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I'd love to read some of his original comments. Do you remember any of the threads? Are those forums publicly available?

To add to your point, several of those ideas were released before even the NES, by Nintendo! Their portable Game and Watch series included buttons in the direction pad format and e…

In my totally unauthoritative opinion the diagnostic process has been optimized to find the most likely cause as quickly as possible. This isn't a terrible strategy on the aggregat…

The Irving ISD Student Code of Conduct, which the principle alleges the student to have broken, can be downloaded at http://www.irvingisd.net/Page/5183 . I couldn't find anything i…

This sounds more like Lyft's "Line" service which connects driver and passengers going the same way on regular trips. I'm not familiar with Uber's offerings though so maybe they ha…

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This article is very tongue-in-cheek. The title says PHP but you don't have to know PHP to appreciate the humor (or should I say "humour"). At least some of it applies to any C bas…

One advantage might be the ability to support multiple platforms. Using the technology group formerly knows as the "web stack" you could build a version of your app for windows des…

I've never been on a family plan. On a family plan is it possible for parents to see information about the texts their kids send (or even the texts themselves)? If so, that might b…

Whenever I see an article about banning PowerPoint I think of Peter Norvig's humorous PowerPoint rendition of the Gettysburg Address http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm

Is there a reason the applications mentioned in this video do blurring in the way the video presents as incorrect?

Really? According to this they have classified it as a "Man-in-the-Middle Attack" http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish Are they elsewhere also still saying ot…

Ideally from the perspective of the inventor :) But that's an interesting idea. In that system how is the valuation of an innovation determined?

This might be naive on my part but it seems like we could help the situation quite a bit, at least for software patents, by just reducing the amount of time for which new software …

Ug. I know how you feel. I've had success using https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/classicthemer...

Towards the bottom of the article is a picture titled "The road to a better, better parking sign" that shows various iterations of the design. It isn't very clear, but if you look …

Regarding the Nexus one that's surprising and disappointing. I was under the impression that the Nexus line used vanilla android (no device manufacturer or service provider customi…

But couldn't the government establish regulations like that even without net neutrality type rules/legislations?

It could be that ATT is already charging consumers the maximum, or close to it, amount consumers will bear. In that case even with gigabit speeds the average consumer probably won'…

I had to abbreviate the title. The original is "FCC Questions AT&T: Explain Why Your Fiber-Optic High-Speed Internet Nationwide Rollout Will be Delayed"