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That is a great idea and I do not find it too spammy. Twitter could implement something like that themselves as advertisement (simple context aware text ads).

Could someone be so kind to explain why this is bad for Java instead being bad for patents? I guess we all agree that software patents are bad. This issue seems to be just about th…

If it was not so darn expensive, I would be psyched. But this way I will wait for the OpenPandora for my mobile mini-PC needs (for a telephone I love my Nokia 6310 and will use it …

Now if only they'd make it truly free, provide an easy download option (also the possibility to get the whole archive) and use the crowd to improve the quality of the text. I wonde…

Great! Doubleplus grest because it fully works without the need for Javascript and even Cookies, thanks. I searched for a Pizza Salami, selected about 10 of the top ingredients and…

It is rather hidden but here are the formatting options: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

I have to disagree, the font looks terrible for me (Windows XP, Opera). Maybe he forgot to use a good fallback font?

Enlighten me: How is a user with sudo rights different from a root user?

It is completely irrelevant how many users use it. If it is a great tool for just a minority, then it deserves attention in that minority. edit: Am I missing about the number of us…

You are allowed to watch it with your friends though, of course that might depend on the country you live in. In Germany you are even allowed to give copies to close friends and fa…

And here is Jason Scott's (BBS Documentary, textfiles.com, Get Lamp, etc) mail exchange with Gizmodo after they asked him to contribute: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2079 He…

It was something like no alt text being rendered when images are not displayed or found, I don't fully remember and could not find it in 5 minutes Bugzilla search hell. I did stumb…

I wish the Firefox developers would focus on bug fixing for the next big release. There are so many bugs that are not fixed for many years. For example alt-text on images not corre…

If you are thinking of local directory traversal (src="jar: http://kaioa.com/b/0907/test.jar!../../somefile ) then I think you are underestimating browser coders. Introducing that …

Who is Chris Anderson, what is this audiobook about and why should I check it out?

Since this is open-source, is there a fork for PC/Linux yet? I am not the slightest bit interested in the iphone, but having this on a USB stick would be handy.

I love VirtualBox so much. Thanks to Innotek for the free and open-source distribution. I do use the closed source version though. If only they would support branching snapshopts. …

For several months I have a 500MB tmpfs ramdisk (which I will probably turn into a ramfs one after reading that article). I put my browser cache, several logging files and other vo…

I moved a domain to them and I really really like them.

I found the page rather hard to read and it took a "long" time until I understood what it is all about. Putting the text in 2 columns might help. Not sure about the serif font too.…

Try search.yahoo.com I find it quite good. In some nichees Yahoo is far better than Google (won't mention them because I am a tinfoil hat privacy freak, sorry). Also it seems to in…

Contrary to what the headline might suggest, this is just a list of links to interesting articles.

How about some truly free music? Mixsets are a grey area. Give http://www.professorkliq.com/ a try (if you don't like IDM just like me, don't worry about the "kliq"). http://www.ja…

Apart from the "squat not" theme this seems like a generic domain trade site. What would be the benefit to other domain trade services? The escrow link on http://squatnot.com/about…

Firefox still is awefully slow on Linux. I switched to Opera rather recently (~6 months?) because of this. Thanks to Opera's amazing session saver and the quick end/restart cycle I…