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eball

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    Comment #6647303

    I hope someone else analyzes that USB stick to see what it's doing or trying to do when plugged in. It sounds too fantastic to be true, but I guess it's somewhat plausible.

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    Comment #6641675

    You make it sound as if Google is being altruistic here. Security is essential to the direction they are heavily pushing. Chromebooks vs. Macs/Windows/Linux Gmail vs. Exchange(not …

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    Comment #6618999

    Read a comment the other day wondering about what if two(or more) programs did this. Would you end up with a chain of proxies between you and the mail server? From the excellent Ol…

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    Comment #6613565

    Funny how it still shows the link to the below story that got buried by the flamewar detector. "I lost years’ worth of Google Docs files because of a poor user interface" https://n…

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    Comment #6609538

    Adware goes to where there are a lot of non tech savvy users. If desktop Linux gets more traction, you'll see such search hijacking on there too. Note that this story is about sear…

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    Comment #6608918

    >Linux certainly has killed commercial unixes, but MS Server products never got popular for web and other areas Linux is traditionally strong in. IIS runs a lot of websites, ~23% o…

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    Comment #6608892

    So if Android didn't exist, Apple's profits wouldn't be higher?

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    Comment #6608878

    Microsoft even charges less for Linux VMs on Azure than Windows Server VMs with the same specs.

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    Comment #6608865

    To me the bigger news was that iframes in emails are run inside mail clients. Anyone know if other mail clients do this or is it just the one in iOS?