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Early last year Google asked people to report such problems. You probably won't see any direct impact from doing so, but there's no harm in trying. The form is still live at least:…

The article contains some good observations, but I'm struggling to understand this one: "Some sites try to communicate with Google through comments in robots.txt" In the examples g…

For the command to match the description, shouldn't that be "echo -n"? Otherwise the signed string would include a trailing newline. I do not expect this will make a material diffe…

(a) They are a charity. (b) They demonstrated the Pi running Quake 3 at a reasonable frame rate in 2011. There's a picture of it in the blog post. (c) The competition rules say "To…

I had almost the opposite experience! The big difference for me was that my old Amiga 600 has a PCMCIA card slot in it. I bought a modern (and very cheap) SD card reader that fit i…

The Guardian's style guide[1] has it in lowercase, as does the BBC News[2]. Reuters[3] is slightly more nuanced: Capitalise as a noun, lower case as an adjective e.g. internet bank…

http://www.bbc.com.nyud.net/future/story/20130701-why-you-fe...

Can you recommend any automotive firmware reversing resources or published work? Thanks.

Thanks for the interesting tool. Perhaps a couple of examples (from the time of writing) of niches you've identified with it would be helpful to first-time visitors? I know there's…

I'm used to playing the "UK, United Kingdom, Great Britain, England..." guessing game in drop down lists but putting "United Kingdom" in between Gabon and Grenada is a new one. I'd…

The video has a music soundtrack ("Ring of Fire") which gets it blocked in Germany. Wikipedia have an article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_YouTube_videos_in_G…

No, it doesn't. Your linked example contains: User-agent: * Disallow: / While the (new) digg.com/robots.txt contains: User-agent: * Disallow: Those are very different. The former e…

From my experience, when Google de-indexes a site, they also suppress any PageRank the Google Toolbar would have shown for it; that doesn't appear to be the case here, digg.com is …

It's a pun. He was the president of the Windows division!

To anyone else wondering: this submission only seems relevant to google.com and not the more country-specific domains (e.g. google.co.uk). Unfortunately for many people that's wher…

You may already know this, but the Ethernet controller on the Pi is actually a USB device, built into the LAN9512 [0] USB controller/hub. The TS-7800 has a dedicated Ethernet contr…