cheaper flights. Read, cheaper, not necessarily b…

I gotta say this is a pretty cool app. A lot of the UI seems to be declarative. Very nice, considering donating.

If Stripe is doing Bitcoin then I now know to stay from and recommend others to say away from Stripe.

>> we have to use Wayland instead of X11, because X11 is impossible to secure. Yet X11 was designed in the prime example world of a mult-user OS, UNIX. Hmm. >> We also need to use …

We could have used this last week. A pole was damaged (I don't know how, just that it was damaged) and in the middle of a sunny day we lost power for 1.5 hours. Really looking forw…

I tried to like LISP many times since the 1980's when I was experimenting with it on the side, it just did not click for me like C/C++/Java/C#.

If they could make it last as long as solar cells are described to last, 20 years or so, then I'd consider it.

I see, well as a test you could download the Ubuntu fonts and switch to them for comparison. PS I agree too, they look better in Chrome, don't know why.

They don't look too bad on the same Firefox on Ubuntu 14.04: http://imgur.com/6nKzwZq What Linux are you running? "fc20" I guess that's Fedora? So it looks bad on Firefox on Fedora…

I vote for not making the language more complicated than it already is in Java 7. Oh but we have Java 8 with closures and stuff, well OK how about no more complicated than Java 8. …

Checking out some of the Fresnel videos on Youtube really helps one appreciate the power of the Sun. If the new material can withstand 700 C then point a Fresnel at it and hook up …

Agreed, I've bought several games from Steam since it became available on Linux, the process is easy and most of the games have been great.

Agreed, the designers of X made some truly brilliant decisions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Client_Communication_Conv... Edit: I don't have a dog in the hunt on systemd but …

It's ironic that Android isn't on the desktop, given how much greater access they would have to expand their brand. If they made a single touch/click that pulls the top menu _all_ …

First, I don't grok the vocal minority's vehement opposition to systemd. Second, loose couplings are great for those who want to tweak to their heart's content, people who know wha…

The site reads in my mind like Andy Warhol on computer UI/UX design. I think Canonical has a clean design with Unity, just fix some simple things as default: 1) Menus should be per…

>> In addition, it's not like this is a huge problem, given that most people are going to abandon desktops soon anyway. I don't see that happening at all really. The desktop is a t…