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They can watch it and make up their own mind. Can't they?

Does anyone know if cable carriers in the US don't carry AJ because of lack of demand or is there documented evidence of active exclusion for business or political reasons? Please …

"Chance favors the prepared mind" --Louis Pasteur

+1 on PGP support

I'm reading a lot of opinions about Facebook's rumored "Gmail killer". I'm curious about the specific characteristics of any web mail that HNers would consider valuable? I am NOT r…

I agree. Only motivation to do this would be notoriety/prestige. I think it may be also a way to push for people to use the WB data sets.

Tribalism in politics leads to identity politics rather than governance politics. I grew up in Lebanon where there is no single religious majority. Political discourse has mostly b…

I keep the client running in the background (not even minimized). I have it set to save a log of all chats. I occasionally glance through those logs 2-3 times during the day. That'…

It probably tripped an anti-spam filter. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/may/31/twitte...

That's a mis-representation. You cannot get get more mainstream than Ha'aretz. I think this is a sign that Israeli society is more capable of having honest conversation about it's …

Everybody and their mother is talking about this in that part of the world. It's NOT Twitter's duty to explain why it's not trending. But, given the sensitivity of the topic, it wo…

I would even go so far as to say that Linux users might even LOVE the challenge of tinkering with their non-standard distro to make it work.

Attorney General of the state that brought you the Lower Merion School District (laptop webcam spying case). I wonder what is Cobett's legal opinion of that case. I'd like to know …