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It depends on the selection and how well it's categorized, a huge, searchable virtual library of old and rare texts would definitely be worth $10 to me. If it's just the NYTimes be…

Hey, don't ignore those security updates

yum update reflective-clothing sorry, couldn't resist.

Pretty good, not HD but steady

I'm usually happy to beat up on conspiracy theorists, I actually sort of hate them. However this guy took down a General .

This is unbearable. For one thing this same story was at the top yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5967695 And more importantly it's painful listening to a bunch of c…

First: what does this have to do with technology? Second: damn right Germany shouldn't trust us, because the world doesn't trust Germany and hopefully it never will. It doesn't bot…

What are the chances of getting a standard battery size in these things? I'd be a shame for stations to need a hundred different batteries for every make and model.

HN went full retard and it isn't coming back.

These slides? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/07/t... ; They look like they were made with MS Paint. CNET and James Clapper says this is all bullshit. Maybe…

Well done guys! Quite an achievement turning a site for so-called smart people into one dumber than the Drudge Report in only two days.

CNET is claiming the Washington Post & Guardian stories were wrong and the whole thing was based off a leaked Powerpoint document. James Clapper said the stories contained numerous…

Techcrunch knows nothing, if this is really going on it will be confirmed by someone within one of the companies forced to implement it within days. As of now I doubt that it is, I…

And no matter how smart the crowd here is when it comes to technology, discussing history or politics here is like talking to children. Many of the comments around here today sound…

No, geez. I just like to argue.

It's more of a job title.

You were asked, it was called "mid term elections". They had them without you.

"Hypothetical": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foiled_Islamic_terroris... And those are the ones we know about, Obama doesn't spike the ball on that stuff quite like Bush did…

How old's your partner, I've known two people who escaped from East Germany and one from Romania. I asked them all about what it was like living there & how they escaped because of…

Bullshit, 'the Stasi"? Go talk to somebody who lived in East Germany. And they catch people all the time trying to get bomb materials, how did you think they were doing it, luck? (…

I'm just happy someone found a productive use for Facebook. But right, it can't be kept in check because it will bleed out into other areas of law enforcement. Then we hit back. Bu…