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Alabama would have been the first (and default) option in the list.

It's not unusual for "silicon" to be used as an all-encompassing term for computers and computer hardware.

Other things that TechCrunch has declared dead: * Phone calls * Computer mice * The Web * The physical book * Apple TV * Software * Music DRM * CDs I think that AT&T, Microsoft, Fa…

This reminds me of "wars" kids in my neighborhood would have when I was about ten years old. Each group of kids would think up highly elaborate plans of subterfuge, sophisticated c…

Changes noticed on Mac since Beta 6: * The stop/reload button has moved to the right end of the URL bar. * The status bar is gone; URLs appear in ghosted text on the right side of …

The importance of the mentioned in the movie preview is directly proportional to how good the movie is going to be. e.g., "From the director of Avatar..." is probably going to be a…

Certainly; I've had good success so far in life with long-term goals. Achieved: * Graduate college in three years. * Get a job in the tech sector that I enjoy. * Marry the girl I l…

As I understand it, arewefastyet.com was created as more of an internal/community dashboard specifically for the JIT team at Mozilla rather than to reflect on the browser as a whol…

Agreed that most of these would be good components of an overall browser benchmark, but the linked benchmarks are JavaScript benchmarks only, so things like browser start-up time a…

Based in part on the tax brackets shown here: http://www.moneychimp.com/features/tax_brackets.htm and several years of adjusting my estimated taxes in order to get as close to a ze…

To supplement the comment I left regarding TurboTax ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1783200 ), I thought I'd lay out exactly how and when I interact with the IRS. About 50% o…

I've used TurboTax for my return for the last five (?) years; I have a full-time job (W-2), but I also do a fair amount of freelancing (1099). I doubt that I would be able to do my…

Business idea: Have people in the US proxy 4.5% mortgages to UK residents at 4.75%.

> most users wrongly assume that Facebook Contact Sync only syncs user pictures. Why would you think that an app called "Contact Sync" would only sync pictures, and not your contac…

If one of AOL's goals was to announce multiple acquisitions in a single day in order to get exponentially more coverage than if they had announced them all days apart, then I'd say…

The OneRiot RiotWise Ad API might be right for you: http://oneriotdevelopernetwork.com/riotwise-api/ You have the option of text ads (typically trending news stories, so they're le…

What's wrong with 9am?

Or you could just update the cache when the data changes.

For some reason, I started reading the story with the assumption that it was a "don't do it this way" tutorial, and I got very nervous towards the end. ("But that's exactly how I u…

> What's wrong with the Chrome method of opening new tabs right next to the current tab? Firefox already does this.

Wikipedia has the answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentive

Yeah, Google could be pretty successful if only they didn't focus so much on engineering.

.tk already did this: http://dot.tk/